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NYC subway jihad bomber chose location because of its Christmas posters

Dec 11, 2017 5:58 pm By Robert Spencer

War on Christmas. Jihad on Christmas. In response, the establishment media will probably call for the banning of Christmas posters. Submitting to violent intimidation is, for all too many people, the order of the day.

“Port Authority Bomber Was Inspired by ISIS Christmas Attacks, Officials Say,” by Sarah Maslin Nir, Jonah Engel Bromwich and William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, December 11, 2017:

A would-be suicide bomber detonated a pipe bomb strapped to his body in the heart of Manhattan’s busiest subway corridor, rending the early Monday commute with a blast that reverberated up through city’s sidewalks, caused transit chaos and terrified thousands of travelers who fled headlong through tunnels choked with smoke.

He chose the location because of its Christmas-themed posters, recalling strikes in Europe against Christmas markets, he told investigators, and set off his bomb in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria and elsewhere, several law enforcement officials said.

But his makeshift weapon sputtered. The attacker himself was the only one seriously injured.

A suspect, identified by the police as Akayed Ullah, 27, an immigrant from Bangladesh who lived in Brooklyn, was in police custody. He suffered burns to his hands and abdomen, and was at Bellevue Hospital Center, according to Daniel A. Nigro, the commissioner of the New York Fire Department. Three other people had minor injuries, he said….

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  1. Gary says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 6:17 pm

    “he talked about…. the plight of Muslims”

    Wait?! How about the “Plight of EVERYONE!!” What makes Muslims so special?!!

    Or that’s right…. everyone that doesn’t believe the way they do are “Infidels”

    Islam: One sick Ideology!!!!

    • Frank Cicero says

      Dec 13, 2017 at 6:15 pm

      They did not disclose that there were other bombs in place to be set off with his cell phone and the Christmas posters was something overly emphasized. This is my personal opinion because the police net encompassed too much of a large area .

  2. WESTPAC Spy says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 6:27 pm

    The plight of Muslims? Ah, yes. They’re running out of Christians, Jews, and Buddhists to kill in their own countries so they have to emigrate to Europe and North America to do it.

    • Robeaver. says

      Dec 12, 2017 at 1:15 am

      Plight? Sorry, I thought it was Flight, and was going to help any Muslim onto an elevator for the top floor, viewing Center. See if they can take plight. …sorry, confused, now. L
      “First Plight leaves in 10 minutes, please form an orderly line on these ledges “
      “ take your time, but be prompt to your destination “

      Thanks for flying with “ Heaven is a Cement Walk Away Airline.” Have a good heaven.

      • Carolyne says

        Dec 12, 2017 at 5:06 pm

        Too funny.

  3. Wellington says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 6:38 pm

    And worse for Muzzies is Easter because at least Christmas celebrates an event, i.e., the birth of Jesus (Isa), which, on its face, does not contradict Islamic doctrine. But Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus after his crucifixion, both of which Islam vehemently denies, for instance in Sura 4 of that wretched, tedious, nauseatingly repetitive and overall stupid work known as the Koran (made all the more objectionable because of the con-job matter of “abrogation”).

    Oh yeah, if Buttlims go ape-shit about Christmas, then Easter must really get their many hatreds in a super panty-wad. Surely.

    Had enough of Islam yet? By now, if you haven’t, you are either 1) a Muslim; or 2) a willfully ignorant dhimmi.

    I detest Islam and, quite frankly, I have no more patience with those who don’t. Might as well be patient with Neo-Nazis, KKK members, anarchists or Marxists as be patient with a Mo follower.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 11, 2017 at 7:58 pm

      All true, Wellington.

    • Robeaver. says

      Dec 12, 2017 at 1:03 am

      And leftists too? Filthy atheists? Abortioners? surely not these too?

  4. mortimer says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 6:52 pm

    Muslims are infuriated by Christmas because it is the Feast of the Incarnation, thus a double blasphemy. According to the Koran, Allah must not have a son. There must be no incarnation of deity in human form either, because the Koran says ‘Allah can do ALL things’, and yet, Allah cannot do an incarnation.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 11, 2017 at 6:57 pm

      A few years ago, a popular Islamic imam Abu Mussab Wajdi Akkari was in the news after declaring that saying “Merry Christmas” is a worse sin than murder. “[Christmas] is the concept that God was born on the 25th of December . . . and you say ‘Merry Christmas,’ saying congratulations on your false religion . . . you are congratulating them on the most evil of sin. . . this is worse than fornication, and drinking alcohol, and killing someone, because you are approving of the biggest crime ever committed.”

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 11, 2017 at 8:50 pm

        Of course, since not only is most murder not a sin in Islam, it is actually a sacrament…

        • Robeaver. says

          Dec 12, 2017 at 1:07 am

          Only way to heaven is by jihad. Let’s all try to get them to heaven. Be the nice thing to do, I think. An Xmas present. Let’s start a petition, a Meme, a movement, even! Help,your Muslim neighbours! Get,them to heaven in a hurry! Anyway, and anyhow anyone can help would be appreciated. Thanks.

    • Carolyne says

      Dec 12, 2017 at 5:09 pm

      If you stood up in public in England and you said what this idiot is saying, only about Islam, you’d be arrested.

  5. Son of the West says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 7:34 pm

    This is not Islamic radicalism. This is Islamic fundamentalism. Everyone needs to switch their terminology and make this a trend. Radicalism is when something is carried to an extreme by a few. This is basic Islam, being practied as intended.

  6. gravenimage says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 7:43 pm

    NYC subway jihad bomber chose location because of its Christmas posters
    ……………………..

    A war on Christmas in the most literal sense. *Ugh*.

  7. Lydia says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 8:30 pm

    And in light of all these threatening comments from leading muslims…
    tell us again… oh leading fools… how ‘peaceful’ islam is…!
    What a joke.

  8. Lydia says

    Dec 11, 2017 at 8:31 pm

    All I know is; when I go out, I’m going to go out praising Jesus!

  9. Robeaver. says

    Dec 12, 2017 at 1:26 am

    He wa just putting up “Learn to Bomb in One Hour,Tops!!!” Posters. Is was his job, and he needed the work. Unfortunately his posters got all blowed up, so there went his job. So,very sad. Another muzzy got fuzzy, and ruined his climb up the ladder of success.
    We know a man called fuzzy muzzy,
    Who made a bomb with his couzy ,
    The bomb it did broke
    Went all up in smoke
    Has no more nuts now…does he?

  10. Eric says

    Dec 12, 2017 at 2:40 pm

    You mean the bomb did not blow his wewe off?

    Eric

  11. Champ says

    Dec 12, 2017 at 6:01 pm

    Christmastime is probably the happiest time of year! And since there is NO fun islam then of course it makes sense to create murder & mayhem if you’re an evil slave of allah, right? Kidding cause nothing about islam & company makes *any* sense whatsoever.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 14, 2017 at 1:51 am

      Grimly true, Champ.

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