CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox News, The BBC, NPR, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and solemn-faced spokesmen for the police and FBI, and political leaders, too, have all been wondering aloud: what, oh what could have caused Shamsud-Din Jabbar to try to kill as many people as he could on New Year’s Day? Jabbar made and posted several videos that make clear his motivation. The first was posted at 1:29 a.m. on the day when he drove his rented truck into revellers in New Orleans, leaving 14 dead and 35 wounded. In that video, he explained that he had at first considered killing his family and friends, but then decided that he wanted his planned killings to focus on the “war between the believers and disbelievers,” FBI counterterrorism official Chris Raia said.
At his home investigators found his Qur’an, propped on a bookcase, and open to a page that contained this:
“Indeed, Allah has bought from the believers their lives and their wealth, because the garden will be theirs, they will fight in the way of Allah and will kill and be killed. It is a promise that is binding on him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur’an. Who fulfills his covenant better than Allah? Rejoice then in your bargain that you have made, for that is the supreme triumph.” (9:111)
This verse alone would have been enough instruction for a devout Muslim like Shamsud-Din Jabbar to engage in his killing spree, but there are so many other verses he could also have read, and reread, including these:
Quran 2:191 – “And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from where they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. And do not fight with them at the sacred mosque until they first attack you there, but if they attack you, then kill them. This is the reward of unbelievers.”
Quran 3:28 – “Let not the believers take unbelievers for their friends in preference to believers. Whoever does that has no connection with Allah unless you are guarding yourselves against them, taking security. Allah bids you to beware of him. To Allah is the journeying.”
Quran 5:33 – “The only reward for those who make war upon Allah and his messenger and struggle to sow corruption on earth will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet cut off on opposite sides, or be expelled from the land. Such will be their deg- radation in this world, and in the hereafter, theirs will be an awful doom.”
Quran 8:12 – “When your Lord inspired the angels, I am with you. So make those who believe stand firm. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Then strike the necks and strike their fingertips.”
Quran 8:60 – “Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others beside them whom you do not know. Allah knows them. Whatever you spend in the way of Allah, it will be repaid to you in full, and you will not be wronged.”
Quran 8:65 – “O prophet, exhort the believers to fight. If there are just twenty of you who are steadfast, they will overcome two hundred, and if there are a hundred of you, they will overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve, because they are a people without intelligence.”
Quran 9:5- “Then, when the sacred months have passed, kill the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and besiege them, and prepare for them every ambush. But if they repent and establish prayer and give alms, then leave their way free. Indeed, Allah is forgiving, merciful.”
Quran 9:29 – “Fight against those do not believe in Allah or the last day, and do not forbid what Allah and his messenger have forbidden, and do not follow the religion of truth, even if they are among the people of the book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.”
Quran 9:123 – “O you who believe, fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty.”
Quran 47:4 – “Now when you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks until, when you have subdued them, then make fast the bonds, and afterward either generosity or ransom until the war lays down its burdens. That, and if Allah willed, he could have punished them, but so that he may test some of you by means of oth- ers. And those who have been killed in the way of Allah, he does not make their actions useless.”
In the last few days, I have read or listened to many dozens of reports on the terror attack in New Orleans, on television, on the radio, on social media, all of them mentioning that word “radicalized.” “When did Jabbar become radicalized”? “Was he radicalized in the army?” “Didn’t anyone in his family notice that he was becoming radicalized?” But the one thing that is never asked is this: what does becoming “radicalized” mean? Everyone seems to be afraid to ask, or to have answered, that obvious question. Did Jabbar read a different Qur’an from that read by the 1.5 billion other Muslims, a Qur’an that magically manages to “radicalize” its readers? No, there is only one Qur’an. Did he misunderstand the violent verses in the Qur’an, the ones that call repeatedly — see the partial list of such verses above — upon Muslims to strike at the necks of, to fight, to kill, the “disbelievers”? No, when he ran his truck into a crowd of disbelievers, he was not ignoring those verses of the Qur’an, but dutifully fulfilling them.
Why, then, isn’t every Muslim behaving in similar fashion to Shamshud-Din Jabbar? Most Muslims live in all-Muslim societies and don’t have the chance to smite the disbelievers. Many Muslims living in the West are simply trying to get along; they may smile and smile, and still have murder in their hearts for the disbelievers, but they also want to stay alive and thrive. Many are living on the generous benefits provided to them by the Infidel governments, benefits that they see as a form of jizyah, and don’t want to kill the Infidels who are supporting them in such a generous fashion. They want to remain in the West, and demographically, by slow degrees, take over the countries of dar al-harb.
Still, Jabbar is not a lonely exception. There have been more than 47,000 terror attacks carried out by Muslims since 9/11/2001 around the world. The men of Al-Qaeda, of ISIS, of Hamas, and of dozens of other jihadist groups, and lone wolves such as Jabbar, whom both naïve Westerners and cunning defenders of Islam describe as having been “radicalized,” are simply people who take the instructions in the Qur’an to heart. They are being good Muslims, acting according to its prescriptions. In running people down on Bourbon Street, Jabbar was only doing as the Qur’an instructs: killing the disbelievers. That is all that “radicalization” means though almost everyone is afraid to point that out. Who will be the first in the mainstream media to hold that word “radicalization” up for truthful discussion about what it signifies?
Tony says
Exactly! Islam is demonic. Muslims are taught to kill the Non-Muslims from the Quran. 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…”
somehistory says
There are no “lone wolves,”….this latest mass-murdering mozlum was counseled by his cleric, and directed by his copy of the book of demon filth….in islam.
A “lone wolf’ terrorist is directed by his own mind; for reasons only he might know. Such as revenge.
Ted Kaczinski was a “lone wolf terrorist.” He had no support, no funding, his family had no clue, and he was not counseled by some other third party, there was no book on which he relied for direction.
The young military guy on leave, driving from CO to Nevada, may be classified as a “lone wolf” terrorist, though only managing to kill himself. He claimed he was not trying to commit terror, but it probably was a terror for those who heard the bomb blast.
mozlums have a world-wide support system; They get their demands for what to do from the book of demon filth; encouragement to follow those demands from their meetings at the barracks, and quite often from family and friends.
Thise most recent murderous ghoul was also having financial problems and family problems….behind on mortgage and child support. He had gone from nice digs to the trailer park where many other mozlums reside.
Those issues could have deepened his desire to follow every demand in the book of filth he left open to his favorite part.
There are likely thousands just like him who have not yet determined that the time is ripe for action. islam commands and demands it. It’s only a matter of the mozlum deciding it is his time to follow his last order.
Taffy says
Very good distinction concerning the definition of “lone wolf!”
At some point, the full story of this foul Muzzie will come out.
somehistory says
Thank you, Taffy. Yes, the Truth may come out in bits and pieces, but it comes.
James Lincoln says
All 100% true, somehistory.
Excellent post.
somehistory says
Thank you, James.
Listening this morning to Johnny Cash, “Sunday Morning Coming Down.”
James Lincoln says
Gotta love Johnny, somehistory.
Years back, I took my folks to see him live.
What a wonderful evening…
abu taleb says
While not all muslims become terrorists and kill people, a big proportion of muslims do not mind about non muslims being killed by the muslim terrorists because Islam does command to kill non muslims because being non muslims is the greatest sin and Allah is the enemy of non muslims (2:98) (notice that it is Allah who has the party who has the enmity toward the other party, the non muslims do not need to hate Allah).
So, it can be said that the majority of muslims are supporting the muslim terrorists indirectly by do not opposing the killing. And also a lot of muslims are directly supporting the terrorists by donating money through zakat as commanded in 9:60.
PRCS USN (ret) says
One of my favorites:
Radical Islamic extremism
No, not the everyday Islamic ‘extremism’ nonsense our less informed friends and neighbors have learned to parrot; but the radical version.
gravenimage says
Spot on, PRCS.
Tim gallagher says
There are the endless examples, here at jihad watch, of people who become Muslims, not radicalised Muslims but just Muslims and immediately plan terrorist attacks. I would also say that the word that should be used is devout or serious Muslims not radicalised. One thing is for sure, if a Christian or Buddhist becomes more devout, they will not go out and kill non members of their belief system but Muslims very often will. The problem is islam which is as full of evil hatred as Nazism is.
somehistory says
Yes, Tim. We have all read of way too many who either converted and right away went on a killing mission, or they had been mozlum always and something may have increased their anger….such as a daughter or wife who doesn’t want to wear the garbage he insists she must.
Perhaps he hears a *sermon* on Youtube that tells him it’s his time to act. He takes that as a direction from his fake prophet.
Individuals may have something to which they devote a lot of time…perhaps they jog and then decide to begin running marathons. Or they lift weights and one day, enter a contest.
As you say, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, etc. may be somewhat attentive to their faith, and then perhaps a family member dies, and they begin to put more thought and practice into their faith. But when these ones do those things, they don’t go out and murder those who don’t think the same way.
Indeed, “the problem is islam.”
Tim gallagher says
Yes, somehistory, I recall being shocked at the vicious hate, murderous hatred, that islam contained. Definitely the worst, most evil religion that still exists. It is absolute filth morally on a level with Nazism. I know there have always been evil religions like the worship of baal, the old aztec religion, but it is shocking to see Islam still around fouling up humanity with its poison. It needs to be shut out of all our countries, nothing else can work.
I hope you are going well and your family members as well and that excellent dog of yours. And now I am off to play some music and try to polish up a couple of my songs and play and sing a few songs by other people that I like. The temperature out here is up in the nineties today. It’s been a very hot summer.
somehistory says
Thank you, Tim. As usual, your are right about islam. Foul in an extreme degree.
I’m glad you are working on your music, ,,singing, playing, and having enjoyment.
My family and I are well. Los of flue going around, but so far, we have escaped it.
The dog believes she is human. One night recently when I was prepared for bed, I turned the light on and found her standing in the middle of my bed. she knew she shouldn’t be, and when she saw me, jumped down and ran from the room.
It’s quite chilly here in America. Enjoy your summer.
Tim gallagher says
I think a lot of dogs do think that they human. In this area where I am living right now the number of people who have dogs is enormous. And they are the best treated dogs you could ever see which is great. It is paradise for dogs round here. Hope you and your family stay well through the winter. Yrs, I continue to enjoy music and trying to write some half decent songs.
somehistory says
Tim, Some dogs are more intelligent than people, I think. It’s good that the owners take good care of their pets.
I hope you stay well also. I would love to hear some of the songs you have written. Maybe someday. One can never tell exactly what the future will bring, but I’m expecting some wonderful things.
Tim gallagher says
It is probably the same in the USA as it is here in Australia but, as I have told many people out here, if you have written a book then there is a system and publishers are looking for novels, etc. Google Allen and Unwin, a big publisher out here and they accept submissions. I have a crime novel I wrote very slowly a few years back and I might see if they will accept it.
For songs there seems to be no system. I think I will join the songwriters society that a musician friend told me about and ask how my fellow songwriters get their songs out there. I might put me performing a few of my songs out there on YouTube and say, hey, anyone that wants to perform these songs go ahead. I am too old to care about royalties. I did five songs written by established songwriters on YouTube and they sounded pretty good and hung around for a few years, viewed maybe 400 times then they disappeared. Anyway I will see what happens somehistory.
somehistory says
thank you, Tim. I will try to find a few minutes to do a google search.
I have written several novels…back when I was busy raising my children, I did a lot of writing, but my eyes were much better then and I had a lot less pain.
With my health issues, it’s more difficult to find the energy and the propulsion to get something done. I still have the ideas for stories, however.
I hope you get something posted and linked here.
Tim gallagher says
Just to finish up, somehistory, on Allen and Unwin and publishing books, I suspect maybe one in thousand might be accepted, but, a couple of years ago I heard a man bring interviewed on the radio and he had never been published and his novel was being published by Allen and Unwin so I thought, well he must been accepted for publication after submitting to them.
somehistory says
Getting published, Tim, is not easy. I recall, when taking a writing course, that people like Hemingway and other famous authors, had many submitted which were turned down by several houses before they “found a home.”
I recall one novel was turned down 200 times. Writers must have thick skins because they get a lot of rejections. But when something is accepted, it feels really good.
The biggest thing for me when I was writing, was the cost of submitting…postage to send and if I wanted the manuscript returned, that took extra. I was working and the only parent supporting my kids. so it was extra for postage or for paper and ink cartridges.
A lot of publishing houses now want the manuscripts on computer disks rather than paper.
Tim gallagher says
Yes.somehistory, the submissions to Allen and Unwin have to be online. They say anyone sending a submission on paper, they will simply recycle it. I have heard about writers who had to persist for quite a while to finally be published. They must have had plenty of faith that their work was pretty good. I am way behind on technology but I think I will have to learn more especially to get songs out there.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
As far as islam goes, “radicalization” is just an euphamism for religious purification, in terms of doctrine
tgusa says
If the establishment types dont get their heads out of their asses quick they may begin to see a radicalization of people who have had enough. We all have our limits and a lot more people than they know have reached it. More and more everyday. The establishment haven’t realized it yet but they are tip toeing on the edge of a straight razor. Get it together establishment jackasses before it is too late!
terry says
Radicalization is but a cheap excuse to be perverted and demented.
GFF says
&/or more devout.
James Lincoln says
To the worldwide mainstream / legacy media:
Muslims who appear to be “radical” or “extreme” by Western standards are simply “devout” in their islamic faith.
Muslims who appear to be “radical” or “extreme” by Western standards are simply “devout” in their islamic faith.
Muslims who appear to be “radical” or “extreme” by Western standards are simply “devout” in their islamic faith.
Get it?
rubiconcrest says
I am waiting for a reporter or politician or government official like the director of the FBI or homeland security to ask this question.
Q… What are Islamic institutions and Imams doing to keep their faithful from becoming jihadists and deciding to take the killing sanctioned by the Quran literally?
Hugh’s list of verses from the Quran is a good one to have on hand when asking these ‘religious leaders’ pointed questions. There is a problem Islam, so deal with it or else you are part of the problem.
Walter Sieruk says
That’s a very good question posed in the title of this article, which is “What is ’Radicalization’ “ ?
Likewise, another question is “What the term “Islamic Muslim.”
Those Western terms “Radical Muslim” and “Radical Islam” “it’s really not fitting term as the following” explains.
For Those terms “Islamic radicalism” and Radical Muslim” “Islamic extremist” actually a misuse of terms. Likewise, .the term “Moderate Muslim” are actually Western term and not that well known in the Islamic Middle East.
This is because what In the Islamic mindset in the Muslim Middle East as well as in Indonesia and other Muslim controlled countries what the non-Muslims of the Western nations view as “radical and “extremist” the Muslims of those places in the world see as “Normal” and even Devout and committed to the Cause of Islam.”
In addition, those “Moderate Muslims” are those of the Islamic worldview and non-devout and non –committed Muslims. The violent jihadists even see them as “hypocrites.” Therefore, this explains the jihadist chant of those jihad-minded Muslims in different Islamic terror organizations. When they chant aloud “Death to infidels and hypocrites.” Meaning Death to people who and not Muslims and people who are non- jihadist Muslims.
Concerning the last part of this above essay, the violent spirit of that vicious jihadist chant “Death to infidels and hypocrites.” The later word of the chant “hypocrites” in the jihad –minded Muslim worldview is further explain in the book titled JIHADIST PSYCHOPATH by Jamie Glazov , for on page 42 the reader is informed that “Islam mandates that devout and real Muslims must punish , and in some circumstances kill, those Muslims whom they regard as neither legitimate nor properly devout.”
Walter Sieruk says
The heading of this article “What is ‘Radicalization’’ ? leads to the terrible reality that one lie about the religion of Islam that the Western news media keep telling the public is that there are to different kinds of Islam, which are “Radical Islam” and “Moderate Islam.”
Many scholars on Islam ,such as Brigitte Gabriel and Robert Spencer, had explain that the terms “Radical Islam” and “Moderate Islam” Western terms and are unknown to the Islamic world. As one of their leader said “Islam is Islam”
Furthermore, a Muslim in an Islamic country would view that a Westerner would call a “Radical Muslim” in a Muslim nation he would be seen as a “devote Muslim” who is totally committed to the cause of Islam by the way of the violent jihad,
By contrast what a Westerner would call a “moderate Muslim’ many Muslims in Asia as well as the Middle East call a Muslim who is not really living up to his faith in Islam by not taking up arms in the violence and killing of the jihad for Islam.
Therefore many of Muslim, overseas , would call him a “hypocrite” This is way many devote Muslim who are violent jihadists gather together in a group and chant “Death to infidels and hypocrites ” Meaning “Death to non-Muslims and non-violent, jihadist Muslims.
gravenimage says
What Is ‘Radicalization’?
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There is no “radicalization”–this is just orthodox Islam.