Of course. Judge Mike Hammer doesn’t have the first foggiest idea of what jihad is, so he ascribes Bader Alzahrani’s words and actions to mental illness. In this, he stands firmly within the contemporary mainstream.
“Man with ‘jihad’ journal accused of stealing school bus not competent to stand trial, judge says,” by Sarah Cassi, Lehigh Valley Live, June 8, 2023:
A Saudi national accused of stealing a school bus in New Jersey and driving it to Pennsylvania before getting caught in the Poconos is not mentally competent to stand trial, a U.S. federal judge has ruled.
Bader Alzahrani, 22, is facing charges from incidents in January, including receipt of a stolen vehicle transportation of a stolen vehicle in federal court, and motor vehicle theft, burglary, theft of moveable property, criminal damage and criminal trespass in New Jersey court.
In an order signed March 27, federal Judge Michael Hammer said based on a psychiatric report sealed by the court, Alzahrani has a mental disease or defect that makes him unable to understand the court proceedings and properly participate in his defense….
Alzahrani was in the U.S. on a student visa and was attending an unidentified university, but he left the school in October and was reported missing, an FBI agent wrote in court papers.
On Jan. 15, a home break-in was reported in Livingston, New Jersey, and a backpack found inside with Alzahrani’s Saudi Arabian passport and a journal with writings about jihad and threats against Jews and police officers, prosecutors said.
The journal, with entries in Arab and English, had phrases including, “Why didn’t you slaughter the police officer who threw the Quran?,” “Blood, blood, destruction, destruction. Allah,” and “Destruction of the new world and the earth will be destroyed from all sides,” according to court records.
There were also derogatory remarks about Jews and white people and other violent references, records state….
Hugh Fitzgerald says
“a journal with writings about jihad and threats against Jews and police officers, prosecutors said.
“The journal, with entries in Arab and English, had phrases including, “Why didn’t you slaughter the police officer who threw the Quran?,” “Blood, blood, destruction, destruction. Allah,” and “Destruction of the new world and the earth will be destroyed from all sides,” according to court records.”
Help us out here, Robert. Ir’s all such a puzzlement.
Keith O says
Translation Hugh, he had an updated version of the Koran. Written for the modern mudslime in broad terms they can understand.
gravenimage says
Sounds like orthodox Islam to me…
Uma says
But he knew how to steal the Bus, that too School Bus…..STRANGE!!!
Uma says
But he knew how to steal a bus, that too School bus
somehistory says
This sounds like all of the current “judges” went to the same training classes.
the mass murdering mozlum in CO at the King Soopers grocery store, was also said to be “incompetent to stand trial.”
Seems more and more “judges” are incompetent to preside over trials, esp those involving mozlum perps., er defendants.
Why hasn’t any “judge” decided that about the J6 guys and gals? Oh, yeah, they aren’t guilty and they aren’t mozlum.
Devasur says
That’s how the Indian judiciary behaves. Now it is the same in the West.
joanofark06 says
He’s sane enough to drive a school bus THAT far, but of course, anything else he did is considered “mental illness”.
David says
If the judges can’t do the job properly what hope havewe got….might as well let the them take over
Expose Evil says
May he has stolen the bus to plant & blast bomb with the bus either among some school children or police. Judge have not understood well his intentions by reading his literature with quranic verses. He is inspired with quran & hadiths to hate all non-muslims and destroy them in all possible ways.
Ade Fegan says
For : “a mental disease or defect that makes him unable to understand the court proceedings
and properly participate in his defense”
………… read “ialsm”
Preacherman1407. says
So will he be held in a secure hospital for the mentally disturbed, then when he is considered fit enough to reenter society, will he then be tried for these offences?
gravenimage says
Nope. He’ll just be released so he can commit more Jihad terror.
Michael Copeland says
Who provided the psychiatric report?
A muslim psychiatrist?
notoislam says
LOL! tHE MUSLIMES have a strange sense of humor that will never adjust over here…Why do those REAL AMERICANS allow these filthy mooslimes to come here?????
gravenimage says
Possible, Michael–but more likely just another foolish dhimmi.
James Loyd says
How can you say that a person who has the wherewithal to go buy guns/ammo, steal a school bus, obtain a large knife to injure people, buy bomb-sized amounts of explosive fertilizer drive a considerable distance to intentionally crash into a crowd of like-minded people lacks the ability to think or otherwise stand trial? It’s like feigning “mental illness” to escape punishment for any type of violence, whether classified as “terrorism”, “evil”, or whatever.
gravenimage says
Exactly, James. This behavior is too complex and organized to be indicative of mental illness. It’s not as though he just grabbed the school bus while the keys were in the ignition and drove it around randomly.
James Loyd says
Perhaps it’s people in the judiciary or prosecutor’s office who have mental problems.
PMK says
“the Journals also included entries concerning ‘Jihad’ and how Alzahrani did not intend to return to Saudi Arabia”
This suggests that this man wanted to die in a jihad attack. Since he has been declared incompetent to stand trial, he will probably be allowed to return to Saudi Arabia.
I’m fine with that outcome for any non-citizen who is ruled incompetent to stand trial. There should be a few conditions.
1. He is permanently denied entry to the US, on pain of life imprisonment without parole if he enters the country again.
2. If his country of origin will not accept him, then there should be an immediate moratorium on travel to the US from anyone else in the criminal’s COO until the COO finds another country that will give the criminal safe haven..
jasmine says
Throw him out of the country.
Uma says
You are right
Blessings
Uma
gravenimage says
New Jersey: Judge says Muslim with ‘jihad’ journal accused of stealing school bus not competent to stand trial
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Deeply foolish, and increasingly common. Jihad terror is not mental illness–certainly not in the legal sense.