Las Vegas: The profile of older converts to Islam, “Salafism is most attractive to new Muslims”

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The profile or perception of older converts to Islam is entirely wrong. Has the FBI studied this? Do they even have a profile of older converts to Islam (i.e. Paddock)? Have they even flagged it? If not, it would explain their ineptitude and bumbling of the Paddock attack in Vegas.

Esra Özyürek is an associate professor at the European Institute of the London School of Economics. She is the author of Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey. She is Muslim.

In her book, Being German, Becoming Muslim: Race, Religion, and Conversion in the New Europe, Özyürek spent three and a half years studying German converts to Islam. Of Turkish ancestry, Özyürek describes herself as a non-practising “cultural Muslim” who is able to relate to a wide variety of German Muslims.

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Being German, Becoming Muslim Race, Religion, and Conversion in the New Europe
Princeton Press,

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Most of the older converts to Islam recalled the intensity of their belief
and overwhelming experience of being faced with so much information. A
woman who had converted eight years earlier said with a nostalgic smile,
“I forced so much into my head that I could not remember a single thing
when I went to bed.” Right after conversion, converts often desire to com—
pletely transform their lives and purify themselves of all non— Islamic ele—
ments. Many, but clearly not all, new converts adopt a new Islamic name,
change their clothes, abandon old friends, and erase all or inappropriate
music from their iPods. I observed that Salafism is most attractive to new
Muslims exactly at this early phase of conversion. Many friends who con—
verted in the 19905 told me that when they first did so, they Salafism ap—
pealed to them because of the clear—cut worldview it presented and way it
accommodated new Muslims.

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Pray Hard
Pray Hard
6 years ago

There are no answers in Islam, except for maybe the psychopath, the sociopath and or the abysmally ignorant.
The FBI is complicit in jihad and white genocide so I expect nothing out of them except those.
We already know that new converts are the worst of the worst.
We can soak liberals in facts, but it won’t make any difference to them because they have feelings, beliefs and ideology.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

islam is a brain wasting disease, it starts with learning the basics, which superficially have some reasonable appeal. Then, as the victim becomes more informed, the “abrogation” of anything remotely human in islam is altered to fit the intrinsic evil that islam is. Older people tend to be somewhat opinionated and set in their ways, once an idea is accepted, it is very difficult to change it. As usual the f b i i have totally screwed up this investigation as well as any credibility they might have had.

Janet
Janet
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Hi Mahou! Hope you’re doing well. I on the other hand haven’t. I was run over by a Fed Ex truck on my way to the doctors. I ended up in the hospital in Seattle for over a month because the hospital in Bellingham, WA. doesn’t take trauma cases. Now I’m in a rehab to get physical therapy, ect. It’s been horrific and has done a number on my life and family’s life. Anyway I haven’t been on here for about two months except for once but to hard with a huge brace on my neck and one from my chest to my belly button. It’s good to see your comments again. I really missed reading them and other people’s. They make my day!

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Janet

Oh dear, that is not good, fed ex or any truck is most undesirable to find yourself under. It sounds like you are recovering, will pray that the process is accelerated. Good to hear that you are progressing to the point that you can participate. Welcome home.

Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago
Reply to  Janet

Hang in there and my sympathy as I have seen what something like that can do to a family.

edD
ed
6 years ago
Reply to  Janet

Welcome back, so sorry to hear about your ordeal. Continue to get better…..missed your comments, but now look forward to more.

RCCA
RCCA
6 years ago

Exactly the reason I rejected the theory that Paddock had converted. He never went around in Muslim garb, didn’t try to convert anyone with his new found enthusiasm for Islam; and most of all, he didn’t declare his allegiance to the caliphate and his attack as an act of jihad. Therefore his massacre would be considered plain old murder and unjustified, earning him eternal damnation.

Facebook User
Facebook User
6 years ago
Reply to  RCCA

Terrorists do not walk around with signs on them.

RCCA
RCCA
6 years ago
Reply to  Facebook User

Actually they carry flags and issue declarations. They wear Muslim garb and carry the Koran. Sometimes they give powerpoint presentations. ISIS is known for their execution videos which they post on the internet. Haven’t you been following this blog?

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  RCCA

LOL, BS. Lot’s of muslums have killed Israelis without wearing muslum garb and carrying the Koran n00b and that fact doesn’t make it any less an act of muslum terrorism.

RCCA
RCCA
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

We’re talking about the newly converted and radicalized, not Muslims raised their entire lives to hate Jews. Try to stay on topic.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  RCCA

Stop lying muslum apologist scumbag.

Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago
Reply to  RCCA

You are correct WRT born muslims. you have no idea WRT white converts

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  RCCA

What’s the difference dipstick? The victims are still D-E-A-D! Tell the TEN THOUSAND Nigerian Christians slaughtered by your fellow, f’ing muslums that they weren’t killed by recent converts — I’m sure they’ll appreciate the difference dunce.

RCCA
RCCA
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

Gosh, you are dumber than I thought. I don’t know what your problem is here, the topic of the article is “The profile of older converts to Islam.”

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago
Reply to  Facebook User

True, many Americans (mostly white men or women who convert to Islam) have joined Daesh without their families being aware.

Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago
Reply to  RCCA

Cryptoconverts are VERY desirable allies for ISIS and the point of having them is to NOT seem muslim.

RCCA
RCCA
6 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

Again, we’ve not seen any evidence of him associating with Muslims or being involved with Islamic literature. So you’re welcome to believe lots of people might be a secret Muslims plotting jihad but I find that kind of paranoia unhealthy and pointless. Most importantly, for the act of jihad to have benefit for the jihadi, the terrorism has to be clearly done in service to Allah.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  RCCA

The Islamic State has provided such evidence dipstick — just because the F-I-B and you are lying about it’s veracity doesn’t make it any less true.

RCCA
RCCA
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

Post a link to the evidence if it exists as you claim. It doesn’t.

Covadonga
Covadonga
6 years ago
Reply to  RCCA

Where are you getting all this information about Paddock? I’ve been following the case steadily from day 1, and yours is one of the larger data dumps of biographical material on him I have seen.

Supposedly the higher floors in that building are managed by another group, not by Mandalay Bay. The claim was it is an Arab group. That is one reason why people have been speculating about the service elevator.

You hear people dancing around the issue briefly from time to time on TV, without spelling out the theory. Steve Wynn alluded to it in the Fox interview with Chris Wallace 10/8 that Pamela had the clip of. But he didn’t put it in context.

The idea is that the Mandalay guest elevators allegedly only go up to 32. The higher floors have their own passenger elevators. But a service elevator might extend throughout the building, enabling an unscrupulous person to quickly switch from one section to the other without going back to the lobby to change elevators. This would work best if he had a confederate who worked in the building (such as a security guard) to call the elevator in advance to the floor on which he intended to board it, as service elevators are notoriously slow.

So far any videos or stills from the service elevator are among the many pieces of evidence that the public has not been shown, and which are seldom if ever mentioned by the police or the driveby media.

The police did mention the cameras in the 32nd floor suite allegedly used for the shooting. Allegedly, these cameras recorded nothing of the incident. I have doubted much that we have been told by the police in this case, and the claims concerning the cameras in the suite fell into that category when I first heard them.

But, upon further reflection, I am willing to stipulate that the police may have been telling the truth about the cameras in the suite, at least in a very narrow sense – the cameras themselves may have recorded nothing. They may instead have been configured as security cameras, which transmitted signals wirelessly to a receiver elsewhere, possibly in a nearby room on a different floor.

Those signals may be the means by which the Islamic State proves its claims of involvement with Paddock, and further embarrasses our government, weakening the people’s confidence in its ability to protect us, in accordance with the formulation of Brigadier S. K. Malik of the Pakistani Army, in his book The Quranic Concept of War.

RCCA
RCCA
6 years ago
Reply to  Covadonga

My comments on Paddock are based on the reporting in the media of the interviews with his neighbors in his various homes, the interviews with the casino workers, his brother. I’m not saying this is the whole story, just that as reported there was no obvious identification by Paddock with ISIS, Islamic doctrine, or outward sign he was identifying himself as a Muslim. The neighbors would have reported that, but all they said was they he and his girlfriend kept to themselves and were rather secretive.

I have not read anything to suggest or confirm that the Mandalay was operated by any other entity as you claim. Sounds completely untrue. Even when buildings are rented out, and there has not been any reporting that is true in this case, there is some management or owner responsible for the maintenance and safety of the building.

Unfortunately none of us has any access to the info collected by the FBI, so we’re all in the dark.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

The killer is a Anti-Trump democrat and Antifa activist also claimed by ISIS http://bit.ly/2xb9Js2

I heard cellphones , laptops of witnesses have been wiped cleaned . They do not want truth to come out.

Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago

It seems to me that males who cannot cope with strong women have a loser’s tendency to consider islam and I add that the extremes of feminism that we see in the west and the leftoglobalist push for women to parade around half naked in front of cameras in the name of “fashion’ certainly does not help this. I am no prude but I wouldn’t be seen dead in some of the dresses worn by MSM trash from reality shows etc. I do believe that he could be a loser cryptoconvert but we will never find out and whatever he is the scumbag title still applies.

Facebook User
Facebook User
6 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

The push of leftists is to emasculate men so they have severe doubt on who and what they are. Once done, they are ripe for the picking to cults such as islam.

Dave
Dave
6 years ago
Reply to  Facebook User

The distortion of “feminism” also demeans the women of truly strong character, implying that very confused or insecure females are the feminine ideal.

Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago
Reply to  Dave

Hence the insult when they give women more marks in exams fur simply being female

Dave
Dave
6 years ago
Reply to  Facebook User

I find many modern TV advertisements to be insulting to men in general, because they depict total buffoons that are corrected or saved by a wise or capable woman. It’s the opposite of the equally objectionable dumb blond or “yes it’s a woman” jokes.

Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago
Reply to  Dave

Yes that is the necessary result of extreme feminism: not equality but superiority and that pulled me away from them 20 years ago.

John Flynn
John Flynn
6 years ago
Reply to  Dave

Almost correct, Dave….for about 40 yrs, or so, the WHITE man has been depicted in commercials as being a buffoon, compared to any female, blacks and other minorities

Keith1941D
Keith1941
6 years ago
Reply to  John Flynn

Yes John…didn’t see your post.

Keith1941D
Keith1941
6 years ago
Reply to  Dave

Or a minority

Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago
Reply to  Facebook User

and for young sensitive males the predator homosexuals of any ideology.

UnderzogD
Underzog
6 years ago

Before Steve Paddock (abd al am killed amriki) killed 34 people, he complained about the music downstairs. Muslims do not like music at all.

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

the new arian-muslim race will rise and will dominate europe. it’s the will of mohammad

Janet
Janet
6 years ago

Bahahahahahahahaha Who gives a crap about the will of that demented maniac? I sure don’t and I’d be willing to bet that no one on here other than you does either. So save your breath about that silly BS! It is totally ridiculous!

edD
ed
6 years ago

In other words, no goat anywhere will be safe……moslems are to goats what Harvey Weinstein was to young actresses.

Duchess of Pork
Duchess of Pork
6 years ago

Doubt that Muhammad would will an Arian-muslim race when he denied the divinity of Christ. But like his fascist counterparts Hitler and Amin al-Husseini he might champion an Aryan-muslim race.

poortaxpayerwindsor
poortaxpayerwindsor
6 years ago

audio the taxi driver video of the Vegas shooting – the one where the gunshot echo comes before the gunshot. There were Two shooters at least, a belt fed machine gun was used, probably a M-240. Shooters used a military technique call gun talking, and looks like gun flash on the roof of the casino to the right of Mandalay. isis is obama’s, this was an isis attack, that’s why cover-up

VitaminH
VitaminH
6 years ago

” Shooters used a military technique call gun talking” – what is this? I tried Googling, but could not find an answer.

Covadonga
Covadonga
6 years ago

Yes, please tell us more about this.

The lady taxi driver’s video sure sounds to me like more than one gun, not particularly close together, with one lower in pitch, slower in cyclic rate, but firing smoother and more steadily than the other one. It does not sound to me like one gun plus its own echo from nearby tall buildings, which is apparently the official story.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

Wait a damn minute here! How can ISIS claim to be getting ideas from Paddock when they claim to have inspired him in the first place?

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

LOL.

Tom Validakis
Tom Validakis
6 years ago

There are many unanswered questions for Vegas terror attack.
If Vegas was 100% jihad terror attack by multiple gunmen at least three then the public relations would be a disaster because billions upon billions of dollars has been spent by countries in Europe, the USA and Australia on making islam harmless. Just like when misguided Obama said there would never be another terror attack come out of Afghanistan. They absolutely are the most misguided evil people controlling our affairs today.
So of course I can see a massive cover-up negating any connection to jihad terror in Vegas.
Of course ISIS will brag about it because they get away with everthing.

iprazhm
iprazhm
6 years ago

Corrupt Washington continues to bring islamists here and offer them any instruction under the sun they so desire. And if they want to kill Americans, well here, have at it!
Las Vegas, as all muslim terrorist attacks on our own soil, was the handy work of our own government.

mztore
mztore
6 years ago

I’m afraid that the “public” will never be fully informed. These so called investigators don’t want that information out there. Neither does the msm. They are hoping everyone will remain in the dark.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

We should wait to see whether there is any new information. I personally think it is possible that they were indeed responsible for the attack, but without enough evidence, who can say?

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