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Friend says Chattanooga jihad murderer “a religious teen who prayed regularly”

Jul 22, 2015 7:35 am By Robert Spencer

Abdulazeez2Authorities still scratching their heads, absolutely baffled as to what his motive could possibly be. “Chattanooga Shootings: FBI Searches Apartment of Abdulazeez’s Friends,” by Alastair Jamieson, Robert Dembo and Miguel Almaguer, NBC News, July 21, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

FBI agents searched a Tennessee apartment as investigators tried to determine whether at least two acquaintances of Chattanooga shooter Mohammad Abdulazeez knew of his intentions in the months leading up to the deadly gun attacks.

Officers converged on the Mountain Creek Apartments complex in Red Bank, north of Chattanooga, on Monday afternoon.

Abdulazeez, 24, opened fire at a military recruiting station and a Navy and Marine reserve center Thursday, killing four Marines and a sailor and wounding a local cop.

A family representative told NBC News that he was battling depression, had expressed some anti-American feelings and was on a three-day downward spiral before the attack — a period in which he smoked marijuana and went joyriding in the rented Mustang convertible that was later used in the attack.

The gunman argued with his parents when he last saw them on Tuesday night, the representative said. His parents knew their son was struggling but never thought he was a real threat.

Ed Reinhold, the FBI special agent in charge of the investigation, said: “We’ve been going all over this city talking to different friends and associates of our shooter. In order to make sure we have this investigation completely done we talk to everyone that we possibly can who may know or have been associated with the shooter.”

Joseph Christopher, a former high school friend of Abdulazeez, told NBC News he was surprised at the attack, and remembered the shooter as a religious teen who prayed regularly.

Bilal Sheikh, 25, said he saw his friend at the mosque two weekends ago, as they came to pray and as part of the services to celebrate Ramadan….

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  1. Baucent says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 7:50 am

    Perhaps there needs to be a Government Health Warning on every copy of the Koran sold, saying “Reading this book will endanger your mental health and the lives of unbelievers you will feel compelled to attack.”

    • mortimer says

      Jul 22, 2015 at 10:20 am

      Quite right. A warning label on the Koran with graphic pictures of Islamic atrocities on the cover, plus pictures of men incarcerated for life languishing in a cell.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Jul 22, 2015 at 11:00 am

      It might be better to take an illegal course of policy, and illegal legal policy is a practice fully endorsed by the U.S. Supreme Court: make it a felony crime to be in possession of a Holy Ko-Ran. Ban the book based on the illegal illegality of hate speech, as endorsed by our next-Prez Hillary. She may be a no good stumblebum that turns everything she touches to crap, but there is an unintended consequence here that’d make even our next-Prez right for once.

      But no, doing that would make too much sense.

    • DP111 says

      Jul 22, 2015 at 6:38 pm

      The warning is of not of much use to the victims of Islam.

      It is ISLAM that should be castigated as a danger to all mankind. Then Ban Islam as one bans dangerous narcotics.

  2. Susan B says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 7:52 am

    The more they pray the more dangerous they are. FBI is a joke, good God.

  3. Sarah says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 8:28 am

    “remembered the shooter as a religious teen who prayed regularly.”

    Tell us something we don’t know.

    He was following a religion that believes Allah (God) loves those who kill Kafirs (non-Muslims) and who will reward him handsomely with 72 virgins. My guess is this guy was probably a virgin himself, and he thought this was his only means of getting some female action.

    He was praying regularly (5 times a day) for Allah to punish Kafirs (you and me), as all Muslims do.

    The point is: NOT ALL RELIGIONS ARE GOOD. One is bad: Islam.

    • JOHN SPIELMAN says

      Jul 22, 2015 at 1:43 pm

      it matters to whom you pray., either to the one true God or to Satan . unfortunately for the word, muslims pray to Satan/allah.

  4. duh_swami says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 9:14 am

    It’s the marijuana…He took a couple of puffs and it turned him into a paranoid homicidal maniac. It made him forget how utterly peaceful Islam is, and forced misunderstanding on him.
    Marijuana does not effect kuffar smokers like that because they have nothing to misunderstand. If you ever see a Mahoundian smoking pot, leave the area immediately, take cover, and stay there till you hear the all clear siren…

    • Westman says

      Jul 22, 2015 at 9:35 am

      You’ve done it again, Swami! It WAS Islamic “Reefer Madness”.

    • Anthony says

      Jul 22, 2015 at 9:43 am

      …so weeds and Islam don’t mix or it can be lethal. I guess the FBI can find the culprit now, the weeds ! ha ha, just leave the religion of peace alone.

      • Goat Pimp says

        Jul 22, 2015 at 11:39 am

        Obama smoked weed too!

        • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

          Jul 22, 2015 at 12:15 pm

          Yeah, and he’s a dictator now. He may be a way cool dictator, but he is in fact a dictator, no less of one that his predecessor and brief pal Hugo Chavez. I wonder if Prez Barack Hussein likes to dictate stuff into a tape deck or maybe into his laptop or cell phone using voice recognition software. It must feel real good to dictate, especially when you’re stoned out of your mind and you’ve got the Pentagon standing ready to do your every command.

    • DP111 says

      Jul 22, 2015 at 7:18 pm

      If you ever see a Mahoundian smoking pot, leave the area immediately, take cover, and stay there till you hear the all clear siren…

      Or shoot first -as the cop at Pamela Gellers Freedom festival did.

  5. Westman says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 9:20 am

    FBI seaching an apartment for Jihad motivation reminds one of a song: Lookin’ for the reason in all the wrong places. Lookin’ for the reason in too many faces. Searchin’ their eyes, lookin’ for traces.

    Search the Quran and Hadith, the mother lodes of bad ideas. Watch MemriTV for the world-wide conceptual incarnation of those ideas. Call Robert Spencer for helpful advice. If the cause is still unknown, perhaps a change of employment would be less frustrating, say, multilevel marketing.

  6. Angemon says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 9:25 am

    Joseph Christopher, a former high school friend of Abdulazeez, told NBC News he was surprised at the attack, and remembered the shooter as a religious teen who prayed regularly.

    Disinformation works – what Joseph Christopher should be saying was that he was not surprised by the attack since Abdulazeez was a religious teen who prayed regularly. Unfortunately, the notion that islam teaches the same values as Christianity or Judaism is so deeply ingrained in the Western psyche – your petrodollars at work, people – that possible red flags are perceived as white flags.

  7. Jaladhi says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 9:51 am

    Come on, it is as simple as ABC.. the motives of Aabulazeez a Muslim is only motivated by Islam, Quran and his imam!! Why are our FBI agents looking for motives in a parallel universe out of this world. It is not complicated, Sherlock only if you just recognize the truth about Islam and Muslims!!

  8. duh_swami says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 10:05 am

    If salat made him do it, salat should be banned…or increased to it’s original 50 times a day. If five times a day results in clean feet, 50 times a day is sterilization. No one with sterilized feet has ever committed a violent act…

    • mortimer says

      Jul 22, 2015 at 10:27 am

      Exactly. The more Abdulazeez prayed the more psychopathic he became.

      With his Mustang sports car, he saw himself as a regular Muslim James Bond.

      This is what I refer to as RADICAL JIHADIST CHIC…this is very prevalent among Muslim youth as their Zeitgeist. Why is it not being observed and countered by the authorities…police, teachers, social workers and intelligence officers?

      RADICAL JIHADIST CHIC is the incubator of jihad.

  9. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 10:53 am

    Almost everyone who mattered at Charlie Hebdo is dead. What did they die for? A hashtag and a candlelight vigil? None of those who seized eagerly on #JeSuisCharlie as the cause du jour, from Angela Merkel and François Hollande to George Clooney and Helen Mirren to thousands in the streets of Paris and millions across the Internet, were willing to do the one thing that would have mattered, and show the reason why they died.
    – Mark Steyn in column today

    Why? What’s the reason for mass murder operations like Charlie Hebdo and others like it? Apparently the reason is unknowable. And I mean that seriously, it is unknowable because Islam is accorded the same reserve status other religions enjoy under the pious and self-serving assumption that it is not substantively different in a moral, ethical, or historical sense.

    There are many things well sold now that don’t stand up to the facts: socialism, globalism, man-caused global warming, modern educational practices… the facts say that these things don’t work, that they are failures, and dangerous at that.

    And the irony is that Islam *does* work, its central tenet of terror works, like a charm. Whether it’s Charlie Hebdo folding or the Pentagon fearfully apologizing for its uniforms, terror works. But we don’t even know that; we won’t even acknowledge this causality.

    • Goat Pimp says

      Jul 22, 2015 at 11:44 am

      Agree. Violence and threats of violence have always worked well for the Mafia too.

      That is why we need to continue to thumb our nose at them by drawing the pedophile murderer, etc.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Jul 22, 2015 at 12:20 pm

        But yesterday the new editor of Charlie Hebdo just announced that the publication has folded and will no longer publish cartoons of the Holy Prophet Mohammed. He’s the replacement for the guy who went down in the Jihad mass murder operation in Paris.

        In it unlikely that any other publication will step into the breach an publish Motoons now.

        I wonder why the sudden change of policy. So long as we looking for answers to solve deep mysteries, could Hebdo’s move be in any way related to the Jihad mass murder operation at its office last winter?

  10. Dan says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 2:18 pm

    Anybody who ain’t got it figured out by now?

    Ain’t never gonna.

  11. Ashley says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 7:23 pm

    A family representative told NBC News that he was battling depression, had expressed some anti-American feelings and was on a three-day downward spiral before the attack — a period in which he smoked marijuana and went joyriding in the rented Mustang convertible that was later used in the attack.
    __________________

    Color me crazy. When I’ve struggled with bouts of depression I usually call a friend, take to my bed and/or have a good cry. It never occurred to me to rent a Mustang, go “joyriding” and gun down folks.

  12. Everyone Else says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 2:23 am

    Why doesn’t Loretta Lynch charge this guy with a hate crime like she’s done with DylanRoof?

  13. Dave J says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 12:36 pm

    “FBI still searching for a motive”. Wow, how dumb are we?

    Every Muslim is a potential timebomb due to their underlying ideology of hatred. The more devout the more dangerous.

    Islam needs to be called out on its evil book and arrogant supremacy. Ban the book and offer Muslims a choice between rehab or relocation back to Sharia-land.

  14. Jack Holan says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 9:30 pm

    What have here Is tryIng to pound the square peg In the circle hole wIth the wooden ballot to make It fIt and Jeh Johnson Samuel Clemens had an expressIon for people lIke you In officialdom who purposely deceive the public to fIt the story you are writing. I’ll let you fInd the quote sInce you most lIkely have plenty of free tIme. One very KEY element that Is beIng Ignored after initial reports(they have those MedIa people trained lIke seals). The father, a PalestInIan from eIther Hevron or near by Is alleged to have had Hamas ties. I’d venture a guess sInce thIs and hIs no fly waiver and cloud of suspicion cleared durIng the Obama era may hInt he has MuslIm Brotherhood ties. Why look for the more obvIous they are all lone wolves lackIng Ideology on drugs or alcohol and crazy(they’re presentatIon of depressIon/anxIety) If thIs last one Is a precursor look out AmerIca. They have more to fear from those who don’t recognIze they suffer from any abnormality. By the way the never meantIon Maj NIdals PalestInIan famIly but they would turn It Into a vIctIm deal anyways ISIS=lack of educatIon need for jobs and opportunItIes, MarIe Harf 2-degrees from a good school where do people lIke you come from?

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