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The New York case began in early 2016 after the FBI and the Police Department learned that el-Faisal’s stepson, Hannibal Koyaki, wanted to “make Hijrah” — a journey to join the Islamic State group, prosecutors said.

Many are followers of a movement known as Hijrah, which embraces self-improvement through adopting a traditional Islamic lifestyle.

Hijrah, Arabic for migration, is used to refer to Prophet Mohammad’s journey from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution, and represents the beginning of the Muslim era.

To Shaker Elsayed, Dar al- Hijrah’s lead imam, the harassment of American Jews is a bellwether of how bad things have gotten.