{"id":54974,"date":"2014-09-04T08:32:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T12:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54974"},"modified":"2014-09-04T08:32:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T12:32:16","slug":"don-morgan-couldnt-finish-bootcamp-so-he-joined-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54974","title":{"rendered":"Don Morgan couldn&#8217;t finish bootcamp so he joined ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=54975\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54975\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Don-Morgan-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"Don Morgan\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Don-Morgan-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Don-Morgan-500x267.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Don-Morgan.jpg 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Jeff sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/isis-terror\/exclusive-american-extremist-reveals-his-quest-join-isis-n194796\">NBC News<\/a> interview that they had done with this Don Morgan AKA Nassar Abdul-Rahim in Lebanon last month who was looking to join with ISIS &#8211; even though he doesn&#8217;t consider himself a terrorist. I guess he grew up in North Carolina and joined the Army National Guard once and that didn&#8217;t work out, so off to the Middle East he goes;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Morgan said he was first exposed to the religion as a university student in a course called \u201cContemporary Islam.\u201d But he didn\u2019t actually convert until some years later, after failing to complete the boot camp that would have allowed him to deploy with the National Guard to Kuwait during Desert Storm. He then found out that local law enforcement, where he served as a sheriff\u2019s deputy, was not the brotherhood he sought either. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy entire life growing up was surrounded by the idea that I would be 82nd Airborne, I would be Special Forces, I would serve dutifully \u2013 duty, honor and country,\u201d Morgan said. Later, \u201cI thought that I would make this [law enforcement] my substitution for what I thought was going to be, in the beginning, a military career, an achievement, leadership,\u201d he said. Yet after a year and a half, his deputy job was terminated. An official at the sheriff\u2019s office would not give NBC News a reason for the termination. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, I guess we&#8217;re all terrorists in our hearts, because this fool made up for his inability to be a special forces killer by converting to Islam and trying to join ISIS. Anyway, Donny, the all-American kid turned terrorist , was arrested in New York the other day on weapons charges &#8211; he was a felon at some point in his misbegotten life (which probably explains why the sheriff department let him go) and he was trying to sell a rifle online.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So in place of the order of a military life, this southern son turned to a different, brutal, terrifying kind of discipline and belonging. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess we&#8217;re all lucky that we had the personal commitment to complete our military training or we&#8217;d be flocking to ISIS to straighten our lives out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff sends us a link to the NBC News interview that they had done with this &hellip; <a title=\"Don Morgan couldn&#8217;t finish bootcamp so he joined ISIS\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54974\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don Morgan couldn&#8217;t finish bootcamp so he joined ISIS<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}