Mohammad Ashraf Wadaa is the co-founder of Clockwork Crew (Crew 562), a former “knight commander” in the neo-nazi cult Church of Aryanity, a recent military reject and current wannabe white power skinhead.
He’s also a really weird dude.
He posts pee pants ‘fizeek’ and ‘cum tributes’ online, has earned himself the nickname ‘Ripoff Rundo’ and even cultivated an entire persona based on a bizarre and violent fantasy of being the direct descendent of some of history’s most brutal nazi collaborators and war criminals.
| The identification and exposure of Mohammad Wadaa was possible thanks to key pieces of information provided by Stumptown Research Collective and Sunlight Anti-Fascist Action, as well as journalist Ali Winston who had the most critical piece of all – his actual name. |
IDENTIFYING & BACKGROUND INFORMATION
NAME
Mohammad Ashraf Wadaa
NICKNAME
Ripoff Rundo
KNOWN ALIASES
Mo
Michael
Mikhail Wadaa
Mikhail Scaletta
Mikhail Markovich
Reasonable suspicion exists that Mohammad Wadaa did not disclose his actual name to some of the people he met after leaving Oregon and relocating to California for reasons other than maintaining opsec.
ONLINE ALIASES
Poglavnik
Zvonimir Boban ACAB
Hravti Warrior
Zeta Phoenicis
Wurren
OutlawMo
RangerMo
DevilDogMo
Mohammad kadeer
AGE & DOB
25 | November 1998
LOCATION
CURRENT LOCATION
Somewhere in Southern California
FORMER LOCATIONS
Camp Pendleton | Oceanside, CA [The bachelor barracks and the brig]
Beaverton, OR [Hometown]
Norfolk, VA [Place of Birth]
EMPLOYMENT
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
At this time, it’s unknown where (or if) Wadaa is currently working as he was very recently released from military jail.
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
USMC • Marine Corp
Lance Corporal • Machine Gunner
Kilo Company • 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment [Darkhorse Battalion]
Prior to his bad conduct discharge, Mohammad Wadaa was an active duty Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton.
His exact enlistment date is unknown, but he was a poolee (potential recruit) in 2016 and likely enlisted shortly after graduating high school in 2017. His occupational specialty was Machine Gunner, and he’d worked his way up the ranks to Lance Corporal by the time he was court-martialed on May 15, 2023.
Despite having been made aware of charges levied against him in December 2022, Wadaa continued to flagrantly engage in the behaviors that ultimately led to him being charged with violating UCMJ, Article 92:
- Knowingly and wrongfully advocating supremacist, extremist, ideology, or causes
- Wrongfully having extremist tattoos
Wadaa pled guilty on July 23, 2023 and was sentenced to:
- 11 months confinement (charge 1) and 4 months confinement (charge 2) to run concurrently
Credit for 72 days of pretrial confinement - Reduction in rank from E-5 to E-1
No additional fines or reduction in pay were ordered
ONLINE ACCOUNTS & SOCIAL MEDIA
TELEGRAM
CURRENT ACCOUNT
STATUS
Currently Active
USER ID
5759126971
USERNAME & HANDLE
Zvonimir ⌖ Boban ACAB ⌖ | @serbcutter88
FORMER ACCOUNT
STATUS
Deleted
USER ID
1027011783
USERNAMES & HANDLES
Hrvati Warrior | @Hrvati_warrior88
Zeta Phoenicis | @Zeta_Phoenicis
Wurren [Handle Unknown]
Mohammad Wadaa’s former account was active from at least mid-2021 through September 2022, when he inexplicably left the public chats he was in and at least one he was an admin for abruptly went private. The account remained dormant for months before it was eventually deleted.
The earliest known username for this account was ‘Wurren‘, which was later changed to ‘Zeta Phoenicis‘ (the ‘secret code name’ given to Wadaa by Church of Aryanity cult leader Aaron Chapman).
After being kicked out of the neo-nazi cult and its ‘knighthood division’, Wadaa changed his username to ‘Hrvati Warrior‘ to reflect his “Bosnian-Croatian” heritage.
Archive: Account (Zeta Phoenicis)
Archive: Account (Hrvati Warrior)
MAIN ACCOUNT
STATUS
Currently Inactive
USERNAME & HANDLE
Mohammad Wadaa | @mohammad.wadaa
Account was active between 2011 – 2014.
Archive: Profile
MAIN ACCOUNT
STATUS
Currently Inactive
USERNAMES & HANDLES
Arthur | @outlawmo98
DevilDogMO | @rangermo69
Username Unknown | @usmcMowadaa
Username Unknown | @arabdipper
Mohammad Wadaa’s main Twitter account was active between 2014 – 2018. The account still exists on the site, but is dormant.
Archives: Posts and Replies
ALT ACCOUNT
STATUS
Currently Inactive
USERNAMES & HANDLES
Jack | @jacklanter56
Mohammad Wadaa’s alt account (that he probably never imagined being traced back to him).
The account still exists on the site, but is dormant.
CONTENT WARNING: Due to the graphic (ie: super gross) image contained in the only post he made on this account, no direct link to the profile is provided.
For those who aren’t inclined to take the word of anonymous researchers for it (or just really want to see for themselves – for whatever reason): The post is still ‘live’ on the site and has been archived.
MAIN ACCOUNT
STATUS
Private
USERNAME & HANDLE
Mikhail Markovich | @markovichmma
Mohammad Wadaa’s Instagram account was created in January 2024.
(The account creation predates Wadaa’s presumed date of release from military jail)
Archive: Profile (Instagram Mirror)
YOUTUBE
MAIN ACCOUNT
STATUS
Inactive
USERNAME & HANDLE
Mohammad kadeer | @mohammadkadeer2441
Mohammad Wadaa’s YouTube account was active between June 2014 through June 2015.
Under the aliases ‘Ranger Mo‘ and ‘Devil Dog Mo‘, he posted video reviews for the gear he used in airsoft matches.
Archive: Account
Archive: Videos
CAMO MMA
STATUS
Currently Active
USERNAME & HANDLE
Mohammad Wadaa aka Mikhail Markovich | @Poglavnik_1312
Mohammad Wadaa’s MMA fighter profile was created in November 2022, almost a year and a half prior to his first bout in an official amateur tournament.
Archive : Profile (Periodically Updated)
GROUP MEMBERSHIP & AFFILIATIONS
CLOCKWORK CREW
(CREW 562)
STATUS
Co-Founder, Southern California Chapter Leader
INVOLVEMENT
Currently Active
Mohammad Wadaa is one of two co-founders of Clockwork Crew (formerly known as Crew 562). He’s the only co-founder still active with the group and is the current leader of the group’s SoCal chapter.
GOYIM DEFENSE LEAGUE
STATUS
Close Associate
INVOLVEMENT
Currently Inactive
Mohammad Wadaa has a close association with GDL leader Robert Wilson (aka: ‘Aryan Bacon’).
Right: Mohammad Wadaa and Robert Wilson posed in front of a U-Haul they’d turned into a roving hate billboard and took out the next day to harass people on the streets of San Diego. (March 2022)
Wadaa has participated in two of the group’s notorious hate parades and has hit the streets of San Diego with Wilson (sans U-Haul) to harass people as well.
Wadaa has not been seen with GDL since Wilson skipped bail and fled from the San Diego area to Europe in summer 2022.
2119
STATUS
Mentor
INVOLVEMENT
Currently Unknown
Mohammad Wadaa and other members of Clockwork Crew took on the role of “mentor” to the neo-nazi youth group 2119 (formerly known as American Columbia Movement [ACM]).
The two groups had a falling out in 2022 after the teens made a series of public accusations about Wadaa’s abusive behavior and the unrealistic demands he placed on them, which were met with accusations that one of the teens had begun posting pictures of firearms and making threats in response.
Members of both groups have been active participants in one another’s Telegram chats since the split.
CHURCH OF ARYANITY & OMTO
STATUS
Former Member and “Knight Commander”
INVOLVEMENT
Shunned
Mohammad Wadaa was a member of the Church of Aryanity (CoA), a neo-nazi cult whose membership is strictly for “white Aryans”, and the cult’s super sacred knighthood division, OMTO.
Wadaa ran CoA and OMTO’s ‘California Commandery’ alongside Nick Large, and together the two co-founded Crew 562 on behalf of the cult.
The chat was run by Mohammad Wadaa (‘Zeta Phoenicis’) and Nick Large (‘Sigma Phoenicis’), and the two used the very distinguished titles ‘Knight Commander’ and ‘Knight Master’, respectively.
When Wadaa was kicked out of the cult in May 2022 for “insubordination”, he took the active club he’d co-founded (and rebranded) with him.
WHITE LIVES MATTER CA
STATUS
Former Close Associate, Current Persona Non Grata
INVOLVEMENT
None
Mohammad Wadaa and other members of Crew 562 joined White Lives Matter (WLM) “activists” during the group’s monthly banner drops until WLM CA suddenly and very publicly distanced themselves from the active club in March 2022.
While no official explanation for the split was ever given, it came on the heels of the first ‘hate parade’ and was rumored to be due to a personal grudge between Wadaa and WLM CA’s main admin Robert Wheldon.
SOCAL ACTIVE CLUB
STATUS
Former Close Associate, Currently Blacklisted
INVOLVEMENT
None
Members of Crew 562 joined SoCal Active Club (SCAC) in ‘activism’ and propaganda shoots in a show of ‘unity’ between the two active clubs in early-2022.
Within a few weeks, SCAC cut ties with all members of Crew 562 when the ‘official’ WLM announcement was made, which was no surprise considering that Robert Wheldon is WLM’s main admin and the founder of the rival active club.
Mohammad Wadaa was first exposed in August 2023 as the active duty Marine who co-founded Clockwork Crew (formerly called Crew 562).
This article aims to shed additional light on Wadaa by exposing who he actually is – and who he isn’t.
(R) Mohammad Wadaa: Active duty Marine, nazi trash (2021)
Mohammad Wadaa landed on the radar of local researchers due to being one of the earliest participants in the racist and antisemitic banner drops that became a regular occurrence in Southern California starting in early-2022.
The acts of racist “activism” were part of the newly curated and coordinated White Lives Matter (WLM) movement that began after a series of failed WLM rallies were held around the country in April 2021. Following the relaunch of WLM came the ‘active club’ movement, courtesy of then-fugitive living in self-imposed exile, Rob Rundo.
As a co-founder and leader of California’s first ‘active club’, Wadaa was one of the most highly visible participants at the events. Naturally, he was prominently featured in Crew 562’s propaganda, the earliest of which came off as little more than a vanity project for him to showcase his ‘fizeek’ and post footage of himself outrunning, outgunning and beating up on his friends.
RIPOFF RUNDO
It was obvious from the start that Wadaa was attempting to position himself as a central fixture in the newly emerging ‘3.0‘ white nationalist scene in Southern California.
It was equally as obvious that he was desperately trying to emulate the man whose personal philosophy it was based on, which is why local researchers referred to him as ‘Ripoff Rundo‘ before he’d been identified.
I left my cell, my pager and my home phone at the bottom
In May 2021, Wadaa added to his ever-growing collection of nazi dudebro tattoos (which would later lead to him being booted from the Marines) by getting an emblem of a pitbull inked into his back under the words “Born to Hate”. While this particular symbol is hardly unique among racists and is quite common among skinheads, it’s worth noting because that was the second time Wadaa had gotten a tattoo that matched ink Rundo had already been sporting for years (the first being the equally unoriginal sonnenrad on his elbow).
Later that year he wrote in a Telegram chat:
Im gonna do what Rob did here in america except im gonna go to Croatia instead of Serbia.
Mohammad Wadaa, Telegram (2021)
Wadaa completed his tryhard trifecta just a few months later when he and other members of Crew 562 took a field trip to Murphy’s Ranch, a local haunt popular among neo-nazis due to legend surrounding its history as an abandoned WWII Nazi compound. Crew 562’s outing was probably less about exploring and more about staging a photoshoot, seeing as how Rundo had posted a throwback pic of himself taken in front of the exact same bunker Wadaa and his crew posed in front of just four days earlier.
At some point, Wadaa’s reverence for Rundo began to wane. Whether it was due to Crew 562 being denied the blessing of the active club kingpin’s right-hand men or it just wasn’t proper for a guy pretending to be a Croatian ultranationalist to put a neo-nazi with strong ties to the far-right in Serbia on a pedestal is anyone’s guess.
Despite this – and despite knowing that researchers backhandedly referred to him as ‘Ripoff Rundo’ – Wadaa continued living up to his (nick)namesake.
NAZI COLLABORATORS, WAR CRIMINALS AND THE NEWSTAŠE
In addition to fronting as the second coming of Rob Rundo, Mohammad Wadaa has alternated between presenting himself as half-Italian and half-Bosniak (Muslim) or half-Bosnian-Croat (not Muslim), depending on who he was talking to.
In his telling, his mother is a blonde-haired and blue-eyed Bosnian, genetics he claims he would have inherited if it weren’t for his Italian (Sicilian) father. While his father supposedly converted to Islam (presumably on behalf of his mother) Wadaa often said he preferred “Slavic Paganism” himself, and on one occasion he admitted: “I’ve been having a religious struggle… May allah forgive me in the afterlife”.
He claimed that his mother is named Maryam Marković, and on a few occasions he even spoke of wanting to return to her hometown of Mostar to “learn about my culture” and find a suitable wife to bring back to the U.S., because in his view: “American women are shit. May allah destroy them”.
His inconsistent backstory has maintained one consistent (though incoherent) through line: That he’s the direct descendent of members of both the Ustaše (a Croatian ultranationalist organization and WWII Nazi collaborators) and the Handschar Division (an infantry division of the Waffen-SS comprised almost entirely of Bosnian Muslims).
One of the most common stories Wadaa tells is that of his great-uncle being a soldier in the Handschar Division. Though in the earliest iteration it was his grandfather, who just happened to be Halim Malkoč, a Handschar Division Imam, an Iron Cross recipient and a war criminal (and Wadaa’s self-professed doppelgänger).
At least the “lol” part is accurate.
Sometimes this great-uncle-grandpa war criminal story is told to justify the handschar insignia he has tattooed on his forearm, other times he shows off the tattoo after telling the story. He began to do the same with the Ustaše soldier he had tattooed on his chest in mid-2022, often showing it off and bragging about being the “offspring” of the Nazi’s unfathomably brutal Croatian allies during WWII.
The stories Wadaa has spun are absurd, his fixation on Camp Jasenovac (the largest concentration camp outside of Nazi Germany) is atrocious, and the Serbophobic rhetoric he engages in is downright vile. He displays a seething hatred for Serbians that’s generally only seen amongst the worst of Croatian ultranationalists with comments ranging from disparaging to violent and, at times, sexually violent.
*Serjoo is a slur for Serbian Jews
Wadaa’s Balkans-based backstory is just as complicated as the history of the region he claims to be from. It’s also contradictory to both itself and the truth.
All evidence shows that Mohammad Wadaa is of Arabic descent (specifically Egyptian and Iranian) and that he was raised in the Muslim faith. This includes independently verified information as well as comments made by Wadaa himself on various social media accounts.
Wadaa has continually told other neo-nazis all about his fascist family tree for at least the three years. He’s even gone as far as to post the results of a DNA test to prove his Bosnian/Croatian heritage – or rather, his “whiteness”. While genetics are a bit complicated, it’s worth noting that DNA from both the regions he claims his family is from and the regions his family is actually from were both conspicuously absent.
Nonetheless, these DNA test results were also used to demand that Johnny Benitez (aka: Juan Cadavid) take one to prove his “whiteness”, which has long been a point of contention among neo-nazis. In the end, Benitez refused to acquiesce so the two just argued over nipple color instead.
It was only a matter of time before Wadaa eventually began leaning all the way into his backstory – and when he did, he did so using his fake Croatian accent and a fake name.
One incredibly cringe incident took place in May 2022 when Wadaa and Robert Wilson, the Goyim Defense League (GDL) frontman known as ‘Aryan Bacon‘, did what the two do best together: Harassing strangers on the street and filming the encounters to turn into GDL propaganda.
In late 2022, Mohammad Wadaa once again harassed people alongside GDL's Robert Wilson, but this time he did so in his fake accent claiming, “I’m an immigrant myself from Croatia”.
— SoCal Research Club (@SCResearchClub) August 14, 2023
He later showed up on Telegram to defend himself – in the third person.
How embarrassing. pic.twitter.com/WvO8T0eH9w
In the video put out by GDL, Wadaa was heard claiming, “I’m an immigrant myself from Croatia” in a badly faked accent. Though he wasn’t featured in the footage, his handschar insignia tattoo made a split-second cameo, which is what made his next move so much more embarrassing: He showed up in a GDL Telegram chat as ‘Zvonimir Boban ACAB’ to defend himself afterward – in the third person.
The other cringe-worthy incidents were much more recent.
BEING MIKHAIL MARKOVICH
Mohammad Wadaa has recently been trying to make a name for himself on the mixed martial arts circuit – and the name he’s trying so hard to make happen is Mikhail Markovich.
On March 9, Wadaa was fresh out of the brig when made his official amateur MMA tournament debut as Mikhail Markovich – only to be booed as he both entered and exited the ring, and getting absolutely bodied by his opponent in between.
The hostility toward Mohammad Wadaa ‘Mikhail Markovich’ by the crowd, his opponent and even the event commentators may have been due to the fact that he’d kept the most overt of his white power tattoos hidden in the photos submitted for his fighter profiles, during the pre-event promos and all the way through the announcement for his bout – only to rip off the small black patch that had been covering the swastika in the middle of his chest immediately before bounding into the ring looking like an absolute ghoul.
All but one of the event sponsor’s social media posts featuring Wadaa ‘Markovich’ have been deleted, though caches of those pages were still visible three weeks after the tournament. A few photos and video clips from the event were found on social media, as were two of his fighter profiles. One of the profiles, created by Wadaa under the username ‘Poglavnik_1312’, shows both his real name and the name he wishes he had.
Neither did the appearance of Clockwork Crew member Michael Halahan III.
His fighter profile lists his ‘relevant’ experience which includes his time on the high school wrestling team and “4 amateur backyard MMA fights” (which really just sounds like a fancy way of describing a few drunken brawls at house parties).
While he did put his years of grappling practice to use in the second round, which he technically won due to tackling his opponent and forcing him to tap out, they didn’t do him any good during the second tournament he participated in just a month later.
On April 6, Wadaa Markovich fought his second MMA match. Though it’s unknown if he was greeted by another round of thunderous boos as his fight wasn’t included in the event live-stream, post-event social media posts show that he got absolutely annihilated and was ultimately taken out by TKO (total knock out).
THE NAME IS MICHAEL (OR MIKHAIL IF YOU’RE FEELIN’ SLAVIC)
The MMA tournaments weren’t the only time Mohammad Wadaa has gone by the alias “Mikhail”, or even a slightly different version of that name.
Old social media posts from former acquaintances show that he went by ‘Michael‘ back in 2019. By 2021, he’d begun using the Slavic version of the name, though he’d cycle through a couple of different last names before settling on “Markovich” (a slight variation Marković, which he’d earlier claimed was his mother’s last name).
In the aftermath of Wadaa’s public exposure in August 2023, fellow neo-nazis and former ally Shaun Mulville wrote, “LOL… I’ve met ‘Muhammed’ and have done activism with them… changed his name to ‘Mikhail’ or some shit…” before insinuating that ‘Mikhail’ was responsible for getting him and other members of WLM doxxed.
In late-2023, Wadaa was among the unlucky customers of a Swedish white power merch and music retailer who had their personal information published in what became known as the “Midgård Leaks”. A review of the data showed that he placed 4 orders under the name “Mikhail Wadaa” in 2020, which he had delivered to his home address in Beaverton, OR. In 2022, he placed two more orders, this time under the name “Mikhail Scaletta” and had them shipped to the home of another Clockwork Crew member, Michael Halahan III
BUT FIRST, HE WAS “JACK”
Wadaa’s contact information from the Midgård data leaks was cross-compared to another database containing leaks from various sources. While the phone number for all 6 orders was the same, he’d used two different (but very similar) email addresses: mowad69 and mowad98 (at Yahoo and Gmail, respectively).
Among the search results was a single hit for the mowad69 email address, showing that it had been used to create a Twitter account. The name on the account wasn’t “Mikhail”, or even “Mohammad”, but “Jack” (@jacklanter56). The account only contains a single post, a reply that reads:
“@Sexy_Milf_Feet
Mohammad Wadaa, Twitter (2016)
can I also shoot my cum on them😍💋🙏👣👣💦”
And shoot his cum he did.
Only “Jack” didn’t do it on the feet of a MILF. He did it on what appears to be his kitchen counter – which he took a picture of and posted in his reply to the MILF with the sexy feet.
There’s no doubt that the account belongs to Wadaa. Not only has he shown the same (but thankfully much less graphic) 💋enthusiasm💦 for feet more recently, but “Jack” was also found to be following Wadaa’s main Twitter account.
THE IDENTIFICATION OF “WADAA, M. A.”
Though Mohammad Wadaa claimed to have already been doxxed by 2021, no evidence exists that that he was ever publicly named (let alone shamed) for being a neo-nazi prior to the publication of journalist Ali Winston’s article in The Guardian exposing him as both an active club leader and a member of the U.S. military in August 2023.
Wadaa was identified and exposed after a long trail of online and IRL activity had been followed (the majority of it provided by Wadaa himself) and later matched to information on a then-recent arrest of an active duty Marine.
Among the most damning of self-blows to Wadaa’s opsec were the countless cringe selfies he took from his barracks and posted online. His incessant need to “post fizeek” to Telegram channels and chats full of other nazi dudebros was how he was determined to not only be an active duty Marine, but to be stationed at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, CA.
(His incessant demands for others to do the same, either by challenging on main or sending unsolicited pics of himself in DM’s, was how he was determined to be even more embarrassing than his active club’s propaganda let on.)
While the body shots were helpful in determining that there was an IRL manifestation of the ‘nazi dudebro starter pack‘ meme living on the Marine base, the two partial face pics he’d posted didn’t give much to go on. And neither did the DIY-composite photos researchers put together using the visible sections of his face (which came out looking like a discount AI perp sketch), though they did provide a good laugh.
Luckily, a full-face selfie Wadaa had posted back in 2021 was eventually found in a Telegram chat he co-admined with a few Balkans-based neo-nazis.
Separating fact from fabrication was a long process. While many of the Telegram comments Wadaa made were highly dubious (to say the least), a few provided solid leads that were ultimately corroborated via different public sources: Mainly that he was from the Portland area (by way Virginia) and that he was in the military (specifically as a Machine Gunner).
Four sightings of Wadaa in and around his hometown in 2020 and 2021 show that he’d already begun drawing attention to himself for being a blatant neo-nazi well before he got into the ‘active club’ and racist skinhead scenes in SoCal.
Documented footage from the US military showed that he was a poolee (potential recruit) in 2016 and had become a machine gunner in the Marines by 2018.
The information about his arrest that was shared by Clockwork Crew’s Northern California chapter leader “Big John” Gahagan in the group’s chat was also able to be corroborated. Public documents from the United States Marine Corp showed that “Wadaa, M. A.” had been court-martialed on May 15, 2023, just three days before Wadaa had suddenly stopped being active on Telegram.
WTF HAPPENED TO RANGER MO?
Even after Mohammad Wadaa had been positively identified, an uncomfortable but important question remained:
How did a Muslim of Arabic descent spiral down a rabbit hole of hatred so deep that he emerged on the other side a full-fledged neo-nazi, a member of a religious cult strictly for ‘white Aryans’ and co-founder his own racist skinhead crew?
A couple of Mohammad Wadaa’s old social media accounts offer a bit of insight into the period of radicalization between his early teens and his enlistment in the military.
One was a Facebook account he was active on between the ages of 12 to 15. The other was a Twitter account he used throughout high school and into his first year of military service.
His Facebook profile shows that he’d wanted to join the military from a young age. He was also into video games and firearms (both shooting airsoft and the fundamental right to own real ones), had a passion for football and was a Kentucky Fried Chicken enthusiast.
Some of his posts and the pages he liked show that he was also being exposed to Illuminati and NWO conspiracy theories.
While most of his posts got little to no engagement, a few show that Mo (as he was often called) had a contentious relationship with many of his peers. They seemed to get a kick out of setting him off, and just about anything could do it.
One of the ways they goaded him would later become the biggest source of contention for Wadaa: His ethnicity and religion.
When his peers bullied and belittled him for his support of then-President Obama, accusing him of sympathizing with a “fellow [Muslim] terrorist”, he urged them to “not jump to racist conclusions”, called out kids who weren’t white for supporting other candidates who don’t “like minoritys [sic]” and warned those “trying to defend a white suppremisist [sic]” on his timeline: “ur gonna get an angry mob of arabs at your door and were gonna kick your ass”.
While young Mo was far from ‘woke’, he did aggressively confront racism and Islamophobia – though it’s difficult to distinguish how much of that was out of a sense of moral righteousness or even self-preservation, and how much was driven by his antagonistic nature. Whatever the motivation, it wasn’t long before he became aggressively racist and Islamophobic himself.
Within a few years, his airsoft mask would be refashioned into a wardrobe staple for his ‘pro-white activism’ and the joke he made in jest would become part of his new persona.
A month before he abandoned Facebook, Wadaa joined Twitter. His main account was active from 2014 to 2018 and documents a period of increasing radicalization, including the beginning of his ongoing crisis of faith and identity.
During his first year on the platform, he was every bit as confrontational with his peers, often challenging them to fights. His main interests were still gaming, firearms (airsoft and actual guns) and the military.
‘Ranger Mo‘, or ‘Devil Dog Mo‘ as he called himself, even had his own YouTube channel dedicated to his hobbies.
Within a year, a noticeable shift began to take place.
He went from seeming to recognize the absurdity of claims made about illegal immigration to actively perpetuating them. And though he’d referred to the people of Ferguson as “my bros” as they protested police brutality, he later said people who participated in non-violent acts like stepping on the American flag as part of a social media challenge needed to leave the country.
He began excusing casual Islamophobia and endorsing bad faith arguments about Muslims, despite being Muslim himself. And though he’d previously been open about being an Arab, he suddenly began describing himself as “half white and half colored” and adopting the confederate flag as part of his “southern heritage”.
In 2022, he said “Racemixers get the rope.”
He began citing InfoWars conspiracy theories as if they were fact, and perpetuating the “Muslim invasion” myths while becoming gripped by the Sharia law hysteria that had run rampant since 9/11.
It wasn’t long before he was referring to himself as a “former Muslim”, then a “non Muslim“, and referring to other Muslims as “terrorists” and “stupid dirt worshiping hadjis”.
By 2018, he’d appropriated both the rallying cry and the symbology of the Crusades.
By 2021, he’d shed his entire identity and become an avowed white nationalist.
By 2021, he was a full-fledged neo-nazi.
It’s unclear exactly what caused Mohammad Wadaa to not only renounce his religious faith, but to go so far as to deny own ethnicity and instead choose to adopt a heritage of hate.
What is clear is that he threw his entire career away on behalf of a white supremacist movement with a single, unwavering end goal: To remove people just like him from society, and to do so in the most violent way possible.
But maybe he was always headed this way.
Maybe he was just “Born To Hate”.
Or maybe he’s just one very confused (and very weird) dude.