A onetime honor student from Virginia steadily embraced radicalism, supporting the Islamic State and urging others to do the same. Ali Shukri Amin’s path landed him in prison – and exposes a scattershot U.S. approach to steering young Americans away from extremism. In 2014, the suburban high school student began tweeting instructions on how to use Bitcoin to fund the extremist group. Early in 2015, he helped a schoolmate, Reza Niknejad, travel to Syria to join the Islamic State – an escalation culminating in Amin’s arrest that February. Last June 11, the onetime honor student pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Now, the U.S. government has uncorroborated information that his 18-year-old schoolmate died overseas.
Seorang pelajar dari Virgina yang menganut paham radikalisme, mendukung ISIS dan mendesak teman-temannya untuk melakukan hal yang sama. Perbuatan Ali Shukri Amin itu menyebabkan ia dipenjara. Pada 2014, Ali Shukri Amin menggalang dana untuk ISIS dengan Bitcoin. Awal 2015, ia memberangkatkan temannya, Reza Niknejad, menuju Suriah untuk bergabung dengan ISIS. Ali akhirnya dinyatakan bersalah karena mendukung teroris. Temannya yang berangkat ke Suriah kabarnya mati dalam perjalanan
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Amin and his mother, Amani Ibrahim, immigrated to the United States from Sudan in 1999, when he was almost two. They lived in cramped quarters in Virginia with relatives for years, with Amin and his mother sharing a bed until she remarried in 2011. He was then 14.
Ibrahim was overprotective of her son, she wrote in a court letter, citing his chronic health problems and her fear “and sense of foreboding that something bad might happen to him.”
Shortly after Amin’s diagnosis of Crohn’s — an inflammatory bowel disease that can cause severe abdominal pain and diarrhea — at age 10, Ibrahim took him out of sports programs and didn’t let him sleep over at friends’ houses. He began spending time alone.
Amin dan ibunya, Amani Ibrahim, imigrasi dari Sudan menuju AS pada tahun 1999, saat Ali baru berumur 2 tahun. Ibrahim sangat overprotektif terhadap putranya. Sikap ibunya ini bukan tanpa alasan. Amin didiagnosis menderita penyakit Crohn's, radang usus yang dapat menyebabkan sakit perut yang luar biasa dan diare parah. Setelah divonis, ibunya melarang Ali untuk olahraga dan bermain di luar. Amin menghabiskan masa kecilnya penuh kesepian (kasian gan, mau nangis bacanya ).
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As a teenager, Amin began studying Islam apart from his family. The religion appealed to him on an intellectual level, he told a forensic psychologist, unlike the “more ceremonial” Islam practiced by his parents. His online research led him to Islamic State supporters, and he began communicating with them. Suddenly, the teen felt intelligent and valued, according to the psychologist’s report, filed in court papers after his arrest.
Sebagai remaja, Amin belajar Islam secara terpisah dari keluarganya. Pemahaman Amin tentang agama berbeda dengan apa yang dianut oleh keluarganya. Amin akhirnya tertarik dengan ISIS dan menjadi pendukungnya.
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At Osbourn Park High School in Manassas, Virginia, Amin’s behavior noticeably changed. By 2013, his junior year, he had become increasingly hardline, chastising Muslim classmates if they didn’t complete their five daily prayers and trying to engage them in conversations about turbulence in the Middle East. On a group chat in the fall of 2013, three of Amin’s classmates tried to temper his radical views. “We would try to make fun of the things he would say,” one classmate said in an interview, noting he never took Amin’s views seriously. “We would say things like: ‘A bunch of illiterate idiots are running around ruining the name of Islam.’ And Ali would say: ‘Hitler was literate, Hitler was Christian.’ It seemed like he was taking sides with the terrorists.”
Pada 2013, kelakuan Amin mulai berubah. Ia akan marah pada teman Muslimnya yang tidak sholat lima waktu dan mencoba mempengaruhinya tentang konflik Timur Tengah. Teman-teman Amin sebenarnya sudah berupaya untuk meredam radikalisme Amin dengan cara tak ada yang serius menanggapi ajakan Amin. Salah seorang teman menasehatinya supaya tak ikut2 para pengacau yang mengatasnamakan Islam. Amin tetap teguh pada pendirian, rupanya ia sudah mantap berdiri di jalur teroris.
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His parents noticed him spending more time in his room. They looked through his phone and computer and found messages about jihad and Islamic State. “I see now that I was not only naïve, but had abandoned an important responsibility.” After discovering his online activity, Ibrahim and Amin’s stepfather, Yassir Rustom, met with Mohamed Magid, a Virginia imam known in their community for counseling youth drawn to extremist groups. He advised them to bring Amin to him.
Ibunya merasa bersalah karena tidak mampu menjalankan tanggungjawab sebagai orangtua yang baik. Ibu dan ayah tirinya, Yasser Rustom, berinisiatif untuk membawa Amin kepada Mohammed Magid, seorang ustad Virginia yang berfokus menjauhkan radikalisme dari kaum muda.
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Magid and Amin met and talked about connecting over Skype, with the imam planning to give him lectures from an Islamic book called Al Akhdari. But after Amin’s parents took away his phone and computer after the first meeting, Amin moved in with his uncle and the second meeting never happened.
Magid said he has counseled several people like Amin: isolated, vulnerable and seeking a sense of purpose. Recruiters tell them they are heroes and will be part of a cause larger than themselves. Amin felt an invincibility online he could never feel in real life, Magid said, and “was a typical case of a young person who had become very vulnerable in a life transition.”
Magid dan Iman ngobrol lewat Skype. Obrolan itu menjadi yang pertama dan terakhir karena Amin pindah ke rumah pamannya. Magid mengaku sudah sering membimbing beberapa orang seperti Amin: terisolasi, rapuh, dan mencari jati diri. Para 'pencari bakat' mengatakan kepada para calon mujahidin bahwa mereka akan menjadi pahlawan. Amin merasa mendapat kekuatan yang tak ia dapat di kehidupan nyata.
Mohammed Magid, saat menjadi Imam di sebuah masjid Virginia.
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In the fall of 2014, Amin’s parents again noticed his troubling online activity. On Magid’s advice, they reported Amin to the FBI in hopes of protecting their son from the Islamic State, his mother wrote the judge. In his first meeting with law enforcement, Amin confessed to crimes. He and his parents subsequently met with FBI agents about four more times. After his arrest, he cooperated in the investigations of other Islamic State supporters, his lawyer said in court filings.
In his June plea, Amin admitted to radicalizing schoolmate Niknejad, putting him in touch with Islamic State contacts and accompanying him to the airport so he could travel to Syria. Niknejad became an Islamic State fighter in Syria, court records say.
The teen may have been killed in Iraq or Syria, a U.S. law enforcement official said, citing uncorroborated information. Amin was sentenced to 11 years in prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release. As of April 2016, he had received no counter-radicalization programming, said his lawyer, Joseph Flood. Amin, now 18, is due to be released in 2025.
Pada 2014, orangtua Amin mencurigai aktvitas online anaknya. Orangtua Amin kemudian berinisiatif melaporkan anaknya sendiri ke FBI, atas nasehat Magid. Amin mengakui kejahatannya di hadapan penegak hukum. Menurut pengacaranya, Amin kooperatif dalam memberi info tentang suporter ISIS lainnya. Amin juga mengakui telah mempengaruhi teman sekelasnya, Niknejad, menghubungkannya dengan ISIS dan menemaninya saat berangkat ke Suriah untuk bergabung dengan mereka. Niknejad kemungkinan sudah mati di Irak atau Suriah. Amin dihukum 11 tahun penjara dan menerima rehabilitasi deradikalisasi. Amin sekarang 18 tahun, dan akan bebas pada 2025.
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