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Oklahoma Muslim who beheaded coworker says he is a “slave to Allah”

Sep 22, 2017 11:03 am By Robert Spencer

“In those tapes Nolen answers questions in a very matter-of-fact way with seemingly little emotion. He told the investigators he beheaded Hufford because he felt oppressed as a Muslim. Nolen carefully explained his interpretation of the Quran and said no one guided him in the religion and that he came his beliefs on his own.”

It is unfortunate that KOKH doesn’t give us more information about Nolen’s interpretation of the Qur’an. Did he cite Qur’an 47:4, “when you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks”? KOKH is careful to include his statement that “no one guided him in the religion and that he came his beliefs on his own” — the implication being that his understanding of the Religion of Peace is eccentric and erroneous. But unfortunately, that has yet to be definitively established.

“Jurors hear interviews with Alton Nolen explaining why he beheaded co-worker,” by Caroline Vandergriff, Fox25 News, September 20, 2017 (thanks to the Geller Report):

NORMAN, Okla. (KOKH) — A jury heard audio recordings of a man on trial for first degree murder telling investigators why he beheaded his co-worker at a Moore food plant.

The trial of Alton Nolen continued Sept. 20 in Cleveland County Court. The prosecution played two different audio recordings of interviews recorded in the days following the September 2014 murder of Colleen Hufford.

In those tapes Nolen answers questions in a very matter-of-fact way with seemingly little emotion. He told the investigators he beheaded Hufford because he felt oppressed as a Muslim. Nolen carefully explained his interpretation of the Quran and said no one guided him in the religion and that he came his beliefs on his own.

He also told investigators he did not regret what he did at all and that he would have beheaded a second co-worker if he wasn’t shot by the former owner of the plant Mark Vaughan. He called Hufford a “slave to the devil” and described himself as a “slave to Allah” stating “You know the Muslim is somebody who submits their will to Allah…Whatever he wants done, that’s what we do…And you know he wants us to get the oppressors out of this place”.

Nolen’s lawyers say there is no doubt he committed these crimes but argue he’s not guilty by reason of insanity….

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Filed Under: American jihadis, converts to Islam, Featured, Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Alton Nolen


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  1. Emilie Green says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 11:37 am

    Does the prosecutor, not doubt steeped in the PC culture, really want a conviction?

    If so, he/she will bring in experts in Muslim exegesis. Though, in a sane world based on common sense, this is hardly necessary as the texts of the Quran are plain. It of course would be too much for the prosecutor to request Robert to be that expert.

  2. Robert says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 12:02 pm

    Abdullah = ‘Slave of Allah.’

    • PRCS says

      Sep 22, 2017 at 4:53 pm

      In a Youtube video (damned if I can find it now) Samil Basayev signs off “Basayev. Slave of Allah”.

      That widely cited “Soldier of Alllah” nterpretation of Fort Hood shooter Hasan’s SOA card came, IMO, from lazy, uniformed “journalists”.

      Moussaoui’s book is titled “Slave of Allah”.
      https://www.amazon.com/Slave-Allah-Zacarias-Moussaoui-Anthropology/dp/0745326196

      An internet search for Slave of Allah brings up many hits.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 23, 2017 at 11:17 pm

        Many Muslims use both “slave of Allah” and “soldier of Allah”.

  3. Westman says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 12:11 pm

    ‘There is none in the heavens and the earth but comes unto the Most Beneficent (Allah) as a slave.” – Quran(19:93)

    Well, Mr. Beheader is right about being a slave to allah. The various translations of the Quran use slave and servant interchangeably. The slave-master hierarchical order goes right on in the Jannah(paradise) gardens where the “righteous” have their own servants.

    (Remember) when your Lord inspired the angels, “Verily, I am with you, so keep firm those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved, so strike them over the necks, and smite over all their fingers and toes.” – Quran (8:12)

    This reprehensible man is not insane, he is indoctrinated and following his master. Islam contains evil in its written works, waiting like a virus, for a susceptible host to arrive.

    • Aussie Infidel says

      Sep 23, 2017 at 8:20 am

      Islam is like a virus of the mind, infecting everyone it indoctrinates. The psychopaths in the Muslim communities who fall victim to this malevolent virus, are the ones who become jihadis and murder non-Muslims. We will never be free from Islamic terrorism within our own countries, as long as Muslims are allowed to immigrate. To get rid of terrorism: Get rid of Muslims – every last one of them.

      • Michael Lefort says

        Sep 24, 2017 at 1:04 am

        Amen Brother

  4. Lucia Bartoli says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 12:32 pm

    This has to end. Either the defense is that this guy is insane or as he (and his kind) are carrying out their faith (cult). No remorse, planned, and now it’s time for this guy to receive OUR secular justice.

    • boakai ngombu says

      Sep 22, 2017 at 6:07 pm

      western legal codes have yet to determine that being “a slave to Allah” is wrong and deadly.

  5. Mo says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 1:07 pm

    Demonic. What better term is there for such an act and such an attitude?

    It’s incredible how this story got so little press. I bet the regular person on the street has not even heard about it! If it had been a non-Muslim hacking off the head of a Muslim, the entire country would know the story because it would have been repeated 24/7, until we were all sick of it.

    What kind of animal wakes up in the morning, goes to work, and does such a thing?! And while I’m sure the thought comes to our minds that on any given day it’s possible we might become the victim of a crime, what person wakes up in the morning and dreams the way they will die is having their head cut off at work by a coworker?!

    Can you imagine the horror of the rest of the workers who saw this? Why have there been zero interviews with them?

    • Shmooviyet says

      Sep 22, 2017 at 2:47 pm

      Could not agree more!
      This event enraged and haunted for months. That poor woman’s unimaginable horror, her husband waiting outside for his wife…
      And the reaction from BO & co. was almost as grotesque.
      That creature has been awaiting trial for THREE years?!

  6. Nexus1776 says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 1:25 pm

    At the end of the day..The POTUS needs to send All muslims,including all parents, children, cousins, all of them back to thier homeland.. Find Americans to replace their jobs.. Muslims makes it very clear what they want to do to the Infidel.. They (muslims) will Not hesitate to kill you for their belief. Islam is not even a Religion. Its an Ideology..that subject women to beatings, slavery cruelty. very few rights, beheading, stoned to death..etc etc. Islam needs to be eradicated from the face of the Earth. Plz ppl wake up.!!!! Don’t become complacent and think Islam won’t land on your Door-step and threaten you with the same choices.. Submit and Convert.. Or DIE. that is the choice you will have in the future when it comes to the (belief) of Islam.and its Ideology

  7. Sam says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 1:46 pm

    “Oklahoma Muslim who beheaded coworker says he is a “slave to Allah

    What is it with this people? They just can not figure out the “religion of peace” Islam means “submission” in a peaceful way to ALLAH.

  8. Stan Lee says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 2:11 pm

    What a lousy alibi to cover murder! It may have sufficed in Muslim-land, but in the U.S.A. it was premeditated murder of one woman who refused to be converted to Islam. After he killed one woman, he attempted to murder a second woman in that work facility, but he was shot in the attempt. .
    A slave of his prophet? Obviously, Nolen would die for his prophet and I hope he does. It would be poetic justice for him to be put to death via the same method he applied to his victims, but it’s doubtful that such a sentence would take place in our country. Well, there are cases where a murderer thinks his cause was justified, and obviously that alibi would be justified in Islam, but this is not Islam and while Nolen wouldn’t understand the fact that the lives of two women, one of which he murdered, the other which he was in the process of murdering, are precious to American law, and the killer must be dealt with by the law.

  9. Voytek Gagalka says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 2:16 pm

    Did he change his name to Abdullah (lit. “slave of Allah”)?

  10. gary says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 2:27 pm

    “He felt oppressed as a muslim.”

    Get use to that phrase America.

    Psssst…..

    It’s called Taqiyya.

  11. Michael Copeland says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 2:48 pm

    Nolen is not insane.
    He did “exactly what this book says” (as Lt-Col. Allen West put it).

  12. carl says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 3:37 pm

    He’s in for a big surprise when he dies and finds out who allah really is.

  13. Always On Watch says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 4:25 pm

    I’m willing to bet that the majority of Americans don’t even know that the beheading of Colleen Hufford happened here on U.S. soil!

    • PRCS says

      Sep 22, 2017 at 4:56 pm

      Likely right.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 23, 2017 at 11:28 pm

      Sadly true.

  14. Rob Crawford says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 6:20 pm

    He’s obviously insane — he’s QUOTING THE DOCTRINES OF ISLAM CORRECTLY!

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 23, 2017 at 11:30 pm

      +1

  15. Mike says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 6:23 pm

    I’m so over the top of reading about this behavior! When when when are we going to wake up and get these freaks out of our country? What it going to take? Look what’s happening to Europe! I spent the summer of 1976 traveling there. Beautiful, historic, fantastic different cultures that are being destroyed! And nobody talks about the political process that ushered this destruction in! You want that in America? Again I ask…whats it going to take? It’s coming here in a big way unless we start taking action. Wake the hell up people. Having an AR and thinking you’ll be OK is way too late.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 23, 2017 at 11:31 pm

      Mike, this *did* happen in America.

  16. PRCS says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 6:50 pm

    “When when when are we going to wake up and get these freaks out of our country?”

    You know that. I know that. They know that.

    And they have lawyers.

  17. Kasey says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 10:00 pm

    Islamic indoctrination can produce a form if Islamic insanity in anyone when it is intense enough, as it is in most cases, full of intolerance, hate, and victimization-status. The nonsensical belief of paradise then becomes the inducement to action for Allah, the non-existing imaginary moon god Islam has converted to be the same in identity as the others known as Yehweh or Jehovah.

    That still doesn’t make this type of insanity a legal excuse for lethal action.

  18. Carolyne says

    Sep 23, 2017 at 12:25 pm

    This atrocious act proves many things about Islam, but two stand out:

    1. Muslims must not be allowed to live in civilized countries.

    2. We should never allow our government to take away our defense against Muslims—our guns.

  19. Greg says

    Sep 24, 2017 at 6:04 pm

    He was just trying to get ahead. Like any good American

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