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Tennessee: Man who stabbed and killed three women was “practicing Muslim,” no indication of mental illness

Apr 10, 2020 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

Could Idris Abdus-Salaam have been motivated by the Qur’an’s commands to “kill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5)? Possibly, but we may never know for sure, because that possibility doesn’t fit the narrative that the political and media elites want very much for you to accept.

“Truck stop stabbing spree suspect’s mother: ‘He’s not a violent person,'” by Hayes Hickman, Knoxville News Sentinel, April 9, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Idris Abdus-Salaam’s mother contends he was not capable of the unexplained violence that left three women dead at an East Knox County truck stop.

Within hours of the attack Tuesday morning at the Pilot Travel Center on Strawberry Plains Pike, Tennessee authorities identified Abdus-Salaam, a 33-year-old truck driver from Durham, North Carolina, as the man responsible for the stabbing spree that killed three Pilot employees and wounded a customer.

Walidah Abdus-Salaam, however, maintains that such a heinous act is completely out of character for her son.

“He’s not a violent person,” she told Knox News. “The picture they painted is ugly. That is not my son.

“I don’t believe it, and I refuse to believe it until they can prove otherwise to me.”

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has yet to offer a possible motive for the attack.

At the scene on Tuesday morning, responding Knox County Sheriff’s Office deputies spotted Abdus-Salaam in parking lot, armed with a knife, after witnesses identified him as the attacker.

He was shot by one of the deputies after he refused to drop the weapon, according the TBI, which is leading the investigation into both the stabbings and the shooting.

Abdus-Salaam was pronounced dead at the scene, along with three of the victims. A fourth woman wounded in the attack has been released from a local hospital….

In April 2018, Abdus-Salaam was arrested on a felony charge of evading arrest in Raleigh, according to court records. The outcome of the case was not immediately available.

Abdus-Salaam was a U.S.-born citizen, a longtime Durham resident and a practicing Muslim, his mother said. He was not married and had no children.

Although he traveled frequently for his work, he stayed in close contact with his family and had spoken to his sister a couple of days before the attack.

His loved ones had no reason to believe he had become radicalized by any sort of religious fanaticism, his mother said.

The family had no indication Abdus-Salaam was suffering from mental illness, either.

“Unless it developed recently and I’m not aware of it,” Walidah Abdus-Salaam said.

Citing an unidentified “source close to the investigation,” WBIR-Channel 10 reported that authorities recovered a notebook from Abdus-Salaam’s truck with writings suggesting he may have been mentally unstable….

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  1. Boromir's Horn says

    Apr 10, 2020 at 11:15 am

    One could make the argument to practice Islam is a form of mental illness

    • spiro says

      Apr 10, 2020 at 1:29 pm

      That’s what I though
      Islam is A form of mental illness

      • Ana Sofia Canning says

        Apr 14, 2020 at 3:04 am

        Muslim Men don’t want women to be in control

    • Susan Cook says

      Apr 11, 2020 at 1:19 pm

      EXACTLY!

    • Bill says

      Apr 11, 2020 at 2:57 pm

      Yes

    • Alex says

      Apr 12, 2020 at 10:58 pm

      Islamonavirus is a lethal disease.

    • Sher says

      Apr 21, 2020 at 4:56 pm

      Founded by a mass murderer pedophile prophet, who can expect anything else?

  2. BJean says

    Apr 10, 2020 at 11:38 am

    I get so sick of things like this. Three women are dead and one grievously injured. A muslim man kills and not one is at all concerned, in fact the “offical” information is that he is either mad or misunderstood. His parent’s statement has the shadings of ” Mah, Babee din’t du nuffin’ ” ridiculousness. It’s disgusting! Call it for what is actually is…a terrorist attack.

  3. Kilauea says

    Apr 10, 2020 at 11:45 am

    He’s a Muslim, of course he’s mentally unstable. You have to be mentally unstable to believe in a God that wants his followers to mete our medieval justice. Give Muslims a choice – Be deported or move to Washington D.C. or Arlington, VA. Let the politicians get a dose of these animals.

  4. Old Fat Bald Socially Inept Ron says

    Apr 10, 2020 at 11:50 am

    Unlike run of the mill Mohammedans, Idris Abdus-Salaam was literally a โ€œPracticingโ€ adherent of Islam.

    Muhammad his Prophet would be oh so proud
    ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

    • Uma Maheswar Nakka says

      Apr 12, 2020 at 12:51 am

      Is it that Muhammad his Prophet would be oh so proud, if Muslims go on killing non-Muslims. Is this what you mean, if I am not wrong. Then is it the right way and moral of Islam!!!!

  5. Kaos ktrl says

    Apr 10, 2020 at 12:51 pm

    This story has broken into the news cycle

  6. somehistory says

    Apr 10, 2020 at 3:52 pm

    Psychopathy runs amok in the every-day criminal type one finds in a prison. A psychopathic personality cannot see the possible consequences of their actions, and they don’t learn from experience when they do wrong and are caught and punished…because they always lay the blame on another person, or persons.

    Psychopathy runs amok in the moslim community. They are taught from day one to blame others, to feel superior to all others, to manipulate the unwary and uninformed, to believe that they can do no wrong if they live by islam’s unlawful code of evil conduct, and that if they steal, lie, rape, extort or murder, it is all the ‘will’ of their false ‘god.’

    If the psychopathic person is not ‘born’ to islam, they are drawn to it by their psychopathic personality and desire to live by means of the manipulation and taking advantage of others. To fast track to their perverted idea of “paradise,” they murder innocent people, the worst way of manipulation and taking advantage, of others.

    His mother is following the age=old moslim think…blame others, not the guilty son/daughter who “wouldn’t hurt a fly,” much less do what he/she did. Lie and deny and accept no proof.
    And law enforcement, with few exceptions, look for anything but islam as the “motive” for the murders.

    • Battle says

      Apr 11, 2020 at 12:05 am

      Walidah Abdus-Salaam needs Jesus.

      • grey says

        Apr 11, 2020 at 3:18 am

        He needs to be send to Jesus

        • msubobcats says

          Apr 11, 2020 at 4:16 pm

          He needs to know JESUS before he can be sent to JESUS.

    • David says

      Apr 11, 2020 at 6:59 am

      Her son wouldn’t hurt a fly. Probably true, but infidels are a different matter. Psychopaths are drawn towards islam, as are black people with a chip on their shoulder about white people. They ought to be told that Muhammad kept black slaves, and he was WHITE!

    • Susan Cook says

      Apr 11, 2020 at 1:22 pm

      EXACTLY

  7. Brian Hunter says

    Apr 10, 2020 at 3:57 pm

    Outwardly, the mother says โ€œI donโ€™t believe it, and I refuse to believe it until they can prove otherwise to me.โ€

    Inwardly, she thinks to herself “I’ve raised a fine boy. I’m so proud of him”.

    • somehistory says

      Apr 10, 2020 at 5:13 pm

      That fits the pattern.
      The moslim women of Gaza provide stones for their sons to throw at the Israelis.
      Did this one give her son a knife from her kitchen?

  8. Hank Mansfield says

    Apr 10, 2020 at 6:03 pm

    I am a devotee of the 2nd Amendment and I would snuff out the life of this POS if I saw him raise a knife.
    I am also a veteran of the 82nd Airborne, and I’d snuff out his life if I saw him raise a knife and I wasn’t armed.
    Screaming “allahu ackbar” beforehand would just be the icing on the cake for me.
    In my prison cell I’d never lose a moment’s sleep.
    Wake the *F* up, people.

    • Undaunted says

      Apr 10, 2020 at 10:32 pm

      Amen, Hank … what you said. All the way!

      Former Army MP and CID Agent here. Exactly … wake the fuck up, people. I read some of the insipid comments here and it occurs to me often that there are too many commenters – here and everywhere – and not enough warriors.

      • Hank Mansfield says

        Apr 12, 2020 at 10:39 am

        Hoo-ah!

  9. James Lincoln says

    Apr 10, 2020 at 7:07 pm

    The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation needs to thoroughly investigate this case, wherever it may lead.

    This did NOT happen in the UK!!!

  10. ntesdorf says

    Apr 10, 2020 at 7:15 pm

    In their search for signs of mental illness, the Tennessee authorities failed to notice that he was Muslim. Belief in Islam is, in itself, a form of mental derarngement.

    • Susan Cook says

      Apr 11, 2020 at 1:24 pm

      Absolutely

  11. TruthHonestReality says

    Apr 10, 2020 at 8:31 pm

    So either itโ€™s just another โ€œDinDoNuffinzโ€ or a muslime. Either way the media will just buy this story like how they always do.
    What race are the victims?

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 11, 2020 at 1:39 am

      Idris Abdus-Salaamโ€™ is definitely a Muslim.

  12. Battle says

    Apr 11, 2020 at 12:08 am

    Was supposed to be a new reply

  13. gravenimage says

    Apr 11, 2020 at 1:35 am

    Tennessee: Man who stabbed and killed three women was โ€œpracticing Muslim,โ€ no indication of mental illness
    ………………

    Just Islam.

  14. Uma Maheswar Nakka says

    Apr 11, 2020 at 4:00 am

    Is it not strange that mentally ill Muslims act in killing, harassing, torturing and robbing people but not acting funny without harming others. Is it also true that they are really mentally ill or acting to carry out vices escaping from law and order. This way they are proving a threat and hazard to the world.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 12, 2020 at 11:06 pm

      Yes–funny how so many Muslims are “mentally ill” in just the same ways…

  15. Phil Copson says

    Apr 11, 2020 at 6:48 am

    “…Although he travelled frequently for his work…” says “Knoxville News Sentinel” journalist Hayes Hickman of Idris Abdus-Salaam, a truck driver……..he wasn’t one of these 9-to-5-sitting-behind-a-desk-all-day truck drivers then ? Gimme strength.

  16. Linde Barrera says

    Apr 11, 2020 at 10:58 am

    My sincere and profound sympathy to the families of the 3 innocent women who were murdered. I am so glad that the 4th lady recovered.

    I am also relieved to know that this Muslim murderer is no longer alive; this way he cannot do any more harm and taxpayers do not have to pay for him to be in prison.

    I hope his mother learns what Islam really is.

  17. Dan89 says

    Apr 11, 2020 at 12:27 pm

    The fourth female survivor must have a story to tell if she was in close proximity to the other three, if not she must have been alone when attacked, any comment yet from this witness as to what he said or any other information. As far as Islam goes it does mean submit it does mean rewards await those that serve Allah therefore the word religion allows Islam to continue to thrive and expand it’s territory within our soil. Remember, peace comes to Islam by silencing the unbeliever’s and rewards await those with the sword and those that fund those with the sword removing any notion a moderate and radical Islam exist, it’s Islam and only Islam.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 11, 2020 at 10:59 pm

      Yes–I’m glad the fourth victim survived.

  18. Chris G says

    Apr 11, 2020 at 3:14 pm

    fox had a blip on their reader board. i knew if was terrorism when i saw a local news article about this, but the MSM hasn’t even reported this

    • somehistory says

      Apr 11, 2020 at 10:33 pm

      USA TODAY reported it.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 11, 2020 at 11:00 pm

      This story has actually been quite widely reported–but not all reports say that the perp was Muslim.

  19. OLD GUY says

    Apr 11, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    Wait a minute he is just a person who did something. Thats the liberal response to a muslim killing in the name of islam. Thank you to the TBI officer who put him down, one less islamic terrorist. Stop the muslim/islamic migration into our country!

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