Posted on 04/13/2020 11:28:43 PM PDT by robowombat
Tennessee: Muslim Stabs Three Women to Death at Truck Stop, Motive Unclear
BY ROBERT SPENCER 2020-04-11T15:56:54
Idris Abdus-Salaam, 33, a truck driver from Durham, North Carolina, on Tuesday pulled into the Pilot Travel Center on Strawberry Plains Pike in Knoxville, Tennessee, got out of his truck, pulled out a knife, and went on a stabbing spree. He stabbed three women to death and injured a fourth. When confronted by police, Abdus-Salaam refused to drop his weapon and was shot dead. According to Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) spokeswoman Leslie Earhart, authorities are still trying to determine his motive. But will they miss an obvious clue that is right in front of their faces?
The three women Abdus-Salaam killed were all employees of the Pilot Travel Center. The fourth victim, who is in the hospital fighting to recover from the wounds Abdus-Salaam gave her, was a customer. If Abdus-Salaam knew any of them personally, the fact has not been reported. It may emerge that he did, but as of this writing, this looks like a random act of violence.
Predictably, investigators are pursuing the possibility that Abdus-Salaam was mentally ill. In this, they are following the lead of numerous authorities in the U.S. and Europe, who have ascribed incidents in which Muslims behaved violently to mental illness, often ignoring their jihad statements in order to do so. According to news reports, investigators found a notebook in his truck containing writings that suggested he was mentally ill, but none of these writings were released.
Abdus-Salaam may indeed have been mentally ill. However, if he was, his mother, Walidah Abdus-Salaam, was unaware of the fact – that is, if she is being honest. “He’s not a violent person,” she insisted. “The picture they painted is ugly.” She didn’t even believe her Idris was the one who went on the stabbing spree: “That is not my son. I don’t believe it, and I refuse to believe it until they can prove otherwise to me.” She said that there was no indication that Idris was suffering from any form of mental illness, “unless it developed recently and I’m not aware of it.”
However, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported that Walidah Abdus-Salaam said that her son was “a practicing Muslim,” although “his loved ones had no reason to believe he had become radicalized by any sort of religious fanaticism.”
That may be, but the very fact that he was a practicing Muslim ought to be followed up by investigators. The Islamic State issued this call in September 2014:
So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him…. Every practicing Muslim is not a terrorist, but every jihad terrorist is a practicing Muslim. Islamic jihad groups routinely explain and justify their activities on the basis of Islamic texts and teachings, and appeal to peaceful Muslims by claiming to be the authentic exponents of those texts and teachings. Numerous jihad terrorists have been nominal or non-practicing Muslims whose turn to jihad violence coincided with their becoming more devout in their observance of Islam – notably Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
In fact, the correlation between a new, deepened Islamic religiosity and jihad activity was so strong that the FBI and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies used to consider a sudden turn toward devoutness in Islam to be an indication that someone bore watching for possible engagement in terrorism. The Obama administration scrapped this in 2011 when it scrubbed all counterterror materials of all mention of Islam and jihad, for reasons of political correctness.
But the investigators were right the first time. And so the TBI should now be asking: how long has Idris Abdus-Salaam been a practicing Muslim? How devout is he? Where does he go to mosque, and what is taught in that mosque? But these questions and other important related questions will almost certainly not be asked. To ask them would be “Islamophobic.” And so one thing is certain: Idris Abdus-Salaam may not have been a jihadi, but other Muslims who are indeed jihadis will slip through the cracks when they could have been caught before they attacked.
CCW
Because EVERYONE wants cheap freight. And free market principles should rule, to include equal opportunity for labor. And if it costs Americans their jobs, that is just too bad. That came from a Freeper here.
You want equal opportunity? Cool. Now sit back and watch the sandniggers figure out they can pack their trucks with ammonium nitrate and bring the party to your rush hour, tunnel, commencement, or large sporting event. And there are so many of them now, there isn't Jack shit you can do about it, and Jack left town.
Not so mysterious:
According to news reports, investigators found a notebook in his truck containing writings that suggested he was mentally ill, but none of these writings were released.
I suspect that these were the writings (titled "The Koran") of a known pedophile and militant terrorist named Mohammed.
Regards,
The why - breathing while muslim.
It’s okay. It’s one of their quaint customs. Who are we to judge??
Proper safety around Muslims.
Always treat the Muslim as if it is loaded.
Never point the Muslim at anything you aren’t willing to destroy.
Keep your finger off the Muslim.
Always be sure of what’s in front of, behind and around the Muslim.
Spencer’s a little late with this one. It happened last week.
Motive unclear, eh?
I work with chemicals and have seen a huge downturn in the professionalism of the drivers who deliver our acids and caustics. It seems companies will hire anyone with a license. Based purely on cost, not safety, experience, or national origin. Aviod all tankers on the road, fuel trucks too.
And this is what murderous, leftist, democrats want and expect when they forceful import murderous muslims into our country. They know full well the murderous muslims will murder ‘white’ people and hope that this will happen.
JoMa
To them, we're all just eggs to be broken to make their utopian omelette.
This happened not far from where I live. Knoxville is odd regarding diversity. There are the traditional rednecks who hate everybody. But, there seems to be a significant part of the population that falls all over itself to be the least prejudiced in the room.
There are quite a few muslims here and, from my observation, they are treated quite well.
I have read that there are parts of the South where people feel so much shame for slavery that they go to extremes to prove that they’re not raaaaaaayyyyyyyyccccccccciiiiiiiiiissssssssssssts.
Watching that happen here
foreigners unable to speak English taking tanker and other tests in trucking from the state with “interpreters” giving them answers.
Very dangerous what leftists are doing to what is left of this country.
The brainwashing continues. amazing how your own politicians in government can enact laws to protect those who want to do you harm while re programing the mothers of your children and programing your children in school to feel guilty about being who they are. Amazing how they corralled the majority in this country into a box of guilt ridden softies and an easy target
He stabbed three women to death... but an ugly picture is being painted of him?! Sounds like a case of SJS*.
*: Sudden Jihad Syndrome
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