Ali Shukri Amin Sentenced To 11 Years And Lifetime Supervision Due To Fund-Raising For ISIS

He is just 17, but has been sentenced to 11 years in prison on Friday as he was charged with using the social media for fund-raising activities to stoke the terrorist group, ISIS. He is Ali Shukri Amin, a Virginia teenager who helped the Islamic State.

Being a former honor student at Manassas high school, he confessed that he was guilty earlier this summer, according to according to hngn.  He told the judge that he was not "expecting any sympathy."

"The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland," U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente said in a press release.

It has been a serious prison sentence that was served on him to extend to 11 years. After that will follow 11 years of "lifetime supervision". With his Twitter account @AmreekiWitness---which has got suspended---Amin has manipulated the public in order to raise and donate funds to extremists in Syria through Bitcoin. Another friend was helped to leave the US and join the ISIS.

"I became lost and caught up in something that takes the greatest and most profound teachings of Islam and turns them into justifications for violence and death," Amin wrote in a statement about his actions.

This summer, Amin would have graduated from high school. But now, he has to shift his gears for a long prison sentence. "Today marks a personal tragedy for the Amin family and the community, as we have lost yet another young person to the allure of extremist ideology focused on hatred," Andrew McCabe, FBI Assistant Director, said according to the New York Daily News.

"Amin's case serves as a reminder of how persistent and pervasive online radicalization has become," he said.