The Post doesn’t offer any specifics, but there are all sorts of things Jabbar could have found inspiring in the Qur’an. “Kill them wherever you find them” (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5).
“Inside terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s squalid home, where sheep and goats roam his yard — after his financial ruin,” by Jennie Taer, Joe Marino and Jared Downing, New York Post, January 1, 2025:
HOUSTON — The terrorist who killed 15 people when he plowed his truck down crowded Bourbon Street in New Orleans was an American-born military veteran who was living in a run-down trailer park where he kept sheep and goats in the yard — just blocks from the local mosque.
Authorities say Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, from Houston, had an ISIS flag strapped to the rented Ford F-150 Lightning EV truck he used to carry out an act of premeditated terror on New Year’s Day.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar was a US-born military veteran who went from success to a squalid Houston trailer park where sheep roamed his yard.
He served in the Army for more than a decade and deployed to Afghanistan before he carried out his ISIS-inspired attack on Wednesday, according to his service record….
One neighbor told The Post she spoke only Urdu, Pakistan’s national language.
The neighborhood is also within walking distance of the local mosque, Masjid Bilal — where no one answered the telephone on Wednesday.
Law enforcement sources told The Post that they found videos Jabbar made where he referenced the Quran — Islam’s holy text….
Cynthia says
Nothing to see here according to the FBI. There are countless Muslim servicemen that are ticking time bombs. Anything can set them off to revert to Koranic teachings of “kill the infidel”. Foot Hood anybody???
PRCS USN (ret) says
There remain many Muslims on active/reserve U.S. military duty.
One, maybe still, served as a multi-faith chaplain.
Given Qur’an 9:29 alone, that IS a problem:
Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day, nor comply with what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth from among those who were given the Scripture, until they pay the tax, willingly submitting, fully humbled.
Long past time for the DOD to end that without worrying about offending the followers of that evil religion.
gravenimage says
True, PRCS.
James Lincoln says
PRCS USN (ret),
Agree.
No muslims should be allowed to serve in the US military.
abu taleb says
Any muslim is a ticking bomb.
gravenimage says
Potentially so, yes.
Dum Spiro says
Hopefully they won’t find any notes left by him saying something like, “Don’t believe a word those goats say — they’re all liars!”
— Spero
Dum Spiro says
Hopefully they won’t find any notes left by him saying something like, “Don’t believe a word those goats say — they’re all liars!”
— Spero
Dum Spiro says
Sorry — didn’t mean to leave a duplicate comment. The “post” button changed color and it didn’t look like it had done anything so I tapped it again and then saw the double post. I’ll try to be smarter in commenting — I think I have the hang of it now.
— Spero
gravenimage says
Funny–but grim impications. Also all too likely.
Clearsighted says
And the FBI is still searching for motive?
somehistory says
He evidently bragged al lot on his work accounts, and other social media about his work-skills, etc. and also about being mozlum. His hobbies, according to one report: “hunting and praying.”
In New Orleans, he went “hunting and preying” and many are dead, others are injured, because he was a devout mozlum.
gravenimage says
+1
Jo Alex SG says
As expected! He’s the real Muslim, sadly, the daydreaming progressive Muslims being the poor souls who believe their murderous prophet could be an enlightened master. Islam is submission to a most dangerous theocratic ideology cloaked as a religion, even worst than communism and Nazism though the latter two are also nefarious for sure.
gravenimage says
Grimly spot on, Jo.
Walter Sieruk says
That horrific jihad vehicle terror murder and maiming Islamic attack in the city of New Orleans on New Years night is a reminder that there is much talk about rooting out the ideology of Islamic terrorism. What is not mentioned is that the foundation of this type of terrorism is the theology of Islam’s “holy book” the Quran. For the Quran instructs in the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As found in, for example, 2:191. 5:33. 9:5, 111.123. 47:4. Therefore Islam is a false ,dangerous and deadly religion.
Walter Sieruk says
That horrific jihad vehicle terror murder and maiming Islamic attack on New Years Eve at New Orleans As such brutal, vicious deadly violence is sanction and taught in the Quran. As found in, for example, Sura 5:33. 9:5, 111,123. 47:4.
There are some naive Westerners who might be shocked to find this out and the wonder and then ask “Just who can Muslim, Shamsad Din Jabbar, being so very religious ,also be so extremely heartless ,unfeeling, brutal and murderous to kill as to murder all those people and main other people in the city of New Orleans ?” The answer that question is found in the Bible. For the Bible reveals there are some men who are so very cold, callous and dangerous because they have had “their own conscience seared with a hot iron” First Timothy 4:2. [N..K.J.V.]
The “hot iron” in this case is Islam.
Tim gallagher says
The big mystery to me is how almost everybody has not woken up to Islam’s evil and murderous nature by now. I originally thought Islam was probably ok, I knew nothing about it, 30 or so years back when Muslims started arriving in Australia, actually it was back in the 1970s, but later on I looked into Islam’s nature and saw how hate filled and murderously violent it is. I feel that almost everyone should see how evil islam and should hate this barbaric load of shit by now. Peoples ability to go on being fooled by islam staggers me
gravenimage says
Tim, I found this baffling myself for some time. Like you, I had been increasingly concerned about Islam last century–hijackings, bombings, kidnappings, and its ugly history of violent conquest–but I really decided to educate myself after 9/11, starting with reading the Qur’an. Even without knowing anything about the order of the Suras and abrogation, I was shocked by how violent and oppressive this text was–and how much it actively preached savagery, especially against unbelievers.
But what we are generally facing now in the West is not innocent ignorance–a relatively easy thing to fix, especially as to the basics. Instead, it is *willful* ignorance–where almost no amount of information is allowed to ‘stick’, because so many are wedded to the idea that Islam is a “religion of peace”, no matter how much evidence to the contrary.
One can see examples of willful ignorance at various times through history, like the many cases of apologia for Fascism and especially Communism, despite the brutality of those creeds. Willful ignorance re Islam is every bit as pernicious–perhaps even more so.
Tim gallagher says
What you say must be true, gravenimage. I think that it is disgraceful, and it sickens me, the way that stinking, evil islam and Muslims seem.to be a protected species, which is not deserved. To be able to commit these neverending atrocities, the terrorist attacks, along with rape gangs, etc and not be smashed by non Muslims amazes me. Someday, I hope Muslims face the retribution they deserve. They deserve to be treated and loathed the way Nazis are. I have often said that I know plenty of left wingers. I should ask them if they are starting to wake up to islam yet. Sometimes it seems to me that we are just too nice these days. Muslims exploit that softness and niceness. I suppose as a Christian I should go on being nice but I have to say that after this new Orleans terrorist attack, and others, I hoped that, at last, the non Muslims in the USA would say, right, that’s enough and retaliate, maybe burn down 50 mosques or something like that. Muslims need to be told they will cop plenty of retaliation for every terrorist attack. Someday it has to happen. Of course, for me, I would accept no Muslims into our countries at all. Letting them in is the dumbest thing ever.
Paul Burns says
People are unable to conceive how a major world religion could have such an evil foundation. They keep thinking, it must be misinterpreted.
James Lincoln says
Excellent exchange, Tim and gravenimage.
Tim gallagher says
Thanks, James, it is taking so many people so incredibly long to wake up to islam despite mountains of evidence. Paul, I think you are right. That islam is a major religions despite being so evil shows how evil many people are. Decent human beings should reject the barbaric filth in islam. But, of course, leaving islam can get you killed.
gravenimage says
New Orleans jihad mass murderer made videos referencing the Qur’an
…………………………………….
A Jihad terrorist referencing the Qur’an? Say it ain’t so! sarc/off
Just surprised that media even reported this–glad to hear it. Most new outlets are also opely calling this a terrorist attack–a bit vague, but at least not the usual claptrap about “mental illness”.
Billy says
Islam is a cancerous ideology of never-ending murder, deception, hatred, and terrorism against ALL Non-Muslims. Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” Allah in Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah, so they kill and are killed…” For this killing act, a sacred and holy act, Allah spiritually rewards with Paradise. Allah in Qur’an 8:12 says, “When your lord revealed to the angels: ‘I am with you so make firm those who believed[Muslims]. I will cast a terror into the hearts of those who became infidels[Non-Muslims]. So strike above their necks(decapitation), and strike off(chop off) every finger from them.’” Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed jihad with their MONEY AND THEIR LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”