This is extremely curious: “Prosecutors had to prove Alissa was sane….The defense did not have to provide any evidence and did not present any experts to say that Alissa was insane.”
Meanwhile, he came ready to murder as many people as possible. The attack that Al Issa (which is how he spells his name, not “Alissa,” a transparent media attempt to obscure his Islamic identity) perpetrated fits the pattern of numerous jihad attacks, and corresponds to calls from the Islamic State to attack random non-Muslims in the U.S. Also, numerous obvious jihadis have been declared mentally ill by clueless or compromised authorities. Is this another case of the whitewashing of a jihad massacre? We will likely never know for sure.
Al-Issa stripped to his underwear during the shootings. That suggests that he was expecting to meet the 72 virgins. Islam’s paradise is physical, and the martyr’s body is not to be washed before burial, because the blood is an aphrodisiac to the virgins. Mohamed Atta, the 9/11 hijacker, had a tuxedo in his luggage that he apparently planned to change into before he crashed his plane, so that he would be decked out to meet the virgins (his plan was foiled when his luggage was flagged, but he wasn’t). Have authorities looked into this possibility regarding Al Issa? Of course not. That would be “Islamophobic.”
“Gunman who killed 10 at a Colorado supermarket is sentenced to life in prison,” by Colleen Slevin, Associated Press, September 23, 2024:
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A mentally ill man who killed 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 was sentenced Monday to life in prison for murder after a jury rejected his attempt to avoid prison time by pleading not guilty by reason of insanity.
Victims’ relatives recounted in pained testimony the lives gunman Ahmad Alissa destroyed in the 2021 attack in the college town of Boulder….
Defense attorneys did not dispute that Alissa, who has schizophrenia, fatally shot 10 people including a police officer. But they argued he was insane at the time of the attack and couldn’t tell right from wrong. He became the latest person to fail in an attempt to be acquitted by reason of insanity.
In addition to first-degree murder, the jury found Alissa guilty on 38 charges of attempted murder, one count of assault, and six counts of possessing illegal, large-capacity magazines.
Judge Ingrid Bakke sentenced him to 10 consecutive life prison sentences without the possibility of parole for the murders and an additional 1,334 years for the other offenses.
“This was not about mental illness. This was about brutal, intentional violence,” District Attorney Michael Dougherty said.
Alissa, now 25 years old, declined through his attorneys to make a statement during his sentencing….
Prosecutors had to prove Alissa was sane. They argued he didn’t fire randomly and showed an ability to make decisions by pursuing people who were running and trying to hide from him. He twice passed by a 91-year-old man who continued to shop, unaware of the shooting.
He came armed with steel-piercing bullets and illegal magazines that can hold 30 rounds of ammunition, which prosecutors said showed he wanted to make the attack as deadly as possible….
Several members of Alissa’s family, who immigrated to the United States from Syria, testified that he became withdrawn and spoke less a few years before the shooting. He began acting paranoid and showed signs of hearing voices, they said, and the condition worsened after he got COVID-19 in late 2020.
Alissa was diagnosed with schizophrenia after the attack, and experts said the behaviors described by relatives were consistent with onset of the disease.
Psychologists who evaluated Alissa concluded he was sane during the shooting. The defense did not have to provide any evidence and did not present any experts to say that Alissa was insane….
Mental illness is not the same as insanity. Colorado law defines insanity as having a mental disease so severe that it’s impossible for a person to tell right from wrong….
Alissa repeatedly told the psychologists that he heard voices, including “killing voices” right before the shooting. But Alissa failed during about six hours of interviews to provide more details about the voices or whether they said anything specific, forensic psychologist B. Thomas Gray testified….
Prosecutors did not offer any motive for the shooting. Alissa initially searched online for public places to attack in Boulder, including bars and restaurants, then a day before the shooting focused his research on large stores.
On the day of the attack, he drove from his home in the Denver suburb of Arvada and pulled into the first supermarket in Boulder that he encountered. He shot three victims in the parking lot before entering the store.
An emergency room doctor said she crawled onto a shelf and hid among bags of potato chips. A pharmacist who took cover testified that she heard Alissa say, “This is fun” at least three times as he went through the store firing his semi-automatic pistol that resembled an AR-15 rifle.
Alissa’s mother told the court that she thought her son was “sick.” His father testified that he thought Alissa was possessed by a djin, or evil spirit, but did not seek any treatment for his son because it would have been shameful for the family….
somehistory says
It’s great that he was convicted (I read that much yesterday), but why in the world did the Court and the prosecutor not make the defense have to prove his case?
When a defense team claims that the defendant was insane at the time of the crime and did not know right from wrong, this is an “affirmative defense,” as are the defense claims of ‘self-defense” when the person believes he is in imminent danger of being killed.
In an affirmative defense, the burden of proof is laid on the defense. Mentally ill is not the same as insane at the time of the crime.
A person can be mentally ill and still know right from wrong.
At least this scum won’t ever be free to murder anyone else and his mozlum family can believe that he will still get his virgins and the booze to stay sodden.
Joe says
“but why in the world did the Court and the prosecutor not make the defense have to prove his case?”
In Colorado, the bar for temporary insanity is pretty high. When the prosecutor had a doctor who said that Al Issa was not insane, it pretty much settled the case. The jury only deliberated 6 hours before reaching the verdict which is pretty fast for this type of case.
somehistory says
I realize that, Joe. But in an affirmative case, which this was, the defense is supposed to have the burden of proof. The evidence presented by the prosecution…the doctor who said the creep was not insane…is a refutation.
It seems the “burden of proof” was removed from the defense due to their lack of any evidence to ‘prove’ their client insane.
But, it is not the way Law is supposed to be practiced.
Nera says
That’s islamophobia, if he said Hail Mary a thousand times while going through a procession on his knees everyone would know the proper description is devoted, not mentally ill. This is a dedicated follower of his religion.
Rick Smith says
Where are all the “insane” non-Muslims killing Muslims? Funny how when these allegedly mentally ill Muslims go on their jihad rampage, the target is never their fellow Muslims but always us non-Muslims. If they were truly insane, how would they be able to be very selective about their victims?
Now if this was a “normal” thing, then wouldn’t we have an equal proportion of non-Muslims shooting Muslims? Funny how that almost always happens in one direction…aside from a few exceptions like Anders Brevik and the mosque attack in New Zealand.
If insanity was universal across humans, then 20 times as many non-Muslims would be crazy and we’d have 20 times as many attacks against Muslims than the reverse.
Ofc this all a crock of bs…the reason Muslims are the ones largely doing these violent attacks is because their evil death cult told them to…ordinary people know this, but our ruling elites/intelligentsia think they know better.
In a sane world, non-Muslims would be randomly taking Muslims out globally or we’d at least be rounding them up and deporting them, because we never know which Muslim is going to go off next and slaughter another handful of non-Muslims so he can claim his virgins in the afterlife.
To get the Muslims before they get us is logical self-defense, they have declared war on humanity for 1400 years…and yet some this is “wrongthink”…it would be if Muslims were not committing acts of terrorism and if their religion wasn’t a cult of hate, conquest and genocide.
James Lincoln says
Rick Smith says,
“Funny how when these allegedly mentally ill Muslims go on their jihad rampage, the target is never their fellow Muslims but always us non-Muslims. If they were truly insane, how would they be able to be very selective about their victims?”
Excellent question, Rick.
Rick Smith says
Thanks kindly James.
I hope prosecutors use this line of questioning whenever a Muslim turned Jihadi turned ‘mental patient’…uses this shoddy claim to get off of a more severe punishment.
I realize there is no great backlash yet against Muslims for all the terrible crimes they commit against us, but I think it’s just because most people don’t understand we’re in a war.
What’s worse is that the intelligentsia who do, are trying to pull the wool over our eyes because they’re more afraid of warfare, than letting us get picked off one by one, while they keep playing stupid (never a motive found-though they shout allah akbar).
I think as the attacks continue, even the dumbest amongst us will notice the pattern and realize the Muslim community is out to get us and if the authorities do nothing, it’s going to get very ugly as people take matters into their own hands.
James Lincoln says
Agree, Rick
And thanks for the reply.
James Lincoln says
Agree, Rick
And thanks for the reply.
Donna says
WE NEED TO FIND A SOLUTION TO THIS MESS!! RELIGOUS FREEDOM IS HERE TO PROTECT AMERICANS. HOW DO WE PROTECT OURSELVES FROM ISLAM WITHOUT DESTROYING OUR RIGHTS??!!!
Rick Smith says
Donna, by declaring Islam a political ideology and not a religion (though it is both).
There should be an official dividing line that when your ‘religion’ teaches sedition, conquest, hatred of non-believers, then it doesn’t deserve the same rights/freedoms and protections as other actually peaceful religions do, like Christianity and Hinduism.
We’ve done this before with other nasty cults and had them shut down/disbanded. The only difference with Islam is that it has millions of followers in the West…so we need a broader strategy to fight this sick ideology.
Also I’d suggest turning off all caps, we see your post…it’s the equivalent of ‘shouting online.’
AI User says
You are not destroying your rights. The ideology of Islam promiotess sectarian killings which is illelgal; hence the entrie facade of islam has to come down. No mosques and no islamic authority nor charity. Islam is a political ideology of an extremely violent nature which has decieved with a reigious face.
James Lincoln says
Rick Smith says,
“Donna, by declaring Islam a political ideology and not a religion (though it is both).”
Yes, it is both – and muslims use this to their advantage.
The trouble is, islam has enough religious elements to qualify as a religion – an evil religion, but still a religion.
And it currently qualifies as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
Here’s a good summary:
“A “religious” purpose is one of the seven exempt purposes specified in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”). However, unlike with the terms “charitable,” “educational,” and “scientific,” the term “religious” is not defined in the Treasury Regulations, in large part due to constitutional issues. IRS guidance explains “[u]nder the First Amendment, the Service cannot consider the content or sources of a doctrine alleged to constitute a particular religion, and cannot evaluate the content of a doctrine an organization claims is religious. This does not apply to rites or practices that violate federal, state or local law.”
https://nonprofitlawblog.com/starting-a-nonprofit-what-is-religious-under-501c3/
Troybeam says
Understanding Islam and how it works is a start. Read Reliance of the Traveller: Islamic Sacred law to learn the mentality of Islam. Islam is a theocracy not a religion, learn what theocracy is and why it should have remained banned in America.
James Hoagland says
Donna: the answer is to debunk Islam. One: it is not a religion but a program for world conquest. Two: Islam has been belligerent from its beginning. After murdering and kicking out of Arabia all non-believers it became an imperial force. In Arabia its aggressiveness could be classified as a ‘civil war’ but outside the peninsula it is clearly imperial in nature. Dissect the tenets and demand proof for the proclamations. So much of what has become the standard Islamic narrative (SIN) cannot be proven. See Dr. Jay Smith’s presentations. There is also behavior; and clearly Muslim behavior does not jive with standard religious behavior as espoused by the other major world religions.
Kosh's Shadow says
Note that the shooting was at a supermarket known for its Kosher section, shortly before Passover.
This was a crime of Jew-hatred, but that is rarely pointed out.
abu taleb says
Muhammad must be mentally ill too because he showed some schizzophrenia symptoms, he saw and heard something that nobody else did. Try to say that to any muslim, then suddenly the muslim will be mentally ill too.
But saying Muhammad is mentally ill is Islamophobia, however saying Islamic jihadists are mentally ill is not while both Muhammad and the jihadists do the same thing. There is no consistency in this case.
somehistory says
Mentally ill and insane are not the same thing. And in Law vs Medicine, there are two different standards.
In Law, to qualify for an insanity defense, the person had to have been unable….at the time of the crime…to discern right from wrong.
The fake ‘prophet’ of islam was not insane, because when he was alone, he didn’t go about his usual demon inspired actions. the same as when he was in a mob of like-minded evil scum.
The same is true today; when there were few nations where islam was growing, we didn’t hear or see so much terrorism from mozlums. Now, they are everywhere and doing their evil. openly.
they lie about being mentally ill because they don’ really ‘love death’ as they claim.
OLD GUY says
Sadly we the people will have to pay dearly for his life in prison. Bring back the DEATH SENTENCE, these mass murders don’t deserve to live off of everyone else. Which includes the families of his victims.