Arrest of American who Threatened South Park Creators

Younus Abdullah Muhammad (aka Jesse Curtis Morton), who has been charged with threatening the creators of South Park, was arrested in Morocco on May 27 and awaiting extradition to the US, according to his website IslamPolicy. The alleged arrest is also posted on his facebook page. 

Despite a warrant issued for his arrest several weeks ago, Abdullah Muhammad continued to post entries on his blog as well as hardline Islamic forums until the day he was arrested. In one such entry on his blog, he reposted the original threat against the creators of South Park - the very document that got him into this trouble in the first place. 

In another post on the day of his arrest, Abdullah Muhammad threatens Shi’a Muslims, saying: “May Allah (swt) destroy the dirty rawafid shia and humilate all those that try to portray permissibility in this age for cooperation with them...” This is just one of the various veiled threats Abdullah Muhammad has issued against the US, Jews, and Shia Muslims, among others, over the past several years since he co-founded Revolution Muslim in 2007. 

Prior to being charged with communicating threats, Abdullah Muhammad exclaimed “We are all Osama bin Laden” in the wake of bin Laden’s death. “It is our duty today to reflect not on what we are doing and to celebrate nostalgically as if being a fan and supporter puts us on the same playing field, no rather we should reflect on what we are not doing realizing that we all must strive to be more and more like Osama bin Laden,” he wrote.

The arrest of Abdullah Muhammad does not mean the end of the extremist messages propagated by Revolution Muslim/Islam Policy. There are still a number of individuals linked to the group who continue to post comments in support of this extremist ideology. It should be interesting to see how this group attempts to recover with the arrest of their leader. In a way this can be likened to the death of Osama bin Laden - in the same way that al-Qaeda’s ideology will live on, so too will this group’s ideology, no matter who is the next leader.