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Australia: Melbourne car attacker identifies himself as Muslim

Jan 20, 2017 2:08 pm By Robert Spencer

All day people have been indignantly tweeting and emailing me, saying that Dimitrious Gargasoulas is not Muslim, he’s Greek. That Islam is a religion and Greek is a nationality seems to escape a surprising number of people, including Australian authorities. Anyway, Gargasoulas does seem to be quite unbalanced. What mainstream analysts fail to grasp is that being unbalanced and being a jihadi are not mutually exclusive. In fact, Islam attracts the psychically marginal, as it provides them with a justification of and blessing for their impulses to rage, hatred and violence.

“Driver in Melbourne Car Attack Named as ‘Greek Islamic Kurd’ with Mental Health Issues,” by Donna Rachel Edmunds, Breitbart, January 20, 2017:

The driver who ploughed his car into crowds on a Melbourne street killing four and injuring 15 others has been named as Dimitrious Gargasoulas, 26.

Gargasoulas, who claims to be ‘Greek Islamic Kurdish’ and a follower of Yazdanism, has been found to have posted multiple rambling messages on social media in the last few days, ranting about the “illuminati”, promising “heaven and hell is real”, and vowing to “have god’s laws reinstated”.

“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, the Daily Mail has reported.

He added: “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.”

A few days earlier he had posted: “I know exactly how to take you DOGS down the power of knowing has revealed and I shall have GODS laws re-instated.”

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In a long rant in early January he wrote: “Today the Gods have given me wisdom and knowledge. They have awoken me.

“Keep in mind good will always prevail over evil and that is exactly whats to come in the following days weeks and so forth.

“I’ll take you all out just me you need a army to take me […] wait until you see mine! For all those who know me… know I’m a genuine good sexy young guy.

“I’ve been blessed… and now your fucked”.

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Two adults in their thirties and a young child, all unrelated, were killed early on Friday afternoon, local time, after a car smashed through the crowds on Melbourne’s busy Bourke Street, a major intersection in Australia’s second largest city.

A fourth person died from their injuries in hospital during Friday night.

Fifteen people were injured in the incident, including four children. Five of the injured are said to be in critical condition, including an infant.

Sharn Baylis, a tourist from the southern city of Adelaide, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp: “He was just collecting people as he was going along and they were flying like skittles, basically….

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  1. Bill says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 2:19 pm

    Did the Melbourne Police ask him to take his admission down?

  2. Hector Archytas says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 2:33 pm

    yazdanism is not really mohamedanism

    • Robert Spencer says

      Jan 20, 2017 at 2:40 pm

      Indeed, but he also identified himself as a “Greek Islamic Kurd.”

    • overman says

      Jan 20, 2017 at 2:45 pm

      l think there are 3 different sects, but that’s not to say it hasn’t come under lslamic influence since the time of mohammed.

    • Dorothy says

      Jan 22, 2017 at 1:58 pm

      That’s a silly and simplistic understanding, the middle east is being inundated with creeps like Edward Said’s ideas, they all want to be “indigenous” also I read every comment, you’re leaving out the elephant in the room. Saladin was not a only a Kurd, but Islamic writings make a very big deal about that. They are as often the most militant Muslims as they are pre-Islamic peaceful cult members.

      For now, for opportunism they are being pro-western. That in itself is the most Islamic trait of them all.

  3. Mark says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 2:34 pm

    The question is does Islam attract the insane or does following that demonic cult drive people insane?

    You can bet nobody will research this.

    • overman says

      Jan 20, 2017 at 2:41 pm

      Both, l imagine.

    • JawsV says

      Jan 20, 2017 at 2:42 pm

      Both. Religion for Sociopaths.

    • Guest says

      Jan 20, 2017 at 7:30 pm

      Considering how many people seem to convert in prison, I think that answers the question.

      • overman says

        Jan 20, 2017 at 9:27 pm

        A lot of those in prison don’t have a choice. ln the UK there’s a very high muslim population – 70% in some of the bigger one’s.

        • Guest says

          Jan 21, 2017 at 2:05 am

          ‘don’t have a choice’ and 70% also answers the question, doesn’t it? Those insane and criminal seem attracted/attached to islam.

      • LR says

        Jan 21, 2017 at 4:26 am

        A lot of prisoners will convert to Christianity in the U.S.

        Sounds like the do-gooder preachers are dropping the ball in the UK.

    • bonnie loranger says

      Jan 21, 2017 at 11:05 am

      wafa sultan did. She wrote a book on this. She is an ex Muslim from Syria and a psychiatrist

    • jude says

      Jan 21, 2017 at 9:05 pm

      Good research here

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/09/nicolai-sennels-psychology-why-islam-creates-monsters

  4. Pong says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 2:35 pm

    The socialist republic of victoriz will deny any connection to islam and will keep it quiet if it becomes too obvious.

  5. overman says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 2:39 pm

    One victim was a baby in a pram, l believe. Utterly disgusting.
    The ‘Cult of Angels’ is actually a pre-islamic religion which has more in common with Hinduism [originally], but like some sects of sufism, part of it has probably been islamized – although most kurds appear to be the sworn enemies of lslam.

  6. Salome says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 3:12 pm

    It’s meth rage. I’d be very surprised if he’s ever been inside a mosque. The connection with Islam is (and Yazdinism–i.e., the Yazidis) is tenuous at best. There’s a difference between actually being a member of a religious group and including that religious group among a list of religious and ethnic groups you post about during a rant. I think, however, that it’s fair to say that his conduct was inspired by recent Jihad attacks. I don’t, however, believe it was provoked by the perpetrator’s receiving actual Islamic teaching or by his reading of any of Islam’s texts. It’s just not in the same class as actual members of mosque congregations or Muslim ethno-religious communities consciously carrying out Allah’s injunction to strike terror into the hearts of the unbelievers. Still, without such precedents, it may not have happened as it did.

    • efoc says

      Jan 20, 2017 at 4:33 pm

      Agree 100%.

    • overman says

      Jan 20, 2017 at 4:35 pm

      @Salome l agree that the Kurdish religion wouldn’t sanction what he did. This makes it fishy. l have a feeling this guy, probably islamic, is trying to blame the kurds and use them as a scapegoat..

      Yeah, this is what the cops are saying. He himself, however, has claimed he never touched drugs [a little weed], and says that his father had the drug problem.

      “Chief Commissioner Craig Ashton also said the man accused of the rampage through Bourke Street had a history of family violence.

      ‘He has come to our attention on many occasions in the past. We have mental health and drug-related issues in the background of this particular person,’ he said.”

      l’ll wait and see before l take the authorities at their word.

      A few odd things stand out in regard to his islamic ties:

      He says:

      “women would run the world because god’s laws had been ‘overwritten by human laws”

      Sounds like a mysoginist to me – very islamic.

      “Gavin Wilson, 76, said Gargasoulas came into his apartment, in the same housing commission block as the young man shared with his mother, brandishing a bible.

      Gargasoulas then sat down and lit the bible on fire before throwing it into Mr Wilson’s face, before attacking him”

      So, apparently, he brings a bible into his neighbours’ apartment and sets fire to it. WHY?

      “Aluah Akbar”

      He was shouting the muslim ‘war cry’ from the car.

      Vid of a witness who heard him: [seems genuine to me]

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 20, 2017 at 8:50 pm

      Uh huh. And why would this fine fellow have been inspired by Jihad terror attacks if he didn’t want to slaughter “filthy Infidels”?

    • Vice says

      Jan 20, 2017 at 10:04 pm

      Exactly.
      Although I have serious doubts when I hear its “mental illness”, in this case I do think this guy was truly insane, and perhaps an IS “wannabe”, inspired by recent media coverage of real islamic attacks.
      I think Robert agrees when he writes “Gargasoulas does seem to be quite unbalanced”.

  7. don vito says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 4:14 pm

    itace, shame on you and your filthy prophet, your dirty god, alla

  8. ElderlyZionist says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 4:55 pm

    Cheese whiz, guys and gals. Most Kurds are Muslim, a few of them even back the Islamic State (I think Mullah Krekar is a Kurd). Most Muslim Kurds are nationalists who fight the Islamic State, and for that they have my respect and best wishes. The Yazidis are a small minority of the Kurds who practice a pre-Islamic religion; ISIS overran the Yazidi villages in 2015, and massacred and persecuted them mercilessly, to the point of near extermination. Those Yazidis who got away took refuge with the Muslim Kurdish nationalists. Remember?

    This mass murderer is obviously frothing insane, mixing up random exotic elements into a meth nightmare. It is notable, though, that he thinks he is a mujahid. The most violent psychotics used to be attracted to Nazism, used to imagine they were Adolf Hitler reincarnate as they mowed down helpless victims. Today Hitler is passe, the psychos have better role models, and a Caliph.

    Whatever religion he follows, here’s another one fit for the gallows. Bring back the death penalty, Ozzies. I’ll pay for the rope.

    • LR says

      Jan 21, 2017 at 6:34 pm

      Yes, I do remember…I admire the Kurds a lot…Kurds are always willing to fight those evil savages ISIL..And are happy to have westerners fight along with them.

      Yazidis, what I read anyway, are kind of a combo of Christian, Zoroastrian, and a bit of Islamic traditions, and theology.

      “It proves tricky to extract a straight answer from the Yazidis when it comes to what, exactly, defines their sect.

      Take their fierce prohibition against eating lettuce.

      A man who teaches the Yazidi equivalent of Sunday school avoids the simple kind of explanation found in encyclopedias — that the process of fusing a smattering of faiths including Zoroastrianism, Christianity and Islam left the origins of many Yazidi practices obscure.

      Instead, the teacher, Falah Hassan Juma, links the sect’s lettuceless state to its long history of persecution by Muslims and Christians.

      The caliphs of the Ottoman Empire carried out no fewer than 72 massacres against the Yazidis in the 18th and 19th centuries alone, he explained, with the faithful slain by the thousands in the lettuce fields then dotting northeastern Iraq.

      Watching the blood of innocents gush into the greens prompted a lasting aversion to the vegetable, Mr. Juma said”…

      That is not quite right, a sect elder spelled out later. Indeed Yazidis suffered persecution, he said, such that one ruthless potentate who controlled the nearby splendid city of Mosul in the 13th century ordered an early Yazidi saint executed. The enthusiastic crowd then pelted the corpse with heads of lettuce. There have been sanctions against salad ever since”…

      http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/03/world/bashiqa-journal-a-sect-shuns-lettuce-and-gives-the-devil-his-due.html

  9. Robert Neville says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 5:04 pm

    Why would anyone sane EVER trust a politician and police “nothing to do with” press conference again? Key phrases via The Daily Mail today – “Greek Islamic Kurdish – lit the bible on fire – recently converted to Islam – he converted to Muslim and changed very quickly.” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4139828/The-online-rants-Melbourne-CBD-car-attacker.html

  10. Mirren10 says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 5:41 pm

    Bring back the death penalty.

  11. overman says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 6:07 pm

    Yes, most kurds are muslim, but it’s a different brand from standard islam.

    From the kurdish Project:

    “A common saying is that the Kurds “hold their Islam lightly.” This may be a result of some connection to the ancient Kurdish faith of Zoroastrianism, or more likely a result of the hundreds of years of oppression that Kurds have felt at the hands of fellow Muslims.

    In any case, many Kurdish Muslims do not adhere to strict, traditional rules and interpretations of Islam. The Kurdish people are known for their practice of mysticism and participation in Sufi orders, a practice that is considered heretical by traditional Islam”

    Genuine sufism pre-dates islam by thousands of years. lt was only islamized when mohammed forced it upon them. There are still a few genuine sufi sects around, l think [irina tweedie’s sect]. The kurds might be genuine sufi’s too.

    What he calls ‘islamic kurdish angel of cult’ is a corruption of the original Yazdânism – he’s obviously accepted some weird islamized version..

    “Yazdânism, or the Cult of Angels, is a pre-Islamic, native religion of the Kurds. The term was introduced by Kurdish scholar Mehrdad Izady to represent what he considers the “original” religion of the Kurds[1] as the primary inhabitants of the Zagros Mountains, until their increasing Islamization in the course of the 10th century”

    – l assume he means ‘cult of angels’..

  12. somehistory says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 6:52 pm

    He ordered people to *believe* in him and *have faith* in him. What a colossal ego he has…drugs or not, islam or not.
    He murdered four persons…so far. He tried to murder five times that many. He drove a car into them…that is terrorism.

    isis has encouraged moslims to commit terror by car…he did that. Just as the guy at the university in OH did, and the moslim terrorist in Germany, and many have done in Israel. He is a terrorist and he was said to yell the war cry of islam…as well as call himself a moslim.

    He is a terrorist. He is a murderer. He may have mental problems, but he knew what he was doing was wrong. He deserves punishment.

  13. Mak says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 7:33 pm

    It hasn’t received as much coverage but the Ft. Lauderdale airport shooter was also a Muslim. There have been quite a few attacks lately and as soon as they happen it seems that there is an immediate effort to isolate them from Islam.

    Smart people would immediately ask why this knee-jerk reaction is necessary? If Islam were a religion of peace then there would be no need to justify it as such so vehemently.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 20, 2017 at 9:01 pm

      Very true, Mak.

    • overman says

      Jan 20, 2017 at 9:32 pm

      “There have been quite a few attacks lately and as soon as they happen it seems that there is an immediate effort to isolate them from Islam”

      Exactly

  14. gravenimage says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 7:40 pm

    Australia: Melbourne car attacker identifies himself as Muslim
    ………………..

    This should surprise no one.

  15. My Shari'a Moor says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 9:53 pm

    Wotta mentally-fetid FREEEEQ’ that 1 is!
    Upon investigation, it’s been shown that 99.999% of all vehicular mass-attacks upon helpless pedestrians occurring in the Free West are perpetrated by MOSLEMS…of course!
    So, when these attacks occur, it’s safe to say it’s a JIHADI’S attempt to obtain his 72 raisins…uhhhh, “virgins”…
    Right?
    N.B. : ‘dda’ ROX!

  16. scherado says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 10:57 pm

    The trick to understanding the guy’s messages is placing the MISSING punctuation. I am totally serious about this.

    Try it. Put periods where you can assume them, safely, to be positioned and put capital letters to words beginning the sentences and you will read a guy asserting his identity.

    No? YES.

  17. Diedre says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 11:23 pm

    When they were doing a poll for anti-Jewish hatred, for which the Germans gave us the term antisemitism, Greece had the highest in Europe. They had an exorbitantly, unnaturally high level.

    Greece was fully occupied by the caliphate.

  18. BC says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 3:55 am

    Antisemitism was rife in Christian Europe long before Hitler and the Nazis who just fanned the flames with their wicked propaganda. It was based on the myth promoted by the church that the Jews killed Jesus, so all subsequent Jews even to the smallest child are eternally guilty of that. Not a very forgiving religion Christianity is it?
    The Blood libel is just one of the lies put out by Christians to promote hatred of Jews

  19. Baucent says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 5:37 am

    Whatever he is, he is ideal recruitment material for a Jihadi talent spotter. Crazy types can always be convinced they are “on a mission from God” or Allah.

  20. Angemon says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 5:37 am

    Gargasoulas, who claims to be

    “Claims”? Well, is he or isn’t he?

  21. BP says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 6:00 pm

    We need to redefine a terrorist attack. This attack was a premeditated attack on civilians. Anyone who commits these sorts of atrocities is both insane and a terrorist. Surprise, Surprise, he identifies himself as an Islamist. He was intent on committing a terrorist attack, so call it as it is. Were people terrorised? Then a terrorist attack it is, Islamist on not.

  22. Bill Muehlenberg says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 9:18 pm

    Now we know that the Melbourne car attacker was indeed a convert to Islam. Why are we not surprised? https://billmuehlenberg.com/2017/01/22/melbourne-muslim-terror-attack/

  23. Musee says

    Jan 22, 2017 at 4:55 am

    Sometimes, I wish there is no religion in this world. Religions have divided mankind. 🙁

    • Dorothy says

      Jan 22, 2017 at 1:52 pm

      Your comment is outdated, we do the same with leftism, no far worse. And sameness is the most evil goal I could even consider.

      On a side note you Kurdistan lovers do know Saladin was a Kurd?

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