Again we have an Islamic State inspired terrorist, “striking at the necks” of the unbeliever later pleading not guilty due to mental illness. Some sort of illness that mostly only targets one group, and we know it’s not genetic, as converts are particularly prone.
Personally I loathe these Jihadis and their supporters even more for blaming mental illness, I have known enough people genuinely afflicted, and it’s well known, with scientific evidence, sufferers of mental illness are at far greater risk of being the victim of violent assault than the perpetrator.
Well, luckily this time the courts did not fall for it, and Ihsas Khan is awaiting sentencing.
Story here from ABC.net.au
A jury has found Sydney man Ihsas Khan guilty of committing a terrorist act for stabbing his neighbour — an act he said was like “eating a chocolate bar”.
Khan was charged after attacking Wayne Greenhalgh in a driveway in the Sydney suburb of Minto on September 10, 2016.
Mr Greenhalgh sustained life-threatening injuries, but survived after running to a nearby hair dressing salon.
Khan showed no emotion when the verdict was read out in the Parramatta Supreme Court on Thursday, and simply sat back down after the judge finished his remarks.
He is due to be sentenced on May 23.
The guilty verdict comes from the sixth jury to hear the case, following a series of mistrials.
During one of his trials, the court heard Khan wanted to be “a martyr” and egged on police to shoot him after stabbing Mr Greenhalgh.
He was tasered, taken into custody and later charged with committing a terrorist act with the intent to influence the Australian Government.
Khan pleaded not guilty, because of mental illness.
A jury agreed with the prosecution’s argument that Khan had been planning to attack a civilian at random on, or around, September 11 to coincide with the anniversary of the Al Qaeda attacks on the United States.
Khan picked out his neighbour, Mr Greenhalgh, because he believed he was wearing a shirt with some sort of American motif on it.
When Mr Khan saw the blood he was heard to say: “What a beautiful sight this is.”
Locked out of the hairdressers, the court heard earlier in the trial that Khan stabbed at the glass door with the knife saying: “They killed our people, he should be killed too”, “Allah Akbar” and “they tried to kill my brothers and sisters in Iraq”.
After charging Khan, NSW Police said they knew Khan had “strong extremist beliefs inspired by ISIS”.
During an interview with a detective after being taken into custody, Mr Khan said he felt nothing about stabbing Mr Greenhalgh.
“How do you feel about eating a Picnic bar? You don’t really think about it,” he said.
The detective asked him whether he regretted what he did.
“No, not at all,” Mr Khan replied.
“This person you stabbed today, if he died how would that make you feel?” the detective asked.
“Nothing,” he replied.
Outside court, the officer in charge of the investigation Sergeant Daniel Schiavello said the verdict was “a great result for the victim and his family”.
“I have [spoken to them] and they’re very happy.”
Ashley says
Good grief…this terrorist was a pharmacy student:
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2019/05/02/sydney-man-ihsas-khan-guilty-of-terror-stabbing-after-three-trials/
gravenimage says
Thanks for that information, Ashley.
Ashley says
The court heard Khan was an academic high achiever who attended the selective Hurlstone Agricultural High and got high distinctions in his pharmacy degree at the University of Sydney.
However in 2013 he told his GP he thought the world was against Muslims and that he suffered anxiety attacks after watching violent videos on the internet. He subsequently spent 10 weeks in Campbelltown Hospital for psychiatric treatment.
He was born in Australia in 1993 a few months after his parents moved from Bangladesh. He had little contact, if any, with his father since he was 14. His mother died of cancer in 2015.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-30/minto-stabbing-sees-accused-terrorist-on-trial/9712110
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Wonder who paid for all that education?
Anxiety attacks from watching violent internet videos, eh? And yet he had no problem stabbing his neighbor.
Schrödinger says
Pleasing as it to see a legal system anywhere not fall for the near ubiquitous get out of jail ploy for jihadists nowadays about “mental illness”, and although Marc’s article covers many aspects of this case, and does mention the Court heard the Moslem “wanted to be a martyr”, it doesn’t quite stress one key detail: in his interview by the police, asked why he’d committed this act, the blood soaked jihadist shrugged, smiled, and stated “to kill and be killed”. Now where would he — really any Moslem — ever get such a crazy idea?
K9.111: Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise which is binding upon Him in Truth
Despite Islam’s supposed prohibition against suicide, it is this verse, more than any other, that is used to justify killing of the Kafir (non Moslem) in such a manner where the jihadist is also killed — hence the justification for suicide bombing. It is one of the few instances where the Koran explicitly states a Moslem doing so is guaranteed “Paradise” (with the added inducement of your “72 virgins”, should the jihadi be a male).
Much of this entire, shocking incident — a foretaste of much more to come to in Western countries — was variously captured on security footage at the victims home, in a nearby shop to where the victim, bleeding profusely, and where he’s lucky the door was slammed shut, fled for his life, and on police cam video when the perpetrator had to be tasered several times before being subdued.
Not that any mainstream media, our enemedia, is going to mention let alone elaborate upon this simple yet salient, critical fact about Islam and the motivations of jihadists.
CRUSADER says
I like your use of the term Moslem.
Almost as old school as Mohammedan.
gravenimage says
Fine post–this is orthodox Jihad.
carpediadem says
Tweeted the Islamic verse part of your comment, Schrodinger.
Was the victim Jewish, I wonder?
CRUSADER says
“a foretaste of much more to come to in Western countries”
Get your 2nd Amendment Right ready, those of you who have one !
Rufolino says
How will we know about, “much more to come”, if the Western media decline to report it ?
BlueYonder says
He was (allegedly) a pharmacy student but was he ever a pharmacist?
Was he gainfully employed or did the (reportedly “reclusive”) genius
prefer to stay home and watch ISIS propaganda rather the dispense the
healing benefits of pharmacology to citizens like the decent and valiant man of 57 years
walking past his house?
As for who paid for his education, it would be through Australia’s universal HECS student loan system -they have to pay it back when they are in employment (maybe even by working in the prison laundry system?).
Australia gives these people everything and yet they are still miserable and full of hate.
What would he be doing back in Bangladesh?
Bangladesh – in the 19th century the British (yes the hated colonialists) built Bangladesh’s first railway system; later they introduced modern plumbing and sewage (water pipes and flushing toilets). Meanwhile in Europe there were escalating advances in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and, yes!, in pharmacology…but it all means nothing to this son of Bangladeshi immigrants.
But one thing is for sure -he may be behind bars but he will never be behind a counter dispensing life-saving medicines (I wonder what he will do with all that education).
Niemoller says
Oh no, a “terror attack”! Send out the keystone cops!
Not calling it an Islamic terror attack is like reporting that there is a “disease epidemic”.
Heart disease? Rabies? Measles?
JW readers get the point; apparently the quisling politicasters who chumming for Islamist votes pretend not to.
tim gallagher says
This particular man may well have a severe psychiatric illness, but, as many people have said before, here at Jihad Watch, if you are brought up in very violent ideology like Islam, which encourages hatred and violence towards non-Muslims, then, if you do develop a psychiatric illness, you are far more likely to carry out some type of violent attack than if, say, you were brought up in a peaceful religion like Christianity or ,say, Quakerism or the Amish religion. Anyway, this guy is another totally negative type of Muslim migrant to Australia and will be in gaol for the rest of his life, costing a fortune and contributing nothing economically or in any other positive way to the country at all. It’s the same story in so many other countries as well. I can’t think of any of our Buddhist migrants behaving like this. And what a disaster for Mr Greenhalgh, the victim, who just happened to be unfortunate enough to be living near this murderous Muslim. In the TV news report last night, this would be terrorist, Khan, apparently said that, his Muslim “brothers” in gaol, told him to try the mental illness defence in his court case.
CRUSADER says
PROTECT YOUR NECKS !!!
— all of you Patriots who stick your necks out for The Good Cause!
U.S. Marines leather neckbands worn early on were to protect Marines from the slash of the cutlass from their vicious adversaries at sea and on shores, when conflict with Barbary pirates flared up. Under U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, the Marine Corps was employed in numerous operations against the Islamic pirates and the north African countries that sponsored their assaults along the Mediterranean coasts. Famously, U.S. “Leatherneck” Marines led an overland assault and captured the city of Derna in Tripoli in 1805 (hence the line in the Marines’ Hymn, “the shores of Tripoli”).
gravenimage says
Ihsas Khan found guilty of stabbing his neighbour in Sydney terror attack
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Good verdict. I hope he gets a stiff sentence, and is then deported afterwards.
David M says
Political correctness is running wild here in Australia. Sydney police have been forced to apologise for portraying terrorists as Arabs in a training exercise they did. In other words despite the fact 99% of all terrorists are Arabs, don’t you dare portray terrorists as Arabs!
https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwitpKXqlf7hAhXPYysKHZlVDNAQ0PADMAF6BAgFEAk&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fnational%2Fnsw%2Fnsw-police-ordered-to-apologise-for-vilifying-arabs-in-terror-exercise-20190502-p51jfd.html&usg=AOvVaw2SBOjsBpbd5eU-R3MGpGug
CRUSADER says
Quakers are peaceful?
Aren’t they going to out breed everybody and take over the world?