“A close friend told said Gargasoulas’ rantings were driven by heavy use of the drug ice, and that he had recently converted to Islam. ‘He was a great guy but ice destroyed him. Then he converted to Muslim and changed very quickly. For over a month he’s been on edge,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.”
This confirms everything I have been reporting about this incident. But there appears to be a massive cover-up by Australian media and law enforcement. In any case, this clearly deranged individual was unlikely to have been coolly and calmly carrying out an act of jihad, as we have seen jihadis do so often. Rather, Islam’s justification for violence fed and fueled his already-present rage and tendency to resort to violence.
“‘I’ll take you out… and you need an army to take me’: Chilling Facebook posts of driver with a history of drugs and violence who mowed down dozens in deadly Melbourne rampage,” by Nic White, Daily Mail Australia, January 20, 2017:
The man who allegedly ploughed through dozens of pedestrians on a rampage through the Melbourne CBD has a history of drug abuse, violence and mental issues.
Dimitrious Gargasoulas, 26, ranted about the Illuminati, called unbelievers ‘dogs’, and vowed to ‘have god’s laws re-instated’ in the weeks before the attack that killed four people.
‘I declare war on tyranny today, you dogs will have the option to either believe in me and his positive energy he offers and stay faithful to me or serve the one who enslaves you at his feet,’ he wrote on Facebook on Monday.
‘I offer freedom no work no bills just that we all keep faith and believe in the one god, the one higher being for the good and protect the energy that he gives with your heart.
‘God bless everyone in the world it is about to change xoxo.’
He claimed to be ‘Greek Islamic Kurdish’ and a follower of Yazdanism, the native religion of the Kurds before the arrival of Islam, also know as the ‘cult of Angels’.
‘I know exactly how to take you DOGS down the power of knowing has revealed and I shall have GODS laws re-instated,’ he wrote last Saturday.
An hour earlier he ranted about connections between Scientology, the Illuminati, and the Free Masons, who would ‘do anything in the power to dominate the world’.
He claimed they would ‘take on the new world order’ and that women would run the world because god’s laws had been ‘overwritten by human laws’.
A close friend told said Gargasoulas’ rantings were driven by heavy use of the drug ice, and that he had recently converted to Islam.
‘He was a great guy but ice destroyed him. Then he converted to Muslim and changed very quickly. For over a month he’s been on edge,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.
‘He stabbed his brother in the face and beat up his poor mother I knew this bloke really well… I’m not sticking up for him whatsoever and he deserves to be punished for what he’s done, but that evil drug ice was the cause of this.
‘Just take one look at his statuses over the past month and it’s clear as day that he had gone into psychosis. He was saying there was a comet heading for Earth.’
Gargasoulas’ longest and earliest rambling on January 9 claimed god had given him wisdom and knowledge and ‘awoken’ him, and included a chilling premonition.
‘Keep in mind good will always prevail over evil and that is exactly whats to come in the following days weeks and so forth somebody tried to f*** me,’ he wrote….

Achmed says
Crystal meth and mohammedanism … quite the combination. I did notice that his friend stated how the amphetamines had ruined his life … but AFTER converting to mohammedanism … that’s when he truly changed and, did so, rapidly.
Was it the drugs or simply the normal, Just a moslem bein’ a moslem.
cs says
In the pics, he does look like a thug though.
Kay says
Adding Islam to an already damaged individual is like lighting the fuse.
Red Bee says
Islam produces damaged individuals; forcing children to recite the Koran is emotional abuse. http://redbee.website/m/
Of course jihad recruiters also use accidently damaged people but the mechanism stays the same: Install fear and dependancy in early childhood & add the ideas later ==> “slave/soldier of Allah”.
karl Anglin says
Islam needs ignorance in people to spread its evil, pernicious ways.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
It’s what Fitzgerald said. Recent converts are the best measure of the contents of the belief system because they’re immersed in the Holy Ko-Ran and some even in the Hah-Deaths too. And they’ve gone thru a steady diet of Friday sermons to get the game face on.
overman says
So, the question is, why did he choose lslam rather than any other religion? He is greek after all – why not greek-orthodox christianity? Who persuaded him to take up islam? Was it the violence of Jihad that attracted him?
Robert summed it up in a nutshell, l think:
“Rather, Islam’s justification for violence fed and fueled his already-present rage and tendency to resort to violence”
Leefromoz says
Great question. Politicians and media-scum here frame Islam as the religion of the persecuted. So anyone with mental problems who feels persecuted – e.g. those with rage issues, with paranoid schizophrenia etc – will naturally gravitate to sympathizing with Muslims and Islam.
[Note: It is non-Muslim Australians who have been murdered by Muslims, and are persecuted into changing the way we live, but that’s another story].
Those who sympathize with Muslims will naturally look at taking up their causes, their ideology, and their methods of fighting against the West. Not just criminals of course, but all those who hate the West – e.g. the feminists who run a protection-racket for Muslim rapists and genital-mutilators, and who promote hijab-wearing, etc.
It’s hard to know how many criminals cite Islam as a motivating or inspiring factor in their crimes, because our media-scum run a major protection racket for Islam and Muslims. But sometimes the truth leaks out in obscure articles (though never on network TV).
E.g. In one of the most horrifying crimes here in recent times, a violent serial rapist named Sean Price randomly hacked a teenager to death, stabbing her 49 times, while he was out on bail for various other violent crimes. (For a partial list of his various crimes see http://www.smh.com.au/national/sean-price-was-on-bail-when-he-killed-masa-vukotic-20150827-gj99zw.html )
Earlier in his life of crime he had been interviewed by a reporter about complaints he had made against the authorities – see http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/the-day-i-shared-a-coffee-with-sean-price-20150319-1m3c2s.html :
‘His conversation jumped from one subject to another: from religion, specifically the subject of Islam, and the “sense of belonging” it confers on some people, to his specific grievances and back again.’
Sean Price was never named as a Muslim, though he had a “specific” interest in Islam. While politicians and media-scum continue to cry out against society’s “Islamophobia” and “backlash” etc etc, psychopaths and criminals who hate society will continue to take a “specific” interest in it as the cult for the oppressed.
overman says
Thanks Leefromoz for that clear analysis.
“While politicians and media-scum continue to cry out against society’s “Islamophobia” and “backlash” etc etc, psychopaths and criminals who hate society will continue to take a “specific” interest in it as the cult for the oppressed”
Yes, that makes perfect sense.
One thing is curious – why Melbourne? We don’t hear much about other Australian cities. l know that last december, lsis said it was on their hit-list. And then, you have the Apex muslim gangs causing havoc too.
l’ve always liked Melbourne [l lived there for a while].
dumbledoresarmy says
Melbourne because this bloke was a Melbournian. Ethnically speaking, he was half-Greek and half-South Pacific (Tongan?). Melbourne has Australia’s largest Greek community, established mostly post-WWII. Greek Orthodox Christians, of course. So this bloke was in Melbourne because the ethnically-Greek part of his ancestry happened to settle there.
And then, being already a bad egg, he was – it appears – drawn to Islam, which attracts to itself all kinds of bad eggs (after all: what was mohammed himself, and his ‘companions’? – a lot of bad eggs!). These days you don’t have to have *personal* contact with Muslims, to find out about the Death Cult. Though, Melbourne does have a Mohammedan presence; the second biggest mohammedan colony in Australia, after the one in Sydney.
Leefromoz says
Why Melbourne? Interesting. We are the second-largest city, so we would naturally average our share of the politician’s imported Jihadis. (Sydney has even more Muslim crime than we do.) But it’s worth noting that here in Victoria we also have a particularly virulent bunch of traitor politicians, who actively encourage the growth of the Jihadi religion.
This means that psychopath non-Muslims in Melbourne like Gargasoulas, Jack Thomas, Jake Bilardi, etc, will feel validated in choosing to convert to Islam.
To give an idea of our politicians here, with Australia Day coming this Thursday, the Victorian Government decided to use taxpayer money to have billboards run an advertisement for Australia Day promoting the very cult that threatens taxpayers’ lives. The billboard for Australia Day featured *only* two Hijabis. See http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-17/australia-day-billboard-featuring-women-in-hijabs-taken-down/8187914
Keeping in mind only 2% of our population is Muslim – fewer than Buddhists, let alone the many Christian denominations – and only 40% of Australians are opposed to a complete BAN on Muslim immigration (despite all 5 TV networks running regular Muslim promotions), this was a bizarre, and yet telling decision.
James Feisley says
A Drug user gets sober but a believer of Islam gets progressively more radical with age. Islamic followers have zero interest in assimilation and a matter of fact are practicing one of the tenants of Islam to NOT ASSIMILATE.
ALL Islamic followers do not believer in equality for Women, Gays of NON-BELIVERS.
Being anti Islamic is not racist because Islam is NOT A RACE rather an ideology of HATE & SUBJUGATION.
WHEN YOU MEET THE UNBELIEVERS (non-Islamic persons), STRIKE THEIR NECKS.
QUR’AN 47:4. NOT a radical belief held solely by radicals but a cornerstone of the Qur’an held in silence from the host country they intend to implement Sariya law and a Theocracy; overturn the separation of church and state.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s very possible that this man did change quickly after “his conversion to Islam.” For under the influence Of Islam he turned vicious and violent which is part of the essence of Islam, As seen in the Koran 5:33. 9,5,111,123. 47:4. Some people might ask “Just why is Islam so very violent that this jihad car attack happen ?” The answer is the Islam is a false religion which was started by a false prophet of the type Jesus predicted and warned of ,Matthew 7:15. Furthermore ,with Muhammad the false prophet who founded Islamic was, no doubt, demonically inspired .Demons are vicious and malicious towards humans to it stands to reason that this is why Islam causes harm to many people. Furthermore,aside from this “lone wolf” jihadist the sad fact of reality of that a number of people who had claimed to be Christians have been enticed into Islam and some of those converts to Islam have come violent because Islam has hardened the hearts, as Islam can calloused ,seared, the human “conscience with a hot iron” First Timothy 4:1,2. and thus violence is one o the fruits of Islam, Mathew 7:20.
Singh the Singh says
Dimitrious’ drug was ice. Muslims don’t need ice. They have Muhammad and the Koran. That’s their ‘drug’. Far more potent and deadly than ice, if the body count racked up by Islamic terror is anything to go by.
Charli Main says
Mad Mohammad of Mecca was probably spaced out on Qat and Hashish for most of his life. Well, he did have a talking donkey friend, flew to paradise on a winged horse and got regular visits from an Archangel. !!!
DFD says
Good one! 🙂
Did you know he also screwed the dead? No kidding.
karl Anglin says
Mohammad was originally viewed as a crackpot and driven into Medina.
overman says
Yes, an archangel that was terrified of dogs and puppies LOL
davej says
So he was already psychotic and on drugs, then found Islam attractive, “converted” and it was only then that he really became dangerous to others.
Islam is attractive to criminals and the mentally ill because it is the only “religion” in the world that endorses murder, rape and slavery. Robbery is also approved by the concepts of “jizya” and “booty”.There should be a total ban on preaching the Koran inside our prison system.
Kay says
Definitely
somehistory says
The thing that makes it so really really bad is that each time it happens, either the authorities say, “No motive yet found, we are looking for a motive” or “It isn’t terrorism” and then they proceed from there; and in this case as in many others, trying desperately to cover up the evidence for islam being the *motivation.*
In this case too, so many jumped on the denial bandwagon and claimed that since he was Greek and using drugs, it couldn’t and didn’t…with many declarations of JW and Mr. Spencer just wanting it to be islam and that he should remove the article…have anything to do with islam and that he was not a moslim.
Those people were the ones quick to make a judgment. Now they should be just as quick to come back and apologize to Mr. Spencer.
Just as I don’t hold my breath waiting for the *leaders* to wake up to the fact of satan’s beast, I won’t be holding my breath and waiting to see if those ones return to admit it is islam.
Sam says
It is easy to deny that terrorism= Islam. If a normal person sees the truth that Islam is evil than he/she has to do something about Islam. In our liberal lazy culture that is too much work for millions of Americans unfortunately. Luckily more and more Amercans are seeing Islam for what it is. Evil garbage.
FYI says
“god’s laws reinstated”???
What law is that?Surely God’s law must include the Commandments?
But neither islam nor the teachings of the koran follow God’s Commandments.
For example,every time a muslim goes on the rampage he believes that “allah” has given him permission to “slay the unbelievers wherever you find them”{koran 2:191}.
But this is a clear violation of the Sixth commandment which clearly prohibits murder.
In other words,God cannot possibly sanction such acts:but “allah” does.
God does not promote evil behavior or sanction anything that would be in conflict with His Commandments.The New Testament and Jesus Christ fully agree with God’s laws but the koran and mahomet disagree and in fact oppose them
“allah” has no problem encouraging the breaking of the…
Sixth commandment{murder} in k2:191
Seventh commandment{adultery and slavery} in k 33:50,
Eight commandment{stealing} in k 48:20
Ninth commandment{lying} in all those islamic dissembling tricks like taqqiya,muruna,kitman,taysin,tawriya..lying,dishonesty and bearing…FALSE WITNESS.
Read the koranic references yourself and compare them with a list of God’s Ten
Commandments:the koranic teachings are actually in opposition to God’s laws!
So let’s be clear that God’s laws are not the same as “allah’s”.
The islamic “allah” does not agree with God’s commandments.Ludicrous but true.
Once again a convert to “allah” thinks he is free to violate the Commandments.
If you convert to “allah” you are really losing God.
Infidel Task Force says
Because that’s what Islam does to people. It is a virus. A cancer on the body, the mind, the soul.
It will not be eradicated because it feeds on the weak, the vicious and the insane.
John A. Marre says
Converting to Islam is an act of rejection of a civilized way of life, and of citizenship in a civilized country. It is equivalent to renouncing one’s citizenship, and is an act of treason to one’s country. It needs to be followed by immediate loss of citizenship rights, and expulsion.
Gwen says
I suppose that’s why he burned a Bible and beat up his elderly neighbour on the same day as he killed 4, fatally wounded a baby and injured 30. It seems to me that Victoria Police can’t identify the hallmarks of Islamic scripture inspired contempt and crime, and the difference between a jihadi and a madman. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/bourke-street-mall-driver-identified-as-james-jimmy-gargasoulas-20170120-gtvs2m.html
We will hear all about his immigration background and how he or his parents came to Australia and what connection he has to Greece (if any) during the court proceedings. Fortunately that is a transparent process and will be reported on in detail by the local media.
Angemon says
How many ice users go about ramming cars into people while shouting “allahu akbar”? How many mohammedans? Yeah, the drug is not the issue here…
Gray says
I’ve been searching through the Australian media reports, trying to find some mention of Islam. Rien. Nothing. Nada. Zip. But, one or two interesting little insights. The perp. apparently set a Bible on fire, and threw it at a family member; he got into a fight over his little brother’s sexuality, and was later heard to rant, ‘I’m going to kill all gays, poofters and lesbians.’ Although only 26, he already had three children, according to an alleged friend, with another on the way with a different sex partner. Yep, I can see why the Australian authorities are so confused about the ‘why’, and are so scrupulously avoiding the dreaded ‘M’ word. Soon everyone will be able to agree that the man must be a right wing, gun-loving Christian fundamentalist, who was simply overcome with excitement at the prospect of Donald Trump becoming US President.
David M says
Hopefully at his trial he will start talking about Islam, & the public will know we have been conned by the authorities.
gravenimage says
Australia: Friend of Melbourne car attacker says he “converted to Muslim and changed very quickly”
……………………
How many times have we heard *this*?
Kasey says
His rantings and his recent conversion to Islam is being kept from the general Australian public by a media conspiracy. Once Pauline Hanson of One Nations finds out about it all, the shit will hit the fan!
The Victorian police should be ashamed about it all and for the fact they refused to let patrol officers (7 times) to intercept and crash his car before he did his evil deeds.
dumbledoresarmy says
He was also let out on bail.
He committed his murderous rampage *whilst out on bail*.
The *police* had advised *against* his being given bail, but nevertheless, the magistrate (a fill-in, after hours, seemingly) awarded it.
*That* person is indirectly responsible for all the deaths.
Because whether Muslim or not, had bail been REFUSED – as the poor police on the case had urged, most strongly – this dangerous ‘loose cannon’ would NOT have been on the loose, to the endangerment of the public; he would have been *in the lockup*.
So one good thing is coming out of this mess… the whole process and practice of letting obviously-dangerous people (whether Muslim or non-Muslim) out on bail, is being questioned.
Bleeps says
It is said in their Koran and it is written in Bible : “Let the one without sin throw the first stone” And they did take the example and started throwing and it wasn’t long that the theory was it isn’t there a man without sin but they must sin so that they become innocent like the child who presumably (in their mind) would throw a stone. So following the words and thinking at the possible actions of a child In given the situations the adults would take as example the biblical saying. In their Islamic mind all people throwed a stone at the prostitute even the children so…there is no sin in Islam, they don’t trust anything but the book. For them there is only RESPECT through violence, HONOR, many things that are imposed with force and not hard earned but with intimidation. These are the kind of values derived from twisting the saying above or offering a different but complete opposite view of a weak short minds.
gravenimage says
Sorry–there is nothing in Qur’an like this act of humanity and mrecy.
gravenimage says
mercy
SpiritOf1683 says
Killing an infidel isn’t regarded as a sin, though.
Kay says
Yes, the atrocities are coming so quickly and the victims pile up. We hear the Left crying out over the rights of Mohammedens but it seems the victims are too quickly forgotten.
SpiritOf1683 says
And that is why the Left are in retreat. People are now fed up to the back teeth of seeing the results of what the Left have been bringing about for over 50 years. Tom Kratman’s dystopian vision in his novel Caliphate is starting to come true. And as for the POS who carried out this heinous atrocity – it is time the West brought back capital punishment for dealing with Jihadis. These aren’t common criminals – they are waging a war against us on our own streets. Paris, Nice, Berlin, London (remember Lee Rigby?) and now Melbourne.
Baucent says
The video of him driving in a circle at an intersection early in his rampage, also clearly shows “Jimmy” giving the forefinger sign (One God but Allah) while hanging out the car window. This was never commented on by the media.
So it seems, whether by design or accident, the authorities and media will in the first instant hotly deny a terror attack is related to Islam. Then days later after the story has dropped from view the news will emerge that the offender was in fact a muslim. But the illusion is now fixed in the unengaged public mind that the attack was not terrorism. One reason the Police version needs to be challenged early on, as Robert did.
Garrick Carpenter says
Melbourne has the dubious distinction of having the first Islamic terrorist vehicle attack on pedestrians in Australia. 5 dead 30 injured
Rod says
There is no Daily Mail in Australia.
The Australian edition of the UK Daily Mail makes no mention – no mention – of the driver converting to Islam.
But since he killed somebody, I guess it’s pretty obvious he’s a Muslim.
Cheers
Truth will out, believe me.
SpiritOf1683 says
Using a Jihadi tactic and burning a Bible – just joining a few dots made it obvious he was a convert to Islam.
David9u987 says
How many jihadists are calm, cool and collected? Read Hoffer. Movements that require radical submergence and sacrifice of self are crammed with people with spoiled lives seeking an escape from self.
Carolyne says
I was amazed to watch the video of this incident. People were just standing around in a circle watching, At any moment he could have changed the direction of the car right into a crowd. Have we reached the point that we just stand and wait to be killed?
When such an incident happens in the US the first reaction by the authorities is “No evidence of terrorism.” Then slowly word leaks out that a Muslim terrorist is responsible. And in almost every case the FBI had the person on their radar but did nothing even though they had been warned by several sources, in the case of Boston, even warned by Russia. I hope this changes with the new people Mr. Trump is installing. I think he needs to fire Comey first.
Karl says
Recently, in Australia, we have had the Martin Place siege, the Parramatta police employee assassination and now the Bourke street massacre. As well, there have been numerous intercepted attempts. All done by Muslims. They still claim that Islam is the religion of peace. The authorities have never associated these events with that religion.
While most Muslims will never hurt a fly, some will kill as sense of duty, so as to comply with the demands in their holy book.
Some Muslims live an unholy life and many will try to override that by taking a short cut to Paradise, which involves killing a few infidels and the more the better.
Islam should be banned and it will eventually be so – or we are all doomed.
Vice says
Meanwhile in Australia, woman tries to stop a potential terrorist; gets charged: http://www.9news.com.au/national/2017/01/22/17/25/woman-charged-after-racist-attack-on-muslim-student-outside-macquarie-university/?ocid=9newsfb
Teeya says
This guy has been actively reporting every bit of the media cover up since it happened, you guys should hire him, this is like the fifth major event in AU i’ve found a random guy on twitter has more insight and news than the media here does: http://www.twitter.com/bashpr0mpt