If this turns out to be accurate, will investigators try to determine if his reading of the Islamic scriptures led him to carry out this attack? The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).
Or will this possibility be ignored, as investigating it would be “Islamophobic”?
“And So It Begins: Family of Suspect Says He Is “Mentally Ill” — Latest Updates On Monsey Attack [Updated 6:35PM],” Yeshiva World, December 29, 2019 (thanks to the Geller Report):
REACAP [sic]: A knife-wielding man stormed into the Monsey home of the Kossoner Rebbe (Rabbi Rottenberg) and stabbed five people as they celebrated Chanukah, an ambush the governor said Sunday was an act of domestic terrorism fueled by intolerance and a “cancer” of growing hatred in America.
Police tracked a fleeing suspect to Manhattan and made an arrest within hours of the attack Saturday night in Monsey. Grafton E. Thomas had blood all over his clothing and smelled of bleach when officers stopped him, prosecutors said.
Thomas, 37, was arraigned Sunday and pleaded not guilty to five counts of attempted murder and one count of burglary. Bail was set at $5 million and he remains jailed.
UPDATE 6:35PM: The suspect sccused [sic] of going on a stabbing rampage in Monsey is “not a terrorist” – he’s just “mentally ill”. This is according to family which spoke to the NY Post.
Grafton Thimas [sic]- is “not a violent person,” according to his pastor of 10 years, Reverend Wendy Paige of the Hudson Highlands Cooperative Parish.
“Grafton is not a terrorist, he is a man who has mental illness in America and the systems that be have not served him well,” Paige said.
“I have been his pastor for a long time and I have seen him, he is not a violent person, he is a confused person.”
–@YWN via NY PostNY Post
UPDATE 3:45PM: Authorities are investigating whether Grafton Thomas, the man charged in a machete attack in Monsey last night, is tied to the recent brutal assault and stabbing in Monsey that has been unsolved. In that stabbing, a 29-year-old Mordechai Schlesinger was stabbed as he walked to Shul early one morning….
UPDATE 1:30PM: A highly credible law-enforcement source tells YWN that the Monsey stabbing attack suspect ,Thomas E. Grafton, is a RECENT MUSLIM CONVERT….
Gork says
I guess I should be surprised, but I’m not.
mortimer says
AL WALAA WAL BARAA … loving or hating what Allah loves or hates … normative Islam …
– “The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vIBijzg4w
Niemoller says
I’d be surprised if he wasn’t Muslim or from the so-called Black Hebrews cult.
Infidel says
Precisely! When I heard that the assailant was Black, I quickly concluded the same thing.
Yet Bill de Blassio and Andrew Cuomo wanna pin it all on the President and the alt-Right. Dov Hikind said it best by pointing out that this was a Leftist assault on the Jews
Terry Gain says
De Blasio is sick.
Bruce Wayne says
further proof that we are not islamophobes for not wanting muslims to come to the U.S.
Roger Woodhouse says
Islam attracts the ‘mentally ill’.Its also very good at destablising the formerly ‘sound of mind’.
Michael Copeland says
“As for the Jews, you kill them physically” – Abdullah al-Faisal, Channel 4 “Undercover Mosque”. He was jailed for inciting crime.
That is what is preached in mosques.
Jayell says
“As for the Jews, you kill them physically”………So how else do you kill someone? Or does everyone else get treated to some other kind of death known only to muslims?
By the way……..
Grafton Thimas [sic]- is “not a violent person,” according to his pastor of 10 years, Reverend Wendy Paige of the Hudson Highlands Cooperative Parish.“Grafton is not a terrorist, he is a man who has mental illness…..”
And then…..”A highly credible law-enforcement source tells YWN that the Monsey stabbing attack suspect ,Thomas E. Grafton, is a RECENT MUSLIM CONVERT….
Spot the connection? So what’s the ‘mental illness’ then? ‘Islamophrenia’? (There you are, another stupid buzzword for you! I’ve no idea what it’s supposed to mean, but then the specimens that cobbled ‘Islamophobia’ together didn’t know what it meant either yet people carry using it because they’re too intellectually challenged to think of any term that’s actually accurate).
Rufolino says
Islamophobia is largely a myth, but Islam has succeeded in convincing the West that it is something which actually exists. And the West has become so drained of self-belief it has accepted the lie with barely a question.
Scott Carlson says
Very true and the truth tellers have to put up with constant psychological terrorism from these Muslims and their non-Muslim puppets they suck on us.
Michael Copeland says
“kill them physically” – Abdullah al-Faisal.
He probably meant kill them personally, by hand with a knife, as in halal slaughter, as distinct from impersonally, with a bomb and such like.
Dapto says
Now this priest is practicing taqiyah im guessing he’s a Catholic and follows the poop in madness.
mortimer says
Rev. Wendy Paige of Central Valley United Methodist Church apparently did not know this man as well as she thought.
Nan says
That’s nasty. You don’t have to agree with him, whether or not you’re Catholic but you don’t have to call him names
Dee says
Name calling is the very least of our worries.
The people that rush to provide excuses for monsters like this are, at best, useful idiots.
Their ideology is harmful to western society and keeps the general public from realizing the true threat we are facing.
WPM says
The Rev. Wendy Paige is not a Catholic Priest and the Church is a Methodist church , the terrorist was not Catholic it was started he has recently embraced Islam. Why the Rev. Wendy Paige is defending him if he has clearly has left Christian teaching and embrace the Islamic command to kill Jews you have to ask her. I am not defending the present Pope or his appeasing Islam and bashing the Western world way of life. The formula for converts to Islam is got Islam got violence ,they seem to go at it with a zeal ,Most I think embrace Islam because it excuses the violence they have in their hearts before the conversion .Islam is clearly a loser magnet for violent people looking to excuse for their violent behavior ,the following a violent god, bent on hating none believers.
gravenimage says
Dapto, the Hudson Highlands Cooperative Parish is Methodist, not Catholic. For one thing, Catholicism does not have female clerics.
Then, I doubt that Reverend Wendy Paige is lying–more likely, like so many well-meaning Infidels she assumes that all people are good, and if they are not, it is due to “mental illness”.
That people can do deliberate evil is alien to many; that a creed can teach such evil is inconceivable.
Salome says
They took a long time to name the perp. In the meantime, I’m sure all good Americans were meant to believe that the anti-Semitic attacks were the result of white conservative prejudices.
janwog says
A. very much sunburnt white supremacist. The most supremacist ideology is the Islamic one. And the fanatic liers about that are the Leftist.
Scott Carlson says
Of course because that’s always the case. The last case like this was blamed on so called white supremacy by Muslims Supremacists in congress but debunked on social media for their hate mongering and lies.
WPM says
The story will die or be keep on the quiet side because it does not fit the narrative of white supremist .The mayor of NYC and the governor will try to shift the blame to Trump that he has created this “national divide” on race and religion .Meanwhile as they try looking for what they call “white supremist groups ” that is any group of people who disagree with their progressive agenda (most in non violent ways)violent preaching against Jews goes on unabated in many Mosques in the state every Friday night. If he convert to Islam why has not the Mosque he attended or the Iman that “help” convert him exposed to the MSM like the Methodist church he once belong to?
tgusa says
The usual suspects in the media and New York politics are blaming this on President Trump. Good gosh, President Trump was a well respected NYC citizen until he became a successful President. He really did love his city and wanted to make it better. Now everything that happens in NYC is his fault. I cant listen to what these people say any longer.
New York and NYC might as well have elected cardboard cut outs to run their state.
Mark Swan says
Absolutely tgusa.
gravenimage says
Also, the idea that President Trump is antisemitic could not be more absurd.
Paul says
In England the “jihadists” used an obviously mentally retarded white guy to set off a bomb. Naturally he cocked it up and set himself on fire.
They’re even crap at being terrorists. Thats why I laugh at them. A bitter laugh. but still.
Happy New Year guys
Paul
Kay says
It seems to me that they find ways to use mentally ill and retarded people.
With recent converts to Islam, all their Mohammedan contacts should also be investigated.
gravenimage says
Happy New Year!
Naram-Sin says
No way. Everyone who watches MSNBC knows he’s a racist, white supremacist, Trump supporter!
Scott Carlson says
MSNBC is fake news and their ratings dropping prove it to be true other than constantly being debunked for their lies almost everyday.
The white supremists theory is propaganda for the ignorant.
I have you know that many Trump supporters are not white and many are immigrants.
JDow says
So being a Muhammadan is a mental illness. That seems like an excellent diagnosis. That means we can take any misbehaving Muhammadan and place him or her into a mental health rehabilitation institute until they leave Muhammadanism or die. After all, Muhammadanism is very adequately shown to be a mental illness that makes its victims dangerous to other human beings. (And nobody should sweat much about the conditions of the facility. They are poor as part of the treatment, right?)
{^_^}
Scott Carlson says
The mindset that this ideology teaches is that of a psychopath. They use the same tactics and have no apathy for their actions.
Phil Copson says
Man who stabbed five “is not a violent person” according to the Reverend Wendy Paige of the Hudson Highlands Cooperative Parish….”
“Against fools, the Gods themselves battle in vain.”
Roderick MacUalraig says
Good post, PC. Where’s the quote from?
commonsense says
Schiller. I googled it.
Scott Carlson says
Muslims always deflecting from their sinister ideology to hide their secrets. They deflect because they can’t legitimately defend their own sinister ideology.
Trick_or_Treat says
…very recent ‘convert to islam”?!
….yep, seems to do it too them all the time. Like they ‘swallow the black pill.
Trick_or_Treat says
PS: Well, it’s technically true.
If you have converted to islam, then you have, by default, become mentally ill.
mortimer says
Nonsense. Converts to Islam have accepted false information uncritically.
Roderick MacUalraig says
Well said. I’d like to commit that to memory the way you put it so I can use it in discussions. Very sharp.
James Lincoln says
mortimer,
You hit a homerun with that quote!
gravenimage says
Mortimer, it seems that very few people innocently convert to Islam–perhaps a few who have swallowed the “Islam is a religion of peace” tripe, or who have some “nice” Muslim friends, or who consider Islam “exotic” and think they’d look good in a colorful Hijab.
But this Jihadist converted to Islam and immediately went out *stabbing Jews*. He certainly understands very well that Islam is ugly.
In what way do you consider knowingly converting to a creed that tells you to stab innocent people to be mentally healthy? (not, of course, that this means the Jihadist is mentally ill in the clinical sense of not knowing what he is doing)
andrew mckendrick says
The hate filled eyes , the beard , what made me think Islam?
Dan says
Blacks are the number one convert to Islam in America, most are converted in prison.
elee says
They do this to channel their hatred for the White Devils who outlawed enslaving Africans in the 19th century. They prefer the religion of the people who enslaved Africans for 700 years before the first Portugese joined the trade. The truth does not set them free.
gravenimage says
If they knew the truth, elee, it might. But embracing the idea that Islam respects Blacks could not be more ludicrous.
Olufemi Ogunyipe says
Only the mentally deranged can be converted to Islam.
No Muzzies Here says
The recent convert is on fire with his new religion and does all he can to practice his new value system. So he studies his adopted religion and learns exactly what it demands of him.
He is just doing what his religion tells him to do. A rational person would conclude that his new religion is telling him to murder non-believers, and that his new religion is not compatible with a civilized society.
Dee says
Have his social media posts been scrubbed?
Surely we should be able to ascertain his ideology.
Every form of communication is recorded in this day and age. Just a matter of time…
Dov Berrol says
It’s been reported that law enforcement agents are looking for any internet devices he used in his home. They should be able to gain more context for the attempted murders soon.
Rarely says
When we remember that the average IQ is +/-100 and that a significant percentage of the population is below 80 and very, very impressionable it becomes easier to see how voluntary converts to islam are more likely to be judged incompetent than the overall population.
Rarely says
After all, it’s not as if islam encourages critical thought, just blind adherence.
James Lincoln says
Rarely,
Low IQ – combined with Islam.
An unpredictable and very combustible mix – that could ignite at any time…
rubiconcrest says
If he is mentally he can still be a jihadist. …”Today, not much has changed. Characterizing modern-day jihadists as “criminals,” “psychopathic thugs,” and “murderers” — as if “authentic” jihadists were ever anything more noble — is at best redundant, at worst dangerously misleading.” Jihad and Criminality: Inseparable Bedfellows — Raymond Ibrahim
Billy Chickens says
Send the Bloods in to protect the Jews of Monsey. Muslims are terrified of the Bloods.
Dum Spiro says
Brother makes a good point!
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/brooklyn-muslim-community-patrol-rejects-peace-agreement-with-bloods-gang
NY and NYC party leadership should change ASAP…
–Spero
elee says
Now the MSM is churning out the mental illness line. Well here we have a scripture which if obeyed gets one labelled as mentally ill. Gee what does that tell you? Are we really ready to declare the said scripture bats**t crazy and sociopathic to boot?
Debi Brand says
Indeed, ‘ most probable reason for this attack — “faith based.”
Dan Adams says
Don,t expect the media to tell the truth when it comes to islamic terrorism in America.
David Ashton says
So not a white-skinned Anglo-Saxon anti-immigration “right-wing” Christian patriot, after all, perhaps.
David Rice says
The Democrats are once again attempting to use identity politics to split us up. Instead of admitting that he as a Radicalized Muslim the Democrats along with their buddies at the MSM want to promote race baiting. As an American would you be more traumatized by an Afro-American wielding a machete or a radicalized Muslim? We know the answer but that doesn’t fit the Democratic and mainstream media’s narrative. Remember the one world Government wants to promote Islam which is another name for submission. Soros and his elite want to rule the world and unless people wake up very soon, they will.
gravenimage says
NY: “Highly credible law-enforcement source” says man who stabbed Jews celebrating Chanukah is convert to Islam
………………..
As soon as I heard about this terrible attack I wondered if the assailant was Muslim.
JamesC says
The obvious thing to wonder, surely ?
Valkyrie Ziege says
; How did a seriously mentally-ill man know that was the Rabbi’s house, and that there would be a celebration there and what time the celebration would start? Hmmmm?
gravenimage says
Yes–this Jihadist is far too organized to be mentally ill.
JamesC says
Why allow in all these hordes of “mentally ill” people ? And how is it good publicity for iSlime, that so many of its followers are, allegedly, both violent and mentally ill ? “Islam Screws With Your Brain, Your Body & Your Morals” is not a ringing endorsement.