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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
It has now been well over a week since a Syrian migrant named Mohamad Barakat opened fire on police at the scene of a traffic accident in Fargo, N.D., killing one and wounding two others, and investigators profess to be baffled as to why he would have done such a thing. Meanwhile, the information they have disclosed, which isn’t all that much, is oblique and contradictory, and the local Muslim community has added to the confusion with a decidedly mixed signal. At this rate, we may never find out what really happened in Fargo, and the questions and oddities keep multiplying.
One element of this curious incident that seems certain is that Barakat was planning to murder many more people than just one cop. The Star Tribune reported Friday that according to “North Dakota law enforcement officials,” Barakat “searched online for area public events along with the terms ‘kill fast’ and ‘mass shooting events’ before he ambushed police with nearly 40 rounds of gunfire.”
Barakat’s “final search at 10:30 the night before the shooting was ‘thousands enjoy first day of downtown Fargo street fair.’” The Downtown Fargo Street Fair did indeed begin the day before Barakat’s attack. What’s more, he had “1,800 rounds, multiple guns, and a homemade hand grenade” in his car, “along with gasoline containers and two propane tanks filled with explosive materials built in his home.”
But why did Barakat want to carry out a “mass shooting event”? The Star Tribune says that “the motive for his actions remains unclear.” Mac Schneider, U.S. attorney for the district of North Dakota, said this past Friday that “if there was clear evidence of motive we would share it.” North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley added that “the shooting was not motivated by religious beliefs.”
Maybe not, but there is an extremely odd detail in the Star Tribune report: “Wrigley said a federal ‘guardian report’ was made some years back” about Barakat, “but it was not about a threat of violence. Schneider described a Guardian report as a way for the public to ‘engage local law enforcement.’”
That’s not exactly a full or honest description of what a Guardian report really is. As Twitter user ThunderB, who has been following this case closely and has an abundance of useful information on his or her Twitter page, points out, the Guardian system is officially “The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Terrorist Threat and Suspicious Incident Tracking System.” In this context, a “suspicious incident” is clearly terror-related: “Shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks, three FBI field offices began using an application called the Terrorist Activity Reporting System to track and monitor terrorist threats and suspicious incidents.”
What was in the Guardian report about Mohamad Barakat? Why isn’t the report being revealed now? Would it reveal that officials have been lying about his not being on their radar, and demonstrate their failure to stop yet another jihadi as they intensify their hunt for “right-wing extremists,” that is, their efforts to stigmatize and criminalize legitimate political dissent?
Meanwhile, Fargo’s InForum reported Thursday that “a family member’s request made to local mosque leaders to handle Barakat’s funeral arrangements has been refused, said Sajid Ghauri, an adviser to the Moorhead mosque, known as the Moorhead Fargo Islamic Center.” Ghauri explained: “We have no clue whether he was even Muslim because his action doesn’t show that. So with that being said…we refused to do a funeral or burial in this area. Even if he’s a member, he can’t mess with our community like that.”
That’s super, but the fact that the Muslims in Fargo refused to bury Mohamad Barakat is not the unalloyed good news that it likely appears to be to those who deplore “Islamophobia.” The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) was similarly celebrated and gained worldwide headlines — and praise — for its announcement in 2017 that 130 imams in the United Kingdom were refusing to perform funeral prayers for the London jihad mass murderers.
Now, maybe both the Fargo Muslims and the MCB had the best of intentions, but the fact is that the prophet of Islam, Muhammad himself, is depicted in hadiths as forbidding funeral prayers for martyrs. Islamic law forbids such prayers as well. Withholding funeral prayers is actually an honor that is reserved for those who die while committing jihad. In one hadith, Muhammad ordered two martyrs to be “buried with their blood (on their bodies). Neither was the funeral prayer offered for them, nor were they washed.” One of the martyrs’ sons recalled: “When my father was martyred, I started weeping and uncovering his face. The companions of the Prophet stopped me from doing so but the Prophet did not stop me. Then the Prophet said, ‘(O Jabir), don’t weep over him, for the angels kept on covering him with their wings till his body was carried away (for burial)’” (Bukhari 5.59.406).
The Qur’an says that those who have been killed while fighting for Allah are not dead, but alive: “Do not think of those who are killed in the way of Allah as dead. No, they are living. With their Lord they have provision.” (3:169)
Based on the hadith in which Muhammad orders the bodies of the martyrs not to be washed and funeral prayers not to be said over them, as well as others like it, Islamic law states that it is “unlawful to wash the body of a martyr… or perform the funeral prayer over him… [A] martyr (shahid) means someone who died in battle with non-Muslims.” (Reliance of the Traveller, G4.20)
Meanwhile, the Muslims at the local mosque say they never saw Barakat, and nobody knows him. This may be true, but we have seen deception from mosques that jihadis attended before. After a Muslim who supported the Islamic State shot a police officer in Philadelphia, the local mosque leaders initially denied knowing him, but then it turned out they were lying, and the jihadi attended the mosque frequently. The same thing happened after jihadis attacked our free speech event in Garland, Texas; the mosque they attended in Phoenix denied knowing them, but it turned out they were regular members.
Also, the fact that Barakat didn’t frequent the local mosque, if true, establishes precisely nothing.
The Express reported in January 2016 that an Islamic State manual, “Safety and Security Guidelines for Lone Wolf Mujahideen,” told jihadis: “You should make sure to not look particularly attached to religion. A man who works on a secret operation should meddle [sic] in the general population. If you can avoid having a beard, wearing qamis, using miswak, and having a booklet of dhikr with you, it’s better. Also. you shouldn’t be going too often to places like mosques, Islamic institutes or Islamic libraries. You should also wear western-style clothes as to appear neutral and not draw attention to yourself.”
Was Mohamad Barakat engaged in that kind of deceptive operation? Maybe, maybe not. But is the clueless and corrupt FBI even pursuing that as a possibility to be investigated and looking into the many other oddities of this case, or would that be “Islamophobic”?
What a supernatural fantasy will make men do.
It becomes even more interesting when you have competing supernatural fantasies. When one group of men declare that their supernatural fantasy (72 Virgins in Paradise) is not a fantasy at all but reality and another group of men declare that 72 virgins in Paradise is an unreal fantasy but their fantasy (The Parting of the Red Sea, Noah’s Ark, The Resurrection) is not a fantasy but a reality.
It becomes even more interesting than that when the socialist introduces his fantasy (Global Warming, The Aryan Race, Transgenderism) not simply as reality but as science.
Unbelievable. Not a word about the cops who were killed and wounded by a Muslim. and it will happen again until we get serious about Muslims and third world crime in this country
Instead we get your usual self-indulgent anti-religion screed about supernatural fantasy including a partial list of your favorite biblical “horribles”: (The Parting of the Red Sea, Noah’s Ark, The Resurrection)
It’s obvious that you can’t help yourself. You are a mentally damaged narcissist.
Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and the severity of symptoms vary. People with the disorder can: Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance. Have a sense of entitlement and require constant, excessive admiration. Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it.
I’m not surprised you never got a PhD. You are incapable of any accomplishments, like most sociopaths.
“What a supernatural fantasy will make.” some “men do” Fixed it.
Yeah, the Islamonazis are a menace.
But what do we do about the atheists? The bloodshed caused by atheists is in the hundreds of millions.
What a natural fantasy will make some men do.
I can generalize. When man thinks he is the supreme being, the result is mass murder.
The numbers prove it.
you are comaring aplesauce to tornadoes when you include the three events from the biblical record as fantasy. Two million witnesses who actually CROSSED that Red Sea on dry land is pretty strong evidence. The globalflood has left vast quantities of irrefutable evidence. The hisotry of the eight who survived in that big boat is known. And comprots with reality as tracked since then. The Resurrection was witnessed by kore than five hundred sane and rational people at the time, and by billions since who have followed the One who rose from the dead.
As to the 72 “virgins”.. plese note the word used to describe these creatures is “houri”, the root word of the english language term “whore”.
You figure the rest of it out.
Objectivism rests upon supernatural faith claims without evidence and insists these MUST BE BELIEVED as dogma.
Objectivists believe in “Super Existence” that “exists by the GRACE of existence.” The universe made itself by “grace.” Is that logical? Reasonable? Scientific? No. No. And no.
The evidence, the findings of modern science and the logic of reason controvert your faith claims.
I believe Genesis 1:1. In the beginning [TIME], God created [ENERGY] the heavens [SPACE] and the earth [MATTER]. No infinite regress. No violation of the discoveries of science. No unreasonable faith claim. It IS a supernatural claim, but how did the natural come about? You think the universe created itself. Nothing comes from nothing, THX.
Evidence and reason support it Genesis 1:1. Objectivists believe nothing exploded (?) and created (?) order (?) and all that now is (?). Including reason (?). Do you not see the problems? What EVIDENCE, what LOGIC must you employ to persist?
You can only attack Genesis 1:1 at one place – God. God is supernatural. You are right. He is. His name is “Super Existence”” I AM THAT I AM.
The biggest fantasy of all is atheism.
The motive is as clear as the noses on our formerly cogent faces. When the concept of racial profiling entered our lexicon (and it’s negative connotations), it completely ruined news and law enforcement agencies. Betcha can’t guess which party came up with the idea? OK…maybe you can.
If a man walks into a bank with a mask and a gun, you don’t need to wonder about motive or what race he is. I worked for a Japanese company years ago and spent time on the island. Guess what? They ARE camera buffs and golf fanatics. That’s not racial profiling, that’s observable truth.
When a Syrian migrant, with his particular search history and weapons cache readily available for inspection, does something like this, COMMON SENSE dictates motive. Remember common sense?
We don’t do that anymore. We’re evolved…into utter stupidity.
Today I had a doctor’s appointment. The questionnaire had two demograhic categories that I could not answer with the options provided (tick a box): Race and Ethnicity.
For Race, a lot of the answers were geographic place names. Only one category had not place name and it was “white.” I crossed out “white” and wrote “white is a color, I am Anglo / Caucasian.”
For Ethnicity, there were lots of place names again, and the only category for me was “Non-Hispanic White.” I wrote, “I am a person. I do not exist as a non-Hispanic. I am an American of European descent.”
Words have meaning. and if we allow unmeaningful words to define us, we will forget how to think of ourselves and everything else.
The reason for the wording of the government-required demographics form at the doctor’s office and the government’s “inability” to name the motive of the foreigner living destructively among us is the same: It is to destroy us.
I couldn’t agree more.
Should we hold our breath for the FBI to fully investigate?
Dumb question. The FBI is where truth and investigations go to die, especially in the era of Obama/Biden.
The FBI has been enabling jihad since 9-11 by pretty much whitewashing it.
Deport all Muslims, now.
Yes, things do get weirder and weirder. For it’s a strange but common phenomena in America’s and Europe’s modern PC culture that when it comes to Islamic terrorism there are many people who are afraid to call it what it is. That’s odd because no one is afraid to call a person who engages in violence for anarchy and “anarchist terrorist”. Nor are people afraid to call a Marxist who engages in violence for the ideology of communism a “Communist terrorist.”
Likewise, a person who commits violence for Environmentalism an “Environmentalist terrorists.”
“Nevertheless, when it comes to a Muslim terrorist who engages in deadly violence because of the theology and ideology of Islam, many people fear to call that person a “Islamic terrorist.” or a Muslims terrorists. Strange but true.
That dangerous jihad-minded Muslim ,Mohmand Barack, is an actual real Muslim terrorist .
In spite of what the politically correct people might say there is nothing wrong with calling a dangerous jihadist a “Muslim terrorist.”
This is because that term is keeping within the bounds of reality with the instructions found in the Quran for jihad -minded devout Muslims. For the Quran instructs “”Strike terror [into the heart ‘of the enemies of Allah and your enemies.” Surah 8:60.
“But why did Barakat want to carry out a “mass shooting event”?” Please, don’t insult our intelligence. Any American worthy of the name has known for quite a while that muslim terrorists are on the war path to conquer ‘the little satan” (Israel) first, then ‘the great satan (America) next, before undertaking the rest of the world, using both violence and takiyah. Killing authority figures or anyone else at random is part of the plan. The West has chosen to ignore that fact, nevertheless it IS a fact.
Who’s that cop in the photo? He looks about one cheeseburger away from a fatal heart attack. It’s safe to say he won’t be running down any suspects anytime soon.
muslims lie !? who knew !! im shocked i tell you , shocked !
and we wee told Islam was the Religion of Peace what a sick joke that is these liberal Democrat Pinheads are way out in the outfield and picking grass while the other team score a Homerun