All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good Muslims to do something. Good Muslims like Lionel Nelson Williams aka Harun Ash-Shababi.
He was a respectful young man and a “good Muslim,” according to a neighbor. He was helping take care of his aging grandmother in rural Suffolk.
But court documents paint 26-year-old Lionel Nelson Williams as a would-be terrorist who tried to give money to the Islamic State group in Iraq and appeared in recent weeks to be gearing up for a lone-wolf attack in Virginia.
“It appears that Williams was moving closer to committing an attack that would result in his death,” FBI Special Agent Kristen Ashby wrote in an affidavit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Norfolk. The affidavit said Williams owned an AK-47 assault rifle and had been seen shooting it in Suffolk.
The FBI confirmed Williams purchased an AK-47 over the internet on Dec. 3, 2015, the day after a terror attack in San Bernardino, Calif.
“I can’t wait for the day that the black flag of Islam exists all over Maryland, D.C., Virginia, and Chicago,” he told one of the personas in May in a Facebook message.
In June, Williams met with an undercover FBI employee. He told the person he supported attacks on “hard targets,” meaning he wanted to attack the police and military, the FBI said.
But Williams was just misunderstanding Islam. Or did he understand it all too well?
On or about March 21,2016, WILLIAMS "liked" a post by another Facebook user that stated: "The lone wolf attacks are more beloved to us than the martyrdom operations. For the impact of the lone wolf attacks in the lands of the enemy cause more terror in their hearts and give them a taste of the havoc they rain upon our families in different Muslim lands! #KillThemWhereverYouFindThem".
Kill them wherever you find them. It doesn't get much more Islamic than .Koran 2:191.
WILLIAMS told Persona-1: "1 can't wait for the day that the black flag of Islam exists all over Maryland, D.C., Virginia, and Chicago."
And unlike CAIR and other Islamist groups, he wasn't willing to wait.