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Robert Spencer: Parents of People Killed by Muslim Hit Trump for Calling Murders Terrorism

Feb 13, 2017 8:54 am By Robert Spencer

Sure, he was screaming “Allahu akbar,” but who doesn’t? My latest in FrontPage:

February 13, 2017:

The Trump administration recently released a list of terror attacks it said were unreported or underreported by the establishment media, and the parents of two of the victims of one of the listed attacks were enraged. Last August a Muslim named Smail Ayad, screaming “Allahu akbar,” stabbed two people to death in an Australian hostel. Not only was this not terrorism, we are supposed to believe, but President Trump is a terrible person for suggesting otherwise.

Rosie Ayliffe, the mother of 21-year-old victim Mia Ayliffe-Chung, wrote an open letter to Trump, declaring: “My daughter’s death will not be used to further this insane persecution of innocent people.” The Washington Post added helpfully that yes, “Smail Ayad had yelled ‘Allahu akbar’ during the attack,” but “he had also rambled incoherently, stabbed a dog and ‘was apparently infatuated with’ her daughter.”

In her open letter to President Trump, Ayliffe added: “I have spoken to friends of Mia’s and other backpackers who worked long days in the fields with Ayad, and none of them ever saw him put down a prayer mat. Salat or prayer is the second of five pillars of Islam, and calls for 5 daily rituals of ablution, prayer and prostration. An Islamic fundamentalist by definition must respect the five pillars of Islam. It would be very hard to imagine someone managing to perform this ritual five times a day in the close confines of Home Hill Hostel without witnesses….Any fool can shout Allahu Akbar as they commity [sic] a crime.”

Les Jackson, the father of the other victim, Tom Jackson, agreed, and excoriated Trump for not doing his homework: “I’m pretty sure he and his advisors know full well — or could very easily verify — that Tom and Mia died not as the result of an act of terror but rather through the actions of a disturbed individual. Of course, that doesn’t suit his agenda.”

Jackson added: “He said ‘Allahu akbar.’ It’s a bit like me saying I’m Jesus Christ.”

In reality, it is nothing whatsoever like saying, “I’m Jesus Christ.” “Allahu akbar” is often mistranslated in the Western media as “God is great.” But the actual meaning is “Allah is greater,” meaning Allah Is Greater Than Your God or Government. It is the aggressive declaration that Allah and Islam are dominant over every other form of government, religion, law or ethic, which is why Islamic jihadists in the midst of killing infidels so often shout it. One primary purpose of shouting is to “strike terror in the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60). See my article in Breitbart about it here.

Nonetheless, according to the Townsville Bulletin, “Queensland Police, the Australian Federal Police and the Joint Counter Terrorism Unit … investigated any links between Ayad and radical organisations, and they did not find any evidence of radicalisation.”

This is an example of the prevailing denial and political correctness that hamstrings our approach to jihad terror. Ayad wasn’t carrying an ISIS membership card, and wasn’t going to mosque, and so therefore there was no “evidence of radicalisation,” and President Trump is both stupid and evil to classify these murders as jihad terror.

The problem here is that the paradigm that Ayliffe, Jackson, and even the Queensland Police, the Australian Federal Police and the Joint Counter Terrorism Unit are working from is false and erroneous. A Muslim who never goes to mosque, does not pray, and is not otherwise observant may be carrying around a rather large load of guilt. He may know that an easy way to offset all his evil deeds is to perform an act of jihad, as the Qur’an guarantees Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111).

So in this case, Smail Ayad may indeed have been a bit unbalanced, and unhealthily fixated on Mia Ayliffe-Chung, and troubled by that or any number of other things, and conceived of an easy way to get back into Allah’s good graces: kill her and Tom Jackson. That he stabbed a dog would even be in keeping with this, as Muhammad ordered that dogs be killed: “It was narrated that Abdullah bin Umar said: ‘The Messenger of Allah used to order that dogs be killed, and I went throughout Al-Madinah, and we did not spare any dog but we killed it, to such an extent that we would even kill the dog of a woman belonging to the desert people.’” (Sahih Muslim 4018)

All this doesn’t make Ayad’s murders acts of terrorism akin to 9/11 or Fort Hood or San Bernardino. He probably didn’t think of himself as acting to advance the cause of the Muslim umma, or as an operative of al-Qaeda or the Islamic State. But authorities aren’t even aware of the possibility of killing as an act of personal expiation within Islam. They should be. Trump is not to blame here. The faulty and partial understanding of Islam universally accepted by government, law enforcement, and the establishment media is.

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  1. kees says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 9:02 am

    What is ‘evidence of radicalisation’ Having a pledged membership card of ISIS??
    Perhaps the guy radicalized all by himself.
    My guess is stabbing someone + a dog while shouting allahu ahkbar in itself is evidence already

    • PRCS says

      Feb 13, 2017 at 10:51 am

      “‘evidence of radicalisation’”

      Question for politicians and “journalists”:

      At what point does a Muslim’s compliance with Qur’an/Sunn’ah become “radicalization”?

    • andra says

      Feb 13, 2017 at 11:27 am

      In Germany they have created the term “blitz radicalisation”. This term is used for those who have turned to the Internet to radicalize themselves.

      • Kay says

        Feb 13, 2017 at 11:59 am

        What of the German politician whose beautiful young daughter was recently murdered? Has he begun to open his eyes to the “migrant” threat?

    • Godwin says

      Feb 13, 2017 at 12:21 pm

      He thought that by killing the infidels. he had done a great favor for Allah, and, thereby qualified to enter the Islamic paradise and meet with the 72 virgins.

    • Dawn says

      Feb 13, 2017 at 12:28 pm

      I just don’t get it when are all of you going to get a clue , I roll my eyes and shake my head in disbelief . I have listened to Robert Spencer and said that I am not surprised after the terrorist attacks in Paris and other places that they get through with the refugees. President Trump tries to do what is right and all you do is riot. Basically slap him on the fingers and say no, no don’t do your job . When you gave a terrorist attack I am just going stand back and say aI told you so

    • murad says

      Feb 14, 2017 at 1:28 am

      Evidence for normal people but not for her mom. You see those who understand muslims cannot understand us.

    • Kelleigh Nelson says

      Feb 14, 2017 at 8:29 am

      I’m with you, it’s pretty obvious isn’t it? How brainwashed is this mother?

  2. john spielman says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 9:05 am

    according to people like Rosie Ayliffe and Tom Jackson ( whose collective heads are quite far up their own a—–), we deserve what we get! This is sad because these two are as deceived by the ruler of this dark world (Satan) as the muslim who slaughtered their children!

    Just look at life in any Islamic crapistan to see how unbelievers are treated- this our future!!

  3. Noor al-Amriki says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 9:06 am

    I feel sorry for the victims, but I also feel sorry that they have such fools for parents who will defend their murderers.

    • PRCS says

      Feb 13, 2017 at 11:53 am

      Well, I’m not sure they’re defending the murderer, rather–using the police investigations available to them, and her personal experiences in Muslim countries–to deny it had ‘anything to do with Islam’.

      Perhaps, if the two parents read this RW article, they’ll understand the issue with those police reports.

      The worst aspect of this, IMO, is her irrational thinking:

      1. “Any fool can shout Allahu Akbar as they commit a crime.” Well, sure. Hindus shout that all the time, don’t they?

      2. Expressing the absurd notion that Muslim fundamentalists, and they alone, apparently, must, by a definition I’m not familiar with, respect the five pillars of Islam. Really?

      3. The notion that the people she encountered “in the Islamic world”, “committed to courtesy and honouring their fellow human beings” offered her nothing but respect and hospitality. One is left to wonder exactly who those people were.

      And what her real agenda is.

    • Terry says

      Feb 13, 2017 at 9:59 pm

      No use feeling sorry for the victims- they are beyond caring.

      The parents- are assholes; and the others in the hostel who said he didn’t pray; etc etc. so it wasn’t a terrorist attack- what do they need to see ? A 911? An orlando (or Turkey) night club massacre?

      The peopela re brain dead.

  4. mortimer says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 9:11 am

    It easy to be tolerant of jihad if you have not read Islam’s primary, foundational source texts. If you don’t know the Islamic trilogy, the commentaries of the Islamic consensus, or Sharia law manuals, you will be CLUELESS about jihad and won’t recognize it even if it’s right before your nose.

    Rosie Ayliffe is clueless about jihad. Her total absence of reading about jihad is self-evident. Instead, she virtue-signalled to hide the fact she has done no studying of this vitally important subject.

    Once people start reading about jihad, there is no more virtue-signalling.

  5. Phil Copson says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 9:28 am

    Whether it’s Rosie Ayliffe, Les Jackson, the Australian police, the Australian government or anybody or any institution anywhere in the world, the problem is the same: If they admitted that there was a problem, then they’d either have to do something about it or admit their own moral cowardice, so they don’t.

    • Terry says

      Feb 13, 2017 at 10:01 pm

      True. And, I think that it goes double for the politicians

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 14, 2017 at 12:05 am

      True, Phil.

  6. salim says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 9:30 am

    These parents are not an “isolated case”, they represent how a large chunk of the society thinks, which is the real problem that must be addressed by the Trump administration..
    There is an inherent tendency of the society to decline and that must be stopped and reversed urgently. I hope the Trump administration succeeds in reversing decades of damage caused by previous administrations.

    • Kay says

      Feb 13, 2017 at 11:54 am

      “These parents are not an “isolated case”, they represent how a large chunk of the society thinks.”
      ———————-

      That is what I see also. People are intent on defending Islam, even people who ought to know better by their own experiences, like this premier,
      http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=56259
      even people who know that Islam doesn’t have the golden rule, who know of he terrorism Israel has long lived with.
      But I’m not sure how much our President can do to make them aware. It seems they are intent on hating him, even to the point of blaming him for the evils in the world.
      They claim to be open-minded but they are oh-so-sure that they are correct.

      • salim says

        Feb 13, 2017 at 3:37 pm

        I am not an American but agree on every word. I think those of you who are supportive of Trump should work hard (really hard) to make him succeed. Trump election is an opportunity to save America ( and may be the world) and should not be missed.
        Wish you good luck

  7. Steve says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 9:33 am

    Mo HATED dogs too (angels will not enter a house with a dog or an image:

  8. 1reader says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 10:01 am

    I am a Christian jihadi. Of course, such a thing does not exist. I will tell you this, the Bible says that we are allowed to protect ourselves. So if a Muslim comes at me with the goal of committing jihad in order to get to Heaven. I will make sure he goes to Hell.

  9. La La says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 10:03 am

    People need to start to study Islam to know the rational of the Muslim people who believe it as their religion. Because even though they may appear to be moderate they are deeply rooted in their teachings and beliefs of Islam.

    I agree with Robert Spencer the media is to blame and society who have no clue or are completely blinded.

    But I do know President Trump is NOT to blame. He is calling a spade a spade. Which is a breath of fresh air after years of the left’s crap and lies.

    I am sorry for these parents losing their beloved children and pray for comfort for them.

  10. somehistory says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 10:07 am

    When these fools…and yes, they are fools to spout such absurd nonsense…are facing what their children faced, they too will be terrorized…as their children were. They will feel the terror…as their children felt the terror, but fools such as these will refuse to admit that they were ever wrong about what they knew not, but spouted as though they did.

    There is coming a Judgment. Everyone, even fools such as these, will be judged.
    Equating what this scum did to that girl and the young man and screaming obscenities such as he did, with someone saying, “I’m Jesus Christ,” will be Judged for the obscenity that it is.

  11. Diane Harvey says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 10:43 am

    “Any fool can shout Allahu Akbar as they commity [sic, commit] a crime.”

    Oh sure, I do it all the time. Especially when I misppelll something. Is misspelll-ing a crime?

  12. Angemon says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 12:04 pm

    In her open letter to President Trump, Ayliffe added: “I have spoken to friends of Mia’s and other backpackers who worked long days in the fields with Ayad, and none of them ever saw him put down a prayer mat. Salat or prayer is the second of five pillars of Islam, and calls for 5 daily rituals of ablution, prayer and prostration. An Islamic fundamentalist by definition must respect the five pillars of Islam.

    An “islamic fundamentalist” must respect and follow ALL tenets of islam – including those who allow them to conceal their religion.

  13. Nuruodo says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 12:08 pm

    She would say the same thing during her own rape while watching her husband being killed by a bunch of Arabs dressed as ISIS, claiming they are ISIS, fuck even owning an ISIS passport if they were available.

    These people are sheep,already forfeited for slaughter death they choose, just have to ignore them and do what needs to be done

  14. Lesley says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 12:35 pm

    The idea that Islam really IS at war with the rest of us and really HAS been since its inception is too shocking for some people. This realization leads to understanding that our lives and our very civilization is in danger.

    To be confronted with the reality that their children were murdered by an enemy our leaders have refused to recognize and defeat; murdered by a danger they didn’t know to warn them against, they will fight reality.

    It’s so much more comfortable in the Disney, “It’s A Small World” ride in their heads, where Islam is just an analogue for Judeo-Christian values, and everything is just peachy…

  15. underbed cat says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 12:54 pm

    Since she has muslim friends who told her, muslims do not believe in terrorism nor suicide bombings.( but they have martyrs strapped with bombs)..that they are tolerant, and beleive in justice and are so polite, she would have no clue. They would not tell her muslims are forbidden to talk truthfully and would face death by any muslim who becomes aware of a muslim who relates the doctrine or the truth. It is the doctrine that is embedded, and they have to lie, since it is permissible to protect Islam. World leaders, get decieved, this grieving mother is not concerned with the intent, her child is gone, deception works..and enables the jihad.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 14, 2017 at 12:24 am

      Yes–another victim of Taqiyya.

  16. Guest says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 1:24 pm

    Nice to know just how much she loved her daughter

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 14, 2017 at 12:29 am

      I would not say she did not love her daughter.

      She is willfully clueless over what killed her, though.

  17. carlos danger says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 1:33 pm

    Some people are too stupid to be set loose. I’m sorry for the deceased daughter….not so much for her idiot mum.

  18. WTF is wrong with people says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 1:52 pm

    People like these are the reason this is going on. They continue to ignore and blame shift because they are incapable of critical thinking. I guess the dumbing down of our society has been sucessful, that is utterly apparent. Anyone who defends this ideology of hate, destruction, perversion, terror and pedophilia is guilty of the crimes these people are commiting by association. A “religion” that teaches these values is not a religion it is evil. How can anyone compare this to a real religion and say that it’s the same. When will people be able to grasp the simplest of concepts and that is that any “religion” that preaches hate, terror and death on other human beings is not and will not be acceptable in the western world. This is disguting, I am absolutely horrified that these parents are defending this degenerate.

  19. davej says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 2:36 pm

    Islamic terrorism often co-mingles with mental illness because the cult is so insane to begin with. Then consider that the “strict rules” of Islam are frequently broken by Muslims themselves, particularly where alcohol, drugs and pornography are concerned.

    I could also add wife beating, pedophilia and murder, except those are Allah-approved.

  20. Guest says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 6:02 pm

    Has that woman no shame?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 14, 2017 at 12:35 am

      Certainly, she has no sense.

  21. Fred Jinn says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 9:08 pm

    Political Correctness has made some people insane. They cannot admit that Muslim terrorism IS Muslim terrorism BECAUSE it is NOT politically correct. EVEN their relative has been tortured & murdered by Muslim terrorists, they are programmed to avoid any politically incorrect statements. It’s a disease.

  22. gravenimage says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 11:47 pm

    Robert Spencer: Parents of People Killed by Muslim Hit Trump for Calling Murders Terrorism
    …………………………….

    I feel terrible for these people’s loss–but they are so mired in denial that they don’t *want* to know what killed their children.

    And–though I’m sure it is not their intent–they are endangering the children of others as a result.

    More:

    Jackson added: “He said ‘Allahu akbar.’ It’s a bit like me saying I’m Jesus Christ.”
    …………………………….

    No, it’s not. Only someone who is delusional would claim to be Jesus Christ, this sort of delusion is rare, and such a deluded person would be no more apt to be violent than any other person dealing with mental health issues. And such a person might or might not be nominally Christian.

    Whereas, it is mainstream Islam for Muslims to scream “Allahu Akbar!” while committing violence in the name of their foul creed. It is all too common.

  23. Garrick Carpenter says

    Feb 14, 2017 at 3:23 am

    If it walks and quacks like a duck etc, etc. Has the President been told about an alahu snackbar individual driving on a Melbourne sidewalk killing 6 including a baby in a stroller in january 2017.

    • lynn says

      Feb 14, 2017 at 3:57 am

      Oh we were all told by msm ( which NEVER lies or obscures the truth -sarc off) that the perpetrator was a Aussie Greek who was mentally unhinged.. But then social media reported his facebook page claimed he had converted to islam..

  24. Anne Smith says

    Feb 14, 2017 at 5:35 am

    This poor silly woman is suffering from the same mental delusion as the Brussels apparatchik parents of the poor girl raped and killed by a rapefugee.
    Perhaps admitting that they were wrong about the Muslim invasion of Europe with its concomitant dangers would load them with too much guilt and remorse.

    And why the word radical? Would not devout be more apt?

  25. Sam says

    Feb 14, 2017 at 6:10 pm

    I would like to have compassion for these victims of Islam but I can no longer have those feelings as they are helping the enemy so I too would be victimized by soldiers of Allah.

    Evil is working so hard for the mind and souls of these liberals, it is incredible.

  26. Elaine McMurren says

    Mar 6, 2017 at 4:54 am

    The left cannot be reasoned with. Even when their own children are murdered by jihadis, they still take the side of Islam. It looks hopeless from here.

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