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In the wake of the vehicular jihad attack in New Orleans in the early hours of New Year’s Day, authorities have been busy trying to figure out what “radicalized” Shamsud-Din Jabbar — that is, what turned him from an Army veteran who was presumably loyal to the United States into a mass murderer. This is a useful line of inquiry in order to try to prevent future attacks of this kind, but as is so often the case, the feds are barking up the wrong tree.
NBC News reported Saturday that unnamed “experts” have determined that Jabbar’s was a fairly ordinary case: they said that “the details that have emerged about Jabbar align with the typical pattern of how a veteran can be radicalized to violence.” It seems that it all comes from a downturn in Jabbar’s fortunes: “In the years leading up to Wednesday’s attack, Jabbar experienced his third divorce, accumulated significant debt and lost his corporate job. Divorce court records from January 2022 reveal he was facing business losses and credit card debt in the tens of thousands of dollars, along with more than $27,000 in overdue mortgage payments. By August of that year, his bank accounts held just $2,012, according to filings in the case.” Yeah, that may be it. But there are important ways in which this doesn’t explain a thing.
The most obvious problem with this is that there are numerous people in America today who are thrice-divorced and in debt, and in worse situations than that, and it never once occurs to them to drive a truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers. There are, moreover, aspects of Jabbar’s behavior that just don’t fit into the scenario of a man driven to despair by personal and professional downturns.
In a video he recorded shortly before his attack, Jabbar told his family that he had originally planned to kill them instead. “I wanted to record this message for my family,” the killer said. “I wanted you to know that I joined ISIS earlier this year.” He added with chilling directness: “I don’t want you to think I spared you willingly.” He explained that he had initially intended to hold a “celebration” for them so that those attending could “witness the killing of the apostates.” NBC helpfully adds that is “an apparent reference to killing them,” but doesn’t bother to pause to explain the significance of his reference to “apostates.”
Jabbar apparently considered his family to be apostates from Islam, whether formally by declaring that they had left the religion, or functionally, by having ceased to practice it. Either way, leaving Islam carries the death penalty in Islamic law, in accord with the Qur’an: “If they turn renegade, then take them and kill them wherever you find them” (4:89). Also, a hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence.
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canto28 says
As the case with Islamic terrorist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood, Texas, 2009, this was “Sudden Jihad Syndrome” discussed by Daniel Pipes.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
It’s still Biden in office. So DHS or FBI won’t look for the real cause of Jabbar’s “radicalization”
somehistory says
If the fbi or dhs have any agents with brains, and not mind-melded to bo, biden, mayorkis, blinken, wray, etc. then they know already why the mozlum scum turned a truck into a murder weapon and slaughtered a lot of innocent people.
In murdering so many people he didn’t know as they gathered to celebrate a new year, getting ready for a college bowl game, he was trying to open the eyes of people who don’t recognize they are supposed to fear mozlums. He wanted to be feared for his mozlumness.
The ghoul was right in thinking that if he had targeted his family, it would have been all about his losses…family, wife, wife, wife, money, house and job. He would have been, not a terrorist committing an act of terrorism, but a *distraught* man who had lost everything, was depressed, etc.
But he was also wrong….there is no ‘paradise with unlimited virgins for him to rape and unending booze on which to stay sodden.’
And he probably didn’t wake anyone to the Truth about islam. In fact, his own brother told a big lie.
Bruce David Watt says
yes SUDDEN JIHAD SYNDROME is real and much like Christians at the end believing in Jesus saving their soul, Muslims believe the quickest way to salvation and paradise is killing non believers and dying as a martyr for Islam. there is no quick way other than murder and terror.
somehistory says
Why must some people always bring in what ‘Christians ***supposedly*** believe’ and compare it to mozlums?
Christian belief is nothing like….nothing lke….what mozlums believe.
And mozlums learn from day one….either when they are little kids, or when one has *converted,* that murdering for their false god and fake prophet are required if they want those young people to rape.
Committing the murders may seem “sudden,” but it has been a burning desire. the most recent ghoul knew where he could find his command.
gravenimage says
Christians do *not* believe that murdering innocent people leads to salvation. Try again.
Wellington says
We’re still governed by Idiots and there is little relief in sight, even with the incoming Trump administration with people like Grenell having a major say. The Great Pretend Game (GPG) continues, i.e., Islam is not the problem but the distortion of the wonderful, tolerant and peaceful religion that is Islam constitutes what is the problem.
No, this is not the case. Islam, all of it in its “full glory,” is indeed the problem and by now one knows this or should know it. Any explanations to the contrary are rooted in ignorance or mendacity.
somehistory says
You are so right, Wellington.
islam isn’t like a machine, a car, a knife….or a rock. Those things are made for good; they can have good uses, good purposes, and result in making things better. (I once lived in a house made in large part, of rocks.)
islam’s entire purpose is what we have all seen and read about. Lying, pretense as covers for the rape and murder that is the core of islam.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
You’re right, Wellington. 15 days still feels like 15 years, given all the pardons, commutations, new employee contracts w/ government employees & all other types of land mines this government’s bureaucrats are planting on their way out
We need to amend the terms so that after the November elections, the new President-elect gets to name his cabinet and take office within a week. I don’t wanna use the “everyone else does it the next day” argument, but they at least don’t have the outgoing government trying to sabotage the incoming government’s moves. Neither did we for 249 years, but since this precedence looks like being set, it would be good if in November 2028, President Trump officially hands over the reigns to his successor, and end that potential for sabotage
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
The first thing that today’s FBI does after these jihad attacks happen is to spin the “cause” as:
Nothing to do with islam.
libertyORdeath says
The guy can fly an ISIS flag, post pro-ISIS videos, and leave his quran open to the verse about killing infidels to gain entry into heaven and they STILL insist that Islam has nothing to do with it.
Ignorance is bliss…until some jihadi runs you over with a truck.
somehistory says
They didn’t get the point of the Wizard of Oz. They keep saying, “pay no attention to the islam behind the curtain.”
libertyORdeath says
If he was angry at his family for being apostates, how could he possibly be a new convert to Islam? Did he offer them to the chance to convert as instructed by the quran?
What about this guy’s family history and upbringing? They claim he’s actually a Christian named Samsud Din-Jabbar, a name that seems to mean “Islam is the greatest religion”. Who were his parents? Why did they give their children Islamic names if they were Christians? Have the media given up on trying to protect Islam by claiming he’s really a Christian?
Did he list Islam as his personal religion on his military paperwork and dog tags? Or was it Christianity? Which mosque did he go to as a kid? Where did he go and who did he meet in Egypt?
So many questions.
somehistory says
Yes, and it’s obvious that the Truth is something they don’t want the rest of us to know about this mozlum terrorist.
“Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.” converted and changed his name to Kareem abdul jabbar
jabbar is not a Christian name
gravenimage says
His brother also has an Islamic name. My best guess at this point it that they are Black Muslims, but he didn’t feel they were devout enough.
gravenimage says
Authorities are Looking in All the Wrong Places for the Causes of Jabbar’s Radicalization
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Gee–could it be *Islam*?