It was just a prank for his video channel, but how was anyone in the restaurant going to know that for sure? Of course, by scattering in terror, they were reinforcing “Islamophobic” stereotypes involving the possibility that Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” and saying they have a bomb might be intending to commit an act of violence. Ibrahim Hooper, call your office.
“‘I Kill All You’: Teen ‘Incel’ Who Scaled NYC Bridge Charged With Threatening to Blow Up Restaurant,” by Pilar Melendez, Daily Beast, April 14, 2021 (thanks to Ken):
A New York City teenager and self-described “incel” has been arrested for telling diners at a Manhattan restaurant that he was about to blow them up—and broadcasting the threat on a YouTube livestream, prosecutors said.
Malik Sanchez, a 19-year-old who goes by the online name “Smooth Sanchez,” was charged Wednesday with conveying false and misleading information and hoaxes. The teen allegedly livestreamed himself pretending to detonate a bomb near the Flatiron restaurant’s outdoor seating area while shouting, “I take you with me and I kill you all!” and “Allahu Akbar!”…
Days later, Sanchez posted a video in which he approached an enclosed outdoor eating area in front of a Flatiron restaurant, and then boasted to his followers that he was going to “enhance their meal.” Walking up to two women seated at a table, Sanchez began to loudly shout “bomb detonation in two, in two minutes.”
“I take you with me and I kill all you. I kill all you right now. And I kill all you for Allah. Fuck, fuck that shit. I’m gonna Allah. I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna fucking do it for Allah. I’m gonna do it, for, Allah, Allah, Allahu Akbar, Come on. I do it, bomb now, bomb now,” Sanchez says in the Feb. 13 video, according to the complaint.
Startled, the two women quickly gather their belongings and run into the restaurant. Four other people also run away from the enclosed outdoor area before Sanchez walks away and tells his fans: “Yo, all of them scattered.”
“Holy shit. Holy shit boys. That was fucking five stars. That was five stars. Holy shit, huh?” Sanchez said, according to the complaint.
A few weeks later, on March 20, Sanchez posted another video that showed him approaching women eating outside in Manhattan. In the video, Sanchez proclaims his support for “incels” and Rodger while making hand gestures “mimicking pointing a gun,” the complaint states.
“After multiple individuals attempted to get Sanchez to stop, Sanchez sprayed pepper spray in the face of one of those individuals. Sanchez was arrested by responding NYPD officers and charged with state offenses and was thereafter released on bail,” the court docs read….
Once in custody, authorities said they were able to link the teenager to a pepper-spray incident against a 40-year-old woman in Chelsea. The woman told police she saw Sanchez recording her and got sprayed when she confronted him.
RichardL says
he should try doing that in a Second Amendment state.
mortimer says
There should be training for dealing with a jihad attack. You are always best to run from danger. Someone holding a handgun will have a hard time hitting a running target from a standing position. You will probably be able to escape.
If would-be jihadists realize in advance that their chances of being stopped are fairly high, then fewer will attempt a jihad attack.
The problem is to know the intention of someone before the bomb goes off.
Honest Ali says
Run away and leave women an children to be murdered by the Jihadist??? What a cowardly thing to say.
We are men. We are American Men. Armed men. Not cowardly, disarmed New Yorkers.
We will not run from danger. We will stand and protect women and children.
We WILL exercise the Second Amendment with extreme prejudice the second anyone says “I will kill you all for Allah”.
That is why this nonsense does not happen in OUR communities.
Brenrod says
Too bad nobody shot him in self defense!
gravenimage says
+1
Dave says
NYC…it figures. Where I live…he’d be dead, now. Probably just after the first ‘allahu akbar’ was spoken. He conveyed a ‘terroristic threat’ and deserves a nice ‘long’ time to contemplate what he did wrong. I believe in freedom of speech, but…people need to understand that they are also accountable for their speech.
mortimer says
This youth’s speech was the equivalent of shouting fire in a crowded theater. He was crying ‘wolf’.
Honest Ali says
We cannot take the chance that he was crying “wolf”.
He openly announced that he had triggered a bomb to detonate and murder many innocent people.
He was a threat to innocent lives. We are within our legal rights(in every state) to use lethal force in order to end the threat to the lives of the innocent.
Welcome to the REAL America.
There is a reason why this nonsense does not happen in Constitutional Carry states.
revereridesagain says
I assume, given his name, that he is not actually a card-carrying slave of Allah?
Imagine if someone had actually shot the little goon. He’s the kind of thug life aspirant who is apt to turn up in the news as the “innocent victim” of a police-involved shooting, thereby triggering tribal rioting and destruction which will impact the lives of thousands. And he’s out on “bail”. Actually I thought in de Blovio’s NYC these punks were just being turned loose on their pinky-promise to come back on their court date.
And people wonder why so many New Yorkers say it’s terrifying to live in the city these days.
gravenimage says
His name is “Malik”–that is indeed a Muslim name.
gravenimage says
This is worse, Mortimer. He was directly threatening people.
Ecosse1314 says
No idea what Incel means . That man is lucky to be still walking and breathing. What he is doing is neither funny nor clever. It is in fact criminal.
Ecosse1314 says
Just googled “incel” . I am not surprised one bit must be something to do with his sense of “humour”
Keith O says
It’s probably a good thing that he and his ilk can’t get laid, imagine if dickheads like this started breeding? Oh, wait, they do, they’re called leftists, snowflakes and Democrats!
James Lincoln says
Keith O,
Luckily, leftists, snowflakes, and Democrats are not having many children.
It interferes with their “mostly peaceful protests”: rioting, looting, and burning…
Trevor Loughlin says
Hands off leftists. I am a leftist which is why I hate the worse form of fascism, Islam.
Actually all Islamicist are Incels on steroids. People too ugly and stupid to get laid except by rape and sexual slavery. So despite it being a “prank” this dimwit can consider himself a Muslim in all but name. He is lucky to be alive because most people now know that the only option is to attack a jihadist first. There will be no mercy or negotiation on the jihadists part, so you may as well go for broke. Just like the heroes of flight 93 did.
Infidel says
Trevor, you’re a rare breed. At least since 2011, there has been a convergence of the Global Left and Islam. There’s a reason that everyone who was remotely critical of islam/muslims has had to leave the Left
Note also that your classical Liberalism, which you seem to be, is very different from today’s woke Left movement! The latter is more similar to Trotskyist and other communist movements in various countries before they came to power
gravenimage says
Trevor, glad you are an Anti-Jihadist. I am left of center on some issues myself.
You are mistaken in believing that Malik Sanchez is not Muslim, though–“Malik” is indeed a Muslim name, and means “owner” or “king” in Arabic.
Dry Academy says
The incel movement is a psychotic offshoot of the utterly loathsome “Manosphere” movement that spawned on the internet sometime in the mid 2000’s. One of their gurus is the pustulent, morbidly obese human toad Matt Forney, who fled the U.S. because he was afraid he would face rape charges.
If you want to learn more about these woman-hating psychopaths, this article by the extremely clever and amusing writer Jim Goad will give you an excellent overview.
https://www.takimag.com/article/affirmative-action-for-men-who-cant-get-laid/
gravenimage says
Yes–this is fairly twisted stuff. And a number of “Incels”, rather than learning a few social skills such as how to talk to girls, prefer the idea that under Islam they would just get all the rape victims and sex slaves they want. (*Not* all “Incels” are like this–but more than a few are).
Palladini says
He deserves nothing less than life in Prison for that that prank. That is not something you do in public place.
Ecosse1314 says
Just googled “incel” . I am not surprised one bit must be something to do with his sense of “humour”
mortimer says
I’m not suggesting this by any means, but if someone shouted ‘ALLAH AKBAR’ in the offices of any of the BIGTECH companies, their employees would be ISLAMOPHOBIC too.
Ex-Muslims who are secret apostates live lives of quiet ISLAMOPHOBIA as well.
CogitoErgoSum says
This guys video lasts over 3 hours? I couldn’t take more than 3 minutes of it. Spending time with him must be what Hell is like.
James Lincoln says
+1
“Cruel and unusual…”
Jim says
Mayor Giuliani would have had any and all such practical jokers arrested and charged, and probably they would go to jail. That would have stopped this sort of fun. Now they are more likely to give the prankster a few million dollars compensation for police brutality.
Honest Ali says
We need to stop being cowardly and passive. The second a person shouts “I will kill you for Allah” or “Allahu Akbar”. Jump on them, break their arms, and gouge out their eyeball, American Rough and Tumble style.
In other words, exercise the Second Amendment.
It is not a joke, and we need to stop being passive about it.
spiro says
Amen
It’s time to stand and confront this stupidity
This kind of crap just to get clicks needs to be confronted now
I’m an ex cop so don’t tell me tm all talk
Honest Ali says
I agree.
Self defense laws in every state are very clear. It order to save one’s own life, or the life of an innocent. Lethal force is justified.
It is our moral duty as men, to save those innocent lives.
We do not know if it is a joke or for real, and we cannot take the risk… because innocent lives are at stake.
We have to treat it as real when someone says they are going to murder people for Allah.
Steven RSA says
Especially around the time of Ramavan.
Rarely says
Clearly not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
gravenimage says
Rarely, this is not just stupid, but vicious and eveil.
Rob says
He’s an “incel”? That act will get him all the sex he wants in prison.
Infidel says
I thought that TikTok was the platform of choice for these sort of pranks. Hasn’t YouTube outlawed this, or are they too busy deplatforming conservatives, such as OANN and Project Veritas?
Also, was this guy a real muslim, from the first name Malik, or was he just pretending and doing one of his viral dares?
Maybe he can try that same stunt in his court appearance, and run free ?
gravenimage says
YouTube seems fine with this–not with Anti-Jihadists opposing things like this, though.
Mauricio says
What an asshole
tgusa says
This could have ended in a similar way as this… Bigfoot hoax ends badly. Pretending to be a Bigfoot or a suicide bomber has to be one of the dumbest things one could do.
jewdog says
That kid was way too destructive, although it’s hard not to feel a little schadenfreude. A far more harmless prank that I appreciated was when a couple of clever teenagers electronically intercepted a McDonald’s drive-through speaker and made snide cracks to the patrons. For example, when a fat woman ordered they asked her if she really needed all those calories. They were caught and really caught it. Boys will be boys.
Andrew Blackadder says
This guy calls himself a man and its rather obvious that hes far from being a man in any sense of that label, he is in fact a wee ego tripping soy boy that needs a darn good kicking, and I noticed he attacked only women, and that alone should tell us just who, and what, he really is, however people running away from this low life is not the way to deal with it, grab the low life, beat the crap outta him right there and then, strip him naked and leave him on the sidewalk and when he wakes up he may have learned something about his loud mouth actions.
cant imagine him trying this shit in Texas or Oklahoma, but NYC today, yeah, makes sense…
Dry Academy says
These people are dangerous:
“For all you hear about an alleged wave of white-supremacist terrorist killings in North America, it appears that the incels are currently stacking up more bodies than all the Nazis combined. Some estimate that since 2014, self-admitted incels and people whose social-media histories reveal extensive activity on incel forums have committed a minimum of seven mass murders that left 54 people dead.” -Jim Goad
Read this: https://www.takimag.com/article/affirmative-action-for-men-who-cant-get-laid/
unbeliever1 says
The other moron walking around with him should also be charged.
Linde Barrera says
This Sanchez character is mentally ill from my interpretation of this news story. He needs to wear a wrist or ankle band that connects him with law enforcement and
they need to know what words he states too. People like him are punks and enjoy
intimidating others. I have to wonder why, but I cannot excuse or dismiss what he
said and did. Sanchez needs mental health therapy and should stop using drugs if he
Is taking them.
gravenimage says
NYC: YouTube prankster screams ‘Allahu akbar,’ tells restaurant patrons he has bomb, ‘I kill all you for Allah’
………………
“Prank”, huh? Sounds more like “casting terror into the hearts of the unbelievers” to me.