“Tawhid” is Islamic monotheism.
“ISIS Supporters Rejoice At Las Vegas Attack On Social Media: ‘What Now Trump? You Banned “Radicalized Muslims” From Traveling To America! Allah Sent His Soldier From Within Your People,'” MEMRI, October 2, 2017:
The following report is now a complimentary offering from MEMRI’s Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information, click here.
On October 2, 2017, the Islamic State (ISIS) news agency A’maq claimed responsibility for the previous evening’s deadly shooting attack at a country music festival in Las Vegas, in which over 50 people were killed and several hundred were wounded.[1] Police identified the attacker as 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock. Subsequent posts on numerous ISIS-affiliated Telegram channels noted the ISIS claim that Paddock was a recent convert to Islam. In the hours after the attack, and following the A’maq Agency claim, there have been many celebratory posts on pro-ISIS social media accounts on platforms such as Telegram, Facebook, and Instagram. The following report will include some of the reactions to the Las Vegas attack.
A pro-ISIS channel named Las Vegas USA is dedicated to celebrating yesterday’s attack, criticizing President Trump, and issuing further threats. One graphic shows an image of President Trump waving on one side, and the other side of the graphic shows the aftermath of an attack. The quote featured in the graphic reads: “The so called President Trump can’t help you survive, you should be scared, long night is coming Americans, either you submit willingly or be prepared for your men to be slaughtered and your women enslaved.”
In another post, the Telegram channel posted an image of Paddock with the caption: “O’ Lion of Tawhid [monotheism], May Allah Accept from you. You will be long remembered as the lion who avenged for his brothers.”
A series of posts from the channel reads: “Wishing now your Puppet Presidents stopped interfering in Muslim countries!!
“Take this what happened in #Orlando & #LasVegas was a taste of whats coming…
“America has sunk and there is no savior, and became a prey to the caliphate in every corner of the earth.
“Know that #IslamicState won’t stop fighting you in every Corner of the globe until you accept Islam or Pay Jizyah [poll-tax on Non-Muslims] with Submission.
“O’ American People: You chose your own president, your Taxes money supported your army that killed Muslims, because of that you are a legitimate target for us.”
Another graphic from the channel has a message in Arabic stating: “The Just terror… You claim [to uphold] justice, then we have to implement Allah’s justice on you. It is either death or paying jizyah [tax] with humiliation.”
A graphic reading: “Islamic State The Caliphate USA Licking Her Wounds In Las Vegas” has been circulated on numerous pro-ISIS Telegram channels.
In a conversation in the Telegram channel Muslim Tech Deen, Ya’qoob al-Kurdi stated: “Allahu Akbar I thought it was a silly white guy.” Azizz Hamdan replied: “It is a white guy, but not so silly after all.”
A message in al-Karrar stated: “So what are you waiting for brothers? You complain doors of hijrah are closed! What’s stopping you from opening doors of jihad in your cities? Can’t you kill a kafir [infidel] steal his car & run over the other kuffar? Can’t you stab a kafir with a knife? Can’t you crush his skull with stones?”
Al-Karaar circulated a graphic that reads: “Islamic State The Caliphate USA Where is your security? In Las Vegas A Single Mujahid Look At What He Has Done To You.” An additional caption reads: “What now Trump? You tweeted UK had attacker in sight, what about your agencies in your backyard?”…
Anti-jihad says
Could it be any more plain that this was an ISIS attack? Why go on searching for a motive when it’s right under their noses?
Keith says
Don’t know yet. As Robert said yesterday the Islamic State are not in the habit of claiming attacks by others that are nothing to do with them even though they may celebrate those attacks.
Having said that it is possible that he was a recent convert to Islam but we still haven’t seen anything of his social media postings which would usually prove it one way or another, that is if he had any social media accounts.
If he did why haven’t any of them been released yet? In the UK when a NAZI sympathiser murdered the Labour MP Jo Cox almost as soon as they named him his social media postings were being shared online to prove that he was a “right winger”.
Islamic terrorists their social media is often sanitized before any details are released.
Sons of Liberty says
It was reported that he took down his Facebook page before the attack. Wouldn’t Facebook be able to retrieve that information ? This will be covered up ,..guaranteed by the FBI . It is not an investigative organization any longer ,..it has been politicized and FULL OF OBAMA/ DEMOCRAT supporters.
Anti-jihad says
That’s the swamp that needs to be drained.
SK says
I don’t believe them because we have no record of Paddock communicating with ISIL.
Ashley says
There may very well be evidence that Stephen and/or Marilou communicated with ISIL. Just because such information hasn’t been disclosed by the MSM doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
I’ve been spoon-fed so much rubbish by the MSM over the years I could vomit.
yigal gurevitch says
from his Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010181534070
celia says
I think that’s where Isis got the photo, but I don’t think it’s of the Stephen Paddock who was the Las Vegas killer. The FB page seems to be of a different Stephen Paddock, from Nova Scotia. The killer was born in Iowa, lived in Mesquite, Nevada.
kessler says
Well, would be nice to see a video of him pledging allegiance or picture of him showing the finder of monotheism – anything other than just an empty claim from ISIS. I think they would have posted any evidence they might have by now.
Joe says
I think they have a video of him shooting from Mandalay Bay.
Sons of Liberty says
A memo has been found to Mandalay Bay employees that says the company will match all contributions to organizations …like CAIR ,….The Council of American Islamic Relations. If this is true , it needs to be investigated and the truth revealed . This OPERATION was WELL PLANNED and Paddock installed CAMERAS to watch the hallway and door. Why did the maids not say anything ? Why did a Hispanic woman force her way to the front of the concert and argue with a woman ,…and then say ” You are ALL GOING TO DIE ” . Security escorted her out but DID SHE KNOW SOMETHING ?
hurrdurr says
This picture is from this instagram account and predates ISIS claiming the attack: https://www.instagram.com/stephenpaddock5431/
Kiki says
We’re all in this together—things seem really bleak right now, but now more than ever we need to stay alert, stay calm, keep our eyes open for anything suspicious, and do what we can to save lives.
Sons of Liberty says
I agree 100% , We also need to put PRESSURE ON OUR CONGRESSMEN ,…to STOP PAYING FOR MUSLIM REFUGEES brought in by our ANTI-USA …STATE DEPARTMENT ! I have e-mailed my Congressman , and my US Senator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about this. THIS HAS TO STOP ,..NOW !
mummymovie says
GET INFORMED:
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/
AND GET INVOLVED:
https://www.numbersusa.com/
underbed cat says
Yes I feel bleak right now….especially since Paddocks’ companion is where…in a sanctuary city. Noting good about that in my mind. Hacks galore so no one realizes that the SS numbers are now used and in every medical office/ hospital (see a problem) every employment agency ( see a huge problem) add to that diversity hiring( see a massive problem) there is no security. Our private information is everywhere. Our accounts are every where….the tech industry has diversity hiring with great talent, but that also can have split loyalties….I don’t know the solution…it can monitor for the clues, reveal information to protect..so here hoping from a clueless non tech savvy underbed cat.
b.a. freeman says
it would help if the government didn’t take the money we pay to protect us and give it to the monsters who are murdering us (palestinian authority, et al.). worse yet, the government works hard to disarm us so that we have no protection at all. this is worse than useless; it is treason.
Chand says
Yes, Kiki. And push the legislators for tougher gun laws.
Sons of Liberty says
Gun laws would NOT HAVE STOPPED THIS . France has the strictest gun laws in Europe and the JIHADIS got their hands on AK-47s and went on to MURDER over 150 innocent people …uh INFIDELS.
Guy Forester says
This whole thing still smells like a dead fish. Where are the people that saw him at a mosque, or did he merely become an on-line muslim? His live-in girlfriend reportedly moved out lock, stock and barrel and took a trip to the PI. Why?
Then there is the follow the money thing. Supposedly, this guy was well to do and living comfortably and he helped his mother and one brother retire early as well. How many really rich guys do we hear about committing mass murders? They may let the pregnant girlfriend drown in the car, push them off a cliff, or play Russian roulette, but mass murder and suicide? Serial murder a la Gacey, but not mass murder. This guy sent $100K to the PI. Why and to whom?
Who owns the Mandalay Bay? Hotel security is usually on top of things, plus the casinos have special relationships with the local and state government. They are well protected. How did this guy pull this off without someone seeing something and reporting it. I can guarantee you, if you fart wrong, security is on top of you in those places.
ISIS has not backed down on the reports that he is one of them. No supporting evidence. Why to both?
By now, there is usually a good report of the weapon used. Remember Newtown and Lanza, Orlando, and San Bernardino? How come nothing yet? A .5.56/.223 at the far end of its effective range doing this much damage? Going through multiple people at times?
Someone seems to be keeping a lid on things.
StevenRSA says
I recall reading that Paddock checked in using a stolen identity, correct me if I am wrong. It is said he committed suicide. Why would a person on a one-way mission bother to steal an identity in order to check in?
Jack Diamond says
The Sheriff today indicated he had an escape plan. Then one thinks about the car ready to become a bomb.
mummymovie says
Back to the original subject of the post:
It is indeed pretty curious that IS has this photo of the guy that NO ONE ELSE HAS SEEN. And this looks like a laptop camera photo/still that one might acquire through online communication.
People have been scouring the internet since the earliest hours of Monday morning for a photo of this guy (I know I was– mugshots, everything), and bupkiss!
And IS is able to come up with image?!?!?
This alone would be pretty weird, assuming there is no connection whatsoever between them and Paddock… as the FBI/authorities so cocksurely informed us immediately after the attack.
To me, the connection is seeming more and more probable, the further this thing develops, as one can guarantee, much to the chagrin of the lefties, the Hollywood elites, mainstream media, and their beloved muslims and ‘refugees’, who are all just delightfully stoked with the current narrative that is was just some deranged cracker taking out a bunch of (likely Republican) country music fans; a narrative they can easily exploit in their endless gun control effort.
Sons of Liberty says
Exactly ! Plus it is now reported that he or someone else thought they could blow up Jet Fuel tanks at McCarran Airport with gunfire. This looks more and more like a terrorist attack because of the bombs and explosives he had in his car.
Yochanan says
Here is a useful link to ISIS expert Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi’s take on the Amaq News Agency reports:
http://www.rubincenter.org/2017/10/amaq-news-and-claims-of-responsibility/
He updates the report by citing the statement by which the Islamic State formally accepts responsibility.
RichardL says
Thanks for the link! IS has now formally claimed the attack.
WorkingClassPost says
This mystery is becoming more difficult to solve as each day passes, because the State has made such an issue of rubbishing the IS claims, that they will be left with little option but to double down on the cover-up, even if evidence becomes available that shooter was a convert, which is precisely why the FBI should not be so quick to go public on their theories.
There is also no reason to suppose that the lack of evidence at this stage means anything more than to confirm the fact that IS tell new operatives to stay undercover and not risk being exposed prior to making an attack.
Whatever the truth, if it is drip fed and contradictory, then by the time we know what happened, all this will be old news and the public at large will have moved on to whatever MSM decide is more important stuff.
9/11 was a big subject for more than a year, but now 58 killed and 500 injured will barely last the week.
anthony says
Whether steve converted recently or not, islamic leaders embracing him as a hero of their evil belief system, should UNITE US against this evil!
CogitoErgoSum says
A lot of interesting information and commentary in this video by Stefan Molyneux:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OzcNR-Ao00
What interests me is what he has to say about the way evil manifests itself in women and how it differs from the way evil manifests itself in men. I think more attention should be paid to the girlfriend’s (Marilou Danley’s) role in the story of this man’s life. Why did Paddock send $100,000 to her in the Philippines and what did she do with the money? How much more money did he give her over the course of their relationship ……. and why did he give it to her …. and why did she take it?
Jack Diamond says
I thought the comment from the Marine weapons expert, David Kendall, interesting as to the weapon he is sure Paddock used. A belt-fed M249 Squad Automatic Weapon.
“1 shooter? To me, I don’t hear anything that makes me feel there was more than 1 shooter. I hear bursts, reverberations and echos. My educated guess would be the one shooter from 2 locations, possibly 2 different weapons but 2 of the same weapons based upon rate of fire and pitch of rounds.
If he changed weapons, I haven’t heard it in any of the videos that I’ve seen. We’re speculating here, but given the time between bursts I would “think” he is changing belts and/or muzzles. To me, it sounds like a novice sitting on the SAW sending 100 rounds down range which would amount to roughly 6 second bursts (800 rounds per minute).”
CogitoErgoSum says
The scary part about this event is that I do believe it was carried out by one man acting alone. He was someone who could figure things out on his own. He knew how to use casinos and gambling to be able to travel and live in hotels. And he also knew how to buy the right kind of gun which would take a bump stock or a gat-trigger mechanism. He knew to have extra guns to use when one became overheated or jammed. He knew that he could get the attention of certain women if he gave them a lot of money and he may even have fallen in love with one of those conniving women.
It could even be that when this conniving woman whom he loved grew tired of him and left him something snapped inside of him. It could be that when he realized that even giving her $100,000 wouldn’t get her back …. and she kept the money anyway ……. he snapped and took his rage out upon the world. He gave up and surrendered to the deepest and darkest depths of suicidal/homicidal depression. That may be the whole story here ……. but I doubt if the girlfriend will admit to having played a part in any of it. Instead of saying she left him she will say he “sent her away.” No religion or politics need be involved but simply human emotion and greed for the “good” things in life.
Jack Diamond says
Anything is possible. But what I’ve heard of his public verbal abuse of her (the people at Starbucks who dreaded seeing them because of how he treated her), his remark that he “owned” her, doesn’t make me think of him as the spurned lover. She seems more like the battered wife than the femme fatale. But then I’m just speculating too. He seems to have been a very secretive, cold, calculating man. As meticulous about mass murder as he was his gambling. The interesting thing is how little we know about this man, even today.
It will be astounding if the ISIS claims turn out to be true and he was involved with them, but maybe not so out of keeping with his nature.
I agree he probably carried it out alone at the hotel.
CogitoErgoSum says
Jack, good points. He may have been abusive to her but he may also have loved her at the same time (in his own version of love). She may have been attracted to him initially because he gave her money and bought her things but after a while the abuse became not worth it. So she finally left him and not even a $100,000 could entice her back. But what did she do with the $100,000? That is the big question that seems very pertinent to me.
Sons of Liberty says
That’s a possible scenario ,…but he targeted a concert that was known to have Trump supporters/ voters. That just doesn’t fit with the spurned lover. The media is doing its best to try to make it look like he targeted other events but that I believe was a decoy. His main target was the County Music Festival ,…no doubt,….he had two different shooting points based on the knocked out windows.
Chand says
Lion of Tawhid, my #%@!!
Utter bull from the Caliphate. Their glorious ship of world domination is sinking fast and so they’re clutching onto any and everything to pretend to be relevant and in control. Now these desperate barbarians are reaching out for straws before descending into the abyss, including deranged psychopaths committing mass murder, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes………….whatever. They are still futilely trying to instill fear and terror ’cause that is all they know.
But their ‘Lion of Tawhid’ is more a paper pussy cat, illusory and empty and soon to be relegated to history.
But the real lions of the deserts, the Muslim armies of Iraq and Syria (and elsewhere)…………the Kurds, Shias, Turkmen, Arab Sunnis, with help from their Christian and Yazidi brethren, along with the rest of the civilized world at their side and in the skies, are rapidly smashing this Tawhid (monotheism) lie into a million pieces. Fellow Muslims are teaching these bunch of criminals, steeped in the vicious Sunni Salafi Takfiri Wahabbist ideology, a lesson or two about the consequences of twisting their religion into a death cult and preying on their helpless mothers, daughters and sisters.
But religion is a magical Disneyland where anything and everything is possible. What next? They’ll claim the Hand of Allah if Yellowstone’s underground magma chamber erupts (which can happen any day, according to scientists) or if a meteor hits!
How on earth can one prove that Mr. Stephen Paddock was NOT influenced by Islamic Jihad or that Allah DID NOT instruct him to take revenge for wrongs inflicted on Muslims? How can one prove that this massacre was NOT the work of God?
So tomorrow, if Donald Trump has a stroke, will it be Allah’s doing? Or if fat boy Kim Jong Un dies from overeating too many dumplings, could it be God punishing him for being an atheist?
Michael Copeland says
“twisting their religion into a death cult….”
No twisting needed:
“Muslims must kill non-muslims unless they convert to Islam”
Ali Gomaa, Grand Mufti of Egypt.
Jack Diamond says
All Muslims believe in the same Tawhid. No one has twisted this religion in 1400 years. It has always been a death cult. The fact it is also cannibalistic only emphasizes the point.
WorkingClassPost says
Chand, unfortunately, you seem to have this arse about face…
Islam IS a death cult, that our infamous ‘moderate muslims’ have been trying to twist into a religion, for the last 1400 years.
gravenimage says
I see Chand is pretending that Shi’ites are anti-Jihad. How he squares this with Iran hanging gay people, threatening to “wipe Israel off the map”, and stoning women to death is anyone’s guess…
gravenimage says
Chand wrote:
Fellow Muslims are teaching these bunch of criminals, steeped in the vicious Sunni Salafi Takfiri Wahabbist ideology, a lesson or two about the consequences of twisting their religion into a death cult…
…………………………
“Takfiri”–this is Chand claiming that Jihadists are not real Muslims, and that Jihad is not part of Islam–and demanding that we ignore everything in the Qur’an, the Hadith, the Sira, and the model of the “Prophet”, as well as the history of Islam all over the world and over the past 1400 years.
Try again, creep..
fbijihadidefender says
FBI said it is nothing to do with IS, as if FBI had already known the attack incident before investigation.
gravenimage says
ISIS hails Las Vegas shooter as “lion of tawhid”
…………………
Well, ISIS has not backed off claiming this guy as a Jihadist.
Cameron Tremblay says
Can’t post jihad watch to facebook???
fbijihadidefender says
FBI is going to say they are not “authentic” IS.
ronyvo says
The following are some of ISIS threats and lies after the Las Vegas attack:
“Take this what happened in #Orlando & #LasVegas was a taste of whats coming…
My comment: keep going on with what you’re doing best ‘kill innocent people in the name of your fake criminal system (Islam). The American people woke up and realized and acknowledged the horrible ugly fact Islam is. YOU ISIS wait and see what is coming to you. If you have some brain read the American history to understand what I am saying. The kind Americans will not submit to criminals, they were ignorant of the true Islam, that is now cleared.
“America has sunk and there is no savior, and became a prey to the caliphate in every corner of the earth
My comment: Americans did not sink and will never sink. Americans woke up and prayed for our Lord Jesus Christ and He listened to our prayers and selected Pres. Trump to lead the way back to the true America.
“Know that #IslamicState won’t stop fighting you in every Corner of the globe until you accept Islam or Pay Jizyah [poll-tax on Non-Muslims] with Submission.”
My comment: I have news for you ISIS, you WILL stop fighting for two reasons:
1- Our God (not allah) is the true and ONLY God, and he is mightier than your allah, and Americans came back to Him.
2- Evil always loses. Islam survived that long because it was contained in the ME. Now however, it is exposed after 9/11. Open your eyes and see the mass of non-Muslims who became very knowledgeable of the true criminal Islam like the owner of this blog. Those knowledgeable Americans are increasing in a mass and speed you cannot miss.
“O’ American People: You chose your own president, your Taxes money supported your army that killed Muslims, because of that you are a legitimate target for us.”
my comment: WE American People made our choice in the last election after the disastrous 8 years of Obama the Muslim vagabond from Kenya, who helped you a lot financially (true with our tax money) and promoting Islam with his obvious lies and deception (the Islamic takyya). But, now he is gone.
And, wake up, your dream of the caliphate is gone for ever.
My advice to you is to come to the Lord Jesus Christ, I promise you that you will have peace in your heart you’ve never felt before.
ronyvo says
Follow up to my comments:
“I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them. It is not ye who slew them; it was God.” Surah 8:13-17.
“Fight against those who believe not in Allah nor the last day nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and his messenger and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth among the people of the scripture, until they pay jiziah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” Surah 9:29
“Fight them, until there is no persecution and the religion is God’s” Surah 193
“O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors. They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them is on of them.” Surah 5:51 & 3:28
“Kill the mushrikeen (polytheists, Christians and non-Muslims), wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush”. Surah 9:5
“O you who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you; and know that Allah is with those who are believers.” Surah 9:123
My comment:
As you can see ISIS, you called yourselves ‘terrorists following the teachings of your Mohammad, surah 8 13-17, and not because the Muslims killed by the westerners as a result of their criminal activities.
That means you love to be called ‘terrorists’ I call you criminals.
You Muslims will not and actually CAN NOT mix with the unbelievers. Muslims, in general including those called refugees, are here as invaders to spread their evil system ISLAM .
Jacqueleen says
Where is the outcry from the so-called peaceful Moderates? There isn’t any…Why? Because there is no such thing as a peaceful Muslim…Every Muslim follows the Koran for good or for evil…..Never trust a Muslim. ISOLATION IS THE ONLY WAY TO DEAL WITH THE MUSLIMS AND THEIR INSANE IDEOLOGY. EVICT AND BAN THEM.