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UK: Muslim killer muttered “Allah, Allah, Allah,” carried book telling Muslims to “die a shahid,” terrorism ruled out

Feb 7, 2017 4:33 pm By Robert Spencer

Zakaria Bulhan may indeed be 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.

“Russell Square Knifeman Sought Help in Mosque Before Stabbing Tourist,” by Liam Deacon, Breitbart, February 7, 2017:

A Muslim youth with paranoid schizophrenia, who yesterday pleaded guilty to killing one and injuring five, repeatedly sought help at mosques instead of a hospital as his condition deteriorated.

Zakaria Bulhan, 19, whose parents are Somali, was born in Norway and grew up in South London. He denied murder but admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility following the attack on the 3rd of August last year.

Terrorism was ruled out as a motive, yet the attacker was found with a prayer book entitled Fortress of the Muslim and muttered “Allah, Allah, Allah” on arrest, The Times reports.

His book contained an extremist Salafist prayer instructing followers to “die a shahid”, before explaining that a shahid is: “One who dies fighting the kafir [unbelievers] in order to make the word of Allah superior or in defence of Islam”.

Witnesses claimed Mr. Bulhan “skipped” towards his victims and had a crazed smile on his face as he killed 64-year-old retired teacher Darlene Horton, who was visiting from Florida, and stabbed five others.

The court was told how he had been treated by a community mental health team on April 20th, and by last May, his mother had been forced to call the emergency services three times because he had behaved aggressively and taken knives from the kitchen.

However, as the youth’s mental health problems became more apparent, his father took him to Camberwell Mosque in South London to find help rather than seeking medical treatment.

On the day of the stabbings, Mr. Bulhan had been taken to East London Mosque. But he ran off, convinced that a member of the congregation was filling him with evil spirits.

“I did everything I could to stop it, I went to the psychiatrist, I went to the mosque and I did prayers. It’s like something took control of me”, he later told a psychiatrist.

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  1. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 4:54 pm

    Having a psychiatric illness and Going Jihad are not mutually exclusive.

    If someone has been programmed with the Death Cult, then if they develop schizophrenia, the ‘voices’ in their head will tell them to kill Infidels.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 10:05 pm

      Exactly, DDA. Mental illness can take very different forms, depending on the culture of the individual. In Islam, it is most likely to take the form of violence.

    • DFD says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 6:36 am

      I wonder what the sentence was. Was it a sharia court – I know, my sense of humor….

      • Myron J. Poltroonian says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 2:46 pm

        LOL! As I’ve said for years now: “Where would ‘Gallows Humor’ be, without the occasional hangin’?”

    • Luonne Dumak says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 4:59 pm

      In Islam peole have been marrying first Cousin since the Prophet Mohammad came on the scene. This has been going on for 1400 years and it still does. Inbreeding leads to100% increase in the risk of still births,recessive genetic disorders. The closer the blood relative. the higher the risk of mental & physical retardation & schizophrenic illness. Source “NICOLAINSAENNELS”

  2. common sense says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 5:07 pm

    “it provides them with a justification of and blessing for their impulses to rage, hatred and violence.”
    Attracting the “psychically marginal” to carry out the edicts of Mo, does not exclude those Muslims with bigger pay checks and IQ’s from doing the same. It would be grossly under estimating our enemy (as the left would have us believe) to think that jihadists are nothing more than another schizophrenic. Maybe this guy is schitzo then just add a lifetime of the Koran and Islamic supremacist culture and now another of our own is dead.

    • common sense says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 5:10 pm

      Maybe living in such a culture of Islam provides the world with a disproportionate amount of Schizophrenics and psychotics.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 6:46 am

        Interestingly, it is possible that if a woman is Vitamin D deficient in the later months of pregnancy, her offspring will be more likely to develop schizophrenia.

        So a long-term Danish study discovered.

        Now, what do we know about the most pious Mohammedans? The women are *covered up* and mostly *kept inside*… which means that they are very, very prone to Vitamin D deficiency. They don’t have to be wearing outright burka or niqab – apparently a study in Jordan found that those who go in for the head-bag (with body covered except for hands) *also* tend to have Vit D deficiency.

        What if covering-up the women = vitamin D deficient women giving birth to a higher-than-normal proportion of schizophrenia-prone offspring?

  3. Oliver says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 5:13 pm

    How about executing him so he can get his 72 goats

    • Jack says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 9:51 pm

      Oliver: Jihadists have been duped into believing they get 72 Virgins, but actually each Jihadist gets one 72 year old virgin, the mistake was found centuries ago but the Imams decided it would be more beneficial to Islam not to correct the error. I wonder what Muslim women get, they probably hope they’ll just remain dead, what a sick evil religion. A story told by an Arab says that Muhammad believed that the entity he met was either Satan or one of his agents but his wife and certain family members convinced him it was an angel from God, well I’m in 100 % agreement with Muhammad’s first assessment.

      • Myron J. Poltroonian says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 2:55 pm

        Actually, there was a fairly recent report (since hushed up as quickly as the msm could) from a few months ago noting that scholars had discovered there was a translation error of the word “Virgins” in the original Arabic text. It seems that the actual word translated to “Raisins”, which was (and perhaps still is) a denigrating slur at the time for subsaharan Africans.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 9, 2017 at 11:22 pm

          Actually, the reference is to “white raisins”, which apologists trot out to imply that Muslims are not promised virgins to rape in paradise. The racial slur “raisin heads” is a different thing.

          But the “white raisins” thing is absurd–while Muslims are also offered fruit and wine and other goodies in short supply in the Arabian desert, the Houris are also described as “almond eyed” and “modest” and other things which clearly mark them as sex objects, not food.

      • A Harris USA says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 3:51 pm

        Jack, I hope the devils get what is coming to them, both in this world and the next.. My concern is the innocent people of the Western world that suffer at the hands of these pigs.. What ever Mohammad teaches them to do, we seem to be the victims of the sicko ideas.. Now with the devils in the ninth court of appeals holding our safety, and fate in their hands, all we can do is pray that when the savage idiots from the ME invade here, even with the POTUS trying to stop the invasion, that the fools who want these inhuman savages here, are indeed their FIRST victims!!

      • Oliver says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 4:34 pm

        Since women are worth
        To Muslims. One half to one third of a man
        I would say 24 or 36 of whatever a man gets

    • frederick King says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 3:22 am

      He’d put on a great show on the wagon ride to the Triple Tree.

  4. reyol says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 5:21 pm

    Mohammad and all of his companions were psychotic misfits that originally existed on the fringes of Meccan society. They exploited tribal protections to survive in spite of their subversion. Then they made a pact with the Medinans and made war against their own people. The “religion” they created and forced upon unwilling populations appeals to psychotic misfits on the fringes of society today.

  5. Nigel GFF says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 5:43 pm

    “However, as the youth’s mental health problems became more apparent, his father took him to Camberwell Mosque in South London to find help rather than seeking medical treatment.”

    How surprised are we that this isn’t classed as ‘grooming’. The keen MSM attribute so much online grooming as a cause for terrorism (never the text), perhaps this new class could be named ‘Familial Grooming aggravated by communal factors’.

  6. Jerry says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 6:07 pm

    The scariest part about this story is that this sick puppy was only trying to do what mainstream islam commands. It’s amazing to me that this horned, fury footed devil islam has had such a long and prosperous life on planet Earth.

    • Jerry says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 6:08 pm

      –furry footed.

      • somehistory says

        Feb 7, 2017 at 6:38 pm

        It’s *fury footed* too….rage comes easy.

    • Jack says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 10:14 pm

      Jerry the god or prince of this evil world has a reputation of being a copycat of whatever he can copy of Yahweh the true God of this world, so naturally Satan the god of this world would have his own religion, think about it, Muhammad’s message in the Qur’an is 180 degrees difference than what Jesus taught, Muhammad basically taught Hate and War whereas Jesus taught Love and Peace. Muhammad claimed met his divine messenger in the desert where he received a totally different message than written in the Bible, maybe Jesus had Muhammad in mind when He said “If they tell you I’m in the desert believe it not” Another clue that Islam is Satan’s religion is that Muslims hate Christians and Jews with a passion, as does Satan.

  7. somehistory says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 6:37 pm

    Since there is no universal definition of *terrorism*….they use this to say it isn’t terrorism.

    To strike *terror* is terrorism, but the different definitions accepted by different agencies, groups, authorities, etc. allow it to be denied when convenient.

    It’s just one more way of bowing to the beast from satan.

  8. mortimer says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 7:25 pm

    Ah, such a model immigrant! So the obvious conclusion is to bring in many more 3rd world barbarians who hate the British way of life !!! Even though most Brits want fewer immigrants.

  9. abad says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 8:27 pm

    He should be deported back to Syria.

  10. Zammana says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 9:17 pm

    Look at this photo and then the others we’ve seen on here and elsewhere. There’s something in the eyes of almost all these killers – a deadness, animalistic, k-9, not nobody home, but somebody home you don’t want to meet. It’s not just drugs, although it’s some of that.
    Somebody could make a lot of money by creating a personal scanner or some device that searches crowds for that look, those eyes. Then we could all just move away while security moves in…

    • Oliver says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 8:25 pm

      Israel has developed software that could help connect the dots-to see would be terrorists. IT WAS OFFERED TO THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT, before the Friday night massacres that killed (so they say) 130 people. (I THINK THE REAL TOTAL WAS HIGHER, BUT IT WAS DOWNPLAYED)

      The French Government, at the higher up (possibly highest) level rejected the software BECAUSE IT WAS ISRAELI.

      Israel, the US and some other countries use it.

      (Not being a techie, *I have no clue how it works). (Dry Bones–a few days ago)

  11. gravenimage says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 10:03 pm

    UK: Muslim killer muttered “Allah, Allah, Allah,” carried book telling Muslims to “die a shahid,” terrorism ruled out
    …………………

    Good grief–what does it take these days in the UK for an attack to be recognized as Jihad terrorism?

    And does anyone else see the irony in going to Mosque to hope to be dissuaded from waging violent Jihad?

    • Anne Smith says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 6:15 am

      The MSM are following the lead of Sweden and Germany in covering up an Islamic terror attack until it cannot be denied further. In the first reports of this outrage last year he was reported as being a Norwegian, I suppose they thought this would prevent anyone thinking he was a Muslim terrorist.
      Eventually – as always – the truth leaks out. There were, after all, a number of eye witnesses.

      His father should be arrested for failing to take him to a mental hospital and failing to protect the public. The family knew he was dangerous – or perhaps they were not too bothered about the public.

    • Custos Custodum says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 12:50 am

      As it happens, the murder occurred in the precise area – Bloomsbury, near the British Museum where the rot started a LONG time ago.

      This is where when the “Bloomsbury Set” amused themselves before WW II with seemingly penetrating insights and random penetrative interactions, smug in the sense of their unassailable superiority.

      Virginia Woolf ultimately found the “lightness of being” unbearable and drowned herself, weighted down by pebbles in her pockets.

  12. Shmooviyet says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 10:26 pm

    Something (he heard again & again in the mosque) was what took hold of him.
    Such a stupid waste of time and taxpayer funds to go around the PC maypole with these savages.

  13. linnte says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 10:33 pm

    Oh well geeze. He probably stepped into the bathroom with the wrong foot and became possessed by a Jinn.

  14. Ashley says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 10:54 pm

    A Muslim youth with paranoid schizophrenia…
    ____________

    Schizophrenics are not generally violent.

    But when you toss a sprinkle of Islam into the tossed salad…

    • Kay says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 12:03 am

      Interesting

    • duj swami says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 6:37 am

      Institutions are full of violent Paranoid schizophrenics,,,

  15. Charli Main says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 3:38 am

    Islam was founded by a lunatic. You know the one who had a talking donkey friend, flew to heaven on a winged horse and received regular messages from ” God” delivered by an Archangel.
    If MMM was alive today, he would be permanently committed to a mental institution for the criminally insane.

  16. c matt says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 9:57 am

    being unbalanced and being a jihadi are not mutually exclusive, in fact, one is a prerequisite for the other.

  17. DFD says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 11:34 am

    I wondered, maybe the Americans should use pigs urine boarding instead of water boarding. Better than Camel-Cola…..

    Could also be useful as an execution method, drowning in pigs urine – or could that offend the delinquent?

    Yeah, yeah, I’ve seen too many Vincent Price movies and read too much Allan Poe. Or just the right amount, questions, questions.

    • Charli Main says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 3:42 am

      Anything you can think of doing to the Muslims, the Muslims have already been doing to us for the last 1400 years. So, I see no problem with dishing out the same medicine to the Muslims, at every opportunity.

      yes, yes, I know—–we have to be “civilised” and “lawful” in dealing with Muslims. No need to change a strategy that has worked brilliantly well for us since 626 AD.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 10, 2017 at 7:26 pm

        We’ve successfully driven back Islam before, by enforcing our laws. The idea that we have to adopt the barbaric values of Muslims in order to defend against Islam is just mistaken.

  18. Angemon says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 12:41 pm

    However, as the youth’s mental health problems became more apparent, his father took him to Camberwell Mosque in South London to find help rather than seeking medical treatment.

    Almost as if he didn’t trust anyone from outside their community. As if he not wanted to take the Jews and Christians for friends and protectors…

    • Itinerant says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 3:41 pm

      ‘rather than seeking medical treatment.’

      Perhaps because if he was taken to the NHS, he would be
      “17 times more likely to be diagnosed with a serious mental health condition…(as) a black man in Britain and six times more likely than a white man to be an inpatient in a mental health unit”
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2016/39/being-black-going-crazy

      Another example of racist discrimination no doubt, as one person on the programme said “it’s ‘cos they put us in ghettos innit”.

      Never-mind the historical inaccuracy, when whites are to blame for something, anything really, facts are irrelevant.

      While obviously not all people of colour are Muslim, it still leaves a rather large potential pool of ‘mentally-ill lone wolves’

  19. Debi Brand says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 1:24 pm

    Another child from the womb of Islam, thus a product of the seed of “Muhammad,” and of the warmth and the protection and nurturing of the Muslim community.

  20. John A. Marre says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 8:52 am

    The UK has sealed its fate. Welcoming Muslims with open arms and persecuting anyone who dares to mention that Muslims commit terror attacks.

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