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Minnesota: Muslim threatens people with knife, says “I will kill whoever calls the police”

Jul 27, 2017 12:34 pm By Robert Spencer

“It has yet to be determined if this was a potential copy cat of this attack or simply a person with severe mental health issues.”

Ah yes. “Severe mental health issues” afflict quite a few Muslims, causing them to scream “Allahu akbar” and attack non-Muslims.

“Somali man Threatens People with a Knife in Faribault,” by Henry Carras, Alpha News, July 27, 2017:

FARIBAULT, Minn.- Abdinzak Ahmed Farah allegedly threatened people in downtown Faribault with a knife on July 24.

According to the Faribault Daily News, Farah was reported by witnesses to be eating raw beef with the knife. Later Farah would start asking people if they wanted to play a game. Although Farah was asked to leave, he would later return to the area and start threatening people with that same knife. Eventually, Farah even proceeded to chase people with the knife and threw it at bystanders.

Eventually, Farah was confronted by a witness on the street who called the police. Farah threatened to kill the witness, saying, “I will kill whoever calls the police.” The witness then restrained Farah, reports the Faribault Daily News.

Farah was charged with two counts of second-degree assault and threatening violence, all of which are felonies, and fourth-degree damage to property, the Faribault Daily News reported….

Earlier this year, St. Cloud, Minnesota experienced an attack at the Crossroads Center Mall where a young Somali man, Dahir Adan, attacked 10 shoppers with a knife before being taken down by off-duty police officer, Jason Falconer.

Another knife attack carried out this past year by a Somali, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, at Ohio State University– which came a few months after the attack at the St. Cloud mall.

Knives and swords play a prominent role within Islamic ideology. Some of the verses within the Quran that seem to advocate violence are called the “sword verses,” and within traditionalist Islamic societies, such as Saudi Arabia, the sword is often used as an instrument of execution.

While sparing research has been done on mental health within the Somali community, a 2014 report by the Minnesota Department of Health, indicates that mental health issues are often heavily stigmatized within the Somali community.

Some within the study even indicated they had “a general discomfort with Western doctors and other service providers and a preference for seeking religious counsel and guidance.” A lack of awareness by members of the community for mental health resources played an important role in such issues often going untreated.

It has yet to be determined if this was a potential copy cat of this attack or simply a person with severe mental health issues.

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Filed Under: Featured, immigration, Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Abdinzak Ahmed Farah, Faribeault, minnesota


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  1. Paul N Silas says

    Jul 27, 2017 at 1:14 pm

    We lived in MN for ten long cold years and know that there are a lot of good people there. However the DFL (Democrat) party runs the state and is hell bent of chasing all of the “good” people to South Dakota or Wisconsin.

    We lived in the once most conservative district north of Minneapolis, but saw the population change from blond/white people to folks wearing their bed sheets as clothing.

    This article is not a surprise.

  2. stan lee says

    Jul 27, 2017 at 1:35 pm

    MS-13 is being pursued, held for deportation, and finally deported. It has been determined that MS-13
    members victimize and murder peaceful U.S. citizens..
    Now…to Minnesota….WTH is the difference between MS-13 gang members and Somalis brought into our country via “political correctness” Obama-style” and MS-13? Murder is their solution for people with whom they disagree. A difference between the gang members from Latin-America and those from Somalia is that the U.S. federal government and various state & municipal governments have wasted well-meaning citizen-paid taxes to ease the Somalis into life here, in this case life in Minnesota.
    Then, Somalis are diagnosed by the “bleeding heart” Socialists who were the cheering section for bringing in Somalis, no better vetted than Syrian people who were shielded by the 9th Circuit judges They, who ruled against the President’s order to temporarily suspend any immigration of Middle East and African Muslims…Remember the word “temporary.” Time and more specific planning IS necessary to deal with such people who claim refugee status, from cultures which place reliance upon knives, swords, and concealed weaponry in general.
    If these people need weapons that maim and kill, they shouldn’t be here for the USA to even consider.
    It will be even more exasperating when that idiot in Canada, P.M.Trudeau, brings in 25,000 more Muslims,identified as “Syrians,” They will be settled in Canadian territories adjacent to U.S. states like Minnesota and parts of the U.S. northern-central USA. The northern border with Canada is even more remote than our southern borders in the U.S. southwest and state of CA!
    And, the borders mentioned are for all intents and purposes “bare.” Border Patrols can’t even cope with all the open space which fairly begs to be crossed illegally.
    If the people who will be given or allowed access to a wide open country, where walls cannot be built quickly enough, the Second Amendment will probably not be enough. Consider that not all will be lunatic knife and explosives wielders, then how many do you reckon will be, and are they worth the gamble? Who among them would step forward and reveal the lunatics among them? Your local Socialists and “One-World” types think the gamble IS worth it….FOR you!

    • Curt says

      Jul 27, 2017 at 2:59 pm

      Thank You !

  3. Dan says

    Jul 27, 2017 at 1:43 pm

    This is ridiculous.

    Unless you really, really, really know how to use a knife, (Largely catching someone by surprise) a wacko waving one can be taken out by anybody with just about anything with longer reach, like a bat or something.

    If you’re in a grocery store, pelt him with soup cans. I heard Campbell’s is halal compliant if you’re the sensitive type, and if not, open up a frozen ham or some bacon and start pelting the guy.

    • Lawrence Deans says

      Jul 28, 2017 at 10:24 am

      Here in Utah, we would describe this incident as “a man brought a knife to a gun fight.” And everyone knows how that is going to end.

      • Paul says

        Jul 29, 2017 at 9:48 am

        Yes, best solution to such a problem.

  4. Samson says

    Jul 27, 2017 at 1:54 pm

    The disease grows…
    No surprise
    An will contiue until it meets with brute force

  5. Michael Copeland says

    Jul 27, 2017 at 2:13 pm

    A different Somali, with a “crazed smile,” fatally stabbed American tourist Darlene Horton in Russell Square, London, UK, last year. When arrested he was muttering “Allah, Allah, Allah”, and had a pamphlet “Fortress of the Muslim” in his pocket.

    The lawyers showed their ignorance (or protection) of Islam: the judge was told that these two details were “not considered relevant” to the attack.

    One psychiatrist diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia.

    And so it goes on.

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/06/teenager-zakaria-bulhan-admits-russell-square-killing-of-us-tourist-in-stabbing-spree

  6. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jul 27, 2017 at 2:25 pm

    Faribault used to be a nice little town south of the Twin Cities. Now it’s a no-so-nice mozzed up little town. Praise Allah. Owatonna, about 10 miles south, is smaller and was even nicer. About ten yrs ago I was in Owatonna to meet a dirt track race team owner. Being a bit early on a sunny summer day, I stopped in the village square and my jaw dropped. There were a few dozen people on park benches or walking by the stream that goes through town… and they were all Moslems. Women were in hijabs and some in burqas.

    Whoa, so much for a trip to the country.

    I went to the race owner’s house, a beautiful spread on the edge of town. It also had a 10 ft wall around three sides. After he showed me his gun collection, which was impressive, I asked him about all the Moslems in town. He smirked and said, “That’s how I got wealthy.” He went on to explain that when the Lutheran Brotherhood dropped hundreds of Moslems in about 20 yrs ago, everybody was quite upset. So he went into the home and commercial security business. It boomed immediately. Btw, and this is true, most of his business comes from Faribault.

    There is fun in Islam.

    • somehistory says

      Jul 27, 2017 at 3:19 pm

      Thanks for the depressing report.

  7. Papa Whiskey says

    Jul 27, 2017 at 2:35 pm

    Meanwhile, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune ran this bit of special pleading on their op-ed page this morning, which bewails the treatment of Muslims in the media and concludes with the phrase, “Muslims are the new blacks.” No mention of the Faribault incident in the paper, naturally.

    http://www.startribune.com/somali-american-officer-caught-in-the-crosshairs/436834673/

    • somehistory says

      Jul 27, 2017 at 3:21 pm

      If I was Black, I would be insulted by such a statement. I have family members who are part Black and I’m insulted on their behalf.

    • WPM says

      Jul 27, 2017 at 5:17 pm

      True Islamic followers are not the new blacks they are the original Nazis ,true bigoted supremacist ideologist to the core.

  8. Mackie says

    Jul 27, 2017 at 2:47 pm

    Statistical odds of jihad grow with the increases of Muslim refugees into our American Cities. Clearly it is a difficult task to determine what Muslims will follow the trappings of fundamental Islam that teaches jihad in over 150 places in the Quran. Yes there is nothing radical because jihad is promoted in the Quran as it has for 1,400 years.

    The words of the prophet are considered pure for all time,thus its teachings cannot be abrogated. We cannot always discover who is going to act on the jihad teachings.

  9. marina says

    Jul 27, 2017 at 3:01 pm

    Somalis are the worst of the worst.

    • Bob says

      Jul 28, 2017 at 9:51 am

      AMEN – they’ve fouled up their own country, and now they’re bent on fouling up their ‘host’ countries. They should all be sent back to Somalia!!

  10. JeffS says

    Jul 27, 2017 at 3:51 pm

    “Some of the verses within the Quran that seem to advocate violence”… SEEM to advocate violence? You mean “kill them wherever you find them” actually means “love your neighbor?” Unbe-f-ing-lievable!

  11. Bill McKenzie says

    Jul 28, 2017 at 3:56 am

    It is no wonder there are so many mentally ill Muslims in the world. Over 50% of the Muslim community world wide are inbred which often leads to lower IQ’s. mental retardation as well as many other congenital defects and including mental illnesses.

    Under the law of Moses, marriage to blood relatives was strictly forbidden, the command is repeated over and over. Under Sharia / Islamic law marriages to 1st cousins and neices are allowed, according to Sunnah, (as Mohammad married one of his cousins), and according to the Quran.

    Studies on cousin marriage in predominantly Muslim countries show that world wide about half of marriages are to first cousins. The rates per country vary from highs of 65-80% in countries like Saudi Arabia and Paksitan to lows of about 20% in Turkey.

    http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.reproductive-health-journal.com/content/6/1/17/table/T1&date=2012-03-15

    Many studies show that cousin marriages results numerous birth defects including an average of 10-16 points lower IQ, higher rates of mental illness and mental retardation rates of 5 to 6 times the normal average. Furthermore, after generations of inbreeding the instances of birth defects, lower intelligence and incidence of mental retardation are compounded.

    Effect of inbreeding on IQ and mental retardation:
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC392897/?page=1

    Saudi Arabia Awakes to the Perils of Inbreeding – New York Times
    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/01/world/saudi-arabia-awakes-to-the-perils-of-inbreeding.html

    Prof Steve Jones, one of Britain’s most eminent scientists, has warned that the level of inbreeding among the nation’s Muslims is endangering the health of future generations.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/8544359/Hay-Festival-2011-Professor-risks-political-storm-over-Muslim-inbreeding.html

    Dr Peter Corry, a consultant paediatrician at St Luke’s Hospital, Bradford – where nearly one in five of the population is of Pakistani heritage – has revealed that 140 genetic disorders have been diagnosed in the city during the past few years.

    Medical research has shown that many of these genetic disorders include neuro-degenerative conditions, where the proper functioning of the brain and spinal cord gradually decline after a child is born.
    https://www.sott.net/article/149077-Tragedy-of-the-children-born-with-genetic-defects-because-their-parents-are-cousins

  12. James Stamulis says

    Jul 28, 2017 at 7:23 am

    If my wife and I could go on a vacation to another country the first one that is on our list is SOMALIA where the favorite pastimes are rape, drug smuggling and Jihad so why in the hell would any politician want to bring in so called refugees from that Godforsaken pit from hell! The only answer is to destroy your own country.

  13. Cantor says

    Jul 28, 2017 at 9:53 pm

    Radical i-slam IS a severe mental health issue!

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