Posted on 12/10/2006 3:36:24 PM PST by Valin
CHICAGO - The man accused of plotting to carry out a holiday grenade attack on shoppers at a Rockford mall was a Muslim convert whose growing interest in radical views worried his mother, according to a published report. "I don't believe that my son purposely has done anything wrong," Marie Dunn told the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald. "I believe he has gotten involved with the wrong people. ... I don't know who he's running with."
Dunn said she wasn't surprised when her 22-year-old son, Derrick Shareef, converted seven years ago, because his father was a member of the Nation of Islam. "He comes from a Muslim background," said Dunn, who described herself as Christian. A telephone listing for Dunn in Genoa was unlisted. But Dunn said she was shocked when she heard Friday that Shareef had been charged with trying to trade two stereo speakers for a 9 mm pistol and the four hand grenades authorities say he wanted set off in garbage cans at the CherryVale shopping mall in Rockford, about 90 miles northwest of Chicago. "I don't know what's going on," Dunn told the Rockford Register Star on Saturday. "The first time I heard about it was from a reporter."
Shareef didn't graduate from high school but earned his GED, Dunn said. He worked at a video game and electronics store in Rockford, where he moved two months ago after living "on and off" in Genoa with Dunn's husband and two other children, she said. FBI officials said the agency was tipped by an acquaintance of Shareef, after Shareef allegedly told the person he wanted to "commit acts of violent jihad," according to the affidavit. Authorities arrested Shareef Wednesday when he tried to make the trade with an undercover agent in a Rockford parking lot. Shareef was charged Friday with one count of attempting to damage or destroy a building by fire or explosion and one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, and was ordered held without bail.
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Neighborhood Reaction
Reporter: Tina Stein
http://www.wifr.com/home/headlines/4871531.html
The family of Derrick Shareef say they had no idea he was involved in such extremism. I spoke with his mother Marie Schultz of Genoa this evening and she says she didn't find out about today's arrest until the media started contacting her.
This is where the Schultz family live. In the Country Creek Community, which neighbors describe as close-knit and filled with mostly retired families.
Neighbors say they don't know very much about Shareef since he only lived in Genoa for a short while before moving to Rockford. Now his mother says Shareef is from her first marriage and he spent most of his childhood in California.
It wasn't until recently Shareef converted to the Nation of Islam, which Schultz claims, "he didn't know what he was getting himself into."
Shareef's father currently lives in California and is also a member of the Nation of Islam.
Pray, tell us who these "wrong people" are...
She has just made the understatement of the year.
He was such a nice boy...
he was a Democrat?
I knew it!
Sounds like Barack Hussein Obama
the mother had a "my jihadi is an honor student" bumper sticker on her car.
nice touch mom.
LOL.
I'm gonna go waaaay out on a limb and say...
"It wasn't until recently Shareef converted to the Nation of Islam, which Schultz claims, "he didn't know what he was getting himself into."
Shareef's father currently lives in California and is also a member of the Nation of Islam."
Just once I'd like to see a mother of some terrorist (or any other criminal for that matter) say "Yeah, this doesn't suprise me at all, just look at the scumbags he was hanging out with."
Just once I'd like to see that.
it was a joke
Yep. I used to get so sick of hearing that from perps mothers in Memphis. He was a good boy right up to the time he killed someone.
Running with the wrong people? But I thought he was a "lone wolf!"
That's right! 'Working alone' !
"I don't believe that my son purposely has done anything wrong," Marie Dunn told the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald. "I believe he has gotten involved with the wrong people. ... I don't know who he's running with."
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The family of Derrick Shareef say they had no idea he was involved in such extremism. I spoke with his mother Marie Schultz of Genoa this evening and she says she didn't find out about today's arrest until the media started contacting her.
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He got in with the wrong people, his father who was an a-hole Moooooooooooolim, and now he's an a-hole Moooooooooooslim !!!
"just look at the scumbags he was hanging out with."
Well, we can't be judgemental, can we? Different cultures, different ways...Celebrate Diversity! Besides, the word "scumbag" has phallocentric male-oriented implications, and that's not right either! Of course, who's to say what's "right" or "wrong"?/sarcastic rant off;)
But seriously, after 12 years in a public screwel, plus another four in a Commieversity, can anyone doubt that there are a LOT of morally obtuse knuckleheads out there?
This is a perfect example of what John Kerry was talking about when he said that you need to study hard, get a good education or you'll get stuck...oh, wait...
Duh!, mom.
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