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Lawyers for Muslim convicted of jihad stabbing at Michigan airport claim he suffered discrimination

Apr 12, 2019 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

The victim card keeps on getting played, even in the most preposterous of circumstances, such as in this case, apparently because it continues to work. Amor Ftouhi’s lawyers claim he suffered as a Muslim in Canada, one of the world’s most welcoming countries, and that his jihad attack was not jihad, despite his repeated avowals that he stabbed the policeman for Allah. The worst aspect of this is that some people are likely to fall for it.

“Lawyers for Montreal man convicted of U.S. terrorist attack argue he was victim of discrimination in Canada,” by Stewart Bell, Global News, April 11, 2019 (thanks to the Geller Report):

A Montreal man convicted of terrorism for a 2017 knife attack at a U.S. airport was disappointed with his life in Canada and wanted to die by “killing to be killed,” his lawyers argued Thursday.

The lawyers asked for a 25-year-sentence for Amor Ftouhi, who travelled to Michigan on a “mission” to kill U.S. government employees but was subdued after stabbing a police officer.

In their sentencing submission, the lawyers said Ftouhi had immigrated to Canada from Tunisia in 2007 but lived off welfare and worked at “menial jobs,” which they attributed to Canadian intolerance.

“Mr. Ftouhi’s struggle to find employment was not unique to him. He was among many Muslims in Canada (Quebec especially) experiencing discrimination and Islamophobia,” they argued, citing the January 2017 Quebec mosque shooting.

Rather than an ideological extremist, Ftouhi was hopeless as a result of being “wholly unprepared for the challenges he would face both as a first-generation immigrant and as a Muslim in a predominantly Christian city,” they wrote.

The 51-year-old former school janitor and delivery driver was convicted of terrorism last November for the June 21, 2017, stabbing of an officer at Bishop International Airport in Flint, Michigan.

He faces a possible life sentence at a hearing next week.

Following the attack, he told the FBI he was a “soldier of Allah,” supported the ideology of al-Qaida and believed the United States was the enemy.

“Ftouhi stated he wanted to kill a USG [U.S. government] employee at a location that would receive worldwide attention and therefore, Donald Trump would hear him,” according to an FBI report.

“Ftouhi wanted other Muslims to see his actions and not be afraid to fight the enemies of Allah.”

The FBI report, a seven-page summary of Ftouhi’s statement on the day of his arrest, said he had been a supporter of Osama bin Laden [UBL] long before coming to Canada and had planned to kill police officers.

While living in Tunisia, Ftouhi told the FBI, he had “celebrated” the Sept. 11, 2001, killings and praised bin Laden for organizing them. He said he was “upset” when bin Laden was killed.

“Ftouhi believes there is a war on Muslims and agrees with UBL’s statements that the USG is the problem. Ftouhi stated that when AQ [al-Qaida] and UBL attacked the USG, it was done for Allah.”

He also claimed he was a victim of discrimination in Montreal because his car tires were once slashed, he didn’t get prayer breaks at work and he missed out on delivery jobs because he refused to transport alcohol.

After losing his driving job, he decided “enough was enough and it was time for him to act,” the FBI wrote.

He researched how to buy a firearm in the U.S. and drove to a Michigan gun show but vendors wouldn’t sell to him because he wasn’t a U.S. citizen. Instead, he bought a $15 knife.

He then began searching for targets, settling on the Flint airport. The day before the attack, he visited the airport and observed police, then slept in his vehicle in a nearby parking lot….

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  1. mortimer says

    Apr 12, 2019 at 5:09 pm

    They don’t treat him like the heir to the throne, ergo they are discriminating against him.

    He has an entitlement complex, even a royalty complex.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 12, 2019 at 7:37 pm

      Good analysis, Mortimer. After all, Muslims are to be recognized as the “best of peoples”.

      • J D.S says

        Apr 13, 2019 at 10:17 am

        ….and THE WORLD STANDS STILL…
        After these many centuries of mayhem committed by muslims THE WORLD CONTINUE TO STAND STILL!
        Unbelievable?…well maybe not.

        • J D.S says

          Apr 13, 2019 at 10:26 am

          Oh by the way….A lot of emphasis is being placed on our southern border, well deserved, but what about our northern border? A border of a most welcoming, nation to muslims?
          I sure home some notice is being taken of this.

    • Wellington says

      Apr 12, 2019 at 8:29 pm

      I suppose, mortimer, we could call it an “Islam complex.”

      Guess it’s all due, a la Omar, to “some people doing something” back in the seventh century and led by a guy named “Mohammed.”

      The world to this day is still paying for that 7th century “something.” Big time.

      • mortimer says

        Apr 12, 2019 at 10:43 pm

        Yes, let’s discuss his sense of ENTITLEMENT …

        … in the 7th century Muslims earned their living by LETTING THE KAFIRS do the dirty work … and then Muslims EXTORTED the fruits of the kafirs’ labor from them.

        QUOTE FROM SERMON: “The Ruling on Dispossessing the Disbelievers wealth in Dar al-Harb”
        by Shaykh Anwar al-Awlaki

        “It is narrated that some of the şaĥābah who moved to the land of al-Sham for jihad began acquiring farms and cultivating them. These were fertile lands with an abundance of water that they were not used to seeing in their native lands of Hijaz. When the khalīfah Umar heard that, he waited until harvest season and right before the şaĥābah started harvesting their land. He then ordered that they be burnt to the ground. He then assembled the şaĥābah and told them: “Farming is the role of the people of book. YOU SHOULD BE FIGHTING IN THE CAUSE OF ALLAH” Umar did not want the şaĥābah to be tied down to this earth by professions that would hold them back from jihad in the path of Allah.

        They wanted to be free from restrictions that would enslave them like the rest of humanity. The statement of Umar implies that the people who are attached to this life, the people of the book (kafirs), should do this MENIAL WORK. But you, the Muslims, should seek your provisions by the STRENGTH OF YOUR SWORDS.”

        • elee says

          Apr 13, 2019 at 2:12 pm

          +100,000. Thanks for your scholarship, IMHO and all nothing else so clearly illustrates the difference between our culture and theirs.

        • elee says

          Apr 13, 2019 at 2:53 pm

          Koran 33:28

  2. Frank Anderson says

    Apr 12, 2019 at 5:14 pm

    This is where a judge, prosecutor and bar should be looking at the lawyer for making a groundless argument. “A lawyer’s duty of zealous advocacy of his client’s interest is limited by an equally solemn duty to uphold the law and standards of professional conduct.” Nix v. Whiteside, 475 U.S. 157 (1986).

  3. Hugh Fitzgerald says

    Apr 12, 2019 at 5:40 pm

    He was a janitor and delivery driver where? in Canada, or in Tunisia? He lived off the welfare system in generous Canada but expected more — possibly made Senior Partner in a law firm, or a bank vice-president, or a tenured profess of Islamic studies, and when none of those jobs was his for the asking he became understandably agitated, and what better way to express your disappointment with your life in Canada than to take a plane to America, and when you are in the American airport, try to stab someone to death just to show how very upset you are at the treatment you’re received. It all makes perfect sense.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 12, 2019 at 7:44 pm

      +1

    • Jayme says

      Apr 13, 2019 at 8:47 am

      Hugh Fitzgerald

      Many recent muslims have taken issues with the housing they are given saying its like 3rd world living now this is social housing nothing high end but its still not 3rd world.

  4. Christopher Watson says

    Apr 12, 2019 at 5:54 pm

    As a moslem, and therefore a superior person, he obviously felt he was doing work which was beneath him. Yet he also felt he should have prayer breaks and shouldn’t be required to transport alcohol. Maybe he was doing a menial job because he didn’t have much education; not because of Canadian ‘intolerance’. Moslems seem to spend most of their time kissing a prayer mat and discriminating against everyone else.

  5. lebel says

    Apr 12, 2019 at 6:02 pm

    I agree that this is ridiculous. Even if it was true that Canada is intolerant (its not), it still would not justify this.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 12, 2019 at 7:51 pm

      Wow–lebel thinks that this Muslim might have been going a wee bit too far in showing his displeasure in being given asylum and the dole in Canada by heading to a neighboring nation and trying to stab a police officer to death.

      What if this was just old fashioned Jihad? Would lebel whole-heartedly approve of it then?

      • lebel says

        Apr 13, 2019 at 6:10 pm

        Reason n. 543 why one should never ever condemn anything on jihadwatch:

        1. Whatever you say will be interpreted as support for terrorism.

        Example

        1. Terrorism happens somewhere
        2. Evil buttslim/Demoncrat leftard condemns it: “wow, this is horrible!”
        3. GI comment: “horrible that there were not enough infidel victims eh? nice try!”

        This bring me incidentally to Jihadwatch rule n. 23:

        GI has the reading comprehension skills of a dull third grader

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 13, 2019 at 7:13 pm

          lebel wrote:

          Reason n. 543 why one should never ever condemn anything on jihadwatch:
          …………………..

          Actually, lebel regularly condemns things here at Jihad Watch–it is just vanishingly rare that what he condemns is Jihad. Mostly what he condemns is any opposition to Jihad.

          With the above, he has now–vaguely and with caveats–said something critical about Muslims attacking Infidels twice that I have seen in all the years he has been commenting here.

          Note that even with prompting he will not say that he would condemn this attack if it were simple Jihad–as it clearly is.

          More:

          1. Whatever you say will be interpreted as support for terrorism.
          …………………..

          lebel has spouted apologia for Jihad here for years.

          The claim that posters here at Jihad Watch regularly interpret anyone who says anything critical of terrorism as being in support of terrorism makes, of course, no sense whatsoever.

          lebel has said many times here that he would robustly condemn Jihad, but is–somehow–prevented from doing so by Jihad Watch itself.

          More:

          Example

          1. Terrorism happens somewhere
          2. Evil buttslim/Demoncrat leftard condemns it: “wow, this is horrible!”
          3. GI comment: “horrible that there were not enough infidel victims eh? nice try!”
          …………………..

          This is, of course, absurd–I have never used the terms “buttslim”, “Demoncrat”, or “leftard”–telling that the dishonest lebel has nothing truthful to say against me at all.

          More:

          This bring me incidentally to Jihadwatch rule n. 23:

          GI has the reading comprehension skills of a dull third grader
          …………………..

          Note that–as is most often the case–lebel is incapable of citing anything I actually got wrong. He has to stoop to ludicrous ad hominem attacks and false attributions, because he has nothing else.

        • Wellington says

          Apr 14, 2019 at 12:18 pm

          Excellent rebuttal, gravenimage.

  6. Wellington says

    Apr 12, 2019 at 6:54 pm

    For real and true discrimination just look to any Muslim-majority nation. No exceptions—only the degree being a variable.

    Islam excels in discrimination. It is one of its chief defining characteristics since wherever Islam truly dominates it sets up a Jim Crow system based not on race but on belief.

    And when, btw, exactly, verily and so on, is a Christian church or Jewish synagogue, a Buddhist or Hindu temple, to be built in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iran, et al.? Meanwhile, Muslims aplenty come to Western nations and build their mosques by the hundreds, by the thousands. Not just unequal here but hypocritically and disgustingly unequal here is the ENTIRE religion of Islam. Shame on all Muslims for this; ditto for all non-Muslims in the West who make excuses for Mohammedanism.

    Any Muslim with any decency left in him or her should be ashamed of Islam’s human rights record. Or of Islam’s sense of fair play. Or of Islam’s record on liberty. Or Islam respecting the rights of non-Muslims compared to Muslims.

    Or… Or… Or…. Yeah lots of “ors” here and Islam owns them all.

  7. gravenimage says

    Apr 12, 2019 at 7:22 pm

    Lawyers for Muslim convicted of jihad stabbing at Michigan airport claim he suffered discrimination
    …………….

    Uh…right. He was discriminated by the mean, bigoted Canadians offering him asylum and welfare, so he had to come to the United States to try to murder US officials and policemen…

  8. James says

    Apr 12, 2019 at 8:14 pm

    It seems to me that blaming discrimination is the standard leftist excuse for criminals. They would not have committed crimes if they had not been victims of discrimination. But of course some victims of discrimination have a moral sense different from their resentments and independent. These victims do not commit jihad in many cases. So really this is not such a great excuse. The Twin Towera terrorists were not victims of discrimination, they enjoyed the benefits of the West and still “did something”.

  9. Indiana Tom says

    Apr 12, 2019 at 8:47 pm

    Ftouhi stated that when AQ [al-Qaida] and UBL attacked the USG, it was done for Allah.” Which makes it okay? Gauging from Muslim reaction to the 9-11 attacks, this is probably majority Muslim thinking. Seems some people in Congress think the same way.

  10. elee says

    Apr 12, 2019 at 8:59 pm

    He’s been convicted. Next event is sentencing. He gets to live rent-free in an exclusive gated community with boys like pearls and all the damned dawa he could ever inflict on the defenceless. Like martyrdom, complete with special meals, only he doesn’t have to die first. He’s welcome to live there as long as I live here. His vocational experience, both the “menial jobs” and the “government benefits” portions, have prepared him. Oh and they can celebrate “some people did something” all he wants. Maybe he can levy some pruno to celebrate, from the boys like pearls.

    POS. Him & the imam he rode in on.

    • Simo Hayha says

      Apr 13, 2019 at 6:54 am

      This subhuman, illiterate, unskilled, uneducated wasn’t qualified for anything more than the very least of menial tasks. But, the thing is, he is NOT exceptional of people immigrating from shithole countries. The Mexicans, Central Americans, and South Americans forming these “caravans” of humanity are no different in qualifications. They ALL, at least 90% of them, will require free apartments, free food, free medical, cash stipends, schools for the future terrorists, etc. Few have ever been vaccinated against contagious diseases. Few have ANY trades training, as did OUR forbears who came from Europe and Asia with skills that immediately enabled them to find employment that supported families. These wretched pieces of donkey dung are being PAID by SOME insidious organized bunch of NWO to pay for their journeys to The Land Of Plenty, but when they get in, they look around with hands outstretched asking :How Much Do I Get Every Month Without Having To Work?” The earthquake and Tsunami that struck Northern Japan several years back killed thousands. THIS Tsunami of people will kill, directly or indirectly, many times more.

  11. tedh754 says

    Apr 12, 2019 at 9:55 pm

    They are eternal victims but they won’t move to KSA.

  12. Lydia Church says

    Apr 12, 2019 at 10:09 pm

    Even if this were true, but of course it’s just the victim card, that would give everyone a free pass to commit murder, even mass murder, because they suffered wrongly at some point in life! Boo-hoo, they called him a pedophile and a rapist for joining a rape gang, so now he lashed out by slaughtering everyone in sight! Poor victim!

  13. Halal Bacon says

    Apr 12, 2019 at 10:10 pm

    what colour is islam exactly?

    • Wellington says

      Apr 12, 2019 at 10:26 pm

      Often blood red.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 13, 2019 at 7:32 pm

        +1

  14. TruthHonestReality says

    Apr 13, 2019 at 1:48 am

    If he gets a jury trial all you need is one Democrap on the jury and then he’s a free man. These Democraps blame white people for everyone’s problems. Look at how all these women and men that have been raped by mu slime s that say they deserved being raped because white people have discriminated against mu slime s – it’s leftist insanity.

  15. Arthur says

    Apr 13, 2019 at 2:08 pm

    typical muslim:
    Ftouhi had immigrated to Canada from Tunisia in 2007 but lived off welfare and worked
    who should pay his bills? of course non muslims. Next muslim migrant expects his bills should by paid by someone else, just living like a parasite
    Who pays taxes into national budget and welfare????????????????

  16. Truth says

    Apr 14, 2019 at 9:50 am

    This criminal should be placed by police in Lake Michigan in a rowboat. Then let Michigan deer hunters take pot shots at him with their deer rifles.

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