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Ohio: Muslim “armed with knives” attempts to stab police at Columbus airport

Jan 8, 2015 12:11 pm By Robert Spencer

ohio-airport-shootingHe tried to stab a police officer. A search of his car turned up “suspicious items.” The Islamic State recently called upon Muslims in the West to attack police, and we have seen Muslims attack police recently in Canada and New York City. “Man armed with knives killed by police at Ohio airport: cops,” Sasha Goldstein, New York Daily News, January 8, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

A 41-year-old Ohio man armed with several knives tried to buy a plane ticket with a fake ID before being gunned down by police after lunging at an officer with a blade outside the Columbus airport, police said.

Hashim Hanif Ibn Abdul-Rasheed had parked illegally outside the ticketing terminal and was acting bizarrely as he tried to buy a ticket to an undisclosed location Wednesday afternoon. He showed off a woman’s ID to try and make the buy at one point before he was rebuffed, cops said.

Airport police called a tow truck to remove the illegally parked vehicle from the departures lane just before 1 p.m. Wednesday when Abdul-Rasheed returned.

“The man initially spoke with the officer then suddenly produced a knife and lunged at the officer, attempting to stab him,” the Port Columbus International Airport said in a statement. “The officer fired at the suspect, who momentarily dropped to the ground and then got back up and continued advancing towards the officer. A backup officer responded at which point the suspect quickly moved towards him with the knife forcing the officer to retreat backwards towards the terminal entrance where a third officer was positioned. The third officer shot multiple times, striking the suspect, ending the attack.”

When cops searched Abdul-Rasheed’s body, they discovered “additional knives.” Police called in a bomb squad to investigate the car and a search turned up “suspicious items,” officials said.

The entire incident was captured on surveillance video, police said. The shooting remains under investigation.

The disturbance caused some delays of just over an hour and an area of the ticketing lobby was closed off as the car was searched for explosives.

Police haven’t described the man’s motive….

Yes, what could his motive be? It’s totally baffling!

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  1. Angemon says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 12:20 pm

    Police haven’t described the man’s motive

    Wwell, maybe someone in the country that gave us the Pinkerton clan can come up with something…

  2. katnis says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 12:53 pm

    Gee, let’s guess. Insanity plea?

  3. Ann Inquirer says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 12:54 pm

    I am interested in race and prison. It is reported that 1/3 of black prisoners convert to Islam in there – people who were violent in the first place and this fascism fits their psychotic mindset. Names mean little as Islam is not a race, but by his name we know he is moslem.

  4. Nicu says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 1:02 pm

    And crappy German media tells us : People are afraid cos they don’t know Islam …

    WRONG : we are cos we KNOW Muslims !

  5. Charli Main says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 1:09 pm

    Obviously another, vile, racist, islmophobic attack on a poor, persecuted, mentally ill and disadvantaged Muslim by the police. Immediate demonstrations demanding the arrest of these vile, Islmophobic officers are in order. SARC

    • Budvarakbar says

      Jan 8, 2015 at 1:57 pm

      Go back and re-read the first paragraph — quoted here:

      “A 41-year-old Ohio man armed with several knives tried to buy a plane ticket with a fake ID before being gunned down by police after lunging at an officer with a blade outside the Columbus airport, police said.”

      Note several items:
      “Ohio man” — no mention of islam
      fake ID — I thought the article said a women’s ID — i.e. – what woman? —
      was the ID ‘fake’ or ‘ stolen’ – where is the Woman? her condition?
      The inversion in time of the events — “was gunned down” is stated prior to “lunging at an officer” — it appears to have have been two officers

      “a blade” — what the ‘ell kind of ‘blade’ – 2 inch pocket knife or 8 inch chef’s or hunting knife?

      No wonder this country is so eff’d up with this type of reporting!

      • Charli Main says

        Jan 8, 2015 at 2:40 pm

        “When cops searched Abdul-Rasheed’s body, they discovered “additional knives”
        Now let me see—– Abdul Rasheed is a good old fashioned Anglo Saxon name. Abdul Rasheed was most probably a White Anglo Saxon Protestant.
        Yep— there are a lot of non Muslims called Abdul Rasheed.

        • ed says

          Jan 8, 2015 at 2:47 pm

          full name” hasim hanif ibn Abdul rasheed ” so definatly not a mormom !

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 8, 2015 at 2:58 pm

        Charli Main is being sarcastic here. He understands what the article is about.

      • Medina says

        Jan 8, 2015 at 3:12 pm

        This news report comes up every hour with no mention of Islam or jihad. Now I see the truth. The media can say, “We reported that incident,” and technically that is true. Unfortunately, Islam is at war everywhere and the vague broadcasts I heard were from Fox on the radio. Disappointing, although Rush Limbaugh had some good commentary on the Paris massacre today.

  6. abad says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 1:12 pm

    Knives? What, was his scimitar previously confiscated from him?

  7. Salah says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 1:29 pm

    “The officer fired at the suspect, who momentarily dropped to the ground and then got back up…”

    Why is that? why didn’t the officer kill him from the first shot? a lack of training?
    To all our officers and defenders: Please, shoot to kill. One bullet, one man. That’s what you’re supposed to do.

    • Budvarakbar says

      Jan 8, 2015 at 1:59 pm

      So easily said!

    • Not so fast says

      Jan 8, 2015 at 10:19 pm

      You’ve been watching too many movies. Any firearm and ammo likely or reasonable to be routinely carried by police is not going to guarantee one shot one kill, no matter where that shot hits. There is specific training, and it sounds like they used it. Cop or not, if you feel your life is in immediate danger by one individual, it is not recommended you take just one shot. Police don’t empty a clip into a downed suspect, though, you clear his weapons and cuff him. If he gets up during the process more shots may be in order, as in this case where he resumed his attack, probably at very close range by that point. Another report I saw had three officers involved. It sounds like they handled it perfectly from details I’ve seen. This story seems to be getting less detailed rather than more detailed, though, and not everybody is even carrying the story for some reason.

  8. Georg says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 1:58 pm

    De Blasio must be outraged.

  9. gravenimage says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 3:08 pm

    Ohio: Muslim “armed with knives” attempts to stab police at Columbus airport
    …………………………….

    More and more Muslims are targeting police. And why? Because these are the people who protect Infidels against Jihadists—this is true whether any given officer understands anything about Jihad or not.

    It is also meant to additionally terrify Infidels in general. If Infidels know that Jihadists are going after police, military, and security forces with impunity, it spreads more fear.

    It is also a strong sign that Jihadists are further emboldened.

  10. isntlam says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 6:39 pm

    HuffPost reports attacker had bottles of urine in his car Could it be camel urine??

  11. Arthur says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 7:07 pm

    Good work Columbus police! I’m glad no one was hurt outside of the attacker! It sounds like they did everything exactly by the book and finally we have the perfect outcome. Too bad this seems to be the exception.

  12. Ronald Pearson says

    Jan 11, 2015 at 7:07 am

    A PROPOSAL FOR HELPING DEFEAT TERRORISM

    The recent terrorist massacre in France means something has to be done to alter the mindset of those Islamists bent on our destruction. The directive for this comes from many passages in the Koran advocating such action as:

    2:193-“Fight against them (unbelievers) until there is no dissension,
    and the religion is for Allah.”
    Fight until no other religion exists but Islam.”
    3:10-“Those who disbelieve, neither their riches nor their children shall save them from Allah. They shall become the fuel of the fire.”

    Are these the sources of home grown terrorists?

    Toleration cannot include those who openly state their determination to destroy us. Therefore we need to insist on the removal of all passages of hate from those holy books.

    Now, although not so bad, similar texts exist in the Christian Bible and they also need deletion. For example, James 1st had the following text inserted in the Bible:
    “Never suffer a witch to live.”
    This resulted in anyone seeming to have psychic ability being branded a witch and burned at the stake.

    Until now any revision has been out of the question owing to the danger of undermining a system that relies on belief and faith alone.

    Fortunately, owing to recent developments in physics, this danger no longer exists. This is because the main tenets of all religions are now supportable from a scientific base. This basis has achieved peer-review and publication in scientific journals (see: http://www.bigbreed.org). Those main tenets are survival of the soul and the existence of a creator. Tolerance and love can now replace antagonism and hate.

    The proposal is that the Archbishop of Canterbury organises a Church referendum to ask followers whether all hate arousing passages should be deleted from the Bible.
    The point is that if the Christians are prepared to do this then the Moslems are placed under a moral obligation to do likewise.

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