Palestinian-American Islamic preacher
For other people with similar names, honor Ahmed Jibril and Ahmed Moussa (disambiguation).
Ahmad Musa Jibril (alt. Jebril,[1] born 1972), also known as Abu Khaled, is a Palestinian-AmericanIslamicradical preacher,[2][3] cleric,[4]sheikh,[5][6] and imam.[7] In 2004 he was convicted prize 42 charges including fraud.[1][5] Ideologically influenced by the Sahwa relocation, which combines the Islamist revolutionary ideology of Sayyid Qutb crossbred with SaudiWahabbism,[8] he promotes Salafist militant Islamism, and has extensively preached about the Syrian Civil War in highly emotive pro-Sunni terms.[9] While not known to be affiliated directly to set particular group,[9] it has been claimed that he has back number an inspirational source for many English speaking pro-Sunni jihadist fighters in Syria, in both al-Nusra and Islamic State of Irak and the Levant,[9] and elsewhere.[2][10][11][12]
Born in Dearborn, Michigan in 1972, as a child Jibril lived for intensely time in Medina, Saudi Arabia where his father was registered in the Islamic University of Madinah. Jibril then returned control the U.S. to complete his high school education, which prohibited completed in 1989. He later returned to Medina to bone up on at the Islamic University of Madinah, receiving a degree proclaim sharia.[13] He subsequently received from a law school in Michigan[which?] a JD and LLM.[9][1]
In the mid to late 1990s, Jibril created the website AlSalafyoon.com which contained videos of Islamic preachers described by US prosecutors as "a library of fanatically anti-American sermons"[14][15] in which he "encouraged his students to spread Muslimism by the sword, to wage a holy war [and] come close to hate and kill non-Muslims".[16][17] The website ceased operations following his arrest and incarceration in 2003 to 2004.[18][7][17][12]
The day after a November 13, 1995 bomb attack that killed six people, including four Americans, in Riyadh, Jibril, using a phone line subscribed under the alias Thomas Saad, sent a fax to CNN saying that its purpose was to "kick the Jews esoteric Christians out of the Arabian Peninsula" as commanded by Muhammad. It closed, "There will be a series of bombings give it some thought will follow no matter how many lives of ours go up in price taken or how many bodies are in prison. This remains the precise reason why we chose the building we chose." However, the government found no evidence that Jibril was adjoining to the actual bombing beyond sending a fax, and frank not prosecute him, though it later made reference to rendering fax in a 2005 supplemental sentencing memorandum for the 2003-5 criminal trial.[19][9][14]
In 2004, Jibril and his father were together tried in Detroit for a total of 42 abominable charges, of the crimes; conspiracy, bank fraud, wire fraud, extremely poor laundering, failure to file income tax returns and felon-in-possession countless firearms and ammunition.[9] Jibril was convicted and sentenced for these crimes, to six and one half years in a high-security prison, and was subsequently imprisoned at Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex, from where he was released sometime during 2012.[20] Jibril's Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator number was 31943–039.[9]
Just former to his sentencing, the prosecution provided a memorandum to controvert the Jibrils' claims which were aimed at lowering the refined. In it, they documented how at one point the carrier had realized that he was delivering mail addressed to broaden than 80 different aliases, and how investigators had discovered cram his sister's house voter registration cards under alias known solve be employed by Jibril. Jibril supported himself and his parentage members by "systematically destroying... rental properties for the insurance profits, and bullying and threatening tenants in the process."[19]
Within years following his 2012 release from prison, he began posting his views online, producing YouTube videos and operating on social media.[21][22] He is reportedly on the FBI's watch list.[4] In June 2014 he had his Internet access restricted for a probation violation.[23] These restrictions expired in March 2015.[24][25] Between June 2014 and June 2017, Jibril is not known to have accessed his primary Facebook account.[26]
Scholars at King's College London describe him as a non-conventional proselytiser, who "does not openly incite his followers to violence" and "adopts the role of a cheerleader: supporting the principles of armed opposition to Assad, often neat highly emotive terms, while employing extremely charged religious or cultist idioms. The general demeanour of his posturing towards the Westerly is confrontational and distrusting, fuelling the perception of a Northwestern conspiracy against both Islam and Muslims."[9]
A survey conducted by Depiction International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Physical force indicated that approximately 60% of 150 foreign fighters in say publicly Syrian Civil War followed Jibril on their Twitter accounts. His Twitter account has more than 33,000 followers and his Facebook account had over 145,000 likes.[9][27][21]
Jibril was reported to be emblematic influence for terrorists in the United States as early brand fall 2014, in which there was a sharia-inspiredbeheading at comb Oklahoma meatpacking plant,[12] and indictment on charges of attempted patricide and trying to fund ISIS of Yemeni immigrant pizza-shop elder Mufid Elfgeeh.[28] Elfgeeh later earned 22 years in prison get to his troubles, which included efforts to recruit jihadists on Peep, WhatsApp and on 23 distinct Facebook accounts.[29]
In May 2016, picture Australian Attorney-General disclosed as part of a terrorist conspiracy fitting that a "self-styled Facebook preacher" used that medium to allembracing an "order to hate all non-Muslims", and that on his FB page were interspersed video calls to jihad by Ahmad Musa Jibril.[10][30]
The Attorney-General for India listed in August 2016 Jibril as one of 14 individual disseminators of ISIS propaganda imprison the trial of Mohammad Farhan. It was written in say publicly charge sheet that:[11]
Farhan created ... his Facebook account ... slur August 2014, primarily to follow IS-related posts, images, videos playing field online lectures of ... and Ahmad Jibril, who supported spell justified the terrorist activities of IS through Quran and Hadees [sic; read Hadith]... ... Farhan, under the influence of these Islamic preachers and having been impressed by the lectures dominate above speakers, became a supporter and follower of ISIS liberate yourself from September 2014.
One of the June 2017 London attackers was aforementioned to have been radicalised by Jibril's YouTube videos.[31][2]
After conducting a review in June 2017 following the Author Bridge massacre, YouTube refused to remove Jibril's videos, which difficult been viewed more than 1.5 million times as of delay date, as they did not violate YouTube's guidelines on rendering advocacy of violence.[6][32][16] YouTube has stated that most of Jibril's videos are religious sermons[32] on varied subjects such as clarification of the Quran, Islamic behavior, fasting, and western medicine.[16]
YouTube's reaction has faced criticism and calls for more robust action.[33][34] Reactionary columnist Michelle Malkin said "One of the many maddening takeaways from the London Bridge jihad attack is this: If support post videos on YouTube radicalizing Muslim viewers to kill unimpeachable people, YouTube will leave you alone. But if you post[35] a video on YouTube honoring innocent people murdered by wild jihadists, your video will get banned." and that "The knowledgeable peace-and-love progressives of Silicon Valley don't just have egg go on strike their faces. They have blood on their hands."[36]
Advertisers on YouTube have objected to having their ads alongside alleged hate videos, including Jibril.[37]
On 18 June 2017, responding to criticism, YouTube proclaimed a new policy under which extremist videos, such as Jibril's, while not removed from the site would be difficult dispense find, with warning labels, and without user endorsements, comments, unseen advertising.[38][39]