[ April 19, 2024 ]
Handelsblatt Global reported Wednesday that German federal prosecutors are investigating an incident in which a Muslim migrant took a hostage and threw a Molotov cocktail “a possible terrorist attack.” However: “Authorities said they weren’t ruling out terrorism but are keeping an open mind after it emerged that the attacker, a 55-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker, may have been suffering from psychological problems, appeared dishevelled with unkempt long hair and a three-day beard, and was under the influence of alcohol.”
Note also that authorities don’t even say this time that this “asylum-seeker” had a history of psychological problems, as they often claim, but only that he “may have been suffering from psychological problems. The evidence? He “appeared disheveled with unkempt long hair and a three-day beard, and was under the influence of alcohol.”
Yes, of course. Why, everyone knows that jihadis are always clean-shaven and well-groomed.
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Buried way down in the story was the fact that “the police said he told passersby he belonged to the ‘terror group Daesh,’ which is the Arabic acronym for Islamic State.”
He told people he was with the Islamic State, but Cologne officials are discounting that not because they have any evidence to the contrary, but only because he doesn’t fit their profile of how a jihadi is likely to present himself. Yet that profile is almost certainly based on fantasy, wishful thinking, and politically correct willful ignorance about Islam.
That only clean-shaven people with neatly combed hair can be jihadis is actually unproven. That he was drinking is immaterial, because jihadis know that their act of jihad will outweigh any sins they commit. “We shall set up scales of justice for the Day of Judgment,” says the Qur’an (21:47): if one’s good deeds outweigh one’s evil deeds, one will go to Paradise, but if one’s evil deeds outweigh one’s good deeds, one will go to hell.
And what good deed weighs the most? A hadith has a Muslim asking Muhammad: “Instruct me as to such a deed as equals Jihad (in reward).” Muhammad replied, “I do not find such a deed.” (Bukhari 4.52.44)
So if a believer goes on jihad, his good deeds will outweigh all his evil deeds. Thus if a jihadist knows he is about to wage a great jihad, he knows its value will outweigh anything evil he has done, and he can relax a bit, have a few drinks, etc.
He “may have been suffering from psychological problems”? If so, then he may have decided to wage jihad as an attempt to get into Allah’s good graces and do something to outweigh all the evil deeds he had committed. In any case, “mental illness” is a common dodge for officials today who want to downplay and deny the idea that a jihad attack has been committed. It is used so often as to invite doubt and ridicule whenever it is invoked.
So once again we have a case that is not being classified as terrorism not because the evidence doesn’t point in that direction, but because it would apparently be inconvenient for authorities to admit the reality of what went on. Angela Merkel’s government has every reason to downplay or outright deny that various jihad terror incidents were indeed jihad terror: to admit that jihad violence was becoming an increasingly common feature of daily life in Germany would be to admit that Merkel’s policies regarding mass Muslim migration have made the nation more dangerous and squalid than it was before, and that it needs to be.
For German authorities to admit what was really happening in their country, and in particular what happened in Cologne last week, would be to admit that the ruling elites have put their nation on the path to cultural and societal suicide. It would not only be political suicide for Merkel and Company to admit that – it might also open them up to charges of treason. And so instead, we get treated to an endless series of absurdities such as this one. The Cologne hostage-taker wasn’t a jihadi, you see, because his hair wasn’t neatly combed. Right. Next up: the man who wasn’t a jihadi because his shoelaces were untied.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His new book is The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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21 Comments
5 years ago
If we are lucky and he will apear in the criminal statistics proving that we become less safe, he will be categorized as a right-wing extremist. Why? Everything that is no longer presentable becomes “right-wing”.
5 years ago
Reply to
Benjamin Goldstein
Merkel govt funded Pro-jihadi Left/Liberals run propaganda to create more sex slaves out of little children like in UK https://tinyurl.com/yd9jo5mf
Do these scumbags have any conscience ?
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
some countries are working off bad histories. Like Belgium genocide in Congo. Mslm genocides dont count I guess.
5 years ago
Reply to
Benjamin Goldstein
If you westerners are lucky, start learning arabic and you could have a chance in the european caliphate.
5 years ago
Reply to
spacearcadian
if you are lucky spacearcadian, your goat will want to be on top of you tonight…….
5 years ago
The Germans are delusional, the Muslims are not compatible with their culture…
5 years ago
The German Fuhrer, Merkel, and the resurrected Liberal/Nazi Party will continue as apologists and appeasers of Islam. They, the EU and Islam are one of the same, totalitarian. The Leftist-Fascists are not the sharpest knives in the drawer or the brightest bulb in the socket. Like all fanatics, true believers, they deem themselves as superhuman, the apex of intelligence, humanity and those not akin to their doctrine base dullards. Ironically, it is they who have the prescience, foresight of road-kill. In time bringing upon themselves mass-suicide by their hands or genocide by their ally, Islam.
Disheveled is within the mindset of the German authorities and those who voted for Merkel. Another Jihadi will walk free or get a slap on the wrist; this is the West’s answer to Islamic terror and its perpetrators.
5 years ago
Keep up the good fight Robert – and thank you for all you do.
5 years ago
The psychological games going on here are hair raising.
Muslims are not held accountable for whatever they do, say or who they associate with
Take a non Muslim and they will throw the book at you for stating any criticism of a Muslim.
The extreme standards are frightening!
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
LOL … it will make your hair fall out if you don’t laugh about it.
In the end … we win. They lose. The only thing in the middle is whether we uphold our honor – and fight the enemy tooth and nail – or not …
I’m for fighting back of course! #MAGA
5 years ago
The Shia law promoting pedophilia, even of newborn babies, exposed by Imam Tawhidi. I recommend Pamela to publish the video as a separate article. In the law it states that the muslim male can rape the little baby, even newborns, until he rips both the anal and vaginal orifices ‘until they become one’ and only then should he need to stop…
https://www.facebook.com/theimamofpeace/videos/1979388478973497/
5 years ago
SINNERS & CRAZYS make the best jihadis .
5 years ago
Great again to see such compassion & tolerance & foregivness shown. I wonder how this was received by Caliphate members??
5 years ago
I love this, Robert, shining his searchlight of cold hard logic right onto the German authorities posturing as learned men of quality announcing to the humble trembling people fearfully looking on that these titans of knowledge have “matters in hand” and all can relax and go back to sleep.
The only thing those spineless jobsworths have in their hand is a small soft “wiggly thing” situated closer to home.
It looks as though only a major attack will be enough to shake some people there into understanding their status as wealthy Germans, Kings of all Europe, is not going to save them from the bleeding. So sad.
5 years ago
What? They are describing a Jihadi PERFECTLY. WTF??? Germany in denial, deluded, demented and DERANGED.
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
They all have psychological problems. Who else could be a member of such a religious cult?
5 years ago
The problem with Muhammadist immigration is Muhammadists as we see in Muhammadist tyrannies as Saudi Arabia or Iran are not animals you can train or confine, they get weapons & want to subjugate you into slavery, subjegation or oblivion.
Someone should make a meme: a list of pro-Muhammadist dawah quotes of politicians next to those of Hitler’s.
Merkel & Hitler; Bush & Hitler & so on.
For example:
Merkel: “Islam belongs to Germany”…
Hitler: “The German temperament fits Islam better.”…
5 years ago
Germany: ALWAYS on the wrong side of history…..
5 years ago
They sound like the parent of a problem child. ” My Johnny would never do that.” One excuse after another to protect their precious child, oblivious to the truth.
5 years ago
Nothing to see here, just another mentally-ill Muslim trying to kill us for their imaginary God. Ya keep denying reality Liberals but reality will always come back to bite you in the ass.
5 years ago
By following islam you automatically fall in to the catagory of being phpsychologically impared.
Although I am concerned that adolf hitler was immpressed by islam.
