[ April 18, 2024 ]
Nadia Azam’s equivocation on evil speaks volumes. How many more supporters of what her stepson did are inside Muslim communities in the U.S.? Is law enforcement too busy with “outreach” activities to try to find out?
“Overland Park man is shocked at news of son’s involvement in Garland, Texas, assault,” by Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, May 5, 2015 (thanks to Debra Heine):
Story continues below advertisementOn Tuesday, Azam Soofi of Overland Park struggled to make sense of it all.
“We are grieving,” he said, standing at the threshold of his home on 158th Place.
His son, Nadir Soofi, was dead. Police had identified him, along with Elton Simpson, both of Phoenix, as the two gunmen who on Sunday, firing assault rifles, tried to enter an event in Texas where cartoonists were taking part in a contest that featured drawings of the Prophet Muhammad. Both Soofi, 34, and Simpson, 30, were stopped, killed by police.
Azam Soofi, an engineer, declined to talk about the assault. He was at a loss to reconcile the boy he knew with the actions on Sunday.
“My son was a great son,” Soofi said, “a caring soul, a beautiful person. He lived a real privileged life all his life.”
Soofi said it was through news accounts that he first became aware of his son’s involvement. He was shocked.
“He was a very humble, soft-spoken person,” Soofi said of his son, who did not grow up in the Kansas City area. Azam Soofi moved here about 5 years ago.
Soofi’s wife, Nadia Azam, who later came to the door, spoke at a frustrated pitch, not at all excusing her stepson’s actions on Sunday, she said, but raising questions about the purpose of the cartoon contest.
“My question is,” she said, “what did they (the event organizers) get out of this? How was this event a productive thing for either now or in the future? How was this productive for the average U.S. citizen? Can you answer that one question? How does it make America a better place? This is what I want to know.”
She said it was not for her to judge whether the event was designed as an expression of free speech or to incite.
“That’s for scholars to debate,” she said. “But when you beef up security so much, you know that what you’re doing is either illegal or immoral.”
No, when we beefed up our security so much, we knew that what we were doing was something that fanatical and bloodthirsty jihad terrorists like your stepson might want to disrupt.
She continued.
“He didn’t have to do it,” she said of Nadir Soofi’s actions. “I’m not defending him. I’m not saying what he did was right or wrong. But how was this event productive? What did it accomplish?”
It showed that we would not bow down in the face of violent intimidation. We never will.
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53 Comments
8 years ago
Deport, deport, deport.
Any time a death cultist like the spawn of these first cousins takes aim at America’s values, freedoms or our rights, he must be sent to his 72 male virgin goats and his entire family must be deported to their Islamonazi sewer of origin.
8 years ago
If all of us who are determined to preserve our most precious possession, the freedom of speech, were to post a link to a “Prophet” Muhammad cartoon everyday, they would become so ubiquitous that it would become obvious even to the Islamites that the idea of stopping the cartooning with jihad attacks was a lost cause. Free Speech lovers outnumber the Islamites by far. Let’s take advantage of it and put an end to this barbaric lunacy.
8 years ago
Sure mommy, I feel your pain. But you know , America is a civilised country that takes seriously the creation of its artists and writers and filmmakers and if someone wants to put up an art exhibition ,,, well, my dear they have every right to do just that. And listen up now: we don’t need to provide mission or purpose statements to validate the exhibition.
Thanks for your concern i.e. ” How does it make America a better place? This is what I want to know.” Well I think the elimination of your murderous step-son , and his accomplice, is a start. Another decent increment would be your returning to live in whatever OIC hovel from which you immigrated.
And regarding poor , inconsolable Azam, Just tell him to pound his head just that little bit harder next time he’s at the mosque for a session. Everythings gonna be OK
8 years ago
ISIS can threaten to kill anyone in the US proper and what is a response of the “conservatives” such as Laura Ingraham? Stop provoking them? Seriously? That’s the best you can do?
8 years ago
“That’s for scholars to debate,” she said. “But when you beef up security so much, you know that what you’re doing is either illegal or immoral.” – guess she does not read the papers – 17 people got killed for doing it..
But how was this event productive? What did it accomplish?” – these people really don’t understand free speech – why are they here? to assimilate or change us?
8 years ago
Reply to
jammy jimmy
Why are they here?
To…Inflict Sharia Law on All Mankind (I.S.L.A.M.)
“by persuasion or by force” (Ibn Khaldun).
It is the Migration Jihad.
8 years ago
Can you answer that one question? How does it make America a better place?
Funny, we ask the same about muslim immigration.
“My son was a great son,” Soofi said, “a caring soul, a beautiful person. He lived a real privileged life all his life.”
…and then Pam had to come along and spoil everything with her cartoons. Waaa wa waaa.
“But when you beef up security so much, you know that what you’re doing is either illegal or immoral.”
And what immoral acts did the other victims of islamic terror do to deserve death? I don’t recall any cartoon controversy over them. Oh, that’s right, they had the nerve to be non-muslims. I keep forgetting, simply being an infidel in a free nation makes me immoral and illegal from your sharia POV. You’re wrong, the only illegal or immoral acts came from your stepson and his fellow assassin. Your “moderate” delusions don’t determine our laws or morality. Please remember that.
8 years ago
Reply to
JacktheRipper
I can’t even believe we’re having a debate like this. As if murder over cartoons in a free nation is a debatable issue. Like we here in America must stop and consider the feelings of a people whose faith is ripping the world’s peace asunder. Our own citizens massacred, innocents raped, tortured, and killed around the world, for a pagan belief system that even children dismiss as a thing of ignorance and evil, assuming they haven’t been brainwashed by their deluded elders. And we can’t draw cartoons for this. NUTS.
If we give in on the cartoon issue, it’s like spitting in the face of every person that has fought, suffered, and died for the freedoms we now enjoy.
8 years ago
Reply to
JacktheRipper
American president is given so much protection by secret services. Why?
Is he doing something immoral or illegal?
Basic problem of this extremist groups is that they follow something written in 1st century and follow for life even in 21st century. They abhor freedom, democracy and basic human values. They can abduct and kill a man who has come to save him. Only one incident where the diplomats are held in hostage by a govt. of theirs.
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8 years ago
The mother said…..“My question is,” she said, “what did they (the event organizers) get out of this? How was this event a productive thing for either now or in the future? How was this productive for the average U.S. citizen? Can you answer that one question? How does it make America a better place? This is what I want to know.”
The answer is, it shows that those who are seemingly ‘peaceful’, ‘beautiful’ sons, can, due to the call of Jihad, be made into murderers of all others, in the name of Mohammad and Allah.
That is ugly, hateful, sinful, evil in the eyes of all others faiths, but
not Islam’s theology. And the mother says she wasn’t defending him and she wasn’t saying where it was right or wrong, and that shows that the average muslim is totally conflicted by the very question of whether it is good or bad.
They can’t really decide because, they know in their hearts, that that is what Mohammed called for and whatever he did, you cannot disagree with, discuss, debate, let alone question.
So… what good did the conference accomplish? That this is the problem, that Jihad is fundamental to Islam, and to Mohammed and that ordinary muslims, not being able to question or debate that can become ruthless slaughterers, and that all other religions definition of ‘martyr’ is diametrically opposite to the muslims definition of martyr.
8 years ago
8 years ago
Reply to
Ann Inquirer
That’s right, everything is a provocation to these muslims. Even peace, love, and good intentions.
8 years ago
Reply to
JacktheRipper
Right now, we have a cartoon battle space. What’s next if we lose this cartoonifada?
8 years ago
Listening to the twisted anguished logic of these parents is heartbreaking.
What’s more heartbreaking is that they brought up a son into an ideology that brought about his death. As such, they see no comp-licitness in his behavior.
I think Pamela said it best the other day (and I paraphrase).
“When I don’t have to have security surrounding me and hire security at an event like the Cartoon Contest, is when I know I won’t have to hold any more Cartoon Contests”.
8 years ago
“right or wrong”? on a mission to murder people over a cartoon? deport this witch and her lying husband. i’m sick of death of these rabid dogs being described as “quiet nice boys” by these pagans who hate us
8 years ago
Don’t expect reason from muslims.Their IQ is already lower than the world average and it’s getting worse through inbreeding.The koran is full of contradictions and they’re brainwashed into believing that it’s the immutable word of god and all true.No wonder they are schizophrenic;no wonder “nice quiet boys” can turn into manic murderers.
8 years ago
Reply to
faraway
Don’t underestimate your enemies. Lebanon was once a peaceful, Christian country (Beirut was called the Paris of the Mid-East), now it’s nothing more than yet another islamic-nazi hellhole in the Mid-East.
8 years ago
“But how was this event productive? What did it accomplish?” well, it flushed out her POS savage dog of a son!! 🙂
8 years ago
Taqiyya much Soofi? The enemy is through the gates and pretending to be reasonable while actively working toward our overthrow by bribery, lying, and violence. If it is a Muslim and its mouth is moving bet the rent it is lying to you…you will be correct much more than incorrect.
8 years ago
“I’m not saying what he did was right or wrong”, said the mother.
US law says that going, armed, with intent to kill is wrong. Shooting at a policeman is wrong. The victim has the right of self-defence. No disagreement.
8 years ago
Mommas, don’t let you sons grow up to be Muslims.
8 years ago
>> “That’s for scholars to debate,” she said. “But when you beef up security so much, you know that what you’re doing is either illegal or immoral.”
What a bitch.
Any emotional pain she receives is well deserved. With a warped worldview like that, no wonder she failed her son!
8 years ago
“I’m not defending him. I’m not saying what he did was right or wrong. But how was this event productive? What did it accomplish?”
It flushed out and got your stepson killed. An obvious good.
8 years ago
8 years ago
What was gained by the event? Two dead terrorists and a win for freedom of speech in American
8 years ago
Reply to
JCDArizona
The death of free speech, just saw a event shut down and the bar owner threatened along with employees for hosting a talking event by a guy who questioned the official story. NOT Free Speech. Seems it has to be approved first. If you believe this zio rat pam you are deserving of the stupid American title
8 years ago
So you’re struggling to make sense of it, dear parents of the dead terrorist?
Well maybe this will help.
Under Islamic sharia law, negatively depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad in a cartoon is considered blasphemy and is punishable by death.
But The United States of America is not under Islamic sharia law, and never will be. So in America, Muslims, non-muslims, or ex-muslims drawing cartoons of Muhammad is NOT punishable by death. In fact, it is not punishable at all and is protected under the US Constitution.
So every time a Muslim, living anywhere on Earth, calls for the death of a cartoonist living in America, it is an attack on American sovereignty. Such attacks will invariably be met with even more cartoons created by patriotic Americans who may wish to test, verify, or demonstrate that the American Constitution remains intact and uncorrupted by Islamic sharia law.
Thus every attack (either physical, written, or verbal) on an American cartoonist who draws the Islamic prophet, creates the very conditions which ultimately leads to more cartoons being drawn. The winning cartoon, created by great American patriot, Bosch Fawstin, expresses this truism quite effectively. America is NOT under Islamic sharia law, and America NEVER WILL BE under Islamic sharia law however strongly some Muslims may hate it.
Now do you understand?
8 years ago
Those two A-holes were going to murder people later down the road and everyone knows it. They where just waiting for something to use as an excuse for their grand Jihad and martyrdom to fame. Don’t ever let people make you think you were to blame. Believe me i’ve been there and I never questioned myself;-)
8 years ago
If you were in your own country, where you belong ,your whole family would have been eliminated by the people who got shot. GET OUT
8 years ago
I don’t understand it,I am a beautiful person but I can’t let go of my right to think,say and do what I want.”What is wrong with me?”
8 years ago
You could say she’s the quintessential moderate Muslim. She knows what he did as a Muslim was right but she can’t say it as an American.
8 years ago
And im a woman who doesnt cover my head and i ride with men other than my husband .so thats provoking to them to . So i guess we live under sharia law now ? Because everything we do in America offends them ! Get the picture people its free speech !! So when they start killing ppl for the offensives i names below will u give the same excuses ?COWARDS !!
8 years ago
When have the Mudlims ever taken responsibility for their actions? It is ALWAYS SOME ONE ELSE’S FAULT no matter what the situation is and the poor Muslim is “baited” into doing what they do. Doesn’t wash anymore! There is something called responsibility, tolerance, acceptance, and kindness which the Muslims have no knowledge of on how to perform these tasks. They function as hate mongers only! And wait for that one moment to slay “The infidel”!
8 years ago
Reply to
Lisa Miller
according to the qur’an muslims are the best of peoples. can you believe it?
8 years ago
So the mom asked what did it accomplish?
First and for most it rid us of two worthless prices of canon fodder, secondly it points out how terrorist try to rule with fear and intimidation.
8 years ago
People fail to understand, if they had not shown themselves at this event sooner or later they would have somewhere else. These were not the type of people we want running around lose in America waiting for something to piss them off. It doesn’t matter what Geller was saying or where she was saying it. That way of thinking only leads to more violence over lesser offences. So someday if I think your name is offensive that gives me the right to try and kill you. How utterly stupid are liberal Democrats, seriously this country needs to really think about the problem we have growing with these idiots excusing violence.
8 years ago
I am curious how Arabs are such a threat when they have zero dual citizens holding office, does aipac have a opposite for Arab Nations with special access to Policy Makers? Does America make loans and then forgive them to Arab Nations? Not sure but are there any Arab owned media in LAME stream media? Have we been giving untold billions in,aid and putting all police and law agencies under foreign control? Does the NSA also send all intel to Atab Nations as well? Cant qute figure why israel is treatng our enemies like alqueda in israel.Dont recall any Arab leaders addressing Congress demanding America fight their wars. Somthing aint right.
8 years ago
I see the disclaimer above, but I can’t help but think that some of these comments would not be approved by Geller, and that by posting things that are truly hateful, we lessen her effectiveness. I have been listening to Geller, and I don’t find her hateful. She seems to have her facts straight and speaks with passion. I’m truly sorry for this man’s parents. They may never see this situation in a clear light, because that’s how parents are. Irrational. But we can be rational here.
8 years ago
Reply to
E Wood
Sorry but by her saying “I’m not saying what he did was right or wrong” any sympathy I have for her is out the window. There’s not even one millionth of a percentage of “right” in what he did!
8 years ago
Note to stepmother: There you go, blaming someone else and justifying what your thug of a stepson tried to accomplish. How about just saying what he did was flat out wrong?
And FYI – If he was this far radicalized, then if it hadn’t been this event that he had shown up to, then it was only a matter of time that it would have been another place or event that he would shown up to to, to perpetrate a heinous act.in the name of allah.
8 years ago
Reply to
we're all equal
She doesn’t think he did anything wrong. She’s just trying to look innocent and blame the true victims.
8 years ago
beefed up security is the result of jihad against the west.
8 years ago
“What did it accomplish?” Well, it got rid of 2 Jihadis for starters.
8 years ago
Ms. Geller … I think there is a lot to be said for saying the cartoon contest was being held simply to stick it in the eye of the militant Islamic terrorists .. an act of courage that was about standing up for FREEDOM …. BUT .. you should also be EMPHATICALLY STATING that the contest is a protest against the HORRORS and BRUTALITY of Islamic Supremacists .. and then going on to cite the various acts of slaughter and rape and enslavement (as many as time allows) .. The cartoon protest has to be more than just doing what they don’t want you to do BUT RATHER ALSO … HIGHLIGHTING THE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY by Islam… Please use this in your debate with the MSM Leftist Propagandists… And then get in a dig that the “moderate” Islamic people are NOT doing anything to reign in the terrorists AND THAT the MSM is IGNORING the victims of Islamic slaughter and rape and enslavement .. AND THAT IS WHY THE Cartoon Contest and other Freedom Gatherings are taking place.
8 years ago
A couple muzzie thugs.
8 years ago
“How was this event a productive thing for either now or in the future? How was this productive for the average U.S. citizen? Can you answer that one question? How does it make America a better place? This is what I want to know.” “First answer me this: how do musslimes make America or anywhere in the world for that matter a better place,huh?
8 years ago
This women’s statement puts the point on the “moderate Muslim” line of poot. If you can’t say attempted murder and assault and wounding of an officer is wrong there is something wrong with you. What did she think they were going to do with their weapons and ammo? KDM
By the way does anyone know how the jehadis car was so torn up?
