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Perspectives : ’Sudden Jihad Syndrome’ - A reason to carry firearms for self-defense
Journal Chretien ^ | 3/10/07 | Larry Pratt

Posted on 03/11/2007 5:25:21 PM PDT by sig226

I have compiled (quite easily, I might add) a list of murders and attempted murders carried out by Muslims acting on the basis of what the founder of Islam taught them.

Convinced that they will go to heaven if they die killing infidels who Mohammed taught his followers to hate, some Muslims don’t bother joining al Qaeda or some other organized band of thugs. They get so filled with hatred from hearing Islamic sermons and visiting jihadi web sites that they decide to become freelance Jihadis.

The condition is recognizable and has been labeled Sudden Jihad Syndrome (SJS) — although some people are unable, or unwilling, to recognize SJS. Politically correct spokesmen for the FBI and other agencies seem to be under orders to issue a denial that a SJS-related murder could possibly have anything to do with Islam.

The rest of the population should come to grips with the fact that many in America are susceptible to SJS. The best antidote for many SJS-related acts of terrorism is a bullet fired from the gun of a prospective victim. The following list is offered to show that SJS is a reality, and that rational Americans should be prepared to deliver the most effective known antidote – a bullet administered at the first sign of an outbreak of SJS.

* March 1994 – Rashid Baz, a Muslim from Lebanon, opened fire on a van containing members of the Lubavitch Hassids in Brooklyn. One was killed.

* February 1997 – Palestinian-born Ali Abu Kamal opened fire on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, killing a tourist and injuring six other people before committing suicide. His daughter, Linda Kamal, said in 2007 that the family is tired of lying and admitted that a letter had been found on her father’s body explaining his Muslim hatred for Israel and America.

* July 2002 – Egyptian-born Hesham Mohammed Hadayet walked into the Israeli Airlines El Al terminal at the Los Angeles airport and began shooting Jews. He killed two and injured another four. He was known to sympathize with al Qaeda.

* September 2002 – Patrick Gott killed one and wounded another in the New Orleans airport. He had entered the terminal with a shotgun and his Koran.

* October 2002 – John Mohammed and Lee Malvo killed 13 people in the Washington, DC area. Both were converts to Islam and had attended a jihad training camp in southwestern Virginia.

* August 2003 – Mohammed Ali Alayed almost totally decapitated his erstwhile Jewish friend, Ariel Sellouk, following Alayed’s getting serious about his Islamic faith. He went to a mosque after killing Sellouk.

* October 2005 – Joel Henry Hinrichs III, a convert to Islam, was an engineering student at Oklahoma University. His student career ended when a bomb he had strapped on himself went off prematurely outside a crowed (sic) stadium, killing only himself. Police subsequently cleared explosives from the apartment that Hinrichs had shared with Muslim students from Pakistan.

* April 2006 – Muslim Ayhan Surucu was so angry when his sister started to wear make-up and date men in Berlin, Germany, that he put a gun to her head at a bus stop and killed her. Boys at a nearby school, attended mainly by the children of immigrant Muslim families, cheered and applauded when news of the murder reached them.

* May 2006 – Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student, rented an SUV and drove it through a crowded part of the campus— intentionally trying to hit people and wounding nine. In a series of letters to the student newspaper, he explained that he acted in obedience to Koranic dictates.

* June 2006 – Michael Ford, a Muslim convert, walked into work at a Safeway warehouse in Denver and opened fire on his coworkers, killing one and injuring five. Relatives explained that he was being teased at work because he’s a Muslim and he could not take it anymore.

* July 2006 – Naveed Alzal Haq, a Pakistani, walked into the Jewish Federation Center in downtown Seattle and shot six women — killing one, and wounding five (one of whom was pregnant). He stated matter-of-factly : "I am a Muslim American angry at Israel."

* August 2006 – Omeed Aziz Popal, a Muslim Afghan refugee, used his SUV as a weapon and ran down at least 14 people and a bicyclist in the San Francisco Bay area. He was targeting Jewish neighborhoods to terrorize.

* January 2007 – A 22-year-old Muslim, Ismail Yassin Mohamed, stole a car in Minneapolis and rammed it into other cars before stealing a van and doing the same, injuring several drivers and pedestrians at crosswalks and on sidewalks before police caught up with him. Mohamed called himself a "terrorist."

* February 2007 – Ibrihim Ahmed, a Nashville cab driver and Muslim, was enraged that two passengers did not agree with him about Islam. When they got out of the cab, he tried to run them down, striking one in a parking lot.

* February 2007 – Sulejman Talovic, a Bosnian Muslim immigrant, went to a Salt Lake City mosque on a Friday night. Then he went to one of only two malls in the state which prohibits civilian carrying of concealed weapons. He killed five before an off-duty cop (not subject to ban) used a concealed firearm stopped his murder spree.

Cornell University did a study estimating that there are seven million Muslims in the U.S. If even a single percent of that population is motivated to go kill a few infidels for Allah, the country would be facing 70,000 murderers on the loose.

The examples that I have found of Islam being the driving force for murder show that the prospect of Sudden Jihad Syndrome should be reason to loosen the country’s concealed carry laws. The Utah Jihadi did not have a concealed carry permit, but he carried his weapons to the scene of the crime concealed anyway. Why should the laws make it harder for the rest of us to counter what criminals are already doing ?

Put another way, our current restrictions on concealed carry on the books in most states facilitate murder by tying the hands of victims. The law should be on our side, not on the side of the bad guys.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; dcsniper; jihadinamerica; larrypratt; sjs; suddenjihadsyndrome; usmuslimterror
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To: diamond6
I wish my husband would let me buy a gun.................Last I checked I don't think spousal permission is a requirement for gun ownership. Buy you and him one and surprise him by getting an instructor to tutor both of you in there proper use.
41 posted on 03/11/2007 8:27:47 PM PDT by eastforker (.308 SOCOM 16, hottest brand going.2350 FPS muzzle..M.. velocity)
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To: papertyger
...I probably sent this person to the burning horror of hell for all eternity...

It is the choices and actions that person made during their life that determines if they go to heaven or hell.

42 posted on 03/11/2007 8:38:28 PM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: sig226
I carry everywhere. No matter if there is a posting on not allowing CW permit holders. It comes down to a basic principle I have.

I refuse to be anyone's victim at anytime in any place I choose to go. I do not cause trouble, hassle other people, or be a nusiance. I am a dead shot have been shot at and have seen the elephant. I do not fear my death, but woe to anyone who tries to murder another in my presence.

43 posted on 03/11/2007 8:52:12 PM PDT by Pistolshot (Condi 2008.<------added January 2004. Remember you heard it here first)
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To: sig226

It is time that Islam is outlawed as a religion. It is not a religion, and its belief in violence is a threat to our safety.


44 posted on 03/11/2007 8:53:29 PM PDT by exit82 (Defend our defenders--get off the fence.)
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To: Oorang
It is the choices and actions that person made during their life that determines if they go to heaven or hell.

Agreed, but that doesn't mean I can tolerate being the proximate cause.

Is it more important that a condemned man be executed, or that one avoid becoming his executioner?

45 posted on 03/11/2007 8:59:40 PM PDT by papertyger
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To: 05 Mustang GT Rocks
I personally carry a 1911a1 .45 and a Smith and Wesson 9mm and I keep a Ruger mini-14 in the truck. You can never have too much FIREPOWER. Stop these nuts in their tracks. TWO TO THE BODY ONE TO THE HEAD!!!!! Seriously I do carry these weapons because I am a Law Enforcement Officer and did not carry a off duty weapon till I was confronted by a drunk I had locked up a few days before, my wife was pregnant with our first son and all I had was a ketchup bottle. ( It broke nicely over his head by the way) he started to fight so I did what I had to to end the confrontation. He got 12 years in prison. We were lucky so now I carry.
46 posted on 03/11/2007 9:19:51 PM PDT by Mastersgte8
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To: papertyger
That is a question that one can only answer for themselves. I could not be a death-row executioner. But, if I saw someone committing evil, as in SJS that is the subject of this thread, I hope I would have the strength to put a stop to it. In my mind, stopping evil from hurting the innocent is more important.
47 posted on 03/11/2007 9:23:26 PM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: diamond6
I wish my husband would let me buy a gun.

I wish my state would let me carry one (Illinois)

48 posted on 03/11/2007 9:29:01 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: diamond6
I wish my husband would let me buy a gun.

Why should you need your husband's permission?

the infowarrior

49 posted on 03/11/2007 10:40:29 PM PDT by infowarrior
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To: sig226

Ping!


50 posted on 03/12/2007 5:17:01 AM PDT by mr_hammer (Show me just what liberalism brought that was new, and there you will find things evil & inhuman)
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To: truth_seeker
1968 - Sirhan Sirhan murders Robert Kennedy, at a hotel in Lost Angeles.

Not Sudden Jihad Syndrome (SJS).

Don't know if I'm splitting hairs here but a requirement for SJS is that the murdering Muslims kill total strangers.

Sirhan was an assassin with a specific target.
51 posted on 03/12/2007 5:51:09 AM PDT by Beckwith (The dhimmicrats and liberal media have chosen sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: 05 Mustang GT Rocks
One of the reasons I always have at least two guns on me.

I tried that, but it kept pulling my pants down. I'd rather carry a spare magazine. Less bulk, less weight, just as lethal. "More TASTE! Less FILLING?"

52 posted on 03/12/2007 6:15:29 AM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: diamond6
I wish my husband would let me buy a gun.

When I first met the gal I would later marry, our first date was to Church. The second date was to the range. When we first were married she got me a rifle for our first anniversary....right before she tried to co-opt my favorite 1911 as her own. I had to scramble out and buy her a 1911 Combat Commander 45!

Buy him and you one each and dedicated lessons for the permit. Then make a date to go to the range....rekindle the romance with the smell of cordite curling into your nostrils. Nothing sexier on earth!

53 posted on 03/12/2007 6:23:25 AM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: sig226

The following is not being apologetic, it is being critical of bad/stupid statistics:

The statistics and conclusion are non-sequitors. 13 SJSs over a decade out of an alleged source of 7M and a target of 300M, slightly more than one per year average, do not warrant dissing millions.

I understand the what-ifs, but making a mental leap from a dozen or so to tens of thousands is an unwarranted stretch. If we compared other groups of comparable sizes, we would find a proportional number of similar crimes.

Swimming pools are a far larger problem.
Restore RKBA, carry, and go fuss about something else.


54 posted on 03/12/2007 1:30:31 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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To: papertyger

You save as many as you can - sometimes by adjusting who stays.


55 posted on 03/12/2007 1:32:44 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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To: sig226
fruit loop troopers

The subject matter is not funny, but somehow, I found your expression hilarious.

56 posted on 03/12/2007 1:53:28 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (Hoping my 'carbon footprint' has crushed a few liberals)
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To: diamond6
I wish my husband would let me buy a gun.

When you turn 21 you can buy one without his permission. :)

57 posted on 03/12/2007 1:59:30 PM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: sig226

Another idea, something I have done.

Put the local FBI phone number in your cell phone memory.
Never know when you might need it.


58 posted on 03/12/2007 2:01:52 PM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: sig226
About a year ago, a man got on I-20 here in north Louisiana, heading east in the westbound lanes. It was after dark. He had not gone more than a couple of miles when he ran headon into a westbound car, killing himself and the female driver of the other car. He was employed as a technician by a state university 5 miles away, so undoubtedly was familiar with the road.

The newspaper obituary, with photo, showed him to be a clean-looking black man, late 30s, Navy veteran. His funeral was held in a Protestant church, but the suffix "-el" was added to his name. Here is the mystery: If he was truly an observant Muslim, alcohol and drugs would have to be ruled out as a factor in the accident. What else is left? Am I being paranoid to wonder if this was a minor-league act of terrorism?

59 posted on 03/12/2007 2:07:19 PM PDT by 19th LA Inf
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To: JoeFromSidney
Good afternoon.
"May I recommend a recent novel, A WELL REGULATED MILITIA..."

Follow it up with Unintended Consequence, by John Ross, to get an idea of how truly dangerous SJS can be.

Michael Frazier
60 posted on 03/12/2007 2:19:49 PM PDT by brazzaville (no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
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