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Virginia knife attack may be Islamic State-inspired beheading attempt

Aug 23, 2016 1:22 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Two innocent victims were stabbed in a Roanoke apartment building, in what was reported by investigators to be a random attack. The only piece of information that first emerged was eyewitness accounts of Wasil Farooqui yelling “Allahu akbar” as he stabbed his victims. Now we learn:

“The madman who allegedly shouted “Allah Akbar” as he stabbed two victims in Virginia over the weekend may have been aiming for an ISIS-inspired beheading.”

By Western standards, any human committing such an atrocity is deemed “mad,” “crazy,” “insane,” “messed up,” etc. While such acts are indeed “sick” as Westerners know it, our civilized culture fails to grasp the nature and history of jihadi zeal, driven by the will to conquer and indoctrination about the necessity of violence toward the infidel, including commands to “cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers” (Qur’an 3:151) and “strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip” (Qur’an 8:12).

wasil-farooqui

More on this story. “Virginia knife attack may have been ISIS-inspired beheading attempt”, by Keri Blakinger, New York Daily News (thanks to The Religion of Peace), August 23, 2016:

The madman who allegedly shouted “Allah Akbar” as he stabbed two victims in Virginia over the weekend may have been aiming for an ISIS-inspired beheading, sources told ABC News.

Wasil Farooqui is accused of wounding a man and woman in a Roanoke apartment building when he went after them Saturday evening with a knife, authorities said.

The brutal attacker and his two victims — who may have been picked at random — were taken to the hospital after the stabbing. Though the pair was severely injured, by Monday they were “recovering well,” police said in a statement.

The victims’ names will not be released, police said.

The 20-year-old stabber may have been trying to behead his male victim, according to ABC.

Farooqui has been on the feds’ radar for a while, and may have journeyed to Turkey and tried sneaking into Syria sometime within the past year.

After the August knife attack, the FBI launched a probe into a possible terror connection.

Farooqui has been charged with two counts of aggravated malicious wounding and is being held without bail in the county jail…..

 

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  1. Jack Diamond says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 1:41 pm

    O goody. He was on the feds radar after trying to sneak into Syria. Just like all those other jihadis, after their attacks, turn out to have been under investigation, or on watch lists. Good to know they are being watched when they go to kill us. Helps us spell their names right.

    • Budvarakbar says

      Aug 23, 2016 at 4:37 pm

      Like the local “Block Watch” program — a house was robbed about ten years ago in mid day – a van backed up and the place was stripped — one guy at the other end of the block said he something but wasn’t suspicious. After that a neighbor said – yeh – we have “block watch” — we stand around a watch the other guy’s house get robbed!

  2. common sense says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 2:59 pm

    Predators don’t attack randomly or else they would not have been tracking him. Some attacks are spontaneous and the victim random but its gonna happen sure as sunshine. Jihadist perpetually pre meditate murder.

    He is bound by Muhammad to follow through, he knows murder is against the law and is conscience of his act and therefore not insane. Murder is the law of the Jihadist.

    • Zammana says

      Aug 23, 2016 at 9:08 pm

      Well put.

  3. Michael Copeland says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 3:07 pm

    “Stabbed in the neck” was how Boston police described the triple Waltham slayings.
    Years later one of them said the victims’ necks had been slashed with such ferocity that the heads had almost been severed: “It was like something out of Al Qaeda”.
    http://www.libertygb.org.uk/news/triple-unsolved-murder-unconnected-dots
    Be wary of the term “stabbed”.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 23, 2016 at 3:36 pm

      “Strike their necks”

  4. Angemon says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 4:10 pm

    After the August knife attack, the FBI launched a probe into a possible terror connection.

    I’m calling it: the FBI won’t find any links to any specific ISIS member and therefore it’s not a terrorist attack.

  5. Nigel GFF says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 5:29 pm

    This ‘madman’ may well have been trying to behead his victims and all we get is ‘ISIS-inspired’. One is tempted to observe ‘good description, poor analysis’.
    More ISIS butchery…

    OT

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/23/rochdale-imam-murdered-by-isil-supporters-for-practising-black-m/

  6. dumbledoresarmy says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 6:35 pm

    All *I* want to know is his citizenship status.

    If he hasn’t lied his way into an American citizenship then – once he has “done time” for Attempted Murder – he should be deported.

    And if he *has* acquired American citizenship or residency, then ACT for America needs to start lobbying for a suitable change to existing law, so as to permit citizenship, or residency, to be stripped from such as he, on the presumption that the commission of a crime of this nature is a clear indication that the person entered the non-Muslim USA with long-term malevolent intent and must therefore be viewed in the same light as an enemy agent.

    Of course, if he is a migrant or son of migrants, this case is yet another indicator that Muslim immigration into the USA is a very bad thing and ought to be stopped, fast.

    Got Muslims? Got Jihad.

    I suggest sending this link to Donald Trump, with exactly that heading “Got Muslims? Got Jihad’.

    Anybody here on ‘twitter’? The slogan ‘Got Muslims? Got Jihad’ (perhaps with additional info such as the location and date of one of the many, many instances of mohammedan murder carried out by Muslim fifth columnists) should be sent on its travels far and wide.

    Imagine “Nice 2016. [X dead. X wounded]. Got Muslims? Got jihad”. Or “Paris 2015. Jihadis raid Bataclan, cafes, murder 158. Got Muslims? Got Jihad”. Or, “Fort Hood [date]. 13 murdered, X wounded. Got Muslims? Got Jihad”. Or just names, like “Lee Rigby [date]. Murdered by Muslims. Got Muslims, got jihad”. Or “Theo Van Gogh, 2004. Murdered for ‘blasphemy’. Got Muslims, got Jihad”.

    • Jack Diamond says

      Aug 23, 2016 at 7:30 pm

      The jail record says he was born in the USA. His story is apparently going to be that he was hearing voices, mental illness all the way.

      “The man accused of stabbing two people in Roanoke County said he was hearing voices before the attack Saturday night. That new information is part of a police search warrant affidavit.

      “The warrant says Wasil Farooqui told police he left his home on Pelham Drive Saturday “to clear his head” and took a butcher knife from the kitchen. He drove about a mile to The Pines apartments and parked. Farooqui said he began hearing voices telling him he was stupid and to attack people. He saw two people walking from the pool area and attacked them. Farooqui said he did not know the people or know why he attacked them. Farooqui made the comments to a Roanoke County detective at a hospital Saturday night while undergoing treatment for injuries, according to the warrants.

      “Farooqui is being represented by Sheila Moheb and Moheb Legal Defense, PLLC.

      “Moheb said Farooqui has no ties or affiliations to ISIS or any other terrorist organizations.
      “http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Report-FBI-investigating–391018391.html

      Now that he and his attorney have that worked out, they can work on explaining “Allahu-akbar” and the attempt to join the jihad in Syria. Possibly his refrigerator told him to do both, not his Qur’an. Ms. Moheb’s listed published work was “Jamming the Revolving Door: Legislative Setbacks for Mental Health Court Systems in Virginia” if that’s a clue….

      • CogitoErgoSum says

        Aug 23, 2016 at 10:43 pm

        Isn’t it interesting that “hearing voices” is taken as a sign of mental illness in today’s world? But what about those in the past who claimed to have heard voices telling them it was okay to kill, rob or rape anyone who did not accept the religion of Allah? Of course, I’m thinking of Muhammad ….. the mentally ill pervert who should have been committed to the insane asylum but who, nevertheless, became a “holy prophet” now revered by over 1.5 billion people. That is something I find truly bizarre and, yes, quite insane.

        • somehistory says

          Aug 24, 2016 at 12:15 am

          Absolutely correct. If these murderers and those attempting to murder for islam are all *mentally ill*…then why do non-moslims refer to the murdering raper of children and the one who supposedly wrote the orders for the rest of the murderous cult, as a “prophet”?

          If car B is going fifty in a thirty mile zone and is *speeding*…then the guy he is following, in car A, also going fifty in a thirty mile zone was also *speeding.*
          If these moslim murderers are mental cases and not psychopathic killers, then there is no basis for *worship* of the other *mental case.* And none for calling him *holy* or a prophet.
          For a fact, there is no basis whatsoever for worship of the psychopathic killer. He was evil..not holy. And a liar, not a prophet.

        • Michael Copeland says

          Aug 24, 2016 at 6:46 am

          from Guillaume’s “The Life of Muhammad”, page 106.

          So I [Muhammad] ….. awoke from my sleep, I thought, Woe is me poet or possessed – Never shall Quraysh say this of me! I will go to the top of the mountain and throw myself down that I may kill myself.
          http://www.answering-islam.org/Silas/demons.htm

        • Carolyne says

          Aug 24, 2016 at 12:09 pm

          Sure he was hearing voices. The voices of Allah telling him to kill infidels. All Muslims hear these same voices..

          Throughout history, there have been people “Hearing voices,” i.e. Joan of Arc, St. Bernadette, St. Paul, etc. etc. etc. And then there’s Noah, building a vessel to the exact dimensions as the voice he heard told him to do, and even collecting animals at the command of his “voice.” How is one to determine which voices are real and which are not?

          In today’s world, those who are “Hearing voices” are treated for mental illness and sometimes confined to mental institutions for treatment. Are the voices that some have heard in the past real voices, and the present ones fake? It’s a conundrum.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 24, 2016 at 2:38 pm

        DDA, Jack, et al, Wasil Farooqui’s jail records do indeed say he is an American citizen.

        But now his own attorney is saying that authorities aren’t sure whether Farooqui is an American citizen or not.

        “FBI probing possible Virginia terror attack”

        http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-probing-possible-virginia-terror-attack/

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 24, 2016 at 2:51 pm

          I should say for benefit of those who are not Americans here that this can sometimes be more difficult to determine than you might imagine.

          Sometimes someone’s main ID is a green card, and so it is clear that they are not an American citizen.

          But for many with Department of Motor Vehicle licences (the most common photo IDs in the US) it can be unclear whether someone was born here, is a naturalized citizen, or has just been able to get hold of a driver’s license. It doesn’t help that standards vary by state as to what ID is necessary to secure a DMV license.

          I’ve known illegal immigrants who have been able to get driver’s licenses.

          It can take some digging to find out if someone has an American birth certificate or has become a naturalized citizen.

          Jails–particularly when the charge is a misdemeanor–seldom have the resources or inclination to research the matter.

  7. Tommy says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 9:25 pm

    Yes Virginia! Their is a jihadi!

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 24, 2016 at 2:54 pm

      Yeash…

  8. somehistory says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 9:37 pm

    He has the evil eyes of the devil. Sold his soul for a pack of lies and his neighbors have had to pay a price for his choices.

    Years ago, when I first discovered Jihad Watch, I could get sick or really busy and miss reading without missing many articles. Now, the articles can change several times in one day. Just shows that the attacks are getting closer and closer together as the devil picks up the pace of murdering humans by islam.
    The good thing is, more people are aware of what is happening and why.
    And the time of satan’s punishment draws ever closer by the minute. When he goes, so goes his death cult of worshippers.

  9. WarEagle82 says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    I carry for this reason. The enemy is among us and their intent is clear.

  10. isabella van der westhuizen says

    Aug 24, 2016 at 4:00 am

    WHY THE BLUE BLAZES IS THIS GUYT IN AMERICA TO START WITH
    FOR PETE’S SAKE

  11. Michael Copeland says

    Aug 24, 2016 at 6:51 am

    As with the stabbing incident (1 killed, 1 badly wounded) in Queensland, Australia:

    Killer…….muslim
    Victims…infidels
    Killer’s shout…..”Allahu Akbar!”
    Koran’s instruction…..”Kill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 9:5)
    Koran’s instruction…..” I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike [them] upon the necks…..” (8:12)
    Koran’s instruction……”Between us and you enmity and hatred forever” (60:4)
    The Koran is part of Islamic law – death penalty for denying any verse.
    Jihad, “to war against unbelievers”, is “a communal obligation” for muslims.

    Do Roanoke police really need Sherlock Holmes, or even Inspector Clouseau, to help them?

  12. David says

    Aug 24, 2016 at 7:58 am

    Maybe Islamic/SATANIC inspired? ????
    Wrong headline here.
    I think WE KNOW what inspires this hideous and savage behavior.

  13. Florida Jim says

    Aug 24, 2016 at 9:43 am

    Ask Huma Abideen , Hillary’s muslim staffer who has a strange background with Antony Weiner, pervert and Democrat, and “arranging” money transfers to Hillary and The corrupt Clinton Foundation guarded by the USA Department of Justice, The FBI and the CIA freedom has been stolen and the mop-up is all that remains. Trump is our last frontier and once gone freedom never returns ask Russia or Venezuela..

    • Carolyne says

      Aug 24, 2016 at 12:18 pm

      Yes. Trump is the last chance we will ever have to save our country.

  14. eagle says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 2:13 pm

    We can’t make judgement on this until Obama spins this to protect his Muslim Brotherhood.

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