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Muslim accused of plotting jihad attack in Sweden wants to be a martyr, “greatest thing one can achieve in Islam”

Apr 25, 2016 10:22 am By Robert Spencer

Probably most people who read this story from The Local will understand the term “martyr” in the Christian sense, whether they are Christians or post-Christians or something else. But that is not what this man means. The word شهيد‎, shahid, martyr, means “witness” in Arabic, just as μάρτυς, the word from which the English word “martyr” is derived, means “witness” in Greek. But in Islam, in contrast to Christianity, a martyr is not just one who dies defending the faith and whose death thus bears witness to its truth, but someone who kills also: “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111) So this man is saying that he wants to kill for Allah. Not that this has anything to do with…

Sweden jihadi blocked out and lawyer

“Swedish terror suspect: I want to be a martyr,” The Local, April 25, 2016:

A 20-year-old former teaching student accused of plotting to attack Sweden told a court on the last day of his trial that he wanted to be a martyr.

Prosecutor Ewamari Häggkvist started the day at Attunda district court by asking the suspect if he aspired to martyrdom.

“Yes. It’s the greatest thing one can achieve in Islam,” said the accused.

The prosecutor claims the suspect tried to join Isis and also worked on making a homemade bomb for use in Sweden.

The 20-year-old Stockholmer denies all charges and says the whole thing is a misunderstanding.

“I have never intended to harm anyone or to make explosives,” he said when the trial opened earlier this month.

He is accused of trying to build a suicide bomb similar to the ones used in the 2013 Boston Marathon attacks.

He was arrested on February 8th after police found six bottles of aceton, duct tape, a mobile phone and jars of bullets during a search of his home earlier this year. A receipt for Christmas tree lights and surveillance footage showing him buying a pressure cooker from Ikea are also part of the case.

“He says he bought the pressure cooker to make food, but there’s nothing to suggest an interest in food when you look at his searches,” said the prosecutor.

“I don’t find his explanation credible. In my view he bought it with the intention of making a bomb.”

Police brought him in for questioning twice, but let him go the first time, after not finding any substantial evidence during another, previous, search of his house and examination of his mobile phone.

“The only notable thing about the mobile phone was that the password was jihad,” prosecutor Häggkvist told the court when the trial began.

In interrogations, the man, who grew up in the well-off suburb Danderyd north of Stockholm, has denied the claims, but has refused to explain why he bought the ingredients, which can be used to build bombs.

According to the Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper his relatives raised the alarm several months before he was arrested by security police in February. In June last year one of his family members called the police, saying he was concerned about the 20-year-old, who had then disappeared.

The suspect was shortly thereafter stopped in Turkey on two occasions. The first time he was made to return to Greece, the second time he was flown back to Sweden from Istanbul. According to the prosecutor his intention had been to travel onwards to Syria to join Isis.

Several of his relatives have in interrogations stated that the 20-year-old had been experiencing symptoms of depression, had isolated himself from others and had expressed radical opinions sympathizing with Isis.

DN recounted earlier this month how his family contacted psychological experts, social workers, an imam and police, but the suspect refused to accept help, and the accusations at the time were not enough to arrest him.

Security police only seized him after his mother discovered the suspected bomb ingredients.

“Dad, I don’t want to live, I’ve bought these things and am going to kill myself,” he said, according to the father’s witness statement to police….

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  1. jihad3tracker says

    Apr 25, 2016 at 10:34 am

    For those of us who have not read a comprehensive analysis of why the religion of peace is so successful in terms of gaining adherents —- AND PERSUADING OODLES OF THEM TO BE SUICIDALLY VIOLENT —- here is a recommendation:

    “The Terrifying Brilliance of Islam” [also titled “The Unsettling Brilliance of Islam”] at http://www.citizenwarrior.com, http://www.inquiryintoislam.com, or by a Google search. About a 20 minute read, best digested when you have a bit of undistracted time.

    • E.L.O=0 says

      Apr 28, 2016 at 4:37 pm

      Thanks for the link !

  2. David says

    Apr 25, 2016 at 10:51 am

    I’m very confused! I always thought that copulation with your favorite CAMEL was: “the greatest thing on can achieve in islam”!

    • David says

      Apr 25, 2016 at 11:43 am

      My apologies to anyone offended by the above comment. I’m a senior citizens who is sick to death of what the savages from across the sea have been perpetrating around the world. And, seemingly, no one has the grit to stop them.
      I am not usually so crass, crude or rude. But the situation is beyond rediculous. It’s long past time to take major and decisive action, just to contain the horrific CANCER that islam is.
      I bet many of the folks my age, children of the greatest generation, can see my point and would agree.

      • jihad3tracker says

        Apr 25, 2016 at 12:15 pm

        Hello David — I fit into the “senior citizen” category — at age 67 — and am not offended by your comment. I have written some rather intense screeds against Allah’s cowardly and sick worshippers, in the past several years here on Jihad Watch.

        One of my favorite counter-jihad blogger experts, David Wood, said in one of his videos, “Our expectations automatically drop to the floor when it comes to Muhammad.” And he could have substituted “Islam” for Muhammad.

      • Kepha says

        Apr 26, 2016 at 9:28 am

        I’m also in my 60’s and sick of the degeneration of our civilization. As a Christian, I also find the Islamic penchant for suicide bombing disgusting; and the Koran’s twisting and misrepresentation of biblical material and persons even more so.

  3. Angemon says

    Apr 25, 2016 at 11:45 am

    The only notable thing about the mobile phone was that the password was jihad,” prosecutor Häggkvist told the court when the trial began.

    Oh, for f***’s sake. Is it any wonder than when f***ing morons such as this guy, defying all odds, make it to islamic state territory are evaluated and deemed good for suicide bombings alone?

  4. خَليف says

    Apr 25, 2016 at 12:30 pm

    There should be public hanging for people such as this ( people that commit or plan to implement terror events ). The public humiliation of the soon-to-be-dead person is a great deterrent.
    When hung the body voids itself ( defecates ) and males have an erection and ejaculation is also possible. The body should then be cremated and not given a propped burial.

    The person should then be ridiculed in public media for a few days.

  5. Richard Paulsen says

    Apr 25, 2016 at 2:07 pm

    Think that they are obeying orders. Not being radicalized. One wonders what they escaped from, since they are building mosques and the women are wearing veils, burquas and niqabs.

  6. dumbledoresarmy says

    Apr 25, 2016 at 6:07 pm

    He wants to be a ‘martyr’.

    fine.

    Drop him off on the beach in Yemen in his underpants. If he’s a Shiite drop him off in a Sunni-dominated area, or if a Sunni, a Shiite-dominated area.

    Let nature take its course.

  7. steve says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 7:37 am

    Why not have a ‘Martyr Day’ Dig a large pit in every village,town or city where the infection lives. Sell tickets to the watching, excited, throng of infidels. Have bookies taking bets on the first and last Muslim to eradicate himself. The ‘happy-carnage’ to be followed by Mus-pole dancing and general festivities. Perhaps keep a few Mus’ and let them run around the ‘No- Dodgems’ car ring for a bit….

  8. BC says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 9:15 am

    It is clear to any intelligent thinking person that there is no such place as heaven or paradise, if there were the Islam paradise and the Christian one would not co exist. It is also clear that god or allah if he/she/it existed would be an a**hole, as during his/her/its existence he/she/it has spent most of the time punishing and slaughtering people. Who would want to spend ‘eternity’ in the company of such a being anyway?

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