Almestadi “left Mary Hare with serious injuries, including a five-inch-long cut to her throat.”
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4)
“‘I was not aware of what I was doing at the time,’ says UBC attempted murder suspect,” by Bal Brach, CBC News, October 11, 2017:
The man charged with attempted murder in an attack at UBC last year admitted that he tried to kill the victim, but added that he didn’t know what he was doing during the incident.
“I tried to kill her,” Thamer Hameed Almestadi admitted in a videotaped interview with RCMP Sgt. Kevin Jeffrey.
“I was not aware of what I was doing at the time,” he added.
Almestadi has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, aggravated assault and assault with a weapon in the 2016 attack that left Mary Hare with serious injuries, including a five-inch-long cut to her throat.
In the hours-long interview that was played in court during day two of Almestadi’s trial, the UBC student was at times crying and remorseful, asking the officer if the victim was going to survive.
“Tell her I’m sorry …Tell her I made a mistake … I didn’t even know why her,” he said.
The international student from Saudi Arabia said that he hadn’t slept the night before the attack at UBC’s Salish House and was feeling overwhelmed by school work in the weeks leading up to the incident.
“I am so behind in school … I can’t get focused in school.”
When asked by Sgt. Jeffrey why he might have attacked Mary Hare with a knife Almestadi said, “I started listening to the Koran and understanding the meanings differently.”
“If you read something and your mind is thinking something else, you understand differently.”
Almestadi — who was 18 at the time of the incident — said he even began seeing things that weren’t real.
“At that point I thought Mary was the devil,” he said….
gary says
Oh the importance of abiding/walking/listening/following the right person…… Jesus.
“I am the vine, you are the branches: He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing” (John 15:5)
gravenimage says
Not all non-Christians are trying to murder people who don’t adhere to their faith–that would be Muslims.
Ex Muslim says
Many people are converting to Islam to achieve specific goal, revenge etc. Recently China banned Koran. Chinese expert studied Koran then discovered that Koran is just a fertile book to help promoting violence and hate. And many German Muslim migrants are claiming they are linked to Isis for prison. They can get food and shelter. They can spread Muslim population inside prison. They can convert Police to Islam. Finally prison becomes a mosque/caliphate.
carol says
Here’s an article re the China ban. Sounds like a great precedent for societies that have managed to keep their hold on sanity:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/china/article-4929064/Chinese-police-ask-Muslims-hand-copies-Koran.html
gravenimage says
I’m afraid the idea that China has banned the Qur’an is an overstatement:
“Chinese police order Xinjiang’s Muslims to hand in all copies of the Qur’an”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/09/chinese-police-order-xinjiangs-muslims-to-hand-in-all-copies-of-the-quran
mortimer says
The fruit of Islam is death. “WE LOVE DEATH!”
-K.62.6. “O ye who are Jews! If ye claim that ye are favoured of Allah apart from (all) mankind, then long for death if ye are truthful.”
-“Convert to Islam, and then you will be safe, for if you don’t, you should know that I have come to you with an army of men that love death, as you love life.” —Caliph Abu Bakr, Mohammed’s Successor
-“According to Hassan al-Banna (founder of Muslim Brotherhood), the Koran enjoins believers to love death more than life. Unfortunately, he argues, Muslims are in thrall to a “love of life.”
-“The illusion which had humiliated us is no more than the love of worldly life and the hatred of death.” –Hassan al-Banna
“As long as the Muslims do not replace their love of life with the love of death as required by the Koran, their future is hopeless. Only those who become proficient in the ‘art of death’ can prevail. “So prepare yourself to do a great deed. Be keen on dying and life will be granted to you, so work towards a noble death and you will complete happiness.” (from ‘The Art of Death’, 1946)
-“Whenever (the Muslim Brothers) marched in close formation through the streets of Cairo, their voices rang out with this song: “We are afraid not of death, but we desire it … How wonderful death is … Let us die in redemption for Muslims”, followed by the chorus, “Jihad is our course of action… and death in the cause of God our most precious wish.” – (quoted in Matthias Küntzel, Jihad and Jew-hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11)
-Mohamed Merah (French citizen, jihadist mass murderer) said he “LOVED DEATH more than they (the French) loved life.”
-Abubakar Shekau (Nigerian leader of Boko Haram) said, “I’m even LONGING FOR DEATH, you vagabond.”
-Ayman al-Zawahiri’s wife advised Muslim women: “I advise you to raise your children in the cult of jihad and martyrdom and to instil in them a LOVE FOR religion and DEATH.”
-“Let America know that we have prepared lions who would LOVE TO DIE and we swear that you haven’t seen the worst from us.” – letter to Lars Vilks
– “We tell them, in as much as you love life, the MUSLIM LOVES DEATH and MARTYRDOM. There is a great difference between he who loves the hereafter and he who loves this world. The Muslim loves death and [strives for] martyrdom.” – Chief Palestinian Authority cleric Mufti Sheikh Ikrimeh Sabri
MARCO D says
ANOTHER LIVE EXAMPLE OF THE GREAT TEACHINGS OF MOHAMMED IBN ABDULLA – AND HIS LOVING BOOK THE QU’RAN(KORAN) HOW BLIND AND STUPID DOES THIS ASSHOLE THINK MOST PEOPLE ARE TO BELIEVE” I DID NOT KNOW WHAT I WAS DOING” YOU ARE STILL RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR EVIL ACTIONS AND THEREFORE ASSHOLE WILL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO PRACTISE YOUR FOLLOWER- MOHAMMED- I HOPE YOUR JAIL BIRDS WILL FIND YOU HAVE A SWEET ASSHOLE. REFLECTJERK!!!!!!!!!
Paul N Silas says
Nut job, but aren’t they all?
mortimer says
Paul wrote: ‘Nut job’.
Some psychologists suspect that inbreeding is implicated in ‘INTERMITTENT EXPLOSIVE DISORDER’, but research must be done to verify this.
I personally suspect that Islamic terrorists experience something similar to Stockholm syndrome.
I suspect it will be determined by brave psychologists (perhaps prison psychologists working with jihadists) that there is an identifiable personality disorder in Muslim terrorists.
gravenimage says
Given that Muslim apostates from places with severe inbreeding–like Somalian Ayaan Hirsi Ali–are *not* murderous thugs; and given that converts to Islam from places like Europe and North America that have healthy gene pools are just as barbaric as those who come from generations of Muslims, I don’t think inbreeding can explain this savagery.
Inbreeding does lead to health issues–including low IQ–and that sure as hell does not help.
But the main problem with Islam is its barbaric ideology.
Wellington says
So true, gravenimage. Ideology, and not genes, is the ultimate culprit where Islam is concerned. Always has been this way. Always will be. After all, there is inbreeding elsewhere, for instance among the Amish, but, let’s face it, Amish suicide bombers are kinda’ scarce.
Westman says
I’ll go halfway with Mortimer. I suspect that indoctrinated Muslim men,
who were already aggressive(genetic predisposition) in nature, are more invested in violence than other indoctrinated Muslim men. That is, Islamic doctrines separate the naturally aggressive and the passive into the doers and the supportive watchers.
Greyhound Fancier says
A Christian interpretation of mohammedan teaching is that it appeals to the lowest instincts of man, to make it a religious duty to enslave, rape, oppress women (even their own), blame women for all of a man’s misbehavior, force the host country to behave in accordance with the ungrateful mohammedans’ standards…
In other words, mohammedanism caters to sin, encourages it, and therefore makes the world a worse place.
Karen says
The Danish psychologust Nicolai Sennels did a great interview with Robert Spencer. His basic premise as I recall is a kind of emotional immaturity that leads to a lack of accountability, feelings of victimhood, etc.
https://youtu.be/XasKz9axKrc
gravenimage says
Yes, Karen–and particularly ugly forms of emotional immaturity, as well.
There are others who are quite emotionally immature–such as willfully naive “kumbaya” hippies, for instance–who are do not present any danger of violence themselves.
Muslims are like the most vicious bullies on the playground in terms of their over all emotional development.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Wellington.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Nut job? Wait till you read about this character: Joshua Boyle.
He and his family were just rescued from Afghanistan/Pakistan. This piece of work (who is an early defender and brother-in-law to Omar Khadr) went on a hiking holiday in Afghanistan with his later-term pregnant wife. A branch of the Taliban took them hostage. In the five or so years in captivity they had several children?!?! Upon being returned to Canada, he refused to ‘interact’ with American troops. It was speculated that he feared interrogation (what the hell are you doing in a region of Afghanistan that seasoned troops won’t go to unless they have to?) or being shipped off to Guantanamo. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Joshua_Boyle_and_Caitlan_Coleman)
Upon arriving in Canada this nut job made a public statement. He called his captors “stupid” about a half-a-dozen times. I have to say out loud: Wow … this is a perfect example of ‘the pot calling the kettle black.’ (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/14/canadian-held-in-afghanistan-says-child-was-killed-and-wife-raped-in-captivity)
But apparently, he not so dim as he seems. In this background story, his friends characterize him as a, “exceptionally cunning and savvy man.” (http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/joshua-boyle-hes-perhaps-best-known-for-his-link-to-khadr-family)
I don’t think Canadians have heard the last of this piece of work.’
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Go to 1:47 and watch Boyle imitate a foreign accent as he speaks to Pakistani tv. Wow, he’s lost his grip on reality; he thinks he’s playing a role-playing game!!
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/home-at-last-freed-hostage-joshua-boyle-recalls-remarkably-barbaric-conditions-1.3632358
I wish he didn’t hold a Canadian passport.
Tom says
An extension to the “I am Muslim therefore I am victim” narrative that the court, hopefully, will see through and deal with this guy appropriately.
Insanity seems to be the norm for those who read the Koran and are relatively young or easily influenced.
eduardo odraude says
The defense is taking advantage of the PC climate: go easy on the Muslims if they show contrition (however phony it might be), because Muslims have it tough with all the (so-called) Islamophobia, and besides, if we go hard on them, some jihadist might put a target on our necks….
Muhammad affirms that those who do not follow him will be slaughtered
On page 222 (326 in the Arabic) of the earliest Muslim biography of Muhammad:
mortimer says
The emotional subtext of Islam is sadomasochism. Leftists have the same emotional subtext and thus feel an unconscious affinity with Muslims… justifying and seeking excuses for Islamic terrorism.
eduardo odraude says
And sadomasochism is based on the master-slave relation. Islam, when the example of Muhammad is actually followed, is a master-slave culture. The master is “Allah”, Allah’s authorities on earth are his slaves and are the masters of everyone else. The Qur’an explicitly denies that human beings are Allah’s children and emphasizes that we are only his servants or slaves. The extent to which this view is promoted by the core Islamic texts makes Islam radically different from Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, or Judaism. Hinduism has thousands of gods and human beings can become gods. It is not primarily about “submission” to anything. Buddhism is quasi-atheistic and is fundamentally directed toward compassion and a kind of liberation. Christianity and Judaism are “covenantal” religions — contractual between God and humanity. In the Judeo-Christian paradigm we are God’s children, are made in God’s image, and are to imitate his creativity at the beginning: “be fruitful and multiply.” All of this could be and has been elaborated into detail. Islam is by far the most authoritarian of major religious paradigms.
Michael Copeland says
The muslim community “possesses no power except to acknowledge and obey”,
AMJA
Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America
Krazy Kafir says
He botched up the job, and that is what he is sorry for. No cigar from allah for this one.
Lynn says
She probably resisted his sexual assault and he felt entitled to sex with her because she was a non-Muslim and a “captive of his right hand.”
eduardo odraude says
Even if he did not have that rationale explicitly in mind like an imam, such a rationale can be present as an inarticulate attitude inculcated into large numbers of Muslims. Call it the sharia ethos. Even if Islamic law is not formally in force, yet among many Muslims (different proportions of them in different nations) the sharia ethos is present as an attitude about how things are just supposed to be, an attitude often taken in from babyhood, when many babies hear the shahada whispered into their ears. And often inculcation into an authoritarian society goes on from there. So this kind of authoritarianism is in some ways more deeply rooted in its victims than was the case with communism or Nazism.
Bathysphere says
I knew a muslim who went insane like this after he read the koran extensively. He didn’t go on a killing spree though (thankfully).
gravenimage says
I wonder what he is up to now…
Stan Lee says
None of them “are aware at the time” if that is to be believed. They are insulated by Koran directives that lying is to be used to advance any cause of Islam. Slicing a throat of a non-Muslim or any Muslim who can be described as an “apostate” IS advancing the cause of Islam.
Review the admissions of the jihadis and they’re “I didn’t know what I was doing,” “A voice I heard commanded me to do it,” literally any alibi in the attempt to dispel guilt for murder. Ergo, those caught by authorities in Britain are practically furnished with the alibi “I didn’t know what I was doing”, or something as bizarre as “I don’t remember, all I recall was I felt possessed before it (the killing) happened.” It’s just out of their control, you see. A mystic force places a knife or machete in the “perp.’s hands” and guides the hands to a lethal attack. And, they awaken to the deed not remembered who did what.
They are conditioned some time in their lives, either personally exposed, or encouraged by Koran, mosque, or both. These are pure terrorists, no different than what was described in the best-selling book, “Manchurian Candidate.” Psychiatric treatment is a farce in this case, “the die has been cast” and some stupid western nation believes its being caring for another human being who would react to kindness, when all that scenario accomplishes is to allow “the poor soul” to live in a democratic country where government support is available until the blood lust alerts the jihadi not to forget his/her mission for their prophet. This has been going on for more than 1400 years.
Michael Copeland says
“And you did not kill them, but it was Allah who killed them”,
Koran 8:17
gravenimage says
Canada: Muslim explains that he tried to murder woman because “I started listening to the Koran”
“I was not aware of what I was doing at the time,” he added.
…………………..
*Of course* he knew what he was doing–he was following the diktats of the Qur’an to murder unbelievers.
Jack Kearns says
UBC looks to be close to the water. Rather than waste a LOT of money on legal niceties and then have this puke sidestep justice because of “mental illness” [ said illness allegedly brought on by his school studies and workload ] I suggest that 1) a cement block be firmly attached to each of this sicko’s legs 2) he be taken down to the harbour 3) he be placed in the water to begin his swim lessons.
Hic finitur epistula.
I wonder about leftists says
Isn’t it getting old? Of course “he didn’t know what he was doing” He went mentally ill for the time it was best for them, but what Bathysphere wrote, I can imagine that somebody went insane after reading the KORAN. It must do something to your brainYou almost get all the insanities that are known in the Psychiatry, after you read all those sickening stuff, it is so violent.
But that is not our fault and I think Stan Lee is right, it will always be ‘THEIR MISSION” it is almost burned into them.
And it is the same as that story that Walter S. told here about the scorpion and the frog. It’s the same with the muslims, IT IS THEIR NATURE, the same as the nature of the scorpion was. The frog should have been more careful with the scorpion, but the frog did not understand that he could never make a deal with the Scorpion, never ever. And we can’t deal with the scorpion either. It would turn out to be our death.
tgusa says
It is that same old story we hear about all the time. He was so overwhelmed with school work he just had to go out and try to kill a random woman, any random woman.
Wait, it isn’t that same old story but something that is somewhat new? What ever happened to the dog ate my home work, I miss that.
Explain to me again just who is responsible for bringing this sort of thing to the west?
Dov Berrol says
Oh great. Another demented neck-slasher from Arabia. Don’t we see a pattern here? Quran = Manual for creating Muslim Personality Disorder.
Politicianphobia says
It is all part of the take over from within and it is working, growing in leaps and bounds. Islamic mayors, judges, politicians, AGs, profs–there goes the country. Oh well, we did not know.
Politicianphobia says
Many years ago, I read the Qur’an frontwards, backwards, frontwards again and took notes. If I had to write a book report: There is something terribly wrong with the book the religion of pease calls their “Holy Qur’an”. This book is all about kill anyone who is not Muslim, kill the Jews, lie, and conquer the world in the name of the Allah. I do wish sane people would quit making excuses for all the Muslim/Islam hate spreading worldwide. Throw the Muslim Brotherhood out of the West, the barbarians need to go back to the Middle East and keep killing one another. NOT IN OUR BACKYARD. Am I an Islamophobe, you bet your sweet ass I am. It will never stop unles WE stop it.
Michael Copeland says
“When I have time, I must put it into German so that every man may see what a foul and shameful book it is.”
Martin Luther
https://libertygb.org.uk/news/book-reviews-koran
Politicianphobia says
Look at all the places in the world the Muslims are cutting their children in one of their barbarian celebrations. In the real world they would be charged with child abuse. Deport them now or surrender. I am an Islamophobe.
Politicianphobia says
Trudeau is telling foreigners to break Canadian law and come into Canada. I would like to see him arrested for treason. Civil disobedience breaks out when THE PEOPLE, the true patriots of a country have had enough. I am an Islamophobe.
DRHazard says
Islamism in a nutshell:
The words of a psychopathic “prophet”, which the psychopath (Muhammad) claims are from God, are then believed by ignorant, angry, sexually repressed people who then act on those writings.
Anyone who believes and follows the Quran and Hadith is mentally unbalanced and/or mentally deficient and is a danger to all innocent people everywhere. Islam is the answer if the question is; how do you get normal people to eagerly become smug, hateful, cold blooded murderers?
R Cole says
Apparently, he was a Saudi student. And she was an American student. They met briefly at the university’s foreign student induction meeting. One day she came out of her dorm room door and he tried to behead her. Crazy, right!
Veka Fitzfrancis says
Sounds like a classic case of ‘running amok’ – a culturally appropriate means of blowing off steam in Islamic Indonesia.
UNCLE VLADDI says
I admit I suffer from “PISD” – Post Islamic Stress Disorder (or Sanity Discovery).
Marie Zacharias says
Proof again, allah is satan! This man was possessed by satan, just as all islamists are. Who else would direct people to kill anyone who does not follow or obey his direction? Certainly not our Lord Jesus.