“I was planning to kill unfair and cruel people, those who make it possible for the Prophet Mohammed to be insulted…I wanted to defend my religion and make it clear that my religion should be left alone. If you don’t do that, you should be prepared for these kind of actions.”
This presents free societies with a choice. Either they defend the freedom of speech and refuse to allow any belief system to be placed beyond criticism, or they implement Sharia blasphemy laws and criminalize criticism of Islam in order to try to prevent “these kinds of actions.” In other words, it’s either fight or surrender. Most of the Western political and media elites are in full surrender mode.
“Afghan ‘who stabbed two American tourists’ at Amsterdam train station says he travelled to Holland ‘to protect the Prophet Mohammed’ and ‘kill unfair and cruel people,'” by James Gant, Mailonline, September 2, 2019 (thanks to Fjordman):
An Afghan man suspected of stabbing two American tourists last year at Amsterdam’s Central Station has told judges he travelled to the Netherlands ‘to protect the Prophet Mohammed’.
Jawed Santani, 20, appeared at a two-day hearing in a heavily fortified courtroom in Amsterdam, where he faces two attempted murder charges with the aim of committing an act of terror.
‘I came to the Netherlands to protect my prophet,’ he told the judges in reference to the August 31 incident last year that sent midday commuters into a panic and left two severely injured victims.
Moments after the stabbings, the Afghan asylum seeker was shot in the hip by police officers, officials say. ‘I came to the Netherlands to protect my prophet,’ he told the judges in reference to the August 31 incident last year that sent midday commuters into a panic and left two severely injured victims
‘I was planning to kill unfair and cruel people, those who make it possible for the Prophet Mohammed to be insulted,’ national news agency ANP quoted him as saying.
Santani previously mentioned anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders, and his knife assault came a day after the far-right MP announced he was cancelling moves to stage a cartoon competition to caricature the Prophet Mohammed.
Wilders pulled the plug on the competition at the time saying he wanted to ‘avoid the risk of making people victims of Islamist violence’.
Asked what Santani planned to achieve with his action, he told judges ‘I wanted to defend my religion and make it clear that my religion should be left alone.
‘If you don’t do that, you should be prepared for these kind of actions,’ he said.
Two American tourists were seriously injured in the lunchtime attack inside the Dutch capital’s busy station next to its historic city centre….