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UAE: Muslima held in stabbing of US teacher also left bomb at home of American doctor

Dec 4, 2014 12:32 pm By Robert Spencer

UAE Muslima“The stabbing comes on the heels of a security warning from the U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi in late October, advising Americans of a ‘recent anonymous posting on a Jihadist website that encouraged attacks against teachers at American and other international schools in the Middle East.'”

An update on this story. “UAE police arrest suspect in stabbing death of American teacher,” FoxNews.com, December 4, 2014:

The United Arab Emirates’ interior minister said Thursday that police have arrested a female suspect in the killing of an American schoolteacher in an upscale Abu Dhabi mall.

After carrying out the murder at the Boutik Mall on the capital’s Reem Island, the attacker also left a makeshift bomb at the house of a 46-year-old Egyptian-American doctor in the prominent waterfront Corniche area, authorities revealed.

One of the doctor’s sons discovered the device as he headed out for sunset prayers at a local mosque, and police were able to dismantle it before it could cause any damage, Interior Minister Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan said.

The bomb, which authorities described as primitive, included small gas cylinders, a lighter, glue and nails.

Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is also deputy prime minister, said the attacker targeted her victims based on their nationality alone in an attempt to create chaos and terrorize the country. He called the stabbing a crime that is “alien to our secure country.”

“The victim of this brutal crime was a schoolteacher who was committed to building strong future generations,” he told reporters.

Police said the teacher was stabbed to death Monday by an attacker wearing the full black veil commonly worn by women throughout the Gulf Arab region.

The identity of the attacker has not yet been revealed, but the teacher who was killed was identified Wednesday by the recruiting firm who placed her.

Ben Glickman, CEO of Canadian-based Footprints Recruiting, confirmed to FoxNews.com that the victim was Ibolya Ryan, 47, the mother of 11-year-old twin boys.

Ryan was Hungarian, born in Romania, and later became an American citizen. She trained in the U.S. as a teacher before being assigned to the United Arab Emirates in September 2013, Glickman said.

The boys’ father, from whom Ryan was divorced, flew to the UAE to collect the boys, Glickman said.

The stabbing comes on the heels of a security warning from the U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi in late October, advising Americans of a “recent anonymous posting on a Jihadist website that encouraged attacks against teachers at American and other international schools in the Middle East…..

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  1. somehistory says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 12:45 pm

    Aren’t women in muslim countries, like this one, restricted as to where and when and with whom they can go? This one, if it is in fact, a woman, seems to be breaking all of those rules of sharia…or islamophobia as the video on OIC explains the word.
    As others mentioned on the other thread, this person in the body bag moves like a male rather than female. In any case, how can he or she be identified for prosecution?
    These *cases* could be used as reason for banning this body bag from countries where sharia has not yet overtaken the law.

    • mariam rove says

      Dec 4, 2014 at 12:55 pm

      Aren’t women in muslim countries, like this one, restricted as to where and when and with …

      Hi! No they are not. It is mainly in Saudi Arabia. Women in other muslim countries have slightly better movements. M

      • somehistory says

        Dec 4, 2014 at 1:07 pm

        Hi, Mr. Rove,

        Thank you. I appreciate the clarification. Every day, I learn something new, or am reminded of something forgotten. Have a great day and thanks again.

        • mariam rove says

          Dec 4, 2014 at 1:11 pm

          Sure. Any time. I know a lot about Islam. I was born and raised one. M

        • somehistory says

          Dec 4, 2014 at 1:22 pm

          I have learned a lot from your comments on this site. I’m glad you found a way out. I met another young man who left islam for Christianity and he and his wife have had to fear his family from then on. It takes courage to leave.

      • Darren says

        Dec 5, 2014 at 11:44 am

        I never knew that, and I have read many of your comments. My respect for the courage it took to make that leap knowing you are putting your life at risk.

    • Salah says

      Dec 4, 2014 at 1:49 pm

      It’s OK to break Sharia law as long as innocent blood is shed.

      Check out this video – SODOMY allowed for the sake of Allah!!!

      http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2012/07/wide-anus-for-allah-anus-large-pour.html

      • cs says

        Dec 4, 2014 at 2:23 pm

        That is disturbing. Or it is an excuse for gay sex anyways.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 5, 2014 at 2:52 pm

        Salah wrote:

        It’s OK to break Sharia law as long as innocent blood is shed.
        ………………………….

        *Very* important point, Salah. Jihadists in the West have engaged in shaving their beards, drinking alcohol, and going to strip clubs to deflect attention from their activities and to convince their victims that they are “moderate” Muslims.

  2. mariam rove says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 1:34 pm

    Islam is based on fear. I was 19 when I left Iran. While the airport in Tehran my dad pulled me a side and said” What ever you don’t bring me back an American wife”. Sure enough I married a blond hair blue eye non practicing Catholic born and bred in California! My did not talk to for month. The he called me wanting to know her name her parents name her age all kind stuff like that and I did. But I was wondering why he wanted to know all of it but I did not ask him. My my wife was not a convert to Islam, he married us in Iran in absentia according to Sharia laws!!! And the reason: So our kid would not be born bastards!!!!

    The Muslim and Islamic mentally is so screwed up that is mind bugling. m

    • nothosaur says

      Dec 5, 2014 at 1:47 pm

      Mariam Rove,

      Married in absentia?!?!

      That’s completely new to me. Is that practice found only in Shiite sharia or also in Sunni sharia? Is there much of a difference in the two sharia systems anyway? (apart from some strong disagreements about Aisha and Ali)

      I knew that consent was not an issue in marriage, but how would they even know that you are still Muslim at the time of the marriage?

      Thanks for the stories about Iran: they’re fascinating.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 5, 2014 at 3:05 pm

        nothosaur wrote:

        Married in absentia?!?!

        That’s completely new to me…
        ………………………

        I hadn’t heard of that one, either, Nothasaur. But I do know that weddings where the bride is absent are not uncommon in Dar-al-Islam. The “Mehram”—essentially the woman’s owner, usually her father—and husband-to-be sign the Nikah contract, making it Islamically lawful for the husband to f*ck the woman. This is followed by a male-only celebration. The bride is then dropped off so that the husband can consumate the marriage.

        This sounds grim beyond belief.

  3. Elizabeth says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 1:42 pm

    Looks like the grim reaper gliding across the floor.

    • Champ says

      Dec 4, 2014 at 2:09 pm

      LOL!! 😀

  4. duh_swami says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 2:13 pm

    Are they sure they got the right man? If this teacher was targeted, how did the killer know she was in the rest room?

    • Ashley says

      Dec 4, 2014 at 2:57 pm

      duh_swami…I have the same questions. It all seems so very odd.

      It appears Ryan was targeted based solely upon her nationality. “Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is also deputy prime minister, said the attacker targeted her victims based on their nationality alone in an attempt to create chaos and terrorize the country.”

      Who entered the mall first? Did the perp wait in the restroom for a “Western” woman to enter, or did she follow Ryan into the restroom? Did the video indicate that Ryan was being stalked? If Ryan didn’t enter the restroom, would another victim that fit “the profile” been attacked?

      I’m also confused by the attack taking place in such a public venue, There was clearly some traffic in that mall. I don’t understand why the perp wasn’t apprehended before exiting the mall. She had been momentarily confronted by security, boarded the elevator, and simply walked out without incident.

      Of course, if the motive was to inspire chaos and terror, the perp may very well have succeeded in her objective.

  5. Jaladhi says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 2:33 pm

    These are the peaceful Muslims that our media, CAIR, and our leaders so fondly talk about and they are never ever ready to admit that “ts the religion stupid” that inspires Muslims to kill non-Muslims. Morons, when will they wake up, if ever!! These people are just as brain dead as the Muslims!!

  6. ghostoftolkien says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 2:48 pm

    Hmmm. So if a Muslim MAN dies for the “cause” and is received into paradise by 72 virgins, what awaits the WOMAN who commits same?

    Awkwaaaard!

  7. Truth says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 2:53 pm

    Any non-Muslim living in a Muslim country is asking for death.

  8. Hindu American says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 2:59 pm

    Something doesn’t smell right (and it is not just the burqa).

    “The bomb, which authorities described as primitive, included small gas cylinders, a lighter, glue and nails.”

    Where did the pious muslima get hold of these items of daily use which are usually found in a jihadi household? I am not sure if Amazon delivers these to your home in UAE.

    Just sayin’.

  9. R Cole says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 3:24 pm

    Abu Dhabi police video here:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSefyJ0U04E

    A Danish man was shot in Saudi as well. IS is apparently claiming responsibility.

    A Canadian man was stabbed in a shopping mall in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Province over the weekend. Police arrested the assailant, but the motive remains unknown.

    Trend emerging?

    A fourth Western expat has been attacked in Saudi Arabia in the past month after a Canadian man was stabbed on Saturday.

    A Danish resident was injured last week when he was shot as he left his office in Riyadh during broad daylight.

    Last month, an American man was shot and killed and his co-worker was wounded during an attack also in the capital. [Arabian Business]

    A few years ago they were outright killing westerners in Saudi Arabia. Now there is IS – but is this a return to the al Shabab separate the Muslims from the Christians slaughter – that we once saw in Arabia – when a entire compound of expats was taken over.

    It looks wicked ~ in the Biblical sense.

    • Twostellas says

      Dec 4, 2014 at 3:43 pm

      The powers that be also tried to cover up the Canadian being murdered, only said “died suddenly”…the family didn’t even know, it seems, what really happened until the Islamists posted his passport and documents online. So….I would gtfo of any Muslim country if I was there, pronto. Not. Worth. It! (Not to mention you are propping them up, and teaching their kids English etc so they can come murder your kids when they get grown.)

    • Ashley says

      Dec 4, 2014 at 3:50 pm

      Yes…it very well could be a trend emerging. Random attacks in public venues cannot be easily predicted, and thus are more terrifying.

      I’ve watched the video several times and still can’t understand how she walked out of that mall. There appeared to be a security doorman at the entrance to the mall when she entered, but no indication of an attempt to apprehend her…she simply took her leave.

      Strange shit.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 5, 2014 at 3:14 pm

      It *is* a trend. There was a recent article in Time Magazine about Westerners being targeted in Kabul.

      “Losing Kabul: A Bombing’s Legacy”

      http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1703984,00.html

      This is happening all over the Muslim world right now. Traveling to Dar-al-Islam has always been dangerous, but it is increasingly more so.

  10. Twostellas says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 3:35 pm

    Pure evil. Period.

    • Champ says

      Dec 4, 2014 at 4:49 pm

      Describes the whole of islam.

  11. Jeanne says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 8:24 pm

    UAE is calling this a terrorist attack:

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/04/abu-dhabi-treats-u-s-teacher-s-murder-as-terrorist-attack.html

    Enjoy the video.

    • Ashley says

      Dec 4, 2014 at 10:03 pm

      Jeanne…thanks for the updated video

      Does the UAE routinely capture and release their work on video camera?

      LOL…still trying to figure this one out while wondering why I’m so drawn in. If the video time-stamps are accurate, this crazed woman was at the mall for some four hours.

      I’ll be most interested if and when her identity is revealed…

  12. Anne Willett says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 5:30 am

    If it wasn’t so shocking it would be laughable, wouldn’t it ……..A terribly-awfully-hugely-whopping big number of people to kill in this world by those who loathe every other soul who does not follow their sickeningly twisted idea of God and his demands and so-called “rewards”(?) May the family, especially the lady’s young sons, live to find true peace in this world and in the memory of their very precious Mum.

  13. Ashley says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 1:45 pm

    The perp’s name is Dalal al Hashemi…

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 5, 2014 at 4:14 pm

      Ashley wrote:

      The perp’s name is Dalal al Hashemi…
      ……………………………..

      Yes, Ashley—and it seems she had “friends”:

      “Police: Abu Dhabi Suspect in Ibolya Ryan Killing Didn’t Act Alone”

      http://abcnews.go.com/International/abu-dhabi-arrests-suspect-stabbing-american-teacher/story?id=27359238

      I’d also look at the mall security guard—from the video, it certainly looks as though he was abetting the murder.

      • Ashley says

        Dec 5, 2014 at 6:55 pm

        Yes, graven…the security guard DOES appear to be abetting.

        There is something “off” about this story. Did these two women know each other prior to the attack? There have been reports that the two women “had a fight” in the restroom prior to the stabbing.

        I almost sense this was a “hit.”

  14. gravenimage says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 4:17 pm

    UAE: Muslima held in stabbing of US teacher also left bomb at home of American doctor
    ……………………………..

    Jihad against doctors and kindergarten teachers.

    God, I hate Islam.

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