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Islamic State claims responsibility for Ohio State University jihad attack

Nov 29, 2016 3:33 pm By Robert Spencer

This doesn’t necessarily constitute a claim that Artan was in touch with them. They repeated a call for the murder of American civilians just days ago. Artan may have known that and heeded it. He is certainly making the sign of allegiance to the Islamic State in this photo: the upraised index finger. The signal of the index finger held up is, of course, used in myriad contexts, but it has become associated with a declaration of the oneness of Allah and allegiance to the Islamic State. This signal has been known to be a sign of allegiance to the Islamic State for almost as long as there has been an Islamic State. It has been described as the group’s “ubiquitous hand signal.” It strains credulity to think that a Muslim in November 2016 who referenced al-Awlaki and said he wanted to kill infidels didn’t know its significance as a sign of support for the Islamic State.

Artan making the gesture widely associated with allegiance to the Islamic State
Artan making the gesture widely associated with allegiance to the Islamic State

“ISIS claims responsibility for Ohio State car-and-knife attack,” RT, November 29, 2016 (thanks to Graham):

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University in Columbus that injured 11 people and left the suspect dead. The claim was made through the group’s news agency.

The attack in the state of Ohio “is a soldier of the Islamic State and carried out the operation in response to appeals targeting nationals of coalition countries,” a security source told AMAQ, the news agency of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

مصدر أمني لوكالة أعماق: منفذ هجوم ولاية #أوهايو الأمريكية هو جندي للدولة الإسلامية ونفذ العملية استجابة لنداءات استهداف رعايا دول التحالف
— خادم الإخوة (@kjuvd9) November 29, 2016

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies investigating Monday morning’s incident have not announced any links between the deceased suspect, identified as OSU student Abdul Razak Ali Artan, and the terrorist group in the Middle East….

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Abdul Artan, Ohio State University


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  1. Stephanie says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 3:38 pm

    Surprise, surprise! ??✅?

    Motive: http://quran.com/2/216 http://quran.com/4/76 quran.com/8/39 quran.com/9/29 quran.com/9/111 …

    https://twitter.com/schnellmann_org/status/803692955513090048

    • t. says

      Nov 30, 2016 at 12:54 pm

      Did any one notice how the calm, serenity, smile and the look in the eyes, on the face of this, as always, so called “mentally ill” young man, are there on the faces of many Muslims we see in our day to day lives, here in the west?!

      I certainly do see them, every day! By the way, for those who are ready to claim victim hood status, I am not talking here about race, but something I noticed on the faces of many devoted Muslims, many of whom are converts who are very white, with blue eyes!

      • carol says

        Dec 1, 2016 at 1:56 pm

        It’s obviously some predation/manipulation of the spiritual/social/survival impulse- the reward for thinking you’re “ONE OF ALLAH’S LITTLE MINIONS”. You can virtuously hold the world up on your wee shoulders while ruthlessly eliminating opponents and then get patted on the back by houris serving hummus either here or in heaven. The tender faces we see could also be the genuinely good Jekyll side of a warm but overly-passionate temperament that’s been fooled into identifying with a disgusting, worldly social trap (with a cleaver silently hovering over ALL humans thanks to a mental question mark – the ever UNKNOWABLE, but clearly needy, vicious and demanding Allah – with, of course, his sprinkle of sugary, verbal “compassion” here and there to keep the “religious” distraction show center stage).

        I think we shouldn’t OVERLOOK dissecting the style and substance of Muslim PRAYERS (Dua-e-Qunoot). By habit and common sense Westerners automatically assume that it’s a prayer practice like our own – a method of cultivating benignity and self-reflection plus a reaching out for what good force there is in the universe and what is good for ALL free and caring individuals.This does not seem to apply to the Islamic “creed” since curses upon kafir are automatically incorporated into the rote Koranic nonsense they parrot five times a day. There seems to also be a very illuminating coup de grace to these quintuple “PREYER SESSIONS”:
        They end with this charmer: “TORMENT IS GOING TO OVERTAKE THE INFIDELS.”

      • carol says

        Dec 1, 2016 at 1:56 pm

        It’s obviously some predation/manipulation of the spiritual/social/survival impulse- the reward for thinking you’re “ONE OF ALLAH’S LITTLE MINIONS”. You can virtuously hold the world up on your wee shoulders while ruthlessly eliminating opponents and then get patted on the back by houris serving hummus either here or in heaven. The tender faces we see could also be the genuinely good Jekyll side of a warm but overly-passionate temperament that’s been fooled into identifying with a disgusting, worldly social trap (with a cleaver silently hovering over ALL humans thanks to a mental question mark – the ever UNKNOWABLE, but clearly needy, vicious and demanding Allah – with, of course, his sprinkle of sugary, verbal “compassion” here and there to keep the “religious” distraction show center stage).

        I think we shouldn’t OVERLOOK dissecting the style and substance of Muslim PRAYERS (Dua-e-Qunoot). By habit and common sense Westerners automatically assume that it’s a prayer practice like our own – a method of cultivating benignity and self-reflection plus a reaching out for what good force there is in the universe and what is good for ALL free and caring individuals.This does not seem to apply to the Islamic “creed” since curses upon kafir are automatically incorporated into the rote Koranic nonsense they parrot five times a day. There seems to also be a very illuminating coup de grace to these quintuple “PREYER SESSIONS”:
        They end with this charmer: “TORMENT IS GOING TO OVERTAKE THE INFIDELS.”

  2. Stephanie says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 3:41 pm

    G E N O C I D E to A L L DISbelievers, if they don’t submit 9:29

    Tafsir (explanation) 9:5 ‘Ayah of the Sword’, ‘… means, on the earth in general … This way, they will have no choice, but to die (mutilation 8:12, 47:4, http://quran.com/5/33) or embrace Islam, …’

  3. Stephanie says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 4:07 pm

    Motive: Allah!

    https://twitter.com/schnellmann_org/status/803705535824535552

    • miriamrove says

      Nov 29, 2016 at 4:45 pm

      Hi Stephanie! I always watch your links. They very good. But in our company, they block face book twiter etc..

      Is there another way you can send this? M

      • Stephanie says

        Nov 29, 2016 at 5:07 pm

        Thank you very much for your compliment, dear M 🙂

        BREAKING: ISIS claims responsibility of Ohio State University knife attack.
        Photo of jihadi lying on the street:
        https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcStPF7wbdHithIEDqkq0lxW5CaKeQsux0VX3uU-k0j-no97iXGX

        Motive: Allah!
        quran.com/2/216 quran.com/4/76 quran.com/8/39 quran.com/9/29 quran.com/9/111 …

        brutal savageness vs civilization:
        quran.com/7/103 corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=16&verse=88 ‘Those who disbelieved’ will be ‘crucified’ quran.com/5/33 if DON’T submit 9:29

  4. CogitoErgoSum says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 4:10 pm

    Another sign to consider is that Artan had the makings of a pronounced zebibah on his forehead. Some call it the mark of the beast. It comes with banging one’s head to the ground with force and conviction five times a day. I would be very leery of anyone who displays such a mark ….. especially at such a young age.

    • Darryl Kerney says

      Nov 29, 2016 at 7:16 pm

      check out this version of the story of the zebibah,
      gee think the muslim brotherhood have anything to do with it ?

      • Darryl Kerney says

        Nov 29, 2016 at 7:17 pm

        whoopsie, forgot to add the link,
        NY Times 2007

        http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/world/africa/18egypt.html

        • Darryl Kerney says

          Nov 29, 2016 at 7:23 pm

          oh and BTW that was the #2 hit on my google search for “zebibah”,
          of course i managed to read between the lines and fill in the blanks, aided by hindsight, but, quite the innocent, favorable message about the fanatic’s dumb spot.

        • davej says

          Dec 1, 2016 at 2:10 pm

          So it is a scabby wound that results from repeated groveling to Mr Allah and is used like a gang sign to self identify as the most devout Muslim. I notice they are all in some kind of competition to out-Muslim one another, with possible fatal results to those who are not good enough. What a strange, conflicted and self abusive cult!

    • Az gal says

      Nov 30, 2016 at 3:01 pm

      Sign of self-imposed brain damage

      • A Harris USA says

        Nov 30, 2016 at 4:23 pm

        Hello AZ gal, missed your posts… This Muslim scum who could have killed many innocent people, is nothing more than the fruits of Obama!! Jan 20th can not get here soon enough!!! I have a feeling there are pots cooking on the stove right now to remove this trash from our homeland…………for good!!
        All we will here for the X number of days, is same old crap, unhappy, disenchanted, misunderstood, and so on… The real answer is, ISLAM!!!

  5. Angemon says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 4:23 pm

    Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University in Columbus that injured 11 people and left the suspect dead. The claim was made through the group’s news agency.

    Well, imagine my surprise…

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 29, 2016 at 7:10 pm

      Grimly hilarious.

    • Oliver says

      Nov 29, 2016 at 7:15 pm

      But, this piece of shit, in some garbage- the Humans of Ohio State ( he was human?)-he complained about not being-prayer rooms. And ( to me, this makes no sense-28 a college student-OK, so was I, so was my sister) but had been at another college prior? And he came here in 2007 or so- so when he was about 9? Seems strange to me.

      that was maybe why he did it-no prayer rooms.

  6. miriamrove says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 4:46 pm

    But, but, but Islam is a religion of peace. How could this be? m

  7. IndianTiger says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 5:11 pm

    The tenth Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh, said “no matter how many times a muslim swears he is your friend and well-wisher, never trust him”. We see proof of this everyday. America gave shelter to these muslim scumbags and this is how they express gratitude to the nation. They need to be deported back to their promised sharia land of Somalia.

  8. somehistory says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 6:16 pm

    The reports said he came to the U.S. from Somalia (a country with al shabab running it, making *converts* by the sword and paying young people to commit terrorism), by way of Pakistan…a country not that far from good ole’ Syria and Iraq where isis is located and doing their business of murder and mayhem.

    Perhaps he was contacted there in Pakistan by someone from isis. Who knows? His mom maybe, but she won’t tell.

  9. duj swami says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 7:03 pm

    The alert jihadi doesn’t need to get a telegram from ISIS…He already knows what to do…

  10. Thomas says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 7:29 pm

    Their orders have not changed in 1400 years, no reason to expect anything different tomorrow.
    Even if ISIS did not exist, it’s all in the book for anyone with the will to read it.
    Wake up folks, this is not going away!

  11. Darryl Kerney says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 7:54 pm

    It’s clear that here on this site there are many folks with very in depth knowledge of the islamic texts, history and culture,
    my question is,
    what do islam’s enemies have to do to Remove The Martyr’s Reward ?
    so that he isn’t guaranteed into allah’s orgy pit,
    IF,
    convicted and ‘killed in the act’ jihadists will be disposed of without regard to their religious requirements, BECAUSE, they forfeited that Right when they became terrorists.
    before it gets to legal level, the theology must be established,
    what would be a punishment from a non muslim gov’t have to be to make them think, NO, if they catch me i will not get into paradise ? and even if i martyr myself, what they do with my remains ?
    surely there must be some way to use their own theology against them,
    or did allah really reveal how to justify anything ?
    if so he must have spoken to Lenin, Zhukov, Beria, Stalin, Goebbels, Mengela, Hitler, Mao and Castro and Mugabe and Amin, and and and ……

    • Darryl Kerney says

      Nov 29, 2016 at 8:43 pm

      I would really like to see some replies,
      there needs to be a response,
      and a meaningful Deterrence can be a stitch in time saves nine…..

      • Az gal says

        Nov 30, 2016 at 3:06 pm

        Their bodies could be burned, or disposed of in a pigsty. But the government will never do that, tho sounds good to me.

        • Darryl Kerney says

          Nov 30, 2016 at 7:09 pm

          that’s what i’m wondering, would cremation of remains be sufficient deterrent ?
          a strong case could made for it, on the grounds that a terrorist attack should be seen as an act of war against the nation is seen, and that by doing so a terrorist has forfeited any rights, and cremation is simply the most cost effective.

      • carol says

        Dec 1, 2016 at 3:23 pm

        Darryl…sounds too much like cyber-reality but keep exploring. The ummah wouldn’t see any return on this differing “mind-construct” and would manage to invalidate it and dodge the bullet. Truth is we’re simply a long way from expressing ourselves as ruthlessly as they eagerly do.

        Maybe ACT for America could give you some food for thought. They have branches in many countries and focus on preventively bolstering legal systems against Islamic encroachments.

    • Eric Jones says

      Nov 30, 2016 at 11:46 pm

      Good point. It can be brought up in another venue.

      Eric

  12. Stan Lee says

    Nov 29, 2016 at 8:33 pm

    The ISIS mission at OSU may have been accomplished, and a Muslim martyr may have taken his place in their “Paradise.” In exchange is one immigrant lad who was a notable student and most likely had a promising future, had he not been infected by a group of murderers who endeavor to bring the country that gave refuge to an entire family that this boy came from. He won’t be the last “martyr” because terrorism seeks to recruit as many as possible to do its bidding.
    There are approximately 98,000 Somalis taken in to the U.S.A. since 9/11 and Minnesota seems to be where many have settled. The courts in Minnesota are busy with cases on these people. Minnesota was a nice, quiet, state, but no longer.
    Not directly connected to this now deceased young Muslim terrorist, is the news that Australia refused 1800 Muslim migrants and Pres. Obama advised the UN that he would welcome them to the U.S.A.

    • Shmooviyet says

      Nov 29, 2016 at 9:51 pm

      BO needs to come up with as many opportunities as possible for giving America the finger on his way out of office.
      He was very quiet Monday…

    • carol says

      Dec 1, 2016 at 3:43 pm

      I wonder which emotions will be strongest among the family that lost him:

      1/ the thrill at unknowable Allah’s approval?
      or
      2/ the loss of a known, beloved, and unique human being? – a fellow who might have made his own happy family in a well-functioning society.

      • Oliver says

        Dec 1, 2016 at 3:59 pm

        Carol– the answer is your first statement.

        Some years back, The Wall Street Journal had a reporter interview a “Palestinian” woman, who had had 6 or 7 children. (or, some number like that- a bunch, anyhow). Her third oi fourth child was killed ( don’t recall if IDF or Israeli police) when trying to do a terrorist attack.

        The reporter- as best I remember- found the woman in a state of euphoria — and asked why.

        her reply, was something like, “he did the right thing, trying to kill Jews–IF ALL OF MY CHILDREN WOULD DIE AS MARTYRS, I WOULD BE HAPPY, I WOULD KNOW ID WAS A GOOD MOTHER.

        A view unknown (I WOULD HOPE) to western women- being a good mother is having your children killed while they are trying to murder others/

  13. Az gal says

    Nov 30, 2016 at 3:09 pm

    Notice this stupid Muslim jihadi has earphones. Music is haram for Muslims. I suppose butt face is listening to music. Glad he’s dead.

  14. Eric Jones says

    Nov 30, 2016 at 11:36 pm

    There is a picture of Obama using the up raised index finger sign at the conference of African leaders held in DC during the Ebola crisis. One African leader gave a disapproving look. None of the American press picked up on it. As you know there are pictures of Obama using his middle finger in the birdie sign during meetings.

    O Obama, just leave!

    Eric

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