Washington State Man Reads the Qur’an, Gets the Idea to Kill a Woman
But anyone who suggests a causal relationship is a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.”
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The facts of the case are nothing short of gruesome: Seattle’s KING 5 reported Wednesday that “Tyrone Bernard Wells Jr. was charged with first-degree murder in King County Superior Court on Wednesday after a woman was found 'brutally murdered’ at his Shoreline home. Prosecutors requested Wells’ bail be set at $5 million to reflect the ‘extreme danger’ he poses to the community if he was released from jail, according to charging documents.” Wells himself explained that he committed this brutal murder after reading the Qur’an, which gave him the idea that he should kill his victim. Since Americans have been thoroughly indoctrinated by this point, there is no indication that anyone connected with the case has even for a second entertained the idea that maybe there is something about this Qur’an that incites violence.
Wells himself alerted police to his crime, calling 911 after the deed was done and saying he wanted to “report a murder.” He told dispatchers that “the murder was on my account…I murdered her,” and explained that “he used a hatchet and a pair of bolt cutters to kill the woman.”
When police arrived, Wells was waiting for them, his clothes smeared with blood. Inside his apartment was an “extremely bloody” scene, and a dead woman, Randee Leeann Rios, with “major trauma about the head.” Wells’ hatchet and bolt cutters were near the body.
Wells “told police he used methamphetamine and had been awake ‘since Wednesday.’ The last time he reported using meth was the day before the murder, on Saturday, March 26. That night, Wells invited Rios to come to his apartment to stay the night. Wells told police he had the ‘premeditation’ to kill her at the time he invited her over.” This “premeditation” took a form that hasn’t often been seen in the United States up to now.
Wells explained that “he had been reading the Quran before Rios came over and told police ‘that verses in the Quran seemed to indicate to him that it would be necessary for him to kill Rios.’” For some reason, Wells thought this detail could be taken as exonerating or extenuating, as he “later told police, ‘For the record… I’m not trying to throw that religion thing in there as a defense.’” Noted.
Now, Wells must be mentally ill, right? After all, how could anyone read the Qur’an and get the idea to commit an act of unimaginable violence? Could it be, on the other hand, that Wells happened upon the passages that direct believers to “kill them wherever you find them,” (2:191, 4:89) or to “kill the idolaters wherever you find them” (9:5), or to “strike the necks” of the unbelievers (47:4), or above all, to beat women “from whom you fear disobedience” (4:34)?
No one, left or right, in the American public square today wants to admit it, but the unpleasant fact is that there are plenty of passages in the Qur’an that Tyrone Bernard Wells Jr. could have read in a manner that led him believe that he should kill Randee Leeann Rios. This is also true internationally Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said in February that “the West conveniently associated Islam with terrorism but in the last 20 years, Muslim countries unfortunately, did not respond to this narrative. Muslim leaders should have stood up to the West and made it clear that there is no link between Islam, or any other religion, with terrorism.” See? The reason why anyone thinks “Islamic terrorism” is a reality, as opposed to the genuine threat of “right-wing extremism,” is because of the ever-dastardly non-Muslim West. And really, who else’s fault could it be?
Back in the real world, however, it is false to claim that the West associated Islam with terrorism. The terrorists themselves did that. Take 9/11, which is just one of innumerable possible examples. In March 2009, the masterminds of the 9/11 plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi bin As-Shibh, Walid bin ‘Attash, Mustafa Ahmed AI-Hawsawi, and ‘Ali ‘abd Al-’Aziz ‘Ali – styling themselves as the “9/11 Shura Council” –wrote a lengthy communiqué titled “The Islamic Response to the Government’s Nine Accusations.”
In it, they wrote: “Many thanks to God, for his kind gesture, and choosing us to perform the act of Jihad for his cause and to defend Islam and Muslims. Therefore, killing you and fighting you, destroying you and terrorizing you, responding back to your attacks, are all considered to be great legitimate duty in our religion….We ask to be near to God, we fight you and destroy you and terrorize you. The Jihad in god’s [sic] cause is a great duty in our religion.” They quoted numerous Qur’an verses, including one stating that “to those against whom war is waged, permission is given (to fight,) because they are wronged and verily, Allah is most powerful for their aid” (22:39), and another commanding Muslims to “fight in the way of Allah those who fight you, but be not the transgressor, Allah likes not the transgressors” (2:190). They even quoted the notorious “Verse of the Sword”: “Then fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them, and seize them, and besiege them and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush” (9:5).
To cinch their case, they used two verses enjoining Muslims to strike terror into the hearts of their foes: “Soon shall we cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, for that they joined companies with Allah, for which he has sent no authority; There [sic] place will be the fire; and evil is the home of the wrongdoers” (3:151); and “Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the heart of the enemies of Allah and your enemies” (8:60).
There are innumerable other examples, and 40,000 jihad attacks worldwide since 9/11. The devil can quote Scripture for his own purpose, but it is clear that there are all too many Muslims today who see the Qur’an’s exhortation to violence and more as valid for our time. The jihad passages in the Qur’an are anything but a dead letter. Tyrone Bernard Wells Jr. just reminded us of that.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 23 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest book is The Critical Qur’an. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
WATCH: Palestinian Terrorist’s Aunt ‘Happy’ About ‘Martyr’ Nephew Who Killed 5 People
The aunt of the Palestinian terrorist responsible for a shooting attack that killed five people in a Tel Aviv suburb last week spoke openly of her support for him, stating she was “happy” he became a martyr, while praising the shooter’s confidence and courageousness.
Rim Hamarsheh, the aunt of 26-year-old Palestinian gunman Diaa Hamarsheh, who opened fire on civilians with an automatic weapon on Tuesday evening, described her nephew’s uniqueness in a video posted on the Sanad News channel on Wednesday.
“May Allah be pleased with Diaa,” she said. “You cannot find young men like this (anymore).”
She then claimed a clip of the attack showed Diaa’s “confidence” and accuracy.
“We were surprised when we heard the news but when we saw the video, how he walked with confidence as if he was walking in his own home and every shot hit its target, we cannot even describe how we feel,” she said.
Hamarsheh admitted to being sad over the loss of her nephew but clarified she was happy he had become a martyr.
“We are sad that he is gone and not with us anymore, but at the same time we are happy that he is a martyr,” she said.
The clip ends with her praising the terrorist’s courage, claiming his kind is hard to find.
“What he did is not something that anyone is capable of doing,” she said. “Not everyone possesses this kind of courage.”
Over the last week, masses of Palestinians in multiple cities came out to celebrate the attack that killed five people.
Hamarsheh, a Palestinian from a West Bank city near Jenin, was smuggled into Israel illegally and began a shooting spree with an M16 assault rifle on the streets of the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak in central Israel, as Breitbart News reported.
Bnei Brak is one of the most densely populated cities in Israel and the world.
Dozens of pictures and videos emerged of Palestinians throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip handing out sweets as per the tradition in the aftermath of a deadly attack against Israelis.
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Egypt: No Justice For—and No Justices Are—Christian Women
Shameless and open discrimination for the world to see.
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article is reprinted from Coptic Solidarity.
“To date, no hearings have been set, no reparation has been provided, and no courts have sought to move the case forward.” Such is how a recent report describes the plight of So‘ad Thabet, a Coptic Christian grandmother in her seventies living in Egypt.
On May 20, 2016, a mob of some 300 Muslim men descended on her home, stripped her completely naked, beat, spit on, and paraded her in the streets of al-Karm village (in Minya governorate) to jeers, whistles, and triumphant shouts of “Allahu Akbar.”
Pelosi: ‘America’s Large and Diverse Muslim Communities Have Been Essential to Our Nation’s Success’
(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) put out a statement on Friday welcoming the start of the month of Ramadan and paying tribute to America’s Muslim community.
“For generations, America’s large and diverse Muslim communities have been essential to our nation’s success: whether serving on the frontlines of the pandemic, advancing the fight against injustice in our communities or enriching our cultural tapestry,” Pelosi said.
“Despite the invaluable contributions of Muslim Americans, Islamophobia continues to threaten our Muslim communities and undermine Americans’ most cherished national values, with hate crimes against Muslims on the rise in recent years,” she said. “That is why the House has taken action to combat religious and racial discrimination, proudly passing the NO BAN Act and Access to Counsel Act last year to protect civil rights and prevent executive abuses of authority.
“As our nation and the world continue to grapple with ongoing challenges, Ramadan serves as a powerful reminder to embrace the values of charity, selflessness and compassion for others,” said Pelosi.
Ramadan commemorates the time when God revealed the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad.
Ramadan, explains Britannica.com, is “the ninth month of the Muslim calendar and the holy month of fasting. It begins and ends with the appearance of the crescent moon. Because the Muslim calendar year is shorter than the Gregorian calendar year, Ramadan begins 10–12 days earlier each year, allowing it to fall in every season throughout a 33-year cycle. Ramadan lasts from Saturday, April 2 to Sunday, May 1 in 2022. (Dates are dependent on the appearance of the crescent moon and may vary across countries.)”
“Islamic tradition states that it was during Ramadan, on the ‘Night of Power’ (Laylat al-Qadr)—commemorated on one of the last 10 nights of Ramadan, usually the 27th night—that God revealed to the Prophet Muhammad the Qurʾān, Islam’s holy book, ‘as a guidance for the people,’” says Britannica.com.
Here is the full text of the statement Speaker Pelosi put out to celebrate the Holy Month of Ramadan:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “Today at sundown, Muslim communities in America and around the world joyfully welcome the Holy Month of Ramadan. Each year, the emergence of the new moon brings a season of self-reflection, spiritual renewal and gratitude for life’s blessings.
“For generations, America’s large and diverse Muslim communities have been essential to our nation’s success: whether serving on the frontlines of the pandemic, advancing the fight against injustice in our communities or enriching our cultural tapestry. Despite the invaluable contributions of Muslim Americans, Islamophobia continues to threaten our Muslim communities and undermine Americans’ most cherished national values, with hate crimes against Muslims on the rise in recent years. That is why the House has taken action to combat religious and racial discrimination, proudly passing the NO BAN Act and Access to Counsel Act last year to protect civil rights and prevent executive abuses of authority. We must honor our nation’s promise, as President George Washington famously declared: ‘To bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.’ House Democrats will not relent until we send religious bigotry into the dustbin of history and build a safer future for Muslim Americans and for every American.
“As our nation and the world continue to grapple with ongoing challenges, Ramadan serves as a powerful reminder to embrace the values of charity, selflessness and compassion for others. Ramadan Mubarak to all who celebrate, and may this month bring peace and blessings to all.”
Orthodox Christians, for whom the Hagia Sophia was their grandest cathedral prior to the Ottoman conquest, were particularly outraged over its 2020 conversion.
In September of that year, for example, the Greek Orthodox Church of the United States petitioned the United Nations to force the Turkish government to protect the Christian heritage of the cathedral.
Islamised Hagia Sophia Holds First Ramadan Prayers for 88 Years
The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, held its first Ramadan prayers in 88 years on Friday to mark the start of the Islamic month of fasting, after being converted into a mosque in 2020.
The Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque — once the Church of the Holy Wisdom, before the Turks’ violent conquest of its city — held its first tarawih prayer since 1934, when the cathedral-turned-mosque was converted into a museum by the secularising government of Kemal Atatürk.
Turkey’s President Recept Tayyip Erdogan had converted the Hagia Sophia into a mosque in 2020 despite protests from local Christians and many abroad — although Erdogan achieved his conversion of the iconic house of worship with less accompanying destruction than Mehmet II in 1453, at least:
The conquering sultan, Mehmet II, personally oversaw the conversion of Hagia Sophia. Crosses were demolished and exchanged for crescents, altars and bells were destroyed, icons were burned or hacked to pieces, mosaics and frescoes depicting Christian imagery were plastered over, and most of the cathedral’s priests were killed or enslaved. In time, four colossal minarets were erected to surround Hagia Sophia, producing the iconic image that has come to be globally associated with Ottoman Constantinople and Turkish Istanbul.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, Metropolis of Chicago
Due to the Wuhan virus pandemic, Ramadan prayers did not take place in the Hagia Sophia in 2021, according to a report from the Andalou news agency.
According to the Turkish outlet, due to a number of factors including high vaccination rates and relatively low numbers of cases and deaths, the government decided to allow Muslims to attend the Hagia Sophia to mark the start of Ramadan and prayers will be held throughout the month.
Orthodox Christians, for whom the Hagia Sophia was their grandest cathedral prior to the Ottoman conquest, were particularly outraged over its 2020 conversion.
In September of that year, for example, the Greek Orthodox Church of the United States petitioned the United Nations to force the Turkish government to protect the Christian heritage of the cathedral.
“By unilaterally changing the status, structure and name of these UNESCO sites, with particular significance to Orthodox Christians, Turkey is in violation of its obligations under international law to preserve cultural heritage and to respect the political, cultural and religious freedoms of Orthodox Christians in Turkey and abroad,” Archdiocese of America counsel Christina Hioureas warned.
In neighbouring Greece, polls showed that a majority of Greeks were unhappy with the weak international response to the conversion, with 87 per cent saying they were disappointed in the reaction of the European Union, in particular.
A Ramadan banner seen hanging from the minarets of Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque reads in Turkish “There are no other gods, only Allah” ahead of the start of the holy month of Ramadan on April 1st, 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey. “Tarawih” prayers (evening prayers during the holy month of Ramadan) are returning to Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia mosque for the first time in 88 years. (Photo: Burak Kara/Getty Images)
Will Biden Fund ISIS in Israel to Aid the 'Palestinians'?
The Biden administration blames Israeli “violence” while supporting Islamic terror.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
"In the name of Allah, the merciful and compassionate," Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority leader, said, "we would like to welcome Secretary Clinton."
"Blinken," someone corrected him.
"Sorry, Blinken," the 86-year-old Islamic terrorist leader said.
Secretary of State Blinken had to travel thousands of miles away to find a leader even more unpopular and out of it than the one he had left behind at the White House.
That was last year. This year, Abbas got Blinken’s name right and not much else.
After 17 years (and just one election), Abbas has seen a lot of secretaries of state come and go to get their pictures taken with him and then send him a few hundred million dollars.
Last year, Abbas told Blinken that he had "postponed the elections" because of Israel and that the moment he gets his paws on Jerusalem, "we will hold them immediately and without any delay, because ultimately what we’re interested in is to establish democracy throughout Palestine." This year they can’t be held either because Abbas still doesn’t have Jerusalem.
The last Palestinian Authority presidential election was in 2005. Abbas won. The last parliamentary election was in 2006. Hamas won. The presidential and parliamentary elections have been postponed since then but are expected to resume any time now. If not, blame Israel.
Since elections won't be happening anytime soon, a recent poll reveals that 73% of the "Palestinians" occupying the West Bank and Gaza want Abbas to resign.
If elections were somehow held today the Hamas presidential candidate would win 54% of the vote while Abbas would only get 38%. So you can see why there will be no elections.
61% want to tear up all agreements with Israel (since they haven't kept them, that would be a technicality), 70% don’t want to negotiate with Israel, and 64% don’t even want to negotiate with Biden. 58% oppose the “two-state solution” that is the touchstone of the entire peace process.
73% believes that the Koran predicts that Israel will be destroyed, but only 32% believe it will happen in 2022.
Under these circumstances, the last thing the Biden administration wants is democracy for the quarreling foreign Jihadist tribes who invaded Israel over the last few centuries and were rebranded by the name of the European colonists known as the Philistines.
Blinken is fine with Abbas postponing the elections forever because otherwise the terror clans will do what they did the last time that Bush naively allowed elections and vote for Hamas.
And that would be inconvenient because Hamas won’t pretend that they aren’t terrorists.
Four Israelis were murdered last week by a Muslim terrorist attack at a mall in Beersheba.
Despite the terrorist's ISIS membership, a Hamas spokesman praised "the executor of the heroic operation" and promised more "heroic operations: stabbings, ramming and shooting” like the car and stabbing spree that killed a Rabbi who ran a soup kitchen and two mothers of three children. So much for the claim that Hamas will inhibit the rise of the “extremists” of ISIS.
Palestinian Authority media also hailed Mohammad Ghaleb Abu al-Qi’an, the ISIS terrorist shot and killed by an Israeli bus driver who chased him down on foot, as a "martyr". If the PA follows its usual “Pay to Slay” policy in this case, it won’t just be financially supporting the usual stable of PLO, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad families, but also an ISIS terrorist’s family.
And that will mean American taxpayers will end up subsidizing ISIS terrorism in Israel as the Biden administration explores ways to bypass the Taylor Force Act’s ban on terror funding.
At a joint press conference with Prime Minister Bennett, Blinken gave a speech mostly blaming Israel for future violence during Passover and Ramadan. That speech was followed by another ISIS attack in which two heavily armed terrorists opened fire on a bus. The Islamic terrorists were taken down by cops who had been eating nearby, but not before they killed two people.
Hamas celebrated the "valor and courage" of the ISIS terrorists as did Islamic Jihad.
Hezbollah, backed by Iran, praised the ISIS attack as an “important and most effective practical response to the infamous and treacherous normalization meetings that some Arab regimes are carrying out with the enemy entity” referring to the anti-Iran summit in Israel with the foreign ministers of Bahrain, UAE, Morocco and Egypt. Iran's pro-IRGC outlet praised it as a “martyrdom operation”. When it comes to Israel, Iran and ISIS are on the same side. Much as Al Qaeda and Iran were on the same side when it came to the terrorist attacks of September 11.
Blinken meanwhile used the visit to pitch Israelis on a Biden plan to remove the IRGC, Iran’s terror hub, from the list of foreign terrorist organizations, claiming it would be “symbolic”.
He failed to condemn the terrorist attack as an ISIS attack, calling it “senseless” violence.
At his joint press conference with Abbas, Blinken also failed to condemn terrorism or to note that ISIS, with the tacit support of his PLO hosts in Ramallah and of Hamas in Gaza was planting its flag in Israel. Instead Blinken once again condemned Jewish Israeli “settler violence”.
Like Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland's previous visit, the formula of Biden administration officials condemning Israeli "settler violence" while promising to "strenghten" the terrorists of the Palestinian Authority is as familiar as it is evil. The Palestinian Authority is an unwanted institution whose leader 73% of the people the dictator rules over want to see out of office.
And 49% want to dissolve the Palestinian Authority.
Considering the decades of failure, misery, and terrorism wrought by the failed Clinton initiative to create a Palestinian state, it’s long past time for everyone to turn the book on this disaster.
Neither Arab Muslims nor Israelis want Abbas or the Palestinian Authority. Only diplomats like Blinken and Nuland insist on keeping the senile tyrant of Ramallah in office until he dies.
In a final statistic, the poll asked who was "most deserving of representing and leading the Palestinian people". 31% picked Hamas, 29% chose Abbas' Palestinian Authority, and 33% chose none of the above. 84% believe the PA is corrupt and 70% believe Hamas is dirty.
The “Palestinian people” have spoken. Will Biden listen to them?
The root source of the corruption comes from the hundreds of millions of dollars that Blinken came bearing last year for the regime of a corrupt senile autocrat who didn’t even know whom he was talking to. There’s more money coming this year to prop up the terrorist regime.
All in the name of a peace which doesn’t exist and that the majority of “Palestinians” don’t want.
The United States has gone from using its foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority to prop up PLO, Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorism against Israel, to subsidizing ISIS terrorism.
Will ISIS be a final red line for the corrupt farce of a two-state solution and a peace process?
PICTURES: Palestinians Celebrate, Hand out Candy After Terror Attack that Killed 5 in Tel Aviv
Palestinians in multiple cities came out in droves to celebrate a shooting attack by a terrorist in a Tel Aviv suburb on Tuesday evening that killed five people.
The terrorist, identified as Diaa Hamarsheh, 26, a Palestinian from near the West Bank city of Jenin, smuggled into Israel illegally and began a shooting spree with an M16 assault rifle in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak in central Israel, as Breitbart News reported.
Palestinians celebrated outside Hamarsheh’s family home and in other Palestinian cities later that evening.
Dozens of pictures and videos emerged of Palestinians all over the West Bank and Gaza handing out sweets as per the tradition in the aftermath of a deadly attack against Israelis.
One of the victims, Avishai Yehezkel, 29, was shielding his two-year-old son when the Palestinian terrorist sprayed bullets at him. His son remained in the street after his father was murdered. Apart from the toddler, Yehezkel was survived by his wife, who is eight months pregnant.
Israeli emergency personnel evacuate a wounded woman from the scene of a shooting attack on March 29, 2022 in Bnei Brak. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty)
The Ukrainian Embassy in Israel issued a statement condemning the “heinous” attack and confirming that two Ukrainian nationals, Victor Sorokopot, 38, and Dimitri Mitrik, 23, were among the dead.
Palestinians on social media also hailed their deaths, calling them “settlers” even though the two were not Israeli citizens.
The other two victims were Amir Khoury, 32, an Arab Christian police officer who was one of two officers who killed the terrorist, and Yaakov Shalom, 36, the son of a prominent rabbi who died last year from COVID. Shalom was shot at point blank range from inside his car.
He was survived by his mother, wife and four children.
Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai expressed his condolences to Khoury’s father, Jarris.
“Alongside the tragedy, it is important for me to tell you that your son saved the lives of many civilians,” Shabtai said according to the Times of Israel. “His actions will become a legacy and memory of heroism for the whole country.”
The shooting was the third terror attack within a week, claiming the lives of eleven people.
Israeli security forces and emergency personnel gather at the scene of a shooting attack on March 29, 2022 in Bnei Brak. (JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
“Israel is facing a wave of murderous Arab terrorism,” Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said late Tuesday. “The security forces are at work. We will fight terrorism with persistence, diligence and an iron fist.”
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said he personally welcomes the attack.
“We are proud of the Palestinian people and the free people of the nation in the face of the heroic attack that struck all of Israel,” he said, adding that the terrorists who carried out the recent attacks were “heroes.”
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