As usual, authorities aren’t sure whether or not it’s terrorism. My latest in FrontPage:
On Tuesday morning around 10:45AM, a Muslim named Kori Ali Muhammad walked through Fresno, California, shooting three men dead at random, including one in the parking lot of Catholic Charities. When he was arrested, he screamed “Allahu akbar.” According to the local ABC station, Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer “indicated it was ‘still too early’ to know if the shootings were an act of terrorism.”
Of course. And for those who refuse to acknowledge the nature or magnitude of the Islamic jihad against the West, it will always be too early, even if Kori Ali Muhammad presents Dyer with an ISIS membership card and a letter signed by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi commanding him to carry out this attack. In this case, the familiar dance of denial by non-Muslim authorities intent on absolving Islam of all responsibility for the crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings is not the central lesson of the attack – that sad charade has played out all too often in the past, and will many more times in the future, and there is nothing new to say about it.
The key story in the murders committed by Kori Ali Muhammad is that they constitute a jihad attack carried out by an apparent member of the Nation of Islam, the racist black supremacist pseudo-Islamic group headed by Louis Farrakhan. According to the Los Angeles Times, “a Facebook profile page for a Kori Ali Muhammad from Fresno paid homage to black pride and black nationalism, with images of the red, green and black Pan-African flag and images of a raised fist. The page listed him as a ‘warrior’ for RBG Nation, referencing red, black and green.”
What’s more, “in recent days, he repeatedly posted images to his frenetic Facebook page with the hashtag #LETBLACKPEOPLEGO. He referenced ‘white devils’ and praised melanoma skin cancer. In a post Monday, he wrote in all caps: ‘MY KILL RATE INCREASES TREMENDOUSLY ON THE OTHER SIDE ASÈ ALLAH U AKBAR.’ Shortly before that, he posted: ‘BLACK WARRIORS MOUNT UP AND RIDE OUT *ASÈ* #LETBLACKPEOPLEGO.’” Ase, according to the Times, “is a term from the Yoruba people of Nigeria, referencing a concept that there is power in our spirituality, words and feelings.” Muhammad also referred to “white devils” and the Nation of Islam’s mythical evil figure who created white people, Mr. Yakub.
If Muhammad is indeed a member of the Nation of Islam, he demonstrates yet again how members of the Nation of Islam, even though orthodox Sunni and Shia Muslims consider the Nation a heretical sect, can identify with the global jihad, and place themselves in its service. The most notorious example of this is the Beltway Sniper, John Allen Muhammad, who along with his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, murdered seventeen people in sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area in October 2002. Muhammad had joined the Nation of Islam in 1987; Malvo was discovered to have kept notebooks in which he drew portraits of Osama bin Laden and other jihadis and declared his determination to wage jihad himself.
When Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan spoke at the Nation’s annual gathering in Detroit last February, attendees greeted him with thunderous cries of “Allahu akbar” and listened raptly as Farrakhan railed against not against the Nation’s bogey, white people, but against the Jews: “I want to disabuse the Jews today of the false claim that you are the chosen of God — that Israel or Palestine belongs to you. I want to disabuse you of that. I’m going to tell you about your future. You that think you have power to frighten and dominate the peoples of the world. I’m here to announce the end of your time.”
He has, of course, spoken this way many times before. That Farrakhan would so often use the platform of his racist cult to attack the Jews suggests that he is interested in currying favor with mainstream Muslims who are well aware of how deeply embedded anti-Semitism is in the Qur’an. Orthodox Islam does not blame the evils of the world on white people, but the Nation’s Jew-hatred is certainly mainstream Islam, and an indication of how the Nation is often a way station: African-American men convert to it and then pass from it into orthodox Sunni groups, or turn to jihad even without doing so. Kori Ali Muhammad is just the latest example of this.
If authorities ever decide that the random shooting of three non-Muslims by a Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” might possibly be terrorism, they might begin investigations that would make all this clear to them and help them prevent it from happening in the future. But nothing seems much less likely.
Dennis says
Oh dear, must be those pesky Quakers again!
jihad3tracker says
HELLO DENNIS —-
Often after slaughter like this, when our mainstream media go into denial over the fact that a FULLY-OBEDIENT Muslim like Kori Muhammad was the perpetrator, I suggest that Jihad Watch readers who can spare a little time get in touch with their local city’s TV station chief executive and a couple of the better reporters.
I emphatically suggest the same thing this time, because for this guy, THE BUZZWORDS ON TV COVERAGE ARE “HATE CRIME”. Well, our resident scholars and everyone else might want to point out that THE QUR’AN HAS PLENTY OF HATE IN IT, AND MUHAMMAD (THE ORIGINAL) WAS OVERFLOWING WITH HATE.
Michael Copeland says
“between us and you enmity and hatred forever….”
that is the “excellent pattern” praised in Koran 60: 4, part of Islamic law.
jihad3tracker says
HELLO MICHAEL —
Thank you for one of many relevant verses. This is an excellent article from several years ago, at a great counter-jihad blog:
http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2010/09/qurans-last-word-on-non-muslims.html?zx=8a7f63b87ad9e0ff
However, Google’s willingness to bend over and offer its bunghole for Islam to ream out, leads to a possible OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT WARNING, although the hotlink I give above might bypass it.
mortimer says
Robert Spencer’s accurate and detail-packed article sums up the JIHAD ISSUES of the case.
The police detectives cannot read this article and FAIL to draw correct conclusions: the evidence points to a planned TERRORIST attack by Kori Ali Muhammad. His genocidal hatred of white people was the motive. Islam was his authority for jihad-terrorism.
Ed Lee says
Most police detectives are unaware that Jihad Watch exists. But, the Fresno Bee, the most widely read newspaper in the area, did report that Kori Ali Muhammad said “Allahu Akbar” when he was arrested.
US INFIDEL says
Not the muslime victims fault he carried out a vile act it was the Jews fault . My turban must be difty for thinking bad thoughts about islime.
somehistory says
What is that nasty looking thing on his face? Maybe I shouldn’t ask, and maybe don’t want to know. It is certainly gross.
As is islam and as are moslims who murder people in its evil cause. satan would be proud of him if satan took pride in anyone other than himself.
dsinc says
Hand grenade and key to paradise
ElderlyZionist says
It’s a sculpture of a face that I don’t recognize, and an ankh amulet. He seems to be very confused about spiritual concepts – but he knows who he hates.
somehistory says
Thanks to both of you. It looks very much like a group of worms with the amulet hanging from them.
underbed cat says
It seems with all the published information available on the source of terrorism with the accurate adjectives….that not one police department could be confused….when someone decides to scream in arabic the jihadist message and starts killing, they could hear the same adjectives..and have information about about the commands they follow…The families of these men I am sure are devastated….out reach by a local mosque of mandated misinformation will not end the problem only extend it.
Walter Sieruk says
With all the information so-far gathered ,the conclusion appears that this is a terrible action of murderous violence that is a fusion of Islam and race hate . Likewise, just over two years ago a similar evil of violent and murderous action that was a result of race hate and Islam linked together in occurred in Oklahoma .
Schrödinger says
It’s surprising there’s so little discussion, even acknowledgment, on JW or elsewhere, that one of the major underlying factors so obviously motivating the behaviour of many if not most muslims is racism — their own racism towards peoples of other race or ethnicity.
It seems an unpopular notion, one not conforming to a preferred narrative (perhaps, ironically, even reflecting fear of accusation of racism), along with considering poverty could have anything to do with what might additionally motivate a muslim’s attitude and behaviour. We know it’s not entirely that simple and no, islam’s not a pure race based ideology, as was Nazism. Yet regular JW commenter “gravenimage”, for whom I have the highest respect, sharply rebuked someone making a similar assertion only recently, saying “what crap”! I’ll brace myself for some criticism (my comment may even be deleted — or perhaps simply ignored).
There are obviously multiple factors involved in what motivates any muslim; being born into muslim society and indoctrinated into islam from birth has the highest statistical correlation for going violent jihad. Yet there are notable exceptions. Yes, higher profile leaders joining al Qaeda, IS and many other fanatical jihadist groups are more typically from middle class, even wealthy backgrounds (bin Laden being a notorious example). Quite a few have even enjoyed fairly comfortable lifestyles, fully at taxpayer expense, in Western “Kuffar” countries. Many also have varying technical and University level educational backgrounds. However that’s hardly surprising for those that rise to positions of higher power and authority within any organisation. Yet the rank and file, the vast bulk of militant jihadists, are typically from poorer, disadvantaged backgrounds. Most muslims, not just those predisposed to violence, have a preference for targeting persons of different race and ethnicity when it comes to all forms of jihad.
Any theology or ideology that so emphatically distinguishes between an in and out group and so viciously discriminates against that out group is potentially very attractive to those with racist (even subliminally racist) motivations. Islam also has many parallels with the mafia. It’s notable there have been various occasions where conquered peoples, of differing race and ethnicity, living as subjugated Dhimmis, were persistently denied the option to even convert, their muslims overlords not just wanting to extort Jizya but also reluctant to accept them for reasons having just as much to do with underlying racial prejudice.
Islam primarily reflects and perpetually privileges Bedouin Arab customs, values and traditions, and their Arabic language. There was evidently significant racial antipathy by those Bedouins, at the time of islam’s origin, towards the ethnically dissimilar Jewish tribes of the Arabian peninsula, which in short order were either subjugated or brutally exterminated. Yet muhammad had no real desire to exterminate his own tribe, the Meccan Quraysh, when they were conquered.
There isn’t scope (not in a single comment) to further develop this argument and cite the many examples of cases supporting it. Other than in noting that here we have the instance of a homeless black man, yes, a fully paid up member of the Nation of Islam, not just shouting allahu akbar and shooting to kill adult white males, but openly admitting his motivation to kill people of a very specific, different race to that of his own.
Simply reiterating a muslim’s sole motivation is their “islam” is inadequate. It still begs the question as to why? Why the appeal, persistence and success of islam? To succeed to this extent for this long, an ideology must confer some very tangible benefits, ranging from the “spiritual” (or what might be called hedging one’s bets with the Almighty), to the very real, very worldly, and likely also benefits at the genetic level. Unless the problem of muslims and their islam is critically examined from a broader and deeper psychological, sociological, anthropological and even sociobiological perspective, we’re never going to get to the bottom of things. Nor find effective enough countermeasures to it’s challenge — let alone an entire solution.
Sam says
I wonder what the motive could be in this murderous act. Racial hate, low income level, family problems, isolation from society due to skin color, right wing extremism? It can not be due to ISLAM, religion of peace ofcourse!!!!!!!!!!
Walter Sieruk says
To restate the information just posted about an hour ago but in a totally different way . It may be explained by the following short essay.
With all the information so far gathered it may be concluded that this murderous violence in Fresno CA this is a fusion of vicious Black race hate toward White people and the violent and deadly nature of Islam. Likewise, in many ways, this is similar the violent and murdering behavior of that Black man who was also a Muslim just over two years ago in Oklahoma. Which was a Black racially motivated hate crime linked strong with Islam. How heinous! How monstrous! How wicked!
John A. Marre says
The media and the Democrat party are working hard together to help Islam get established in this country.
Buford says
What gets me is that Idiot Police Chief’s determination to classify it as a Hate Crime which it is but it is also a Terrorist attack the Slimebag should have been killed on the spot.
TassieR says
I may be wrong but, along with the usual information on “no clear motives”, I’d like to read at least a few lines also about the way each of these zombies earns dollars (for weapons, amulets, cars, planes or just for a plain halal food).
Jeanette says
What is that THING attached to his forehead?
It looks like Alien, Jr.