The murderer, Timur Kasymovich Khaitov, “had a mental illness” and thought he “had received a message from above.”
Then he went to a church and slit the throat of a convert to Christianity from Islam. What a remarkable coincidence, that his “mental illness” would lead him to kill someone who left Islam, in accord with Islam’s death penalty for apostasy, and that he would kill him in the way that the Qur’an directs: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4).
“Orthodox Tatar altar server brutally murdered in Moscow church,” Orthodox Christianity, April 8, 2025:
On the night of April 2, an Orthodox Tatar and altar server was brutally murdered in a church in Moscow.
Some are already calling Ilyas Safovich Safiullin a martyr, especially considering that he converted to Orthodoxy from Islam eight years ago.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill expressed his condolences, reports ruskline.ru, saying that Ilyas “proved himself to be a good soldier of Christ, who sought to fulfill the Gospel preaching of active love for neighbors and to help people in need, those who are grieving, and those overwhelmed by the passion of alcohol consumption.”
The suspect, a 36-year-old Tatar citizen of Uzbekistan is a Muslim, though married to an Orthodox woman. According to the information of mk.ru, he treated his family with love and always helped those in need, but he also had a mental illness. He forgot to take his pills and started having panic attacks, so he and his wife went to his mosque in Moscow on Tuesday, April 1, but were turned away by the guards.
Then the man told his wife that he had received a message from above and suddenly ran off.
Mk.ru continues:
About the subsequent events, [the suspect] couldn’t properly tell: He claims that he doesn’t remember anything. Somehow he wandered onto the grounds of the Church of the All-Merciful Savior on Novoslobodskaya Street, where he attacked a 56-year-old laborer (who, by the way, was also Tatar by nationality) and literally slashed the unfortunate man with a knife. The criminal was detained immediately after this. As reported by the press service of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for Moscow, a number of forensic examinations have been ordered for the case.
A source for ruskline.ru also said:
Before killing Ilyas, the murderer took off his shoes at the entrance to the church, tied our Ilyas’ hands, slit his throat, also inflicted multiple stab wounds, and then ran around the church looking for a priest, most likely looking for Fr. Andrey Nadir Yakubov, who is also an Orthodox Nizhny Novgorod Tatar, like the murdered Ilyas. At the same time, the killer was running around with an icon that he had taken from the murdered man, and was shouting some religious and political slogans.
The Moscow Tatar Orthodox Christian Community gives the killer’s name as Timur Kasymovich Khaitov….
Bexarkat says
Mentally ill Muslim is an oxymoron.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I do hope the Russian authorities treat this case seriously, and not just as a case of “mental illness”. They showed what they could do against the Chechens in the past. Since all the people involved in this are Tatars, they should be able to mete out justice w/o worrying about any charges of “islamophobia”
Billy says
Leftists make any excuse to defend Islam and its murderous Muslims despite the teachings in Islam’s Quran(Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
Islam, a Terrorist-Criminal Enterprise, and its predatory believers continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, supremacy, segregation, hatred, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran, and Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15; 60:4 and more).
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes Terrorist Criminal Organizations with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15 and more).
Under Islam and Islamic Law, Muslims have the Legal Right and the Quranic Duty to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this QURANIC DUTY is a Crime against Allah. Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION(Quran 3:151; 9:5,29,111; Muslim Law Manual: “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more).
More specifically, Islam, a terroristic-destructive way of life, is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:216; 4:65,89,95; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49,73,88,111,123; 21:92; 49:15; 60:4 and more).
WPM says
In Russian prison I am sure this “mental ill person” will be cure forever from his “mental illness” he suffers by a remarkable accident he will be removed from the world of the living while the prison guards are on a smoking break. I do not think he will have a long shelf life in lock up .
bagsgroove says
Why wait for him to be in prison. Execute him right now !
somehistory says
The ghoul got a ‘message from satan.’ The original murderer, a demon snake, wants all humans to die and he’ll get in as many as he can before his time is up.
OLD GUY says
Mentally ill is allowing these Islam snakes to live. Allowing islam to spread its hate and violence is mentally ill.
John Archer says
Islam is a mental illnesses. Those who find themselves in it are mentally depraved.
It’s high time the sane world made every Muslim know this.
JustJim says
A perfect event to cause Putin to exterminate the vermin, publicly, giving the “Muslim community” notice that their Qur’an inspired bullshit, ain’t gonna fly! Putin is still waiting patiently to avenge the attack at the opera house. Hey, Vlad…..opportunity knocks!