New Zealand Attack: Nothing to Do with Islam – Everything to Do with Sharp Things?

by Daniel Greenfield, title via What Makes Islam So Different

After an ISIS terrorist went on a stabbing spree in a New Zealand shopping mall, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that the attack had nothing to do with Islam.
 
And some supermarkets have taken knives off their shelves.
 
The Jihad may have nothing to do with Islam, but it has a great deal to do with sharp objects.
 
After a mosque shooting a few years ago, Ardern’s leftist government banned most guns. Now some supermarkets and stores are banning knives and even scissors because the best way to stop Islamic terrorism is to make sure that no one is able to cut open an envelope.
 
But it’s easier to ban scissors than to address the real problem.
 
“What happened today was despicable. It was hateful, it was wrong. It was carried out by an individual, not a faith, not a culture, not an ethnicity, but an individual person,” Ardern insisted.
 
Jacinda Ardern was under the impression that the ‘I’ in ISIS stands for ‘Individual’, not ‘Islamic’.
 



 
The individual of no particular faith, Ahamed Aathil Mohamed Samsudeen, had been living in a mosque before heading to an Auckland shopping mall, shouting, “Allahu Akbar”, and stabbing seven people. One of those people is a 77-year-old man. Another is a 29-year-old woman.
 
Mohamed, a Sri Lankan student named after the prophet of Islam, who received refugee status in New Zealand, spent much of his time in the country plotting to kill Kiwis for Allah.
 
At his trial, he had warned, “You guys put me in prison cause I’m a Muslim and you don’t like my religion, that makes you an enemy. Allah says you will be punished.”
 
Since Mohamed’s burning desire to kill non-Muslims had nothing to do with Islam, he was sent to live in the El-Bilal mosque to cure him of his Jihadist ways. Instead, Mohamed took a train from the mosque to the supermarket and began trying to kill as many non-Muslims as he could.
 
The refugee had publicly supported ISIS since at least 2016. Or three years after he received refugee status. He did everything but take out an ad in the paper promising to kill the locals.
 
Five years ago, he told a fellow mosque worshiper that he would randomly stab a bunch of people in New Zealand. During his first arrest, the police found weapons and ISIS materials, but he got off with probation and under New Zealand’s liberal pro-crime laws, a name suppression order was issued so no one could possibly know that he had been charged with anything.
 
At his trial, Mohammed had claimed that he was interested in the Islamic State established by Mohammed, his namesake, the founder of Islam, and that he was collecting ISIS hymns for religious reasons.
 

 
Including one which declared, “We will drink from the blood of the unbelievers (non-Muslims).”
 
The authorities once again tried to deport Mohamed, who insisted that he was a refugee who couldn’t be deported because the Sri Lankans might be mean to him. “I’m very afraid of returning to Sri Lanka because I’m afraid of authorities there,” Mohamed had whined.
 
At this point it should have been very obvious that the authorities in Sri Lanka, assuming that they harbored any ill will for Mohamed, would have had very good reason to do so.
 
Not only was Mohamed not deported, at least until police bullets deported him from the precincts of the LynnMall and to whichever suburb of hell can best accommodate him, but as a refugee, his name couldn’t be released even after he had gone on a stabbing spree for Allah.
 
The lives of ISIS refugees count for much more than the locals who get stabbed by them.

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