DC Metro Officer Went From Playing Nazi To Joining ISIS

by Daniel Greenfield: I'm surprised that this doesn't happen more often. Islam is the next best thing to Nazism around these days. There's a reason that they call it Islamofascism.


A Washington, D.C. Metro Transit police officer who was a convert to Islam and once dressed up as Jihadi John for Halloween was charged on Wednesday with trying to provide material support to ISIS -- the first time a law enforcement officer has been charged with an ISIS-related crime.

Virginia resident Nicholas Young, 36, who has served with the department since 2003, was arrested Wednesday morning by FBI agents.

Authorities allege in a criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday that Young attempted to send money to ISIS through a mobile-based gift card using an unnamed messaging service the terror group utilizes for recruiting purposes. Considering the area, we'll likely learn that they had a mosque in common.The criminal complaint connects Young to two convicted Washington, DC-area terrorist sympathizers, Zachary Chesser and Amine El Khalifi.Young really liked his costumes.A baggage search by Customs and Border Protection on one of Young's outbound trips revealed he had traveled with body armor, a Kevlar helmet, and "several other military-style items," according to the criminal complaint.

Young is also alleged to have been in possession of a large cache of firearms, including numerous rifles and handguns at his home.

His alleged terrorist leanings came into the spotlight in 2015 when he admitted to interviewers at the Metro Transit Police Department that he dressed up as Jihadi John for Halloween in 2014. According to the criminal complaint, as part of his costume "Young stuffed an orange jumpsuit with paper to portray a headless hostage, and he carried that around with him through the party."

During the same interview, Young admitted to having previously dressed up as a Nazi and to collecting Nazi memorabilia as well as possessing a tattoo of a German eagle on his neck.If you can't have Hitler, you can always have Mohammed.
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Daniel Greenfield is Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. David Horowitz is a Contributing Author of the ARRA News Service

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