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Miami: Muslima rams police car at airport, falsely claims to have bomb

Mar 6, 2015 1:16 pm By Robert Spencer

This report gives her name, Julissa Magdalena Maradiaga-Iscoa, and notes that she is Honduran. It gives no hint whatsoever that she is Muslim except that she “screamed at officers in what was believed to be Arabic.” In photos and video of the incident, however, she is wearing a hijab. This is nothing new — in fact, it’s commonplace for the mainstream media — but the Miami Herald does its readers a grave disservice by not fully informing them about what this really was, as does the FBI: “At this time there appears to be no nexus to terrorism,” said FBI special agent Michael Leverock.

Leverock means that Julissa Magdalena Maradiaga-Iscoa doesn’t seem to have ties to the Islamic State or al-Qaeda or one of the other jihad groups. For him, that means she has nothing to do with terrorism. This is because the FBI is bound as a matter of policy to ignore the fact that Muslims can be incited to violence against non-Muslims simply by reading the Qur’an — and even a false bomb threat can “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (8:60).

“Honduran making false bomb threat at MIA to appear in federal court,” by Rebecca Savransky and Carli Teproff, Miami Herald, March 5, 2015:

A Honduran woman accused of making a false bomb threat at Miami International Airport will face charges in federal court on Friday afternoon.

Julissa Magdalena Maradiaga-Iscoa attempted to drive her vehicle through the airport entrance, crashed her car into a Miami-Dade Police patrol car and screamed at officers in what was believed to be Arabic and then, in English — all before falsely claiming she had a bomb, according to authorities.

Miami-Dade police turned over the case to the FBI, which confirmed the federal charges against the 33-year-old Honduran citizen.

“At this time there appears to be no nexus to terrorism,” FBI special agent Michael Leverock said in a statement.

At about 4 p.m. Thursday, authorities at MIA shut down the upper level departure area around Concourse D as they investigated, calling it a “security incident.”

Miami-Dade Detective Alvaro Zabaleta said the woman was driving a silver Toyota in the upper level in the outer loop when she “made a right turn and drove through the inner loop making an intentional attempt to breach airport security by attempting to drive her vehicle through the airport entrance.”

Zabaleta said she then crashed into the police car. When officers arrived, she screamed and said she had explosives. The upper area was evacuated. A search with dogs turned up nothing….

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  1. somehistory says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 1:31 pm

    The FBI should read over its own definition of terrorism. Oh, but, they are not allowed to do that, now are they?
    (Revelation 13)

  2. JAT349 says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 1:46 pm

    I have two words for the Miami police, PRACTICE RUN….

  3. Nicu says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 1:47 pm

    In their countries they may not even drive a car !

    They Lie when they open their mouth !

  4. JamesonRocks says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 2:18 pm

    We need to stop taking these terrorists alive…

  5. Angemon says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 2:37 pm

    Leverock means that Julissa Magdalena Maradiaga-Iscoa doesn’t seem to have ties to the Islamic State or al-Qaeda or one of the other jihad groups.

    Meaning that a muslim who hears someone from, for example, the islamic state, telling them to chop the head of a soldier in the street, and acts upon it, it’s treated as a “lone wolf” attack that has nothing to do with the islamic state.

    • jay says

      Mar 6, 2015 at 2:44 pm

      Apparently you’re not a terrorist unless you’re with an FBI pre-approved clubhouse. Otherwise it’s just random violence connected to nothing.

  6. jay says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 2:41 pm

    The less description there is, the more it is either a black person or an immigrant of some kind or a muslim. Their omission has become so blatant, people are catching on. The biggest threats to our safety are always minimized and left vague on purpose so we don’t realize we’re being murdered, raped and robbed by these invaders and scum at alarming rates.

  7. Krishan Bhattacharya says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 2:45 pm

    I really feel like we shouldn’t use the term “muslima”. The Muslim societies use this term (see the book “The Ideal Muslima”), but I feel like critics should not engage in it.

    It feels too much like using “jewess”. Whenever you hear the word “jewess”, you can be sure that you’re hearing an anti-semite. “Muslima” in the mouth of an infidel has a similar ring to it, and critics of Islam should avoid any usage that parallels antisemitic word choices. I’m not saying that JW is engaging in such bigotry. I’m just saying that it might be arming its critics with this usage.

    • Undaunted says

      Mar 6, 2015 at 3:59 pm

      Brilliant.

    • Jay Boo says

      Mar 6, 2015 at 6:21 pm

      @Krishan
      You make some valid points however, I would have to disagree with one point where you engage in the use of the word ‘infidel’ without a qualifier as to note that this word is just a Muslim’s false accusation used to incorrectly identify us non-Muslim as “infidels” merely because we rightly reject their vile ideology and its unfaithful satanic verse quoting false prophet Muhammad who was murdered by either a Jewess or a Muslima.

      • Jay Boo says

        Mar 6, 2015 at 6:24 pm

        In other words it is wildly ironic that butcher knife slave-trade religion Muslims should call us the infidels (among other things).

      • Champ says

        Mar 6, 2015 at 6:45 pm

        Oftentimes “rezali mehil”, a muslim, refers to herself as a muslima when she posts comments.

        • Mirren10 says

          Mar 6, 2015 at 9:43 pm

          Hi, Champ.

          I don’t know whether you saw this thread, but in it rezali the repulsive finally admits he’s a man ! 🙂

          http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/02/pakistan-sunni-muslims-attack-shiite-mosque-murder-at-least-20-people-muslimlivesmatter/comment-page-1#comment-1196610

          And thank you for your kind comment on the cartoon thread. XO

        • pumbar says

          Mar 6, 2015 at 11:43 pm

          I think that depends on the amount of sedatives the nurse has given her/him.

        • Oliver says

          Mar 7, 2015 at 1:49 pm

          Mirren,

          it was one one of my posts, where I referred to you as a woman, and you replied that you are a man. (I always- tricks eyes play) read your name as Miriam.

          Then Renzali said that he/she is a man; then later in that post said that he/she is a muslima.

          Could that repulsive piece of garbage be a transsexual or transgender?

          (I am not sure what the difference is, nor do i really care)

          or, perhaps he/she is either a masculine lesbian or effeminate homosexual.

          That would or could- account for saying both.

          Regardless, she/he/it is repulsive, and used the term muslima

        • Mirren10 says

          Mar 7, 2015 at 4:30 pm

          Hi, Oliver !

          I think you’ve mixed up a couple of posts; I *am* a woman. Mirren. 🙂

          *Mariam* Rove is actually a *man*, and a Iranian Shia apostate from islam – he loathes islam.

          *Rezali*, since he first posted here, has always insisted he was a woman, living in the UK, although from sundry clues, I gradually surmised rezali the muslima is actually a male muslim in pakiland.

          The link I posted, in reply to Champ, is where rezali states he *is* a man, although in a further comment he backtracks, insisting he is a happy muslima. Either way, as you say, he/she is a nasty piece of work. !

    • Oliver says

      Mar 6, 2015 at 8:45 pm

      In a post I made on another topic, I referred to another poster as a woman, The poster replied that HE is a man (I constantly misread the name). This woman then echoed I am a man”.

      When some oen else said that (name started with an R) is a man, r replied that she is a muslima.

    • Demsci says

      Mar 7, 2015 at 1:52 am

      Interesting perspective. But I do not see a problem in using the word “Muslima”. It can have both negative and positive meanings and it can be neutral and descriptive.

      I like to point out that one’s religion ought to be considered a choice. And also that, well, many but not all, “Muslima’s”, have the habit of advertizing their choice of religion, by wearing a headscarve (as this woman did). There are no women of other faiths that do it, not any more, not in quite the same way, anywhere on earth, it seems to me. When you see a woman with a headscarve you KNOW that that woman is a “Muslima”. (There are of course women without headscarve who are also “Muslima” and with the male Muslims it is a lot harder to tell by their appearance what faith they have, but even they tend to advertise their faith, with their “hairdo”.)

      The threshold of becoming “Muslima” is very low, every woman of every race can become “Muslima” overnight. It is a lot tougher to become a “non-Muslima”, out from being a “Muslima” as there is the deathpenalty for apostasy.

      The case with “jewess” is different. It seems much more a “racial” characterization, than a characterization based on choice of religion. And racism is BAD, IMO, because while religion is a choice, for which people should be held accountable, race is not.

  8. voytech says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 2:54 pm

    What’s with all the Toyota driving terrorists latelly ? Lol

    • Abu Obeida says

      Mar 6, 2015 at 6:08 pm

      Jihadis are hypocrites, why do they keep using infidel cars and weapons? aren’t infidels unclean?

  9. don vito says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 3:21 pm

    True, why else would she do this act? How did she get here? How long has she been here? Is she married? What mosk does she go to? What is the background of the mosk imam?

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Mar 6, 2015 at 6:10 pm

      Yeah, and I wanna know whether she receives taxpayer money every month. I already know that she benefits from preferential treatment in employment, as payment for all the Moslems who toiled 12 hours a day in the slave fields on the cotton plantations.

      I will say that the U.S. justice system has gotten pretty good of quietly disposing of these cases. Even making a joke about terrorism at an airport or in a plane is a federal crime that can be prosecuted as a felony. So this is a weighty matter… not her crime, that was just a goofball prank, the serious matter now is how to dispose of her felony case… in a discreet and quiet way that avoids unnecessary publicity and doesn’t anger the civil rights workers toiling in the ex-slave fields at the CAIR offices, that is, in a way that doesn’t rile the Moslems.

      • pumbar says

        Mar 6, 2015 at 11:40 pm

        Couldn’t they “toil” on giant hamster wheels? Might cut down on the old power bills.

  10. Undaunted says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 3:38 pm

    As I’ve said before, anyone who says anything like, “I have a bomb…” needs to be shot dead, through the head, on the spot.

    Why?

    Because bombs can be made to look like breasts and baby-bumps or can be made from sheet explosive and be wrapped around the middle of a man or woman and around their legs. And really really huge bombs can be hidden in cars. Detonation is just as fast as pulling the trigger on a gun. It’s no different than if a cop came ’round the corner and saw a woman with what appeared to be a gun to the head of a child. Identify the threat, acquire the target, end the threat with a shot to the head. IACP recommends it for all police departments.

    This woman should be dead on the cement in Miami.

    • Champ says

      Mar 6, 2015 at 4:08 pm

      I had the same thought, Undaunted …why wasn’t this woman shot and killed?

      • Undaunted says

        Mar 6, 2015 at 5:00 pm

        The International Association of Chiefs of Police recommended that all law enforcement agencies adopt a policy of quickly doing head-shots on bombers, back in ’04 if I remember right. Looks like MDPD decided against the policy. It’s that kinder, gentler policing bullshit that’s being force-fed to our cops by heaping spoonful to the point of gagging.

        • Champ says

          Mar 6, 2015 at 6:18 pm

          Thank you, Undaunted.

  11. Jay Boo says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 6:56 pm

    1 After catching an alligator in the Everglades near Miami it is helpful to place a burlap sack over its head to calm it down by taking it out of its element.

    2 With a Muslima I would guess that the process would be different to calm her down and would instead involve removing her head scarf in order to assist in the deprogramming from years of supremacist Islamic imprinting inside the cult membership ofIslam.

  12. FatherJon says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 8:40 pm

    Another ‘random’ attack, nothing at all to do with Muslims, let alone the culprits identifying with jihad.

    As Humpty Dumpty said to Alice –

    “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”

  13. nolongerdhimmi says

    Mar 7, 2015 at 7:25 am

    I hope that this evil scumbag gets the death penalty

  14. noellsq says

    Mar 7, 2015 at 8:32 am

    Let me guess what is going to happen in this case. First thing is she will not be classified as not being a Muslim terrorist. Secondly government money will pay for defense and maybe CAIRE will also support her. Holder will claim that the policeman attached wrongly and spend millions of dollars to find something wrong with the government case. Some Arab country will give her a bunch of money. I say no more immigration from Muslim countries. No immigration of Muslims. We only want people who will assimilate and not bomb ,knife or try to convert us.

  15. voytech says

    Mar 7, 2015 at 9:03 am

    Lawyers going to be jumping in with the “mental illness excuse ” guerintead. I would put money on it .

  16. johnp says

    Mar 7, 2015 at 10:27 am

    Honduran newspaper El Heraldo says she is Muslim convert who is married to an “Arab.” Also says she was deported from USA in 2005 but sneaked back in. Described as a mother of three who was diagnosed as “bipolar” in the USA in 2011.

  17. Linda Rivera says

    Mar 7, 2015 at 2:22 pm

    The witch is NOT Honduran! She’s a Muslim! And an invader.

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