By Debbie Schlussel

Hey, it’s time for another edition of “Guess the Religion.” When I first heard breaking news of this indictment, last night, on the radio, I asked myself, “Are they named Mohammed?” And, sure enough, despite the fact that none of the news outlets who reported this story named a single Defendant or where the money ended up (so as to shield the so-called “Religion of Peace”), this giant interstate counterfeit and stolen electronics ring was run by both Sunni AND Shi’ite Muslims with the ultimate goal of funding the Palestinians on your dime. Oh, and the “Religion of Peace” and Kindness targeted and used “drug addicts and low income people” in their scheme. If you don’t know what this means, here’s a tip: my sources in federal law enforcement said they mostly targeted Blacks–or what these Muslims derogatorily call, “abeed” (the Arabic/Muslim N-word, which means, “slaves”).

I’m also not surprised that Royal Jihadian Airlines, er . . . Royal Jordanian Airlines, was involved. My friends from ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and CBP (Customs and Border Protection), working at Detroit Metro Airport constantly told me over the last decade and a half that they had repeated problems from Royal Jordanian and its mostly Muslim employees. Many Lebanese Shi’ite Muslim Hezbollah operatives and Palestinian Sunni Muslim HAMAS and Fatah operatives easily used Royal Jordanian to smuggle contraband to their respective terrorist groups and to try to transport Muslim illegal aliens into the U.S. (often successfully, because, as I told you, a Muslim Palestinian fraud artist, Fadia Odeh, heads CBP operations at Detroit Metro and is, herself married to a “former” illegal alien with disturbing ties).

From the feds themselves:

Twenty-six people, most of them from the Toledo area, were indicted in federal court for their roles in a wide-ranging conspiracy in which stolen computers, smart phones and other electronics were fenced at stores in Toledo and resold in Michigan and the Middle East, law enforcement officials said. Some members of the conspiracy used firearms, threats and violence as part of their operation. Others illegally cashed millions of dollars’ worth of checks at their stores. Others sold counterfeit clothing from their stores. And members of the conspiracy worked together at various Toledo stores to launder money, according to the indictment. . . .

Indicted are Mamoun Awwad, 43, of Maumee; Adnan Awad, 33, of Toledo; Ihab Awad, 31, of Toledo; Ayman Awwad, 42, of Maumee; Anwar Awad, 39, of Toledo; Kamal Awwad, 40, of Toledo; Fady Awwad, 34, of Toledo; Aref Kahala, 23, of Maumee; Saif Alkhatib, 23, of Perrysburg; Haney Sarsour, 36, of Dearborn, Mich.; Ameen Sarsour, 31, of Dearborn, Mich.; Michael Safadi, 37, of Westland, Mich.; Freddy Delatorre, 32, of Toledo; Jeffrey Houttekier, 24, of Toledo; Ahmed Abdulateeef, 47, of Toledo; Ehab Adbdelsalam, 22, of Toledo; Timothy Fields, 32, of Toledo; Ali Abdallah, 34, of Dearborn, Mich.; Mustafa Deebajah, 27, of Dearborn, Mich.; Essa Allawneh, age unknown, of Amman, Jordan; Adli Alawneh, age unknown, of Amman, Jordan; Omar Dari, 54, of Ann Arbor, Mich.; Mutaz Almumani, 29, hometown unknown; Fadi Qasis, 30, hometown unknown; Mayssam Kaddoura, 36, of Toledo and Jamal Abdel Aziz, 44, of Toledo.

I recognize several names here–several of them Sunni Palestinian and several Shi’ite Lebanese Hezbollah (two of them from Dearbornistan).

Mamoun Awwad, Adnan Awad, Ihab Awad, Ayman Awwad, Anwar Awad, Kamal Awwad, Fady Awwad and Aref Kahala are family members who own and operate various businesses in Toledo, including clothing stores, electronics stores and grocery/convenience stores. They use these businesses to facilitate various criminal schemes, including the sale of counterfeit goods, trafficking stolen goods and unlawfully cashing checks, according to the indictment.

The Awwad family enterprise bought stolen electronics, such as iPhones, iPads and Samsung cellular phones, from drug addicts and low-income people, then altered the electronics’ hardware and software so they could be registered on cellular networks. The Awwad family enterprise then sold the stolen electronics locally, in Michigan and overseas. Mamoun Awwad did this, in part, by meeting with crew members of Royal Jordanian Airlines in Detroit to have them transport electronics and cash, according to the indictment.

The goal of the conspiracy was to generate cash and send it overseas to establish a series of residences in Rammoun, Palestine, for members of the Awwad family enterprise and their families to own and occupy, according to the indictment.

The family unlawfully cashed checks at the Reynolds Quick Stop and other grocery/convenience stores as a way to generate revenue and launder proceeds from the sale of counterfeit and stolen goods. The family cashed more than $11 million in checks at various store locations between 2011 and 2014, according to the indictment. The family also knowingly sold shoes, sweat suits, t-shirts and other clothing bearing counterfeit logos and trademarks of brands including Nike, Timberland, Coogi, Ralph Lauren, RoccaWear, Ecko, Lacoste, Dolce Gabbana and others, according to the indictment.

The Awwad family enterprise used violence and threats of violence to maintain control of the stolen goods market in Toledo. For example, Mamoun Awwad threatened someone with a 9 mm pistol while an employee held a knife of their throat. In another incident, Mamoun Awwad assaulted someone outside a cellular phone store because that person tried to sell seven stolen iPhones without Mamoun Awwad’s permission, according to the indictment.

The conspiracy took place from 2006 through 2015, according to the indictment.

Count 1 charges a RICO conspiracy. Count 2 charges conspiracy—interstate and foreign transportation of stolen property. Count 3 charges conspiracy to smuggle goods from the U.S. Count 4 charges conspiracy to commit access device fraud. Count 5 charges conspiracy to traffic counterfeit goods. Count 6 charges conspiracy to commit money laundering.

“This is a sophisticated crime and money-laundering racket whose reach stretched from Ann Arbor to Amman,” Dettelbach [Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio] said. “They bought stolen electronics, often from drug addicts in Toledo, and shipped them out of the state and country for millions of dollars.”

“The Awwad criminal enterprise used force and intimidation to control their complex network of illegal schemes all in an effort to line their bank accounts with millions,” Anthony [Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Cleveland] said. . . . “The 26 individuals indicted went to great lengths to create the illusion of a successful family enterprise. In reality, what they created was nothing more than a false front, hiding a tangled web of financial lies,” Stemen [Troy Stemen, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, IRS Cincinnati] said. “This massive federal indictment has exposed these individuals for who they really are, thugs and thieves.”

Um, you mean, “who they really are, Muslim thugs and thieves, furthering the jihad.” But nice way to whitewash it.

Yes, a measly three of the 26 indictees aren’t Muslim Arabs. But there are always dhimmi criminals (dhimminals) who help further the jihad. The Communists had a term for them: “useful idiots.” Although I’m not sure they were idiots. Seems they knew exactly what they were doing and whom they were helping.

This isn’t the first Muslim crime ring funding and furthering the jihad, and it won’t be the last. They are here in our midst because we did nothing to stop it–the “we” includes front and center phony “national security” Republicans who smile and talk tough for the FOX News cameras and then vote to fund business as usual.

We are no longer 10 or 20 years behind Europe. We’re about five years behind and that small gap, too, will soon be erased.