Why is Zaheer Mahmoud being celebrated as a hero? We are constantly told that Muslims who support violence in the name of Islam are a tiny minority of extremists who have twisted and hijacked the religion’s teachings of peace and tolerance. So why aren’t Muslim organizations in Pakistan and all over the world condemning Zaheer Mahmoud and denouncing attempts to portray his jihad stabbings in a favorable light?
“‘Charlie Hebdo’ Attacker Zaheer Mahmoud Informed Mother And Friend In Pakistan Before Attack, His Father Says: ‘His Entire Family Will Go To Paradise,'” MEMRI, October 14, 2020:
After the September 25, 2020 stabbing of two people outside the former Paris offices of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, the French police initially detained at least seven people, including the main suspect.[1]The main suspect is a Pakistani immigrant who gave his age as 18 and took “responsibility” for the stabbing.[2] Other reports give his age as 25.[3]
Roznama Ummat’s report.
A court in France is hearing a 2015 case in which a dozen people, mainly editors, were killed by two jihadi brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi at the office of Charlie Hebdo after the weekly published cartoons depicting Muhammad. At least 14 accomplices of Said and Cherif Kouachi are standing trial for the 2015 attack. In this year’s attack, the main attacker was identified as Zaheer Hassan Mahmoud, whose family lives in the town of Mandi Bahauddin in Pakistan’s Punjab province.
Following are excerpts from a report published in the pro-jihad Urdu Pakistani daily Roznama Ummat:[4]
“Zaheer Mahmoud Is Being Considered A Hero Across All Of Pakistan, Including [In The Town Of] Mandi Bahauddin”
“On the other side, Zaheer Mahmoud is being considered a hero across all of Pakistan, including Mandi Bahauddin. Zaheer Mahmoud’s father Irshad Mahmoud says he is proud of his mujahid son. The relatives of the attack… present in Pakistan are proud of him. Zaheer Hassan Mahmoud, born in Mandi Bahauddin, accepted the attack saying he carried out the attack as a reaction against Charlie Hebdo for publishing the blasphemous cartoons once again.
“It should be noted that a wave of anger and sadness ran through the entire Islamic world after the republication of the blasphemous cartoons by Charlie Hebdo recently at the beginning of the court trial of the case involving the 2015 attack on magazine, which is an enemy of Islam.
“During the protests in Pakistan against this blasphemous act, tribute was paid in glowing words to Zaheer Mahmoud, the main player in the [September 2020] Charlie Hebdo attack. At this time, Zaheer Mahmoud has been declared a hero in Mandi Bahauddin and the areas surrounding it… Zaheer Mahmoud belongs to the Kothli Qazi area of Mandi Bahauddin.”
“Mother Rukhsana Begum Said That Their Son Had Told The Family Members Beforehand About This Attack And Asked Them For Their Prayers”
“Talking to [Roznama] Ummat, Zaheer Mahmoud’s father Arshad [sic] Mahmoud, who is a farmer by occupation, said: ‘Whatever Zaheer has done, it’s very good; the punishment for committing blasphemy of the prophet is death; and the blasphemer deserves nothing less than death; the one who kills those who commit blasphemy against the prophet enters paradise and his entire family will go to paradise; this is the reason I feel very proud that my son has carried out such a good deed.’
“He said that he is not troubled over what kind of punishment in France his son will receive or what will happen [to him]; when he took this step he would have certainly thought about what would happen and how it will happen; he has taken a step in the path of Allah and he [Allah] will be his helper. He [Arshad Mahmoud] said: We have had no contact with Zaheer since his arrest and we do not know in what situation he is. However, we are attempting to create a means of contacting him. He said Zaheer should get all legal rights that are his right.
“Zaheer Mahmoud’s mother Rukhsana Begum said that their son had told the family members beforehand about this attack and asked them for their prayers. She said: Zaheer told us that he would commit this deed after the Friday prayers [on September 25]; he had also called one of his friends and told him.
“On this occasion, Zaheer Mahmoud’s father Irshad Mahmoud said that after his son’s attack in Paris, neighbors and relatives began arriving at their home to congratulate them; the entire village is extremely proud of this deed of Zaheer; wherever you go they are only talking about this.”
[1] France24.com (France), September 26, 2020.
[2] France24.com (France), September 26, 2020.
[3] TheNational.ae (UAE), September 30, 2020.
[4] Roznama Ummat (Pakistan), October 4, 2020.
Walter Sieruk says
That devolt Muslim father is son ,who is also a dedicated to Islam is actually “proud” of his son for viciously harming two people by meaning of stabbing show the violent and malicious and often murderous influence Islam has on it’s followers.
This wicked influence is so awful that , for example, that Muslim father sees his cruel actions of his son as son as something praiseworthy and even “good.” To such a terrible mindset , in this case an Islamic mindset the Bible reads “woe to those who call good evil and evil good…” Isaiah 5:20. [N.K.J.V.]
In addition that this man’s son has not expressed any sorrow or regret about the people who he had harmed is further explain in the Bible. For the Bible informs its reader that there are some men who are very callous unfeeling and heartless because they have had “their own conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2.
In this specfic incident that “hot iron” is Islam
Wellington says
Pakistan is evidentiary of the sickness which is Islam. Just as it is the case that if Islam approves of something the built-in crap detector we were born with should be on high alert, so is it the same if Pakistan extends approbation to someone or something.
Islam is a wretched excuse for a religion and Pakistan is a wretched excuse for a nation. The reason for the latter is entirely wrapped up with the reason for the former.
God, what a curse to mankind Mo’s creed is. It destroys so much—nations, freedom of thought, romantic love, a true Golden Rule for all, liberty in its entirety, equality under the law, joy (i.e., a la Ayatollah Khomeini, fun), and last, but not necessarily least, those twin delicacies which are fine pork products and outstanding beer, respecting the latter I’m about to have one. Screw Pakistan. Screw Islam.
Aussie Infidel says
Wellington, I have known some decent Muslims, many of whom would leave Islam if they could, but don’t out of fear of retribution, family concerns etc. Islam makes people afraid to speak out against it – particularly in Muslim majority countries – and is indeed a wretched excuse for a religion.
Muslims are subjected to a life of indoctrination with this violent supremacist ideology, and it is difficult to differentiate between the people and their beliefs. Islam is a destructive ideology and a curse to mankind. There is no freedom of expression in Islam, but these sick bastards are also a disgrace to the human race.
Yes, screw Islam – a religion born of the mindset of a warlord, and run by militants. It always results in discrimination, persecution, injury and death. Islam has no place in any civilized society.
Wellington says
I too, Aussie Infidel, have known some decent Muslims, including a black Muslim nurse who was very kind to my wife when she was going through cancer treatment. I also taught several Muslims over the course of my college teaching career and they were OK, particularly a Muslim who came from Uzbekistan who was a very nice young man.
Chief problem is Islam as you stated and then there are the ancillary matters you brought up—death for apostasy, family relations severed, etc. if one leaves Islam. Of course, the more devout the Muslim, in general watch out. Also, distinguishing between those Muslims who won’t emulate Mohammed, one of the most malevolently influential characters in history, or carry out the many heinous dictates of Islam versus those who will is often deuce difficult to do if not impossible. And, as I have put it before at JW, every Muslim is ultimately a menace because they either know what Islam really says or they don’t know what Islam really says. I have also argued the point that the so-called moderate Muslims are actually the greater menace because they give cover to Mo’s creed.
Many Muslims, like so many of those from other faiths, don’t know all that much about their religion and are personally not a threat, but in the final analysis a belief system must be judged by what it says and never first and foremost by the fact that many adherents to a particular belief system don’t fulfill all the tenets of that belief system, or actually may misunderstand them, or not even know about them.
Respecting how nice a person is, this is the weakest reason to therefore extend approbation to the belief system they adhere to. Many Marxists, anarchists, Neo-Nazis, KKK members, et al. may be courteous and kind on a daily basis, but this really shouldn’t count. The ideology is what matters above all and the ideology of Islam is rotten to the core and most certainly a menace to liberty as no other major religion remotely is. Delenda est Islam.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
“I have also argued the point that the so-called moderate Muslims are actually the greater menace because they give cover to Mo’s creed.”
Excellent point, I guess I never thought of it quite that way…
Aussie Infidel says
Agreed. The moderates unwittingly act as a smokescreen for the militants.
Jayell says
“…..distinguishing between those Muslims who won’t emulate Mohammed, one of the most malevolently influential characters in history…….is often deuce difficult to do if not impossible”
Isn’t the definition of a ‘muslm’ generally accepted to be someone who reveres Mohammed as the Messenger of Allah (God) and the ‘perfect man’, and whose example must be followed? Whatever the dire consequences of apostasy, one doesn’t at the end of the day absolutely HAVE TO identify as a ‘muslim’, therefore it’s logical to presume that anyone who declares him/herself to be a ‘muslim’ would have no great aversion to emulating Mohammed if called upon to do so – otherwise they’d strongly object to being known as a ‘muslim’? Likewise, one would surely be utterly astounded if card-carrying members of the Nazi Party even privately condemned Hitler as a despotic, genocidal monster in 1930’s-40’s Germany and would logically rather have expected them to assent to the Fuhrer’s every pronouncement and act accordingly. Why wear the badge in public if you don’t ultimately agree with the aims of the club?
mortimer says
Reply to Wellington. No matter how kind certain Muslims are towards the kafir, that sort of behavior is discouraged by authentic Islam.
-Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed (Islamic faith) and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen (i.e. wrong worshippers). So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
-“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.
– from Sufi scholar Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624): “The honour of Islam lies in INSULTING kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to HUMILIATE them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain TERRIFIED and TREMBLING. It is intended to hold them under CONTEMPT and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”
Wellington says
Jayell: I understand your point about the emulation of Mohammed, but I think some Muslims are so ignorant of their own religion, including details about Mo, that they don’t realize how awful this turkey was. Then again, just statistically speaking, not EVERY Muslim who does know the details about Mohammed will emulate him in every way just as some devout Christians who know the details about Jesus will not emulate Jesus in every way. Matters like inertia, laziness, dullness, apathy, et al. have to be taken into account when assessing believers in any religion.
But minus Islam, no major religion presents a problem for societal and world order even if the tenets are fully implemented. Here Islam stands alone, the turd in the punch bowl of world religions as I have oft said here at JW.
Wellington says
mortimer: You make an excellent point as usual. Your comment reminds me of what Robert Spencer has said, to wit, if you are a Muslim and a good person then you have to be a bad Muslim.
gravenimage says
Good exchange.
As ex-Muslim Bosch Fawstin puts it, some Muslims are simply better than their faith.
Bob says
I’m sure the the UK sends ‘foreign aid ‘ to Pakistan, to the UK ”s own wounding!’s
gravenimage says
Father of Muslim who stabbed two outside Charlie Hebdo office is ‘proud’ of son, who is ‘hero across all Pakistan’
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I’ve always said it is instructive to find out who a people’s heroes are.
In this case, some thug who stabbed a couple of random people near the location of another Muslim massacre of peaceful cartoonists.
God, I hate Islam.
simpleton1 says
“He was such a good boy!”
How to become a hero for the family, relatives and the community.
Little do people know how ingrained in the family and their lives are on some of these islamic points.
May be not so much the wonderful “houris” but the self sacrifice, because his love was so great for allah, and for his family who will be rewarded by their more immediate travel to paradise, rather than purgatory.
It was so wonderful for family to feel assured that that the blood of their son, will bring assurance of paradisaical bliss.
‘Whatever Zaheer has done, it’s very good; the punishment for committing blasphemy of the prophet is death; and the blasphemer deserves nothing less than death; the one who kills those who commit blasphemy against the prophet enters paradise and his entire family will go to paradise; this is the reason I feel very proud that my son has carried out such a good deed.’……
…… after his son’s attack in Paris, neighbors and relatives began arriving at their home to congratulate them; the entire village is extremely proud of this deed of Zaheer; wherever you go they are only talking about this.”
Martyrdom leads to a total assurance of paradise, and freedom from the devil in ordinary death, that has purgatory until the day of judgement, and the guessing whether attaining paradise or dammed to hell.
…. 1) He is forgiven at the first drop of his blood. [guaranteed paradise, is this like Jesus?]
2) He sees his status in Jannah. [eternal paradise]
3) He is dressed in the clothes of Iman.
4) He is safe from the punishment of the grave.
5) He will be safe from the Great fear of the Day of Judgment.
6) A crown of honor will be placed on his head. [is this why family and neighbourhood celebrate]
7) He will intercede on behalf of 70 members of his family.” [his blood will atone for his relatives, no wonder the family is pleased to be seemingly assured of paradise] ……
Musnad Ahmed, Tabrani, at-Targheeb wa at-Tarheeb, p.443, vol.2
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur'an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Jihadists
Sure it takes a few things to line up for an individual muslim to do this, and it also serves another purpose, to create terror, economic bleeding costs, of security, and nervousness of fear in the general population.
This all part of the institution of islam to control “institutional racism” & “islamopbobia” and to bring down “white supremacy”
Afterall the “stereotype” of an angry muslim can not be, as they control themselves so well through their mosques and “peaceful” culture.
After all they have nothing to apologize for, right?
You would love to have a devout-ed son like this would you not?
Consider all your family will be blessed.
The love of family to commit such controlling deeds & action; ruthlessly on others that were only going to hell anyway.
This explains in part, why they love death.
eduardo odraude says
Outstanding video by David Wood about the genesis of jihadists:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6ePVxRLDM0
Jayell says
An excellent explanation of the situation in France and any civilised place that tries to accept islam and muslims as part of their community – because, if the community isn’t islamic to begin with, the muslims will never ever be a part of it until they have forced it to become islamic by any means at their disposal, just as they have done for the last 1,400 years.
ElderlyZionist says
“Zaheer Mahmoud’s mother Rukhsana Begum said that their son had told the family members beforehand about this attack and asked them for their prayers. She said: Zaheer told us that he would commit this deed after the Friday prayers [on September 25]; he had also called one of his friends and told him.”
So all of them are accessories before the fact to this crime.
Chrissie01 says
if you have nothing constructive to be proud of – for instance at least one functional nail factory of one’s own design and making – then you have to be proud of the products of your hatred. It resembles power by capacities.
Fun fact: The EU is deciding on a hate speech law that bans criticism of Islam and of EU governments…
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
(the essence of “doublethink” by George Orwell)
Chrissie01 says
PS: “Allah is his helper.” I’ve been suspecting this. I suspect that Allah is a hateful demon obsessed with the idea and will to expand its domain of anger, hatred, falseness and violence across the cosmos, starting with planet earth.
It masters all gaits, this evil god. It enters by by deceit, sneaking in on velvet paws, it feigns suffering to attain admittance, it crawls through the pipes of legislation, it expands itself as reproduction in the wombs of its women as, and – if all else fails – it comes crashing through the walls with an airplane, driven by mindless hatred and destructiveness.
mortimer says
Pakistan is one of the most fanatical of all Islamic countries. Barbarians.
OLD GUY says
Islam is always proud of those who commit violence against anyone else. What a great group of people to bring into your country. It’s like welcoming the dark reaper to your bedroom.