There is no indication that Chris Harper Mercer, who murdered thirteen people at Umpqua College, was acting on behalf of the Islamic State, or was even a Muslim at all. But that hasn’t stopped the Islamic State from claiming credit for his murders. After all, they want to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60), and one way they can do that is by appearing to be stronger than they are. And they must have loved the bit about how he singled out Christians, as they do.
“‘ISIS’ Claims Chris Mercer Harper [sic] Umpqua College Shooting,” by Sam Prince, Heavy,
Chris Harper Mercer. The tweet was sent out by @K_H_O00, but the account has since been suspended by Twitter for terrorist propaganda. A screen cap can be seen below:
The tweet screen cap lacks a time stamp but the phone screen cap states “4:07 p.m.” The tweet reads:
Again #Oregon #USA #WashingtonDC #IslamicState #ISIS #USA
A meme that states “Slay Americans” in front of a man being beheaded is also visible….
Comments


Rev g says
It was reported that he was asking people their religion and targeting Christians.
Jaladhi says
Why was he asking the religion of people he shot? He may not be acting on behalf of ISIS but it makes me suspicious that he was some kind of stealth Muslim!!
underbed cat says
Jaladhi…ah really now. A “stealth muslim” defines isis, or any other jihadist regardless of the islamic terror group name, which may roam the streets as a lone wolf from any wolf pack looking for Christians, Jews, or somewhere to accommodate his fellow wolf pack. But he will now try to hide his “motivations” and call himself a conservative or a beta democrat male, or gun advocate. All to throw off the scent of the hound dogs to locate, and because we can’t call a wolf a wolf. That would be hate speech. Maybe you were joking.
Don McKellar says
For me the connection with the jihadi Mahmoud Ali Ehsani pretty much seals the deal that he had some kind of last moment conversion to Islam that made him go on a rampage. And this isn’t captured in his social media, but in his actions. Perhaps some sort of diary or manifesto will emerge to illuminate this further.
jihad3tracker says
Hello Don — Yes, Ehsani being a social media connection is WAAAAY too deal-sealing for me — not a coincidence. But Chris Mercer did not need any last moment formal conversion to kill Christians and wound others, of course. Just a few choice Trilogy citations or web rants would land right in the middle of justification for slaughter.
Am I giving the FBI and LEA more credit than merited to assume they will visit Ehsani with a warrant to seize relevant items, including computers there? Then, with some luck and the general stupidity of fat young losers like Ehsani, there might be some unerased or recoverable paths to communication with Mercer and a web of jihadi friends.
BTW, one news account I read this morning said he wore “body armor” — how extensive and of what quality not disclosed. And, as a “You get my guns over my dead body” 2nd Amendment proud redneck Virginia Democrat, it will be VERY interesting to see where he got the weapons.
If completely legally, or from his family, what kinds of craven bullshit will Hussein O eject from his seditious mouth to justify yet another episode like yesterday evening’s “statement”?
Don McKellar says
Yes, that was yet another embarrassing episode from The Great Deceptionist. It makes one wonder if he hadn’t been given a little tip about the jihad connection and moved PDQ to try and divert attention from that before it went public? Far too many people have underestimated him in the past — I certainly don’t at this point. Where this “mad dog jihadi until proven otherwise” got his guns (and body armor!) will indeed be a big part of this story.
abad says
He looks Muslim but would look even more Muslim if he had a beard.
Just saying.
Don McKellar says
He’s got the “dead shark eyes” of virtually every Islamic killer we’ve seen, regardless of their ethnic background.
andy says
Don I agree with you about those eyes. There just not normal. As you say you see the same look in every Islamic killer.
abad says
Oh definitely. Demon-possessed dead eyes for sure.
Papa Whiskey says
From a dating site, reported at heavy.com:
Harper Mercer says he is “mixed race,” doesn’t drink and is a “conservative, Republican.”
Can you think of anyone else who doesn’t drink?
Angemon says
Mormons?
Mirren10 says
Methodists and Baptists. Must be one of them.
Infidel says
Republican? Is that like in Republican Guard?
TheBuffster says
The killer’s dad sounds like an Irishman: http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/oct/02/chris-harper-mercers-father-oregon-shooting-video
Mirren10 says
No doubt some-one will tell me to take off my tinfoil hat, but this murderous turd’s rampage has too many similarities to muslim jihadists, for me to dismiss entirely the idea he’s either a newly converted muslim, or in sympathy with them. But we must wait for evidence.
Alternatively; there are a lot of psychopaths/sociopaths out there; who’s to say that, whilst not being a muslim himself, this evil scumbag has read about the Nairobi mall murderers, and others like it, and decided to emulate the MO ?
Also, let’s not forget the Breivik pusbag; this could be something with a similar motive.
And when all’s said and done, would *anyone* be speculating as to this foul creature’s motivations, if we hadn’t already been given ample evidence that that’s how these muslim jihadists act ?
Really, it could have been murderous Amish, or Methodists, or Sikhs, or ‘Jooos’, right ?
And just to throw this out there; this pos has been paid to commit this crime, by IS, or even CAIR, in order to demonstrate that * not all murderous sprees have anything to do with islam*.
OK. I’m now going to retire, clutching my Avipan. Because none of this has any basis in reality. I’m just a dozy old lady.
OK, I, m now going to
Peggy says
I think you’re right on the money.
Francis Merde says
HAHAHAHA. ISIS twitterati, confirmed for tryhard liars.
R Cole says
Mystery solved!!
Angemon says
Let’s imagine he was shooting muslims instead of Christians. What do you think the MSM reaction would be?
somehistory says
From the eyes he had, and the actions he took, the words he said,…it points to islam as his *justification* if not his *reason.*
That area of the country seems rife with those who have no respect for Christian belief, and even much hatred. He may have been a wanna’be in the islamic war on Christians or he may have just hated Christians and used his friend’s influence to carry out what he wished to do.
Some showed courage in the face of the terror!
he does not deserve to have his name published anywhere …much less everywhere as he wished it to be.He was doing the work of satan the devil.
Godwin says
This kind of purification has to happen to cleanse American sins of bombing other countries, selling lethal weapons n supporting brutal dictators.This karmic debt has to be paid by hook n crook.
Mirren10 says
Did you forget the sarc tag ? Or are you just an unmitigated moron ?
mortimer says
Agreeing with Mirren.
Angemon says
Godwin posted:
“This kind of purification has to happen to cleanse American sins of bombing other countries, selling lethal weapons n supporting brutal dictators.This karmic debt has to be paid by hook n crook.”
Huh, how is this butcher of innocents “karma” and/or related to bombing other countries? Also, supporting brutal dictators? You mean like Saddam, Gadaffi and Mubarak, whom the US threw under the jihadi bus? Or Assad, who outsmarted Obama and is hanging to power like a high sea sailor to an inflatable doll, despite Obama’s best efforts?
Godwin says
What shallow minds u three have. The sins of American whites are immeasurable, but God is counting n acting accordingly. Before the forming of USA Americans massacred the Red Indians n occupied their lands,n enslaving the negro from Africa n mistreated them,raping their women killing many of them too. In WW2 USA did not drop the atomic bomb on Emperor Hirohito, the No. 1 criminal, n his henchmen cabinet but dropped it on Hiroshima n Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousand innocent people. After the Japs surrendered, Gen. Mc Arthur was given part of the gold n treasure looted from the occupied Asian countries n he gave a gentle treatment to Hirohito n ignored the plight of those countries robbed n devastated by the Japanese Imperial troops..
After WW2 USA supported corrupt brutal regimes in Asia, Africa South America n the ME. Remember dictators like Chiang Kai Sek. Marco n many, many others.
Asked the British to kick out the natives of an island in northern Indian Ocean n built a huge naval base n.In return USA gave polaris missiles to the UK n not a cents to the expelled natives.
When USA bombed other countries, millions of innocent people also got killed or made homeless as collateral damages.
Jesus had said you reap what you had sown. That sum up your shallow arguments.
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Angemon says
Godwin posted:
“The sins of American whites are immeasurable”
You, sir/madam, are a RACIST.
“Before the forming of USA Americans massacred the Red Indians n occupied their lands”
Ah, you must be talking about the wars waged between native Americans – those are the only Americans before the USA were formed. Pawnees vs Sioux, Apaches vs Cheyenne, Comanches vs whatever – bloody stuff indeed. They practiced scalping, you know? They grabbed a sharp object – like a stone or obsidian knife – cut the scalp up to the bone and pulled until they ripped the scalp free. To take as a trophy. Oh, and women and children? They were valid targets as well. In fact, they were a bigger trophy than the scalp of a male adult – they could scalp a male adult on the battlefield, but scalping a women or children meant that they were victorious and walked right up to the heart of enemy territory.
If you want to talk about massacring people and occupying their lands, you might want to look into what your coreligionists did in the Middle East, Africa, Europe and India. Muslims amassed and rulled the largest colonial empire ever and I have not seen any muslim ever acknowledging or apologize for it. Bunch of hypocrites.
“,n enslaving the negro from Africa n mistreated them,raping their women killing many of them too”
Nope – those were your coreligionists: muslims, including Black muslims, enslaved and sold their fellow Africans to European and American buyers. It’s estimated that for every African sold to an European or American buyer 9 were killed, either during the slave raid or the death march to the market. It’s also interesting to see the male/female ratio: 2/3rds of slaves purchased by Europeans and Americans from muslim slavers were male while only 1/3rd of slaves sold to other muslims were male – Europeans and Americans wanted workers, muslims wanted sex slaves.
“In WW2 USA did not drop the atomic bomb on Emperor Hirohito, the No. 1 criminal, n his henchmen cabinet but dropped it on Hiroshima n Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousand innocent people.”
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets. More people died during regular bombings than with the atomic bombs – why so hung on the atomic bombings? Also, answer me this: if he Allied troops had killed Emperor Hirohito, who would have pushed for the Japanese surrender? They refused to surrender before and after the first bomb, and it took the intervention of the Emperor to admit defeat after the second, and even then Japanese army officers attempted a coup to prevent the surrender message from being broadcast. If Emperor Hirohito had been killed, the Japanese War Command would have gone through with their plan – to make a last stand in Japanese lands, force a land invasion and die fighting. The casualties would have numbered in the millions, and most of them would be Japanese civilians.
You don’t give a rat’s ass about “innocent people”, you just want to demonize the US in any way you can. “Oh, but the atomic bombs, civilians died!”. Bo-f***ing-ho. It was a war – innocent people tend to get caught in between. If you want to defend innocent victims I suggest you start by condemning the Japanese for what they did to, for example, the Chinese and Naurauan. Go as them what they think of the Japanese. In fact, go ask the Japanese what they feel about Americans and the atomic bombings. But be careful though – if they realize you’re trying to stand on the corpses of their countrymen to further your anti-American agenda you might get a serious sudden bout of fist to the face.
“After the Japs surrendered, Gen. Mc Arthur was given part of the gold n treasure looted from the occupied Asian countries”
Any sources for that?
“n he gave a gentle treatment to Hirohito n ignored the plight of those countries robbed n devastated by the Japanese Imperial troops..”
Make up your damn mind – first you rail against the US for killing innocent Japanese, now you rail against the US for being soft on the Japanese after they accepted unconditional surrender. Which way is it?
“After WW2 USA supported corrupt brutal regimes in Asia, Africa South America n the ME. Remember dictators like Chiang Kai Sek. Marco n many, many others.”
We saw what happened when Saddam, Gadaffi and Mubarak were thrown under the bus – it seems you have no problems with bloody civil wars and the oppression and murder of civilians based on their religion but draw the line if the US is somehow linked to a dictatorial regime who keeps peace through an iron fist. What a colourful display of dual standards!
“Asked the British to kick out the natives of an island in northern Indian Ocean n built a huge naval base n.In return USA gave polaris missiles to the UK n not a cents to the expelled natives.”
Take your grievance mongering to the British then – why didn’t they pay the natives for their lands?
“When USA bombed other countries, millions of innocent people also got killed or made homeless as collateral damages.”
Did the US decided to bomb other countries because they were bored out of their minds or because there was a conflict going on and those countries were on the opposing side? You can’t have your cake and eat it – you can’t complain that Americans support dictators and keep complaining because Americans bomb dictators.
“Jesus had said you reap what you had sown.”
How does that account for an American shooting other Americans?
“That sum up your shallow arguments.”
My “shallow arguments” are questions that you did not answer in any way or fashion. And here’s another one: you’re a British muslima, aren’t you?
Mazo says
European people sold each other into slavery.
Vikings raided Slavs and took their boys and girls and sold them as eunuchs and concubines to Arabs.
French people sold their children to the Sephardic Jews of Al-Andalus, who castrated them and sold them as eunuchs to Arabs.
The Arabs filled their harems with these white eunuchs and concubines. Jews and Vikings filled their pockets while turning European males into feminized catamites.
The people who castrated European children have just been let back into Spain recently.
It appears the Sephardic Jews have not only physically taken European “manhood” but mentally as well.
Spain might as well let all the Morisco descendants back too since they are letting the people who castrated them back and the Moriscos didn’t do anything worse than that.
Jack Diamond says
They were castrated because they were more valuable to the Muslims castrated.
Unlike slaves who went to the Americas and could marry and have families. Two women for every manslave for the Muslims, for purposes of sexual exploitation…and normally any children the women had were killed at birth. Percentage of slaves dying in transit in the Transsahara and East African slave trade between 80 and 90%. The real problem is that Muhammad, uswa hasana, had slaves and allowed slavery just as slavery is clearly upheld in Islamic law. So while Christians, yes Christians, led the abolitionist movements in the West and while the British later used their navy to intercept slave ships in the 19th century and free the slaves, there never was anything comparable in the Muslim world. Saudi Arabia only ended slavery (official slavery, still goes on by other names) in 1962 under Western pressure. Unless the Jews wrote the Qur’an and Sunnah I think we can lay the blame with Islam for what Muslims did, not your favorite scapegoat.
Godwin says
The supreme God has said that good or bad things that happened to you are what you deserved. You say certain people are innocent but not so in the eye of God through His Karmic calculation. men accumulated sins or other blessings through numerous reincarnations.
America cannot has strict gun laws because certain law-makers are influenced by the avenging spirits to obstruct the implementation of the gun laws. Therefore, it is fated that certain Americans have to undergo many gun-related crimes.This is called the purification of sins for the victims who had committed certain crimes in their previous lives’ times.
Check with youtube you will find many verified cases of reincarnations.
This is pure Buddhist/Hindu/Johrei/Mahikari teachings.
Rev g says
All have a right to defend their existence. A gun happens to be a quite effective tool for such defense. Any who try to imbue a tool with special mystic powers are mentally deficient. One cannot change a person’s attitude or intentions by limiting his tool selection.
If memory serves me correctly, box cutters, moving vans, fertilizer, etc, have all been used for mass murder.
Angemon says
Godwin posted:
“The supreme God has said that good or bad things that happened to you are what you deserved. You say certain people are innocent but not so in the eye of God through His Karmic calculation. men accumulated sins or other blessings through numerous reincarnations.
America cannot has strict gun laws because certain law-makers are influenced by the avenging spirits to obstruct the implementation of the gun laws. Therefore, it is fated that certain Americans have to undergo many gun-related crimes.This is called the purification of sins for the victims who had committed certain crimes in their previous lives’ times.
Check with youtube you will find many verified cases of reincarnations.
This is pure Buddhist/Hindu/Johrei/Mahikari teachings.”
Hogwash. Utter hogwash. I placed you on the stop and now you’re trying to squirm away. Allow me to refresh your memory:
Now you say:
Care to explain that, Godwin? If you truly believe the reincarnation nonsense they you wouldn’t have jumped at “white Americans” like you did – you would have assumed that the people who got the nukes dropped on them weren’t innocent (your words) at God’s eyes and that the Americans were merely fulfilling his will. Same for the dead Indians and enslaves Africans – if you truly believed the nonsense you spouted you should have said that they had it coming to them. Or does your “bad things happen to you because you were bad in another life” only applies to white Americans?
So, are you a British muslima or not?
Angemon says
Let’s juxtapose what you said, shall we?
“After WW2 USA supported corrupt brutal regimes in Asia, Africa South America n the ME. Remember dictators like Chiang Kai Sek. Marco n many, many others.
“Asked the British to kick out the natives of an island in northern Indian Ocean n built a huge naval base n.In return USA gave polaris missiles to the UK n not a cents to the expelled natives.”
“When USA bombed other countries, millions of innocent people also got killed or made homeless as collateral damages.”
You can try to pretend that you’re into Buddhism, or Hinduism, or whatever, but you’re not fooling anyone – you probably orgasmed when your heard about Christians being shot because of their religion. Why not join the islamic state? Seems like the kind of people you’d love to spend time with. Or are you afraid the big, mean, white British MI-5 are on to you?
Jack Diamond says
a fascinating morality. Bad things don’t happen to good people. If they happen it’s because they deserve to be…murdered, raped, stolen from, enslaved…because they were.
The Hitlers of the world love people like you. The criminals of the world love people like you. The jihadis of the world love people like you. Their victims despise people like you.
There is no such thing as reincarnation and “kindness to the wolf is cruelty to the sheep.”
Your morality is itself a sin and don’t blame it on your former lives. You are being stupid in this life. You are indifferent to suffering in this life. God is neither.
Peggy says
So what do you think God’s going to do to IS then?
If God is after everyone who has done wrong to punish them in this life then what’s he going to do after they die?
You are being very selective about who should be punished here and why.
You say God will punish the US but maybe we say God will punish IS. Who’s right?
God is not into inflicting torture on anyone. That job is for the other guy. So all this talk of God’s punishment is ridiculous. The reason horrible things happen is because there are horrible people to make them happen. They might escape punishment here but they can’t escape God’s will.
Shmooviyet says
You forgot to include the word “white” in your original reference to ‘American’ worldwide sins!
Once again it is the white American who has savaged, lied to and destroyed the noble, peaceful black/brown/yellow/red races of the planet. There was never an act of slavery or butchery committed, or even an UNTRUTH told by any other than members of the ‘white’ race. And the relatively quite young America really started all the miseries of the world.
If you’re to be believed, muslims worldwide would calm down and live in harmony with their neighbors– if only that pesky, twentieth-century Israel problem could be solved.
And G-d knows all this, true?
Joseph says
This guy looks like he got a few wooden nickles when it came time for his **brain allowance**
dlbrand says
Fool in Chief, and others who fall in behind him, and pretend, in our nation, in our world, we have no Muslim—not radical Muslim, not extremist Muslim, but just plain, Allah obeying, thus, “Muhammad” emulating Muslims—problem; asserts, we have a gun problem, but refuses to even consider, and certainly never state, we have a Muslim problem.
Cowardly, deliberately, they ignore Islamic doctrine–Islamic doctrine, Islamic state cites in their latest issue of Dabiq: a true Muslim, according to their “sacred texts,” is one who does as follows:
Speaking of what fools, with respect to Islam and its adherents, among us call “Wonderful people … fantastic,” in speaking of Muslims; speaking with the authority of their “sacred texts,” IS scholars and scribes provide the following of these so-called “Muslims”:
Facts deep and wide on Islam notwithstanding, none dare assert, we have a Muslim problem, here, and globally.
Patty says
There were 9 murdered, and then the shooter was killed by police. Not 13. This is very near my home, we had family member there yesterday. Obama will make this into his agenda to take our guns.
Mark says
I have an idea, lets disarm American to make America safe for Islam. (NOT)
richard courtemanche says
Islam definitely a bad influence.
Badbob says
He is or was on the interpol jhaid watch list
MrOrange says
Lot of silly posts here. Lot of emotional, gut-instinct, posts, without utilizing common sense, known data and reports.
He killed 9
He was killed by himself, according to the MEs report.
He was not Islamic/Muslim
He was a spiritualist….
But no, you kids act just like ISIS…..lay the deed at the feet that best suits your emotional state.
Why do people simply take what is given and run with it ? Why do none of you “MURICANS! not actually EDUCATE YOURSELF ?
Why do you not look into things ? It took me 10 minutes to find 2 dating site profiles of his where he clearly states he is against organized religions…..and NOTHING is more Organized than Islam.
Such spoon fed lemmings most of you are
So sad….I hope your kids are smarter
NEPatriot says
And of his connection to a known Mujahideen sympathizer Mahmoud Ali Ehsani? What is your answer to that? How many folks do you know have a direct connection on social media to a person with Terrorist ideology and then go kill Christians? Would that not raise a red flag for you or are you that closed minded?
underbed cat says
Curious about the name of the college in Oregon…Umpqua…is this a Indian tribe name that became the college name. Just curious. I didn’t hear that the shooter ever attended this university.
Jack Diamond says
It was an Indian name for the region and the river running through it and a band of the Coquille tribe. It’s now also the name of a bank and an ice cream. Harper-Mercer was enrolled in the English class taught by Lawrence Levin.