Brooklyn: Muslim man poses as Jew US undercover agent to marry Jew girl

In an alleged case of grooming jihad, a Muslim man posed as an orthodox Jew to lure and marry a Jewish lady within the USA. The FBI is probing a Lebanese-born Muslim man, who posed as a Hasidic Jew and lied his means into marrying Sally, a Jewish girl of Syrian descent dwelling in Brooklyn, New York. To cover his lie, he pretended to be a US undercover agent. Eliyah Hawila, whose actual identification is Ali Hassan Hawila, advised his spouse that he labored for the National Security Agency (NSA) when she stumbled upon his Lebanese passport and caught him mendacity. Sally’s dad and mom intervened and contacted the FBI, who found three passports on him and initiated an investigation.
According to studies, Hawila met Sally at College Station, Texas, the place he was dwelling on the time. They began courting one another over the web. According to The Times of Israel, Hawila and Sally ultimately married in a ceremony in New York that was attended by nobody from the groom’s household. Sally found his Lebanese passport a couple of weeks into their marriage and received suspicious about his previous.
Upon being confronted about his Muslim identification, Hawila concocted an elaborate backstory about his non-existent Jewish roots. He even studied Hebrew in order that he may recite Jewish prayers, and he joined a neighborhood Chabad group centre at Texas A & M University in College Station, the place he studied the Torah (the primary 5 books of the Jewish Bible).
According to sources, two weeks into the marriage, somebody advised the bride’s father that he must look into the groom. The bride’s father found Hawila’s actual identification — Ali Hassan Hawila, a member of a Shiite household from southern Lebanon, a stronghold of the fear group Hezbollah.
“Her father began Googling my last name until he reaches my father, who tells him stuff about me, that: ‘No, he’s not Jewish, he’s not this, he’s not that,’” Hawila admitted throughout an interview with Kan TV.
When the lady’s brothers arrived on the couple’s house to know extra, he found three passports, every with a special title and {photograph} of the person. Other images confirmed the person surrounded by folks, most certainly his relations. The native Jews then shortly received the bride out of the home and relocated her to a secure home.
The FBI was knowledgeable and the Israeli Consulate General was additionally up to date on the case.
The FBI is at the moment investigating the matter and Hawila’s claims that he labored for the NSA, since he reportedly additionally submitted a ‘fake letter’ purporting to be from NSA coworkers to verify his employment with the US spy company. The US Department of Homeland Security together with the Israeli consulate in New York can also be wanting into whether or not Hwalia entered the nation illegally. However, no suggestion of him being concerned in any form of terror-related actions has come to the fore up to now.
According to the Times of Israel, Hawila has claimed that he has all the time felt a robust affinity for the Jewish tradition. So a lot in order that he started referring to himself as Jewish, which was not authorized by the folks of his nation. When Hawila and his dad and mom relocated to the United States, he additionally regarded for synagogues within the space within the hopes of changing. “When I got rejected I started just saying I’m Jewish,” he stated.