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California: Muslim slides backpack under Counter-Jihad Coalition booth at mall, walks away

Jul 11, 2018 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

A real bomb? Or an attempt to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60)?

“Did Jihadis Just Execute a Bombing Operation at a CA Mall?,” Understanding the Threat, July 9, 2018:

Evidence reveals jihadis attempted to bomb the Los Cerritos Center in California this past weekend.  This is one more in a string of numerous incidents across the United States indicating an increase in willingness by jihadis to use violence to silence those who speak truth about Islam….

So it should come as no surprise when a muslim slides his backpack under the table at the Counter Jihad Coalition (CJC) booth in Cerritos, California and walks away.  Literally.

UTT assesses this incident as a thwarted jihadi attack.  Lets look at the facts.

Those of you who follow UTT may remember in August of 2017 UTT published an article on the Counter Jihad Coalition (CJC) and its leader Steve Amundson.

This weekend, Steve and his team, including a pastor, set up their booth in a busy part of a mall called The Los Cerritos Center in Cerritos, California near Los Angeles.  As they always do, CJC hands out literature about Islam and the threat it poses to America and free people.

Over the last 6 months, Steve has reported an increase in physical assaults on him and his team.

The day began with two men snapping pictures of the CJC booth, then getting on the phone.  Steve Amundson witnessed this and recognized it as “red flag one.”

Steve has seen this behavior before, and it is usually the scouts looking for the CJC booth in order to alert others.

Later, two muslim women approached the booth and began cursing CJC’s people and calling them liars.  As mall security, which was standing in the immediate vicinity, was speaking with the women, a white haired muslim male moved over to the booth and slide his backpack under that table.  He then began speaking with the pastor from CJC.

After a short conversation, the muslim man walked away.

Amundson approached the pastor assuming the man was a friend.  When the pastor told Steve the man was an irate muslim complaining about CJC’s activities, Steve was immediately concerned for their safety.  He called security to stop the man, which was done.

Here are Steve Amundson’s words to describe what happened:

“I told security he left a backpack underneath our booth. The Moslem refused to take the backpack. We started to take cover behind cement pillars and told security to either call the bomb squad or have the guy pick up the backpack. He finally agreed to very carefully pick it up and security escorted him away. Security will not say at least right now if he was arrested, if the bomb squad was called or what. Was this a dry run or the real thing?”

Based on conversations Steve Amundson had with authorities, it does not appear the man’s backpack was ever searched….

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  1. DHazard says

    Jul 11, 2018 at 4:23 pm

    We can now thank Muslims for the fact that any kind of luggage, briefcases, backpacks, etc. left unattended, are assumed to be a bombs. In this case it was a more explicit exploitation of rational fear to achieve their goal, make some non-Muslim afraid.

    Just another way Islam makes the world worse which is the duty of a Muslim.

    • Andy says

      Jul 11, 2018 at 6:57 pm

      From California U.S.A. to Canada more diversity is our strength news.

      Karim Saad, 23, has been charged with five counts of sexual assault and five counts of sexual interference involving a person under 16.

      https://globalnews.ca/news/4325447/man-charged-sexual-assault-richmond-hill-home-daycare/

      • Andy says

        Jul 11, 2018 at 8:17 pm

        Diversification

        • Andy says

          Jul 11, 2018 at 11:31 pm

          Justin Trudope

        • Stop Kafirophobia says

          Jul 12, 2018 at 5:29 pm

          Thanks, Kev.

  2. tedh754 says

    Jul 11, 2018 at 4:46 pm

    Jihadists seem to be saying they want to kill us, and if we don’t like it they will kill us for that.

    • Constance says

      Jul 11, 2018 at 6:07 pm

      Spot on.

    • Indiana Tom says

      Jul 11, 2018 at 9:15 pm

      Logical.

    • Sons of Liberty says

      Jul 11, 2018 at 11:41 pm

      Exactly !

    • Norger says

      Jul 12, 2018 at 7:01 pm

      Yes and we should be celebrating the rich and vibrant cultural diversity their death threats bring to us.

  3. Undaunted says

    Jul 11, 2018 at 5:32 pm

    This is why, increasingly, you need to be in charge of your own safety.

    https://www.amazon.com/Six-Actual-Need-Charge-These-Dangerous-ebook/dp/B075Z4PLKC

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 11, 2018 at 6:33 pm

      Thanks for the link, Undaunted.

  4. Lydia Church says

    Jul 11, 2018 at 6:03 pm

    As Christians, we carry our cross daily… as these news items reveal.
    Wow, interesting but not surprising.

  5. gravenimage says

    Jul 11, 2018 at 6:30 pm

    California: Muslim slides backpack under Counter-Jihad Coalition booth at mall, walks away
    …………………….

    Murder attempt or instilling fear over a murder attempt? One or the other, certainly.

    God, I hate Islam.

    The CJC are brave people.

  6. eduardo odraude says

    Jul 11, 2018 at 8:26 pm

    “Muslim slides backpack under Counter-Jihad Coalition booth at mall”

    Thus proving that the CJC is right.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 11, 2018 at 8:53 pm

      True–but Muslims don’t care about that. They just want to frighten us into silence.

  7. eduardo odraude says

    Jul 11, 2018 at 8:39 pm

    Maybe the thing to do next time is call the police and let them know, not just mall security. The interests, capacities and authority of mall security are different from interests, capacities, and authority of police. If mall security are hired and fired by mall business people, those business people will, yes, want things kept safe, of course, but will also want any threats handled as quietly as possible, kept as low key as possible, so as not to unnecessarily frighten away customers. Mall security may not care about making arrests or catching criminals, but only about preventing problems in the mall by whatever is the easiest and quickest possible method.

  8. tedh754 says

    Jul 11, 2018 at 9:18 pm

    I just saw there was a movie called “Children of a Lesser God.” About Muslims, is it?

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 11, 2018 at 9:38 pm

      No.

  9. Indiana Tom says

    Jul 11, 2018 at 9:19 pm

    I would say that for now it was a feint to to intimidate. Women were decoys to allow breathing room for the man to slip the pack under the table. This also was to test the waters. Eventually, they will go live and put a real bomb in the backpack.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 11, 2018 at 10:21 pm

      It still may have been a live bomb. The security guards had the Muslim remove the backpack–I don’t think they ever looked in the backpack.

    • Sons of Liberty says

      Jul 11, 2018 at 11:48 pm

      I agree Indiana Tom ! Why wasn’t the FBI called about this ? Oh, I forgot they are too busy trying to over turn a legal Presidential election !

  10. Norger says

    Jul 12, 2018 at 12:13 am

    It sounds like this was either:(1) an actual bombing attempt; (2) a dry run; or (3) an attempt to intimidate, essentially with a hoax bomb. I’m trying to be objective but I can’t conceive of any possible innocent explanation for why this man would deliberately place a backpack under that particular table, essentially mirroring the Tsarnaev brothers’ jihadi playbook. Which is why I’m surprised that it appears mall security simply let a potential (or actual) shopping mall jihadi terrorist go without at least calling the real police. I hope the local authorities are investigating the crap out of this, including looking at mall security footage to identify all of these people.

  11. Maxine says

    Jul 12, 2018 at 3:24 am

    The Police should have Been Called. This man Needed Looked at and to find out if it was a Real Bomb, If it was even a Dry run, He is a Threat! Why let him go Free? Sure as hell someone has Notified the Police, FBI, Going through Security Cameras? Find out who these People are? This is a BIG PROBLEM, As the Next time might just be the REAL BOMB GOING OFF AND KILLING MANY! Follow up on this Story would be Nice to see if anything is Being done to find these People.

    • Sons of Liberty says

      Jul 13, 2018 at 12:02 am

      Maxine , we hope so but don’t count on it ! Obama had anything related to Islam and jihad taken out of FBI TRAINING . Why were the Tsarnaev brothers not investigated when the Russians tipped off the United States about them ? Or the San Bernardino Muslim killers who should have set off RED FLAGS when re-entering the USA . The wife got a spouse Visa even though she was NOT FULLY VETTED being from Pakistan. Americans have paid the price for Obama’s actions in taking out ANYTHING that makes Islam look negative ,….LIKE JIHAD .

  12. Johm says

    Jul 12, 2018 at 3:50 am

    Allah or Satan ? Its Satan it always was . These lunatics will stop at nothing to kill you ! Throw them all out of the country now !

  13. Vicky says

    Jul 12, 2018 at 5:52 am

    This is insane. In many cities, authorities are not taking the real and present danger of muslim terrorism seriously. This is proof positive successful islamic terrorist attacks are eminent.

  14. Michael Copeland says

    Jul 12, 2018 at 8:43 am

    Learning curve urgently needed by mall security and their employers.
    Remember the muslim sisters in Canada who told authorities they feared they would be killed by their father? They were not taken seriously, but later their bodies were in that car in the canal in the accident faked by their father.

    Islam does not permit free speech.
    Islam does not permit kaffirs to explain Islam, or criticise it.
    The penalty is death.

  15. Mary says

    Jul 12, 2018 at 9:04 am

    I wonder why the Male didn’t want the backpack, could it be that he was afraid of being found out?

  16. Michael Copeland says

    Jul 12, 2018 at 9:07 am

    A textbook model of how NOT to deal with such an incident.

  17. Naildriver says

    Jul 12, 2018 at 10:06 am

    These clear and open directives from the Koran to murder those who oppose it should be clear enough evidence that those who identify as followers of Islam would be willing participants to uphold those directives for murder.
    It is not even a matter of interpretation or context — and, of course, many horrors of terrorist attacks reveal, from devotees — reading correctly, shows that Islam sanctions such acts and its most devoted practitioners follow them.

    It should therefore be incumbent upon the US government to declare Islam a menace and enemy — As Islam not only sanctions murder to those who oppose it, but would even ask it’s devotees to make war upon their host country to implement Islam.
    And, indeed Islam as expressed in sharia is now featured as the primary feature of law that overrides all other laws in constitutions in governments, it has over run across the Middle East and S. Asia, and N. Africa — Islam is a governmental body… and, it is the USA’s enemy!
    To most elected officials in our government I say; ‘Protect us from Islam, you venal upstarts, you greedy bought off traitors, cowards! — do your effing jobs! and at least honor your pledges to uphold the Constitution! Protect those you represent from a clear enemy, Islam.

  18. Jim in Jersey says

    Jul 12, 2018 at 11:04 am

    Sounds just a tad unbelievable.

    They suspected a terrorist bombing and no one called or reported it to the police??

    The feds and ATF were not notified??

    The suspect was allowed to remove the item in question and disappear from the scene??

    Where does this happen in this day and age?

    Not that I’m saying I don’t see a clear threat coming from our own government deliberately ushering in those bent on our destruction… Just saying it appears this story is being embellished.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 12, 2018 at 7:33 pm

      They just dealt with mall security. I’ve seen this kind of thing–the idea that the ATF is always notified is absurd.

  19. AD D says

    Jul 12, 2018 at 12:35 pm

    Like my muslim friend told me a while back, “I would never commit an act of terrorism, unless it was for the cause.” He’s from Pakistan and highly educated, a certified accountant with a high paying job, has a million dollar home, and is a devout muslim. Even though I’ve known him for a long time, I wouldn’t be surprised if one day, when called upon to do so, he’d commit an act of terrorism. After all, he told me so! Many may think that he’s embraced the US for the opportunities and good life he has here. Not so! He now has many family members who have migrated to the US and it seems they’ve edged him on to become more anti-American, anti-white, anti-police, anti-military, anti-Israel, anti-Christianity than ever before. He’s always been comfortable with me, but I’m becoming less and less comfortable with him. The actions of these muslims in Cerritos are not surprising to me at all.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 12, 2018 at 8:54 pm

      Jihad is *always* for the cause of Islam.

  20. don vito says

    Jul 12, 2018 at 2:54 pm

    Could someone try and dialogue with these saracens? S/

    • 6woods says

      Jul 12, 2018 at 6:21 pm

      Yup. Hearts and Minds. Hearts and Minds.

  21. Mal Feesence says

    Jul 12, 2018 at 7:11 pm

    I used to shop at that mall frequently; I live in the part of Anaheim that has recently been designated as ‘little arabia’ by a crooked, corrupt democrat, recently recalled…I know for a fact that jihadists are targeting this area and it is my guess that they will attempt a massive attack on Disneyland…I sincerely hope that I’m being excessively paranoid…

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 12, 2018 at 9:04 pm

      There must still be a lot of Infidels who shop here, or the CJC would not be trying to reach them.

  22. Dry Academy says

    Jul 13, 2018 at 12:34 am

    “it does not appear the man’s backpack was ever searched….”

    Oh, dear God. Are law enforcement really this incompetent? This is epic level retardation.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 13, 2018 at 12:37 am

      That’s what it sounds like from the article. They just asked him to remove it from under the CJC table.

      And this was not really law enforcement–just mall security.

  23. Valkyrie Ziege says

    Jul 13, 2018 at 11:03 am

    ; It was a practice run.

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