They had Elton Simpson on their radar for years. But it is FBI policy in the Obama Administration not to acknowledge, much less study, the beliefs that motivate such attacks. The FBI training materials, by order of John Brennan and Barack Obama, do not mention Islam and jihad in connection with terrorism. So how can the FBI distinguish between those who are genuine threats and those who are not? They can’t, because such questions will turn on matters involving their Islamic piety — which is off limits for investigation.
“Mohammed Contest Attack an ISIS First in the US,” by Charlene Aaron, CBN News, May 5, 2015:
ISIS says it was behind the attack outside a contest in Texas featuring cartoons of Islam’s prophet Mohammed. It is the first time the group claimed to have carried out an attack inside the United States.
Meanwhile, the FBI is under increased scrutiny for failing to prevent Sunday’s attack after it had closely monitored one of the suspects in the shooting.
Federal agents had been monitoring 30-year-old Elton Simpson for possible terrorist ties for more than a decade.
Simpson and his roommate were shot dead after opening fire on a security guard outside the event.
In the past, FBI agents recorded Simpson talking about fighting “non-believers” for Allah and about plans to travel to Africa to link up with Islamist brothers in Somalia.
Five years ago, he was arrested for attempting to join an al Qaeda-affiliated group there.
Years spent investigating Simpson for terrorism ties resulted in three years of probation, placement on the no-fly list, and $600 in fines and court fees.
His attorney says he became increasingly agitated.
“I mean, I know that some of the statements that he made were, ‘If you die on the battlefield’ than you get, you know, whatever, the wives and things like that, but I think you hear that out of a lot of people. I mean, that’s a belief of the Muslim faith,” Kristina Sitton, Simpson’s attorney, said in 2011.
Simpson recently posted messages on Twitter about his dismay with his country.
Just minutes before Sunday’s shooting, he tweeted that he and a brother had pledged loyalty to ISIS.
“May Allah accept us as mujahideen [jihadists],” he wrote.
Though the FBI was aware of his social media rants, he was not under 24-hour surveillance.
Barbie mackay says
COME LORD JESUS AND TAKE OUT THE EVIL ONES IN JESUS NAME!
mortimer says
Thank you for your prayers, BM. We have to figure a way to CHANGE MINDS of our politicians, academics and journalists and DEPROGRAM MUSLIMS from their strong delusions.
We are supporting the cartoon contest, not to upset Muslims, but to challenge them to re-think what Islam teaches and to reject it.
We want Muslims to CHANGE THEIR MINDS.
What is wrong with religion that teaches that EVERY SINGLE MUSLIM IS AUTHORIZED TO MURDER BLASPHEMERS?
Peggy says
Don’t hold your breath on chaning their minds. You are more likely to change your mind before they do. More of our people are converting to Islam and very few the other way around. They are only becoming more radical and more deadly.
So let’s not waste our time, money and energy trying to get through to them. Let’s work out a way we can fix the problem. Let’s work on ourselves because we need to develop the stomach for what needs to be done to make our countries safer.
Burgermeister Meisterburger says
I think his comments were not ment seriously, b/c if he was praying to Jesus to take out the “evil ones” how would he be differnt from a moslem terrorist who takes out “evil ones” in allah’s name?
I think he was more sarcastic š
mortimer says
Thanks for your prayers, BM. The evil is in everyone’s heart and that is where we need to begin. We have to WORK hard and STUDY to change the minds of people who are slumbering through the attack on freedom…our politicians, journalists, their editors, academics. The great mass of Western people are UNINTERESTED and TOO LAZY to study about Islamic supremacism.
If every single counterjihadist hands out literature and supports Pam and Robert and other counterjihad groups, we can make things change.
We have to be effective to present the facts and learn how to change minds.
Undaunted says
Iām really disappointed when I read such āpiousā comments offered in the face of utterly horrible danger. You leave it to God to protect you. Okay, go ahead and gamble with your life and trust that a bolt of lightning will come streaking down from the blue and vaporize the terrorist about to slit your throat and let you bleed out on the ground. Guess what: Iām betting you die there, twitching and sputteringā¦ an eventuality that you had to accept as a possibility given that God does not owe you an answered prayer no matter how hard you pray it.
But what about the innocents you permit to be slaughtered after your prayers go unanswered because you chose to not fight the fight yourself?
TH says
There is an expression in Spanish which goes “praying to God and hitting with a sledge hammer”, meaning that praying to God is fine, but God expects us to use our God given with and intelligence to carry on our lives in accordance with prudence. This means taking reasonable pecautions in order to prevent that this kind of savage should not be roaming the streets and killing. According to St. Thomas Aquinas, prudence is the virtue of those called to govern. Prudence requires that one use the necessary means and take the required precautions to achieve the end, which for those who are called to govern is the achievement of the common good, which obviously means protecting the innocent citizens from dangerous criminals.
Of course, not all criminal activity can be prevented, but when those called to govern blindfold themselves and refuse to see what is palinly obvious to any person with a minimum of common sense, then these authorities are gulty of dangerous negiligence and abandonment of their duties. In a sane society, they would be removed from office and brought to justice. We are not in a sane society but in the dictatorship of the politically correct.
Peggy says
Exactly. We need to stop being too civilized to do what needs to be done. We need to develop a sense of self-preservation and not worry so much about their human rights.
gravenimage says
Undaunted, I think the appropriate saying here is “God helps those who help themselves”, usually attributed to Benjamin Franklin. Christians are mistaken if they believe they have to sit passively by in the face of aggressive evil.
JohnPent says
We got lucky this time because of one officer. Likely the other 40 or 50 officers would have taken them down before they got in the venue, but we have to accept there is a Muslim problem within the US. With the White House hosting the Muslim Brotherhood, we’ve gotten away from realizing there is an enemy within that we need to keep an eye on at all times. When someone has this mindset and breaks our laws as this one guy did, we need to stop cutting deals. We need to get away from probation and start locking them up. Once they are free again, we need to watch them and monitor their social network activity.
mortimer says
Islamic radicals should be fitted with a gps tracker whose removal with incur a ten year sentence.
Angemon says
These are the words of the, at the time, defense attorney of the wannabe-jihadi. As far as I can tell, no one batted an eye over them. No one disputed them and no one gave much importance to the matter. But, for example, when/if Robert Spencer points out that the wannabe-jihadi said that he’ll immediately be labeled (again) a bigoted islamophobe trying to paint all muslims with a broad brush. That’s the sad state of affairs nowadays.
mortimer says
And so poorly expressed for a lawyer. How can you defend someone without a clear knowledge of the subject matter? (“I think you hear that out of a lot of people.”) She’s done ZERO research.
TH says
Also without being able to express oneself in plain English.
Papa Whiskey says
Steven Emerson reports that
On Friday, the FBI issued an intelligence bulletin in Texas downplaying the possibility of any violence that could erupt, the IPT learned. The FBI said in the classified bulletin that no evidence had surfaced in the United States from any sources that there was any credible threat of violence at the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest.
However, another intelligence unit in Texas disagreed with the FBI assessment and issued a different intelligence warning citing a “massive amount of overseas incitement to carry out violence on social media.” The calls for violenceāincluding exhortations to “destroy Texas” from Islamist-sympathizers in Europe.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/4844/the-shooting-in-garland-texas
john spielman says
time to make islam an illegal religion and deport all islamists, even native, born to crapistan
Darren says
I think classifying it as a subversive ideology to the U.S and applying RICO laws would be a start. The problem is the global fallout this would cause and the geo political ramifications. The problem is extremely complicated, to do the right thing would cause 100 other problems in the world, but if we don’t do it what will happen long term to Europe or the West? This is the issue I’ve been thinking about lately, well that and having lost my job due to my stalker fan club emailing my work my social media history and casting me as some danger to society or my coworkers.
Piece of advice anyone who makes provocative social media comments have the best computer security you can think of. Granted I’ve said some rather extreme things from time to time, usually due to just venting, but you leave a history. I could see this happening to those of you in Europe who dare comment. It would be a great tactic too. Just imagine if islamic hackivists or leftest ones created a hacked org to do just that, go after people get their social media comment history and mail this to HR. I’m not 100% certain of the exact situation, but this is more or less what happened. Just giving you people a heads up, though my case stemmed from something different, this tactic could spread.
mortimer says
The jihadists are hoping to shut down freedom of expression and the Leftarded politicians and journalists are helping them.
Darren says
I agree. I have a habit of p*ssing people off, though even if I am being offensive, I’m not trying to actively ruin someone’s life. Going after someone’s job is a pretty low and dirty tactic. I was a blue collar drone in a factory, as targets go, what’s the point other than to engage in spiteful behavior. I hate and disagree with all kinds of people, but you don’t see me trying to do anything to them.
It’s a shame because I liked the job and the company seemed decent. I expect this will happen to me again too, if I don’t find a way to escape this dragnet. I was just giving you guys a heads up, we all make comments from time to time, that are extreme in nature and this generally comes from simply venting our frustrations. Also if the people reviewing your comments don’t like your politics they may try making a bigger stink about it than is needed.
I’ve been stalked by hackers and god knows who else at this point for close to two years, it is rather tiresome, though after their successes it’s something I’m going to have to live with the rest of my life sadly. Back to the drawing board I suppose trying to find another job. I still have no idea who I p*ssed off so badly though at this point all I do know is it’s a whole bunch of people thanks to a P.R campaign.
I’m just confused I’m a nobody, I live the world’s most boring and uninteresting life, other than make comments I’m not bothering anyone. Why go after some random nobody with such a vengeance? It stemmed from p*ssing someone off due to my political comments and snowballed from there. They are real pros going after soft targets.Just be careful anyone commenting on certain social media sites, I have no idea if this thing happens commonly, but you could be next.
Avenger says
I agree John, if you downgrade islam from a religion to a fascist political party, it then loses its tax exemptions. The Feds are talking about stripping churches of their tax exempt status if they won’t marry gays, well let’s force our local mosques to do the same. It’s our duty to make muslims uncomfortable living here and coax them to emigrate back to countries with sharia law.
voegelinian says
What’s an “islamist”? Is is equivalent to “Muslim”?
jihad3tracker says
* * * * * * * VERY IMPORTANT * * * * * * PLEASE READ * * * * * * *
Today (Tuesday) and tomorrow are crucial days for EVERY Jihad Watch reader and commenter here to push back against the hundreds or even thousands of emails / phone calls / “press releases” which CAIR and the other taqiyya propagandists will be making to any possible media entity they can find.
I have already seen their efforts in several articles published yesterday (including an execrable New York Times piece co-authored by Manny Fernandez. The telltale indicator that “reporters” use CAIR as a source : mentioning the uber-Left SPLC and the inevitable “depictions of the Prophet are considered blasphemous . . .blah blah blah”.
SO, MY URGENT REQUEST : Write to nationally distributed newspapers — especially the Los Angeles Times and New York Times. Contact the editor AND any columnist who thinks it is time for shutting down core political speech to please Muslims.
If your local hometown supermarket or drugstore sells the newspaper, you are a potential reader — and the editors know that.
Include a bit of YOUR OWN trip from cluelessness about Islam into an understanding of the truth. Include reality about CAIR, Nathan Lean, and whatever other liars might be sending those newspapers handy-dandy items to publish on the opinion pages. YOU CAN GET THE BACKGROUND ON CAIR, NATHAN LEAN, ETC BY USING THE SEARCH BOX on Jihad Watch’s homepage.
Even though what you tell editors & columnists may not be published, you will have drilled into their Western-privilege-guilt-plagued brain.
If we all contribute to this barrage, there is a chance that Pam Geller’s watershed moment in the counter jihad spotlight with be a true turning point or at least an anchoring point for future notice. PAM AND ROBERT RISK THEIR LIVES EVERY DAY for us total strangers — REMEMBER THAT.
jihad3tracker says
UPDATE ! ! ! ! —- It did not take long for CAIR to use “the attendees and the shooters were outsiders” as a tactic.
There is currently an article in The Guardian (also posted at MSN) about that . . . PLEASE CHECK IT OUT. Sorry for no link, but I have a more important one below.
We who get in touch with editors and columnists MUST remind them that Pam chose Garland because it was the place where that “Stand with the Prophet” rally — closed to the press, of course — was held LESS THAN A WEEK AFTER 17 PEOPLE AT CHARLIE HEBDO WERE SLAUGHTERED.
This is the link to that article by the EXCELLENT Adam Kredo : http://freebeacon.com/issues/muslim-leaders-to-hold-stand-with-the-prophet-rally-in-texas/
And, if you have a few minutes to post something at The Guardian or MSN comments, remind them of that and give the link. ACT FAST BECAUSE CAIR IS OUT IN FRONT ON THIS . . .
Westman says
From the article, Patrick Poole’s Occam Razor:
āWhat this conference makes clear is that the Muslim community needs to find better leadership. The jig is up on Islamic leaders who rush to the microphones to denounce terrorism, only to find they justify and support terrorism when speaking inside their mosques or conferencesā
“..The standard message that any terrorist yelling āAllahu Akhbarā has nothing to do with the Muslim community while any graffiti on a mosque is a sign of widespread āIslamophobiaā just isnāt selling any more,ā
The Doctor says
“Just minutes before Sundayās shooting, he tweeted that he and a brother had pledged loyalty to ISIS.”
And thus ISIS claim responsibility for an event in which they were not actually involved.
It’s all about terror. ISIS want Americans to believe that they have the ability to coordinate and execute attacks in the USA. Why are the media not pointing out this obvious fallacy?
Darren says
The problem is much bigger than isis. The problem is the violent ideology inherent in islam. Due to this ideology any muslim could at any time become radical. This is true for any human being granted, but when you make engaging in violence a religious duty, you increase the chance of people doing just that. We are involved in an ideological war, finding ways to defeat the ideology itself whether making reform (if it is possible) or something else is just as important if not more than containing the jihadists. Any muslim at any time due can become a jihadist.
If they take their religion seriously they are more likely than not to do just that. That is another major problem, this ideology happens to also be a religion. So when you throw god into it, you really complicate the situation. An extremely complicated problem. Then when you throw in the geo political ramifications of actually doing the right thing, it makes the problem just that much complicated. For instance say we ban islam, well you have 1.6 billion muslims and what would these muslim countries think and do because of it? Would China or Russia seize this chance to gain another proxy ect ect. How do we find a realistic solution to fighting this ideology while at the same time taking into account the geo political ramifications of our decision?
mortimer says
Every single Muslim is authorized by Sharia law to murder a blasphemer with impunity…every single one.
Darren says
They may be authorized, and coming from me considering some of the more extreme things I’ve said on this website it might seem strange, but do they? How can we realistically go about dealing with this problem in a logical and pragmatic way. I’ve recently realized I was being a naive idealist and focusing solely on the ideal while ignoring the rest, so the ideas I was coming up with were a lot of pie in the sky idealsitic ones not grounded in reality.
I’ve since changed my thinking and now I’ve grounded myself with reality. There is the ideal solution, but like any ideal it can never realistically be achieved, and if you go that route you do a lot more harm than good, many idealists are so blind in their ideals they ignore everything else to their own or other people’s peril. I recently came to the conclusion that I myself was a naive idealist, but realizing this fact I have been trying to correct my thinking and think about this issue more pragmatically and realistically.
Though I still have those urges of naive idealism, since my base nature is that of an naive idealist. There is nothing wrong with having ideals, but the naive idealist at least from my own experience as being one will be more likely to go to the extreme or support such actions. I’m not talking about engaging in violence, I’m simply talking about my ideas and coming up with solutions to certain problems.
I’ve paid a heavy price in my own life for being a naive idealist, and I am still paying it sadly. Listening to the more pragmatic voices is important in any cause. Many idealists have grand visions and plans that sound good on paper, but are impossible in reality. Trying to come up with a realistic and pragmatic solution to this problem is the question we are all trying to answer.
Westman says
You certainly have a way getting to the core difficulty of finding a solution, Darren.
Islam is very much like Communism, without the, “From each according to his abilities”, and more like, “To each from the Kuffir”.
There are wonderful truly moderate Muslims who are blissfully unaware nor particularly observant. In fact, America won the Brain Drain of lapsed Muslim and Hindu professionals that are contributing greatly to the country. Even the early space program was developed by scientists formerly working for the Nazis who became great Americans.
As you have indicated, Islamic Ideology is the problem. If it had no desire to destroy other religions, kill Apostates and Jews, chop off heads and limbs, or rule by Sharia over the world, there would be no problem.
In America:
Not permitted: Destroy other religions and their relics, kill Apostates and Jews, chop off heads and limbs. The solution: keep it always in front of American Islam until there is an official change in the Islamic Theology. The Mormons once had Polygamy and discriminated against Blacks. Their theology was changed by its leaders. Islam can do the same.
Because of the ready and searchable theology(and sites like this), the violent expressions of Jihadists, and the dissonance of the claims of “peace” with reality, Islam will reach a point in the US, where it cannot grow because its reputation will be too repulsive.
Now permitted on limited basis: Rule by Sharia, only for Muslims. This can be stopped but only if there is universal rejection of any special allowances for anything overriding or substituting for secular law, for all religions.
There is another step that can be taken, but it is out of character for the US. Deputize college students, professionals, etc, across the entire spectrum to be monitors of Islamic activity. This is too much like the Ayatollahs, but it does work.
The FBI/DHS hasn’t got a chance of preventing all future 9/11 like attacks because they are too few in numbers in an open society. They should swallow their pride and find better ways to get the help of Americans. I guess that would be too Islamophobic.
duh_swami says
Islam cannot be reformed…How can you reform perfection? And how is any Mahoundian going to explain it to Allah?
Darren says
Reform may be impossible, so what else can we do to make this ideology unattractive. Well a major weakness in this ideology is it’s founder. I believe tearing down the image of this founder even if it provokes the crazies, (they will be provoked by something else if not this) is a first step. Any reasonable and rational thinking individual reading about the founder of islam, should come to the same conclusion I and many others have come to.
This man whether he existed or not has no business being a role model for any civilized society. This isn’t a statement born out of hatred or bigotry it’s a simple logical conclusion to come to given the facts. You are right duh swami, so if we can’t reform the system itself what else can we do? Whether we like it not we are in an ideological war, and due to being 1.6 billion of them killing them all is impossible.
There are also muslims who are peaceful even if their religion isn’t. Playing whack a mole may contain the problem, but it isn’t a long term solution to this problem, since if you study history once a country becomes majority muslim you see the results around the world.
As I said I’m trying to think of a realistic and pragmatic solution as well like everyone else here on this site, I think by addressing what each problem is though instead of trying to think up idealistic solutions to this problem that sound good on paper, but are impossible to implement in reality would be a good first start. So we ban islam, Ok by the act of banning it what other problems does this create. Can we realistically deal with those problems, or will the problems it creates outweigh the good it might do ect.
I know I sound like a hypocrite given my previous stance on the issue, and what I’ve said, but I recently changed my thinking. I realized I myself was a naive idealist so blinded by his ideal I ignored everything else. Though realizing your flaws and trying to fix them is what being human is all about. Since I’ve come to that conclusion about myself I’m now trying to change my thinking.
Beth says
“when you make engaging in violence a religious duty, you increase the chance of people doing just that”
BINGO! Darren
weavo2 says
It has been a while that Obama has reminded us that Islam is a religion of peace:)
Westman says
I see that Islamic doctrine is a set of memes that take hold of the mind like an earworm (song that won’t stop playing in one’s mind). It appears to be planted through repetitious repeating of Quranic verses and other dogma and sits waiting to be activated by some cue from a religious leader or another event.
The most obvious meme is Allahu Akbar. If one were to sneak into the back of a full mosque and yell “Allahu Akbar!”, how many attendees would respond with the same phrase, without thinking?
These Muslim Terrorists were well programmed with violent segments of Islamic Theology and only needed some trigger. WHO programmed these Muslim terrorists to be a weapon, with what, should be the more important questions, than, what triggered them. The disease was already in their minds.
If the security team in Garland had been at Charlie Hebdo, there would be no dead cartoonists, just dead jihadis. Perhaps jihadis will get the message that jihad in America isn’t going to work because there are too many brave Americans.
Joseph says
@ Westman
I agree on the repetition part wholeheartedly. Jesus said:
Matthew 6:5-7King James Version (KJV)
5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
7)VAIN REPETITIONS as the HEATHEN do…….That says it all
Joseph says
One must remember though, they ARE NOT praying to GOD the father in heaven, they are praying to Satan.
Susan says
There is a reference to this in this very sad story of how when a distant signal was given the muslims would spring into action. At the end of the day another signal would stop the carnage. I thing you are on to something.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/the-armenian-genocide-and-my-grandmothers-secret/
david obrien says
It is not a complete surprise that a straight-shooting Texan with a pistol took out the 2 cowardly clowns with AK-47’s who tried bushwack’em all (civilians at the conference). Interesting to contrast the fate and the take down of the cowardly clowns in Paris versus the 2 in Texas.
We all know in the States that you just “don’t mess with Texas”.
But the most important thing is who won the contest? When will we see the decision? And the honorable mentions of course. What of them?
voegelinian says
Not a fair comparison. The Muslim commando mission against the Charlie Hebdo staff occurred while they were just working at their offices, on a normal work day, with no sense of anything different from the previous days. In Garland, by contrast, all the planners knew what they were doing was a one-time event, where people went to a special place to hold the event, where they event was obviously provocative of the irrational fanaticism of Muslims, and the event planners spent thousands of dollars on singular security measures, including the Garland police, additional private security, and a SWAT team, for crying out loud. The Muslims caught the Charlie Hebdo staff unawares. The Garland event people were already ultra-prepared. This isn’t about how better “Texans” are compared with French.
gravenimage says
This is true, Voeg. Not to take *anything* away from the brave and effective police response in Garland, but this was a high-profile, one-day event. Far more difficult to counter is the day-in-and-day-out threat to targeted Infidels.
Darren says
At the same time they are making great inroads using other forms of jihad. People fail to realize just because bodies aren’t piling up at a specific location doesn’t mean they aren’t making progress in other arena’s. I think stealth jihad is more dangerous than overt acts of terrorism, usually anyway. The more insidious aspect of it is since people aren’t seeing anyone die, they assume it is no big deal, when the exact opposite is true. Look at how groups like CAIR are listened to in the media. We are honestly having a debate on whether drawing a cartoon even if it is provocative should be banned. It is rather frightening when you think about it. Are we doing anything to counter the more insidious forms of stealth jihad? I’m not seeing it from where I sit, though granted I’m just a blue collar drone on a computer.
voegelinian says
“I think stealth jihad is more dangerous than overt acts of terrorism, usually anyway.”
It’s only more dangerous because it can effectively pave the way for the increased ability for Muslims to plot and perpetrate violent jihad at a later date. That’s the ONLY reason stealth jihad is dangerous.
This Google page has a few of my essays on this problem:
https://www.google.com/search?q=hesperado&biw=1025&bih=475&source=lnms&sa=X&ei=xkVJVduZE4mBygS184C4Cw&ved=0CAUQ_AUoAA&dpr=1.33#q=hesperado+stealth+jihad
Westman says
When Westerners get seriously delusional, they get commited for treatment. It appears that in Islam one of the asylums is Jannah. When life seems unbearable, suicide jihad is a viable way out.
Muslims, as a religious group, have the lowest suicide rate in the world. Could suicide jihad, which is not in the statistics, be why it appears low?
Agent of Liberty says
Hmm!
I wonder if the two dead muslims are enjoying their 54 virgins?
Westman says
Who knows? According to Islamic Theology, all good Muslimas are resurrected as virgins. So Jannah is populated with virgins and newly-minted “virgins” who might be recycled Muslima Jihadists. I suppose there must be some way to prevent getting stuck with a previous wife or your Grandmother.
Every religion’s theology turns into “whispy gossamers” if you try to find out its eschatology in too much detail. The usual reply to this line of questioning is, “We’re not meant to know the mysteries, have faith.”
Douglas J. Bender says
Jesus said, “In My Father’s house there are many mansions.” And in the Resurrection, Christians will be given glorified bodies that will never die or experience disease or corruption, just like Christ’s resurrected, glorified body. We know that we will spend much of our time worshiping God. There will also be fellowship, joy, love (think laughter at the antics of cute animals, and so on), music, endless opportunity for learning and discovery, beauty, wonder, and so on. There will be no taxes, though.
Westman says
Just for fun, Douglas,
What will be the approximate height of that ressurected body? Will it look exactly like you? At what age? Will it need energy to operate? If eating is optional, where will the energy be derived? What form will it have? Can you fly?
Muslims say the virgin’s legs will be transparent and shimmer. What makes them shimmer?
Will you be married or not married? Where will you be located? How many people will be there? How many acres within the boundaries of heaven?
What kind of mansion is that, brownstone, victorian, condominium? Are the streets 12, 18, or 24 carat gold?
I think this is how Socrates drove the Greek leaders to distraction, asking questions until they surpassed what they really knew and there were no more answers. Imagine how this would go with Muslim “scholars” who can’t even agree if the Earth goes around the Sun or vice-versa?
I really mean this kindly. No religion defines the hereafter in any truly instrumentally measurable way. The ideas of loving relationships and worship in the hereafter are common to most religions and I’m not making fun of them – only pointing out that they are lacking in detail, and detailed questions lead to the “mysteries” answer, or in the case of Muslim Scholars, probably a fatwa. Salman Rushdie knows about that.
Beth says
….and no more death.
voegelinian says
“According to Islamic Theology, all good Muslimas are resurrected as virgins. ”
No; that’s incorrect. The houris (that’s the Anglicized plural; the Arabic plural is simply hur with no s and no i) are specially created by Allah for the specific purpose of rewarding the dead mujahideen who themselves are resurrected for Paradise. According to some Islamic teaching, Allah creates the houris out of “musk and spices”, and with his divine power shapes them into beautiful youthful perpetual virgins for the slain Mohammedan mass-murderers to have sex with for eternity.
gravenimage says
I’ve tried to determine the exact nature of the Houris for several years nowāat this point, it seems unlikely that they are to be considered human women (or former human women). Instead, as you say, they appear to be created purely for dead Mujahideen to f*ck.
I think the lack of clear information is because pious Muslims simply don’t much care where they come from. They give little though to the nature and feelings of their wives, rape victims, and sex slaves here on earth, and even less to those of their “rewards” in Islamic paradise.
Abu Al-Dente says
Those virgins may have been around for so long, they may be all wrinkled and saggy for what they’re worth now.
jewdog says
There needs to be more of a possibility for law enforcement to take action if a person under investigation exhibits violent tendencies. The law needs beefing up. One possible change could be permitting someone to travel abroad to join a terrorist group, but then barring them from ever returning. That would have gotten this guy out of the country. Do we really want to take steps that would keep such people here?
Edward says
Warning labels are printed on your meds bottles for your safety!
If any enemy is not made known how in the world is America supposed to prepare for any disastrous eventuality?
“Know Thy Enemy”
A Chinese Idiom:
“So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.”
“If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose.
If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself.”
jewdog says
Right now we are in danger. Many people have simply not done their homework.
Edward says
Perhaps WE now are living in/at stealthy times, for we don’t know who really is our present POTUS and don’t know why he cheer leaders our unknown enemies.
However, for in Holy Bible’s Ephesians 6:12 gives us somewhat of a hint: “For it is not against human enemies that we have to struggle, but against the principalities and the ruling forces who are masters of the darkness in this world, the spirits of evil in the heavens.”
Speculating of course; this could mean that mortal humans are transcendental pawns that are in charge of what ever is transpiring here in America as well in other parts of the world. If this is such the case it will be very easy to null out further threats.
This simply will be only done if we affirm by what Ephesians 6:10 cites:
“Finally, grow strong in the Lord, with the strength of his power.”
This affirmation can be manifested only by what is within this box: […………….]
If you wonder what’s in this box….its our sincere prayers in His name of our Desires, our sincere Expectations and our conscious Imagination to erase these disastrous mindsets of those that want to hurt God’s righteous creations; immediately and repentantly forever, by our Lord’s Will!
Pawns: someone who is used or manipulated to further another entity’s purposes.
“Look, He, our Lord, is destined for the fall and for the rise of many in Israel, destined to be a sign that is opposed” – Luke 2: 34 The Prophet’s (Simon) thoughts when newly born baby Jesus was being blessed at His presentation at the Temple.
Leith Wood says
Our government has been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood and Muslim Sisterhood. I no longer trust our institutions. It is up to Americans to speak the truth and vote for honest citizens, who believe in the Constitution and the laws of our country. The first amendment is all important. Isis is here now and Hussein Obama has sold us out.
Dave J says
Once a Muslim has publicly declared jihad and support of ISIS shouldn’t they be immediately deported as a clear and present danger?
As opposed to some lackadaisical and ineffective “monitoring”?
Ren says
The silence coming from the White House regarding the incident speaks loud about the deny that Obama willfully has on islamism in America.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Costco for The Cause
What is the cost in U.S. taxpayer dollars to have known about Elton’s would-be Jihadism in the first place? There was a price, my guess is that billions are spent every year to watch Moslems looking for the activists among them. There is also a cost in freedom by conducting such surveillance.
Bottom line: Moslems are expensive, a very pricey multicultural toy kept by the globo-socialist crowd that runs this country As more Moslems pour into this country every year, and as more victimist blacks and even whites convert to Islam, the cost will only rise.
And there will be the very large costs of a major Mujahidin mass murder Jihad attack here in the States, which will be veeeery bad medicine for the economy, much worse than 9/11.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yes, that’s a good line to push.
The *expense* of having Muslims around. And the more Muslims we have, the more necessary and the more endlessly expensive the security measures become.
Enormous expense of securing synagogues and churches and schools and art exhibitions and sports stadiums and shopping centres and airports and railway stations…
Enormous expense of all that ‘monitoring’ and ‘surveilling’.
It’s a huge drain and it’s not like an investment (e.g. you spend money on a road or railway, you get back the social benefit and the money made by people using it)…it’s just a drain, a bleeding off of resources without getting anything back at all.
In these cost-conscious penny-pinching days, with governments everywhere going on about budgets and ‘austerity measures’, the counterjihad must, at every turn, point out the ballooning *expense* of having to try to keep an eye on more and more and more potential jihadis.
And hammer home the obvious: the fewer Muslims there are in any given country, the less that country has to spend on ‘homeland security’ measures aimed at protecting its *non-Muslim* citizens from Muslims who Go Jihad.
So, when one says things like “Stop Muslim Immigration” one must always add the corollary – “Think of the Money We’ll Save!”
gravenimage says
AgreedāMuslims are costing us a bloody fortuneāin death and destruction, in law enforcement and security, in surveillance. And it’s only going to get worse the larger the Muslim population gets.
Here’s an excellent article from the incomparable Hugh Fitzgerald:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/05/fitzgerald-what-is-the-cost
It’s from nine years ago, but is even more salient today.
gravenimage says
I should add, too, that this is not just a byproduct of the Muslim presenceāsince 9/11 Jihadists have actively crowed about bankrupting us serving as yet another Jihad strategy.
“Bin Laden: Goal is to bankrupt U.S.”
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/01/binladen.tape/
Kepha says
Robert and Pam: Congrats! ISIS apparently thinks you’re more dangerous than the Obama maladministration–although I haven’t ruled out the possibility that the two late, unlamented thugs were acting on their own; ISIS heard about it; ISIS sensed a PR opportunity and claimed them.
And a kudos to the officer who downed the two.
David, Thailand says
Don’t so easily dismiss IS. They have a smart, effective and extremely successful policy of sanctioning Jihad ops by all Muslims everywhere, whether individuals or groups. In this way, they have instantly created hundreds of thousands of potential active Jihadis in the West, at no cost, with zero paperwork and no paper trail.
Face it, even without Obama, Western democracy has no workable defence against those that take it upon themselves to meet with Allah sooner rather than later, just as we the people are defenceless when a non-Muslim goes berserk against innocents in a public area.
David, Thailand says
Such a brilliant concept, actively obstruct the FBI and other agencies charged with protecting the public from connecting Islam with Islamic terrorism, and now you have a ready made scapegoat when reality takes over.
Wish I could think that deep.
William Lucas Harvey Jr. says
“…But it is FBI policy in the Obama Administration not to acknowledge, much less study, the beliefs that motivate such attacks…”
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America’s apparent Pro Islam, Pro Muslim, seemingly Anti America, Anti Constitution, Anti Christian, Obama Administration strikes at America again.
Robb says
Yes.Sad, true,writ, Blog,twit.same message, repeat agian and agina and agina.give er bouys, floaut the information.
Go deliver.
Rainman says
The Boston bombers, the panty bomber, the Fort Hood shooter, and now Garland. All of them were on everyone’s radar screen. Nothing was done. Yet I’m guessing DHS is paying more attention to this blog than to the Islamic hate ones. They are too busy feeling up 6 y/o kids and 90 y/o ladies in the airport. They have mandated GPS be in my mothers mini van to track it going to her mental health professional. But there are no GPS on some Asian airliners that simply disappear over the Indian Ocean. Or end up over war zones in the Ukraine where no other airlines would dare go.
The NSA couldn’t find their ass with both hands.
Rainman….
I sum Charles Martel says
Garland, Texas-2, religion of perpetual outrage-0.
Je suis Texas.
Dennis Rigg says
I am from England we have Political correctness and diversity rammed down our throats – The Islamists ARE LAUGHING AT US AND SAYING WE ARE A SOFT TOUCH – how right they are !! we are playing into the their hands – our grandchildren and great grandchildren will be living under shariah law if things do not change quickly Obama is acting like the Anti-Christ !! the quicker he is out the better for America. all this has been planned……READ THIS…… http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readarticle.aspx?ARTID=4476
Soxtory says
There is enough evidence out there to indicate Obama and Brennan are Muslims; this policy is not surprising. It still looks petty much like an amateur effort.