“I tried to shoot up a church one day,” Abu-Rayyan is quoted as saying in court records. “I don’t know the name of it, but it’s close to my job. It’s one of the biggest ones in Detroit. Ya, I had it planned out. I bought a bunch of bullets. I practiced a lot with it. I practiced reloading and unloading. But my dad searched my car one day, and he found everything. He found the gun and the bullets and a mask I was going to wear.”
Investigators didn’t name the church Abu-Rayyan allegedly eyed, but claim the property covers about two blocks less than half a mile from his work and can accommodate up to 6,000 members. He allegedly purchased a gun and told an undercover FBI employee that attacking a church would be “easy.”
“A lot of people go there. Plus people are not allowed to carry guns in church,” the affidavit quotes him as saying. “Plus it would make the news. Everybody would’ve heard. Honestly I regret not doing it. (If I) can’t go do jihad at the Middle East, I would do my jihad over here.”
These comments show us precisely what these terrorists want.
They want to create fear, and they want to get as much media attention as possible.
Terrorists like Khalil Abu-Rayyan do not fear death, because they have been promised that they will go to a wonderful paradise where they will be showered with attention by virgins when they die. In fact, many of them seem quite eager to receive a one-way ticket to their sex-fueled religious fantasy.
Unfortunately, mainstream media outlets in both the United States and Europe purposely downplay the hatred that these Islamic radicals have for ordinary Christians, because they don’t want to make Muslim immigrants look bad. That is why the mainstream media almost entirely ignored the fact that the main target of the San Bernardino shootings was a Messianic Christian, and that is why the mainstream media is burying this current story about Khalil Abu-Rayyan.
If a Christian baker refuses to bake a cake for a gay wedding, that is front page news, but if a Muslim admits to planning to shoot up a church of several thousand people that is a non-event according to the media.
This anti-Christian bias is growing stronger with each passing year, and it has now become institutionalized in our society in so many ways. A recent article by Selwyn Duke highlighted some examples of this phenomenon that we have recently witnessed…
A student is punished for refusing to “stomp on Jesus,†a Christian baker faces a year in jail for refusing to cater faux marriages, two men are arrested for reading the Bible aloud near a government building, a school “purges†Christian works from its library. Critics asserting the existence of an institutional anti-Christian bias, and a resultant war on the faith, have often been labeled paranoid. But now two University of North Texas sociologists have produced research showing that just such an agenda exists — among America’s most powerful people.
The two sociologists that he was referring to are Professor George Yancey and Professor David Williamson, and they shared their research in a newly published book entitled “So Many Christians, So Few Lions: Is There Christianophobia in the United States?†The Christian Post interviewed Yancey about this new book and the following is an excerpt from that interview…
In the minds of many of the respondents Christians are ignorant, intolerant and stupid individuals who are unable to think for themselves. The general image they have of Christians is that they are a backward, non-critical thinking, child-like people who do not like science and want to interfere with the lives of everyone else.
But even worse, they see ordinary Christians as having been manipulated by evil Christian leaders and will vote in whatever way those leaders want. They believe that those leaders are trying to set up a theocracy to force everybody to accept their Christian beliefs. So, for some with Christianophobia, this is a struggle for our society and our ability to move toward a progressive society. Christians are often seen as the great evil force that blocks our society from achieving this progressive paradise.
If you are a “liberal”, it is quite likely that this is how you view Christians.
Many non-religious liberals consider evangelical Christianity to be the biggest “problem” that America is facing today, and some of the potential solutions that liberal activists are advocating for this “problem†are quite chilling.
During their research, Yancey and Williamson personally interviewed a number of “cultural progressive activistsâ€, and the following are a few examples of what some of them said should be done to “the Christian right”…
yeah, well,
1. unfortunately, the real deal will happen soon enough and it will be on the front pages
2. I’m from NYC but will sell all and move near a FReeper who can train me to use a weapon if things get that bad. Shot first guns three months ago and going to range in Brooklyn with friend at end of month
3. Poor Jews were a minority and lacked weapons in Germany, here, Christians..not so much.
4. the 16 to 40 year old f..ts that type in mom’s basement that they hate Christians more than muslims, i wont need a gun to take care of them if the time comes. i’ll just rip them in half.
that would be a fatal mistake on his part if he came to my church . . . .
While not a megachuuch (we only have 100 people), I always carry.
Can't share the Gospel from a casket.
Was this guy one of ‘obuma’s sons’ also?
And this, boys and girls, is why I’m always armed in church ...
“The father of islam seems to be Satan himself.”
Seems? I think there is no question about it.
Because, y'know, Blacks don't count.[/sarcasm]
It would behoove such megachurches to quietly employ a few snipers, with highly mushrooming cartridges, to cover areas of the church. Of course they would be discreet, but if some maniac busted in, waving a gun and screaming “Allen’s Snackbar!”, he wouldn’t get two steps before being ventilated.
And if a team of maniacs did so...
Great article. Worth reading the whole thing.
Not if it will happen, but when. Not just churches, but elementary schools, football games, shopping malls, etc. All will likely experience the “peace” of islam in the near future. I’m not prophesying or spreading doom and gloom, just being a realist.
Bump for later.
I know of four men who carry every Sunday (including this one) and probably more do. The Christ haters would do best to visit some other venue here. Of course I live in Alaska and our church is probably not unique. I consider a duty to protect the sheep.
Sometimes I wonder if it will take a Tom Clancy type attack to wake America up, read “Teeth of the Tiger” and you will understand.