Police have said that Smail Ayad had “no extremist motive,” despite screaming “Allahu akbar” as he stabbed Mia Ayliffe-Chung to death. They said he had unrequited love for Ms. Ayliffe-Chung, and that drove him to murder.
But Ayad also “said he wants to kill everybody.” Did he have unrequited love for everybody? He became “extremely violent” and attacked police; did he have unrequited love for the police? He stabbed Thomas Jackson multiple times in the face, chest and stomach; did he have unrequited love for Thomas Jackson?
“French backpacker shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ during fatal Home Hill stabbing,” News.com.au, August 25, 2016:
THE Frenchman accused of stabbing to death a British backpacker in Queensland posted a bizarre statement on Facebook just moments before the attack, saying he was “going to die soon”.
A French friend told Nine News that accused attacker Smail Ayad posted the following message “minutes before” the stabbing frenzy: “I am a victim. I feel I’m going to die soon. Whoever you are who like me, please follow me. I love everyone.”
Other fellow backpackers have shed light on Ayad, saying his behaviour changed unrecognisably on the night of the attack.
Mia Ayliffe-Chung, 21, of Derbyshire, was killed in a brutal attack at Shelley’s Backpackers in Home Hill, about 100km southeast of Townsville, at 11.15pm on Tuesday.
The French national entered the country in March on a temporary visa.
According to his Facebook profile, which now appears to have been removed from the social networking site, Ayad is a self-described boxer who lists his home as Thailand.
Police are said to be investigating whether he had a romantic interest in Ms Ayliffe-Chung.
The Townsville Bulletinunderstands Ayad had “fawned over” Ms Ayliffe-Chung for several days, telling other backpackers the pair were deeply in love and married. The Bulletin reports he became enraged on Tuesday night after hearing the British backpacker had posed for revealing photos in a magazine and didn’t reciprocate his feelings.
Ayad was friends with Ms Ayliffe-Chung on Facebook. He was also Facebook friends with British man Thomas Jackson, 30, who was stabbed multiple times in the face, chest and stomach and remains in hospital.
Others present in the hostel, which is popular with French and British tourists, told The Australian his behaviour changed drastically on Tuesday evening.
“Everybody has told us he was completely crazy, they couldn’t recognise him,” a French tourist told the paper.
“He said he wants to kill everybody …. maybe there is alcohol and drugs involved.”
Up to 30 witnesses — many of them terrified backpackers — at the north Queensland hostel watched as Ayad burst in singing the French national anthem and crying “God is great” in Arabic during the frenzied attack, The Australian reports.
“Initial inquiries indicate that comments which may be construed (as) being of an extremist nature were made by the alleged offender,” Queensland deputy police commissioner Steve Gollschewski said during a press conference.
“It is alleged that the suspect used the phrase ‘Allahu akbar’ during the attack and when arrested by police.
“Police are not searching for anyone else in relation to the incident at this time.”
The Frenchman had been at the backpackers for several days and was rooming with those who were attacked. Ms Ayliffe-Chung, a waitress and model, was also staying at the hostel while working on a farm.
Queensland Police Minister Bill Byrne described the stabbing attack as “tragic and disturbing” but sought to distance the incident from extremism. He said the attacks were not “about race or religion,” despite police not being able to rule out radical links to the murder at this time….

ECAW says
Robert Spencer’s phrase “the age of absurdity” is spot on. I hope it catches on because it sums up our situation perfectly.
Angemon says
Two words: confirmation bias.
gretel says
It is about culture and religion when a man is raised to feel entitled to a woman and entitled to kill. African, Arab and moslem men are raised to believe in their own superiority and entitlement, and their right to kill. That makes it religious and cultural.
Mark Swan says
gretel, You are right, the two do make a difference.
Singh the Singh says
Absolutely Gretel. You have captured the essence of it. The mass sexual assaults by migrants for example. Why only Muslims? It’s all about culture and religion, sense of entitlement and supremacy, following in the path of the perfect man, Muhammad, who raped and killed with impunity, all justified in the name of Allah. After all, killing infidels is not a sin, rather a holy act that will be rewarded by Allah. So the killing comes easy.
gretel says
Thankyou.
abel & solomon says
Part Seven; Is Allah the same as the God of the Jews and Christians?
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One God, or different deities?
The word “Allah” today simply means “the deity”, so religions other than Islam also use this word in Arabic to refer to their gods. This does not mean that they are the same spiritual entity, we have to consider their attributes as revealed in the sacred writings to discover whether or not they are the same. The Koran says; (9:2) “ye cannot escape Allah…”, (113:2) “…the evil He created”, (74:56) “He is the fount of fear”, (16:70); “Allah… causeth you to die”, (22:6) “Allah quickeneth the dead”, (32:13) “will fill hell with the jinn and mankind together”, (2:167) “They will never get out of the fire”. From such verses it is very apparent that Islamic Allah is not the same as the God of the Bible who is described very differently; “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have eternal life” (Gospel of John 3:16), “God is love” (1 John 4:8), “Save others by snatching them out of the fire (of going to hell)” (Jude 1:23), “He is not the God of the dead but of the living” (Gospel of Mark 12:27). Islam’s Allah is very clearly not the same as the God of the Christians and Jews.
There is no god but God, so who is Allah?
Is Allah the Satan of the Bible? As we have seen Allah admits urging people into hell, he and his fallen angels are in charge there (74:30); “have We not only appointed angels to be wardens of the Fire…”. He assigns a demon to each Muslim (7:27); “We appointed devils as companions…” and thus fits Satan’s description as “Beelzebub, Prince of Demons”.
The Star and Crescent
One of the “Seven Wonders of the Ancient World”, was “the temple of great Artemis, of her image (idol) which fell from heaven” (Book of Acts 19:35). Artemis is the Greek name for the crescent moon goddess Diana and her image was much like Mecca’s Black Stone. John of Damascus in the Fount of Knowledge tells that the Black Stone has the likeness of Aphrodite (the Greek name for Venus), “who they (the Arabs) named Akbar in their own language”. Hence that Islamist shout of “Allahu Akbar” really is an invocation of the ancient goddess of war Venus, whose symbol is a five-pointed star. During WW2 author John Van Ess visiting the Ka’aba noted; “in one corner is the Black Stone, probably a meteorite, the kissing of which is now an essential part of the pilgrimage”. If the Hajj Pilgrimage and the direction of prayer of all Muslims are focussed on this egg shaped idol, once addressed as a female pagan deity, then it is evident, as many experts maintain, that Islam is actually paganism packaged as monotheism.
Jay Boo says
People who commit ORDINARY murders do not need to say ” I am a victim.” first.
Muslims however, follow an especially despicable ideology.
They do.
Marblegranite says
Accomplices to murder will accept such killing and declare that the Qur’an had nothing to do with it.
linnte says
Mr. Spencer, maybe you could write out a guide for authorities on how to deduct reasonably the motive of a Muslim who murders in the way of Allah. You know,a common sense algorithm to get to the truth of a matter. Top of the algorithm could be “did he say Allahu Akbar”? If yes go to the bottom of the page and prosecute as Jihadi.
Salome says
It may be as he said and not a deliberate act of jihad. But, even so, it has everything to do with his Muslim background because it displays all the characteristics of Muslim attitudes to sex and ‘romance’: the victim was a pretty infidel and he, as a Muslim, was entitled to use her as he pleased, and when he couldn’t . . . All because Muslim boys are not taught to respect women and control themselves.
SpiritOf1683 says
They’re especially taught not to respect infidel women. And his being a North African and not a French culture made him an even bigger monster, as they are the most violent. They’re well capable of murder without pity as has been seen all too often in France and now Australia over the past couple of years.
Ian H says
It can be both. Having fixated on Mia (understandable as she was stunning) he then felt entitled to have her and wanted to control her. And his religion told him that he was indeed entitled to do both. On being rejected he was consumed with anger, and his religion justified murder as a response to that too. There are abusive violent and dangerous stalkers of all faiths in the world, but only the Muslim ones are able to claim religious justification for their violent abusive and murderous tendencies.
Religion is said to give moral compass to people’s actions. This man’s moral compass points in a very sick direction.
gretel says
When a man is raised to believe he is superior to infidels, then also lord and master over women, rejection from a mere infidel woman would enrage him. The sense of superiority and entitlement, while being in an actual position of ‘inferiority’, I believe does motivate, at least in part many moslems. It drives them to rage and resentment. Yes, religious fanatasism is a driving force, but sometimes it’s also an excuse for thuggery, a desire to rape, resentment and envy. They think that jihad somehow en,nobles their base behaviour. Let’s face it; you think allah has placed you above infidels, yet they bloody ‘have it all’ while you eat dirt.
Singh the Singh says
My thoughts exactly except that I could not put into words as clearly and succintly as you have – the male Muslim mindset. It’s a really vile and evil ideology and its followers extreamly difficult to live with in every respect.
Infidel from Down Under says
Queensland currently has a left wing Labor government.
The Labor Party nationally in Australia flat out refuse to associate Islam with any form of terrorism spinning the old line ‘Islam is a Peaceful Religion’ crap .This despite several fatal attacks involving muslims screaming Allah Akbar waving ISIS flags and having proven links to that and other Islamic based terrorist organisations.Further there are now approximately 50 people convicted and in jail or about to be tried on plotting major terrorist attacks on Australian soil All without exception are muslims .100%
But Labor continues to deny .Their grovelling to muslims is positively sickening
No surprise then when hearing the Queensland Police Ministers response here. He is just reciting the standard party line when it comes to these matters
geoffrey.mcmaster says
why couldn’t they just taser him and be done with it. he didn’t show any remorse for his barbaric actions so why should the police put up with his bullshit?
BC says
For me it is very simple. When a Muslim kills or harms a non Muslim it is Islamic extremism. One hears of Muslims killing non Muslims every day. How often do we hear of non Muslims killing Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists etc?
Infidels getting killed is in the Quran
Robert says
To be fair Quuensland police immediately reported the Allah Akbar use. However the idiotic romantic interest and canabis excuses emerged, like the murder was OK as it wasn’t vanilla Jihad. The MSM of course pushed that line the tried to bury the story.
Saying that, the non-leftist media took a direct approach and reiterated recent calls for banning Muslims from Australia with one commentator calling banning western passport holder that were Muslim from entering the country. Then the local MP, bob khatter, emerged saying people from the Middle East (he excepted all but Muslims) should be totally banned from either immigrating or entering the country. That story ran all week and of course has large majority support.
At the moment the govt is doing everything possible to limit Muslim migration using every trick but not stating it openly. But the call to totally ban Muslim migration is growing louder and openly said in the media by an increasing number of politicians and commentators
Blangwort says
Name even one other religion where people yell anything to do with God and kill random people.
Singh the Sikh says
Yet another case of insanity:
Explosion in Medan church, perpetrator carries IS symbol
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/08/28/explosion-in-medan-church-perpetrator-carries-is-symbol.html
John Billings says
Yes, Mr. Spencer, we are indeed living in the “age of absurdity”. The man was screaming “Allah is the greatest!”, for that is what it means, and wanted to kill everyone. Yet he has no “extremist” motive? They can’t even say “Islamic”. Amazing!
gretel says
We are living in Orwellian times; lulled into accepting thought control, allowing govts to implement brainwashing programmes into schools, “news” that is propaganda, ideologies that defy reason and deluded people who support our own demise. And the central agendas seem to be islam and the degeneration of “white, Christian culture”.
jeremysteering@gmail.com says
Strange too that he should also kill a defenceless dog in this allegedly “non-Muslim” incident. Perhaps the poor creature had the misfortune to be black, since, in the words of Islam: – “”The prophet did not order the killing of all the dogs, for some are to be retained for hunting and watching. He ordered to kill the jet black ones.”
overman says
What a lot of liberal leftists don’t seem to realize:
Lone Wolf or Lone Extremism.
This is not a social phenomena; it’s a tactic called ‘Leaderless Resistance’. The Leaders provide inspiration, but also encourage hidden cells [individuals] to act independently.
sidney penny says
“Queensland Police Minister Bill Byrne described the stabbing attack as “tragic and disturbing” but sought to distance the incident from extremism. He said the attacks were not “about race or religion,” despite police not being able to rule out radical links to the murder at this time….”
Not about race or religion so what is it?
Tilly says
It is people like this man has made me so angry and I have been angry for 18 years. I married a lovely woman from a Muslim country and had the same problem this women who was murdered. The difference was I was able to get my wife out of the country very quickly. I was told my wife had been asked in the street she was to marry a local and this means if not she is dead or has acid thrown in face.
So pulled a few strings and we left for my home country. My wife now can practice her religion without fear and I can enjoy her company everyday. I am not religious in an way and when the family come around they all accept I am mad in there eyes but as one of the family I am the best uncle. Because I allow her freedom.
What a life for a girls everyday the fear of being attacked.
Islam is a cult and should be banned.
Love to all non-believers
gretel says
Thankyou for telling your story. Good luck to your family. I am glad you escaped.
Ken says
For anyone overseas who hadn’t heard… Tom Jackson passed away one week after the stabbing. A double murder.
Three days after the incident, the perp still had not calmed down sufficiently to appear in court, even via videolink. The police then had the court closed in order to make a confidential application to the judge, who adjourned the case for two months.
This story has been effectively buried by authorities. What are they hiding.