Asher Abid Khan, a Pakistani migrant Muslim terrorist, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for helping the Islamic terrorist organization ISIS.
Yahoo published a story by the Associated Press that Asher Abid Khan pled guilty in 2017 to charges of assisting ISIS with material support and was sentenced to 18 months in prison back then by U.S. District Judge Lynn H. Hughes (who was appointed by President Reagan). However the federal government appealed his sentence because it was too lenient for a crime like his.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Charles R. Eskridge (who was appointed by President Trump) sentenced Asher Abid Khan, 27 to 12 years in federal prison as well as 15 years of supervised release. Khan’s defense team had asked for a much milder five-year sentence.
Eskridge said anything less than 12 years wouldn’t send “the appropriate message.”
The Associated Press story excluded a lot of the details about the culprit, including the fact that he is a Pakistani migrant Muslim whose family moved to Texas over 2 decades ago. But in 2015, NDTV reported on Asher Abid Khan’s case in detail. Aside from reporting on his background as a Pakistani migrant, the channel detailed his travel to Turkey at age 19 to join ISIS in Syria and die a Shaheed (Muslim martyr) for their cause. The story also included the alarming information that federal agents did not bring up charges of terrorism against numerous individuals but simply worked with families of the radicalized individuals.
U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, said there are numerous cases in which agents have worked with families to prevent radicalization and criminal charges were avoided.
Pakistani migrant Asher Abid Khan’s conviction seems to be the tip of the ice berg of Islamic terror planted and grown under the nose of the authorities in the United States. In his 2016 book See Something Say Nothing former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official Philip Haney revealed that the Obama administration ignored national security risks and allowed easy entry of Muslim terrorist into the country. Haney was found shot to death in California last February. After nearly two years, no results of any investigation into his suspicious killing have been revealed and the case seems to have been tucked under the rug.
