Only in the thirteenth paragraph (out of fourteen) of this ABC News story does ABC get around to telling us that “based on the image obtained by ABC News, he begins the message with the Muslim statement of faith, saying that there is but one god, Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger.” Yet this was the first thing that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote; apparently for him, it was of cardinal importance. Yet even after the publication of this image, most analysts will continue to insist that his religious identity as a Muslim was incidental to his actions, and refuse to acknowledge or examine the central place of the jihad ideology in motivating the Boston jihad mass murders.
“Image Shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Last Message Before Arrest,” by Michele McPhee, ABC News, April 17:
A new image shows the bullet-riddled anti-American rant allegedly scrawled by suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the inside wall of a boat as he hid from a police manhunt last year.
“The U.S. government is killing our innocent civilians, but most of you already know that… I can’t stand to see such [bullet hole] go unpunished,” says the handwriting captured in the image obtained by ABC News from a law enforcement official in Massachusetts. “We Muslims are one body. You kill one of us, you hurt [bullet hole] us all.”
Two state and two federal law enforcement officials confirmed the authenticity of the image.
Along with bullet holes that interrupt Tsarnaev’s message, the image shows drips of red liquid on the wall, which could be paint or, officials said, blood. Dzhokhar had been injured in a firefight with police hours before – the same firefight that took the life of his older brother and alleged co-conspirator Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
ABC News has previously reported Tsarnaev wrote an anti-American message on the boat, called the Slip Away II, in which he hid during the massive manhunt last April. Law enforcement sources previously said that the message also included the phrase “F*** America”. That portion of the message was not included in the image obtained by ABC News. This week law enforcement sources said Dzhokhar also lamented elsewhere in the note that his brother was able to meet Allah first.
David Bruck, a member of Tsarnaev’s defense team, had no comment when he was shown the photograph Wednesday. In a pre-trial hearing Wednesday he repeated arguments made in court filings that Tamerlan was ultimately responsible for last year’s terror attacks. Previous filings indicated the defense may argue in Dzhokhar’s November trial that the 19-year-old was only doing his older brothers’ bidding.
“If the government’s indictment is true, this [case] is about a family,” Bruck said, adding, “a story of this family and the relationships between the people in.”
Dzhokhar has pleaded not guilty to 30 counts related to the dual explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line last year. The blasts killed three people, including an 8-year-old boy, and injured some 260 others.
The bombings also kicked off an enormous investigation in and around Boston during which, three days after the bombing, the FBI released surveillance images of the Tsarnaev brothers, who had not yet been identified, as suspects numbers one and two in the case.
Hours after the photos were released the Tsarnaev brothers allegedly ambushed and killed MIT Police Officer Sean Collier and then carjacked a man. A high-speed chase escalated into a firefight where the suspects hurtled bombs at the police on the streets of nearby Watertown.
Authorities say Dzhokhar at least partially contributed to Tamerlan’s death during the firefight when Dzhokhar hit his brother with a vehicle during his getaway. Dzhokhar temporarily disappeared, only to be discovered in a boat sitting on land in a local resident’s back yard.
While injured, authorities say Dzhokhar had taken the time to write on the walls of the boat in black pen. When authorities arrived, a bloodied Dzhokhar surrendered.
Based on the image obtained by ABC News, he begins the message with the Muslim statement of faith, saying that there is but one god, Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger.
Aside from the aforementioned legible messages, much of the rest of the note in the image is unintelligible due to the red liquid, bullet holes and fading ink.
Salah says
“I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is his messenger”
Need proof that Islam is “really” from God? check out the ONLY proof of Muhammad’s veracity: Khadija’s Thighs!!!
In the Biography of the Prophet by Ibn Hisham and under the title: “The Test of Khadija is the Proof of Revelation” we read the following story..
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/06/khadijas-thighs.html
Jay Boo says
“I bear witness that there is no god within Allah and that Muhammad is the inventor”
boakai ngombu says
the Allah god of Islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) is a false god – unable to save, and; Muhammad (lately contrived; full of lust) is an invention and cannot guide any seeker to righteousness nor provide escape from hellfire
bill says
I expect the amount of praying done in the world by all religion is about the same as the amount of masturbation, but at least with the latter you get a result!
Jay Boo says
boakai ngombu
Good insight into Islam
Those who let cheap thoughts guide their empty hedonistic interests will fold very quickly when confronted by the harsh reality of Islamic intolerance and they will at first try to appease Muslims by mocking all other religions until they then become fanatical Muslim converts.
Jay Boo says
bill
see above comment
Fr. Basil says
I bear witness there is no God but Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and our Lord Jesus Christ is God incarnate risen from the dead.
Awake says
How very good of ABC to get around to this revelation a full year after it was actually known.
Jay Boo says
Remember the photographer who was fired for releasing a photo that was less flattering to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev than the ‘official’ air-brushed Rolling Stone magazine version.
Jay Boo says
David Wood skewers ABC News 20/20 with (White Washing Islam) on YouTube
laura r says
what shall we call this? sports violence? family feud?
Giovanni99 says
Who’s got that sign up sheet for the last crusade?
john spielman says
“…if you kill one of us you.. hurt us all” IF ONLY THIS WERE TRUE!
Jay Boo says
LOL
Mulakush says
Re: I bear witness that there is no god but allah and the mohammad is hi messenger.
Rote repetition of this sentence is sure to brain wash you for good. To bear witness, one has to have at least seen the transactions involved. You have to have seen god giving mohammad something. That is already a count of three and none of these things have been witnessed by anyone living in our times. On top of that one has to have proven beyond a shadow of doubt that there are NO other gods and lots of people will disagree with that statement except atheists!
Looks like the one of the main propaganda piece of islam is a lie.
Jay Boo says
Becoming a Muslim begins with declaring (there are no other gods)
Without the ‘other’ as enemy Islam can’t stand on its own because it has nothing to offer but vanity and envy.
Jay Boo says
P.S. Islam must be very jealous and insecure to insist its new members first promise to never become apostates.
CJ Mccoy says
Too bad it is false witness!!!!! There is no God but Jesus Christ, and Him alone should be served. Any other god is a false god. That is just the way it is. I don’t make the rules I just follow them.
doreva says
but notice the qualitative difference in the idea…the commandment “thou shalt have no other gods before me” implicitly acknowledges the existence of other gods, false, lesser and otherwise…it commands us not to put them before the one true god…big difference from stating the patently false observation “there is no other god (but allah)” for obviously there are other “gods” they’re just not worthy of worship…that also shows the inherent fairness, rationality and superiority of the one who gave his only begotten son…etc.
gravenimage says
Boston Marathon jihad murderer: “I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is his messenger”
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This is, of course, the Shehada—the statement of faith that marks conversion to Islam. This is something every Muslim believes.
It also makes clear that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev considered his terrorism and murder to be primarily Islamic in nature—and very much in line with the actions of “the Prophet” Muhammed.
doreva says
more evidence of the demand for complete irrationality for it’s followers, the claim “there is no other god but allah” is obviously false, for there are plenty of other gods, if you just open your eyes and ears to the world around you. the other so-called “god of abraham”, different from “allah”, did not demand his followers be irrational, rather his first commandment was “thou shalt have no other gods before me”…obviously this is not the same guy (the big guy in the sky)…this one is fully cognizant that there are “other gods” plenty of them…he is however commanding his people to have no other gods before him…so he is not asking his followers to pretend there are “no other gods” … obviously there are, and “yaweh” is just emphasising that he’s the only one worth following!
JO says
What is he still doing alive?