The New York Times just can’t figure this out. How could the man who tried to commit jihad mass murder in the Times Square subway station have passed out medicine in Bangladesh? “Was he following his own heart, reflecting some sort of inner struggle as he headed toward his first known act of violence and self-destruction?”
The New York Times believes the likes of Reza Aslan and Karen Armstrong about Islam, and so it doesn’t know the first foggiest thing about the religion. If it did, it might have noticed that Ullah gave out medicine to Muslims, and tried to murder non-Muslims. The Qur’an says, “Muhammad is the apostle of Allah. Those who follow him are merciful to one another, ruthless to unbelievers” (48:29).
That’s all this is about. Not “some sort of inner struggle.” Not the slightest contradiction between his “mysterious act of mercy” in Bangladesh and his act of jihad in the U.S. And all the Times’ blather about how he was “radicalized” here is contradicted by its own report, which has a Bangladesh official noting that he hated America there. The Qur’an’s jihad teachings are the same in Bangladesh and the U.S.; “radicalization” is treated in the establishment media as if it were some disease that some Muslims mysteriously catch from the Internet. In reality, it’s just a Muslim deciding to act upon Islamic teachings on jihad.
“A Mysterious Act of Mercy by the Subway Bombing Suspect,” by Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, December 18, 2017 (thanks to EQ):
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Before Akayed Ullah returned home to New York from his native Bangladesh, and tried to blow himself up with a pipe bomb in a crowded Manhattan subway station, he had one last thing to do — an all-night bus ride by himself to help Rohingya refugees.
After visiting relatives here in the capital city, Dhaka, he traveled across the country, slept in a mosque and under a tree, and passed out a few hundred dollars of medicine in the crowded refugee camps.
“When he left, he seemed happy,” said his mother-in-law, Mahfuza Akhter. “But when he returned, he was so upset. He said those people were living in hell, each and every minute.”
That lonely trip across Bangladesh in September remains a mystery. Was Mr. Ullah following Al Qaeda, who had just urged Muslims to deliver medicine — and weapons — to the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group whose members have been raped, brutalized and massacred in neighboring Myanmar?
Or was he following his own heart, reflecting some sort of inner struggle as he headed toward his first known act of violence and self-destruction?
A few weeks after his trip, federal investigators said, Mr. Ullah, 27, returned to Brooklyn and began building a bomb out of matchheads and a piece of pipe he found at a construction site. He detonated it on a busy Monday morning, Dec. 11, in a Manhattan subway station, wounding himself and a few passers-by but doing far less damage than he could have. He was apprehended on the spot.
From a bed in Bellevue Hospital Center on Manhattan’s East Side, he has been cooperating with investigators, saying he was inspired online by the Islamic State to strike against the United States for its policies in the Muslim world. Charged with several terrorism-related offenses, he may never get out of jail. In many ways, his is an open-and-shut case.
But extensive interviews with more than a dozen friends, relatives and acquaintances, in Bangladesh and the United States, still leave a hole as to why Mr. Ullah did this. He comes across as impulsive, angry, riveted to militant social media and outraged by injustices inflicted on Muslims.
He was also described by several people who know him well as loving and giving. And he did not seem hopeless, a classic characteristic of people about to take their own lives, nor was he isolated. He was close to his childhood family — his mother and siblings — and he was building a new one.
“This is a little different,” said Mohammed Abdur Rashid, a retired army general who now runs a research institute on conflict in Dhaka. “He had fewer reasons to feel desperate.”
Bangladeshi police officials have put 15 officers on this case. Mr. Ullah, especially his last actions in the Rohingya camp, represents the union of some of their greatest fears.
Both American and Bangladeshi investigators say Mr. Ullah was not a jihadist export from Bangladesh, but was radicalized after he arrived in New York in 2011. Before that, he did not seem interested in militant groups.
Bangladeshis are deeply worried about this phenomenon — young members of the diaspora becoming radicalized overseas. Mr. Ullah is hardly the first. The mastermind of one of the worst terrorism attacks Bangladesh has ever suffered — the slaughter of more than a dozen foreigners at a bakery last year — grew up and went to college in Canada. Analysts say it is much easier for young Bangladeshis to be buffeted by jihadist propaganda once they are in the West.
“You guys in the West are naïve,” Mr. Abdur Rashid said. “You give more space for the preachers, the hate speech. We don’t tolerate it.”…
“He seemed to have this hatred for America,” said Monirul Islam, the chief of Bangladesh’s counterterrorism police operations. “We’re not exactly sure where it came from. Maybe he hadn’t assimilated so well.”…
DBM echo says
“. . . ‘radicalization’ is treated in the establishment media as if it were some disease that some Muslims mysteriously catch from the Internet. In reality, it’s just a Muslim deciding to act upon Islamic teachings on jihad.”
The NYT knows you’re right, Robert. They simply cannot abide by the notion that they have been so massively wrong about this Islam business.
George says
I disagree. The editorial staff of the NYT still believes that it’s caused by residual anamosity from the days of Western colonialism. The are in the thrall of CAIR and other American Muslim dissemblers with whom they attend cocktail parties. We had this problem with George Bush who was a friend of the Saudi king. There are Republicans who have fallen for the Muslim big lie. One, former senator Paul Findleys, a man of 96 years has been particularly active in insisting that Isam is a religion of peace.
mortimer says
George is right. Most Western politicians are following the neo-Marxist GRIEVANCE THEORY, namely that terrorism is caused by a political or economic grievance.
The “grievance” in the Koran is that dirty kafirs REJECT MOHAMMED and because of that rejection, Allah hates and wishes to punish the DISBELIEVERS in Mohammed.
Muslims are BOUNTY HUNTERS commissioned by Allah, to hunt, enslave, kill the kafirs or extort money from them.
David Busnick says
Its clear Jay Boo you have studied the Koran. This book makes it mandatory that all Muslims so long as they are physically able to do so are to make war on all non-Muslims, and when they meet them in the battlefield they are to separate the infidels head from his shoulders. The only people that disagree are those that have never read the koran.
samdav7 says
If we wanna make the term “Bounty Hunters” fit the subject, then the bounty here is not money.
According to the Quran, Hadith and Sunnah, Satan the God of Islam ordered Muslim men to kill all mankind except Muslims and if they got killed (Martyred) in the process then that’s the ultimate honour therefore they’ll receive the highest reward which is a never ending sex with 72 virgin prostitutes each one of them has 72 maids that’s 72 x 72 = 5,184 prostitutes per day in a luxury tent in Muslim God’s heaven, and God is sitting outside the tent with a needle & thread stitching hymens all day for when it’s her turn again she has to be virgin again, don’t forget the never ending population of the most beautiful young boys who looks like sparkling pearls all purely for the jihadi’s sex, that’s the bounty, so next time you’re on the street be very careful because no Muslim jihadi can afford to let this huge reward slip away, they’ll kill without any hesitation and wish to be killed (Martyred)
samdav7 says
Do you really think that the New York Times doesn’t know that the Qur’an says, “Muhammad is the apostle of Allah. Those who follow him are merciful to one another, ruthless to unbelievers” (48:29). ?
Of course they know .. but they’re paid very well to spread fake news .. like Donal Trump calls it.
tim gallagher says
I think you must be right, samdav7. These media types, who always seem to be supporting Islam, must surely have read up a bit on Islam and must know much of the foul content of the Koran, etc. They must know that Muslims may act pleasantly to their fellow Muslims, but have very bad attitudes to all non-Muslims. It makes the media’s behaviour far worse. It isn’t just ignorance. It is also totally self-destructive because, if Islam attains power, they’ll be in the firing line along with all non-Muslims. Such fools to be supporting the enemy, Islam..
gravenimage says
samdav, I would be very surprised if a single person at the NYT knew this.
Thomas Brewster says
I agree. I really think it’s not a big, well-paid conspiracy, but rather a case of “college know-it-all” socialites who like to get invitations to the big “multicultural” parties with the local celebrity clowns. Repeating the same old lies is easy, and gives your career a boost.
gravenimage says
I know a lot of well educated people–including some in journalism–and none of them know anything at all about Islam, and don’t think they need to learn.
I had one otherwise intelligent person recently arguing that Shari’ah was benign, without his being about to identify a single point of Islamic law. When I mentioned stonings, beheadings, amputations, and even less gaudy but still oppressive elements like the institutionalized legal inferiority of women and Infidels, he was–somehow–sure I was mistaken.
Norger says
@Graven: It is remarkable how many intelligent and ostensibly well educated people in the US know so little about Islam. I’ve asked several well educated apologists: “do you know why the jihadis often choose to behead their victims?” The response is generally a blank stare. When I tell them it’s commanded several times in the Koran, the response is shock and disbelief.
But there’s no excuse for the constant fire hosing of deceitful nonsense about Islam from the MSM. It’s not that hard to learn the truth in the Information Age. Even journalists have access to Google.
gravenimage says
Exactly, Norger. Willful ignorance is much worse than the ordinary sort where one is simply not knowledgeable about something.
Custos Custodum says
The real owner of the New York Times is Carlos Salim (aka Carlos Slim), a Mexican crony capitalist billionaire of Lebanese extraction.
Anyone writing for the NYT who wants to keep her or his job knows better than to report any inconvenient truths about ACTUAL Islamic doctrines practices by Muslims in 2017.
Karen says
Yes, they certainly know this. They just enjoy the pleasant appearance the ‘champion’ role. Not of Western ideals or people, to be sure, but almost anyone or anything else. Islam seems to fill that feel-good role for them, probably because it’s so in conflict with everything Western.
Irene Brekelmans says
What a “mysterious ” act of mercy of this guy in Bangladesh with his medicines and what a mysterious act right act of merci in New York. Are the Americans guilty of the situation in Bangladesh too? Of course !!!
They are the guilty part of the whole world and the rest are angels.
And now all of a sudden, there are so many witnesses for this guy from all over to testify ” he is and was such a nice friendly guy( till New York only), but you will see, psychiatrists will declare him only insane in NY, and he will get 1 week in an institution as punishment.
And that is how the old ball dances. Know, that you don’t even know half of what happens, but let it continue and it is the end of our civilisation. The ones who behead, rape, flog, lie, eat human flesh,
remember how the Jihadists invited a woman they caught in a village and was jailed with them and they invited here for dinner and afterwards they told her that the meat she ate at the dinner, was her own baby they prepared, and remember they have intercourse with women until 6 hrs after death. And the stoning. And that is the civilisation we have to live together with. I do not only wonder about the leftists, I wonder about everybody nowadays, only not about the normal thinking, which are only a few.
What a planet, the lowest in the Universe !!!
PATRICIA KOENIG says
The answer to this “mystery” is Islamic theology that teaches fairness to other Muslim men (not Muslim women) and hatred, violence, slavery, and deceit for non-Muslims. Many thanks to Robert Spencer for educating us on the evils of Islam. Americans need to realize that not all “religions” are equal; not all “religions” are good. Some “religions” are downright evil, like Satanism and Islam.
Irene Brekelmans says
And remember people, the economics are going to play up now, we are seeing this in almost every western country. This is going to be something and my “guess” is, it will not be pretty, especially not for poor people. They finally after many years got it better and now millions of muslims have come to take it all away, they hardly work and we have to pay for everything from the taxpayers money. It is impossible to carry this, If our governments had agreed of a certain quantity of people, we could have made it, but this all…., but it will play itself out. The sell out of the Jews and Christians. May your God bless you.
Thomas Brewster says
Indeed, this will be one of the big factors in Europe the coming decade: with declining economies combined with all the billions of euros needed to pay for the refugees, the time will come when money runs out. It might get ugly once the local socialist career-liars no longer have any candy to hand out.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
“The New York Times just can’t figure this out. … The New York Times believes …”
Really? A newspaper is an entity that has a mind and beliefs? Rather than anthropomorphize an organization, let’s attribute these beliefs to the real human being who has these beliefs, the writer of the article, one Jeffrey Gettleman.
Robert Spencer says
No, Mark. Gettleman wrote it, but the NYT doesn’t employ people who don’t reflect its editorial line. When did you last see a foe of jihad terror writing in the NYT? Right, never. Gettleman is just a drone. This is the New York Times’ line, not his.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Mr. Spencer.
The NYT has a clear editorial bias toward whitewashing Islam, and most of their writing–no matter the individual author–reflects this.
Dum Spiro says
The following is also pertinent:
http://listen.ewtn.com/~CJ/~CJ20160625.mp3
Listen to the above 55 minute engaging program that explains how propaganda in the mainstream media works.
Air Date: 2016-06-25
Host: Kathy Sinnott
Guest: John Waters
Synopsis: One of the cornerstones of democracy is a free and independent press. Those who publish newspapers and produce broadcast news services hold privileged positions in our democracy, positions that presume trust to carry out their responsibilities respecting values of truth, balance and accuracy. But what happens when those who hold privileged positions in the media abuse those very positions? When those charged to hold to account others do not hold to account those in the press itself? When newspapers and broadcasters use the very privilege afforded them as a tool to push particular ideological ends? John Waters is one of Ireland’s best known veteran journalists. He has worked for the Irish Times, the Irish Daily Mail and the Sunday Independent, among others. In this episode, John Waters reflects on what he observes as corruption in the Irish media in a talk entitled “Ireland and the End of Debate.”
With an open mind, you can learn a lot from the talk cited above…
–Spero
Charles says
How very, very izlamic!(SATANIC)
Allah is really SATAN!
This is the only real fact you must know, when dealing with muslims!
They haven’t been called; “The Children of Satan” for over one thousand years for nothing!!!!! ?
Kay says
Ridiculous. The NYT article treats the bombing attempt as if it were simple suicide— without the intent to blow up others.
The “journalist” must have a creative writing degree.
M says
Yeah they’re not desperate, they’re in some sort of hysteria and think they’re going to get virgins or whatever. Very different than a depressed person wanting to end their own lives.
gravenimage says
And very few suicidal people endanger the lives of others when they attempt suicide. On the rare occasions when they do–such as, say, crashing a car on a busy highway–it is more that they are so despairing that they are not even thinking about how there actions are going to affect others.
If they are *aiming* to hurt others, then it is not suicide, but murder.
gravenimage says
their actions
jewdog says
The liberal orthodoxy harbored at the NYTimes must portray Muslims as victims. In order to do that, any hateful or problematic elements of Islamic doctrine must be studiously ignored so as not to create the impression that Muslims can have irrational and bigoted notions of their own. In response, I tend to studiously ignore the NYTimes.
Thomas Brewster says
I do not understand why people keep buying these crappy leftist newspapers… or watch BBC and CNN for that matter.
Custos Custodum says
People watch CNN and read the NYT and its down-market sisters because they have been brain-washed by the education establishment.
Michael Copeland says
Jeffrey Gettleman has a learning curve to climb.
Akayed Allah did not try “to blow himself up”. He attempted a mass killing, and failed.
The Rohingya, “a Muslim ethnic group whose members have been raped, brutalized and massacred in neighboring Myanmar”, have encountered resistance and reaction from the Buddhists whom they “raped, brutalized and massacred in neighboring Myanmar”. Islam preaches retaliation, after all.
““…. this hatred for America… We’re not exactly sure where it came from”, said Monirul Islam, the chief of Bangladesh’s counterterrorism police operations” . It is preached in mosques universally, Mr. Gettleman.
samdav7 says
The Rohingya muslim issue is just one of too many muslim problems around the world .. the mainstream media tells people everything about the sufferings of the peaceful muslims .. but they never say anything about the millions of crimes those muslims committed against the Buddhist community, police, army, politicians and everything in between .. an obvious coverup for all muslim crimes .. the mainstream media is certain that they’re talking to a bunch of sheep .. that’s why they talk with no shame !
Thomas Brewster says
Many innocent Rohingya’s have certainly endured some nasty, intolerant acts by the Myanmarese army. But I wonder if the authorities have not come to the conclusion that the Northern Spanish principalities reached in the Middle Ages: that it will be Reconquista by the sword or being conquered by the sword. History will judge if they are right or wrong, I guess.
gravenimage says
To see the witless mentality of Jeffrey Gettleman, see this other article by him:
“Drinking Fanta With Islamist Militants”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/sunday-review/drinking-fanta-with-islamist-militants.html
In the article he says “I’ll admit it: I derived a slight thrill from sharing a Fanta with a real militant”, and then–even though he is shaking in his boots at the meeting–sneers at the idea of Islamist aggression.
This was about ten years ago–the visit, that is. He wrote the article just a couple of months ago.
He waxes lyrical about–no sh*t–al-Shabaab. He’s impressed with how much they love Shari’ah. They buy him a Qur’an–he thinks it’s a really nice gift.
He thinks that it was “clan rivalries” that were causing the violence in Somalia, and that Islam can bring everyone together.
He is either an utter moron, or he is something much worse.
M says
What the actual hell is wrong with some people!?
I don’t even want to share a Fanta with a shoplifter.
gravenimage says
I know.
gravenimage says
New York Times reveals NYC subway bomber’s “mysterious act of mercy”: he gave out medicine to Muslims in Bangladesh
The New York Times just can’t figure this out. How could the man who tried to commit jihad mass murder in the Times Square subway station have passed out medicine in Bangladesh? “Was he following his own heart, reflecting some sort of inner struggle as he headed toward his first known act of violence and self-destruction?”
………………………..
Nope–it’s right in the Qur’an:
Qur’an 48:29:
“Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; and those who are with him are strong against Unbelievers, (but) compassionate amongst each other…”
Of course, actual charity is rather rare–usually Muslims just abstain from slaughtering Muslims–at least those of their own sect. Still, there is nothing at all contradictory about this pious Muslim’s actions.
elee says
Hey folks this s**t is dangerous
Jaladhi says
NYTimes is as usual disgusting in its editorials always praising the Muslim murderers. I don’t has to happen before these delusional human beings at NYT understand that Islam is pure vile and nothing else!! Maybe when their necks will be under the Islamic sword they might remember how they were praising these murderers. And now its their turn!
WorkingClassPost says
Oh the mysteries of islam: they do harm to others and help their own, yet the NYT can’t understand that, as simple as it is, which is the only mystery here.
Learning islam says
The Qur’an’s Deception Passages:
(Quran 3:54) –
Literal: And they cheated/deceived and God cheated/deceived, and God (is) the best (of) the cheaters/deceivers
( Quran 7:99 ) –
Literal: Did they secure God’s scheme/deceit ? So no(one) trusts God’s scheme/deceit except the nation the losers
(Quran 8:30) –
Literal: And when those who disbelieved deceive/scheme at you to affix/affirm you, or kill you, or bring you out, and they scheme/deceive , and Allah deceives/schemes and Allah (is) best (of) the deceivers/schemers.
The Word Miim-Kaf-Ra is constantly used when referring to Allah
Allaha is hate spreader. Allah is evil
Q5.14 “And with those who say: “Lo! we are Christians,” We made a covenant, but they forgot a part of that whereof they were admonished. Therefor We have stirred up enmity and hatred among them till the Day of Resurrection, when Allah will inform them of their handiwork.”
Q5.14 * تفسير Tafsir al-Jalalayn
________________________________________{ وَمِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ قَالُواْ إِنَّا نَصَارَىٰ أَخَذْنَا مِيثَاقَهُمْ فَنَسُواْ حَظّاً مِّمَّا ذُكِرُواْ بِهِ فَأَغْرَيْنَا بَيْنَهُمُ ٱلْعَدَاوَةَ وَٱلْبَغْضَآءَ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَامَةِ وَسَوْفَ يُنَبِّئُهُمُ ٱللَّهُ بِمَا كَانُواْ يَصْنَعُونَ }
And with those who say ‘We are Christians’ (this is semantically connected to [what follows]) We made a covenant, just as We did with the Children of Israel, the Jews, and they have forgotten a portion of that they were reminded of, in the Gospel, pertaining to faith and other matters, and they [too] broke the covenant. So We have stirred up, We have caused, among them enmity and hatred until the Day of Resurrection, on account of their schisms and differing whims, each sect charging the other with unbelief; and God will assuredly tell them, in the Hereafter, of what they wrought, and requite them for this.
Qur’an 38:85 and 11:119 both state that Allah desires to fill hell with people:
38:85…surely I will fill hell from you and from those who followed you from among them together. 11.119 …“I will surely fill hell with the jinn and the people together.”
What does the Bible say about people? God wants us to be with Him in heaven. He even sent His Son, Jesus, to die on the cross to pay for our sins so that people can have a way to live eternally in heaven with Him. He does not want any to perish. John 3:16 states:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
RodSerling says
Propaganda is an essential part of violent jihad. It appears he went to donate to the Royhinga just before coming back to New York so that this would be a part of the story. So he bombs non-Muslims in New York, and the media talk about Royhinga, Royhinga, Royhinga.
RodSerling says
Correction: Rohingya.
sidney penny says
“In reality, it’s just a Muslim deciding to act upon Islamic teachings on jihad.”
Solution: Islamic leaders and Imams to teach Muslims not to act upon Islamic teachings on jihad.
Any suggestions on how do they do that, where do they do that and when should they do that?
How do you get rid of jihad.that has flourished for thousands of years not only in India but around the world
https://www.scribd.com/document/78119550/Jihad-in-India-Sita-Ram-Goel
JIHAD IN INDIA’S HISTORY
(Ch. 6 of Section I of The Calcutta Quran Petition)
“Sita Ram Goel principles of Jihad elaborated in countless compendia composed by Islamic scholars,have been generalized from concrete practices of the Prophet, and confirmed by Allah through³revelations´ in the Quran.
In turn, these principles have guided all swordsmen of Islam throughout these fourteen countries and in many lands.India has had a prolonged experience of Jihad from the day when the first Muslim army stepped into Sindh in 712 CE and won its first victories after suffering a number of defeats for 78 years.
Lands in Seistan, Khurasan, Transoxiana and Afghanistan where Hindu religion and culture had flourished for long had been subjected to Jihad in earlier years.
We are citing some of the prominent Jihads waged in India by the most famous mujahids”
sidney penny says
“You guys in the West are naïve,” Mr. Abdur Rashid said. “You give more space for the preachers, the hate speech. We don’t tolerate it.”…
Should it be the jihad speech?
Stupid West.
Karen says
The author of this article claims, “Bangladeshis are deeply worried about this phenomenon — young members of the diaspora becoming radicalized overseas.
“You guys in the West are naïve,” Mr. Abdur Rashid said. “You give more space for the preachers, the hate speech. We don’t tolerate it.””
Not so fast. Yes, there is suppression of freedom of speech in Bangladesh, to be sure. However, this from a very excellent article by K.S. Venkatachalam, explaining the rise of radicalism in Bangladesh, leading to the blogger murders and other recent atrocities:
“The main global factor, meanwhile, is the growth of “madrassas” (religious schools) mainly funded by Saudis. These schools have been responsible for indoctrinating young, impressionable minds with an extremist ideology that is at variance with the teachings of Islam. Muslims belonging to other sects (like Shiites), Christians and Hindus have all been targeted by the Islamists.”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/07/08/commentary/world-commentary/rise-islamic-extremism-bangladesh/#.WjsN0t-nGM8
Ullah arrived here in 2011, when he was approx. 21 years old. Where did he go to school back home?
Karen says
Hamas distributes goods and services to fellow Muslims every day, yet no objective analysis could conclude that their ‘charity’ activities mitigate their terror activities. Charity is another word for Love; if your charity has strings attached, then its probably not love, but something else. For all we know, Ullah was just getting his Zakat obligation done for the year. Based on the fact that he subsequently tried to murder as many non-Muslims as possible, I’d say his ‘charity’ was based solely on religious affiliation. So, perhaps it fulfilled a religious check mark, and was nice for the recipients, but I’d stop short of calling it charity. The author of this article doesn’t seem to be trying very hard to analyze below the most superficial level.
CRUSADER says
Not so surprising for a devout Muslim to do.
Alms-giving is one of the “pillars” of Islam, along with Jihad.
Yet Muslims give alms to fellow Muslims, not anyone else…
Just so giving, as a set of people. So darned humanitarian of them!
C225 says
This article contains a good example of the synergistic macabre humor between a Robert Spencer headline and opening paragraph. This synergy appeals to the jaded conservative while also trying to communicate with liberals in a way that even a 5 year old can understand.
gravenimage says
I love Mr. Spencer’s wry sense of humor. Much needed.