Ex-Uber Driver Who Murdered Eight People in NYC Was in the U.S. on a Diversity Visa
We are constantly told that diversity is our strength. Is it?
After he was admitted to the United States on a diversity visa, Sayfullo Saipov demonstrated his gratitude to the land that had welcomed him by murdering eight people in New York City on Halloween night in 2017 by driving a truck along a bike path. Now, all these years later, he is finally on trial. On Monday, he showed that he was not in the least repentant. As far as he is concerned, he has no reason to be. He sees himself as a soldier in a war that only one side admits is being waged. The lessons here are right on the surface for anyone who wants to learn them, but whether or not anyone in this administration has any interest in doing so remains doubtful.
Saipov’s attorney David Patton said, “And as we sit here today, he still believes that, he still believes the ISIS messaging and he still believes it was God’s will that he do what he did.” This was in line with what Saipov said at a pre-trial hearing back in 2018: “The judgments that are made here are not important for me. They are not Allah’s judgments. The Islamic State, in order to impose sharia (Islamic law) on Earth, is leading a war.” He explained that this war was not being waged to gain territory or economic power, but in order to “impose Sharia on earth.”
Patton admitted that Saipov carried out the attack and said his act was “senseless.” He added, “There is no excuse for what he did and we will not offer one to you.” Nevertheless, CNN reports that Saipov “has pleaded not guilty in federal court to 28 counts, including eight counts of murder, 18 counts of attempted murder and other terrorism charges in connection with the deadliest terror attack in New York since 9/11.”
It’s hard to see how a not guilty plea can be sustained, as according to prosecutor Alexander Li, Saipov “told the FBI agents how he planned and practiced his attack. He told them that his goal was to kill as many people as possible. He told them that the leader of ISIS had called for attacks and the defendant responded.” Even worse, Saipov “smiled at the memory of his attack during an interview with federal agents in the hospital, Li said. He also asked to display an ISIS flag in his hospital room at the time, according to the prosecutor.”
Patton, running interference for Islam as all authorities in the West seem to think they have the duty to do, claimed that Saipov adhered to a “twisted and awful version of Islam,” although if anything is certain in this world, it is that David Patton has not read or studied the Qur’an, and Sayfullo Saipov has. But whatever the highest authorities in Islam would think of Saipov’s understanding of the religion (and they’re much more likely to agree with the jihadi than with his non-Muslim attorney), the immediate question here is how someone who wanted to kill non-Muslims for Allah got into the United States in the first place.
That’s because the worst revelation from this gleeful and unrepentant jihad murderer’s trial is the fact that Saipov, who drove for Uber in Paterson, N.J., before embarking upon his jihad, “came to the US on a diversity immigrant visa, which allows people from countries with low recent immigration to apply for a visa and green card, according to the Department of Homeland Security. He later became a legal permanent resident, an NYPD official said.”
When Sayfullo Saipov applied for his diversity visa, his name was likely checked (if the system was working properly, which it may not have been) against some databases of criminals and terrorists, and when he was found not to be listed, he was admitted into the country. No one would have dared question him about what he thought about Islam’s teachings of warfare against unbelievers; to have done so would have been “Islamophobic.” In fact, it’s unlikely that anyone who dealt with Saipov’s diversity visa application had any idea that such teachings exist, or that some modern-day Muslims take them quite seriously.
We are constantly told that diversity is our strength. Sayfullo Saipov has given us yet another reminder that this isn’t necessarily so. Bring in enough people who think that they have a responsibility before the creator of the universe to do violence to those who believe in other deities, and you’ll have a diverse society, all right, but one that is scarred by ever-increasing violence. And here we are. Celebrate diversity!
Robert Spencer
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 26 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 books are The Critical Qur'an and Who Lost Afghanistan?. Follow him on Twitter here, and like him on Facebook here.
Majority-Muslim Michigan City Legalizes Animal Sacrifice for Religious Purposes
The city council of Hamtramck, Mich., a city outside Detroit, voted Tuesday to legalize animal sacrifices for the purpose of religious rituals following pressure from Muslim residents.
"If somebody wants to do it, they have a right to do their practice," Councilman Mohammed Hassan (D.) said at the council meeting, the Detroit Free Press reported. Hamtramck's all-Muslim city council voted 3-2 in favor of the amendment, which will allow residents to slaughter animals on residential property for religious purposes.
At the meeting, some residents of Hamtramck, whose population is majority Muslim, applauded the council's decision. Some Muslims perform ritual sacrifices of animals including goats, sheep, and cows.
While animal rights advocates opposed the legalization of animal sacrifice, proponents of the move downplayed concerns about the negative effects of animal slaughters in Hamtramck and insisted it was necessary to protect the city from lawsuits alleging religious discrimination.
"Do we want to risk the city getting sued?" Councilwoman Amanda Jaczkowski (D.) said at the meeting.
Residents at the Tuesday meeting also objected to the flying of an LGBTQ pride flag on city property, calling it offensive to their religion.
Published under: Animal Rights , Detroit , Michigan , Religion
France has suffered a spate of radical Islamic terror attacks since 2015, some sophisticated attacks involving multiple attackers armed with firearms and suicide vests, some cruder but occasionally still extremely deadly attacks involving attackers using vehicles or simple tools like knives and hammers.
CAIR Doubles Down On Firing of Mohammed Art Teacher
“I’m 23 years old. I have never once seen an image of the prophet”
The backlash against Hamline University’s firing of an art teacher who had showed Shiite pictures of Mohammed at the behest of the Muslim Students Association and CAIR has made its way to art historians, PEN and the New York Times.
MPAC broke from CAIR and issued a condemnation of the firing. CAIR however is doubling down.
Aram Wedatalla, who is the head of Hamline’s Muslim Student Association, said she was blindsided by an image of the Prophet Muhammad presented in her World Art class at Hamline last fall.
“I’m 23 years old. I have never once seen an image of the prophet,” said Wedatalla fighting back tears during a press conference held Wednesday at the Minneapolis headquarters of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN).
The class had been given a trigger warning and had been told well beforehand that this was going to happen.
Aram Wedatalla remained in class, played the victim and then rallied a lynch mob to target a Latina professor.
CAIR-MN executive director Jaylani Hussein said most Muslims around the world oppose the public display of images of the Prophet Muhammad. To show the image of the Prophet, said Hussein, is deeply offensive. And he called that violation of the prohibition an act of Islamophobia. And he said it doesn’t matter that the instructor warned students before she showed the image.
“In reality a trigger warning is an indication that you are going to do harm,” he said.
Jaylani Hussein is really doubling down here. But not surprising after Hussein’s previous Hitler analogies.
Except his claim is that the MSA head was forced to endure a Mohammed painting that she could have avoided by leaving is Islamophobia and causes harm.
Hussein is avoiding the fact that Shiites do depict Mohammed. The Muslim Brotherhood fronts are demanding that Americans enforce the Sunni sharia and accusing a professor of Islamophobia for showing Shiite art. This is theocratic gibberish that liberals are rejecting and even wokes are staggering under.
CAIR is clearly stating that anything that its sect of Islam opposes is ‘Islamophobic’. And that’s giving the game away.
Lopez Prater said she didn’t mean to offend anyone. And she included advanced notice in the course syllabus.
“This course will introduce students to several religious traditions and the visual cultures they have produced historically,” reads a copy of the syllabus Lopez Prater provided to MPR News.
“This includes showing and discussing both representational and non-representational depictions of holy figures (for example, the Prophet Muhammad, Jesus Christ, and the Buddha). If you have any questions or concerns about either missing class for a religious observance or the visual content that will be presented, please do not hesitate to contact me.”
If Aram was so shocked and offended, why did she even take the class?
1. She was lazy and paid little attention.
2. This was a deliberate Islamist provocation to show off their power while playing the victim. Now it’s backfiring.
Wedatalla said whether intended or not, the classroom display caused her pain.
“It just breaks my heart that I have to stand here to tell people that something is Islamophobic and something actually hurts all of us, not only me,” she said.
Clearly, it doesn’t “hurt all of us”. All the whining in the world won’t change that. What Wedatalla is really saying is that Shiites aren’t Muslims. That’s effectively what Hussein is also saying. That’s far more revealing of their place in the Islamic theological spectrum than anything else.
And the woke victimhood theater will only change so much of that. CAIR lost this round. And it’s come closer to exposing what it is to liberals than it has in over a decade.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
ISIS Bride Wanted to See Americans Killed, But Hey, Now She Misses Alabama
This would be a heartwarming human interest story but for a few terrifying details.
A down-home gal from Alabama wants to come home, and who could blame her? This would be a heartwarming human interest story were it not for just a few inconvenient details: Hoda Muthana left Alabama to join the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria, and she can’t return because she was stripped of her American citizenship. But she is making a new appeal to come back now, and her attorney is claiming (how did you guess?) that she is a victim, and thus the red carpet should be rolled out for her.
The Associated Press reported Monday that Hoda Muthana, who “ran away from home in Alabama at the age of 20, joined the Islamic State group and had a child with one of its fighters says she still hopes to return to the United States, serve prison time if necessary, and advocate against the extremists.” Muthana currently resides in the Roj detention camp in Syria, and claims in a new interview that she was “brainwashed by online traffickers into joining the group in 2014 and regrets everything except her young son, now of pre-school age.” Muthana declared, “If I need to sit in prison, and do my time, I will do it. … I won’t fight against it. I’m hoping my government looks at me as someone young at the time and naive.”
Sure. But whoever “brainwashed” Muthana did a thorough job, as she once urged Muslims in the United States to “go on drivebys, and spill all of their blood,” that is, the blood of non-Muslims. Among the many hair-raising things she wrote on social media was “Terrorize the kuffar [non-Muslims] at home.” And, “Men and women altogether. You have much to do while you live under our greatest enemy, enough of your sleeping! Go on drive-bys and spill all of their blood, or rent a big truck and drive all over them. Veterans, Patriot, Memorial etc Day parades Kill them.”
Muthana also wrote: “We have men (and women!) who love death as ardently as you love your lives! I was watching an American documentary on a battle in Afghanistan and the Americans are such cowards. Crying and shaking on the battlefield and saying, ‘our aim is to get everyone home where they belong.’ While our men’s aim on the battlefield is to reunite with our Lord. Our honor is in jihad, either victory or shahadah [Islamic martyrdom]. These men cry for their lives while we cry for our death (shahadah)!”
Charming indeed. But AP reports that Muthana “now says her phone was taken from her and that the tweets were sent by IS supporters.” Well, maybe, but it isn’t as if she suddenly found herself in ISIS domains by chance and against her will. She was, according to AP, “raised in a conservative Muslim household in Hoover, Alabama, just outside Birmingham. In 2014, she told her family she was going on a school trip but flew to Turkey and crossed into Syria instead, funding the travel with tuition checks that she had secretly cashed.” Her actions were so egregious that the Obama administration, of all people, took the unusual step of revoking her American citizenship in 2016.
Now, however, Muthana is playing the victim card for all it’s worth: “Even here, right now,” in the refugee camp, “I can’t fully say everything I want to say. But once I do leave, I will. I will be an advocate against this. I wish I can help the victims of ISIS in the West understand that someone like me is not part of it, that I as well am a victim of ISIS.” Her attorney, Hassan Shibly, claims that it is “absolutely clear that she was brainwashed and taken advantage of.” Shibly added, “She was absolutely misguided, and no one is denying that. But again, she was a teenager who was the victim of a very sophisticated recruitment operation that focuses on taking advantage of the young, the vulnerable, the disenfranchised.”
Disenfranchised? How’s that again? Hoda Muthana was disenfranchised in the United States? Was she barred from voting? Barred from holding certain jobs, or from entering certain areas? Was she a second-class citizen in some way? Of course not. Shibly’s charge is hysterical and baseless, and of course he did not bother to explain what he meant. He didn’t have to. He was just repeating the words that he knows work among American Leftists. And they very well may work again this time, and soon send Hoda Muthana back to her sweet home Alabama.
Robert Spencer
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 26 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 books are The Critical Qur'an and Who Lost Afghanistan?. Follow him on Twitter here, and like him on Facebook here.
France has suffered a spate of radical Islamic terror attacks since 2015, some sophisticated attacks involving multiple attackers armed with firearms and suicide vests, some cruder but occasionally still extremely deadly attacks involving attackers using vehicles or simple tools like knives and hammers.
“Allahu Akbar”: Mohammed Stabs 6 on French Train
Another day, another Jihad.
Another day, another Jihad. It hasn’t been that long since the Muslim machete attack in Times Square. Or the arrest of Iranian brothers in Germany collecting ricin for biological warfare.
Now there’s news from France.
Six people were stabbed Wednesday at Gare du Nord in Paris by a man immediately overpowered by the police on the spot. The facts took place around 6:45 a.m. in the station, located in the heart of the 10th arrondissement of Paris, at a busy hour…
Six people were injured, including one seriously, by stabbing, Wednesday Gare du Nord in Paris by a man immediately overpowered by the police on the spot, we learned from a police source and from the Paris prosecutor’s office. The facts took place shortly before 6:45 a.m. in the station, located in the heart of the 10th arrondissement of Paris, at a busy hour.
According to some witnesses at the scene, the defendant shouted “Allah Akhbar” during the attack. An element that the investigators of the criminal brigade are checking, by cross-checking the hearing of witnesses and victims. At this stage, the police officers who intervened said they had heard remarks made in Arabic, without however being able to confirm what certain witnesses had precisely reported.
Like a lot of Muslim ‘sudden Jihad’ incidents, this appeared to involve a refugee who was being expelled from the country. And who arrived in Europe as part of the massive mass migration.
And who was already known to authorities, but who weren’t allowed to expel him.
The man who injured several people with knives this Wednesday, January 11 at the Gare du Nord (Paris) was subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) since the summer of 2022, Le Figaro learned from sources. consistent. According to our information, the suspect – who did not have identity documents on him at the time of his arrest – is a 22-year-old Libyan known by several identities. This individual who arrived in France in 2019 was confused by his fingerprints. This petty delinquent, on file for theft, was housed in Seine-Saint-Denis. He made several passages in prison, marked in particular by an escape, tells us a police source.
According to information from Europe 1, the suspect, on whom no paper was found, said in the morning that he said he was Algerian. He said his name was Mohamed Amine M., a name unknown to the police and he was born, according to his statements, on April 14, 1991. He would therefore be 31 years old. However, the attacker would have given a false identity. Passed to the file, his fingerprint returned to five aliases with different dates of birth.
The conviction of the police is that he is Libyan with an Obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) since September 2022. Nevertheless, the real identity of the suspect will probably never be 100% certified, given that he does not there is no exchange channel with Libya for the identification of its nationals. This is also one of the reasons why France does not deport a national to Libya.
That seems like a very good reason to deport Libyans. But this is the same old story with the same consequences.
Another day, another Jihad. It hasn’t been that long since the Muslim machete attack in Times Square. Or the arrest of Iranian brothers in Germany collecting ricin for biological warfare.
Now there’s news from France.
Six people were stabbed Wednesday at Gare du Nord in Paris by a man immediately overpowered by the police on the spot. The facts took place around 6:45 a.m. in the station, located in the heart of the 10th arrondissement of Paris, at a busy hour…
Six people were injured, including one seriously, by stabbing, Wednesday Gare du Nord in Paris by a man immediately overpowered by the police on the spot, we learned from a police source and from the Paris prosecutor’s office. The facts took place shortly before 6:45 a.m. in the station, located in the heart of the 10th arrondissement of Paris, at a busy hour.
According to some witnesses at the scene, the defendant shouted “Allah Akhbar” during the attack. An element that the investigators of the criminal brigade are checking, by cross-checking the hearing of witnesses and victims. At this stage, the police officers who intervened said they had heard remarks made in Arabic, without however being able to confirm what certain witnesses had precisely reported.
Like a lot of Muslim ‘sudden Jihad’ incidents, this appeared to involve a refugee who was being expelled from the country. And who arrived in Europe as part of the massive mass migration.
And who was already known to authorities, but who weren’t allowed to expel him.
The man who injured several people with knives this Wednesday, January 11 at the Gare du Nord (Paris) was subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) since the summer of 2022, Le Figaro learned from sources. consistent. According to our information, the suspect – who did not have identity documents on him at the time of his arrest – is a 22-year-old Libyan known by several identities. This individual who arrived in France in 2019 was confused by his fingerprints. This petty delinquent, on file for theft, was housed in Seine-Saint-Denis. He made several passages in prison, marked in particular by an escape, tells us a police source.
According to information from Europe 1, the suspect, on whom no paper was found, said in the morning that he said he was Algerian. He said his name was Mohamed Amine M., a name unknown to the police and he was born, according to his statements, on April 14, 1991. He would therefore be 31 years old. However, the attacker would have given a false identity. Passed to the file, his fingerprint returned to five aliases with different dates of birth.
The conviction of the police is that he is Libyan with an Obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) since September 2022. Nevertheless, the real identity of the suspect will probably never be 100% certified, given that he does not there is no exchange channel with Libya for the identification of its nationals. This is also one of the reasons why France does not deport a national to Libya.
That seems like a very good reason to deport Libyans. But this is the same old story with the same consequences.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Knifeman Gunned Down After Stabbing Six at Paris Railway Station During Rush Hour
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
A knife-wielding man has been hospitalised by police gunfire after going on a stabbing spree in the Gare du Nord railway station in Paris, France.
Details of the Paris mass stabbing are scanty at present, with Gérald Darmanin, France’s Minister of the Interior, saying the attacker was “rapidly neutralised” by law enforcement after he began stabbing people at around quarter to seven on Wednesday morning, The Telegraph reports.
“At 6:42, the first acts were described. At 6:43, the police used their administrative weapon after his passage of violence,” Darmanin said in comments quoted by the Associated Press.
“Without the extremely rapid intervention, there would surely be deaths,” the Frenchman added.
Reuters has claimed that the officer who took down the attacker was in fact off-duty and on his way home following a night shift.
France has suffered a spate of radical Islamic terror attacks since 2015, some sophisticated attacks involving multiple attackers armed with firearms and suicide vests, some cruder but occasionally still extremely deadly attacks involving attackers using vehicles or simple tools like knives and hammers.
However, as of the time of publication, a terrorist motive for the Wednesday stabbing spree had not been confirmed, with Interior Minister Darmanin suggesting the attacker did not say anything during the attack — jihadist often carry out their attacks to cries of “Allahu akbar!” — and did not have any identity papers on his person.
A physical description of the knifeman does not appear to have been issued, beyond the fact that he was male.
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