“We are you behad cristians isis [sic]” (Facebook post)“United States of America v. Harlem Suarez a/k/a Almlak Benitez,” U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, July 27, 2015, http://www.local10.com/blob/view/-/34405846/data/2/-/15f8doc/-/Suarez-complaint.pdf.
“[S]ta[n]d up with us my brother stand up with the black flag an The ak with 10 mag fight with us be a gangster with us kill our enemies and convert to Islam now in usa [sic]” (Facebook post)“United States of America v. Harlem Suarez a/k/a Almlak Benitez,” U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, July 27, 2015, http://www.local10.com/blob/view/-/34405846/data/2/-/15f8doc/-/Suarez-complaint.pdf.
Video message:
“Today, Inshallah [God willing], we are going to build this bomb with 1,000 pounds of Ammonium Nitrate. Inshallah, this will kill many kuffar [nonbelievers]. This message is to you America. You sit in your homes and you think that this war is just over in Iraq . . . Wallahi [swear to God], we today we will bring the Islamic State straight to your doorstep. You think this is just a game, wallahi when this bomb blows up and kills as many kuffar as possible, maybe then you’ll realize it.”“Criminal Complaint,” United States District Court for the District of Kansas, U.S. Department of Justice, April 10, 2015, http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press releases/attachments/2015/04/10/booker_complaint.pdf.
Video message:
“To all the mothers, daughters, fathers, brothers, sisters and friends or loved ones of . . . any soldier in the United States military. Get your kids out. Get your loved ones out of the military. Because, wallahi, Dualah Islam [ISIS] is coming for them. From inside, whether it be in their homes, whether it be on a base like this, whether it be in the recruiting stations, whether it be in the streets . . .Wallahi, we are coming for them and we seek their blood because their blood is halal [permissible] for us to kill them.”“Criminal Complaint,” United States District Court for the District of Kansas, U.S. Department of Justice, April 10, 2015, http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press releases/attachments/2015/04/10/booker_complaint.pdf.
Speaking to an undercover FBI informant:
“I will kill any kuffar [nonbelievers]. I will follow any place. Wallahi [I swear to God] if I was with Daulah Islam [ISIS] and they said look, we are going to the White House right now. Wallahi, I would go with them without any question.”“Criminal Complaint,” United States District Court for the District of Kansas, U.S. Department of Justice, April 10, 2015, http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press releases/attachments/2015/04/10/booker_complaint.pdf.
Speaking to an undercover FBI informant:
“[I] was in jihad before, okay. I got captured. Okay, a long story short the people at the Masjid don’t like me because I support al Qa’ida openly. I’m not afraid, I was captured before . . . I was captured by FBI before . . . because I was with al Qa’ida. [I] joined the United States Army [but] hadn’t really completed, I hadn’t really started . . . I was going to go in there and kill the American soldier.”“Criminal Complaint,” United States District Court for the District of Kansas, U.S. Department of Justice, April 10, 2015, http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press releases/attachments/2015/04/10/booker_complaint.pdf.
“Getting ready to be killed in jihad is a HUGE adrenaline rush!! I am so nervous. NOT because I’m scared to die but I am eager to meet my lord.” (Facebook Post)“Criminal Complaint,” United States District Court for the District of Kansas, U.S. Department of Justice, April 10, 2015, http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press releases/attachments/2015/04/10/booker_complaint.pdf.
“I will soon be leaving you forever so goodbye! I’m going to wage jihad and hopes that i die.” (Facebook Post)“Criminal Complaint,” United States District Court for the District of Kansas, U.S. Department of Justice, April 10, 2015, http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press releases/attachments/2015/04/10/booker_complaint.pdf.
“Yeah, I’m going to be on vacation right here in Massachusetts…I’m just going to ah go after them, those boys in blue. Cause, ah, it’s the easiest target and, the most common is the easiest for me …”“Criminal Complaint,” U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, June 12, 2015, http://wpri.com/read-criminal-complaint-against-nicholas-rovinski/.
“No, my, my goal since when I called you is ah, ah, you know I just want to meet Allah because I know that…the Akhira [afterlife] that is better than this Dunya [Worldly life] and, uhm, since Jihad is a way out and it’s a way to be with Allah and to get out of this Dunya [Worldly life], you know, maybe to be, to be amongst the company of the righteous and because it’s… in this era right now and…it’s not something random and I’ve already gave my Bay’ [Allegiance] so it’s not a random vigilante attack. It is what it is and I have my bases covered.”“Criminal Complaint,” U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, June 12, 2015, http://wpri.com/read-criminal-complaint-against-nicholas-rovinski/.
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.