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NYC hatchet attack on cops followed leak of FBI document warning of Islamic State calls to Muslims to attack police

Oct 26, 2014 9:01 am By Robert Spencer

Hatchetman2Thompson wrote: “If the Zionists and the Crusaders had never invaded and colonized the Islamic lands after WW1, then there would be no need for Jihad! Which is better, to sit around and do nothing, or to Jihad fisabeelallah!”

“Police Assaulted After Breitbart Texas Leaks Doc Warning of ISIS Attacks on US Cops,” by Kristin Tate, Breitbart, October 24, 2014:

HOUSTON, Texas — Zale Thompson, 32, attacked four New York City police officers with an 18.5 inch hatchet on Thursday. Many are speculating whether Thompson has ties to radicalized Muslim groups, as his Facebook page features an image of Islamic prayers behind a heavily-armed Muslim warrior. The attack came mere hours after Breitbart Texas leaked a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report warning of homegrown ISIS attacks against law enforcement.

The New York City hatchet attack left one police officer in critical condition, and another in stable condition. During the attack, officers opened fire on Thompson, killing him.

At this time, authorities do not know what prompted the attack — it appeared to be unprovoked.

While authorities have not yet confirmed links between Thomspon and extremist jihadi groups at this time, his Facebook page will likely question what role his Muslim beliefs may have played in the attack.

The event comes on the heel’s of Breitbart Texas’ release of the leaked FBI document titled, “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Its Supporters Encouraging Attacks Against Law Enforcement and Government Personnel.”

The document claims that its purpose is to “provide information on the potential for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) U.S.-based sympathizers to carry out attacks on law enforcement and government personnel.” It further states that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security “would like to ensure law enforcement and government personnel are aware that ISIL and its supporters continue to issue threats online.”

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  1. Bezelel says

    Oct 26, 2014 at 10:22 am

    “At this time, authorities do not know what prompted the attack — it appeared to be unprovoked.”
    I hope Bibi reads that. I mean DUH. Don’t worry the invented religion will invent a provocation to suit any circumstance.

    • Huck Folder says

      Oct 27, 2014 at 2:35 am

      What of the person who supposedly asked the FOUR police to ‘pose’ for him for a picture?

      Accomplice?

  2. Richie says

    Oct 26, 2014 at 11:27 am

    How could ‘Islamic lands’ ever be invaded- since so called ‘Islamic lands’ were originally Christian lands being occupies by Muslim squatters? So called ‘Muslim’ lands in Asian were originally Buddhist and Hindu. Muslims amaze me with their complete collective ignorance of history

  3. zulu says

    Oct 26, 2014 at 11:28 am

    OT

    Give them a job: how Denmark deals with returned Islamist fighters

    Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/give-them-a-job-how-denmark-deals-with-returned-islamist-fighters-20141022-119cj0.html#ixzz3HGVUi4r6

  4. Ganesha_akbar says

    Oct 26, 2014 at 11:37 am

    Q: With the enemedia AWOL in tracking these things, will the recent epidemic of stabbings near mosque-fortresses in the Queens borough area now abatement? Or will Zale’s local co-conspirators continue this violent campaign of street thug jihad?

    • Ganesha_akbar says

      Oct 26, 2014 at 11:42 am

      Flashback July: Woman Speaks Out About Brutal Queens Subway Stabbing
      http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/07/29/cbs-2-exclusive-woman-speaks-out-about-brutal-queens-subway-stabbing/

      A woman was stabbed in the neck and left for dead in a brutal random attack on the subway in Queens earlier this month, and the man who did it remained on the loose Tuesday.

      The 32-year-old victim spoke exclusively with CBS 2’s Dave Carlin.

      “He’s still out there,” said the victim, who did not want her name used. “That’s what really upsets me…”

  5. Jay Boo says

    Oct 26, 2014 at 12:42 pm

    Look what washed up on shore.

    Muslims rehearse and then display their choreographed prayer dance as if they are flogging a piece of driftwood hoping it will turn into a fruit bearing tree.
    If Islam were a religion founded on what is sacred, it would have no need to wish others dead.

    • Champ says

      Oct 26, 2014 at 1:48 pm

      If Islam were a religion founded on what is sacred, it would have no need to wish others dead.

      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      Exactly, Jay Boo! …islam was founded by probably the most evil criminal known to man: muhammad (perdition be upon him).

  6. duh_swami says

    Oct 26, 2014 at 1:06 pm

    ‘Unprovoked’, the Movie. Islam, founded by a psychotic in crisis, creates psychotic episodes in the pious, often accompanied by unprovoked attacks.
    As the psychosis grows so grows the unprovoked.
    If you see anyone about to get unprovoked, leave the area immediately, take cover and stay there until you hear the all clear siren.

  7. wtd says

    Oct 26, 2014 at 1:18 pm

    “At this time, authorities do not know what prompted the attack – it appeared to be unprovoked”

    As I’m watched a recent video commentary segment by Judge Jeanine Piro (Fox), I couldn’t help but notice something overlooked by most reports describing these three recent perpetrators of “SJS” (sudden-jihad-syndrome) – described as :
    “lone wolves”,
    “recent converts”,
    having “prior arrest records”,
    “self radicalizing” etc.
    —the image capture at 1:57 in that video commentary reveals all three are also black.

    It becomes painfully obvious that none of these three bothered to consider, let alone study their own history as victims of the Muslim slave trade which continues to some extent today.

    Years ago, Hugh wrote Fitzgerald: Black Africa and the Arab Muslim slave trade which would have provided a launch point for further exploration, alas, missed by these three incredibly gullible, disenfranchised miscreants who ultimately served as collateral carnage to advance the evil doctrine of Islam.

    What are the chances that each of these DEAD miscreants were issued their death sentences in prison through complicit government sanctioned and taxpayer funded prison dawa system justified under some human rights interpretation?

    Here is but a paragraph discussing this suicidal anomaly written in 2009 by Hugh Fitzgerald at JihadWatch.org:

    FBI Director Robert Mueller was recently quoted saying that American prisons were “fertile ground for extremists.” And a 2006 study, “Out of the Shadows,” said that “tight-knit communities of Muslims in prison are ripe for radicalization, and could easily become terrorist cells.”
    That study is three years old. Mueller’s warning is not brand-new either. It is not only that already existing “tight-knit communities of Muslims in prison” are “ripe for radicalization, and could easily become terrorist cells.” It is also that there are numbers of people who, already alienated from society and already dangerous to it, find their solace not in a turn to Christianity, where the outcome is likely to be far different, but in an acceptance of Islam. For Muslim missionary activity goes on unmonitored and unchecked all because the Bureau of Prisons, and the FBI and the CIA and others whose duty it is to recognize and thwart dangers to this country, dangers to its legal and political institutions and physical dangers to its citizens, are afraid to recognize that what Islam inculcates in these prisoners gives them an ideological framework, a justification, for their hostility to the circumambient “Infidel” society. Islam offers them a view of the universe in which the central theme is Us and Them — Muslims against all non-Muslims, with the duty of every Muslim to promote and protect only Islam, to be loyal only to fellow Muslims, to do whatever it takes to engage in the “Jihad” or “struggle” to remove all obstacles to the spread, and then the dominance, of Islam. And that “struggle” can, but need not where it is ineffective, include violence.

    These three incidents represents Canadian and American (provincial, CIA, FBI, Federal and State ) government’s Chickens coming home to roost’.

    It’s beyond high time this taxpayer funded terrorist entitlement breeding program known as ‘prison dawa’ come to an abrupt end.

    • Greyhound Fancier says

      Oct 26, 2014 at 7:06 pm

      It should be no surprise that prisons are good recruiting stations for Islam – what a deal for the felons! They can murder, rape, steal, all with “religious” approval.

  8. DaniEl says

    Oct 26, 2014 at 1:57 pm

    Global warming activist cries out, “Chop Cops, not trees!” as he executes vengeance with his glittering hatchet. #godlysarcasm

  9. profitsbeard says

    Oct 26, 2014 at 3:58 pm

    No amount of FBI warnings to be one the lookout for Sudden Jihad Syndrome attackers can prevent a sneak attack by a maniac in public with a weapon.

    Because it would mean watching out for practically everyone everywhere every time.

    An impossible task.

    All thanks to our “betters” insanely inviting the scourge of Islam into the West. primarily since the post-WW II period.

    After our warriors like Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski kept it out for 1300 years, suddenly everyone in academia, government, the military and the media, suddenly somehow forgot to teach the history of this imperialistic Death Cult and its assaults upon the West since 622 A.D.

    We reap what out “leaders” have sown: Islamic terror, murder and a future aiming toward their unleashed hell on Earth.

  10. gravenimage says

    Oct 26, 2014 at 5:49 pm

    Thompson wrote: “If the Zionists and the Crusaders had never invaded and colonized the Islamic lands after WW1, then there would be no need for Jihad! Which is better, to sit around and do nothing, or to Jihad fisabeelallah!”
    ………………………………..

    What absolute crap.

    Many Muslim lands were never colonized by the West—and some of those that were, like Algeria in the early 19th century—were entered by Western countries to *stop Jihad attacks* against us.

    And how common is this—that Muslim “grievances” are based, ultimately, on our daring to resist Jihad in the first place.

    Then there is the practical aspect—no colonial power—unless they want to falsely characterize Israel in this way—has any continuing rule in Dar-al-Islam.

    So the idea that Jihadists who are attacking American and Canadian soldiers and police are trying to resist Western colonial rule is completely false, since no Western colonialism continues to exist.

    • Rob says

      Oct 26, 2014 at 6:30 pm

      Libya is a good example of the double-speak on this.
      It was Italian for about 40 years and independent from the early 50s to the present day – about 70 years.
      At no time has Libya attempted to change the colonialist-dictated borders with its neighbours.
      Surely if the colonial presence was so wrong and demeaning the first thing to go would be the artificial and inappropriate borderlines.

    • Greyhound Fancier says

      Oct 26, 2014 at 7:11 pm

      No matter what atrocities Muslims commit, the Muslims are the victims. The videos attract the Muslims to come to Syria not because they want to defend fellow Muslims, but because they want to get in on the action (murder, rape, pillage).

      Islam – the Mafia of religions.

  11. Oliver says

    Oct 26, 2014 at 6:05 pm

    DeBlassio, from what I have read, is more anti-gun/ pro-gun control then Bloomberg was.

    Since this was done by a hatchet, will DeBlassio try to outlaw ( the sale and possession of) hatchets, in New York City, without permits? (Sarcastic question).

    (When Bloomberg was mayor, towards the end of his time, some wacko-i forgot where in NYC–used a knife to attack and injure a number of people. I do not recall if any were killed. But, there were comments, and I agreed with them (and, I am not a gun owner, and have not fired one since my discharge from the army reserves) but if one of the victims had had a gun, perhaps the carnage would have been less.

    Slightly off-but also a JW post- Canada- why was a soldier –admittedly guarding a memorial-not armed? Like the Ft Hood massacre-to me, makes no sense that a soldier should not have a weapon, while on duty.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Oct 26, 2014 at 6:24 pm

      You asked – “why was a soldier –admittedly guarding a memorial-not armed? Like the Ft Hood massacre-to me, makes no sense that a soldier should not have a weapon, while on duty.”

      Yes.

      *Especially* since Islamic State has sent out a general “call to arms” addressing *all* Muslim Fifth Columnists within non-Muslim lands.

      No matter what non-Muslim land they are in, the non-Muslim serving soldiers of that country should continue to proudly wear their uniforms wherever and whenever they have already been doing.

      BUT: no matter where they are, even if they are just on “ceremonial” duty such as standing beside the cenotaph of an Unknown Soldier, they should now have been authorised to carry a regulation weapon, loaded, at all times. No different from an armed cop. With the right and duty to use it if something like this NYC hatchet attack starts to happen.

      And to be frank, there should always be at least three of them together. Two soldiers together were run over; but when the hatchet jihadi attacked four cops, he got two, but then the *other two* got *him* before he could get any further.

      My own thought is that in our various countries each of us should be writing to relevant bodies – not only to our Defence ministers, but also to the returned soldiers’ or veterans’ associations – making this point clear: that we, as citizens of our countries, are proud of our soldiers; that we *like* to see them proudly wearing their uniforms; and that under present circumstances (and we must quote the relevant portion of that vile Islamic State incitation to bushwhack) we would be *prefer* to see our soldiers ambling about in groups of three or four **toting their weapons**.

      Veterans or returned soldiers’ associations – in Australia, for example, the RSL or Returned Servicemen’s League – should be kicking up a *huge* stink at the very idea that our enlisted men should doff their uniforms and slink about in civvies so as to not attract attacks from jihadi fifth columnists.

      It should be the other way around: all over the West and beyond the West our Infidel soldiers should be going about proudly in uniform – **with their weapons visible** – and the *jihadis* should be wetting their pants at the very thought of attracting the negative attention of an Infidel soldier or law enforcement officer.

      • Oliver says

        Oct 27, 2014 at 3:04 pm

        Dumble—

        i agree with you, about the military in uniform. ( Also, the weapons, which I had mentioned).

        Just a brief note:

        (My brother was almost 10 years older then me). When he was in the Air Force, then Air Force Reserve, (living in New York City, before the Giants and Dodgers moved to Cal.), they and the Yankees ALWAYS gave free admission to servicemen and women, in uniform. (And often –at the club’s or club owners expense–I guess) free or discounted refreshments ( and prices were much lower then now).

        many times, as a pre-teen (like 8, 9 10 or so, and a baseball fanatic) my brother and I would go to a ball game, and treated like royalty. AS WERE ALL OTHERS IN UNIFORM. And, during the summer, weekdays, there were usually many servicemen and women (in uniform) as attendance was usually low on those days, compared to weekends.

        The stadiums did not, as best I can figure out, make money off these people, but great PR, and showed a pride in our country.

        In my view, the McGovern demorats killed both.

  12. Wellington says

    Oct 26, 2014 at 6:10 pm

    A little knowledge is a bad thing. When accompanied by Muslimthink and a hatchet it tends to be an extra bad thing—–as here.

    But not to worry, folks. No, not at all. This incident has actually, really and absolutely nothing to do with Muslims. Virtually no tragedy or crime has anything to do with Muslims. Surely all should know this by now. Indeed, the poor dears, i.e., Muslims, are victims of, you guessed it, that great scourge of our age, Islamophobia.

    However, where Christianity is concerned, please consult Professor Strange of Skidmore for what should really worry you. Oh yeah, Christians aplenty are the real culprits, the true difficulty. Only bigots would point to Muslims as a problem. As for those who point to Christians as a major problem, they are simply realists. For backup on this matter, consult, let’s see now, not only Professor Strange but also the US military, NPR, CBC, BBC, The New York Times, the DOJ, the State Department, basically everyone and anyone at Georgetown University, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN——ah, the list is a very long one, is it not, of the many truthtellers in our age?

    On a more serious note, I would note that when parody mirrors reality a society is in pretty big damn trouble—–like now in America, in Canada, in Britain and in the West at large. Compliments of Islam and clueless Western dhimmis aplenty. The Age of Nonsense marches on.

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