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Austin, Texas: Bomb threats against mosque turn out to have come from a Muslim

Feb 21, 2015 2:25 pm By Robert Spencer

Baytie-2c-Azzam-2-1-61-MyFox Austin reported a few days ago that Muslims in Austin were assuming this was an anti-Muslim hate crime, quoting a local Muslim who said: “Muslims, we are not discouraged in our worship of God if anything it draws us closer to God.” But now it comes out that the man who issued the threats was a Muslim. The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other Muslims have on many occasions in the past not hesitated to stoop even to fabricating “hate crimes,” including attacks on mosques. CAIR and other groups like it want and need hate crimes against Muslims, because they can use them for political points and as weapons to intimidate people into remaining silent about the jihad threat.

“Man arrested following business, mosque bomb threats,” KVUE.com, February 20, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

AUSTIN — A man in his 50s is accused of making bomb threats at a Muslim business and the community center where he was staying Tuesday, according to a Travis County arrest affidavit.

According to the Austin Police Department, 54-year-old Azzam Ahmed Baytie made two bomb threats at a North Austin Muslim Community Center and a Middle Eastern-style food truck near the Arab Cowboy Cafe and Hookah Lounge. The community center is in North Austin, and the cafe is located in West Campus.

Staff at the community center called Austin-Travis County EMS just after 7 a.m. Tuesday. They said the man had some kind of medical issue, possibly psychiatric problems.

According to the arrest affidavit, police found Baytie rolling around the ground in front the community center. Baytie told medics he had taken five Ambilify to harm himself, a drug that treats schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression.

On the way to the hospital, police said the man told EMS workers he put bombs at the two locations. Investigators did not find explosive devices at either location.

Officers evacuated about 50 students from the apartment complex behind the cafe in West Campus.

Baytie is charged with terroristic threat, a third-degree felony.

Baytie was previously found guilty of making a terroristic threat and criminal trespassing after a 2008 incident at the same mosque at the North Austin Muslim Community Center. Baytie reportedly told police he had a bomb in his backpack. Authorities scanned the backpack with an X-ray machine and found electronic parts inside, prompting them to destroy the backpack as a precaution.

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", claiming victim status, hate crimes, mosques Tagged With: Austin, Azzam Ahmed Baytie, North Austin Muslim Community Center, texas


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  1. Joseph says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 2:30 pm

    Simple solution, get rig of ALL the mosques here in the U.S.A., U.K. and the E.U. and they won’t have to worry about any attacks.
    They also won’t have anywhere to plan attacks on innocents either.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 22, 2015 at 2:21 am

      They will have to start by putting government agents in all mosques to monitor sermons, literature handed out and take pictures of all in attendance and follow them to see who their contacts are.

      Eventually, many of the spies will write books about the conspiracy that they saw. There will be TV shows and films about the infiltration!

      Muslims bring this on themselves.

    • M S case says

      Feb 22, 2015 at 7:35 pm

      Outlaw the Koran and the mosques and islam itself……………..Ha….. does anyone think that could happen

      I posted earlier that the muslims will soon start burning, bombing, threatening but trying to make officials believe it was islamophobes that are doing it. This is only the beginning.

      • particolor says

        Feb 22, 2015 at 7:49 pm

        Waddya mean soon Start ?

  2. jayell says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 2:53 pm

    We seem to get this sort of thing wherever you get Muslims, USA, UK, Canada, Australia. Usually it’s explained as the pretext for a predicable claim of victimhood to deflect public anger after some muslim atrocity, but I wonder if there isn’t an element of ‘projection’ here. i.e., this is the sort of thing THEY would do against an unwelcome minority or after an atrocity, this is the sort of thing that ‘should’ happen; so when it DOESN’T happen, they ‘invent’ it. Shows their mentality.

    • katnis says

      Feb 21, 2015 at 3:16 pm

      Yes. We see a clear pattern here.

    • abad says

      Feb 21, 2015 at 7:19 pm

      Projection is correct, they engage in so much projection because they are afflicted with the mental illness known as Islam.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Feb 21, 2015 at 11:19 pm

      I think you nailed it.

      Projection.

      They *expect* to be attacked, **because it is what THEY would do – and do in fact do – if the boot were on the other foot**.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 22, 2015 at 2:23 am

      Bingo. ‘Psychological projection’.

      It’s what they want to do to kafirs.

    • jayell says

      Feb 22, 2015 at 9:05 am

      Thanks for the replies. Perhaps I’ve got something more or less right at last! What does concern me about this ‘projection’ business is how it relates to their perception of the western ‘kuffar’ as a result of the way in which we respond to their innate aggression (or ‘aggressive bigotry’?) and their consequent behaviour. It’s all very obvious, really. Basically, if they (being ‘themselves’) would normally anticipate a correspondingly violent, hysterical reaction to the many violent atrocities that they have committed in the West, how would they, by projection, interpret the characteristically more restrained, controlled, civilised response that they usually get? By projecting their savage mentalities onto that scenario, would not that be read as abject, supine weakness? Which would then be taken as a green light for yet MORE atrocities (‘look what we can get away with!)? Is it realistic to expect that they would learn to respect western values and abide by our standards of civilised behaviour and personal respect? Here in the UK they’ve over 50 years to ‘learn the ropes’, yet we’ve had 7/7 in recent years and more recently the appalling sex-gang scandal on a national scale, and that’s not all. They are clearly NOT learning, because clearly they don’t want to be bothered. Time to fight fire with fire?

  3. Georg says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 3:17 pm

    That’s it, I’m cancelling my reservation at the Arab Cowboy Cafe.

    • JamesonRocks says

      Feb 21, 2015 at 7:11 pm

      “Arab Cowboy Cafe” – Just gotta love Texas!

      • Georg says

        Feb 21, 2015 at 7:30 pm

        LOL, if we’re not free I’m not sure who is… Want a quiet afternoon? Try the Arab Cowboy Café!

        • particolor says

          Feb 22, 2015 at 4:39 am

          Hitch Ya Hoss Mohammud and mosey on in fer a Game a Poke Her !!

      • Betty says

        Feb 22, 2015 at 7:02 pm

        Arab Cowboy Cafe? who came up with that name? to name any thing after the very people that want to chop off your head. some one has really lost it. I wouldn’t name a dog or hog after them. SICK, i TELL YOU JUST SICK.

  4. XswampyX says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 3:27 pm

    I like where you’re going Jayell, but I think he’s just some troubled person. Muslim or not, we all have our cross to bear.
    I agree that it is strange when they somehow manage to kill 50 kafirs, and then. Only 2 seconds later a muslim in an internet cafe, somewhere, hears somebody talking in the next room, over a skype call say something , repeating a rumour of someone saying something bad about mohammed! The HORROR!
    The coincidences can’t be ignored!.. It must be a worldwide conspiracy against the minority of 1.6 billion!

    You are not alone my friend. 😀 If you believe the narrative in the media then you are lost.

  5. Charli Main says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 3:33 pm

    Ah shucks—-all those poor Muslim victims.
    For 1400 years they have been forced to defend themselves from the vicious attacks of non Muslims.
    Just what did all those vicious Christians, Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists have against Muslims??
    Why couldn´t they see, that all the Muslims wanted to do, was peacefully practice their religion ??? If only all the Kaffirs had allowed them to rape their women and children, loot all their possessions and turn their holy places into mosques, the poor Muslims wouldn´t have been forced to defend themselves.

  6. Betty says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 4:17 pm

    Georg please cancel mine while you are at it…..Thanks

  7. Champ says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 4:20 pm

    But now it comes out that the man who issued the threats was a Muslim.

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

    Certainly CAIR and Company will be *all* over this story by chastising their own and going public with an apology for accusing non-muslims of a hate crime / sarc.

  8. More Ham Ed says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 4:24 pm

    Will there be any acknowledgment from Don’t-CAIR – no, just crickets.

  9. Joseph says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 4:59 pm

    THIS GUY SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED. What was his motive? If it was to incite a riot he should be charged as such. He also should also be given a maximum sentence, with no early parole then maybe these false “attacks” be slow down to a trickle. Let them rot in prison, in solitary so they won’t be able to recruit new followers.

  10. Dexter L. Wilson says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 5:21 pm

    This is consistent with the fact that the Muslim can lie to an infidel.

  11. Wellington says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 6:05 pm

    As someone who is completely non-religious, I find it highly interesting and telling that Christians and Jews usually go out of their way not to claim victim status, even though many times doing so would be fully justified, but Muslims, ad nauseam, go out of their way to very much claim victim status, even though such claims are ordinarily bogus, all the while fellow Muslims aplenty across the world are creating true victims en masse for the great crime of not being Muslim at all or for not being Muslim enough.

    Islam has a multitude of sick characteristics. One of the sicker characteristics is its proclivity to seek victim status at the drop of a hat. This exercise in self-pity, which is so Islamic, functions, I submit, as just one more reason to disrespect the worst religion ever created in all of mankind’s history.

    • terry says

      Feb 21, 2015 at 7:07 pm

      “the worst religion ever created in all of mankind’s history.”

      Absolutely true! I may also add, given the numbers and its relatively long period of existence, that it’s the biggest lie humanity ever encountered and still is disastrously suffering from, something I have been saying, for at least the last 27 years.

  12. Dave J says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 9:44 pm

    The combination of an exquisite sensitivity to cartoons or criticism and a willingness to fabricate imagined insults and injuries, together with a quick temper and resort to violence reveals a pathological schism in the mental outlook of the true believers.

    In other words, they act like 3 year-olds.

  13. Dave J says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 9:45 pm

    Actually, that would be unfair to most 3 year-olds.

  14. Bezelel says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 9:50 pm

    I wonder what a “muslim psychiatrist” would say about his behavior.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 22, 2015 at 2:30 am

      what would a “muslim psychiatrist” would say about his behavior?

      He would say, ‘Too bad you were caught. It would have helped Allah! Allah is the best of plotters.’

  15. Baucent says

    Feb 22, 2015 at 2:53 am

    Clearly a schizophrenic with a dual personality, a peaceful devout muslim and the violent Islamophobe. Perhaps Major Hassan could help him? Or a least a visit to the “Hookah Lounge” would be therapeutic.

  16. Rita says

    Feb 22, 2015 at 4:48 am

    When it threatens it’s most likely muslim.
    When it explodes it’s most certainly muslim.

  17. Angemon says

    Feb 22, 2015 at 7:04 am

    They said the man had some kind of medical issue, possibly psychiatric problems.

    That seems to be a trend among muslims…

    • Bezelel says

      Feb 22, 2015 at 9:54 am

      Maybe he’s one of those right wingers we keep hearing about.

    • Peggy says

      Feb 23, 2015 at 8:32 pm

      Must the inbreeding.
      Muslims are more than ready to kill their own if they can get away with saying that others have done it.
      They done this in Sarajevo. The world heard that the mortars into the market came from Serbian positions only to have that discredited. By this time it was too late. The world knew that Serbs targeted innocent Muslim civilians in the market. Killing your own in order to blame the enemy is normal routine for Muslims.
      Hamas hides among the civilians and launces strikes against Israel from there and when civilians die because those positions beinb bombed in retaliation, Israel is blamed for killing civilians.
      Why do so many people get taken in by their lies?

  18. Chrissie07 says

    Feb 22, 2015 at 8:56 am

    Hurray, how wonderful, Islam is a one-man show. One is doing the menacing, while the others are doing the exploding and killing justified by these threats.
    They don’t need us. They should live among themselves.

  19. Jeff says

    Feb 22, 2015 at 12:58 pm

    Surprise, surprise, surprise…

  20. particolor says

    Feb 22, 2015 at 7:58 pm

    ” A Double Bacon Burger and an Irish Coffee Please !!” 🙂

  21. Psycho says

    Feb 23, 2015 at 1:12 am

    Thank you to Chrissie07 for your prediction that the Islamic world, if left alone, would fight among themselves. History shows you are absolutely right. Before Western nations started interfering in their conflicts, misinterpreting their urges to overthrow secular tyrants as ‘Our shared values’ (Mitt Romney) and as being pro-democracy, and kidding themselves you can negotiate with Dogmatic Muslims, the Islamic world had been engaging in internal infighting for centuries. Sunnis versus Shi’ites, etc. Our mistake has been to try to engage, or combat, or control them, thus they unite against a common enemy.
    Best to return all Muslims (not just known extremists) back to countries already blighted by a Muslim majority, leaving the other countries (those currently with a Muslim minority) as totally Islam-Fred zones. Then the non-Muslim world would continue progressing (albeit with strict border controls) while the Muslim world would likely continue going backward, until it self-destructed. O happy day!!

  22. Proud English Infidel says

    Feb 23, 2015 at 7:39 am

    Police in London have found a bomb inside a mosque. However, the public needn’t worry as it has been pushed back inside….when it went off, two muzzies making a curry were injured. One has a dicky Tikka and the other’s in a Korma.

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