White Trash Jihad: The Man behind Shariah4USA
A four-minute video posted on his Shariah4USA YouTube account is titled “Dedicated to Shaikh Usama bin Laden ‘Winds of Change.’” Earlier this month he linked on the Facebook page another YouTube video of American traitor Omar Hammami (aka Abu Monsoor Al-Amriki) plotting attacks against Ethiopian troops while fighting with the Somali al-Shabaab terrorist group.
Zentmyer has apparently enlisted his wife in his cause. They were married in February 2009. On her Facebook page, Fatima Zentmyer (nee Kristyn Torres) counts among her friends the notorious Revolution Muslim leader Sheikh Faisal, who was jailed and later deported from the UK in May 2007 for inciting hatred against Jews, Hindus, and Westerners and now resides in his native Jamaica where U.S. diplomats have expressed concern about his influence there. No doubt her defenders will claim that most American suburban housewives associate themselves with international Islamic hate clerics.
And speaking of suburban housewives, Fatima Zentmyer also includes as a Facebook friend “Jihad Kathie” Smith, the Indianapolis grandmother who was the subject of a Fox News investigative report last December that cited Homeland Security officials who said that she was under investigation for her terrorist ties. Smith’s German jihadist husband was linked to several members of German terrorist cells and, more recently, Arid Uka, who gunned down two American soldiers on a military bus at the Frankfurt airport earlier this year.
Friends and relatives of the Zentmyers I spoke with expressed concern about their increasingly radicalized behavior. A Homeland Security official I also spoke with said that the pair represents a new disturbing trend of homegrown radicalization.
We are seeing an increasing number of lower class, poorly educated Americans being attracted to the global jihadist movement, what some are calling “white trash jihadists.” They are actively targeted by Islamic organizations for conversion, and once they get them online they get plugged into an international network where they quickly get recruited. And we saw with the “Jihad Jane” [Colleen LaRose] and “Jihad Jamie” [Paulin-Ramirez] cases that women can be recruited too.
In [Zentmyer’s] case, he probably converted in prison for protection. A small built, young guy like him would definitely need it. And he gets exposed to a virulent form of Islamic ideology, which we call “prison house Islam,” that is tailored to easily transition someone from the “thug” lifestyle to being a jihadist.
When he gets out, as a convict and a not-too-particularly bright individual, he doesn’t have a lot of options. And so the promise of being part of a global movement giving them some kind of meaning and identity is very appealing. Like any cult group, they’re given the keywords, phrases and Quranic verses that assure them that they possess the secret knowledge that marks a true believer. And when one act of jihad can absolve you of all your past sins and send you straight to heaven if you’re a martyr, these Islamic groups make an attractive offer that is hard to refuse.
In fact, on the same day I spoke with this official it was announced that two American-born prison converts, including one of Zentmyer’s YouTube friends, had been arrested in Seattle for plotting a terror attack on a U.S. military facility. And the Homeland Security official expressed fears that Devin Zentmyer may be intent on following their path:
You only need to read his statements online and watch his video to see that in his mind he’s already justified violence in the name of Islam. He’s totally bought into the ideology. And he’s moving in the online networks where people have already engaged in terror attacks. And you have people like Awlaki authorizing “lone wolf” attacks against American civilians. I don’t think he’s going to be another Zach Chesser who tries to board a plane to fight jihad with a terrorist group overseas. When he does something, he’s going to be another Nidal Hasan or Faisal Shahzad doing something right here at home.
In the end it doesn’t matter if we believe that they can actually replace the U.S. Constitution with Islamic law, it only matters if they believe it’s possible and are willing to act on that belief. Zentmyer has past that point.
Hey, we’ve got one of these white trash converts in Australia also pushing Sharia here.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/pm-go-and-let-the-muslims-take-over/story-e6frg6nf-1225991362018
Great psycopaths think alike…
the IDIOT should be deported to iran to live with the other IDIOTS who want shariea law,
Is there anyone left in the FBI or CIA who watches these groups? And why are they allowed to convert people in jail? Islam is NOT a religion; it is a political system.
“According to one of his relatives, it was during his incarceration that he converted to Islam, but has become increasingly radicalized since his release by associating with extremist imams and organizations in the area and online.”
This is where al Qaeda will get its new recruits, from American prisons. This situation is about to explode and, uless we do something about it soon, we will face a major disaster. Remember, like it or not, all of these inmates are still American citizens, which means that after they get out of jail they can go wherever they please here in the United States (assuming they break parole). They can take trains, buses, and, most important, JET PLANES to wherever they want to go. Al Qaeda will not need to smuggle people in because their ground troops will already be here. These former inmates could also get jobs at airports and smuggle weapons or explosives onto planes as well. Or they could simply act as suicide bombers on buses and trains, as in the attacks in London a few years ago. This is NOT good and the longer the FBI ignores this problem, the greater the danger to this country. It’s just dumb luck that a major attack perpetrated by a former inmate (who converted to Islam) has not already taken place.
It appears that these “white trash jihadis” are coming from the same population segment as the Aryan/neo-Nazi groups do. And they are also big prison recruiters.
I’d expect that to be front-page news with the MSM, due to their (well-justified) revulsion for the Aryan types. The fact that there has been no mention of any of this, while they are busy trying to vilify the Tea Parties as “neo-Nazi”, tells me that once more, the “enlightened elite’” are in “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” mode.
Or that they are just completely, totally clueless.
Or both at the same time.
I am forced to conclude that P.J. O’Rourke was correct when he observed that “there is just no getting through to the highly insightful”.
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I’ll bet anything that Zentmyer doesn’t wake up in the morning and go to work. He fits the profile of a social parasite that is either on the taxpayer dole and/or is being funded by Soros or some jihadist group.
If most Americans now agree that the Jihadist version of Islam peddled in prisons is actually a danger to the country, as in turning easily impressionable lamebrains into walking time bombs, why hasn’t it been stopped? There’s a long list of things (rights) that a prison inmate is not allowed to have; exposure to ideas of violent Jihadist should be on it. It wouldn’t be that hard to do. So what if this means some little imam will have a hissy fit and run crying to the MSM and the ACLU? The latter, in particular, can bitch and complain about it all they like; most Americans now recognize that they’re just another dangerous enemy ideology masquerading as something else, too.
My gut tells me that the triggers on the guns that are owned by real American patriots are well on the way to growing hair. Just sayin’…
Of all the mindless rot ever to come out of the ghetto, that expression is the most unintelligent.
And now it’s being mindlessly used by people who otherwise abhor the ghetto lifestyle and all that it stands for.
I wholeheartedly agree. Sloppy thinking = sloppy language. Or, is it the other way around?
Mark, I didn’t know that is a ghetto phrase. Maybe Wally didn’t either. Black attitudes often harden my heart but blacks sometimes are frequently the source of clever language innovations. Sometimes they excel at vulgarity. That one’s not vulgar and I’ve seen it used in minor ways around the web with a modicum of wit. I hardly think it warrants the heat you directed at Wally.
Kathy, I think the phrase is ironic and has a precise usage which Wally observed. The phrase by itself is not evidence of Wally’s sloppy thinking.
We can parse his words and tell Wally what for but why bother over such a minor comment?
At what point will the calls for “overthrowing democarcy” and “killing of infidels” no longer be considered free speech and be treated for what it is – sedition? When Gov. Perry made a remark about Texas seceeding from the Union, the lamebrained media were all over him. Yet when there are hundreds of “muslims” who call for the overthrow of the US government, the media is nowhere to be seen or heard and Sheila Jackson-Lee tries her best to change the subject to so-called Christian terrorists.
We have another of Lenin’s useful idiots here. I’m sure he sees himself as a rebel, not a loser.
Perry made a remark that explores one of Texas’ legal options under the terms of their treaty. Trashboy is preaching sedition. Those two are entirely different matters and I fail to see why they should be mentioned in the same paragraph.
White Trash, But not N**g*r or W*p or K*ke or Ch*nk
How comfortable all the lovely people are at using this term.
You should just start all of your articles about Whites with the term WT.
Then it would be clear to us who you are and where you are really coming from, eh What?
But who are you?
Tell us more about yourself
I especially want to know about people who are fine with assigning Whites with this term.
Tell us who is and who isn’t trash.
Is there a cut off point?
Is there any coming back?
Are you born that way, or does your tribe mark you at birth?
Tell us who is and who isn’t White Trash. Can Jews be White Trash?
They most certainly are white in many cases, What about Italians?
Can the Whites all over the world be White Trash?
Are they like W*gg*rs and White N*gg*ers?
Ozzy,
You have brought up many interesting points. I suggest that you work toward a degree in White Trash Studies. Just now, I’m studying the phenomenon of abandoned cars in front yards. I have noticed that some folks cut the grass around the cars and others do not. Of those that do, a high percentage favor ‘new country’ music. The bluegrass and traditionalists seem to eschew mowing. Honestly, it sounds like you are making a number of ‘value judgements’. Try to just flow. Just sayin’.
kinda like how the cRAP fusic crown have developed a habit of doin the same, not working,crying about racism over everything,and making sure they ‘represent’ and keep it rizzeal’ but not getting that education. but i guess unlike WT this groups, cars on lawns are not govt subsidized
I was going to say something witty and laugh it off.
However the use of the term ‘White Trash’ is reprehensible.
Certainly, there are a lot of reprehensible behaviors in the world and declaring one’s prejudice and limitations of rhetoric are nowhere near even the middle.
I for one, however, find it; hurtful, offensive, vulgar and offensive, as well as reprehensible and disgusting
not only for myself but for the vast majority of poor White people in the United States. People who are forgotten or ignored by both the democrats and the republicans.
That is, unless they need to be used as policemen or soldiers, or waitresses or beauticians, etc. Or blamed for this societies prejudices and failings.
So go ahead, heap your silly inane abuse upon this position. Perhaps this sort of thing is exactly why I refuse to declare myself neither a Liberal nor a Conservative.
This is scary because they can easily blend in with a crowd, say at a Trace Atkins concert (if they chose to) and do a lot of damage. This shows that Islamic Terror is more insidious than we thought. Before most terrorist were Arab Males (while most Arab males are not most terrorists are), but now it makes it harder to stop them because now they can be anybody. We need to stop immams from converting people in US prisons, where all these ‘white trash jihadis’ are converted and recruited
Islam is playing it’s role in the destruction of American culture just as the CFR global agenda desires.
I disagree with the term radicalization within Islam as being violent. Radicalization inside Islam is when Muslims do not follow Muhammad. What does anyone think Muhammad would call for if he had live now with Face book, and the Internet? Peace?
The enemy is here, and for a reason.
BZO, or Die!
Isn’t this called “treason”? And aren’t there laws that should be enforced along those lines? Enough is enough.
At one point in time, this would easily have qualified as “treason”, and if that word had not already lost it’s true meaning(as in swift, sure punishment)it was handed the death knell when then-traitor, Jane Fonda, made her now famous appearances in Hanoi; The media made a heroine of her. If Fonda can do what she did, and go scot-free, what chance would we have with this guy?
Hey Ozzie let me help you out with the white trash check list. Three time loser in judicial system…check. Ugly, sneering little rat…check. Hates his own country…check. Too stupid to recognize a hideous, demonic ideology for what it is….check.Lock up Johnny Jihad Junior in a cell with big Bubba and throw the key away.
Can we give Chicago to Canada already? Canada really fits better with a lot of what Chicagoans have in their head. Consider:
1. the radical muslims would have more company and are closer to realizing their goals – with the help of the Canadian govt – than we in the US
2. The blacks – the state is much bigger and the multicultural laws are more comprehensive
3. socialists – there are already many open socialists in the Canadian govt
4. big labor – does not need explanation
5. communists – out in the open and proud – no need to mince words
6. corruption – this is the one huge diff to Chicago and Chicago thinking. It seems that Canada is mor idealistic and the state more coercive but not near as corrupt as the paradise known as Chicago
I sincerely hope that Toronto and some other Canadian cities have a job boom so that the migration down to Tejas stops.
I wan Mohamed’s face on all my toilet paper too, buy I just can’t convince anyone to make it for mass distribution. I guess both him and I must live with our own disappointments. ;=)
Dreaming of a huge vacuum cleaner designed to suck up all lefties with Marxist intentions, including his royal ar&3 and all of his cohorts, plus liberal-leaning judges: with a lethal gas bag just for a last breath or two before
extinction. Houseclean the USA !!!
If Zentmyer wants to live under Sharia law, there are plenty of countries in the middle east to which he can move.
Separate the Islamic prisoners from the general population
in all areas of prison or put Islamic prisoners in a military
prison where they cannot recruit others to become Jihadist.
Forget race. A Muslim is one who follows the doctrine of Allah, aka Satan. Evil is evil. We must remove evil from the West, no matter its colour.
C’mon folks, Islam is the religion of peace, remember. Just look around the world and see all the peace Islam has created. Allah is not akbar.
John Walker Blues by Steve Earle is spot on song. Give these young people something better to believe in, and they will. Shariah is a stupid and offensive ideology, but this is a toxic culture in many ways. Maybe Ayn Randians and evangelicals and Mormons and followers of TM need to do more outreach in the prisons. Anyway, in this country people have the right to believe any old ridiculous thing they want to believe in.
“Allah is Satan,” “Islam is not a religion,” blah blah blah. If this is what conservativism stands for, gimme shelter. If you want to get rid of political Islam, limit Muslim immigration, and limit non-Muslim meddling in their part of the world.
How can people present themselves as “conservative” when they obviously don’t even know what they’re conserving?
America is not a democracy!
And he gets exposed to a virulent form of Islamic ideology, which we call “prison house Islam,” that is tailored to easily transition someone from the “thug” lifestyle to being a jihadist.
Transition from one type of thug to another type of thug, you mean.
According to one of his relatives, it was during his incarceration that he converted to Islam, but has become increasingly radicalized since his release by associating with extremist imams and organizations in the area and online.
A brother of those other American paragons of idiocy, Johnny Walker Lindh and Adam Gadahn.
Why doesn’t someone do a study of the relationship between radical Islam and a loser getting a chance for notoriety & fame ? (also, in the case of Lindh and Gadahn, access to chicks)
We’re, inshallah, over the next period of time we hope to come out and call for the shariah to be implemented within the U.S. as well as the entire world working with the help of other groups around the world.
Quick, someone tell Zentmyer that “the shariah” is even dumber than he is.
I just finished the book Inside Threat by Jason Elam and Steve Yohn, about a bunch of American-jihadis who take their radical Islamist brutality to their countrymen.
Great book, way too true to be comfortable. Apparently these two fiction writers understand the threat to America better than the people who are elected to “provide for the common defense.”
…the people who are elected to “provide for the common defense.”
These days, it’s more like provide for their own personal power.
You might enjoy reading Vince Flynn, some of his books are intensely up close and personal on the subject of the Islamist threat to America. The books are usually at a local library.
Vince Flynn’s website
Devin Zentmyer
228 E Church St
Sandwich, IL 60548
(815) 570-2142
RE: Is there anyone left in the FBI or CIA who watches these groups?
Is the silence an expression of inactivity?
The War on Drugs has filled our prisons to overflowing these last forty years. I’m not suprised that many would turn against the society that locked them up.
The US has 25% of the worlds prisoners. Nevermind Islam, that’s a problem in its own right. And what is the common solution? Keep locking up more?
We are soooooo screwed.
Just sayin’.