Incidents of “Islamophobia” are so thin on the ground in reality that they have to be invented. As you can see from the Huffington Post story from February, the media and the mosque leaders did their best to paint this incident as a manifestation of that phantom crime, but reality proved to be disturbingly intrusive.
“Muslim convert, 30, who stabbed prayer leader in the neck at London mosque is jailed for seven years after asking to be sent to prison so he could learn the Quran ‘from start to finish,'” by Katie Feehan, Mailonline, December 14, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A knifeman who stabbed a 70-year-old Muslim prayer leader at one of Britain’s biggest mosques was jailed for more than seven years today.
Daniel Horton, 30, slashed muezzin Raafat Maglad in the neck at London Central Mosque in Regent’s Park, northwest London on February 20.
Muslim convert Horton, who had previously asked the judge to jail him so he could ‘learn the Koran by heart’ refused to leave his cell for his sentencing today.
Horrified worshippers rushed to pin down the attacker while Mr Maglad received first aid and an ambulance was called.
Others spilled into the street as the mosque was evacuated in the aftermath of the attack.
The father-of-three, who leads the call to prayer five times a day, returned to the mosque less than 24 hours after the attack following hospital treatment for a 1.5cm knife wound.
Speaking after the stabbing, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was ‘deeply saddened’ by the attack, echoing comments made by Mr Maglad himself.
Mr Maglad was a prayer caller at the funeral of Dodi Fayed, who was killed with Diana, Princess of Wales, in the 1997 Paris car crash.
He still suffers from pain and sickness and finds it difficult to ‘raise a spoon to his mouth’, Southwark Crown Court heard.
In his victim impact statement, Mr Maglad said he has had over ten medical appointments for the injuries to his arm and shoulder and was facing shoulder surgery.
The court heard Horton had a string of previous convictions, including two counts of assaulting a police officer and a separate conviction of wounding when he stabbed a friend….
Horton, of no fixed address, had attended the mosque over a number of years and was known to the victim.
On his arrest, he told officers that he didn’t intend to kill Mr Maglad but wanted to ‘send a message’ to him….
“London Mosque Attack Had ‘Been Brewing’, Say Leaders,” by Nadine White, Huffington Post, February 21, 2020:
Muslims in London felt a mosque attack had “been brewing” following incidents at places of worship around the world, community leaders have said.
Shaukat Warraich, director of public affairs at Muslim welfare charity the Al-Khoei Foundation, said worshippers are now “looking over their shoulders” as they come to prayer, with many women and children opting to stay at home rather than venture out to mosques after dark.
Warraich said he spoke to the London Central Mosque about their security measures only an hour before Thursday’s attack, in which a man knifed the muezzin, who makes the call to prayers.
Warraich said many Muslims had been on edge since the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand last March, when 51 people were killed and many others injured by a white supremacist.
He said: “Things have been brewing for some time now, since the Christchurch attacks (generally) the community has feared something like this….
Although the reasons for Thursday’s attack are not yet clear, Mr al-Khoei also suggested there is a rising trend in Islamophobia and condemned media coverage of attacks.
“The fear factor in the community has its roots in many incidents across the country and around the world where Islamophobia seems to be a current trend in people who think Muslims are fair game,” he said.
“People complain that Muslims have become easy targets for some sections of the media.
“Whenever there is an incident where a Muslim is involved it’s about Muslim terrorism. Most of the time when there’s an incident where Muslims are the victim it’s marketed as some lunatic or mad person.
“We need to have steps both to define what Islamophobia is and to counter it and to record it. Otherwise I fear that this cultural victimhood will keep growing.”
Al-Khoei said attackers of Muslims have “perverted the message of religion”.
He added: “To the wider community, it’s really important that no community feels targeted or marginalised or discriminated against.
“We are confident a democratic system can never allow the extremists to prevail and the Muslims of Europe this century not to become the Jews of Europe last century.”…
wth009 says
Thanks to Muslims it is Jews that must constantly fear for their lives even in the US!
jim says
It is largely white gentiles who bear the brunt of Muslim attacks, particularly girls being raped. Knock it off with the semitic narcissism.
gravenimage says
Jews are specially singled out for Islamic hatred, even more than most Infidels. There is nothing wrong with noting this.
Party Grove says
Agreed
Michael Copeland says
Al-Khoei said attackers of Muslims have “perverted the message of religion”.
However, when muslims attack non-muslims they are fulfilling the message of their religion, “Kill them wherever you find them”. No perversion there.
gravenimage says
Yep.
The only disagreements Muslims usually have is where Muslims are targeted, and whether this or that Muslim or Muslim group is “heretical” or “apostate” and hence fair game to treat like Infidels.
Waldman says
Finally, an obvious GENUINE case of “mental illness”
John says
I would suggest a violent criminal joined a cult where it is OK to be a violent criminal as long as you act according to cult founder Mo, and yell allah akbar.
Jeremiah Johnson says
The founder of the cult was a violent criminal psychopath.
terry sullivan says
compo cliiaim?
Keith O says
Let me get this straight.
A mudslime convert attacks another mudslime inside their barracks and it’s an islamophobic attack? WOW, talk about going for bonus victimhood points.
And speaking of victimhood. The prayer caller had a 15mm cut that somehow prevents him from feeding himself, requires multiple doctors visits and needs shoulder surgery? I’ve seen bigger cuts on kids from playing in the back yard!
Just watch the victims of crime compensation claim go in!
Aussie Infidel says
Another attack from a recent convert to Islam – and it’s all due to Islamophobia??
No other religion but Islam commands its followers to commit violence against unbelievers – or even those fellow Muslims they believe are not sufficiently ‘Islamic’ – which is probably the situation in this case. When Muslims remedy that problem and choose to live in peace with everyone else, they will eliminate the phantom of ‘Islamophobia’.
Speaking after the stabbing, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was ‘deeply saddened’ by the attack”.
I’m sure most knowledgeable Brits are saddened by the attack; but what the hell is BoJo going to do about it? Is he just going to sweep it under the carpet like all the other British PMs before him, or finally make some meaningful change to British law to address the status of a religion which claims it is a “holy duty” to murder unbelievers? Such a creed has no place in a civilized society.
The court was told: “Horton, of no fixed address, had attended the mosque over a number of years and was known to the victim”. It seems as if Islam attracts the dregs of Western societies.
“Whenever there is an incident where a Muslim is involved it’s about Muslim terrorism”.
Could that be because the vast majority of terrorist attacks are perpetrated by Muslims? As Muhammad said, “I have been made victorious with terror”. (Bukhari 4:52:220). Muhammad himself was a self-confessed terrorist.
“Most of the time when there’s an incident where Muslims are the victim it’s marketed as some lunatic or mad person”.
This person probably is a loon, but his sociopathic tendencies are no doubt exacerbated from being indoctrinated with the hatred and violence in the Islamic scriptures.
“We need to have steps both to define what Islamophobia is and to counter it”.
A phobia is an irrational fear of something which is usually quite harmless; but there is nothing harmless about Islam. Islam exhorts its followers to: hate unbelievers; to wage holy war against them; to kill them; to rape their women; to enslave them; to treat them as dhimmis; to be harsh against them; and even taunt them in the fires of hell. Being afraid of Islam – and specifically, Islamic jihadis – is not a phobia, but a very real fear of a vicious, barbaric ideology, as Horton has so aptly demonstrated.
“Al-Khoei said attackers of Muslims have “perverted the message of religion”.
What message is Al-Khoel referring to? The few messages of tolerance in the early Meccan verses of the Quran, or the hundred or so messages of hatred and violence toward kafirs or unbelievers in the later Medinan verses?
He added: “To the wider community, it’s really important that no community feels targeted or marginalised or discriminated against”.
I would agree that no one in any community should be marginalised or discriminated against – but that is precisely what the followers of Islam have been doing to unbelievers for 1,400 years. And they are commanded to do so in their holy scriptures. (Quran 3:28, 5:13-15, 5:51, 40:35, 2:191-193, 2:216, 4:74, 8:39, 9:5, 9:29, etc).
“The Muslims of Europe this century [could] become the Jews of Europe last century”.
Let’s hope it does not come to that; but Al-Khoel is simply pretending that once again Muslims are the victims, to garner sympathy from gullible Westerners. The difference is that Muslims aggressively follow a creed of hatred and violence toward unbelievers, whereas the Jews are the victims of centuries of hatred and prejudice, mainly because they refused to allow others to rule over them and dictate how they should live – and that included Muhammad and his domineering religion of Islam.
sidney penny says
“We are confident a democratic system can never allow the extremists to prevail and the Muslims of Europe this century not to become the Jews of Europe last century.”…
Why do Muslims want to compare themselves to Jews of Europe?
gravenimage says
This is just fake victim-mongering from Muslims–they are the ones violently targeting Jewish people.
Infidel says
Once Mr Horton studies the quran, I’m sure he’ll be able to fish out something that would demonstrate a shortcoming of the imam, justifying his stabbing ?
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
The imam wasn’t islamic / devoted enough, etc…
Infidel says
Yeah, that was how I read it. Or maybe Mr Horton was a member of the NOI, and didn’t like the imam not acknowledging the superiority of the Blacks
gravenimage says
Infidel, Horton (I wonder what his Muslim name is?) is a ginger–definitely *not* a member of NOI. Besides, the NOI is largely a Black American phenomenon, and this happened in the UK.
But yes–whatever the specifics, this Imam was likely deemed “insufficiently Islamic” by the Jihadist in one way or another.
Henry Schalk says
AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA) based in Qom, have also, somehow, failed to mention the assailant was a convert to Islam:
https://en.abna24.com/news//islamophobia-in-uk-british-court-sentences-a-racist-to-11-years-in-prison-for-stabbing-a-muslim-man-in-mosque_1096222.html
gravenimage says
This does not surprise…
Phil Copson says
Any child knows that the first person that Frankenstein’s Monster attacks, is Dr. Frankenstein himself –
This iman has been “hoist with his own retard”….
gravenimage says
UK: Man converts to Islam, stabs imam, attack blamed on ‘Islamophobia’
…………..
Just crap–this is Muslim-on-Muslim violence.
And reading the vicious Qur’an will just make this Jihadist worse.
Westman says
One could be tempted to think the attacker might have been provoked by the Muezzin singing off-key. After more thought, and listening to Muezzins warbing like a warped record, one would quickly give up that idea because, how would the attacker have known?
Muezz sounds like the origin of the word Music, and that is where the similarity ends.
gravenimage says
Music come from the Greek by way of Latin. Muezzin is Arabic by way of Turkish.
And pious Muslims reject music–these words have no common root.
Giacomo Latta says
Going hunting for kaffir without actually knowing what a kaffir is. Never a good outcome.
OLD GUY says
Not a surprise that someone for what ever reason strikes out at Islamic followers. When your Islamic religion preaches and encourages violence against others it will usually find its way into your house as well. Violence breeds violence, islam beware of what you are starting and encouraging thru your own violent actions.
Mojdeh says
We call him Haji Kaka Sephid look at his picture, he is murderer and psychopath, I do not get it why Islam is appealing to these kind of peoples around the globe? Real Mohamad was killed by Omar and Osman and put a fake Mohamed for him. First 10 chapter of Quran is sounds good, After that all goes down, so real Mohamed verses fake Mohamed. Ayateh Maki and Medina read it. Then it is very possible the replacement of real Mohamed was a psycho path indeed.
gravenimage says
Mojdeh, is this another claim that Muhammed was actually a great guy? Try again…
Odd that there are no pious Muslims making this claim over the past 1400 years.