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Denial begins: Daily Mail highlights claim that St. Petersburg jihad murderer “didn’t say his prayers”

Apr 4, 2017 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

The Daily Mail here again shows why it is the worst paper in the Western world. Yes, the Guardian and the Independent and the Telegraph, etc., are just propaganda sheets for the hard Left, but the Daily Mail is even worse because it reports accurately on jihad terror, but then vilifies and demonizes those who stand against that same jihad terror, and kowtows to the jihadis.

And so now it’s no surprise that they highlight in their headline that the St. Petersburg jihadi “didn’t say his prayers”: at the Daily Mail, as with virtually all the publications in the shattered, staggering, dying, dhimmi UK, job one after every jihad terror attack is to exonerate Islam of all responsibility for the crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings. If Akbarzhon Jalilov really didn’t say his prayers, that doesn’t mean what the Daily Mail wants you to think it means, that the St. Petersburg bombing wasn’t really a jihad attack. 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 precisely because he isn’t religious. 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, Akbarzhon Jalilov may indeed have been unreligious, and conceived of an easy way to get back into Allah’s good graces: kill a crowd of Infidels in St. Petersburg.

“Islamist suicide bomber’s dismembered body is found: Former sushi chef from Kyrgyzstan ‘who didn’t say his prayers’ is named as terrorist who murdered 14 as Kremlin calls St Petersburg train massacre a ‘challenge to Putin,'” by Will Stewart, Julian Robinson, Gareth Davies and Martin Robinson, MailOnline, April 4, 2017:

A former sushi chef from Kyrgyzstan has been named as the suicide bomber who murdered 14 and injured 50 in the St Petersburg train massacre.

Russian citizen Akbarzhon Jalilov, 22, who was born in Kyrgyzstan, has been named by security services as the suspected bomber who also planted a second device hidden in a fire extinguisher that failed to explode.

Kremlin officials said parts of the attacker’s body had been found at the scene a day after a train was blown up between Sennaya Ploshchad and Sadovaya metro stations in Russia’s second city.

CCTV images of the suspect have been released, showing him in a red Parka jacket, carrying a rucksack on his back through the Metro while further images shows him walking along the street with both his fists clenched – potentially because he was clutching the trigger for his bomb. Police believe he has close links to radical Islamists.

A former friend, Ali Matkarimov, today said Jalilov – who was named by Kyrgyzstan officials – was once a sushi maker and was ‘not even saying his prayers’ when the pair worked together in the city in 2013.

The Kremlin today described the attack as a ‘challenge’ to Vladimir Putin adding that it was ‘noteworthy’ that it happened while the Russian President was in the city.

As hundreds gathered to mourn the dead this morning, the city’s transport bosses reopened four stations which had been shut down following an anonymous call warning of another attack.

Jalilov’s home country of Kyrgyzstan, which borders Kazakhstan and China in central Asia, is predominately Muslim and has seen up to 500 citizens travel to Syria to join ISIS.

Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were also born there. It was the last of the Soviet republics to declare independence in 1991.

The death toll from the atrocity was raised to 14 this morning. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the explosion, but previous attacks on Russia have been blamed on ISIS and Chechens.

Despite initially issuing search warrants for two suspected terrorists, authorities believe the suspected bomber was behind the attack and also have intelligence to suggest he planted a second explosive device – disguised as a fire extinguisher – which was found and defused at a nearby station.

Kyrgyzstan, where Jalilov is originally from, is a predominantly Muslim Central Asian nation of six million, is Russia’s close political ally and hosts a Russian military airbase….

At least 7,000 nationals from former Soviet countries, including 2,900 Russians, have been recruited by Islamists in the terror group’s so-called caliphate, according to Russia’s FSB intelligence service – and there are fears some are now returning with the intention of carrying out attacks.

It is not the first time Kyrgyzstan nationals have been linked to terror attacks. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was born in Kyrgyzstan, was convicted of planting bombs at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, together with his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

While no-one has yet come forward to claim responsibility for Monday’s atrocity, the country’s security services have previously said they had foiled ‘terrorist attacks’ on Moscow’s public transport system….

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  1. US infidel says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 11:21 am

    Should have the remains of the crud fed to pigs and photographed for his Family. Bet the bs woyld stop.

    • Karen says

      Apr 4, 2017 at 1:20 pm

      Another thought; he may have stopped going to the mosque to give the appearance of being a casual Muslim, and avoid scrutiny, until he accomplished his evil deed.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Apr 4, 2017 at 6:20 pm

        Precisely. I understand that instructions to that effect – telling the jihadi plotters to ‘act infidel’ so as to ‘blend in ‘ and avoid attracting undue scrutiny – are in fact on record.

        It also, of course, has the effect of giving the rest of the local Ummah ‘plausible deniability’… which they milk to the max. “Oh, he wasnt’ anywhere near our mosque!! We don’t know anything about him! Never saw him (no, hardly ever)…”.

        One may note, however, that the claim that this bloke wasn’t devout was made **by a fellow Muslim**. – “…A former friend, Ali Matkarimov, today said Jalilov – who was named by Kyrgyzstan officials – was once a sushi maker and was ‘not even saying his prayers’ when the pair worked together in the city in 2013.”

        That, of course, was in **2013**, FOUR years ago. Who knows what might have happened between 2013 and February 2017.. **assuming** that Mr Ali Matkarimov is even telling the truth… which he might not be. He might be telling tarradiddles to throw the Infidels off the scent.

        If he *is* telling the truth… a lot of water could have gone under the bridge between 2013 and 2017. Our Kyrgyz Muslim, Mr Jalilov, could very *easily* have ‘flipped’ from nonobservant/ semi-observant, into full-on Jihad mode, during that period of four years.

        But if he’s NOT teling the truth – which is more than possible, because… MUSLIMS LIE, they lie like sh*t in order to protect the Ummah and advance its power and influence….then… who knows?

        My advice to the Russians: give Mr Matkarimov the third degree. And, despite Mr Matkarimov’s attempt to deflect attenition and scrutiny away from the mosque or mosques…. raid and surprise-search (taking army sappers, and sniffer dogs, the kind that can detect illegal drugs and explosives) every damn mosque in St Petersburg and surrounds. Grill the lot of them.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 4, 2017 at 10:47 pm

          All good points, DDA.

        • Mazo says

          Apr 4, 2017 at 11:04 pm

          Vegemite addict, Jaiilov was an ethnic Uzbek born in Kyrgyzstan. He was not ethnic Kyrgyz. Sedentary city dwelling Uzbeks are much more religious and prone to joining fanatical groups than historically nomadic Kyrgyz are.

    • Richard says

      Apr 5, 2017 at 3:42 am

      You could also bury them in pig skins, as the British did, but the Koran says that if a Muslim eats pork, “neither craving nor desiring, it is no sin to him.” What I don’t understand here is that it is my perhaps mistaken understanding that for someone to gain the blessing of an act of jihad, they must announce their intention for Jihad, either beforehand or during the act. That does not seem to have been done in Russia, but, again, the information I had received on this may have been in error.

  2. St. Manuel II Palaiologos says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 11:34 am

    He doesn’t need to. Jihad is a better deed in Islam than prayer.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 4, 2017 at 11:59 am

      Bingo. Correct answer: ‘one act of jihad is better than all prayer’.

    • salim says

      Apr 4, 2017 at 12:54 pm

      YES, Jihad is the highest form of worshipping that instantly wipes out all the sins of life and takes the jihadist straight to paradise. Apart from prophet and martyrs, all muslims must taste some punishment in graves and in hell.
      That said, it is not necessary, or expected, to say anything when performing jihad. This cry of “Allah Akbar” is traditionally meant to give courage and abolish fear. It is not part of jihad, but the intention is.

      • Karen says

        Apr 4, 2017 at 1:27 pm

        He’s going to feel so silly when he wakes up in hell *for* committing this murderous deed, instead of paradise. For all eternity…yikes.

      • mortimer says

        Apr 5, 2017 at 9:04 am

        Disagree with salim about “Allah Akbar”. It is the Islamic war cry first raised in a battle against the worshippers of the Arabian Venus, Al Uzza (the Mighty One… Morning Star).

        In 624, at the ‘battle called Uhud’, the war cry of the Qurayshites was, “O people of Uzzā, people of Hubal!”

        The Muslims replied that ‘Allah is GREATER’ (than either Venus or the god Mars-Hubal-Qos…the Arabian war god).

        • salim says

          Apr 5, 2017 at 6:16 pm

          mortimer and gravenimage
          I am sorry but you both are wrong. The cry of allahu akbar is NOT part of jihad, whatever the history behind it. A muslim can just engage in killing (of infidels) and die, that is ALL that is required besides his INTENTION (Arabic: niyya) that he did it for the sake of Allah.
          There are no special prayers for jihad, and BTW allah akbar is not a prayer but simply a cry. Arabs say it regularly whenever they are amazed at anything (religious or not).
          BESIDES: muslims do not have to say their prayers ( I mean Du’aa دعاء) loud, they can simply think of them (“say it in their hearts”, as Arabs say). So no way to tell if somebody said allahu akbar or not.
          I don’t think you will find any Muslim scholar who believes that shouting allah akbar is mandatory for jihad.

      • salim says

        Apr 5, 2017 at 11:01 am

        mortimer and gravenimage
        I am writing this for the sake of accuracy but you both wrong. The cry of allahu akbar is NOT part of jihad, whatever the history behind it. A muslim can just engage in killing (of infidels) and die, that is ALL that is required besides the INTENTION (Arabic: niyya) that he did it for the sake of Allah.
        There are no special prayers for jihad, and BTW allah akbar is not a prayer but simply a cry. Arabs say it regularly whenever they are amazed at anything (religious or not).
        BESIDES: muslims do not have to say their prayers ( I mean Du’aa دعاء) loud, they can simply think of them (“say it in their hearts”, as Arabs say). So no way to tell if somebody said allahu akbar or not.
        I am happy to change my mind if you prove to me that any Muslim scholar believes that shouting allah akbar is mandatory for jihad.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 4, 2017 at 10:56 pm

      Spot on.

  3. DFD says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 11:41 am

    What a surprise.

    Sharia May is now making a trip to the gulf states, notably our most omprotant tradiung partner and true, reliable friend, Saudi Arabia! I am quoting the MSM of ‘GB’. Well, we used to be ‘Great’. The MSM further states that the trade with SA is worth £6.7 billion… That’s all, a flippin £6.7 billion for a nation like the UK! Roughly about $8 billion. Why is that important, our annual GDP is about $2,500billion… Smell something fishy?

    Oh, and what else does “our” MSM tell us? That Theresa will speak up for women and be a shining example for the women in the gulf states. English readers: Wipe the laughter tears off your faces please. Yup, Sharia-May, always wearing that niqab/hijrab or whatever thing. Always when she meets Muslims. Who knows, they may (!) even produce the publicity stunt showing her without her niqab – for a few minutes. Why not, if Ursula van der Leyen, minister for “German Defencelessness” could do that…

    (For GDP numbers go to http://www.usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html updated per second….)

    • Phil Copson says

      Apr 5, 2017 at 6:14 am

      Exactly – we can all be sure that her publicity stunt – “Look-at-me-not-wearing-a-head-rag, Mum….” – will have been cleared in advance with her hosts.
      The more interesting point would be to know what concessions the Foreign Office negotiated away in exchange? The British government already appear set to allow unlimited Third World migration into the UK to continue despite (the charade of…. ?) Brexit, so it can’t be that……So – what will it be ? A prayer room in Downing Street ? Abolish the age of consent ? the social services to step up their campaign of taking young white girls into “care” for the benefit of passing rapists ?

      • DFD says

        Apr 5, 2017 at 11:41 am

        Yup! She pulled that publicity stunt.

        I wonder why she’s always wearing a headscarf in the UK when she meets “”British Muslims (?????)””

        Link:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4378306/May-denies-selling-Britain-s-principles-human-rights.html

        Blair was known as ‘Phony-Tony’, she is known as ‘Sharia-May’ — what next?

  4. PRCS says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 11:54 am

    The headline infers that he was currently not “saying his prayers”, while the article quotes a friends statement that Jalilov, “was ‘not even saying his prayers’,,,in 2013.”

    IMO, the article inferred he’d been “radicalized” during the last 4 years.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 4, 2017 at 11:57 am

      Western journalists couldn’t recognize a real jihadist standing in front of them, because they (DAILY MAIL) have not read, learned (let alone MASTERED) the JIHAD DOCTRINE.

      The Daily Mail needs a journalist who UNDERSTANDS JIHADISM. Dear Editors, are you listening?

      • PRCS says

        Apr 4, 2017 at 12:19 pm

        No such thing as “jihadism”.

        Communism, Nazism, fascism are examples of standalone “isms”.

        Jihad is a core component of Islam.

        My two cents.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 4, 2017 at 11:02 pm

          True, PRCS.

        • mortimer says

          Apr 5, 2017 at 9:13 am

          JIHADISM is an accurate descriptor of a behavior and an IDEOLOGY that exists. As I wrote previous, jihadism is the FORMAL IDEOLOGY that jihad is the most important activity of Muslims.

          Have you read “Al Faridah al Gha’ibah” (The Neglected Duty) by Muhammad ‘Abd al Salam Faraj ??? Well, I have. You should read it.

          You will learn about jihadism from the inside. “Al Faridah al Gha’ibah” is the textbook of the jihadists.

    • ECAW says

      Apr 4, 2017 at 12:19 pm

      Agreed PRCS.

      The Mail is the worst paper in the Western world….apart from most of the others. “Daily Mail reader” is a term equivalent to “untermenschen” for our betters at the Guardian so the Mail must be doing something right, like letting Katie Hopkins let rip.

      And the Telegraph is not a propaganda sheet for the hard left…puh-lease!

      • PRCS says

        Apr 4, 2017 at 1:24 pm

        Whichever one has pictures of scantily clad women is my personal favorite.

  5. mortimer says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 11:55 am

    Jihadism is the IDEOLOGY that claims conducting JIHAD is more important and valuable than PRAYER.

    Do you ‘GET IT’ yet, oh Daily Mail? Can you think this through? Or can you only REPEAT, REPEAT, REPEAT your own ideological programming like a robot, a robot, a robot, a …

    Akbarzhon Dzhalilov was CONSISTENT with the IDEOLOGY of JIHADISM.

    JIHAD IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN PRAYER.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 4, 2017 at 11:03 pm

      Mortimer, Jihadism is orthodox Islam.

  6. mortimer says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 12:03 pm

    NICE MUSLIMS like Akbarzhon Dzhalilov walk past Westerners every day and in greater and greater numbers.

    Why do they commit these atrocities?

    IT’S THE JIHADISM IDEOLOGY, STUPID!

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Apr 5, 2017 at 7:30 am

      It’s the ISLAM.

      • mortimer says

        Apr 5, 2017 at 9:16 am

        Jihadism is the NEGLECTED DUTY that is ignored by most Muslims… except for their verbal jihads.

        Most Muslims are prepared to ‘cover’ for jihad by lying about its meaning and pretending not to agree with it. They do this to ‘get along’ with non-Muslims co-workers. They are insincere.

        You are not teaching me anything. Did you read “Al Faridah al Gha’ibah” ? No? I did.

        • Jack Diamond says

          Apr 5, 2017 at 2:37 pm

          Jihad not jihadism is the neglected duty. It’s usually apologists for “moderate Islam” who emphasize Jihadism as some sort of alternative ideology to orthodox Islam, which it decidedly is not. What’s with the cantankerousness?

          The Neglected Duty is a pamphlet not a book, and it invokes the medieval fatwas of Ibn Taymiyyah against Muslims who aided the Tartars so as to now call for jihad against current Arab Muslim (apostate) governments, such as that of Sadat in Egypt. Faraj was executed for his role in that assassination. Note, Faraj was educated as an engineer, not a jurist (unlike Abdullah Azzam, for example).

          And like Ibn Taymiyyah it emphasizes the Verse of the Sword and the primacy of violent jihad as summarized in another influential contemporary text, Abu Musab Al-Suri’s “Call to Global Islamic Resistance”: “jihad today is a mandatory obligation prescribed for every Muslim.” Which makes every Muslim a “Jihadist”. All of which could have been gleaned from the Al Qaeda Reader without consulting Faraj at all.

  7. Angemon says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 12:23 pm

    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 precisely because he isn’t religious. 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).

    Indeed.

    • RationalVoice says

      Apr 4, 2017 at 9:02 pm

      Yes this is the reason why so many of these fools were criminals or not zealous muslims in the years leading up to the event. They are playing the trump card of suicide/murder or jihad as they think of it to get that fast track to “paradise” wiping out their criminality or lack of Islamic piety.
      Roman Catholics also have this concept of martyrdom to instantly wipe out a life of “sin” or a last minute “act of contrition” can do the job as well after they have bombed a pub or bus station full of innocent people .As long as your conscience is clear you can do virtually anything Right Tony Blair !!!
      Putin probably gets full absolution from the Russian Orthodox church after another heroic bombing in Syria. There is an extreme nationalist leader in Russia who said he wanted to hear the bells of Russian Orthodox churches ringing throughout the West !!
      Religion don’t you just love it !!!!!!!!!
      It is not only the opium of the people as Karl Marx said, it is the cyanide pill without the nasty taste and bad conscience !!!

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 4, 2017 at 11:25 pm

        RationalVoice wrote:

        Yes this is the reason why so many of these fools were criminals or not zealous muslims in the years leading up to the event. They are playing the trump card of suicide/murder or jihad as they think of it to get that fast track to “paradise” wiping out their criminality or lack of Islamic piety.
        Roman Catholics also have this concept of martyrdom to instantly wipe out a life of “sin” or a last minute “act of contrition” can do the job as well after they have bombed a pub or bus station full of innocent people .
        ……………..

        What *absolute crap*. There is no such concept in Catholicism–nor in any other Christian denomination.

        Utter false moral equivalence.

        The “Prophet” Muhammed was a warlord and terrorist–Jesus was not.

      • CogitoErgoSum says

        Apr 5, 2017 at 12:38 pm

        In Catholicism a martyr is a person who is killed (by someone else) because of the person’s refusal to disavow his Catholic religious beliefs. In Islam a martyr may also be a person who kills himself (and others in the process) because of the others’ refusal to accept the beliefs of Islam. That is a big difference. I would say the word “martyr” is being misused when applied to an Islamic suicide bomber. The correct word that should be used is ASSASSIN.

  8. Irene Brekelmans says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 12:28 pm

    I wished I could leftists/liberals force this video down their throat “THE DAGET AN MASSACRE,” THEN THEY WILL KNOW HOW MUSLEMS BEHEAD YOU AND SLIT YOUR THROATS. AND THAT IS WHAT IS WATING FOR YOU. Have the courage to look at it. No empathy, no sympathy, nothing, totally inhumane.
    And the newspapers, they all belong to the same people, so no hope from them.

  9. marina says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 2:05 pm

    So what he didn’t pray! The scum was still a Muslim. Born a muslim and died a muslim.

  10. common sense says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 3:31 pm

    VLADIMIR PUTIN: “I swear, if they (the Islamic State savages) ever bomb Russia, in half an hour every Muslim will die”.

    Russia’s ambassador to Turkey was shot dead last December. The gun man clearly screaming “Allah akhbar” and ranting about Russian involvement Syria.

    Putin also stated last December-
    “I would prefer Islam not be mentioned in vain alongside terrorism,” of course he offers none if his profound insight as to why.

    Threatening the death of all Muslims due to an attack by ISIS on Russian soil while stating that ISIS is not Islam (also highlighted on here on JW) is a tragic contradiction, carrying deadly consequences. Failure to call out Islam itself and what’s found in the Quran only emboldens contining attacks. Putin is PC and Russia will suffer more deaths at the hands of Jihadis.

    Here is Putin’s chance to make clear his position and understanding of Islam or lack of. How can you threaten all Muslims with extinction if ISIS is not Islamic? In addition if Akbarzhon Jalilov is found to have ties with ISIS Putin again has his chance to make his position clear and show some leadership to his people… Will he exterminate Muslims? Why would he say this if being Muslim has nothing to do with terrorism? ‘Radical’ and ‘terrorism’ need to be taken out of the equation. ‘Islamic Jihad attack’ and nothing else, then cite the Quran. I find it hard to believe that a former KGB agent turned pollitician has no graos of ‘global jihad’ and the Quran.

    The mental illness option (as reiterated time and again and always predicted by JW) will be slid across the table very soon, the guy is as bad as Obama.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 4, 2017 at 11:33 pm

      And, sadly, here is more cognitive dissonance from Vladimir Putin re Islam:

      “Putin Declares Russia an ‘Ally’ to Islamic World”

      http://www.newsweek.com/putin-declares-russia-ally-islamic-world-464160

      And he said, “We support the position of Muslim countries to strengthen values such as justice and the rule of law in international relations.”

      Of course, that means the horror of Shari’ah law–which he has allowed to be imposed in Chechnya.

  11. Controversy says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 4:25 pm

    As british Douglas Murray say : sadly we are getting used to terror .
    Look like each terrorist attack has the same chronology
    – We cannot talk untill we know more maybe it is just a lonely wolf
    – ok he is muslim but he was not doing his 5 prayers
    – Soon we will find out that he was integrated and was raises in the country he hated so much.. and quite well integrated
    – His neighbors will say that he was nice and polite and …..
    Each time I thank whoever is there ( universe or so) for not having any member or relative in each tragedy otherwise i would be devastated by theses informations and more generally the INACTION

  12. utis says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 6:06 pm

    Britain is a dhimmi nation. Their press cannot think or speak independently. Most of their leadership (political and academic) is cocooned in a delusional safe space. America must not surrender to 21st century tyranny.

    • ECAW says

      Apr 5, 2017 at 2:16 am

      Don’t make me laugh. Your media are at least as bad as ours.

      • utis says

        Apr 5, 2017 at 7:29 am

        ECAW,

        I’ll grant you that, but I’m talking about ordinary Americans, not the sold-out “elites.” First we give in to our elites: don’t question them or seek other information sources. Our elites and their lackeys are keeping us ignorant. We have to educate ourselves, before we lose everything worthwhile

  13. Richard Paulsen says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 8:01 pm

    Media and lots of leaders all the time warning for Russia, intending to strengthen defence against Russia. Where is the defence against such attacks? Happening all over the free world. Can NATO do something?
    Leaders talking rubbish. Scaring.

  14. Baucent says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 8:24 pm

    “A former friend, Ali Matkarimov, today said Jalilov – who was named by Kyrgyzstan officials – was once a sushi maker and was ‘not even saying his prayers’ when the pair worked together in the city in 2013.”

    One line in the story which clearly identifies the bomber as a muslim from a muslim region. Most readers will realize 2013 was four years ago and a lot can change in someones life in four years.

    Further on the Daily Mail says;

    “It is not the first time Kyrgyzstan nationals have been linked to terror attacks. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was born in Kyrgyzstan, was convicted of planting bombs at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, together with his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev.”

    So I think Robert is overblowing his point here. Seemed balanced enough for me and few readers will be left with the impression Islam played no part in the attack.

  15. God's Warrior says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    Praying five times a day equals 10 minutes

    144 times that much time is left to dedicate to the other four pillars of Islam, namely murder/rape/rob/enslave.

    The praying seems pretty insignificant, especially when you consider how many infidels this martyr took with him.

    Delusions of Grandeur akhbar.

  16. gravenimage says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 9:19 pm

    Denial begins: Daily Mail highlights claim that St. Petersburg jihad murderer “didn’t say his prayers”
    ………………………

    Firstly, it is quite possible that his Muslim buddy is lying; it is by the book to say that Jihadists are not actually religious–even when it later turns out that they attended Mosque several times a day and threatened other Muslims who were not pious enough.

    More:

    So in this case, Akbarzhon Jalilov may indeed have been unreligious, and conceived of an easy way to get back into Allah’s good graces: kill a crowd of Infidels in St. Petersburg.
    ………………………

    This is also *quite* possible. A Christian who has been unobservant or sinning can pray, donate to his church, do charity or missionary work–all sorts of things.

    For a lax Muslim, the only “good deed” that can cancel out un-Islamic behavior is mass-slaughtering Infidels, and dying in the process.

    God, I hate Islam.

  17. Donovan Nuera says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 11:55 pm

    C’mon now, folks. You know he was probably bullied into joining the jihadis because they liked his name as it already had “Akbar” in it! Not to mention he was deprived as child in K-stan as that country is soooooo poor that it could only afford 1 vowel for a 10-letter name!!

  18. Harry says

    Apr 5, 2017 at 4:22 am

    I wonder how they knew he didn’t say his prayers?

  19. libertyORdeath says

    Apr 5, 2017 at 6:53 am

    The alleged report about his praying habits 4 YEARS AGO is a common and terrifying aspect of the actual physical participants in violent jihad. They take very little time to go from “unreligious” and “tolerant” of western values to unrepentant zealotry. It really is sad that this is completely unrecognized on the left and it puts every single one of the 6 or so billion non Muslims in a very dangerous and precarious position on a daily basis.
    I must also say that unless we plan to completely wipe out about 50-80% or more of the Muslims in the world, we must not give in to THEIR GREATEST WISH which is a war between Islam and the West. I personally have begun to think that isolating most Muslims in the current majority Muslim countries may be the best option. I know that this is basically impossible, but so is the liquidation of about a billion human beings.

  20. don rugdee says

    Apr 5, 2017 at 7:04 am

    Here is a clip of what happened in tiny Singapore this morning;
    Wednesday, April 5, 2017
    Why Singapore Is Peaceful, Prosperous, Happy, Wise, Progressive And Successful

    Imam fined S$4,000 for remarks against Jews, Christians deported

    Singapore 3 April 2017
     

    Imam Nalla Mohamed Abdul Jameel (left) fined S$4,000 

    Islamic leader controversial remarks against Jews and Christians 
    his comments made on 6 Jan at Jamae Chulia Mosque
    Nalla Mohamed 47-year-old from India repatriated

    Nalla pleaded guilty in Court to disrupting religious harmony 
    imam uttered in Arabic, “Grant us help against Jews and Christians”
    Footage of sermon led to police investigation

    incident debated in Parliament
    govt will not tolerate preaching that sows ill will 

    phrase was not quotation from Quran 
    Nalla added phrase on his own

    Judge Jasvender Kaur noted imam in S’pore since 2010
    he should be aware that S’pore multi-racial, multi-religious
    accused knew what the words meant 
    asking God to grant Muslims victory against Jews and Christians

    Nalla act “prejudicial to harmony, disturb public tranquility”.
    comments can create friction and conflicts 
    Singapore can ill afford this Jasvender Kaur said.
    Any religious leader makes such statements will be held for actions
    Singapore cannot allow anyone to preach or act divisively 

    Nalla will be repatriated

    • ECAW says

      Apr 5, 2017 at 7:42 am

      This is interesting. 2:286 says “Grant us help against the unbelievers”, which of course includes Jews and Christians. Are we to infer that if he had quoted the Koran exactly from any number of hateful verses about Jews and Christians he would have been okay? If so, what is it exactly that gives religious texts immunity from hate speech type legislation?

  21. Phil Copson says

    Apr 5, 2017 at 7:36 am

    BBC Radio 4’s mid-day news programme – “The World at One” – wheeled out one Dr Nick Megoran of Newcastle University to give us his account – couched in such terms as “political vi’lence” and using non-existent words such as “disfavourably” – of how the perpetrator – (repeatedly described respectfully as “this young man” as though the murderer had just one something laudable like winning a Sunday School scripture prize…) – was a “minority Uzbek” who came from a ” a poor part of Kyrgyzstan”, who would have been looked down on as “unsophisticated”, “had few opportunities”, and may well have “experienced racism” !
    Kyrgystani Islamism itself, he painted as a wonderful thing – “traditionally tolerant, liberal, and open-minded” – and doubtless stuffed to capacity with bien-pensant Hampstead thinkers, and resembling nothing so much a cross between the Elysian Fields and Frinton-on-Sea.
    Indeed, when Dr Nick reached his crescendo by telling us all how the vicious mass-murderer was “young, hopeless, and poor”, and how entirely understandable it was that he should find the thought of a universal caliphate appealing, the listener was almost blubbing at the sheer pathos of it all; in fact it’s a wonder the fellow didn’t ask us all to contribute to the cost of his funeral and refund his train-fare and bomb-making expenses.
    About the only thing he didn’t do was tell us exactly what any of the fore-going had to do with the price of fish.
    As with “Khalim Masood”, who murdered four innocent people in Westminster, the fact that he had a self-loading, weapons-grade chip on his shoulder presumably excused all……….?

    • Phil Copson says

      Apr 5, 2017 at 7:37 am

      “done” not “one”….

    • ECAW says

      Apr 5, 2017 at 7:55 am

      Here is more about him:

      https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/nick.megoran/

      He appears to be one of the many academics who will look anywhere but in the Islamic texts for the causes of Islamic violence. It is surely a form of madness.

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