Dearborn Muslim Mohammad Hassan Hamdan Arrested on Attempted Jihad Charges

Politicians, the media, and Muslim organizations assure us that it’s bigoted, racist, and Islamophobic to tell people what the Qur’an says about jihad. Meanwhile, Muslims from around the world continue to wage jihad in the name of Allah. While most Muslims don’t take the Qur’an’s violent commands seriously, Dearborn’s own Mohammad Hassan Hamdan apparently does:

Investigative Project on Terrorism—A Dearborn resident was arrested Sunday night and charged with providing material support to the Shi’ite terrorist group Hizballah.

Mohammad Hassan Hamdan, who was born in Lebanon and has been living in the United States since 2007, tried to travel to Syria to fight alongside Hizballah fighters in the civil war that has been raging there for the last three years.

According the complaint, Hamdan told an FBI informant around Christmas that he wanted to go to Syria to fight with Hizballah. He couldn’t leave yet because his sister took away his Lebanese passport to prevent him from going overseas to wage jihad. Hamdan, a permanent U.S. resident, applied for naturalization as an American citizen. He also applied for a new Lebanese passport.

Hizballah, an Iranian proxy based in Lebanon, has a history of violent attacks against U.S. and Israeli targets. The U.S. designated Hizballah as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997 and the European Union recently added the military wing of the Lebanese group to its list of terrorist organizations. . . .

Hamdan claimed to have been active with Hizballah before coming to America, the complaint said. That included the terrorist group’s 2006 war with Israel. He told the informant he received military training and worked with Hizballah’s public assistance programs. He did not disclose this in his U.S. immigration papers.

He said he would be paid between $500 and $1,000 by “the party” (Hizballah) to fight in Syria, the complaint said. “I am leaving behind a family…My uncles tried to convince me [not to go to Syria]…but this is my decision and no one else’s,” Hamdan said.

On Saturday, he booked a roundtrip Air France flight to Lebanon through Paris. Authorities arrested Hamdan at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport after he had cleared security and was waiting to board his flight.

He faces up to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted. He denied any plans to join Hizballah and fight in Syria, instead claiming that he was undertaking the trip to Lebanon to undergo some dental work. (Continue Reading.)

Wow. Lebanon must have some world-class dentists to be using this as an explanation.