(NY Times) For years, Abdullah el-Faisal, a Jamaican-born cleric, promoted an extreme form of Islam that advocated killing nonbelievers.
In Britain, his incitements sent him to prison in 2003. He was kicked out of Kenya in 2010. At home in Jamaica, he became an outspoken supporter of the Islamic State.
Now, he has been convicted in New York of supporting terrorism, attempting to support terrorism and conspiracy, offenses that took place without him setting foot in the city or planning an attack there.
During a trial that stretched over two months in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, prosecutors portrayed Mr. Faisal as a jihadist who had supported ISIS between 2014 and 2017 by spreading its propaganda, praising its grim theology as fighters bearing its black flag carried out a campaign of kidnapping, sexual slavery and murder across Iraq and Syria. He even acted as a marriage broker for the group, prosecutors said.
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