Same old question: where did Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha learn his understanding of Islam, an understanding that all the major Muslim organizations in the U.S. ostensibly reject? Why does no one ever seem to care that U.S. mosques and schools have nary a program anywhere to teach young Muslims why they should reject this understanding of Islam?
“Video shows smiling American bomber in Syria,” by Bassem Mroue, Associated Press, July 26, 2014:
BEIRUT (AP) — An al-Qaida-linked group fighting in Syria has released video of the first American to carry out a suicide attack in the country’s civil war, showing him smiling and saying he looked forward to going to heaven.
The Nusra Front released the new video late Friday showing American citizen Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, 22, with other fighters before the May 25 attack that targeted several army positions at the same time. It said two of the other three suicide attackers in the assault in the government-held northwestern city of Idlib were from foreign countries, including one who was identified as being from the Maldives.
Abu-Salha appears smiling in the video and speaks in broken Arabic.
“I want to rest in the afterlife, in heaven. There is nothing here and the heart is not resting,” Abu-Salha says. “Heaven is better. When people die they either go to heaven or hell. There is happiness beyond explanation.”
The video, released by Nusra Front’s media arm, al-Manara al-Baydha, was posted on jihadi websites. It corresponded with Associated Press reporting about the attack and Abu-Salha.
Opposition forces previously identified the American who carried out the bombing as Abu Hurayra al-Amriki and said he was a U.S. citizen. The name al-Amriki means “the American” in Arabic.
It’s unknown how many people were killed in the bombing. Opposition rebels with the Nusra Front said Abu-Salha’s truck was laden with 16 tons of explosives to tear down the al-Fanar restaurant, a gathering site for Syrian troops. The other suicide attackers targeted nearby army positions.
Abu-Salha grew up in Florida and attended several colleges before dropping out and moving abroad….
Arjay says
And the big question… if this sleaze doesn’t die over there… are we going to let him back in the US?
How about revoke his passport and let him stay over there…. or revoke his passport and throw him in prison if he returns.
sc says
just another well educated {college indoctrinated liberal} good riddance.
Jay Boo says
He thought he would be fighting along side comrades in a noble cause just like in the propaganda videos, running and jumping over obstacles like a ‘heroic’ jihad Rambo.
His comrades thought that a sycophant “well educated {college indoctrinated liberal}” who was not fluent in Arabic would be an annoyance to have around all the time.
“Do you look forward to going to heaven?”, they asked
He said that “he looked forward to going to heaven.”
His new Jihadi ‘friends’ then said “prove it”
tpellow says
“‘They are savages,’ say Christians forced to flee Mosul by Isis”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/iraqi-christians-mosul-isis-convert-islam-or-be-executed
Liza Jones says
Who can explain this phenomenon other than to parallel it to a Charles Manson type of hold on a vapid and ego-less mind? Some great Jewish psychoanalyst channeling Freud needs to get to work on young people like this before they blow themselves and others to smithereens. I wonder what a brain scan (before the explosion, of course) would reveal? What lesions lurk in the left and right hemispheres? Or maybe we should just be thankful that he is no longer of this world and not waste time and money trying to save a gene pool that is clearly not suited for survival!
Beagle says
This mujahid went to Seminole Community College in Sanford, Florida. Or, put another way, the way which ordinarily causes things like this to be covered up, about 40 miles from Disney World. Probably closer as the crow flies.
Jay Boo says
Everything southeast of Orlando is heavily infested with secular liberals.
Jay Boo says
Sanford, Florida
Close enough to be affected
Beagle says
More East than South. Sanford, like most of Florida, is an increasingly (though already quite) diverse mix of people, including an expanding Islamic population. To say Sanford is filled with “secular liberals” is far from the mark. There are more Puerto Rican Catholic liberals than secular ones.
Anyway, I found an article listing the schools he attended:
http://www.wcpo.com/news/national/moner-mohammad-abu-salha-american-suicide-bomber-grew-up-in-central-florida
Quote:
“Seminole State College of Florida confirmed in a statement that Abu-Salha enrolled in the school in August of 2011 but never graduated and that he previously attended Keiser University and Indian River State College.”
Mirren10 says
” An al-Qaida-linked group fighting in Syria has released video of the first American to carry out a suicide attack in the country’s civil war, showing him smiling and saying he looked forward to going to heaven”
Whoopidoo !!
Oh boy, is *he* going to get a nasty surprise ! 🙂 🙂
zulu says
OT
How popular holiday flights run risk of jihadist rocket threat: Fears surface-to-air missiles have fallen into hands of terrorists who could shoot down planes to South Africa and Dubai
-Hundreds of flights a day pass over territory held by likes of ISIS in Iraq
-Major Europe-Asia flight path is directly above stronghold city of Mosul
-Claims made it is ‘perfectly possible’ ISIS could have missiles to destroy jets
-Scrutiny on flight paths comes after downing of MH17 in Ukraine last week
-Flights over contested areas serve popular destinations like Johannesburg
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2706535/Fears-repeat-MH17-disaster-dozens-flights-crossing-warzones-including-ISIS-held-Iraq-destinations-like-South-Africa-Dubai-amid-claims-s-perfectly-possible-Islamist-terrorists-surface-air-missiles.html#ixzz38bkd3fZ1
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Beagle says
I noticed the Leftists in the comments think the Daily Mail is “fear mongering.” Not that much of the article is factually wrong, just that their delicate psyches can’t take it. They simultaneously argue that there is no real threat and that the threat was caused primarily by Western powers providing the missiles and causing the conflicts.
So, QED, Western missiles are not a threat to passenger aircraft. Or something.
Another point asserted by the moonbats is that the Man Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS, less capable than the medium-range radar-guided SAMs like the Ukraine shoot down) are not a threat because they cannot reach airplanes at cruising altitude. Good thing planes stay at maximum cruising altitude for the entirety of their flights, never needing to take off and gain altitude or descend and land.
KrazyKafir says
Just another galactic loser who found his calling.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yet another candidate for the Darwin Awards 2014.
Competition is going to be pretty intense, this year; so many, many candidates, and most of them from the Ummah.
gravenimage says
Dumbledore’s Army wrote:
Yet another candidate for the Darwin Awards 2014.
Competition is going to be pretty intense…
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It’s even worse than that, DDA—this vicious loser *wanted* to “kill and be killed in the name of Allah”.
That makes some idjit who thought it seemed like a fun idea to water-ski while drunk or play chicken on a busy highway look like a life-affirming rationalist in comparison…
henry1941 says
These suicide bombers ought to practice first just to make sure they have got their techniques right.
Jaladhi says
Martyrdom in Muslim world is highly over rat ed. The fact is all these jihadis are losers and have nothing to look forward in life. Their jihadi imams and mullahs convince the followers to commit suicide promising them going to paradise and these morons believe it. If these people are all going to paradise then why don’t the mullahs do it themselves – don’t they wan to get all those 72 hoories in Mo/allah’s jannat(paradise brothel).
Wellington says
What a fool. What a loser. What a miscreant.
Fitting though since Islam is made up of fools, losers and miscreants in huge numbers. It functions as Islam’s trinity.
Champ says
Fitting though since Islam is made up of fools, losers and miscreants in huge numbers. It functions as Islam’s trinity.
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Good one, Wellington! 😀
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
“I want to rest in the afterlife, in heaven.
If by heaven he means Jannat, then he’ll find no rest there. You see, Jannat is a porno heaven that impels men to hate and murder down here with the promise of an endless supply of underage girls and a permanent hard on up there. This dumbass is not, if I may, hard on himself, but he’s dangerous.
Daniel Triplett says
I’m guessing Moner regretted his decision just seconds after hitting the trigger. A decision he’ll regret for Eternity.
Amazing that 1.6 Billion people, growing exponentially, buy into this insanity.
jewdog says
Do they have suicide bomber recruitment booths on college campuses these days? Perhaps things have changed in the last few years; I haven’t kept up.
Does anyone see a contradiction in calling someone a liberal who adheres to a seventh century religious ideology that Winston Churchill once called the “strongest retrograde force in the world”? Again, perhaps I just haven’t kept up.
islamisdeath says
My daughter went to a small private college that is highly rated academically but was also rated as conservative. She was incessantly bombarded by the dawah brigade and it turns out there was a mosque on campus run by Saudis. The imam was so bent on recruiting suicide bombers from the student body that the school finally told him to leave. He was of course immediately replaced with a more low key demon of the same bent.
Yes they are recruiting non stop on college campuses all over America and the west.
islamisdeath says
My daughter went to a small private college that is highly rated academically but was also rated as conservative. She was incessantly bombarded by the dawah brigade and it turns out there was a mosque on campus run by Saudis. The imam was so bent on recruiting suicide bombers from the student body that the school finally told him to leave. He was of course immediately replaced with a more low key demon of the same bent.
Yes they are recruiting non stop on college campuses all over America and the west.
islamisdeath says
yes. There are mosques and huge dahwah brigades all over American college campuses.
My child went to school with a bright young African American boy who was almost talked into it. YES they are recruiting suicide bombers from our college campuses.
Richie says
It would be nice if these suicidal Muslims could kill themselves in solitude when nobody is around. That way, nobody else is hurt, and the Muslim gets a one way ticket to Hell
Jack Diamond says
From a piece in the Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2645784/He-American-son-parents-tormented-basketball-playing-son-turned-suicide-bomber.html
“The American jihadist who died in Syria in a suicide bomb attack was brainwashed and recruited by a terror cell in the Texas according to a family member…{the Texas connection, yet again, for recruiting American jihadists to Syria)…”He was just a sweet normal kid, who prayed the regular prayers every day,” said (his) uncle in an interview with The Arab Daily newspaper…
“His death has shattered his close-knit family who neighbors say consider themselves ‘very much American.’ ‘They are in torment and can’t understand why their son would do this,’ said neighbor Martin Zickert, a retired Air Force Colonel. ‘Since they found out they have been staying indoors, but I know they must be shattered. What on earth drove a sensible boy to do such a thing.’
Said another neighbor, who didn’t want to be named, ‘It must be such a shock, not just to lose a son in that way but to know he could be brainwashed into killing himself for a cause that is not his.’
They key to the article is this: Orlando Taylor, another schoolfriend, lived in Orlando with Moner and his older brother when they shared an apartment.
He told The Wall Street Journal, that Moner regularly would wear a long robe. In addition he also regularly read from the Quran, singing passages from it and praying. ‘That became his priority,’ said Mr. Taylor, who accompanied Moner to a mosque on a few occasions.
‘He surrounded his life around that.’
{and there is the answer staring everyone in the face. He read the Qur’an, that became his priority. The Qur’an, that manual of war against the kaffir, that manual of hate against unbelievers, that book with the contract Allah makes a Slave of Allah awarding Paradise in return for killing and being killed while fighting in his cause, that call to jihad, forever, until the entire earth is subjugated. So, a cause very much his as a pious Muslim whose loyalty is to the Ummah, not a kaffir country, whose Qur’an is sufficient in itself for any needed brainwashing into “killing himself”–killing himself not being understood as suicide in Islam but dying as a by-product of killing the enemy and sacrificing oneself, meaning being a suicide KILLER. The neighbor seeming to miss the fact that he didn’t just kill himself, he obviously killed a whole lot of other people with his 16 tons, thereby qualifying for a prized ticket to Paradise per Qur’an 9:111}.
According to his uncle (in Jordan) Abu-Salha’s transformation from all American boy to suicide bomber began in October 2012. He flew from Orlando, Florida, to Germany and then on to Turkey where he slipped across the border into Northern Syria.” After training with rebels in Syria he went back to his uncle’s in Jordan, then back to his family in Florida in 2013. Then, a month later, went off to Texas en route to Syria. In other words, he had no trouble getting back into the U.S. after training with Al Qaeda in Syria. Very reassuring.
Jovial Joe says
I think he was conflicted about this – he looks half-Amish.
pumbar says
Why is he dressed as a garden gnome?
James Foard says
Well, his life’s over. What did he do? Write a beautiful symphony? Work with orphans or some charity feeding hungry people? Get a college degree and maybe help humanity? Settle down and raise a family and give something back to the community? Uhm, no, he blew himself up with a truck. Faithful jihadi, following Muhammad’s teaching.