(NY Post) The epitome of an “all-American” girl, Samantha Marie Elhassani — a.k.a Samantha Sally, better known as Sam — was a Jehovah’s Witness from the blue-collar Indiana heartland who knocked on the door of ISIS and found hell on earth. A […]
(Stars and Stripes) An Indiana man who teamed up with his brother to try and sell arms to the Islamic State group has been sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for his crimes, the Justice Department said. Moyad Dannon’s sentence […]
(IPT) An Indiana University (IU) dean admits its School of Philanthropy “failed in our due diligence” when it invited deported Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) board member Sami Al-Arian to participate in a program about the war on terrorism and its impact on […]
(IPT) Every so often, Sami Al-Arian emerges to opine on some domestic issue, reminding us of two things: He’s an inveterate liar who continues to whitewash his years of service to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). And a disappointing number of American […]
(Algemeiner) “I was wrong,” said Mohammed Al-Azdee, with disarming candor. An associate professor of communication theory at Bridgeport University in Connecticut, the Iraqi-born Al-Azdee was speaking to the Algemeiner in detail about his latest research project: examining the content of khutbahs, the […]
(Indiana Lawyer) A Muslim inmate in the Indiana Department of Correction is not entitled to a halal diet, a federal judge has ruled, finding that the inmate failed to prove that eating a kosher diet instead would violate his Islamic beliefs. Judge […]
(Times of Northwest Indiana) A federal judge imprisoned an Indiana woman who helped fund a Middle East terrorist organization and put her husband on the front line of war-torn Syria. U.S. District Court Judge Philip Simon imposed a 78-month sentence on Samantha […]
(Indianapolis Star) The family of Peter Kassig, an Indianapolis native and aid worker who was beheaded by the Islamic State in 2014, joined three other families Thursday in asking the Trump administration to bring two ISIS members back to the United States […]
(Times of Northwest Indiana) An Elkhart, Indiana, woman who gained national attention as the widow of an ISIS sniper pleaded guilty Monday afternoon to a reduced terrorism charge. Samantha “Sally” Elhassani, 33, of Elkhart, Indiana, gave up her right to a jury […]
(Indianapolis Star) Two brothers from Fishers accused of trying to sell manufactured firearms and ship the weapons overseas to the Islamic State group are facing federal charges, authorities said. A federal grand jury indicted Moyad Dannon, 21, and Mahde Dannon, 20, with […]
(Indianapolis Star) A Brownsburg man who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and planned to travel to Syria to join them was sentenced Friday to more than eight years in federal prison, officials said. U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Evans Barker […]
(Washington Post) Khadra Mohamud stood in Rep. Ilhan Omar’s brand-new congressional office Thursday, taking in a new scene in American politics — a crowd of supporters, the majority of them women, many of them in hijabs, celebrating the swearing-in of a Muslim […]
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