[ April 19, 2024 ]
This mosque ought to be investigated. Several surveys have shown that 80% of mosques in the U.S. teach hatred of infidels and the necessity to replace the Constitution with sharia. No one cares. How many Ibrahim Simpsons must there be before the mosques are monitored?
“Elton Simpson’s slow, isolated descent into ISIS, jihad,” by Sean Holstege and Matthew Casey, Arizona Republic, May 9, 2015 (thanks to Jihad Watch):
Story continues below advertisementElton Simpson sought meaning from his life and the acceptance of others, and he found it in a north Phoenix mosque and in the social-media plaudits from violent extremists.
Courtney Lonergan, who met Simpson at that mosque about 10 years ago, said the north Phoenix resident was willing to die to defend his faith. It fits a pattern seen in social-media posts by violent jihadists and in research by experts who track them.
A string of Twitter posts before and after Simpson and fellow Phoenix resident Nadir Soofi were shot dead May 3 as they clutched automatic rifles in Garland, Texas, link Simpson to Islamic State militants halfway around the world. The messages encouraged him and praised him for attacking a group that lampooned the Prophet Mohammed in cartoons.
“There are other Elton Simpsons out there,” FBI Director James Comey told reporters in a press briefing Thursday….
Leading up to the incident in Garland, Simpson used a Twitter account called “Sharia is Light,” authorities say.
He used Twitter to echo ISIS’ calls for violence, including threats against the Garland contest organizer, Pamela Geller, the New York Times has reported.
Ten days before the event in Garland, Mohammed Abdullahi Hassan, who left Minneapolis for Somalia as a teenager, tweeted a link to the event and called for jihadists to follow the example set by the Charlie Hebdo shootings, according to Minnesota Public Radio.
“The brothers from the Charlie Hebdo attack did their part. It’s time for brothers in the #US to do their part,” Hassan tweeted.
Simpson tweeted a response to Hassan, who MPR reported had been indicted on terrorism charges in 2009, that if there were jihadists like that in the U.S., people would not draw Mohammed.
Their interaction continued days later when Simpson tweeted at Hassan to send him a direct message, NBC News said.
While not all devout Muslims consider images of the prophet to be an affront, Simpson fit the pattern of those who would. Lonergan, a 40-year-old convert to Islam who has attended the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix where Simpson worshipped, remembers him by his conversion name, Ibrahim. She’s known him for a decade and shares close friends, she said.
She recalled a man for whom the mosque was everything. A star high-school basketball player, he would shine in his role playing pickup games with kids who admired him, she said.
“He was one of those guys who would sleep at the mosque,” Lonergan said. “The fact that he felt personally insulted by somebody drawing a picture had to come from the ideological rhetoric coming out of the mosque.”Mosque leaders have said repeatedly that they don’t preach radical views and they have kicked out extremists who use their building to recruit followers.
But Simpson’s closeness to the mosque increasingly cut him off from those outside, including some friends, Lonergan said.
“He was in a pattern of feeling isolated, a pattern of feeling marginalized by society,” she said.
So when he sought a Muslim wife, Simpson turned to the men in the mosque to find a suitable woman, and his way of earning their respect was to show his devotion to Islam by quoting teachings verbatim.…
“Ibrahim was desperate to find a wife. For Muslims, their hearts are in their homes, but he didn’t have his heart in his home. He was struggling for something else,” she said.
He started listening to “us-vs.-them” sermons at the Islamic center along Interstate 17, the language of victimization, blaming Muslims’ plight on America and Israel and it took root, she said.
“They tell you your neighbors are against you,” she said, likening Simpson’s mind-set to what she had seen as an inner-city community worker. “You sit there and stew and feel there’s nothing you can do about it.”…
In a series of tweets, Hussain called Simpson and Soofi brothers, soldiers of the Islamic State and claimed their actions were against unchecked freedom of speech.
“If there is no check on the freedom of your speech, then let your hearts be open to the freedom of our actions,” CNN reported that Hussain tweeted.
“I would be willing to bet that nobody in ISIS in Syria heard of Elton Simpson before his attack,” said McCauley, the Bryn Mawr researcher.
He thinks that in 98 percent of its attacks, ISIS offers inspiration only. The group leaves it to others to wage violent jihad as they see fit.
Lonergan remembers Simpson would never waver from the teachings he picked up in the mosque and elsewhere. While she and mutual friends would reject sermons at the mosque that she described as anti-American and political, Simpson would repeat scripture and the writings of Islamic scholars, never offering his own opinion.
“Ibrahim would die for an ideology and to protect a faith,” Lonergan said….
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36 Comments
8 years ago
80%?
The other 20% are lying through their teeth.
8 years ago
“The fact that he felt personally insulted by somebody drawing a picture had to come from the ideological rhetoric coming out of the mosque”, said his friend.
The “personal insult” line is a distraction. It is inserted to make the listener think it is an individual response, not part of Islam. So, too, the term “ideological rhetoric” is another distraction, making the listener think the cause is some fancy turns of speech.
No on both counts.
“..to revile Allah or His messenger”, says the Manual of Islamic Law, o8.7(7), is a death penalty offence. The killing can be carried out by anyone, vigilante style, without any repercussion “since it is killing someone who deserves to die”(o8.4).
This is Sharia. Sharia is instructed in mosques.
The root cause of the mass murder attempt is Islam: “Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them”, Koran 9:5.
The Manual, “Reliance of the Traveller”, is available as a free download: see net.
8 years ago
Reply to
Michael Copeland
Thanks, I found the “Reliance of the Traveller” PDF download file here:
http://www.islamicbulletin.org/free_downloads/resources/reliance2_complete.pdf
8 years ago
OT
Please read and disseminate Carol’s suggested
Western-Civilization-salvaging strategies in her comment on the below-linked
BNI story as widely as you can; for they need to be implemented ASAFP across
the entire Western world—for the sake of our very survival:
I’d suggest that those of you who take issue with what Carol
has proposed shut their ‘effing pie holes and ignore her comment and, for that
matter, mine unless they can come up with a sound, fact-based counter-argument
which, to their discontent, would never come to fruition—that’s for damn sure!
Did you know that Pedobear Mo’, the founder of Islam, gave
head to his cousin’s DEAD son?
8 years ago
Reply to
Non Western Infidel
i have a logarithmic relationship with mo’mud : the more I find out about him , the more I loathe him and in turn despise his cult.
8 years ago
Reply to
Non Western Infidel
Site good but where on site is Carol strategy article please?
8 years ago
Reply to
Non Western Infidel
ERRRRrrrrr
I hate to tell you but white skin and red hair is probably Neanderthal…..
http://www.dhamurian.org.au/anthropology/neanderthal1.html
About 20% of white DNA is Neanderthal. (They had bigger brains than us BTW)
It seems the male hybrid was sterile but the female was not.
Most whites are ~ 1% to 4% Neanderthal. (Given appearances, my Thermodynamics Prof was closer to 20%. He could have posed for the drawings you see.)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/01/28/267923336/neanderthal-genes-live-on-in-our-hair-and-skin
So if you are white and want to play the ULTIMATE VICTIM CARD, Black Homo sapiens wiped out our ancestors.
8 years ago
Reply to
Non Western Infidel
Carol is attempting to make this a racial issue when the issue is islam not race.
Did hitler co-author that article?
8 years ago
Black youth keeps being fooled by the rhetoric that Christianity is the ‘white Man’s’ religion.
I found this article some time ago and while it’s long I would like my Black and White brothers and sisters who are Muslim to answer this article.
An African Asks Some Disturbing Questions of Islam
It is true that there is a lot of anti-black racism in Britain, and sadly some churches and misguided Christians have at times allowed other people’s anti-Black and
anti-poor attitudes to mould them.
The Bible, though, tells us to love the poor, the stranger, the foreigner and the defenceless.
After all, the Lord Jesus Christ was Himself a child refugee in Africa (Matthew
1-2).
To equate Biblical Christianity with anti-Black racism is absurd. We must remember that Moses, the prophet, married an African, and God was angry at the racism of Moses’ own sister Miriam. In fact, God punished her with leprosy for seven days (see Numbers 12).
The God of the Bible hates racism.
Yet what puzzles me is how Black people in Britain are jumping so easily into what I believe is a real racist religion: Islam.
(The writer addresses the problem in Britain but it is relevant to the entire world today.)
A Disturbing Question Concerning the Muslim QUR’AN
Take for instance the Muslim holy book the Qur’an, which says:
“On the day when some faces will be whitened and some faces will be blackened, say to those whose faces will be blackened, ‘Did ye reject faith after accepting it? Taste then the penalty for rejecting faith.’ But those whose faces will be whitened, they will be in God’s mercy: therein to dwell.” (Sura Al-i-Imran, 3:106-107)
The question which I ask as a black man is why is white equated with goodness and black equated with evil? (see Yusuf Ali, footnote 432)
A Disturbing Question Concerning Muslim HISTORY
As an African I am also very puzzled at the lack of balanced historical research by Muslims concerning the African people.
In North Africa we know that the whole Saharan region of Morocco, Libya, Algeria and Egypt to the Sudan and Ethiopia used to be Christian, before Islam came and destroyed the local churches. Why do we not hear about it in Muslim literature?
And consider this: Africa produced great thinkers like Augustine of Hippo (Algeria), Clement and Athanasius of Egypt, and Tertullian of Carthage (Tunis), while Ethiopia had the first African church totally independent of Europe (Acts 8).
In fact, I find it most interesting that an African church was planted first before there was ever a church in Britain, Canada, the USA or Spain, or any other European state.
So why do we not hear of this African church, and why do we not continue to see any remnants of it today?
Perhaps we need to
go to the Qur’an again to find the clue.
Consider this verse in Sura Tauba, 9:5:
“Fight and slay [those who associate another with God (Shirk)], and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war.”
It fits the pattern of Islam which fights against all those who choose to follow their own beliefs, an idea we find well expressed in Sura Imran, 3:28:
Let not the believers take disbelievers [Christians and Jews] for their friends in preference to believers. Whoso doeth that hath no connection with Allah unless (it be) that ye but guard yourselves against them, taking (as it were) security. Allah biddeth you beware (only) of Himself.
The history of the Sudan is a case in point. Before the Muslim invasion of 1275 A.D. by the Islamic Mamluks of Egypt, the Sudan had three mini-Christian states called:
NOBATIA in the north, the capital of Qustul,
MAKURIA, the capital of old Dongola, and
ALODIA or ALWA, the capital of Soba.
These three Christian countries, from 300 A.D. to 1500 A.D. had their own written language, great centers of learning, international commerce with Egypt, Ethiopia and other Middle East states, and sent out missionaries to other African states (see K. Milhalowski,Faras, vol.2, Poland, 1965 for extensive archaeological and historical documentation on these states).
Even the Arab, ibn Selim al-Assuani, was impressed when he saw Soba, describing it as having, …fine buildings, roomy houses, churches, and the land is more fruitful than Makuria…[and it has] much meat, and good horses.
But all this was destroyed by Muslim invaders in 1275 A.D., not European colonialists!
The same type of massive destruction happened all over Africa, yet we never hear anyone holding the Muslims responsible! Why?
Arab Muslim racism is just as obnoxious as that of the Europeans, so why is it allowed to continue?
For it is continuing. In the 1990’s Sudan in north-east Africa has been suffering a Muslim jihad-war, whereby thousands of Christians and unbelievers have died, many by crucifixion, or have suffered by having their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off.
Is it only coincidental that we find in the Qur’an, Sura 5 (the Table Spread) verse 33, the sanction for this very practice?
“The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and his Messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off…”
While this is going on, Muslim states have never once told off the Islamic government of Khartoum. Why the silence?
Yet there has always been a lot of noise about the apartheid of the old South Africa. Why the double standard?
A Disturbing Question Concerning Muslim SLAVERY
That then brings me to the question of slavery.
Muslims say it is only a Christian phenomenon. Yet while the British Empire was abolishing slavery under pressure from British Christians like David Livingstone and William Wilberforce, Arab Muslims were enslaving Africans (i.e. following the promise by Allah concerning the (captives) that your right hand possesses from Sura Nisaa, 4:3).
Have you not read about the islands of Zanzibar and Pembe in East Africa, during the nineteenth century? Or have you not questioned why Muslim countries have never been involved in the movement for the abolition of slavery?
Let me set the record straight.
While Europeans were involved with the slave trade for a few hundred years, the existence of the traffic of African slaves had been well established one-thousand years before.
The Muslim position which places the entire blame for the invention and practice of black slavery at the door of Christian Europe, is simply not historically tenable.
Both the Grecian and Roman societies were slave states, yet most of their slaves were Caucasian.
In fact, the word slave meant a person who was of Slavic origin.
Robert Hughes, in his essay on The Fraying of America in the February 3, 1992 issue of Time magazine corrects this false impression when he says:
“The African slave trade as such, the black traffic, was an Arab invention, developed by traders with the enthusiastic collaboration of black African ones,
institutionalized with the most unrelenting brutality, centuries before the white man appeared on the African continent, and continuing long after the slave market in North America was finally crushed… Nothing in the writings of the Prophet [Muhammad] forbids slavery, which is why it became such an Arab-dominated business. And the slave traffic could not have existed without the wholehearted cooperation of African tribal states, built on the supply of captives generated by their relentless wars.
The image promulgated by pop-history fictions like Roots – of white slavers bursting with cutlass and musket into the settled lives of peaceful African villages – is very far from the historical truth.
A marketing system had been in place for centuries, and its supply was controlled by Africans.
Nor did it simply vanish with Abolition.
Slave markets, supplying the Arab Emirates, were still operating in Djibouti in the 1950’s; and since 1960, the slave trade has flourished in Mauritania and the Sudan. There are still reports of chattel slavery in northern Nigeria, Rwanda and Niger.”
The argument by some Muslims that slavery was God’s way of converting Africans to Islam, is much the same argument suggested by certain misguided Christians in the 19th century who said that, bringing Africans to America gave them the opportunity to hear the Gospel; an argument which holds no credibility in the Bible, and dishonours the character of God.
Unfortunately Islam still hasn’t learned, as today the slavery of foreign nationals still exists in the heartland of Islam: Saudi Arabia. (UN Report on Slavery, 1994)
A Disturbing Question Concerning Muslim CULTURE
Muslims claim that the Christian West wishes to control Africa.
Yet why is it that we Africans must not like the Coca Cola culture of the West, but we are obliged to start wearing seventh century Arab dress once Islam is taken on?
What’s wrong with my good African cultural dress?
And why is it that Black African Muslims are obliged to pray facing a Saudi Arabian city: Mecca?
Who is dominating who?
Why not face the local town (i.e. Nairobi or Lusaka, etc.)? I thought God was everywhere, and that prayer should be directed to Him who lives in heaven above the earth.
Remember, Jesus, the Truth once said I am from above, you are from beneath.
Furthermore, why are we required to read God’s word and speak to Him only in Arabic? Does God only speak Arabic? Is He not capable of understanding my African language?
Thank God that the Holy Bible is now in over 2,000 known languages around the world. Because I know my God is able to speak every language. It’s not a problem for Him.
Conclusion
This letter has been written out of love–love for the truth, even when it hurts.
The Bible tells us that we African people have a tremendous African heritage, which at times in our history has been hijacked. Yet God is our creator and He believes in us. After all, He chose Adam and Eve to be the African people’s first parents.
God has also used Africa for other purposes, such as allowing Egypt to be a refuge for the Jews at the time of Joseph (Genesis 39-50).
And when God (Jesus) became incarnate as a man, He took refuge in Egypt, Africa, during part of His childhood.
Ethiopia, another African state, has possessed the Bible in her own language for many centuries, even before Islam began.
In the future place of Heaven we are told many nations are there, including African ones (Revelation 21:24).
The Bible, furthermore, tells us that we (all nations) are set free in the blood of Jesus, who died on the cross and was raised from the dead.
Unlike the God of the Qur’an, Jesus never ordered any Christians to kill for Him or to take (the captives) that your right hand possesses.
Everyone was given the choice to choose Him or reject Him. Throughout the Bible we find God saving all that call upon His name (the name of Jesus).
This included the Ethiopian of Jeremiah 38-40 and the Ethiopian in Acts 8, and it includes me and you today.
Now that I have asked my questions, you too ask yours.
Who indeed has helped me as an African the most: Islam or Christianity?
You need to choose wisely, because your life depends on it.
Brother Banda
8 years ago
Reply to
Lacouray Too
thanx for posting this piece. It covers a lot of topics but maintains a good rhetorical focus.
8 years ago
Reply to
Lacouray Too
Hey I really appreciate this contribution it’s a really important reminder of the truth of history. Thanks 🙂
8 years ago
Reply to
Lacouray Too
8 years ago
Reply to
KatieRRobinette
Unless Ms. Geller’ website is profiting from your spam, please don’t attach your BS to my comment.
8 years ago
Reply to
Lacouray Too
She puts her spam in every single thread near the top.
She probably gets paid by the comment….
8 years ago
Reply to
Lacouray Too
If muslims could read the koran in their own language and really understand it they would quit their religion in droves.
8 years ago
Reply to
faraway
If Blacks ever realized that muslims were their slavers and still enslave blacks to this day they would not be joining islam.
http://www.hope-of-israel.org/childslavery.html
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2011/stephenbrown/the-dark-world-of-the-arab-child-slave-trade/
That has to be one of the biggest Progressive lies of omission. The rather blame whites for slavery not Arab muslims.
10 Facts About The Arab Enslavement Of Black People Not Taught In Schools
http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/06/02/10-facts-about-the-arab-enslavement-of-black-people-not-taught-in-schools/5/
The first legal slave owner in the USA was a BLACK BTW! The man was Anthony Johnson.
8 years ago
Reply to
Gail Combs
I wonder how black people know that the word for slave in arabic is the same as the word for black african.
8 years ago
Reply to
Tatonka
no it does not. The word race is never used, as there is no such thing as race. We are human. The human kind.
8 years ago
“This mosque ought to be investigated.”
By which agency? DO NOT WEARY ME WITH A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION. I only trust the local police. Every federal agency – from the CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, NSA – they all are corrupt. The only integrity lies at the state and local level.
8 years ago
Reply to
ridgerunner
Sorry, local police have been specifically directed verbally to ignore Muslim crime unless they have no choice. LEO’S suffer penalty for enforcing the law on Muslims. The US is great! EVERYTHING for sale in US! Even law and justice!
8 years ago
The last two paragraphs fully admit that there are anti-American, radical sermons at the mosque.
8 years ago
Reply to
Mohammed Schicklgruber
Saying a Mosque has nothing to do with Islam is like saying a tire has nothing to do with a wheel…sorry, I should’a realized that You were being sarcastic
8 years ago
lol this comming from the same woman who glorafys woman exposing them selfs to children
8 years ago
Only 80%?
8 years ago
‘She’ (note it is a female convert) is a spin Meister used by the jihadists.
We saw the same thing in the UK. They use females to do their lying for them hoping since it is a female and not a male we will believe them.
8 years ago
I live in Phoenix, and notice that the area around the mosque mentioned is a high crime area, according to stats on real estate websites. Is that because of the mosque’s influence? Could be.
8 years ago
Reply to
Mom
No, I doubt. It’s an older area riddled with crime. Arguably for decades due to freeway proximity making it undesirable area due to pollution and noise plus fast getaway for criminals and many little streets and alleys. Mosque probably added to neighborhood positively. I have never spent time in that area – possibly many of the older homes purchased by new to US muslims?
8 years ago
Reply to
kookooracharabioso
I know a lot of things contribute to urban crime. Actually the interstate seems to insulate neighborhoods because the crossovers are a mile apart and so no easy way to cross. I just know many neighborhoods are safer, but right in that area is bad. I haven’t researched it further.
8 years ago
Reply to
Mom
Houses built in ’40’s – ‘ 60’s. I did some looking and several sold for $30,000 in ’09. It’s been quite obvious that certain immigrants don’t have to pay market rates for properties like citizens do. You can be sure when they rent their property for 2/3 or 1/2 what US landlords charge. getting curious now – how many homes there sold for $30,000 in ’09? yeah, Alhambra neighborhood. Some of these neighborhood’s have been colonized and whoever is unwanted will suffer constant crimes until they give up and move. A mile away is in – city horse property advertised apparently still grandfathered in – amazing. I wish.
