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Australia: Muslima who stabbed sleeping man in neck while screaming “Allahu akbar” pleads guilty

Sep 20, 2018 2:52 pm By Robert Spencer

“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” — Qur’an 47:4

“I just felt obligated, and it was like a burden on me. Yeah, I just had to do it.”

Yes, it was a religious obligations, but law enforcement, intelligence, and governmental authorities in Australia and elsewhere will continue to ignore the implications of that.

“Student admits Melbourne terrorist act,” by Melissa Iaria, Australian Associated Press, September 20, 2018:

A Bangladeshi student who plunged a knife into the neck of her Melbourne homestay host has pleaded guilty to engaging in a terrorist act in the name of violent jihad.

Momena Shoma, 25, entered the plea to a single charge during a brief Victorian Supreme Court hearing on Thursday.

The diminutive woman came to Australia under the guise of a student visa and had been in Australia a week when she allegedly took a 25cm kitchen knife to Roger Singaravelu’s neck as he dozed beside his five-year-old daughter.

By her plea, Shoma admitted the act at the Mill Park house last February was done with the intention of “advancing a political, religious or ideological cause, namely violent jihad”….

Shoma was enrolled in a masters of linguistics course at La Trobe University but had been looking for a moment to attack someone since arriving in Australia.

She told police she had been practising by stabbing a pillow during her stay with a different family earlier in the week but chose to attack Mr Singaravelu because, as he was sleeping, he was “very vulnerable”.

Shoma had been staying with his family 48 hours and he had barely spoken 50 words to her when he woke up to “excruciating” neck pain.

“I saw (her) right next to me. She was on her knees with both of her hands on a knife that was in my neck,” he said in his statement.

Mr Singaravelu said Shoma was repeating the words “allah akbar”.

He pushed her away, pulled the knife from his neck and fled with his daughter.

Shoma told police Islamic State had been encouraging women to carry out jihadist attacks in the West and most of her interaction with the group was via Facebook.

“I just felt obligated, and it was like a burden on me. Yeah, I just had to do it.”…

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  1. CogitoErgoSum says

    Sep 20, 2018 at 3:00 pm

    Where was her male guardian?

  2. StellaSaidSo says

    Sep 20, 2018 at 3:07 pm

    At least the monster is honest. Unlike the cowards who plead ‘mental illness’.

    • eduardo odraude says

      Sep 20, 2018 at 3:20 pm

      Many of them are quite blunt about their true motives. What happens is that non-Muslim defenders — lawyers and so-called civil rights organizations advise them after they are caught NOT to talk about religious motives but to plead any other cause, such as mental illness, ignorance of the host culture, etc. etc.

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Sep 20, 2018 at 3:40 pm

        Quite right, Eduardo. This one obviously was not persuaded by the dhimmi lawyers and ‘human rights’ brigade, and is clearly unrepentant.

        • Frank Anderson says

          Sep 20, 2018 at 7:25 pm

          New keyboard. Lost comment. Second try.
          Stella, please forgive the defense lawyers for doing their job. By US standards, which are probably similar to Australia’s, there can be no valid conviction without a zealous and competent defense. The duty of the defense lawyer is not to walk in and throw the defendant into a conviction, but to, within the bounds of the law and the standards of professional conduct, force the state to prove its case. I can explain further if you wish.

          This terrorist, as long as she is being treated as a common criminal instead of an unlawful enemy combatant out of uniform under the Geneva Conventions, must get “due process” in order to pay whatever paltry price the collaborators in power will charge

          Always remember with greatest pride that Adolf Eichmann was given every measure of due process when tried in Israel for his war crimes. To me this is not the crime of attempted murder, but a war crime of unlawful combat out of uniform by a cold-blooded terrorist. To me she and all like her should be treated as land-bound pirates, Enemies of All Mankind, and executed on the spot. That may be what it takes to slow down these attacks.

      • Gray says

        Sep 21, 2018 at 2:44 am

        I agree with you both, Eduardo and Stella. I had always naively accepted that a lawyer is an Officer of the Court, and that this basic principle actually means something. It must follow, then, that a lawyer must always be scrupulously honest with the Judge, and is therefore ethically barred from presenting a defence that the lawyer knows to be false. I’m beginning to suspect that many of our criminal lawyers must have dozed through all their mandatory classes on legal ethics, way back in their law school days.

        • Frank Anderson says

          Sep 21, 2018 at 4:29 am

          Gray, in 1982 I refused to help steal more than 200 Million dollars in present value after death threats and an offer of anything I wanted if I would join the party. I have also performed my duty a number of times of forcing the state to prove its case without ever advancing a lie. Your expectation that a lawyer is required to refrain from raising a competent defense for his client is simply an over simplification. It means he is doing his job of zealous advocacy as long as he stays within the bounds of the law and standards of professional conduct. Please take time and read the US Supreme Court case of Nix v. Whiteside, 475 U.S. 157 (1986).

          If a defense lawyer goes either way outside the limits, which are well-known by the judges and prosecutors, he can be hurt. If he fails to zealously and competently represent the client, any conviction will be thrown out on appeal. If he lies to the court or advances a lie, he will be disbarred and prosecuted for perjury. If he raises what is called an “affirmative defense” it is not a lie, but if the defense is not proved, he loses while performing his duty within the bounds of the law. Those are the clearly stated rules of professional conduct for all lawyers in the US. I predict Australia has similar.

          We recently had an election where 2 candidates that I otherwise wanted to vote for proudly announced they had never represented a criminal defendant and wanted to be elected as judges to hear criminal cases. Unless someone understands both sides of the process he cannot give a fair trial and wastes huge amounts of time and money on trials that will be reversed when appealed. I voted for the candidates who had experience in defense as well as prosecution. Both candidates with experience on both sides were elected by comfortable margins.

    • Enolagay says

      Sep 21, 2018 at 10:25 am

      Regardless mental illness will be pled for her.

      • Frank Anderson says

        Sep 21, 2018 at 10:47 am

        Enolagay, there is at least in the US a fair distance between pleading and proving. I wonder what will happen here?

  3. eduardo odraude says

    Sep 20, 2018 at 3:17 pm

    He was quite lucky to have survived that.

    Such a sick and brutal religion, Islam.

    Until a majority of Muslim-majority nations protect freedom of religion and free speech, there should be a moratorium on Muslim immigration to non-Muslim nations.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Sep 20, 2018 at 3:48 pm

      He was very lucky indeed. As was the little girl. Such an attack would have been fatal for a child.

      I totally agree re a moratorium on Muslim immigration to Western countries. It really is the only sensible course.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 20, 2018 at 6:24 pm

        +1

        • Rob Harris says

          Sep 20, 2018 at 11:30 pm

          +1

  4. Lynn says

    Sep 20, 2018 at 3:36 pm

    That is how Muslims say “thank you” for kindness shown to them by non-believers. After all, the family had opened their home to her.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 20, 2018 at 6:27 pm

      Exactly, Lynn.

    • Leon Degney says

      Sep 21, 2018 at 5:37 am

      Ahh.. At last, someone who can now see that acceptance and appeasement means nothing to this ratbag mob. In so many cases the enter countries with the express purpose of killing someone in the name of their Allah.

  5. FYI says

    Sep 20, 2018 at 3:46 pm

    What part of that Sixth commandment that condemns murder or attempted murder
    does the islamic brain not comprehend?

    If allah claims he wrote the Bible(in koran 3:3) then perhaps muslims can explain
    WHY neither allah himself,not its mass-murdering,champion commandment-of-God violating “prophet” muhammed nor muslims either OBEY OR KNOW any of them?

    Exodus 20:1-17 The official laws of God{……which the koran disagrees with!}

    Perhaps muslims ,the holiest people in the world,should explain why allah does NOT confirm to God’s laws.And muslims never do…

    koran 3:3 says the koran confirms the Bible.
    It does no such thing!!
    It contradicts and denies both the Torah and the Gospel.

    koran 3:3 is provably FALSE!

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Sep 20, 2018 at 5:49 pm

      Because ……. Muslims believe the Bible was corrupted by man and nothing in it can be trusted. If you are a Muslim the sixth commandment in the Bible does not take priority over kill the infidels per the Quran.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 20, 2018 at 6:57 pm

        Grimly true, CogitoErgoSum.

  6. Ren says

    Sep 20, 2018 at 4:14 pm

    Death penalty.

    • Andy says

      Sep 20, 2018 at 4:18 pm

      Diversity is our death!

    • European pagan says

      Sep 21, 2018 at 12:09 am

      Yes, death penalty is the best solution

  7. Marina says

    Sep 20, 2018 at 4:23 pm

    Deportation. No jail time at the expense of the taxpayers.

  8. gravenimage says

    Sep 20, 2018 at 5:53 pm

    Australia: Muslima who stabbed sleeping man in neck while screaming “Allahu akbar” pleads guilty

    “I just felt obligated, and it was like a burden on me. Yeah, I just had to do it.”
    ………………….

    It is a burden on Muslims when they are *not* trying to murder Infidels.

    God, I hate Islam.

    • ElderlyZionist says

      Sep 21, 2018 at 9:56 am

      Indeed. They can’t keep their own hands from murdering the people who try to help them. I don’t believe in demonic possession…but I’m starting to wonder about that.

      • Frank Anderson says

        Sep 21, 2018 at 10:04 am

        E.Z., I don’t know how we define elderly-should we just say experienced? Is where the teaching about “Ask every question repeatedly” comes in as both handy and meaningful. How many times in life do we need desperately to learn and change our minds? I have a whole lot, and dearly wish I had sooner and more frequently. I love the Proverb that was quoted almost every month for 12 years at military school, “A wise man harkeneth to counsel; A fool in his own eyes is always right.” (exact source version unknown). Every time I have listened to that advice, I have made better decisions.

  9. sidney penny says

    Sep 20, 2018 at 8:37 pm

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/04/australia-sleeping-man-feels-sharp-pain-in-his-neck-wakes-to-see-knife-wielding-muslima-screaming-allahu-akbar.

    “A father has told how there was ‘blood everywhere’ when an ISIS-inspired woman wearing a burqa and staying at his house screamed ‘Allahu Akbar’ as she allegedly stabbed him in the neck.”

    This stupid family thought they were doing a great deed by having a student in their house whose face they could not see!

  10. David M says

    Sep 20, 2018 at 9:06 pm

    She also would not rise for the judge when the judge came into the court. The best she could do was remove her face veil so she could be identified.

  11. No Fear says

    Sep 20, 2018 at 10:35 pm

    Will she be given a Koran and a prayer mat in jail? If so, then the Australian authorities are admitting that ISIS is following “true” islam and not a “corrupt” version of the faith. How many times do we here from governments and leftists that ISIS is not “true” Islam!

  12. SJ says

    Sep 21, 2018 at 6:34 am

    I still say those women should be taken to the SQUARE AND STONED!!

  13. J.W.K. says

    Sep 21, 2018 at 8:45 am

    f it had happened in Germany, Angie Baby Merkel would hve called it ,,ein Einzelfall.”(single or isolated case). Macron would yeny it, since there are, according to him,”no real Frenchmen or Danes….” Theresa May, AKA Teheran Terry the wonder Tootsie would say the man was islamophobic. Pansy Princess Justine Trudeau would bat his/her eyelashes.
    AND THESE ARE YOUR DULY ELECTED OFFICIALS!!!

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