Jihad Jane wanted to help the "suffering Muslim people," and apparently she thought the best way to do that was to murder a few Infidels, perhaps including Swedish Motoonist Lars Vilks. More on this story. "Muslim convert Colleen LaRose, aka Jihad Jane, faces terror charges," by Sam Jones for The Guardian, March 10 (thanks to all who sent this in):
An American woman who called herself Jihad Jane has been charged over an alleged plot to murder a Swedish man.Colleen Renee LaRose, 46, from Phildadelphia, is also accused of conspiracy to provide support to terrorists, making false statements and attempted identity theft.
Irish police yesterday arrested seven people over an apparent plot to kill Lars Vilks, a Swedish cartoonist who had a bounty put on his head after depicting the prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog - though Vilks has not been named as LaRose's alleged target.
Garda sources said the four men and three women were in their mid-20s to late-40s. Some of them arrested hold Irish citizenship and some are from the Middle East. Converts to Islam were among them, the Irish police said.
Vilks's cartoon, drawn in 2007, prompted al-Qaida to place a $100,000 (£67,000) bounty on his head and offer a 50% bonus to anyone who slit his throat to ensure he was "slaughtered like a lamb".
At least three Swedish newspapers - Dagens Nyheter, Expressen and Sydsvenska Dagbladet - published the cartoon today.
The US justice department declined to comment on whether the two cases were connected.
David Kris, the head of the department's national security division, said: "The indictment, which alleges that a woman from suburban America agreed to carry out murder overseas and to provide material support to terrorists, underscores the evolving nature of the threat we face."
LaRose, who also called herself Fatima LaRose online, allegedly posted a comment on YouTube in June 2008 saying she wanted to help "the suffering Muslim people"....
Watch out for those in the West who, terminally confused, go off on a Spiritual Search. They try this, they try that. Then the bus stops at Islam, and if they get off, and some do, it's very hard for them to get back on that bus.
For if you are confused and overwhelmed by life, the totalitarian temptation -- the temptation to join a collective, which tells you what to do and what to think, gives you a nice list of What Is Commanded and What Is Prohibited, and if you've forgotten or not yet learned a particular rule, you have only to Ask Mr. Fatwa on a thousand websites, and you will be told what to do. Yours, thank god, you think, not to reason why.
There are people who love this sort of thing.
And in the case of Colleen Renee LaRose, she gets to fabricate a special Arab name, and even wear a hijab. She's got a Cause. She's got a Reason For Being. She's someone special, and yet at the same time, she doesn't have to be anyone at all, but can subsume herself in the collective and take the orders set down more than a millennium ago.
What could be better for the colleen-renee-laroses of this world? Look at how excited Adam Gadahn is to have become Azzam Al-Amriki, and to be the special someone he is today. And no doubts, and no need to think for oneself. What else, in this confusing world, do you need?
Join today. It's the last important decision you'll ever have to make. Tomorrow Belongs To You.
How will the 'suffering muslim people' be helped by killing one, single, unarmed, Swede?
These jihadi folks are all deranged.
And what suffering is she talking about?
Where exactly are muslims suffering?
In places where muslims are in a majority - they don't suffer. They lord it over all the religious minorities of that place and make them suffer. Countless examples of this exist.
In places where muslims are in a minority, they make sure they do not suffer. In fact they make governments. media and other institutions bend over backwards trying to please them, placate them, accomodate them, understand their culture etc.
'Suffering muslim people' indeed. BS.
'At least three Swedish newspapers - Dagens Nyheter, Expressen and Sydsvenska Dagbladet - published the cartoon
today.'
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Rejoice.
Finally Europe is showing some spine.
Dare I hope that at some point MSM will open its eyes to the true nature of islam and educate the masses ??
It amazes me that so many otherwise rational people swallow so much Muslim propaganda, especially the victim stuff. Not that this particular specimen is rational.
Leopard print and a hijab. It's a fashion crime.
The New York Times has some piquant details, including the fact that no sooner did Colleen Renee LaRose become a Muslim -- by simply reciting a line of verse (no tests and no waiting, just like getting married in South Carolina in the pre-war days)-- than all of a sudden she had very firm views on Middle Eastern conflicts. All of a sudden, she who probably could not locate Israel on a map, had become a fervent supporter of the Jihad against Israel: The "MySpace profile for a woman who refers to herself as JihadJane displays pictures of bloodshed and violence in the Middle East scrawled with messages like “Palestine We Are With You” and “Sympathize With Gaza.” Become a Muslim, and all of a sudden you have a Very Strong Opinion about things you never knew, and still do not know, a thing about. It was perhaps obvious for JihadJane to start with an ostentatious taking of the side of "Palestine" (i.e., supporting -- janishly -- the Jihad against Israel) but if asked what she thought of this or that conflict involving Muslims, she would now have an answer too, which would be to always and everywhere take the Muslim side: if asked what she now thought about Kashmir, you can get that she would insist that Kashmir belonged to Pakistan, and for that matter, India belonged to its rightful owners, the Muslims (whom those "colonialist" British had removed from power), that Abu Sayyaf terrorists in the Philippines should be backed to the hilt, that the Buddhists should get out of southern Thailand and leave it to the Muslims, that Khaddafy was right to declare Jihad against Switzeraldn for the minaret ban, that the Christians who were hacked to death in Nigeria had it coming to them, that the black Africans in the Sudan deserved, by the millions, to die because the Sudan belongs to Islam and to the Arabs, and so on and so bloody forth.
Here's the NYT article:
Pennsylvania Woman Tied to Plot on Cartoonist
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
WASHINGTON — A Pennsylvania woman who called herself JihadJane was tied Tuesday to an alleged assassination plot against a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the prophet Muhammad atop the body of a dog.
In an indictment unsealed Tuesday, federal prosecutors accused Colleen R. LaRose, an American from the Philadelphia suburbs, of linking up through the Internet with militants overseas and plotting to carry out a murder.
Ms. LaRose, 46, was arrested in Philadelphia in October, but her case was kept under seal. Although the indictment does not identify the target, a law enforcement official said her case was linked to the arrests Tuesday of seven Muslims in Ireland in connection with a scheme to kill the cartoonist, Lars Vilks. A group linked to Al Qaeda had put a $100,000 bounty on his head for the cartoon, which the group perceived as an insult to Islam.
European news reports said Irish police, who arrested the four men and three women, had coordinated the operation with the United States.
A police statement issued Wednesday in Dublin said the Irish arrests followed a joint investigation by police in Ireland, the United States and “a number of European countries,” and that the suspects were being held at four police stations in an area about 100 miles south of Dublin, under a law that allowed for them to be held for up to seven days for questioning.
News reports in Ireland said that the seven being held were from Algeria, Croatia, Palestine, Libya and the United States, and were aged between their mid-20’s and late 40’s. The Irish Times reported that American investigators believe that the leader of the group was an Algerian who has been living in Ireland for the past 10 years.
A Justice Department spokesman would not confirm whether Ms. LaRose had been involved with the plot.
Mark T. Wilson and Rossman D. Thompson, federal public defenders in Philadelphia who are representing Ms. LaRose, declined to comment.
Michael L. Levy, the United States attorney for Eastern Pennsylvania, said in a statement the case illustrated how terrorists were looking for American recruits who could blend in. “It shatters any lingering thought that we can spot a terrorist based on appearance,” he said.
Ms. LaRose is white, with blond hair and green eyes, according to the law enforcement official, who was not authorized to share details of the case and spoke only on the condition of anonymity. The official said Ms. LaRose was born in Michigan and later lived in Texas and Montgomery County, Pa.
The indictment said that in mid-2008, Ms. LaRose, using the aliases JihadJane and Fatima LaRose, began posting on YouTube and other Internet sites messages about her desire to help Muslims. A MySpace profile for a woman who refers to herself as JihadJane displays pictures of bloodshed and violence in the Middle East scrawled with messages like “Palestine We Are With You” and “Sympathize With Gaza.”
By early 2009, the court papers said, she was exchanging e-mail messages with unidentified co-conspirators in Southeast Asia and Europe and expressed a desire to become a martyr for an Islamist cause.
The indictment refers to e-mail messages in which a conspirator, citing how Ms. LaRose’s appearance and American passport would make it easier for her to operate undetected, allegedly directed her in March 2009 to go to Sweden to help carry out a murder. She agreed to do so, writing, “I will make this my goal till I achieve it or die trying,” the indictment says. She and another unnamed American later posted online solicitations for money for that project, the document said.
Ms. LaRose had attracted the government’s attention by then. She was questioned by F.B.I. agents on July 17, 2009, and falsely told them that she had never solicited money online for terrorism, had never used the alias JihadJane and had never made postings on a terrorist Web site, the court papers say.
Despite drawing the F.B.I.’s attention, the indictment says Ms. LaRose traveled to Europe in August, joined an online community hosted by the intended Swedish victim in September and performed online searches to track him. She apparently never attempted to carry out the killing.
The indictment also says Ms. LaRose recruited other people on the Internet to wage or support jihadist attacks.
Gee, and I thought she was only in it for the money....
How did she hurt her head? That can't be a hijab. It doesn't cover her bosom. Must be a bandage.
Hugh, you forgot to mention that none of this has anything to do with Islam.
What were you thinking? Tomorrow honest Ibe will complain again about your hate filled remarks, how can you live with yourself!
But hey, I got a better picture of her:
http://sheikyermami.com/2010/03/10/pennsylvania-jihad-jane-planned-assassination-of-swedish-cartoonist/
To my personal observations those who convert to Islam has nearly always a hidden rage against their original environment. Most probably they have been hurt, feeling not accepted in their lives because of some reasons they refuse to face, feeling it too humiliating for themselves to face them.
I suspect that especially the convertion of women happens,usually, for reasons of finding a justified escape because of some problem they have with their own body. And they are full of revenge feelings against a way of life which has made a fetish of womens' body. Even a cheating they suffered from their husbands because of another bodily more good looking woman may constitute a reason of revenging in such a way.
Men, on the other hand, may find an accepting environment to themselves when converted (the acceptance and the smiling faces they find are not because of kindness, of course, but because of adding to the power of a sectarist entity).
It is true that in Western societies the sense of communal life is weakened to the degree of diminishing altogetherly. This too is a reason the Islamists find the 'fertile' ground to convert. Human beings long for communal warmness, so this is a very serious weakness used 'properly' from totalitarian circles.
As I have said many times... To confront Islam the first thing we have to do is to reclaim our Christian identity (we , the Westerners) which has the communal life approach as a central element in its being. We have to leave this so harsh nihilistic narcissist way of life. Being so nihilistic we have created a civilization without any serious reason to exist. It is a "civilization" which continues its presence by relying merely on 'forgetfulness' generating occupations (as is sexism and consumerism, for example).
The power worshipping of our life way too has to be confronted with the most severe self criticism. It is a way of life which humiliates gravely the powerless ones. And then we have rage and revenge... Mass scholl shootings etc. I think it can be said that conversions to Islam has to do with similar, somehow, reasons as those of school shootings, except that in those conversions exists a need to sublimate revenge also. It is a self deception for clothing the same in-sanity with an appearance of sanity and sacredness.
"Michael L. Levy, the United States attorney for Eastern Pennsylvania, said in a statement the case illustrated how terrorists were looking for American recruits who could blend in. “It shatters any lingering thought that we can spot a terrorist based on appearance,” he said."
Yes, yes, yes! For me, this is the most important statement in the entire article!
Dressed up in leopard skin, it looks like Cougar Jihad. Aggressive, predatory, those penciled on eyebrows aren't just for show.
It's time the cartoonists fought back!
Ever wonder why some people get "better" when handed a sugar pill by a nurse or doctor? Turns out that the U Mass Medical Center did a study on those patients who responded positively to a placebo. The staff recalled that they were "good" patients who did as they were told, never objected to the rules and did not cause trouble. Apparently, about 30% of the population are highly suggestible and easily manipulated.
This does explain the fashion industry and the success of disco and rap music.
However, it does pose problems for mankind. How many "good Germans" went along with the murderous Nazi regime? Why didn't the masses rise up against Stalin? How did Mao maintain control while butchering 70 million Chinese citizens?
This "woman" (and I am using the term loosely) fits the category of "fascist fodder". She is all to willing to cast off the clothes of civilization and put on the repressive slave clothing of Islam. See how easily she mouths the fascist propaganda of the jihad. Note how quickly she turns her back on the values of the West.
The great author, H.G. Wells once opined that mankind was only a couple of generations removed from savagery. I cannot disagree with him.
"Pennsylvania Misunderstander of Islam may have been plotting to murder Swedish Motoonist"
Globalized murder. A new facet of globalization.
Our money whores in Washington will never understand how Islam and Jihad work hand in hand for the benefit of the Islamic ideology. Anyone who is not a money whore is beyond their Washington think. Jihad Jane obviously made some kind of living while she organized murders for Jihad and Islam but her Islamic belief is the reason for her actions.
It's obvious that non-Muslim converts to islam have severe mental and psychological problems - John Walker Lindh, Adam Pearlstein, Doug Hooper and Colleen LaRose.
I'm not a shrink but I'd guess they all have severe inferiority complexes, with sociopathic features. Islam makes them feel strong and powerful as their false prophet in the guise of Arabian moon deity "allah" permits them to subjugate and murder others and that these are good things.
Losers. Total Losers.
"Ever wonder why some people get "better"..."
Posted by tanstaafl
Very true and very well said.
I see London, I see France
I see her wrists
Oh, baby, I'm losing control of myself...
I see London, I see France
I see her wrists
Oh, baby, I'm losing control of myself...
...she sucking her thumb?
Since this Blonde Irish American woman converted to Islam, can Jihad Jane claim "racial discrimination"?