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Passover in Israel: Muslim stabs British student to death on Jerusalem train

Apr 14, 2017 9:59 am By Robert Spencer

“The terrorist is mentally unstable,” Halevi confirmed.

Aren’t they always?

It is a shame to see even the Israelis succumbing to the absurd proposition that jihad activity is simply a manifestation of mental illness.

“British student murdered in Jerusalem light rail stabbing,” by Roi Yanovsky, Ynet News, April 14, 2017 (thanks to John):

A 23-year-old British student was killed after being stabbed multiple times in the chest in a terror attack at IDF Square on Jerusalem’s light rail on Friday afternoon.

The terrorist was arrested after a number of police officers managed to apprehend him. He was later identified as 57-year-old Jamil Tamimi from the Palestinian neighborhood of Ras al-Amud.

Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics arrived at the scene to find the woman lying on the ground unconscious after having suffered multiple stab wounds.

Medics carried out first aid emergency treatment on the victim, before she was hurriedly evacuated to the Hadassah Har Hatzofim Medical Center in the capital.

While her condition was originally described as critical, she was pronounced dead shortly after.

In addition, medical teams provided treatment to a 30-year-old pregnant woman who sustained light injuries as the light rail abruptly came to a halt.

A 50-year-old man also suffered light wounds in his leg and chest while trying to escape from the chaos.

The Shin Bet later reported that the terrorist attempted to commit suicide this year by swallowing a razor blade while in hospital. In 2011, he was convicted of sexually assaulting his daughter.

“This is another incident of many in which a Palestinian suffering from mental health or personal issues has chosen to carry out an attack as a way out of his problems,” the Shin Bet statement said.

Jerusalem Police Commander Yoram Halevi said that Tamimi boarded the light rail near the Damascus Gate, spotted his victim and attacked her.

An off-duty policeman heard the screaming and immediately engaged the terrorist until he was placed under arrest. “The terrorist is mentally unstable,” Halevi confirmed.

The attack comes during the holiday of Passover, a period during which security forces have ramped up their level of caution and alertness in anticipation of renewed efforts by terrorists to rock the recent period of comparative stability….

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  1. somehistory says

    Apr 14, 2017 at 10:13 am

    He has the moslim brain, the death plague from satan the devil, but he knew full well what he was doing, where he was when doing it, and why he was doing it. He also knew that it is wrong, except to satan and his children.

  2. Henner720 says

    Apr 14, 2017 at 10:19 am

    No. No mental illness. They are believers, only believers would take a risk, knowing how quick israel security drops offenders full of bullets.it commonplace i palestine, leaders have suicidekids etc. Etc. When you believe, you do what society norm perscript, they perscript koran thus jihad. Plain and simple. Human right watch, was that hate ?

    • Richard says

      Apr 14, 2017 at 10:12 pm

      He’s crazy? Fine. He won’t know he’s being executed.

    • BC says

      Apr 15, 2017 at 6:54 am

      The term deranged Muslim is an oxymoron, they are all deranged. If one looks at the corpus of Islamic writings from Mohammad on down to present, they all show evidence of being written by people who are mentally ill. Especially mentally ill males. Look at the statements put out by contemporary clerics. Look at the things said by Ayatolla Khomeini about marrying little girls, life in Islam being without pleasure and how to have sex with animals and ask are these the thoughts of a sane man?

  3. Charlie in NY says

    Apr 14, 2017 at 10:21 am

    His conviction for sexually molesting his daughter and failed suicide attempt in prison ino doubt disnhonored his clan – the famously “peaceful” Tamimis. It looks like he tried to reclaim that honor in the most socially approved method: by murdering a Jew. So now, one assumes, the clan’s honor is not only restored but the PA will pay his family with US and EU tax dollars for years to come.
    It is the sickness of the Palestinian Arab society in which he grew up that is the real but unaddressed problem.

    • pinchas baram says

      Apr 15, 2017 at 11:45 am

      good analysis of the “inner workings” of the moslem mind and of its default position– i.e., to get absolution for sins and a free pass to heaven, plus income for your family from the PLO ( partly thanks to US taxpayers!)– kill an infidel. and if she’s an innocent young woman, totally defenseless– hey, no moral problem there, in fact it’s easier, there’s no backtalk or struggle, as the knife cuts through her tender flesh as you sing the praises of allah…

      but a question remains: how did this mad dog freely leave the mental hospital, get a big sharp killing knife, board a crowded train– and nowhere was Israeli security, supposedly tight during Passover, in sight??

      but

  4. Dov Berrol says

    Apr 14, 2017 at 10:23 am

    It’s really a “chicken and egg” theme with Mohammedans and mental illness. Since the character idolized and deified by Muslims was also mentally ill and illiterate, fervent followers of his death cult ideology either become mentally ill, or are mentally ill to begin with and are attracted to the destructive, anti-social, psychotic and oppressive ideology. Psychiatrists have a real challenge in teaching us all how to deal with these mentally ill followers of Islam.

    • BC says

      Apr 15, 2017 at 6:58 am

      Well said see also my comment above at 06.54 April 15.

  5. Stan Lee says

    Apr 14, 2017 at 10:26 am

    They’re all unstable. This killer was armed and ready to act. The account doesn’t deal with Tamimi’s purpose for being on the train, but he had a weapon with him with which to stab the young woman multiple times once he selected his victim. “Unstable” he could be, but murdering her was not an afterthought with this killer, he sought a victim, this was premeditated. He was all set to do harm.

    • carpediadem says

      Apr 15, 2017 at 9:20 am

      Agree with you.

      Was this Tamimi one of the infamous terrorist Tamimis of which Bassem and Ahlam are members?

  6. Charli Main says

    Apr 14, 2017 at 10:38 am

    Ah, another brave Muslim lion of Islamic Jihad. Attacking a defenceless woman !!! But then Mad Mohammed of Mecca was a craven, spineless coward that would hide while his thugs did the fighting.

  7. TL says

    Apr 14, 2017 at 10:49 am

    I don’t see the harm, except to the reputations of Muslims and communists, of taking seriously the suggestion that every Islamic terrorist is mentally unstable and criminally insane. Was not Muhammad, in his day, first among Islamic terrorists? Does not Islam prescribe terrorism? Did not Michael Moore write that “WE ARE ALL MUSLIM”?

  8. Kiel says

    Apr 14, 2017 at 11:41 am

    We see this all over, in America, Europe, and Israel stabbing spree causes fear and uncertainty. If this is mental illness then the ideology of Islam is sick to the core. The “disturbed” get their inspiration from a wicked ideology, and unless you confront the core ideas directly nothing will change.
    Islam as a whole has to be confronted militarily and culturally with the West’s supreme culture, that’s to say Christianity and Judaism. When the Moslem warmongers and jihadi suprematists experience military devastation and mass killings on an unprecedented scale they’ll wave the white flag of surrender.

  9. Irene Brekelmans says

    Apr 14, 2017 at 12:16 pm

    Which psychiatrist came up with the term ” mentally unstable” Did you forget ho dangerous mental instability can be if you express it all in this way. In Europe, it used to be: if you are mentally disturbed, but dangerous to yourself and others, you really have to be locked up. Don’t be fooled, they know exactly what they are doing, they are brilliant in their victim roles and mentally ill roles. How can you be so gullible.
    so terrible gullible? Unless it happens to yourself and your family.
    And Israel, I expected more from you against these mindless psychical protected people, I hear and see them laughing almost. You people !!!. Tell me how this process will end, I really like to hear it from you,asked that for a long time already, but nobody wants to answer me and if you are so sure of yourself, then answer me pls.
    Happy Pass over, it will be hopefully for you to be a better pass over then for the victims and their families.

  10. mgoldberg says

    Apr 14, 2017 at 2:09 pm

    So the logic for muslim mental illness is this: after a failed life, and attempts at criminal acts, the final act is likely that they kill a non muslim so that they can feel cleansed, rarefied, and at the height of islam’s hierarchy.. Now, that’s a medical condition that should be listed as a disease limited to muslims but a danger to all others

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Apr 14, 2017 at 5:42 pm

      Yes.

      They might be mentally ill but *that* is then combined with a ‘cultural grid’ that tells them they can go to ‘Paradise’ if they ‘slay and are slain’ for ‘allah’s cause’… so they go out and select a Kuffar to human-sacrifice.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Apr 14, 2017 at 5:45 pm

      And the other interesting thing that all the excuse-makers are not addressing is this: whether in the UK or Germany or Israel there would be *plenty* of psychiatrically-unwell people of non-Muslim cultural background.

      But NONE of them – mentally disturbed non-Muslims, whether secular, Christian or Jewish – are doing the sorts of things that the ‘mentally ill’ Mohammedans are doing.

      Furthermore: the ‘mentally disturbed’ Mohammedans are ALL doing exactly the same *kind* of thing, no matter where they are.

  11. Benedict says

    Apr 14, 2017 at 4:09 pm

    When did Islam change into a recipe for mental stability?

  12. IQ al Rassooli says

    Apr 14, 2017 at 4:44 pm

    The most efficient way of destroying Islam is by Discrediting Muhammad as a prophet and the alleged divine origin of his Quran as shown herein

    I dare any Muslim or any of their brain dead supporters to prove anything I reveal about the depraved Muhammad and Islam in this video as either wrong or false

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTuFA1fQ-yg&feature=youtu.be&a

    Please spread to all your contacts so that more people get enlightened about Islam’s threat to humanity

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

    • R Russell says

      Apr 14, 2017 at 5:11 pm

      There is a saying, ‘a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still’.
      You are expecting the Muslim to have your worldview and your values. They don’t.
      They don’t think like you. They don’t have your values. Because they have Mohammed’s worldview and his values, they copy him and emulate him. If it was as simple as showing them your values are humane and there are benefits in adopting your way of life, the matter would be resolved. But it is not that simple. Search online for the many videos demonstrating that Jesus (not Isa, they are different persons with the same name.) is appearing in visions and dreams, sometimes turning up personally, to Muslims throughout the Middle East. Their lives are being transformed through His power.
      That is the only way I know they can be changed.

      • IQ al Rassooli says

        Apr 14, 2017 at 5:22 pm

        R Russel

        Never in all the decades I have been dealing with Islam and Muslims were my efforts directed at them for exactly the reasons you mentioned

        My articles, videos, talk shows etc have been dedicated ONLY to the Infidels/ Kuffar/ non Muslims because the more tens and or hundreds of millions of people get to know what and who Muslims are the LESS chance our leaders in the West would be allowed to bring in Muslims or allow Sharia to take a foothold

        I am the only one who indicated that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse of Muslims are called: KNOWLEDGE!KNOWLEDGE!KNOWLEDGE! & KNOWLEDGE!

        IQ al Rassooli
        Kafir & Proud!

    • carpediadem says

      Apr 15, 2017 at 9:23 am

      The most efficient way to destroy Islam is to stop funding it.

  13. R Russell says

    Apr 14, 2017 at 4:56 pm

    There was a time when Christianity had a greater belief in the supernatural than it dies today. That has had it reject what our ancestors were aware of, namely that the supernatural has two sides. Those who believe all mental aberrations are a sign of psychiatric illness alone, need to remember that in the Bible Jesus distinguished between illness and demonic infestation.
    Many of these cases of ‘mental illness’ I believe are the result of having given oneself over consciously to evil possibly for several generations and the result is what has happened today. Psychiatric drugs may mask the problem but they wont cure it.
    When people call good evil and evil good, deception is particularly deep. It needs the power of the Holy Spirit to overcome these situations. However I do not see many prepared to to take up the battle. I know I myself could do more.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Apr 14, 2017 at 5:52 pm

      “…However I do not see many prepared to to take up the battle. I know I myself could do more.”

      Those of us who are Christian, even if we *know* we personally are not equipped/ called to tackle the matter directly can still pray. I pray regularly three things 1/ for the exposure and defeat of the Jihad 2/ for sustaining grace, relief and deliverance for all non-Muslims currently attacked and / or oppressed by Muslims (I am thinking in particular of those trapped as minorities within Muslim-dominated lands) and 3/ for the conversion of Muslims to Christ. One can also pray for the breaking of the ‘spell’ or removal of the ‘fog’ of Dhimmitude that afflicts the minds of so many of our media, politicians, and even clergy.

      This does NOT of course preclude, nor should it preclude, doing the sorts of things any islamosavvy citizen of the Lands of the Infidels can and should be doing: lobbying politicians to stop Muslim immigration, using legal means to oppose building of mosques, casting one’s vote for politicians who might be prepared to say NO to Muslims, and trying to raise awareness amongst one’s family, friends and general social circle so that they know what Islam is and how dangerous it is.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Apr 16, 2017 at 9:20 am

        “…the sorts of things any islamosavvy citizen of the Lands of the Infidels can and should be doing”.

        When I then listed the sorts of activities Islamosavvy citizens should be doing, I forgot to add that those who are able-bodied and of an appropriate age could, if free, seriously consider **seeking to join the army or the police force**. (In the wake of the Bataclan attack, interestingly enough, many young Infidel Frenchmen and women rushed to the army recruitment offices to *join the army*). Another option is to get involved in what we Aussies call the ” Army Reserves” and the UK calls the “Territorial Army”. There are similar sorts of bodies in most Western countries. Citizen volunteers, who are physically able and under a given age (but can be early middle aged?) step forward to undergo basic military training in their own time.

        Niccolai Sennels, in Denmark, who has figured out what Islam is about and that it is dangerous, has joined the Danish equivalent of the Army Reserves. .He is therefore getting basic training. He has an opportunity to continue raising awareness informally among his fellow recruits. Excellent move.

        Recommended. (Easy for me to say: I’m pushing 54, female, and have some physical health issues that preclude lifting heavy weights; so the Army Reserves are not for me. Nevertheless – for those who *don’t* have health issues and are still young enough, I think it would be good. Different from – and I think, preferable to – just arming up as individuals and thinking of yourself as a lone warrior out on the Frontier. Go into the Army reserves and you learn *teamwork*. You get access to a much wider range of things and learn how to use them. And you can *network*, if you are sensible and sober; you can act as a ‘force multiplier’. Muslims infiltrate and subvert kuffar organisatons such as military and police. Well: Kuffar should aim to *retake* those organisations. Fill them with Islamosavvy volunteers!

  14. Frank Verderber says

    Apr 14, 2017 at 6:22 pm

    Some things are spiritual in nature. There isn’t much difference between a madman and the demon possessed. However, in most cases the problem is emotive, and overtly and overly so.

    I works this way; Man is different from animals in that he has a conscience and spirit. That conscience ifs the doorway to the spirit. He can choose to live as a animal – making every decision on the basis of his emotional will or he can prove to be a man – made in the image of God.

    The New Testament teaches that men sometimes refuse to live as a creation of God and by doing so they ignore their identity with God, and increase their identity with animals – via instinct and emotion. Prison populations are like this and this is why Islam works well in prison populations – it appeals to the emotive animal side.

    The Apostles Paul, Peter, and Jude refer to them as “zoon” [2Pe.2:12, Jude 10], which in the Greek means beasts. In the Old Testament the term, ‘keleb,’ is interpreted as “ravenous dogs” [Ps..22:16], which invokes the idea of a pack of hunting wolves or coyotes.

    Now if an animal is out of control it is put down. If these beats hunt out of control, the pacts prides, are reduced in size by the control agent. He will kill the pack leaders, which the New Testament calls “therion” [Rev.11:7, of the Anti-christ]. When a pack is leaderless it becomes generally sedate. Hence, why the Apostle Paul taught that the state has the sword of Justice from God [Rm.13:4]. God has investitured the Executive [police and military] with this power to destroy, in order to keep civil peace.

    The problem with the secular authorities is that they do not understand this well, and so they offer inducements to the “zoon” and “therion”, but which can only be understood by those who utilize their conscience and spirit.

    If they are disheveled and do not care for themselves and constantly put their own person in danger then they are mentally unstable or demon possessed. If they are emotive, intellectually aware and make rational decisions – even if those decisions are self centered, they should be put down immediately when found to be out of control.

  15. David, Thailand says

    Apr 14, 2017 at 10:21 pm

    I trust the Israelis will give him counselling and comply with his catalogue of other rights until they release him as part of the next hostage swap.

  16. Daniel Rubio says

    Apr 15, 2017 at 1:55 pm

    Muslims parasites can keep on their killing sprees throughout Western countries, as the lame Western reaction will always be that the “poor” muslim scumbag was “mentally unstable”. Well, muslims are mentally unstable by definition, and giving them a pass on that condition to be able to continue their attacks on innocent, unsuspecting bystanders is a criminal act by our “authorities”. These malcontent muslim misfits use any means at their disposal, whether ramming cars and trucks on us, stabbing us in subways, buses or on any street, planting bombs in our theaters, cafes and pizza parlors, sending suicide bombers into our midst or crashing planes into our buildings.

    Islam is a plague that must be erradicated from the Western world. Period. Plenty of failed third-world countries have been infected by this most malignant and dangerous disease. Muslims can live their miserable, backwards, hate-filled pathetic lives in over 50 muslim countries. Let them stay infected. But by all means the infection needs to be contained. Muslims must be evicted from the remains of the Western world unless we want France to become a sad replica of Algeria, England of Pakistan, Germany of Turkey or the U.S. of Saudi Arabia or Israel of Eritrea.

  17. Richard says

    Apr 15, 2017 at 6:08 pm

    Daniel Rubio: Unfortunately, sanity and morality are social constructs. Different civilizations view things differently, – usually based on religion – which is why God forbade the Jews to associate with pagans, and St. Paul warned about the same things for Christians. Islam has been correctly diagnosed by you as a deadly infection of the soul. Unfortunately, most Muslims are themselves immunized from any cure of it . No mater what you prove to them, it will almost never penetrate, as one of their knife blades will our throats. To them, that is a good and rightious act. We most certainly don’t feel that way! The Islamic atrocities after atrocities after atrocities I read on this web site are beyond belief. Unfortunately, they are true. Thousands of years ago, the Greeks were busy debating how Philip of Macedon (Alexander’ the Great’s father) had conquered all Greece. Demosthenes summed it up in four words: “Greece talked. Phillip acted.”

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