They’re shocked? Really? They have never heard of the jihad imperative? I find that hard to believe. It is much more likely that they just hope that the infidels don’t know about it. In any case, “Soweilam said that one of his family’s biggest concerns is that they will be harassed by the community because of the incident.” Yet again we hear about the fabled “anti-Muslim backlash,” as if Muslims were always the victims of every jihad attack. Why don’t they express any concern for the recurring phenomenon of Muslims behaving violently against infidels?
“Family of Harrisburg gunman say they’re shocked: ‘That’s not his behavior at all,'” by Daniel Simmons-Ritchie, PennLive.com, December 23, 2017:
Ahmed Soweilam is still in shock over the events of Friday night, the night his sister’s ex-husband is accused of going on a two-hour shooting spree across Harrisburg.
Ahmed Aminamin El-Mofty, 51, is accused of firing at police officers in three locations across the city between 4 and 6 p.m., leaving one officer wounded, before El-Mofty was shot and killed by police.
Ahmed Soweilam, 34, the co-owner of a Halal store in Camp Hill, said he and his family are still deeply confused by the incident.
“That’s not his behavior at all,” he said. “That’s not him. I still don’t believe it.”
Soweilam said he and his family had largely been estranged from El-Mofty prior to Friday night. El-Mofty had been married to Soweila’s sister until they separated about six years ago.
Soweilam said that El-Mofty, who had worked as a security guard in Harrisburg, then moved back to Egypt, his former home….
What made the incident most confusing, Soweilam said, is that he had always known El-Mofty as a peaceful man. According to Soweilam, El-Mofty had no history of violence or mental illness.
“He’s not the perfect guy but he’s not an aggressive person,” he said.
Ahmed Aminamin El-Mofty, 51, is dead after police say he opened fire, targeting officers in three sections of the city Friday….
Soweilam said that one of his family’s biggest concerns is that they will be harassed by the community because of the incident.
Soweilam stressed that the U.S. was his home and that any actions of El-Mofty did not reflect the thoughts and beliefs of he and his family.
“This is home,” Soweilam said. “My first everything was here. My first job, my first girlfriend. I love this country.”
Terry Gain says
The first victims of a Muslim attack are Muslims. Bloody whiners and deceivers.
Angus66 says
So true….
jihad3tracker says
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We have some spare time now and Christmas day. Use it to wake up our fellow citizens + their families + friend in Pennsylvania who are still clueless !
BC says
He is an ex brother in law, so technically the family have no repsonsibility for him or his actions.
J D S says
Nobody will harass them…that would be racism and islamophobic
and the harassers would end up in jail.
LeftisruiningCanada says
That raises a point.
Muslims expect a backlash, because that’s how things work in their society: One member of the family (tribe) hurts a member of another tribe, and then a member of that tribe hurts a random member of the original tribe back. And so on, infinitum.
That’s how they work. It’s what they do, and have done, for thousands of years, back before mo ever existed (if he ever did).
It’s how their islamic dictators work too. For that matter, it’s how all dictators work. The same pattern of collective punishment can be seen across all tyrannies, islamic, communist, fascist.
So it’s natural that they expect to be punished for one of their members actions.
It also tells us that they identify with the perpetrators, since they acknowledge their shared guilt.
But it’s not how we work. It’s not how our society works, where the rule of law takes precedence over personal grievances. If anyone does carry out a personal attack based on group membership, they are considered a criminal…something bizarre and unthinkable to a tribalistic way of thinking, where retaliations are only based on emotion and instinct.
It all goes to show that ‘integration’ is a fallacy. So long as they continue to idolize a seventh century tribal warlord and his cult of death and mayhem, integration is a joke…a lie, a distraction from the main event of islamic will to power and hegemony.
And it’s a joke we are playing on ourselves only. They don’t take it seriously for moment.
Carol says
The man seemed sincere:
“Soweilam stressed that the U.S. was his home and that any actions of El-Mofty did not reflect the thoughts and beliefs of he and his family.
“This is home,” Soweilam said. “My first everything was here. My first job, my first girlfriend. I love this country.””
Maybe we should better appreciate this “middle ground”. It is understandable that transplants will cling for some time to the support systems they know and for which they have some love. Ideally such people will inevitably wean themselves away from a far too flawed “religion”. Our efforts to use our free speech and advertise our more objective point of view is bound to bear better fruit
LeftisruiningCanada says
What you describe sounds quite a lot like the way things have been done in the UK and Europe. But this hoping that all the victims of a savage backwards culture will see the light of western values and transform themselves into people compatible with them, is having some serious problems.
On the contrary, they seem to feel great distaste towards those values, and are instead trying to recreate their old support systems using the very freedoms the west provides.
Those that do like the west are simply being shouted down and intimidated into silence.
What to do?
StellaSaidSo says
More b/s from the idiot followers of Moham-merde.
DEPORT ALL OF THEM.
Mockingjay says
– Meh.
– If they have Democrats as their neighbours, these will probably go and bring them a cake – which they then are not allowed to cut – along with apologies for the terrible islamophobic climate in America, – especially since Trump took office – without which their son/husband would obviously have never committed such an act.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Sadly true. These are the same people who mock Christians for having guilt complexes….
abad says
Send them all back to the Middle East
cornelius says
It’s a recurring phenomenon. The family is always utterly, utterly mystified by the violence. I don’t buy it.
gravenimage says
It’s such obvious bs.
gravenimage says
I noticed that too, Jay Boo. But if they had been out of the loop for some time then they should not have said that this was not his behavior, because they have no idea.
In any case, it’s the same old script: he was never hostile or violent; now we are scared the Islamophobes will come after us.
In other words, our relative tried to murder people but is not a threat–you ‘filthy Infidels’ are the real threat to us.
gravenimage says
Yes–completely knee-jerk.
DBM echo says
“Family of Harrisburg gunman say they’re shocked: ‘That’s not his behavior at all,’”
http://raymondibrahim.com/2014/04/12/taqiyya-about-taqiyya/
Never take a Muslim’s word at face value. Never,
Wellington says
Islam is a profoundly sick belief system, to a truly pathological degree. Many reasons can be proffered for this, among them being: 1) the character of its founder who, whether historical or mythical or something in between these two, reveals the characteristics of a brutal psychopath who had no more capacity to understand the suffering of others than did Hitler or Stalin (examples being his having some 600 men of the Jewish Banu Qurayza tribe beheaded in just one day and his having a fire built on Kinana’s chest, thus burning him alive, because Kinana would not reveal where a certain amount of treasure was; 2) its own texts, especially the Koran, which is wrapped up with hating the non-believer and the requirement to make war upon the non-Muslim (“until all religion is with Allah”” Sura 8:39) in over 60% of the entire monstrosity which is this most egregious of religious works; 3) its being eternally hostile to liberty, for instance to this very day every major school of Islamic theology, both Sunni and Shiite, REQUIRING grave bodily harm or death for anyone who A) criticizes Islam, Mohammed or the Koran, or B) any Muslim who converts to another religion (after all, Mohammed himself said, “He who leaves the Islamic faith, kill him” {Bukhari Hadith 9.84.57}); 4) in EVERY one of the over fifty Muslim-majority nations that exist today non-Muslims are pure second-class citizens or even worse, in effect wherever Islam dominates, in our time or any time over the past 1400 some years, it sets up a Jim Crow system based not on race but on belief.
And here’s yet one more reason to despise the worst religion ever created by man: It steeps itself in self-pity, as here demonstrated by this article in the very state which I love and have been a resident of since birth. What a contrast between the enlightened founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, and the founder of Islam, Mohammed. The former is a man who should be admired to this very day. The latter is a man who should be consigned literally or metaphorically to where Dante consigned the bastard, to a deep part of Hell, specifically the eighth circle.
PRCS says
http://al-bab.com/blog/2017/12/egyptian-parliament-moves-make-atheism-crime
PRCS says
Egyptian parliament moves to make atheism a crime
Wellington says
No surprise. And this is an Egypt more moderate than when the MB was in control.
Islam anywhere is pathetic and deleterious to freedom, only the degree is at issue.
gravenimage says
PRCS, this is another sign that Egypt is not “moderate”.
PRCS says
Don’t quote me, but I believe Indonesia prohibits atheism as well, its citizens being requited to declare themselves a follower of one of the nation’s 5 “official” religions.
gravenimage says
PRCS, Atheism is not technically a crime in Indonesia, but only Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Confucianism have “legal protection”. We know how well that works for anything that is not Islam, so I would fear for Atheists in Indonesia.
Things seem to be even worse in Malaysia:. This, from Wikipedia:
In August 2017, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Shahidan Kassim declared that “atheism is against the Constitution and the basic human rights” in Malaysia since “there is no provision on atheism” in the Constitution. Shahidan wanted atheists and atheist groups like the Kuala Lumpur chapter of Atheist Republic to be identified and hunted down. He also stated that “we need to restore the faith back in them, especially for Muslims. Actually they don’t really want to be an atheist, but they lack knowledge about religion and that is why they are easily swayed to the new age teaching”. Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in charge of Islamic affairs, stated that the group Atheist Republic will be investigated.”
Worse yet, Atheists and religious skeptics can be executed in at least fourteen nations: Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
Obviously, anyone leaving Islam for Atheism (of any other belief system) is under serious threat in an even wider number of Muslim lands.
And a large number of Atheists have been murdered in Bangladesh recently.
gravenimage says
Fine post, Wellington.
Wellington says
Thank you, gravenimage, and may you and yours have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. You’re a treasure here at JW and many people know it, including yours truly.
gravenimage says
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you both and to your loved ones, Wellington and Jay Boo!
Thank you both for your kind words.
And Jay Boo, I agree with you about Wellington.
And so good to see you posting here regularly again. Your comments were missed.
underbed cat says
Thank you Wellington for writing this comment about this particular event. Someone may hear about this site and read this story and hopefully read your comment. And he needs to know about this problem and be aware of the root of jihad since it seemed far fetched over a year ago….it truly is the reality and it’s in our country….many more times than can be imagined.
Petrouchka1 says
Well said, Wellington! We are fairly close to Harrisburg, and know the area pretty well. Very frightening. As you mentioned in another comment, that area of PA (indeed most of PA) is fairly conservative! But progressive folks are still refusing to connect the dots. Time for people to wake up. Would like to know where you are in PA. Feel free to contact me via email!
Wellington says
Yes, far more people need to wake up. Islam is counting against this and the preservation of freedom requires it. BTW, looking at your name I have to wonder if you have any connection with the charming village of Kleinfeltersville on Route 897 in Lebanon County? I’ve passed through there several times over the years. Beautiful countryside too. I myself live in the Philly area but am originally from central Pennsylvania which, as you probably know, has more in common with that wonderful state of West Virginia, where my wife is from, than it does with the southeast part of the Commonwealth. And, oh yes, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Wellington says
Thank you for your reply, underbed cat. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
gravenimage says
Merry Christmas, underbed cat.
Joseph says
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all you guys, and gals.
I don’t post often anymore but I do read what is posted to get different viewpoints.
Keep up the good work and…….
HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Ralph says
They should be deported along with everybody the brought in.
mike9a says
When me and my family=all kafirs are daily terrorized and killed by moozs worldwide! What would be our proper reaction? Invite you for Christmas party? Actually that would be a good test, yep, I should attend it armed too.
Manny says
Shocked, shocked that Islam is being followed. I’m not.
Berengaria says
There has never been an ANTI-MUSLIM BACK LASH IN OUR COUNTRY. But after 9/11/2001,THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A POWERFUL ANTI-MUSLIM BACKLASH AGAINT THE MUSLIM ARMY, that is camped in every town & City in America! President Bush failed America. & Lied to protect the MUSLIM INVADERS.
The Muslims think we are all Weak, after GW opened his arms to these Terrorists. We will never be able to drive these Savages from our shores, they are too strong in America
PRCS says
“Bush failed America. & Lied to protect the MUSLIM INVADERS.”
That assumes he actually knew what he was talking about.
Which he obviously didn’t.
gravenimage says
Agreed, PRCS. I don’t think Bush lied–he just swallowed the Taqiyya like so many in the West.
tgusa says
It appears that his family members are the only ones shocked. Well, them and that Pa DA who is still scratching his head. No small feat considering where his head is located.
Thomas Kimball says
Where are all the reports of muslims being attack by anybody but other Muslims ,I’m getting sick of this B.S.!!!!! Merry friggin Christmas!
gravenimage says
Pennsylvania: Family of Muslim who shot at cops “shocked,” worried they’ll be harassed by non-Muslims
…………………………….
Yep–they’re “shocked”. They always are…
But now, the story is no longer about a Muslim trying to murder Infidels–it is about the fake “backlash” (which never occurs) and Infidels scrambling to assure Muslims that they will not be harmed.
Nothing but projection and kabuki theater…
utis says
If this guy was so great, why did his wife leave him? And what was that bit about going to Egypt? Why? Why did he come back? I smell a plague-bearing rat here.
Guy Forester says
Yes, interesting. Guy leaves US wife (want to bet he had at least one in Egypt?), goes back home for a while, then comes back here and shoots up the place. Yes, I am shocked, utterly shocked. Call inspector Clouseau.
Sarah says
“He’s not the perfect guy but he’s not an aggressive person,”
And with utter stupidity like that, you just have to wonder what value and contribution these inbred dimwits actually bring to the West?
Well, to be fair, I already know the answer to that one. They bring nothing of value. And I do not count the introduction of foreign takeaway food, or half-baked handcrafted knick-knacks like rugs etc to be valuable contributions that improve our way of life. Being able to buy an incredibly unsanitary kebab from some greasy Turk, lurking behind the counter in some filthy kebab shop is not culturally enriching, no matter what the Left might think.
As for her ‘fear’ of backlash against them – well, we can only hope that for once, a bunch of Westerners actually do partake in some backlash against Muslims for yet another Muslim committing yet another vicious crime in our nations. Because up til now, this so-called backlash she’s bleating about, the inbred goat, is completely nonexistent.
May she and the rest of her pointless family have a short and miserable life – or at least decide to get the hell out of America and crawl back into the cesspit they first came out of.
mortimer says
I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED that there’s JIHAD GOING ON in an Islamic family .
Islam has NOTHING to do with jihad!
gravenimage says
Ha ha
Infidel says
Do VILE CRIMES IN THE NAME OF ISLAM and then play victim.. We Hindus are used to this ploy by these worms. So he says that he loves the USA… WHY?? Because he has come over there to do Jehaad, in this case TACIT… Shameless creature… Not one word of sympathy for the cops. Actually, this worm should be booted out first.
Infidel says
More than the evil Jehaadi types who make their intentions CLEAR that they are coming for U (the non-muslim Khafir)… it is the smiling moderates who living among U with an evil smile on their faces and pray and plot for Ur destruction, who are the most insidious..
CRUSADER says
“God rest ye merry gentlemen….
Let nothing you dismay
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day….”
++++++++++++++++++++++++
LeftisruiningCanada says
🙂
gravenimage says
+1
Bill says
Watch for Tom Wolf and his cabal of Philadelphia leftists, join the Islamophobia bandwagon.
Shmoovie says
If that part of the family had been estranged from this jihadi wanna-be, how on Earth can they now say what he would have been likely or unlikely to do??
Funny how the various families seem to have almost verbatim reactions– you don’t suppose they’re getting advice from CAIR on how to appear fearful of the ol’ backlash, and shocked at their family member’s ‘immoderate’ action…?
Leondegrance2 says
Rest assured Mr Soweilam, there will be no backlash back in Egypt where you and your terrorist-breeding family belongs. Oh and we’ll confiscate those Halal profits of yours because that’s another form of jihad and victims can be compensated.
Ta ta.
JawsV says
Oh boo-hoo the poor Mohammedans! Cryin’ my eyes out!!! Whaaaaaaah!
Cheer Bear Girl says
Typical ploy they play. I am so sick of them playing victim after murdering and assaulting people.
Parker says
Typical Moslem BS line after EVERY TERROR attack, “We’re the real victims of this horrid backlash. And let’s get more Moslems into the US too!
dumbledoresarmy says
Projection.
Muslims use collective punishment all the time. Muslims engage in revenge attacks all the time. Very often, Muslims *fabricate* excuses for mob attacks upon non-Muslims.
So Muslims project this same mindset onto the non-Muslims! Muslims either actually believe – or pretend to believe – that non-Muslims will do as Muslims would do, were the positions reversed.