Fairy-tale Islam is alive and well, unfortunately.
This borne out by how the legacy media as well as federal law enforcement agencies have responded to the New Year’s Day terrorist attack perpetrated by Shamsud Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old American Muslim of Pakistani/Indian descent.
At the first press conference dealing with the details of this horrific attack, after the mayor of New Orleans spoke and tagged the truck ramming on Bourbon St. as a terror assault, the FBI’s special agent on site took the podium to declare (wrongly, as it turned out) “This was not a terrorist event.” Special Agent Alethea Duncan (whose first name, ironically, is the English transliteration of the Greek word for “truth”) later backtracked that claim when mounds of early evidence proved her embarrassingly wrong).
Everyone agreed thereafter that this was an act of terrorism. The next question was, “What kind of terrorism?” The media went out of its way to point away from Islam. We were told that Jabbar was born and raised in Texas, that he was a US Army veteran who had served in Afghanistan and was awarded a Global War on Terrorism Service Medal as well as the Army Good Conduct Medal during his time of service. He had held a six-figure job since his military discharge, but had fallen on hard times, married and divorced twice and in the midst of a third divorce, and failing on his alimony and child support payments.
The New York Times published a hasty interview with Jabbar’s younger half-brother, Abdur-Rahim, reporting that they “had been brought up Christian,” but then became Muslim soon after. This turns out not to be true. Shamsud’s mother was from a Christian background, but converted to Islam upon marriage to his father, a lifetime Muslim. The names Shamsud and Abdur-Rahim are decidedly Islamic, not Christian, names. The younger brother acknowledges that they attended the mosque regularly on Fridays as they grew. Shamsud was a quiet, respectful and devout young man. Somewhere along the way, he stepped away from his Islamic practices and fell into a worldly lifestyle, but in the last few years had returned to the fold, trying to get his life together.
Jabbar posted five videos to his Facebook account in the hour and a half before his terror rampage at 3:15 AM. In those, he declared that he had given his allegiance to ISIS sometime before the summer of 2024, prompted in part by a series of dreams. Though his family and friends said they didn’t detect a change in his behavior or demeanor, they noted that he had cut his hair short, begun growing his beard longer and started dressing more modestly. These are common signs of “Muslim radicalization.” The deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, Christopher Raia, after seeing these videos and the black flag of ISIS mounted on the trailer hitch of Jabbar’s rented pickup truck, declared that the terrorist “was 100% inspired by ISIS.”
On another video, Jabbar revealed that he initially had intended to gather family members together for some celebration and then kill them all (presumably the family related to his impending divorce), but changed his mind out of concern that “the news headlines would not focus on the quote, ‘war between the believers and the disbelievers,’ end quote,” according to Raia.
This reporting indicates two things: 1) Jabbar wholeheartedly adopted the Qur’anic and orthodox Muslim view that the ultimate struggle in life for “believers” is the war against disbelievers, and he wanted the world to become aware of this war and of the side he was on; 2) the fact that FBI agent Raia puts Jabbar’s statement in air quotes indicates that he does not believe this to have anything to do with “real” Islam. Indeed, Raia went on to say that investigation into the terrorist’s motive for the attack was ongoing. It certainly couldn’t be what is staring everyone in the face.
It seems now that the media and authorities cannot avoid acknowledging that Jabbar was motivated by the teachings and urgings of ISIS. Back in September of 2014, ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani urged all true Muslims to kill the unbelievers around them with whatever means were available to them: “[S]ingle out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of his allies…Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car.” A few months later, another ISIS leader named Abu Salman al-Faransi sought to rally Muslims to the cause of home-grown jihad with these words: “Terrorize them and do not allow them to sleep due to fear and horror. There are weapons and cars available and targets ready to be hit.” This call is not unique to ISIS; al-Qaeda, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and others have blessed this same tactic among their followers. All of them refer back to the Qur’an for their justification:
“And prepare against them [the disbelievers] whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know [but] whom Allah knows. And whatever you spend in the cause of Allah will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged.” – 8.60
The strategy of the proponents of fairy-tale Islam and their useful idiots (the mainstream media and federal officials under the Obama/Biden administrations) is to deny that terrorism has anything to do with true Islam. When attacks cannot be attributed to white supremacists, and instead point to Muslims, deflection must be employed. The term Muslim must be downplayed, as it has been in this case, and blame attached not to the religion of Islam but rather to a terrorist group labeled as “extremists” or “radicals” who have nothing to do with Islam.
As a result, Islam can be let off the hook as the motivation behind the act of terror, and blame attached instead to a misguided band of misfits. No further investigation needs to be done. No one needs to ask from where ISIS or al-Qaeda or Hamas or Boko Haram or al-Shabaab, or the Taliban (or so many others) derive their worldview and marching orders. No study of the Qur’an is required; no acquaintance with the life and commands of Islam’s prophet, Muhammad, whose life is to be imitated as closely as possible; no analysis of the teachings promulgated at the so-called extremist mosques or websites and their links to authoritative Islamic sources.
This article has been cross-posted with the author’s permission from the personal blog of Mateen Elass. Read the rest here.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
No, of course not
Rarely says
News Flash!! The Super Bowl has nothing to do with football. Absolutely nothing.
PRCS USN (ret) says
+1
PRCS USN (ret) says
+1
James Lincoln says
Good one, Rarely!
somehistory says
mozlum terrorists are similar to serial murderers.
When the LE are investigating a murder, and they look at the crime ais if it might be a serial killing (some LE don’t look), they try to determine if the perp is *organized or disorganized.* And they may ask family or friends of suspects if the suspect has made any life changes recently.
such as cutting hair, growing a beard/mustache, changing jobs or residence, etc.
These things can help determine whether to pursue that suspect.
In this case of mozlum terror, LE knows who the perp was and they actually do know the *motive.* (and he did change his looks, just as other murderers will do to hide their identity)
A few days ago, while not online, I was thinking about the names the different mozlums use to identify their terror group.
I determined that if LE would stop using those terms, labels, names, etc. and just identify all of them as mozlum terrorists, it would improve intelligence. such as mozlum terrorists in Syria, in Nigeria, Russia, Gaza, etc.
Because they are all of the seme cloth. If the various LE would just step up to the plate of honesty, they would be doing the public a huge service. And it would actually make their jobs easier.
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“A few days ago, while not online, I was thinking about the names the different mozlums use to identify their terror group.”
Perhaps the ever-increasing laundry list of hard to spell / hard to pronounce islamic terror groups is done on purpose to confuse the Infidels.
The truth is, there isn’t a nickel’s worth of difference between these terror groups, as they all hold the same islamic “values”.
somehistory says
thank you, James.
And not just to “confuse the infidels.” But to try the *our group is tougher than your group* one-upmanship because each one believes themselves better than all of the others.
the names are meant to cause infidels to “feel terror” upon hearing the name.
James Lincoln says
All true, somehistory.
All true.
Billy says
EVERY Muslim is expected to be a Terrorist for Allah to gain Paradise according to Islam’s Quran 9:111.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, deceitful Allah promises rewards for Muslim men in 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 Quran 9:29 says, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid[via Islam’s Law, Sharia], nor believe in the religion of the truth[Islam] among those who have been given the book[Christians and Jews] until they pay the jizyah[extortion payment] out of hand and they are subdued[disgraced].”
gravenimage says
Yes, Billy–every good Muslim is suppossed to behave like this.
gravenimage says
The Fairy Tale Continues: Shamsud Din Jabbar Has Nothing to Do with Islam
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Lots of people fall behind on child support payments, and don’t respond by mass murdering people in Jihad terror attacks.
Hoi Polloi says
Yes, like the muslim whose anger over teasing due to his pornstache caused him to slaughter, according to msm. Their lies always force me to come here to find truth, because they’ll never tell it.
MD Anthony says
It’s deja vu all over again…remeber the Trojan horse? The people of Troy played “Lets pretend” and became extinct
Troybeam says
OR Rome let diversity in and was destroyed from within. History is there to remind humanity to not make the same mistakes as prior civilizations, but NO, humanity makes the same mistakes because they fail to read and learn from history.
Mindy says
Robert Spencer, I have read parts of the quran to those who attempt to defend it, to Americans no less, Americans who try to pretend that islam is a religion of peace not an ideology of terrorism. This is where it get’s bizarre , those people became so enraged by what I read to them they stomped away in fury. They weren’t furious because they realized islam is a terrorist ideology, they were furious that I was pointing out the truth. How can anyone possibly hope to bring the truth to light when people love the lies so much, they despise the truth?
somehistory says
“New Orleans terrorist radicalized by ISIS online within weeks, FBI director says”
“”[H]e appears to have been inspired — from afar — by ISIS. And it is, in many ways, the most challenging type of terrorist threat we face,” Wray told “60 Minutes” in a wide-ranging interview that aired Sunday. “You’re talking about guys like this, who radicalize not in years but in weeks, and whose method of attack is still very deadly but fairly crude. And if you think about that old saying about connecting the dots, there are not a lot of dots out there to connect. And there’s very little time in which to connect them.”
And wray is an idiot or a liar….or both. He called jabbar a “lone wolf.”
In islam, there are no “lone volves,” as islam constitutes a very, very large “pack” of humans who are worse than any wolves. jabbar drove the truck…alone….but he had a lot of support from his pack.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-orleans-terrorist-radicalized-by-isis-online-within-weeks-fbi-director-says/ar-BB1rnPcN?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=e37b067ba9ef4862b7d50282f44f6ff0&ei=64
somehistory says
jabbar was said to be in financial trouble….but he traveled to Egypt and back to the U.S. and then to Canada, then back to the U.S.
He made several trips to New Orleans….with his Meta glasses…rented a place to stay, etc.
So where did he get the money to take two out of country trips, trips to his city of choice for murder and all of the other expenses…if he was in financial trouble? Some others were helping him.
And the LE know he was on his phone while he was planting the two bombs in coolers along the street. With whom was he texting and what was he writing?