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Boston Marathon jihad mass murderer spoke of martyrdom before attack

Jul 11, 2014 2:16 pm By Robert Spencer

RSDzhokharHere is still more evidence that the Boston Marathon jihad mass murderers were motivated by Islamic texts and teachings — specifically, the Qur’an’s promise of Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111). The mainstream media will continue to ignore all this, of course. To recognize it and call for effective action against it would be “Islamophobic.”

“Accused Boston bomber spoke of martyrdom before attack – FBI,” by Daniel Lovering, Reuters, July 11, 2014 (thanks to Lookmann):

(Reuters) – Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told his friends about martyrdom and bomb-building over lunch before the attacks last year, an FBI agent testified on Friday in the trial of one of the friends for obstruction.

Azamat Tazhayakov is the first of Tsarnaev’s friends to face trial. He is charged with removing evidence from Tsarnaev’s room at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and throwing away a backpack containing fireworks casings as the FBI searched for the suspect, who is accused of killing three people and injuring 264 in the April 2013 bombings.

FBI Special Agent Timothy Quinn said Tazhayakov told him that Tsarnaev had discussed martyrdom and his knowledge of bomb building during a conversation over lunch with Tazhayakov and his roommate and fellow Kazakh exchange student Dias Kadyrbayev before spring break last year.

“Dzhokhar had explained that people who die in an act of martyrdom die with a smile on their face and go straight to heaven,” said Quinn, who interviewed Tazhayakov in the days after the alleged visit to Tsarnaev’s room.

“He also explained that during the same conversation, Dzhokhar said he knew how to build bombs” because he had taken chemistry classes, Quinn testified.

Tsarnaev was captured in the days after the bombing and is awaiting trial, but his older brother Tamerlan, also a suspect in the bombing, was killed following a shoot-out with police.

On Thursday, another FBI agent, Farbod Azad, testified that Tazhayakov told him he and Kadyrbayev, and a third man, Robel Phillipos of Cambridge, Massachusetts, had removed the backpack and a laptop from Tsarnaev’s dorm room….

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  1. John C. Barile says

    Jul 11, 2014 at 2:37 pm

    How offensive it is that “martyrdom” should come to denote murderous religious fanatics. A Christian martyr, after all, is a witness–that’s what “martyr” means–to his faith at the cost of his own life, in order to give life; never, ever, to take it.

    • Bk says

      Jul 11, 2014 at 4:48 pm

      You really want to draw a comparison between Christians tortured and executed for their faith and muslims wanting to die in a mass killing of innocent people? Do you see some kind of a sense of honor in the latter?

      • John C. Barile says

        Jul 11, 2014 at 7:29 pm

        Of course not.

      • PJG says

        Jul 12, 2014 at 9:24 am

        Bk: It is Muslims themselves who draw a parallel between our use of the word “martyr” and their murderous version; just as their “saints” can also be killers.
        Killing is a small matter to Muslims (I think the prophet said something like this). It’s what advances Islam which draws admiration and honour.
        Their use of our English words causes confusion.

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 11, 2014 at 3:03 pm

    This odd and weird idea of Muslims have “martyrdom” for Islam in order to obtain a sex filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the Muslim who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam is strange indeed. Nevertheless it’s found in the teaching of the Quran ,Sura 44:54. 55:56. 78:31. This bizarre ,nonsensical and far-fetched Islamic doctrine of a place with virgins has inspired much mass murder and mayhem. The French philosopher had written “As long as men continue to believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”

    • Jacksonl03 says

      Jul 11, 2014 at 8:02 pm

      Sorta makes you hope for after life to be true: So the morons who murder, maim and rape in Allah’s name to gain paradise and virgins can endure an eternity of disappointment. What a neat hell that would be.

    • bernie says

      Jul 11, 2014 at 10:04 pm

      However, the European linguist Christophe Luxemburg, a specialist in Middle Eastern languages, has argued that the word “houris” in the Aramaic language (from whence the Quranic description of paradise was derived) means “raisins”, so the idea that it means “virgins” is a mistranslation.

      • Jay Boo says

        Jul 11, 2014 at 10:34 pm

        Raisins or Virgins?

        I went to the original ‘source’
        and now a word from the ‘Prophet’

        Surely you misunderstood the verse meant to say raisons. Your reward is 72 raisons.
        But, it was written. I prayed five times a day and I gave up everything.
        What kind of paradise offers only 72 raisons? EXACTLY paradise is not to be found here.
        This is where they send all the suicide bombers. Are you a suicide bomber too?
        Oh no my numerous crimes are even more despicable , I ordered the slaughter at Medina, committed incest, rape, adultery, murder, torture, pedophilia and called it a religion.
        I even called myself a prophet. Then you must be?
        EXACTLY

  3. Jay Boo says

    Jul 11, 2014 at 8:58 pm

    Swift Justice

    You can bet that Obama is trying to set up a swap and an excuse.
    By contrast, considered the trial and conviction in the murder of Lee Rigby which happened after the Boston attack yet but which has already been decided.
    Can Muslim leaders handle the load of overflowing mosque donations by supposedly moderate Muslims?
    What will high priced Muslim paid lawyers do with this?

  4. motimer says

    Jul 11, 2014 at 9:20 pm

    Dzokar bungled the shoot out, murdered his brother backing a stolen van over him.

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