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Shoe bomber: “I do believe my actions to have been permissible in Islamic law”

Feb 4, 2015 10:46 pm By Robert Spencer

REID“Kim Mehlman-Orozco, a researcher and board member at the Justitia Institute, which researches criminal and social justice issues, said her team was not surprised Reid had maintained his militant views after over a decade behind bars.” Of course. No one should be surprised, because nothing is done in prison to disabuse people like Reid of their “militant views.” On the contrary: they’re reinforced and buttressed by the extravagant respect and deference that prison officials are ordered to pay to the Qur’an.

“Richard Reid, The ‘Shoe Bomber,’ Says Failed Bombing Was Okay Under Islamic Law,” by Alex Dobuzinskis, Reuters, February 3, 2015 (thanks to Benedict):

More than 13 years after his failed attempt to blow up a passenger plane with explosives hidden in his shoes, Richard Reid told U.S. researchers he believes his actions were permissible under Islamic law, according to correspondence released on Tuesday.

Reid, who is serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Colorado because of the attack, was foiled in his 2001 bid to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami when passengers and crew overpowered him as he tried to ignite explosives in his shoes.

The attempted attack in December 2001 came as Americans were on heightened alert following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on U.S. targets, and prompted federal officials to institute stricter security rules for travelers requiring airline passengers to run their shoes through a screening device.

“I do believe my actions to have been permissible in Islamic law, although I admit that many people would dispute that and disagree with me on that point,” Reid wrote in one of a series of letters with researchers from the Virginia-based Justitia Institute who reached out to him last June.

“However, at the same time I also believe that it wasn’t supposed to happen, not because it was displeasing to God … and rather because (a) it was not either my time to die nor that of those on the plane with me and (b) He had other plans for me which include my staying in prison,” he wrote in a letter signed with the name Abdur-Raheem.

Reid, a British citizen who is now 41, pleaded guilty in 2002 to multiple charges including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted murder.

Kim Mehlman-Orozco, a researcher and board member at the Justitia Institute, which researches criminal and social justice issues, said her team was not surprised Reid had maintained his militant views after over a decade behind bars.

“It speaks to the level of motivation, because it defies time, it defies rationality, it supersedes his will to live, his will for freedom,” she said in a phone interview.

Saif Inam, policy analyst at the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Washington, D.C., said Reid’s contention that his attempted attack was allowed by Islamic law was “100 percent, unequivocally, theologically untenable.”

But — as is almost always the case in articles like these — he didn’t explain how.

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  1. Salah says

    Feb 4, 2015 at 11:03 pm

    “…the extravagant respect and deference that prison officials are ordered to pay to the Qur’an.”

    This is how Egyptian Muslims “pay respect” to the Qur’an, after using their brains, that is.

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2014/01/egyptian-muslims-tear-up-quran.html

    • kikorikid says

      Feb 5, 2015 at 6:43 pm

      Obama appointed a head “Imam” from the Muslim Brotherhood
      to a position where he “Vets” ALL Chaplain-Imam’s to the US Military
      and all Federal Prisons. Reid has been getting lots of support.

      • BeenThere says

        Feb 7, 2015 at 11:22 am

        This is also true within many State prison systems. It started out slowly but is quite common now.

  2. William Lucas HarveyJr. says

    Feb 4, 2015 at 11:41 pm

    The Key absurd statement from Reid on the failed Bombing being “OK” is “In Islamic Law”.

    Aside from NOT being “OK”, for a rational Human (but again Muslim Islamic Jihadists are NOT Rational, and it’s debatable that they are even “Human Beings”), it’s NOT “OK” in the Laws of the Countries Reid’s Flight was in (Paris, France, and Miami, U.S.A.), as if any “Rational” Human would ever think that it ever would be “OK”.

    However, these Muslim, Islamic types, always seem to think that Islamic Law, Mohammed, and the Qur’an, supersedes the Laws of ANY Country in the World, with their goal to being Islam and Islamic Law to the World.

    They believe that if their “Goal” of World Domination, cannot be accomplished through non forceful “Stealth Jihad”, i.e. Islamic Lying and Deception (“Taqyyia” and “Kitman”), then accomplish it through brutal bloody force if needed.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Feb 5, 2015 at 9:13 am

      There is a slight trap involved in Western discussion of what muslims “believe”.
      What they BELIEVE is strictly limited to what they are INSTRUCTED to believe. No rational weighing up is involved or permitted:
      “It is not fitting for a Believer, man or woman, when a matter has been decided by Allah and His Messenger to have any option about their decision.” Koran 33:36
      We have to remember that no freedom of conscience is available.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Feb 5, 2015 at 9:35 am

      Muslims are INSTRUCTED that Sharia overrides man-made law:
      “If we are practicing muslims we are above the law of the land.”
      Mustafa Carroll, Director of CAIR, Texas
      http://www.barenakedislam.com/
      Muslims are INSTRUCTED to achieve world domination “by persuasion or by force” (Ibn Khaldun).
      “Fight and kill the unbelievers until Islam is the only governance”, Koran 8:39, part of Islamic law.
      It is not a matter of being rational: it is a matter of submission.

  3. MKG says

    Feb 5, 2015 at 12:44 am

    “I do believe my actions to have been permissible in Islamic law,”

    That ass woopin you got on that plane by the other passengers was permissible by human decency.

    • B.W.-S. says

      Feb 5, 2015 at 2:55 am

      Beautifully put MKG !!
      Couldn’t have said it better…!!

    • M S case says

      Feb 5, 2015 at 1:50 pm

      This is just the mindset of people like that….They still think islam is a religion and not a murdering cult as it actually is. and it will never change till the so-called moderate muslims, if there are any, wakes up and takes back the hijacked islam from the radicals……which will probably never happen

      • Roy C says

        Feb 5, 2015 at 6:32 pm

        Good god man – you’re using the Obama – Kerry – Clinton line about Islam being hijacked by radicals. It IS a religion and Reid along with Boko Haram and ISIL are dead on with their beliefs. Read any of the prophet’s Median writings before spouting this nonsense. It fully justifies what these monsters are doing.

        • kikorikid says

          Feb 5, 2015 at 7:05 pm

          Islam is a Totalitarian-Supremacist ideology that operates behind
          a veneer/façade of religiosity.

  4. Michael Copeland says

    Feb 5, 2015 at 3:01 am

    IN PRAISE OF VIGILANCE

    For harm, for harm, for maximum harm,
    Was the bomb that he hid in his shoe.
    To kill for Islam, and be killed for Islam,
    A devotional act to do.

    When he boarded the plane there were splashes of rain
    Which had an effect on the fuse.
    It failed to ignite, and others caught sight
    Of the terrorist lighting his shoes.

    The passengers leapt into action.
    One pounced and grappled him tight.
    Pinned to the floor by a hero and more,
    He was forced the dust to bite.

    He meant to deprive all the others of life,
    All ties with the world to sever.
    Now jailed for life, where life means life.
    He won’t be released. Not ever.

    • kikorikid says

      Feb 5, 2015 at 7:13 pm

      The Quran explicitly states, “Use all stratagems of War”.

      • M S case says

        Feb 5, 2015 at 10:36 pm

        @ Roy Please understand that lislam IS NOT AND NEVER WILL BE A RELIGION it is a murderous cult and should be banned along with their murder approval hate book the Koran.
        Please NOTE I said” if there are any moderate muslims’ THEN THEY SHOULD TAKE UP THE SWORD AND WIPE OUT THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TAKEN OVER THEIR SO-CALLED RELIGION if you or I wrote such a book..got a following built places of worship preached murder
        and hate and the take over of all other peoples beliefs then we would be put under the jail.. ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION it is a cult.When you can understand that you will understand the nature of islam and their ideology.

        • M S case says

          Feb 5, 2015 at 10:42 pm

          muslims, are killing each other but not at the rate needed to eliminate them

        • Roy C says

          Feb 9, 2015 at 9:12 pm

          So Islam is not an actual religion -well all I can say is that 1.2 billion earthlings happen to believe otherwise. You want to say that it’s also a murderous cult fine – no argument here. The point is that you have no standing to make this bizarre claim. Of course Islam is totally bat-crap crazy and the Qur’an is a ludicrous joke. Atheists make the same argument against Christianity and the bible. Wake up!

  5. Angemon says

    Feb 5, 2015 at 7:29 am

    Reid, who is serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Colorado because of the attack

    They should have just tossed him off the plane…

    • Keith says

      Feb 5, 2015 at 4:13 pm

      Just what I thought.

  6. Michael Copeland says

    Feb 5, 2015 at 9:36 am

    Remember what the judge said:
    You are not an enemy combatant. You are a terrorist.
    You are not a soldier in any war. You are a terrorist.
    To give you that reference, to call you a soldier, gives you far too much stature. Whether the officers of government do it or your attorney does it, or if you think you are a soldier, you are not. You are a terrorist.
    And we do not negotiate with terrorists.
    We do not meet with terrorists.
    We do not sign documents with terrorists.
    We hunt them down one by one and bring them to justice.
    So war talk is way out of line in this court.
    You are a big fellow. But you are not that big.
    You’re no warrior. I’ve known warriors. You are a terrorist.
    A species of criminal that is guilty of multiple attempted murders.
    You are no big deal.
    http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/4733-what-the-judge-said-to-the-shoe-bomber

    • M S case says

      Feb 5, 2015 at 2:13 pm

      Looks like we need to go back to the ‘OLD WEST DAYS'” FOR THESE TERRORIST.

  7. Mr Pendle says

    Feb 5, 2015 at 11:03 am

    First, this is one ugly bastard. Second, anybody seen a “Clockwork Orange”? Well, that’s what’s needed here. Maybe Robert should visit him for 3 months everyday and hit him with a lot facts about Islam. The main one being “did Muhammad exist”. Maybe that will work but I some how think not. These dirt bags are beyond help. For sure, we don’t need to give them weapons of “words”. The ugly book should be banned from prison, no interaction and he should have nothing but his thoughts. You never know, he might find Jesus!

    • wallace says

      Feb 5, 2015 at 1:42 pm

      Mr Pendle, one ugly bastard indeed, the poor sod was banking on the promised 72 virgins. Pity he is such a grotesque specimen that he will avoid being gang raped in the slammer. Bad Allah.

      • Mr Pendle says

        Feb 5, 2015 at 6:47 pm

        very good brother Wallace – lol!

  8. BeenThere says

    Feb 7, 2015 at 11:04 am

    Having worked for several years within the criminal justice system, I can tell you that many of the ministry groups providing religious services within U.S. prisons are either outright Islamic or or have Islamists in leadership positions.

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