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Oklahoma: Muslim guilty of beheading coworker, attorneys say he “created his own religion”

Sep 30, 2017 2:39 pm By Robert Spencer

There is a religion that says, “When you meet the unbelievers, strike necks” (Qur’an 47:4) and it might, just might, have something to do with Alton Nolen, but neither Oklahoma attorneys nor the entire political and media establishment want you to realize that.

See more about this case, and the attendant denial, in my article “Oklahoma Beheading Trial: Is Obeying the Qur’an a Form of Mental Illness?”

“Oklahoma man guilty in 2014 beheading of co-worker,” Fox News, September 29, 2017:

An Oklahoma man was convicted Friday of first-degree murder in the 2014 beheading of his co-worker at a food processing plant.

Jurors deliberated for about two hours before finding 33-year-old Alton Nolen guilty in the death of 54-year-old Coleen Hufford.

The jury also convicted Nolen of assault and battery with a deadly weapon for attempting to behead a second co-worker at the Vaughan Foods plant in Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City. Prosecutors have said they would seek the death penalty.

Investigators said Nolen had just been suspended from his job when he walked into the company’s administrative office and attacked Hufford. Authorities said Nolen stabbed another co-worker, who survived, before he was shot by a company executive.

Defense attorneys argued that Nolen is mentally ill and didn’t know his actions were wrong, with one attorney saying that their client had created his own religion in his mind that “doesn’t make sense to anyone else.” But prosecutors said Nolen knew right from wrong before he attacked Hufford.

Nolen had repeatedly tried to plead guilty and asked to be executed, but Cleveland County District Judge Lori Walkley declined to accept his plea. One of Nolen’s attorneys had questioned whether his client was mentally competent to enter a guilty plea.

At a 2016 hearing, Nolen told Walkley that he would only accept a death sentence, not life in prison with or without the possibility of parole….

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  1. tgusa says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 2:55 pm

    Take note muslims. The defense is stating that the koran is nothing more than bs and that you are all mentally ill.

    • mortimer says

      Sep 30, 2017 at 5:49 pm

      JURY REJECTED INSANITY PLEA.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 1, 2017 at 10:23 pm

        Thank you, Mortimer.

    • Jacqueleen says

      Oct 3, 2017 at 10:20 am

      The powers that be know that the Muslims are mentally ill and barbaric. That is why they are here.
      There is no such thing as a peaceful Muslim…period! Every Muslim fulfills the commands of the Koran. The radicals are openly violent and the dangerous moderates practice DAWA, silently multiplying and infiltrating all facets of society to be ready to take over the country when in the majority…Muslims are taught to lie, cheat, rob, rape, steal, deceive, manipulate, and more lies to achieve their goals…..Never trust a Muslim. That is the reason why Obama lied and hid his Muslim faith and pretended to be a Christian. Obama fooled the American People to enable hundreds of thousands of Muslims to invade this country on false pretenses……They were not in danger as were the Christians in the Middle East, but they were favored to come here before the Christians.

      ISOLATION IS KEY. EVICT THE MUSLIMS AND BAN THEM FROM ENTRY INTO A CIVILIZED NATION. That is the only way to deal with their insanity….LIVING IN FEAR IS NOT THE AMERICAN WAY…SO, GET RID OF THE VERMIN once and for all…..

  2. Oliver says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 3:08 pm

    Cannot Oklahoma find someone in a prison who would give this pos what he eantx? Death!!!!°°°

    • Oliver says

      Sep 30, 2017 at 3:10 pm

      Next to last word is wants

  3. IQ al Rassooli says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 3:50 pm

    His attorney should be investigated for sanity by the justice system and should be made to PROVE his defense

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

    • Frank Anderson says

      Sep 30, 2017 at 9:57 pm

      IQ, an interesting situation to think about: How would you defend this man. He cannot be convicted of anything unless he is given a competent defense. His attorney is obligated to make arguments as directed by the client so long as those arguments are not illegal or unethical. (Nix v. Whiteside, 475 U.S. 157 (1986)). The facts supported by evidence and witnesses appear to be overwhelming as indicated by a jury verdict in 2 hours. The only person in the history of modern Israel to be executed for crime, Adolph Eichmann, was afforded a fair trial by any modern standards, including a competent defense. You are certainly raising a fair question. But, what is really the fair instead of the emotional answer please?

      It is entirely possible that if this case is appealed, the argument made that he invented his own religion will be rejected not only for this case, but any future case once and for all, establishing that the proposition “Islam is a religion of peace” is pure lie and nonsense. This attorney gives us a chance to take a real step forward in unmasking islam for the murderous cult it is. What do you think?

  4. marina says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 3:53 pm

    “their client had created his own religion in his mind that “doesn’t make sense to anyone else.”

    It makes sense to us and to all of those who have brain cells. These attorneys are fools and think they are expert on islam.

    • Santa Voorhees says

      Sep 30, 2017 at 5:20 pm

      That is just a staggering example of willful ignorance.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Oct 1, 2017 at 8:48 am

      He allegedly “created his own religion”. It is identical to Mohammed’s.

    • Oliver says

      Oct 1, 2017 at 10:16 am

      As Frank Anderson said.
      The man is entitled to competent representation.

      The attorney had little to deal with. He did the best wjth limited resources.

      I think he should be commended for doing his job, under the circumstances.

      Does the lawyer believe what he said? Probably not.

  5. David Grisez says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 3:53 pm

    The reality is that he learned Islam from the Koran, just like the Koran teaches to behead the infidels. He also has the mark on his forehead that some faithful followers of Islam develop from bowing down 5 times a day to Allah. So he is really a Muslim following the teachings of Islam.

    • Vic says

      Sep 30, 2017 at 4:46 pm

      A great observation! The zebibah is very apparent…how come his attorneys or the prosecution did not notice this? Blame it on mental instability… Our judicial system is not capable of doing any in depth research. Either corruption due political interest or monetary payoffs of one kind or another. Sad!

  6. Halal Bacon says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 3:59 pm

    the old thousands monkeys and their typewriters couldn’t write Shakespeare defense?

  7. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 4:11 pm

    See the photo above and get a look at this man’s magnificent zebibah. With proof like this, his defense lawyer would be guilty of malpractice for not arguing that the defendant is insane from brain trauma caused by repeated daily self-inflicted blows to the head. NFL brain-trauma concussion specialists can be called in as expert witnesses.

    • Emilie Green says

      Sep 30, 2017 at 4:39 pm

      Very good points.

  8. Georg says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 4:52 pm

    Remember Obama defending BOTH the decapitator and Islam by claiming “workplace violence”.

    Would really, really like to see a cluster graph with severity of deeds on the x-axis, ranging from say verbal altercation all the way to beheading, with number of incidents on the y-axis and see how far beheading falls away from the cluster, do a cluster analysis showing its likelihood of the isolated beheading belonging to the cluster of “workplace violence” is statistically impossible and ask those characterizing it as such if they’d like to consider moving to al Dawla Islamiya (The Islamic State) to head their PR campaign rather than remain with us Islamophobes in the good ol’ U.S. of A.

  9. Voytek Gagalka says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 5:46 pm

    When their absolute dogma is that “Islam has nothing to do with terrorism,” no wonder they think that he “created” his own religion by upholding to violence. But he just FOLLOWS it, consequently, and DEVOTEDLY – nothing else!

  10. mortimer says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 5:49 pm

    Beheading of Kayla Mueller – NORMATIVE ISLAM, rather than an aberration

    • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

      Sep 30, 2017 at 7:09 pm

      Thank you, mortimer, for finding this video. A few comments…

      At 0:44 there is in the background a KIWANIS banner. Perhaps Kiwanis needs to be added to the organizations that are condemned in Article 22 of the Hamas Charter
      http://www.hamascharter.com/assets/hamas-covenant-1988-source.pdf
      “They [guess who] were behind the French Revolution, the Communist revolution and
      most of the revolutions we heard and hear about, here and there. With their money they formed
      secret societies, such as Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, the Lions and others in different parts of the
      world for the purpose of sabotaging societies and achieving Zionist interests.”

      At 1:46 and 2:25, the parents are shown making a plea for their daughter. What made them think that a female kafir wearing a hijab will have an ingratiating rather than an infuriating effect?

      At 1:54, the text of the daughter’s letter is shown in fake handwriting, in a “handwritten” font in which every letter of the same kind is identical.

    • Georg says

      Oct 1, 2017 at 12:14 am

      There are reports they ripped out Kayla’s fingernails (an aid worker). She will be avenged. And then some.

  11. Ren says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 5:51 pm

    Defense attorneys argued that Nolen is mentally ill and didn’t know his actions were wrong.

    Well muslims don’t know that islam is evil… do they?

  12. D Austin says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 6:51 pm

    Sleep well America! These Muslims are working in American food processing plants, handling your food…

    • underbed cat says

      Oct 1, 2017 at 8:24 am

      Many companies hire muslims due to mandatory diversity policy throughout the country. The idea of handling food products of the infidels does have its risks to the infidel if the diversity are devout as Nolen and don’t want to strike at the neck. So too a trip to a hospital has it’s risk of finding devout diversity…or just a good doctor with no bad intent. It is difficult to know what is in anothers heart unless you know what he reads and how often. So subduing the doctrine or changing the verses is difficult to accomplish since it is forbidden. Never understood why those who would read the Quran with violent commands would deny they are there and then claim to be peaceful.

      Well at least for his horrific adherence Nolen will be placed behind bars.

  13. tedh754@gmail.com says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 6:56 pm

    One day, and I hope that day never comes, when liberals are getting beheaded en masse, I can’t help but believe that the last thought they have will be what Woody Allen said in “Play it Again, Sam,”: “How did I misread those signs?”

  14. Wellington says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 7:01 pm

    Created his own religion?

    Uh, so did Mohammed. Case closed.

  15. abad says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 7:30 pm

    The Religion of Mental Illness(TM Pending) does not allow its members to cherry pick and “create their own (sub)religion.”

  16. Westman says

    Oct 1, 2017 at 2:15 am

    This is perfectly doctrinal, Islamic-based suicide. He gets depressed about lost job, romance, etc. Life is over in his mind. The Quran says a martyr who dies fighting unbelievers from a country at war with any part of Islam goes to Jannah(paradise).

    In his mind he gets revenge and Jannah in one killing. He didn’t create this dogma – it was created by a warlord named Muhammad to inspire men to die at his command.

  17. JawsV says

    Oct 1, 2017 at 10:00 am

    “Created his own religion?” Laughable on its face. The know-nothing attorneys should be wearing dunce caps. It’s called ISLAM you idiots.

    • D Austin says

      Oct 1, 2017 at 10:13 am

      Maybe he had a Public Pretended for a lawyer. They don’t win their cases, they’re job is to guide the accused through the judicial system.

      • JawsV says

        Oct 1, 2017 at 10:43 am

        They still don’t know anything about Islam.

        • Frank Anderson says

          Oct 1, 2017 at 11:24 am

          Jaws, I remember the days when my ignorance of islam became shocking and appalling to me as I learned how uninformed I had been. The more lawyers who make this pitch, and that is all it is, the best argument they can make to perform their duty of zealous and competent advocacy for their clients, the more chances the argument will be raised on appeal to make possible a final death to the argument. Not only did this lawyer do us a favor by providing a vital competent and zealous defense for his client, he made possible a change for clarity in the law, which will not happen until a final appeal rules to the contrary of his argument. No conviction will stand appeal unless a zealous and competent defense is provided. The killer would walk free to kill again.

        • JawsV says

          Oct 1, 2017 at 2:37 pm

          Frank, we really didn’t have to know about Islam until 9/11. That’s when I started to learn about Islam.

        • Frank Anderson says

          Oct 1, 2017 at 2:41 pm

          I am disappointed and ashamed to admit is was much later, after 9/11 that I started learning the truth instead of the crap “religion of peace” that was being circulated. That is probably one of the reasons I am so ready to talk about “delusions” because I have been delusional and have learned better. Experience can be so helpful to understanding.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 1, 2017 at 10:36 pm

          Me too, Jaws and Frank. I had become increasingly uneasy about Islam in the years leading up to 9/11–I knew there was a lot of violence in its name, especially in Israel–but i did not really begin to educate myself about this ugly creed until after 9/11.

          It proved to be far, far worse than I had ever imagined.

  18. Rich says

    Oct 1, 2017 at 1:57 pm

    Islam Is Not A Religion
    Let us be totally clear; Islam is not a religion qualifying for religious exemptions including Freedom of Religion. It is instead, a violent political ideology with the goal of taking over the world. Islam teaches its followers to murder any and all “infidels,” meaning those who do not accept their manifesto of hate.
    They are taught, not to become better people with integrity, but to lie in order to further their ideology. They are taught in their “holy book” The Koran, to kill innocent people in cold blood..
    Islam does NOT qualify for protections under the “Freedom of Religion” laws which they have exploited in order to intrude into countries and to set up their mosques which is not to become better people, but to stir those who gather there to hate and slay all Jews and Christians, even though hospitality was extended to them by the very country they invaded.
    But what about moderate or ‘good’ Muslims? There may be. But as long as they read the Koran and go to the mosque, they cannot be trusted. If they denounce and get rid of their Koran and disassociate themselves from the mosque, then they might be in a position of trust, but not before then. Meanwhile the open borders must stop for our own survival.
    http://www.newswithviews.com/Miles/austin106.htm

    • Mike Proulx says

      Oct 1, 2017 at 6:04 pm

      Agreed, just have to talk to a converted Muslim into Christianity to find out that what you are saying is the Truth. Only Jesus Christ of Nazareth can bring True peace, all other’s are man made religions and ideologies, which have no foundation. Judgement day is at hand for this world of Liars.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 1, 2017 at 10:37 pm

        There are plenty of non-Christians who are peaceful people. Islam is different, though.

  19. John Flaherty says

    Oct 1, 2017 at 5:39 pm

    How does one go about beheading a coworker at a food processing plant? I should think they would have safety equipment in use to prevent that sort of thing?

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 1, 2017 at 10:43 pm

      John, this was not an equipment malfunction. This Mohammedan *deliberately* beheaded his coworker.

    • Frank Anderson says

      Oct 2, 2017 at 1:43 am

      John, I understand the primary tool at a food processing plant is a hand-held knife. I am not sure what kind of safety equipment is available to prevent that knife from slicing, in accordance with Islamic instructions, a person’s head from the body. Do you have any ideas or suggestions?

  20. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Oct 1, 2017 at 7:54 pm

    Pretending that the global crime-gang called islam is a “race” of poor swarthy animal-people, oppressed by the mentally superior whites, in order to slander everyone who notices it’s a crime-gang as a hatefully bigoted “racist” – is to deliberately enable that crime-gang’s crimes by hiding and destroying the evidence of same, and thus to be a willing accessory to those crimes. Since islam is a murder-gang, and the penalty for committing and enabling the commission of murder is DEATH, anyone and everyone who calls an opponent of muslims, islam, and their global jihad, a “racist!” should be lawfully put to death.

    Everyone who defends islam and muslims endorses crime.
    Endorsing crime IS a crime, so those doing it are criminals.

    Right in the Qur’an is: the obligation to murder Jews and Christians (Surah 9:29), to terrorize all non-Muslims (8:12), to rape young girls (65:4), to enslave people for sex (4:3), to lie about one’s true goals (3:54), and the command to make war on all the infidels (9:123) and subjugate the entire world to Allah (9:33).

    Are death-threats legal? NO.
    Is extortion legal? NO.
    Is slavery legal? NO.
    Is murder legal? NO.
    Is rape legal? NO.

    THEN ISLAM IS ILLEGAL!

    Rape, slavery, robbery, extortion and murder are never OK!

    Everything muslims pretend to see as “holy” is already a crime!

    So nobody has a legal right to practice islam anywhere on earth!

    IN TRYING TO MAKE CRITICISM OF THE GLOBAL CRIME GANG CALLED “ISLAM” INTO A CRIME, TO PROTECT THAT CRIME GANG BY HIDING THE EVIDENCE OF ITS CRIMES, THESE DEFENSE ATTORNEYS ARE CRIMINALS AND TRAITORS TO RATIONALITY, CIVILIZATION, AND HUMANITY ITSELF.

    But hadn’t you heard?! Being angry at (“hateful” towards) criminals is the most vile sin, while pitying (“tolerating”) them is the highest moral virtue, these days!

    • Frank Anderson says

      Oct 2, 2017 at 1:31 am

      Uncle Vladdi, I suggest that arguing for islam as moral is suicidal, which is in itself is immoral. As has been spoken in various terms: “I’m not much good as I am; but I am no use whatever to the living if I am dead.” But, OUR God wants us to live, smile and prosper while theirs want them to die in the process of killing us. How will that work out?

  21. gravenimage says

    Oct 1, 2017 at 10:13 pm

    Oklahoma: Muslim guilty of beheading coworker, attorneys say he “created his own religion”
    ………………..

    Gee–and here, I thought someone already invented Islam–about 1400 years ago, in fact…

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