We reported on this story on April 30, but didn’t have the detail that the attacker was an imam. Imagine the uproar if he had been a priest or rabbi. But why would an imam, a man who has dedicated his life to understanding Islam correctly and communicating it properly, get the idea that he should commit an act of violence against unbelievers? Where would a cleric of the Religion of Peace get this idea?
An update on this story. “Turkish imam stabs Israeli border policeman in Jerusalem, shot dead at scene,” Duvar English, April 30, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A Turkish national on April 30 stabbed an Israeli border policeman in Jerusalem and was then shot dead by officers at the scene, Israeli police said.
The border policeman was moderately wounded. Police identified the attacker as a 34-year-old Turkish citizen, who worked as an imam in Turkey’s southeastern province of Urfa, according to reporting by the daily Cumhuriyet.
“A terrorist armed with a knife arrived in the Old City of Jerusalem … charged at the border police officer and stabbed him,” said a police statement….
rick says
Your question “But why would an imam, a man who has dedicated his life to understanding Islam correctly and communicating it properly, get the idea that he should commit an act of violence against unbelievers?”
The answer is that the iman communicated exactly the aims of Islam by stabbing a policeman.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Rick
Robert’s question was facetious
bill says
I think you mean sarcastic but anyway. It must be obvious that the Islamic clergy with some honourable exceptions are specifically there to incite and inflame their congregations. As seem in the Samlan Rushdie and Danish cartoons affairs.
OLD GUY says
BINGO! You hit the nail right dead center on the head. He truly was following his belief of what ISLAM teaches, Death and violence to non-islamic people.
namer says
What is the recidivism rate of a dead terrorist? ZERO!