New Zealand some time ago committed itself to the proposition that “Islamophobia” was a far greater threat than Islamic jihad. This is the result.
“Extremist was released from New Zealand jail despite fears,” by Nick Perry, Associated Press, September 4, 2021:
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand authorities imprisoned a man inspired by the Islamic State group for three years after catching him with a hunting knife and extremist videos — but at a certain point, despite grave fears he would attack others, they say they could do nothing more to keep him behind bars.
So for 53 days from July, police tracked the man’s every move, an operation that involved some 30 officers working around the clock. Their fears were borne out Friday when he walked into an Auckland supermarket, grabbed a kitchen knife from a store shelf and stabbed five people, critically injuring three.
Two more shoppers were injured in the melee. On Saturday, three of the victims remained hospitalized in critical condition and three more were in stable or moderate conditions. The seventh person was recovering at home. The youngest victim was a 29-year-old woman, the oldest a 77-year-old man.
Court documents named the attacker as 32-year-old Ahamed Aathil Mohamed Samsudeen, a Tamil Muslim from Sri Lanka who arrived in New Zealand 10 years ago on a student visa seeking refugee status, which he was granted in 2013.
Undercover officers monitoring Samsudeen from just outside the supermarket sprang into action when they saw shoppers running and heard shouting, police said, and shot him dead within a couple of minutes of him beginning his attack. A bystander’s video records the sound of 10 shots being fired in rapid succession.
The attack has highlighted deficiencies in New Zealand’s anti-terror laws, which experts say are too focused on punishing actions and inadequate for dealing with plots before they are carried out. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said lawmakers were close to filling some of those legislative holes when the attack occurred. She vowed law changes by the end of the month….
Samsudeen was first noticed by police in 2016 when he started posting support for terror attacks and violent extremism on Facebook.
Police twice confronted him but he kept on posting. In 2017, they arrested him at Auckland Airport. He was headed for Syria, authorities say, presumably to join the Islamic State insurgency. Police searches found he had a hunting knife and some banned propaganda material, and he was later released on bail. In 2018, he bought another knife, and police found two Islamic State videos.
He spent the next three years in jail after pleading guilty to various crimes and for breaching bail. On new charges in May, a jury found Samsudeen guilty on two counts of possessing objectionable videos, both of which showed Islamic State group imagery, including the group’s flag and a man in a black balaclava holding a semi-automatic weapon.
However, the videos didn’t show violent murders like some Islamic State videos and weren’t classified as the worst kind of illicit material. High Court Judge Sally Fitzgerald described the contents as religious hymns sung in Arabic. She said the videos described obtaining martyrdom on the battlefield by being killed for God’s cause.
A court report warned Samsudeen had the motivation and means to commit violent acts in the community and posed a high risk. It described him as harboring extreme attitudes, living an isolated lifestyle, and having a sense of entitlement.
But the judge decided to release him, sentencing him to a year’s supervision at an Auckland mosque, where a leader had confirmed his willingness to help and support Samsudeen on his release.
The judge said she rejected arguments Samsudeen had simply stumbled on the videos and was trying to improve his Arabic. She said an aggravating factor was that he was on bail for earlier, similar offenses and had tried to delete his internet browser history.
Fitzgerald noted the extreme concerns of police, saying she didn’t know if they were right, but “I sincerely hope they are not.”
The judge also banned Samsudeen from owning any devices that could access the internet, unless approved in writing by a probation officer, and ordered that he provide access to any social media accounts he held.
“I am of the view that the risk of you reoffending in a similar way to the charges upon which you were convicted remains high,” the judge concluded. “Your rehabilitation is accordingly key.”
Two months later, Samsudeen took a train from a mosque in the Auckland suburb of Glen Eden where he was living to a Countdown supermarket in New Lynn, tailed at a distance by police. He wheeled a shopping cart around the store like the other customers for about 10 minutes. The store was less crowded than normal due to coronavirus distancing requirements, and undercover police were hanging back so as not to be noticed.
At about 2:40 p.m. he began shouting “Allahu akbar” — meaning “God is great” — and started stabbing random shoppers, sending people running and screaming, unleashing an attack that shocked a nation….
Mount Zion says
Somewhere , i don’t remember where , I read that the perpetrator grabbed the knife in that same Supermarket . Since then the management decided to take knives an scissors off the shelves.Yeah , that should to it , a huge step has been done towards combating jihad terror.
David M says
How about taking cars off the road next, he could have easily got behind the wheel of a car & started running people over!
gravenimage says
Yes–here’s this stupid story, Mount Zion:
New Zealand supermarkets take knives off shelves after ‘extremist’ stabbing”
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/new-zealand-supermarkets-take-knives-off-shelves-after-extremist-stabbing
And they may stop selling them altogether.
Ikea did the same after a Muslim there went on a stabbing spree there. Just nuts.
wpm says
Next up Jihadist will do the Islamic war dance in Home Depot or Lowes in the future using a hammer or some gardening tool .The stores will have to remove all tools that could be used as weapons. Ban the importation of dangerous people who believe in a violent cult pagan blood cultural religion ( Moslems) problem solve .The police in many countries are too busy trying to enforce mask mandates ,shutting down businesses ,check vaccine passports, because off the China flu, or looking up people posting mean “hate speech” on the internet to worry about a Jihadist with an attack of the stabbing fever on his mind.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Peace says
The liberal stupidity of the New Zealand Government is disgusting, they are so concerned about offending those “nice religious people”.
It’s almost like no-one explained Islam to them, everyone keeps bleeding about “good muslims and bad muslims”, no-one seems to realise “the peaceful muslims” are there just to lay the groundwork for the killers, they’re there to raise money and to instigate the con..
On top of all that, the damm media can’t leave the Christchurch killings alone, the news brings it up at every opportunity and at the moment there’s a slurpy serial documentary running created by what I use to think was one of NZ’s best reporters, overdramatising the whole thing and bringing it back to life …. again….
The only good thing coming from events like this (and Afghanistan, 9/11 memorials etc .. ) is it makes it topical enough to tell people about the real goals of Islam ..
Keith O says
The Kiwi’s are learning the hard way about the dangers of having jihadis running around loose in public.
The cops were pretty quick to deal with things, only slowed down because they couldn’t get a clear shot with civilians running around like headless chooks.
No more Aloha Snackbar for this “brave soldier of allah”.
What is not helping is the window lickers they have running the country. I have a few Kiwi mates and they all tell me the same thing. If you oppose islamic terrorists and islam in general for ANY reason you are labelled a “white supremacist” and condemned in the media and here’s the worst part, some of the people being called white supremacists are Maori!
Wellington says
Keith O: Same here in the USA with black conservatives. They are often lumped under the generic description, itself monumentally false, of “white supremacy.” Well, no one of sense should ever expect logic and factual precision from Leftists. Nor, might I add, integrity.
gravenimage says
True, Wellington–despite this being so absurd.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali–a black African woman–has also been derided as a “white supremacist” for daring to warn against Islam.
“Hirsi Ali hits back at Muslim women accusing her of being a ‘white supremacist’ – after she was forced to cancel Australian tour over security”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4377900/Ayaan-Hirsi-Ali-hits-Australian-critics.html
Wellington says
New Zealand for the most part is led by buffoons just as most other nations are, including mine, America. And these buffoons don’t function only in the political realm. Oh no. They can be found in the media, in academia and now even in many businesses which, in full cowardice mode, fear the woke Left more than anything else.
The Age of Nonsense marches on. You bet it does. And it carries with it many stupidities and dangers, all avoidable if only reason, common sense, courage, an enlightened ethical code and proper knowledge were present. Alas, so many times they aren’t, often all five at once are absent.
mortimer says
Message for naïve, Pollyannish Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand:
Our motto: “It’s the IDEOLOGY, stupid.”
Political Islam is a totalitarian IDEOLOGY … so was Hitlerism and so is Marxism.
Totalitarian ideologies require ordinary, nice people to act like devils, Prime Minister.
Re-think your views on POLITICAL ISLAMISM. Islam is NOT benign. Islam truly has no place in formerly peaceful New Zealand.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
This is the Brown Supremacist Beast Ardern and her government place above
the law abiding citizens of New Zealand.
mortimer says
No, wrong-o, BVC. Islam is NOT a race … all races participate in Islam and in Islamic terrorism.
Mohammed was so very white that he was referred to by his contemporaries as ‘THE WHITE MAN’.
Since Mohammed was VERY WHITE and a SUPREMACIST … it is ISLAM that is a white supremacist cult as evidenced by Islam’s fondness for enslaving MILLIONS of black Africans during its 1400 year long career of infamy.
Peace says
Adern went to school with Biden ..
gravenimage says
Not literally–but it seems she may as well have.
OTTER says
Note to AP: translate Allahoakbar properly. It means God is greater.
And second coming to the issue of women supporting Islam, it is condemnable as women have the most to loose from Islam. While leftist men are of course to blame, there is no excuse for white women supporting Islam. They are a danger in public life. AOC anyone?
gravenimage says
This from OTTER would be hilarious if it were not so ugly.
He is so intent on his “white women have to be controlled” meme–that is, prevented from getting an education, voting, and working outside the home, as well as *forced to breed*–that he is inventing white women where they do not exist:
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is right, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a women of color problem”
“Pelosi is not a racist but she should learn from women of color like AOC, Tlaib and Omar…”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/07/14/nancy-pelosi-learn-from-ocasio-cortez-women-of-color-column/1715320001/
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has *never* considered herself a white woman. OTTER is either too lazy to have bothered to learn this, or else he knows but just desperately hopes we don’t. Bad dhimmis!
gravenimage says
New Zealand: Muslim screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ who stabbed six was released from prison despite fears he’d attack
……………
Yes–we knew this. That’s why he was under surveillance to begin with.
The New Zealand courts insanely ruled that plotting Jihad terror is not a crime–so yhe police had to catch him in the act. Luckily, once they did, they took him out in less than a minute.
Eleanor says
Well, that’s one down, only another 60 on the Watchlist, so says Jacinda. You can probably double that number easily as she lies and covers up so much. And that’s before she even takes in the just arrived Afghani’s of which you can be sure there will be some rogue ones. You can bet your bottom dollar they will all be “interpreters” and probably not vetted at all.
Clifford Fodor says
When an infidel attacked Muslims in New Zealand and injured or maybe even killed some Muslims, it was worldwide news with worldwide condemnation.
With a Muslim attacking some infidels, you scarcely heard a word about it.
“When dog bites man, that’s not news. When man bites dog, that’s news.”
Ernest Dempsey says
Obvious that New Zealand government is an ally of the Islamist terrorism and enabling Muslim terrorists to kill natives. I am linking to this story in mine for Axcess News.
OLD GUY says
Islam has the answer for those who attack islam, DEATH, and it’s not news, it’s expected.
When a non-islamic individual attacks a muslim/islamic person thats news because it’s not the norm.
So I guess that if you make something normal, it doesn’t sell and therefore is not news worthy. Interesting.
When I was six years old my dog bit me and I bit her back, she didn’t ever bite me again. It didn’t make the news, but my dog learned not to bite me.
I know PETA will now be looking for me so they can charge me with Animal abuse. I was only SIX.
Ugly Sis says
Considering the weighty objects that might fall upon the innocent citizenry, A responsible government would turn off gravity.