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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: UK’s Independent: ‘Allahu Akbar’ Is A Publicity Stunt, Not Jihad

Sep 1, 2016 4:01 pm By Robert Spencer

The media’s never-ending quest to exonerate Islam grows even more farfetched. My latest in FrontPage:

ISIS Allahu akbar

Andrew MacLeod is a “visiting Professor at Kings College London and a former UN and Red Cross official who served in countries like Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and others.” What sloppy writing. What countries are like Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan? “He has negotiated with warlords and terrorists.” Is that something to be proud of? In the UK Independent Tuesday, he explains that a Muslim who screams “Allahu akbar” and kills people may not be a terrorist, but just a lonely publicity-seeker committing the Muslim equivalent of “suicide by cop.”

And the never-ending mainstream media quest to exonerate Islam of all responsibility for the crimes committed in its name and in accord with its teachings grows even more absurd than it already was.

MacLeod’s evidence? He says that Smail Ayad, the Australia jihadi who murdered two non-Muslims, Mia Ayliffe-Chung and Tom Jackson, as well as “the Orlando murderer, the Sydney siege murderer,” and “the Nice murderer,” all “did not appear to be part of organised groups. We know none of the Nice, Sydney and Orlando killers had a deep religious history. All three rarely prayed in mosques. They drank, had sex out of marriage, failed to fast in Ramadan. None was a ‘devout Muslim’, according to anecdotal evidence from people who claimed to have known them.”

What MacLeod fails to take into account in this analysis is that they may have been trying to make up for all that sinful activity by doing a great good deed. A hadith has a Muslim asking Muhammad: “Instruct me as to such a deed as equals Jihad (in reward).” Muhammad replied, “I do not find such a deed.” (Bukhari 4.52.44) The Qur’an teaches that Allah will place a Muslim’s good deeds on one scale and bad deeds on the other, and send them to Paradise or hell depending on which scale weighs more (cf. 21:47). A Muslim who is worried about his eternal destiny can decisively tip the scales in his favor by waging jihad, the deed that is greater than all others. He can seize the Qur’an’s promise of Paradise for those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111).

In light of that, it is wrong to assume that Muslims who were not devout and then kill while screaming “Allahu akbar” have no jihadi motive. Also, the Islamic State and al-Qaeda have repeatedly called upon Muslim individuals in the West to engage in random attacks. That means that a Muslim who has no ties to any jihad groups could still be heeding their call. MacLeod appears to assume that if a Muslim killer is not a verifiable member of al-Qaeda, ISIS, or some other jihad group, then he isn’t waging jihad. On what basis does he assume that an individual Muslim cannot undertake this endeavor? He doesn’t bother to explain that.

What really needs investigating in light of the murders of Mia Ayliffe-Chung and Tom Jackson is the psychic landscape that Islam provides for a Muslim such as their killer, Smail Ayad. Ayad may indeed have been non-devout and not interested in jihad or Islam in general. But at a moment of distress, at a time of upset and upheaval in his life, he was only able to provide a context for his anger and hatred in Islam and its call for warfare against unbelievers — hence even if his motive was being rejected by Mia Ayliffe-Chung, he screamed “Allahu akbar” and didn’t kill Mia only, but Jackson as well, and attacked police also: his rage at her became a generalized jihad against the Infidels all around him.

That is a scenario worth studying, as it could happen again, anytime, anywhere. But the willfully ignorant and politically correct such as MacLeod and the Independent will never venture into such territory.

The Independent says that MacLeod “can be followed on Twitter @Why_slow_down,” but he seems to have deleted that account. I wonder why. Did he have an inkling that he would be called out on his shoddy reasoning and attempt to keep non-Muslims complacent in the face of the advancing jihad?

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Filed Under: Featured, journalistic bias, Useful idiots, willful ignorance Tagged With: Allahu akbar, Andrew MacLeod, Independent


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  1. Linde Barrera says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 4:12 pm

    Andrew MacLeod must be a real idiotic-birdbrain. “If it smells like a stinkweed, feels like a stinkweed, looks like a stinkweed, and tastes like a stinkweed, IT MUST BE A STINKWEED” !!! Jihad is jihad, regardless of the inner motive of the Islamist killer. ??

  2. abel & solomon says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 4:42 pm

    Part Seven; Is Allah the same as the God of the Jews and Christians? (from The Undoing:Islam by its own words, the amazing free e-book that’s turning heads in some very high places. Get your copy or read it online here;- http://abelandsolomon.simplesite.com/424568444 , for the bigger picture read our full length book Islamic Apocalypse:- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AS09LYW )

    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.

    • duh swami says

      Sep 2, 2016 at 3:53 pm

      Is Allah the same as the God of the Jews and Christians?

      No…

  3. JMB says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 5:34 pm

    About 2 weeks ago there was a particularly nasty stabbing murder at a backpacker hostel in North Queensland (Australia) A young women lost her life and the young man who tried to help her also subsequently died from his 20 or so stab wounds.

    The police arrested a “French National” in connection with the crime.

    This “French National” has an Muslim name and was yelling Allah Akbar at the time of the attack.

    These savages just do not belong in our society. (Is Trump still promising to ban Muslims from travelling to the USA, I hope so.)

  4. Rob says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 5:44 pm

    I wonder what a similar linguistic dumbing down of the Holocaust would read like?
    Final word:
    ‘Zyklon B. You know it’s actually full of vitamins’.

  5. Angemon says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 6:15 pm

    Andrew MacLeod is a “visiting Professor at Kings College London and a former UN and Red Cross official who served in countries like Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and others

    I wonder if he’s related to Duncan MacLeod of the clan MacLeod. He better watch out – the stone-chuckers know how to end his kind…

  6. Undaunted says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    Speaking of Muslims behaving badly, today is the 12th anniversary of the takeover of Beslan School #1 in North Ossetia, Russian Federation. Three days later 333 Russians, including many children, were dead or dying. If you wonder why that’s important to you, check the link below:

    http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2016/09/true-warriors-theyre-still-out-there.html

  7. davej says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 11:09 pm

    Resist we must:

  8. don vito says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 12:33 am

    Macleod may be on to something, it is/was a stunt, a Hollywood stunt, two new movies are to be release soon, 1) I was an Islamopath and 2) Allah Ackbar Reloaded. Both are going to be big hits! Macleod was to prepare the public with publicity stunts.

  9. Michael Warden says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 2:05 am

    The Indpendent newspaper is barely one stage above the Guardian.

  10. duh swami says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 4:13 pm

    -If Allah is so akbar, how come he ain’t rich? Ge’s been collecting that 20% for 1400 years and has nothing to show foe it…According to reports, Paradise is in ill repair…The couches are lumpy, the wine is sour, the grapes are rotten , and the virgins are wearing out because virgin repair kits are in short supply..
    If president Trump was running Paradise, he would fix all that…Trump is more akbar than Allah…Who would have thought it?

  11. duh swami says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 4:34 pm

    Your comment is awaiting moderation.

    I take that as a compliment…most of my posts are worthy of intense study…
    There are hidden meanings all over the place…A. Crowley taught me how to do that, but that’s another story…Thankss for the interest, I’m always on your side…

  12. Sandy says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    Thank you for this commentary; it’s the first time I’ve seen anyone actually stating what seems obvious – that the so-called ‘lone wolf’ attacks by apparently non-devout muslims are an attempt to atone for their impious lives. What all the politicians, self-styled ‘experts’ and media commentators seem not to understand is that, for people brought up believing that a terrifying afterlife in hell awaits them if they don’t fully submit to Allah, dying as a jihadi represents a get-out-of-hell-free card.

    I think we can expect to see more and more of these lone wolf suicides; any depressed muslim who wants to end it all but is afraid of hell only has to take a few infidels with him while shouting allahu akbar to be assured of a place in paradise.

  13. citycat says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 11:10 pm

    @ duh swami

    A. Crowley did some good sonnets, eg 5, 6, 7 & 8 from
    “THE VAMPIRE”
    ie- from “O brooding vampire” to “Oh sphinx, gaze on, I can be silent too!”
    there is one problem i got with A.C. though.
    Which is that he seems to think that the source of all magick is ALLAH.
    He can have points for trying though.
    Ok

  14. ninetyninepct says

    Sep 5, 2016 at 3:27 pm

    Nostradamus predicted that Satan would rise from the East. Satan seems to have risen.

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