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The DOJ Forced a New Jersey Town to Accept a Mosque, a Chinese Immigrant Family's Son Joined Hamas




When federal investigators showed up at the Xie family home in Basking Ridge, there was a courtesy Porsche loaner in the driveway. The pleasant New Jersey community has become the place where successful Chinese immigrants move after they’ve outgrown places like Fort Lee.

Like the earlier generation of Jewish residents, they came for the schools and suburban living. The neighbors of the Xie family on the tree-lined street are mostly Jewish and Asian upper middle class professionals employed by Fortune 500 companies and living the American dream.

The Xie home with its soaring gables, its two car garage, and the Porsche out front, signaled that they had made it. And with access to good schools, their children would outdo them.

Jonathan Xie probably never will. His guilty plea to one count of concealing attempts to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization puts an end to the case against him, and likely to the future his parents might have planned for him: a degree from an Ivy League college, a prestigious profession, and another big house like theirs in a leafy suburb.

Two years after Jonathan graduated from high school, federal investigators were going through the familiar and humiliating process of carting boxes past the loaner Porsche and the two car garage. Something had gone very wrong. Like a surprisingly diverse number of American teens, Jonathan had decided to convert to Islam, become an Islamic terrorist and kill lots of people.

Especially Jews. And possibly anyone in Trump Tower. Including President Trump.

While Islamic terrorism in America is still mostly the hobby of first and second generation immigrants from Muslim countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Egypt, Xie was far from the first non-Muslim teen to pick up the basics of Islam and try to join a terrorist group.

But there were two unique things about the Xie case.

Jonathan came from an immigrant group with a strong sense of familial identity. When he declared that he had become a “revert” to Islam, he turned his back on his family, his culture, and his family’s Christian faith.

And then there was his choice of terrorist organization.

Teens who convert to Islam in some quiet suburb used to choose Al Qaeda, and these days pick ISIS. But Jonathan wasn’t drawn to any of the flashy globalist jihadist newcomers.

He chose Hamas. And the Muslim Brotherhood.

"As-salamu alykum. My name is Jonathan and I reverted to Islam a few weeks ago," his first letter to Hamas, a year after graduating high school, went. "I was wondering if non-Palestinians/non-Arabs would be allowed to join the Al-Qassam Brigades."

In another email, he mentioned, “As a Muslim living in the US, I would like to support the Palestinian resistance as much as possible.”

It was the sort of polite letter that Jonathan must have been taught to write when applying for internships or colleges, but he was instead applying to join the military wing of a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group known for firing rocket launchers at school buses and blowing up entire families in pizzerias.

While Xie was using the correct Islamic language, his roster of political terminology, referring to Israel as an “apartheid” state, ranting about “neo-liberalism”, and building a YouTube playlist of videos supporting Saddam Hussein and Bashar Assad, both Arab Socialist Baath Party regimes, North Korea’s Communist Party, and Iran’s Shiite Houthi and Hezbollah terrorists, was strongly suggestive of a particularly radical strain of leftist politics easily available online.

Xie’s hatred for Israel and Jews vied only with his hatred for President Trump.

"Donald Trump, he should be hung from the gallows!" he ranted in one post. "I went to NYC today and passed by Trump Tower, then I started thinking about bombing it and I was imagining that the explosion would kill Trump."

While Xie's Instagram rantings could be mistaken for posturing, he tried to follow through on his plans.

"I'm joining the army," he claimed. "Not to fight for Jewish internets (sic)... but to learn how to kill."

And he actually did apply to join the military.

He boasted of donating money to Hamas, and he actually did donate to the terrorist group.

Meanwhile he was fantasizing about becoming a terrorist.

"I want to shoot the pro-israel demonstrators," he pondered in one, referencing a 4chan meme about vehicular attacks. "Maybe I should rent the truck of peace."

On a video, Xie brandished a gun and showed off a Hamas flag while denouncing "Zionism" and threatening, “I’m gonna go to the f____ pro-Israel march and I’m going to shoot everybody.”

"I should do lone wolf," he speculated elsewhere.

“Watch their blood and dead bodies litter the streets,” he fantasized in yet another message.

After all that, much of it public on social media, combined with showing an undercover FBI employee how to donate to Hamas, his guilty plea concedes the obvious. Xie did little to conceal his plans or attitudes. And while his defenders have attempted to blame mental illness, that excuse has been employed so often for Islamic terrorists that it has lost all its credibility.

But what drove a Chinese-American teen to convert to Islam and try to join Hamas?

The same year that Xie graduated from high school in Basking Ridge, likely chosen by his family because it has the 2nd and 3rd highest ranked high schools in New Jersey, the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge, with the assistance of the DOJ, won a victory allowing it to build a mosque, despite zoning issues, and collecting over $3 million in fees and damages.

The DOJ’s lawsuit was one of the closing acts of the Obama administration.

Basking Ridge, home to the country’s oldest white oak tree that George Washington once picnicked under, has been slowly trending leftward. Hillary Clinton narrowly won its home area. It’s a place where some of the NYPD and FDNY firefighters who commute to New York City live, and where the multicultural employees of multinational corporations buy homes, so that American flags and Black Lives Matter signs can alternate as you drive through the township.

Even before the DOJ’s intervention, Muslim prayers were being held in a municipal building and Islamic lessons were being taught in a public school cafateria.

Xie’s parents may have come to Basking Ridge for its schools, but Islamization had arrived first.

The Islamic Society of Basking Ridge is said to be affiliatedwith the Islamic Society of North America. ISNA is in turnrooted in the Muslim Brotherhood.

“I support the Hamas faction of the MB,” Xie had posted, referring to the Muslim Brotherhood.

What role did the growing Islamization of Basking Ridge play in a Chinese-American teen converting to Islam and plotting the murder of Americans? It’s hard to know. The same DOJ that enabled the Islamic Society’s mosque also prosecuted Xie for taking Islamic teachings literally.

The pleasant township with its excellent schools had become another American training ground for Islamic terrorists.

"I am not afraid to die," Xie stated.

On the old site of the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge were the teachings of the Koran about the "character of non-believers".

“Seize them and slay them wherever ye find them,” one verse coolly mentioned.





Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

Comments

  1. Anonymous30/9/20

    The tragedy for the Xie family is unfathomable.
    All their love, hope, effort was diverted into
    producing an obsessive killer.

    Islam, using cult techniques, makes easy prey of
    many at uncertain times of life. Unlike Amway or
    Scientology, Islam really does act to dominate the
    world by killing or converting everybody else.

    Every time an idiot or traitor babbles “Religion of
    Peace”, another Jonathan decides to check out that
    new Arabic Culture group in the lunch room. Let’s
    reign in our tolerance of 1400 years of dead
    Jonathans and their victims.

    Charlie

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    1. I agree, but first, we have to get the DOJ out of forcing communities to open mosques!! It is NOT the job of DOJ to do such horrific things in America!!! Bill Barr should be hung for not stopping this travesty!

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    2. Anonymous2/10/20

      Right on, Dorrie; I’ll go you one more.
      New, prospective citizens swear an Oath of
      Allegiance. Sharia and Jihad is anathema.
      Deport their Halal asses or shoot ‘em for
      Treason.

      Charlie

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  2. I have every expectation that a Biden administration would attempt to silence your voice.

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  3. Anonymous1/10/20

    This is horrifying, and appalling to read. But more and more, I wonder how much - if any - of the US gov agencies are actually on the side of America. The rot seems to have permeated many of the institutions we once trusted - fib, doj, etc. (Now its the Dept of Injustice.) Not to mention the armies of corrupt, America-hating bureaucrats, which infest local state and federal gov's to a high degree.
    What are we to do?
    While I applaud many things DJT has done, the fact that he has not only failed to 'drain the swamp' but in fact is surrounded by same (and Jared is in that group), makes me wonder if he is in fact 'controlled opposition'.

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    1. I've wondered much of the same, but the alternative is grim. Trump is FAR from perfect, has liberal kids with their fingers in the pie, screwing with Israel and now Israel has a "plague" because they are not calling Judea and Samaria part of the Land, which it most assuredly IS! They're withholding land for peace. The 2 previous PM's died because they gave land for peace and the sick treaty that Kushner put together mentions "Peace and safety" THREE TIMES!! God's Word says when people speak of "peace and safety", destruction will come QUICKLY!! And if Israel is judged, you can be sure the U.S. will be as well - and faster than anyone can imagine!!

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  4. I know of a few other Chinese people who’d converted to Judaism rather than Islam. And the contrast between the outlook on life among those two kinds of religious converts could not be more stark. One type becomes a paranoid robot, programmed for hatred and violence, while the other one strives to be the best possible human being, with nothing but kindness and generosity towards others. Perhaps one’s beliefs define one’s behavior... oh what a thought...

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  5. Studying Torah will do that to people! HaShem knew that when He gave Torah to Moses. It worked then and it still works!! It truly is a book of peace, unlike the Quran - and only demons could have given that to whoever penned it because Mohammed was totally illiterate.

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  6. Alicia Louise Sinclair2/10/20

    What a depressing tale.
    His poor family.
    I'd have thought that Chinese families with a knowledge of Islam back home would know of the Uighar/Hue schism that exists. As I understand it, the Hue are assimilated and not targeted, whereas the Uighar are.
    If you see what's happening in H.K and Taiwan , might not an idealistic, duped or callow kid have diverted his passion, rage and utopian efforts at righting THOSE wrongs, as opposed to deeply complex, nuanced ones where he has no reasoned dog in the fight?
    Can only assume that hideous blend of Islamism and Material Marxism was allowed to do it's worst unchallenged, indulged and even condoned by the liberal progressive idiots and nasties who are Fascists but are allowed to name themselves as the very opposite.
    Tragic, only hope Trump gets four more years, but he'd have to be much more urgent to stem the sewage that our students suck up like Stalin's granny's milk.

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