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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Machete Jihad in Ohio

Feb 17, 2016 10:11 am By Robert Spencer

In FrontPage today I discuss how the police and media have whitewashed the truth about the Columbus attack.

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Last Thursday there was yet another jihad terror attack on American soil: a Muslim named Mohammad Barry entered the Nazareth Restaurant & Deli in Columbus, Ohio, screamed “Allahu akbar” and began slashing at patrons with a machete. Immediately, the denial and obfuscation machine cranked into high gear. Columbus police Sgt. Rich Weiner said: “Right now there’s nothing that leads us to believe that this is anything but a random attack.” The Washington Post wondered: “Random act or Islamist terrorism?”

It’s actually abundantly clear that this was not a random attack, but an incidence of “Islamist terrorism,” and not just because Barry screamed “Allahu akbar” (which was not reported in mainstream media accounts about the attack). Barry was on the FBI’s radar for his jihadi views, although they dropped any investigation of him back in 2012 (why?). An initial report said that Barry “walked into the restaurant, had a conversation with an employee and then left,” only to return later with his machete. The owner of the restaurant, Hany Baransi, explained what the conversation was about: Barry “came in and asked where I was from.” An employee of the restaurant (Baransi was not in the restaurant at the time) told him that Baransi was from Israel.

Hany Baransi is indeed a Christian from Israel. A large Israel flag along with an American flag greets restaurant patrons at its entrance. “I am a very outspoken Israeli,” said Baransi, “and I have an Israeli flag in my restaurant. When people [from the Arab community] ask me where I am from, I tell them I am Israeli, I am an Israeli Christian Arab, it’s not like I am Palestinian, and then they start arguing and fighting with me.”

To sum up: a Muslim who was known to the FBI as having jihadi sentiments entered a restaurant owned by a proud and outspoken Israeli and prominently displaying an Israeli flag. He asked where the owner was from and then, having found out, left the restaurant and returned with a machete, which he used to slash patrons after screaming “Allahu akbar.” Yes, that’s a real head-scratcher. There is just no telling what could be going on here. Never mind that there is a global jihad being waged by Muslim groups all over the world who hate Israel, hate Christians, and tend to scream “Allahu akbar” as they commit murder. Sgt. Rich Weiner is determined not to recognize that. The Washington Post is determined not to recognize that. So to them, this can be nothing but a random act.

Hany Baransi knows better: “Is it a random attack? Yes, but it wasn’t a random attack like you’re walking in the street and there are 10 shops and you pick one,” he said. “It was a random attack [insofar] that I was one of the Israelis [picked] between all of the Israelis that are around here. It was a terrorist attack.”

The law enforcement and media refusal to face this obvious reality is entirely unsurprising: after every jihad terror attack now, it seems as if the first priority of the media and every official who says a thing about it is to make sure that no one gets a negative view of Islam because of the attack. It must be very nice for Islam to have so many eager PR agents, but it does create a problem for the rest of us: what if a jihad terror attack really does have something to do with Islam? What if the fact that Mohammad Barry screamed “Allahu akbar” is entirely relevant to the case as a revelation of his motives and goals? And aren’t those motives and goals useful to know so that authorities can take realistic steps to prevent this kind of thing from happening again?

I have said all this before and will no doubt say it again, unless the jihad gets around to me first. It is worthwhile to keep repeating it, but both law enforcement officials and the mainstream media appear to be absolutely unshakeable in their resolve to ignore, deny and obfuscate the true root causes of Islamic jihad.

And so we are on our own. Hany Baransi shows us the attitude we should have in such a situation: “Actually I have another flag, and I am going to get a bigger flag, and I am going to get a Star of David necklace and put it on my chest, and I am going to get a tattoo. Honest to God, I am not kidding. They don’t scare me. We are Israelis. We are Israelis. We are resilient, we fight back.”

This is what we need: defiance and courage in the face of evil. Instead, the whole West is surrendering, and calling their surrender “respect.”

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Feb 17, 2016 at 12:28 pm

    Yet another real hate crime
    — but unreported as such

    In contrast,
    The MSM has manufacture a hate crime about Chapel Hill shootings.
    below at the Puff Ho

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erik-ose/why-the-chapel-hill-shooting-hate-crime_b_6681968.html

    • Lia Wissing says

      Feb 18, 2016 at 3:26 am

      Praying for the injured. Thank you for your bravery & steadfastness, Mr Baransi. May you live a long and most blessed life!

  2. Jay Boo says

    Feb 17, 2016 at 12:45 pm

    Somewhat Related

    Hate Crimes against Muslims have Tripled — Stay Tuned

    Last night NPR did a story with a grandiose lead in about massive increase of (reported) “Hate Crimes” against Muslims that has tripled in the past year.

    Naturally, I was chomping at the bit to find out about this huge increase in persecution of Muslims, especially after the had repeated that provocative line twice earlier as a tease trailer.

    They invited three guests who rambled on in general about Islamophobia blah, blah.
    “BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL THOSE HATE CRIMES”, I screamed.

    NPR You promised! That was supposedly the whole point of the story.
    Hate Crimes is what they promised.
    Ten or so minutes later I gave up waiting.
    Is NPR legitimate or are they just jerking our chain?

    • Dude says

      Feb 17, 2016 at 4:16 pm

      What a load of bull. Yeah right … omg! hate crimes against muslims tripled!!!!!! … from 1 to 3. *eyeroll* Let’s remember that bacon on a mosque’s door handles is considered a hate crime.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 17, 2016 at 5:02 pm

      You are so right, Jay Boo.

      A lot of these “hate crimes” tend to be unsupported claims that some Infidel “glared” at a woman in a head scarf, or just crossed the street to avoid her. Oh, the humanity!

      I found this claim particularly hilarious:

      Graffiti in the shape of the Eiffel Tower inside a circle is painted on the side of the Islamic Center in Omaha, Neb., on Nov. 17, 2015. A Muslim civil rights group wants the FBI and local police to investigate the vandalism as possible hate crime, that may be related to the Paris terror attacks. Nati Harnik / AP

      Here’s the picture, at the bottom of this page:

      http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hate-attacks-muslims-u-s-spike-after-recent-acts-terrorism-n482456

      But anyone with the slightest clue–which should include NBC and the Associated Press–should know that this is not the “Eiffel Tower inside a circle”–it is an Anarchist symbol.

      These symbols show up as graffiti in any urban area, and this probably has nothing to do with this being an “Islamic Center” at all.

      Here’s some random Anarchist graffiti:

      https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/07/29/22/072922c2db6f80bde03bbef566ca124c.jpg

      You can find thousands of similar examples.

      • TheBuffster says

        Feb 19, 2016 at 12:19 am

        That *is* amusing, Graven!

        The wall that symbol is on is the perfect blank surface that attracts naughty graffiti painters. It usually has noting to do with whoever owns the wall, just that it’s a tempting blank canvas.

        I can see why Muslims might think that unusually curvy “A” (for an anarchist “A”, too) might be the Eiffel Tower if they’re not up on their street symbolism. But NBC should know what that is.

  3. mortimer says

    Feb 17, 2016 at 12:48 pm

    It isn’t a ‘HATE CRIME’ when Muslims do it.

  4. mortimer says

    Feb 17, 2016 at 1:00 pm

    Muslim hate crimes are justified by Muslims on four main grounds: 1) it is revenge for something done to a Muslim 2) it is honor-motivated, the goal being to ‘remove’ honor from a kafir and ‘humble’ him/her 3) it is jihad to force kafirs to submit to Islam 4) there was a fatwa from a sheikh authorizing the attack (a fatwa, though preferable, is not absolutely necessary…vigilantism is also normative Islam).

    Mohammed Barry responded to the fatwas of Palestinian sheikhs who ordered Muslims to use knives to stab and kill Israelis. Mohammad Barry is a ‘good’, obedient, compliant Muslim. How many more think like him in the USA? How many Muslims think it is ‘good’ to stab Israelis or anyone else who displeases the mullahs? Is that not censorship? Vigilantism?

    Vigilantism is thus normative Islam, rather than an aberration.

  5. mortimer says

    Feb 17, 2016 at 1:04 pm

    We can expect more vigilantes like Mohammed Barry, because our Western elites refuse to inform themselves on basic, political-Islamic doctrines (taqiyya, jihad, the kafir, Islamic apartheid, Islamic misogyny, Arab racism, Islamic supremacism).

    Until Western elites learn the basic doctrines of political Islam, the jihad attacks will become more frequent and Western elites will be unable to understand why!

    • Darryl Kerney says

      Feb 17, 2016 at 6:53 pm

      it appears they have no desire to learn, and as the old saying goes,
      none are as blind as those who refuse to see.

  6. JawsV says

    Feb 17, 2016 at 2:33 pm

    The usual obfuscation concerning Islam.

  7. Angemon says

    Feb 17, 2016 at 2:41 pm

    To sum up: a Muslim who was known to the FBI as having jihadi sentiments entered a restaurant owned by a proud and outspoken Israeli and prominently displaying an Israeli flag. He asked where the owner was from and then, having found out, left the restaurant and returned with a machete, which he used to slash patrons after screaming “Allahu akbar.” Yes, that’s a real head-scratcher.

    With the amount of head-scratching they do when muslims are involved in crimes, they must be picking their brain by now.

    • Darryl Kerney says

      Feb 17, 2016 at 7:04 pm

      yup, probably scratched right on through their skulls to the tiny pea inside.

  8. Budvarakbar says

    Feb 17, 2016 at 3:27 pm

    Two items here — you left out the name of the restaurant – Nazarine – which is code in the ME for Christian and then re the “nothing to see here” crap — I just left a discussion – I believe on BB where people are raking over the Bush’s fault re 9-11 >> come on folks — 15 years later and we are digging our graves even deeper.

    But that’s ok — the FBI knows who the real dangerous guys are:

    “Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy will remain in jail in Portland pending trial because there is a risk he won’t show up for future court dates, a judge says. Bundy came to Oregon to support the armed occupation of a national wildlife preserve led by his sons.”

    Note that he did not go to OR until after Lavoy was wasted and Bundy’s sons arrested and Cliven went straight to Portland!

    Considered dangerous they say — I smell the rotten stench of harry Reid all over this!

  9. gravenimage says

    Feb 17, 2016 at 4:40 pm

    To sum up: a Muslim who was known to the FBI as having jihadi sentiments entered a restaurant owned by a proud and outspoken Israeli and prominently displaying an Israeli flag. He asked where the owner was from and then, having found out, left the restaurant and returned with a machete, which he used to slash patrons after screaming “Allahu akbar.” Yes, that’s a real head-scratcher.
    ………………………….

    Yep–it doesn’t get much more explicit a Jihad terror attack than this–yet the media and even law enforcement goes into overdrive to whitewash the Jihadist’s motives. Disgusting.

  10. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 17, 2016 at 7:03 pm

    TEST

  11. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 18, 2016 at 2:28 am

    This is weird.

    I try to post a comment and ran into an error message from Succuri.

    But the ‘test’ message above went through.

    • Angemon says

      Feb 18, 2016 at 5:53 pm

      If you had a large amount of text, try splitting it into two posts.

  12. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 18, 2016 at 2:33 am

    From the article – “The restaurant owner (and note that as an Israeli Arab Christian he is proudly loyal to his country of origin, which is the *only* real safe haven for Christians in the Middle East) expressed defiance.

    “Actually, I have another flag, and I am going to get a bigger flag, and I am going to get a Star of David necklace and put it on my chest, and i am going to get a tattoo. Honest to God, I am not kidding. They don’t scare me. We are Israelis. We are resilient. We fight back”.”

    All good; but I’d also like to see the words “double-barrelled shotgun” in there, and “we are going to invest in three great big no-nonsense guard dogs” and “I and all employees will be signing up for advanced Krav Maga courses.”

    And then he could also line up a row of donation tins where, if so inclined, customers can contribute to causes such as Magen David Adom and ZAKA, and to charities in Israel that support those wounded in or bereaved by jihad terror attacks.

  13. David says

    Feb 18, 2016 at 8:45 am

    “…unless the jihad gets around to me first…” Mr Spencer, thank you for your scholarship and bravery in the face of a barbaric and vindictive belief system. Stay vigilant.

    • Keys says

      Feb 18, 2016 at 4:52 pm

      Amen! And prayers for you Robert Spencer, a real Prophet for our time!

  14. Lanya LaPunta says

    Feb 18, 2016 at 8:58 am

    It is fascinating how government officials, and those reporting the news, always refer to the perpetrator of these atrocities as “mentally unbalanced” or something to that effect.

    What most fail to realize is that mohammedanism is filled with NOTHING but the mentally unstable.

  15. JC says

    Feb 18, 2016 at 2:13 pm

    I wonder if another reason that the police chief and the media were so quick to dismiss this incident is that the perpetrator was a Black Muslim. In light of all of the animosity toward police after Ferguson, he may have feared backlash from the Black Lives Matter radicals since his cops did shoot and kill an unarmed (knives and machetes don’t count as being armed it seems) black man. We also have never heard much more about the “workplace violence” of another black muslim in OKC last year where he beheaded one co-worker and attempted to behead another before being shot by the owner of the company. This is shameful! Wake up America and stop this PC madness…

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