Minnesota: Authorities claim motive of Muslim who stabbed people while screaming “Allahu akbar” is unclear

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Adan shouted “Allahu akbar” and first asked some victims if they were Muslim before stabbing them.

And they can’t figure out his motive? Is there no end to the willful ignorance and insanity of those who have a sworn responsibility to protect the people? His motive couldn’t be more obvious, but it is the one thing that is forever untouchable: Islam.

“One year later, motive of St. Cloud mall attacker remains unclear,” by Stephen Montemayor, Star Tribune, September 17, 2017:

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Two months before he plunged kitchen knives into 10 shoppers at St. Cloud’s Crossroads Center mall, after reportedly asking some if they were Muslim, Dahir Adan shared a radically different message on Twitter.

“Don’t ever say that ISIS represents Islam,” read part of a post @D_Adan retweeted on July 4, 2016.

That same terrorist group would deem the 20-year-old Adan a “soldier of the Islamic State” hours after he was gunned down by an off-duty police officer inside the mall on Sept. 17, 2016. The FBI, for its part, quickly labeled the case a “potential act of terrorism.”

But one year after Adan’s rampage, newly unsealed court filings detailing the FBI’s early response underline the difficulty that persists in trying to unwrap the young man’s motivation and determine whether he had any guidance from virtual terror planners abroad.

Days after sending more than 20 agents to St. Cloud to interview scores of witnesses, the FBI obtained search warrants for Adan’s social media accounts, the Toyota Camry he was driving when he struck a bicyclist on his way to the mall and four digital devices, according to court filings. But authorities still say they may never know what sparked Adan’s decision to bring two Farberware kitchen knives to the mall that night.

FBI special agent in charge Richard Thornton told reporters last year that the bright young college student may have been radicalized “almost overnight,” growing withdrawn and scolding relatives for not being more devout….

Authorities have not found contacts between Adan and operatives of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, instead pointing to witness statements that Adan shouted “Allahu akbar,” an Arabic phrase meaning “God is great,” and that he first asked some victims if they were Muslim before stabbing them….

An official ISIS magazine, Rumiyah, further lionized Adan as “our brother Dahir Adan” in its October 2016 publication, listing only the St. Cloud attack among its U.S. “operations” in an annual roundup of the group’s affiliated attacks worldwide. The publication described the stabbing victims as “kuffar,” or disbelievers, and published an image of paramedics tending to a victim outside the mall.

The same issue published an article recommending using knives in attacks because of their wide availability. But, perhaps in response to Adan’s attack, the group “explicitly advised” against kitchen knives “as their basic structure is not designed to handle the kind of vigorous application used for assassinations and slaughter.”

The group also wrote that it was “essential to leave some kind of evidence or insignia identifying the motive and allegiance” to ISIS — either a note pinned to a body or a recorded “final testament if the operation will be of a nature where the expected outcome is one’s shahadah,” or death….

A family friend who declined to be identified for this story said that one year later, he still “didn’t have a clue” as to what happened to Adan….

The opacity of Adan’s case has been difficult for St. Cloud, said Natalie Ringsmuth, who directs #UniteCloud, a nonprofit that has worked to ease cultural tensions. Ringsmuth said the stabbing is still referenced by anti-Muslim activists visiting the city, as recently as last week. Meanwhile, she said not knowing whether Adan was indeed radicalized has curbed the opportunity to discuss preventing a similar episode….

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peakpower
peakpower
6 years ago

Same story. Don’t know what motivated muslim youth who screamed Allah Akbar from Somalia. Oh, how about everything that has to do with islam. Just a permutation of everything that is evil about islam.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

Minnesota , Michigan , california , NY are Pro-islam run states.

Jihadis in America are working steadily to takeover and impose sharia drip by drip and Left/Liberal useful idiots are helping them out of ignorance or cash or stupidity.

Welcome to Islamic state of Michiganistan and it will soon have Muslim brotherhood approved Muslim stealth jihadi Governor http://bit.ly/2hGhVxY

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

Inspector Clouseau, where are you?

Shirley Rosenhohn
Shirley Rosenhohn
6 years ago

L.O.L! He’s probably assisting Lt.Frank Drebbin to shoot a Naked Gun…
But seriously; these two may be less clumsy and mentally disoriented than those baboons (oops! Baboons are more intelligent than those sub-idiots) who declare that the motive of this muslim scumbag are “unclear…”

SloppyJoe
SloppyJoe
6 years ago

I keep a muslim terror attack database. I put this down as a terror attack, no matter what the PC brigade says.

Rocinante44
Rocinante44
6 years ago

same place that figure out why the muslim cop leaned across his fellow cop to gun down an unarmed white woman in a bathrobe on a quiet sunny day. the white folks in minnesotastan are descendents of the morons in northern europe who are commiting muslim suicide; must be a DNA thing

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Rocinante44

The enemedia and Minneapolistan have a done a great job burying this news story. It almost makes me wonder if the muslum murderer cop is already back on duty.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

There is no stupid like official democrat government agency stupid.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
6 years ago

Authorities bought and paid for: Job 4:8.

MH
MH
6 years ago

Who cares – just execute the guy and do it NOW.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

So if this muslum was radicalized overnight then SJS is a reality and not just a fantasy isn’t it? Kinda makes you wonder about your muslum neighbor, co-worker etc….

az
az
6 years ago

The motive is written in those….”exciting” parts of the Koran,which imams don’t talk about in public to kaffirs, only in private among Muslims.
That’s why leftard police is so dumbfounded.

Trump can't ban islam
Trump can't ban islam
6 years ago

Islam is peace, otherwise it’d have been banned in USA, but it doesn’t, right?
so he is mentally ill

spfg
spfg
6 years ago

All Muslims are mentally ill!!! The koran makes them that way! Dufus…

Linda Kerr
Linda Kerr
6 years ago

Only in Minnesota where Muslims can do no wrong!

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago

“But authorities still say they may never know what sparked Adan’s
decision to bring two Farberware kitchen knives to the mall that night.” Hmm…..all that official training, and they still can’t figure out why he brought knives to a mall. Yeah, that really is a tough one.

Well, for a small consulting fee, I will tell them. Hint: He wasn’t there with the knives to help out with cutting bread at the employee potluck.

youmustbemistaken
youmustbemistaken
6 years ago

I know the reason and I don’t get paid to find out. It is the Koran. I repeat, it is the Koran.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
6 years ago

When you wanna get away with something – PLAY DUMB!

DUMB for more taxes.
DUMB for more power and control.
DUMB for more police state.
DUMB for bigger government.
DUMB for more regulation (on you of course).

Before you know it you got a bunch of SMART ASSES ruling you.

James Stamulis
James Stamulis
6 years ago

While Islams crimes continue the MSM does their part by putting the focus on fictional white supremacy.

jimbo
jimbo
6 years ago

“radicalised in almost 24 hours” Yes libtard fkcn fools…. its called Sudden Jihadi Syndrome. ! take note you fkcn clowns. all muslims have this jihadi potential, all for thier beloved prophet, the most PERFECT
human being !

jimbo
jimbo
6 years ago

there are no bounds to the complete and utter fkcn stupidity of liberal retards !! none whatsoever. and there is no cure alas !

Apothis
Apothis
6 years ago

Sometimes living in Minnesota is just plain embarrassing.

joanofark06
joanofark06
6 years ago

This would be too dang funny, if it wasn’t so sad…and horrible.

Metatrona
Metatrona
6 years ago

They must be really dumb in Minnesota!

Mike Kevins
Mike Kevins
6 years ago

Someone give the “authorities”a quarter so they can buy a clue. I still cannot wrap my head around as to why the libs are so willing to let these savages into the country? Do they think the jihadis will like them all of a sudden. Last I heard in one of these stories the question was “Are you a Muslim?” not “Are you a liberal?”

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