He told people he was with the Islamic State, but Cologne officials are discounting that because he “may have been suffering from psychological problems, appeared dishevelled with unkempt long hair and a three-day beard, and was under the influence of alcohol.”
That only clean-shaven people with neatly combed hair can be jihadis is actually unproven. That he was drinking is immaterial, because jihadis know that their act of jihad will outweigh any sins they commit. “We shall set up scales of justice for the Day of Judgment,” says the Qur’an (21:47): if one’s good deeds outweigh one’s evil deeds, one will go to Paradise, but if one’s evil deeds outweigh one’s good deeds, one will go to hell. And what good deed weighs the most? A hadith has a Muslim asking Muhammad: “Instruct me as to such a deed as equals Jihad (in reward).” Muhammad replied, “I do not find such a deed.” (Bukhari 4.52.44)
So if a believer goes on jihad, his good deeds will outweigh all his evil deeds. Thus if a jihadist knows he is about to wage a great jihad, he knows its value will outweigh anything evil he has done, and he can relax a bit, have a few drinks, etc.
He “may have been suffering from psychological problems”? If so, then he may have decided to wage jihad as an attempt to get into Allah’s good graces and do something to outweigh all the evil deeds he had committed. In any case, “mental illness” is a common dodge for officials today who want to downplay and deny the idea that a jihad attack has been committed. It is used so often as to invite doubt and ridicule whenever it is invoked.
“Cologne officials hesitate to label attack ‘terrorism,'” by David Crossland, Handelsblatt Global, October 17, 2018:
German federal prosecutors are due to take over the investigation into the hostage-taking at Cologne’s main train station on Monday in a sign it is being treated as a possible terrorist attack.
Authorities said they weren’t ruling out terrorism but are keeping an open mind after it emerged that the attacker, a 55-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker, may have been suffering from psychological problems, appeared dishevelled with unkempt long hair and a three-day beard, and was under the influence of alcohol.
Police said he lived in Cologne and had come to Germany at the height of the refugee crisis in 2015. His residence permit is valid until 2021. The suspect amassed a lengthy criminal record in just two short years for various crimes including theft and causing injury.
Reunification visaHis wife lives in Syria but has twice been denied a family reunification visa. He also has a son, who lives in Offenbach near Frankfurt. The son was also questioned by police.
The attack began in the McDonald’s inside the station early on Monday afternoon after he poured a gasoline and the floor and set it alight. The resulting explosion was recorded by a video surveillance camera. A 14-year-old girl was seen fleeing the restaurant with her legs on fire and had to undergo an operation for burns. Police said other customers in the restaurant were lucky not to have been seriously injured.
When the sprinkler system turned on, the man ran into a pharmacy in the station and took a female employee hostage. In negotiations with the police he demanded the release of a Tunisian woman being held in jail as well as free passage. He also demanded a suitcase and a bag he had left behind in the McDonald’s.
The police said he told passersby he belonged to the “terror group Daesh,” which is the Arabic acronym for Islamic State….
mortimer says
2015 slogan was… ” They are not dangerous…”
2018 reality is … “They have been dangerous since they arrived in 2015!”
Germany needs new mechanisms for deportation and they need to apply the laws for deportation already on the books.
Kay says
Redefining reality seems to be a specialty nowadays. I really worry for the young generation who are subjected to this as “education.”
CogitoErgoSum says
So here we have another Muslim migrant who fled to Europe leaving his wife behind. What is his interest in the Tunisian woman who is in jail? Could it have anything to do with the Quran granting a man permission to have up to four wives?
Westman says
The Islam steps of repentence:
Recognize you’ve done wrong, review the attainment of Jannah(despite sin) by Jihad, commit to destroying unbelievers, carry it out and possibly die, and finally, become the subject of media apologists for your, “mental illness”
No Motive?
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Walter Sieruk says
If in that the violent Muslim the his dangerous behavior in the city of Cologne, Germany may not really acted in such an outrageously awful way because of “the influence of alcohol”‘ but because of the influence of Islam with its vicious jihad , Surah 5:33 9;5 111 .47:4 just to site only of many such verse for Islam’s “holy book.”. Such Islamic terrors and even worse Muslim violence will continue to occur on the many cities and towns on the different nations of Europe ,especially since so many Muslim have now immigrated in the many countries of Europe.
This recent malicious, jihadist threat in city of Cologne by that jihad- minded Muslim is a reminder of the sad and tragic reality of jihad-minded Muslims engaging in Islamic suicide/homicide bombings attacks is for a large part, the outcome the extreme brainwashing that is performed in Islamic mind programming centers which are mosques and madrasas. In those jihad mind control places students are thoroughly indoctrinated into the jihadist mindset of committing murderous bombing attacks in the jihad for the advancement of Islam. As Islam’s “holy book,” the Quran instructs in 9:111. , for example, “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain they kill and are killed.” Therefore, those who come out of those Quran based mind programming centers .mosque and madrasas, are so terribly harmed and damaged that they are literally, as it has be rightfully called, “dangerous to self and others.” This results in jihad suicide /homicide attack in which those jihadists who commit such murderous actions are so very deluded that they think of that jihad mass murders as “martyrdom operations.” This is Islamic delusion of the most heinous and malicious kind.
This may be, somewhat, explained by the narrative from the fable of Aesop which is entitled THE SCORPION AND THE FROG So “Once upon a time there was a scorpion who really wanted to get to the other side of the river, but he could not swim. Therefore, the scorpion begged a frog to carry him on his back across the river. The kind but foolish frog agreed and then half-way across the river the scorpion stung the frog. In shock and horror the dying frog asks the scorpion “Why did you sting me since this means that we both are going to die” The scorpion replied “The reason that I stung you even though we both will now die is because that just what a scorpion, by nature, does.”
In conclusion, just as that scorpion in the fable had proven himself by the dangerous and deadly, to self and others, because of his nature. The violent and murderous jihadists of Islam are as that scorpion, dangerous so self and other because they is their nature because they have been thought programmed in the ways of the violent and murdering jihad of Islam. As always stated above ,this is the sad and tragic reality of Islamic terrorism in today’s world.
Walter Sieruk says
The many apologists for Islam will fast to proclaim That Islam forbid Muslims to drink alcohol so the dangerous man in the city of cologne , Germany couldn’t have been a “true Muslim.”
This is an old cover-up line and excuse that was given for the murderous jihad -minded Muslim who in the city of Orlando , Florida who engaged mass murder by shooting many people in a “gay” nightclub.on the date of June 12, 2016.. After that many apologists for Islam were quick to say that the shooter might have had some homosexual tendencies himself so he couldn’t be a “true Muslim.”
This excuse a very lame smokescreen . As the above jihadwatch article well explains if a Muslim does actually dies in a jihad attack for the cause of Islam, in what they call a “Martyrdom operation,” all of his sins are wiped away.
This of course includes the sins of alcoholism and homosexuality.
alex smythe says
Walter: not just that, but it is well-known that most of the 9/11 terrorists drank plenty of vodka and other alcoholic beverages and even frequented strip clubs, etc. prior to carrying out the 9/11 attacks in the U.S.
I also remember that some people were saying that the terrorist truck driver in Nice, France, drank alcohol,so therefore he couldn’t have been a Muslim.
Anjuli Pandavar says
The First World War wasn’t actually a war. Those poor sods in the trenches appeared a bit, well, disheveled.
gravenimage says
Officials hesitate to call Cologne hostage-taking “terrorism” because migrant jihadi “appeared disheveled”
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Yeah–because crazed Jihadists are always such spiffy dressers…sarc/off
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Molly Brown says
Some Eastern Germans tried to fight back by destroying asylum centers (setting them ablaze) before the economic migrants even arrived. One guy who was caught (a volunteer fireman) set a fire in a Center’s attic because it would cause the least damage but make the dwelling inhabitable. The German man was arrrested and fined for a first offense and does not have to serve prison time. He was lucky.
Lone wolves who fight back risk losing their liberty, reputations, livelihoods, etc.
The one thing that frightened Mad Merkel & her cronies the most was a flash mob protest in Chemnitz recently. Police were overwhelmed & understaffed. The protests grew to over 10,000 people that the lying Press (lugenpresse) initially identified as a bunch of Nazis. No one with a logical brain believed the government propaganda after seeing the film footage! Especially in Eastern Germany where Stasi control tactics are still remembered today by indigenous Europeans!
The most compelling display of truth and solidarity was the protest involving citizens holding up poster size pictures of deceased Europeans killed by migrants in the past three years! Names, locations, birth & death dates were listed on each poster picture. YouTube videos displayed this visual protest without the need for language translation. Most migrants & Westerners know rudimentary English. Videos need to be subtitled in English so the world sees and reads about the truth. Most Americans only speak English. Many have no idea what is being shouted and protested in German, French, Italian, etc. Without subtitles YouTube videos are limited in their impact and story telling.