More on Mohamud and the Christmas bombing in Portland

As the facts keep a'comin, I am attempting to stay on top of it all.  Here is my latest, with the newest info.

Enjoy.

Ignoring the Words from those Wanting to Kill Us Will Get us Killed.

   He had "dreamed of carrying out an attack for years, and the city's

Pioneer Courthouse Square

would be packed with thousands. A huge mass that will...be attacked in their own element with their families celebrating the holidays."  His Islamic views were openly stated when he was age 15, and he was known to law enforcement as someone who, while attending Beaverton High School, had expressed his desire, through prayer to Allah of wanting to become a jihadists.  Mohamud Osman Mohamud, now 19 went from wanna-be jihadists to the real thing in four short years.  A case of “Sudden Jihad Syndrome” as Dr. Daniel Pipes might say, or another example of how, through the texts and tenets of Islam another martyr for Allah is born?  Mohamud’s words say everything we need to know.

   He told FBI agents that he had prayed "about whether I should...go, you know, and make a jihad in a different country or to make like an operation here."  He was just following sura 9, verse 111 where it says to Muslims that they “…shall fight in the way of Allah and shall slay and be slain.”  Rather than take the advice of the undercover FBI agent that he could be more helpful in the cause by praying five times a day and becoming a martyr, Mohamud said that he “…thought of putting an explosive together but that he needed help doing so.”  So instead of praying and killing himself, he opted for curtain #3 and went for mass casualty.  He would rather “slay” than be “slain”  Well, you cannot blame him for saving his own backside at the expense of innocent women, children and families.

   His martyr video has him dressed in what he calls “Sheik Osama style” which included a red and white headdress, camouflage jacket and a white, flowing robe.  His statement was mostly the usual Islamic babble: Israel, American foreign policy, occupation, Allah, Islam, but then we get to the personal part.  He said he dreamed of bringing a dark day on Americans through jihad, and laid blame for his failures on his parents.  His quote “To my parents who held me back from Jihad in the cause of Allah. I say to them…if you – if you make allies with the enemy, then Allah’s power…will ask you about that on the day of judgment, and nothing that you do can hold me back.”  It is funny that people such as Mohamud Osman Mohamud keep misunderstanding the Qur’an and its peaceful intentions; “fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war)", sura 9 verse 5. 

   Despite the words, and actions of Mohamud, we will hear about how Islamic doctrine has nothing to do with his attempted murder, that he is merely a misguided youth, ostracized by his adopted country and susceptible to extremist views.  Some will even say that because he was poor, his despair over poverty made him do it.  However, the articles on jihad, written by Mohamud and published on pro-Islamic website magazines such as “Jihad Recollections” and “Inspire” reflect the beliefs and doctrinal behavior demanded of Muslims in the Qur’an.  Mohamud was doing nothing more than emulating Muhammad as “al-insan al-kamil” or the perfect man, whose behavior is to be followed for all time. 

   His advice on working out without weights, in the April 2009 edition of “Jihad Recollections” is based in Islamic patriarchal doctrine, as he said that a Muslim should not work out at gyms because they are “…not Islamic environments, with their "music, semi-naked women [and] free mixing."  He tells future jihadists that they need to "…train as hard as possible in order to damage the enemies of Allah as much as possible."  His other articles were not identified, but one can be fairly sure they were not about knitting or restoring wood finishes on old cabinets.

   Mohamud knew exactly what he was doing, and why.  In August 2009, at a hotel meeting, he told the agents that he”…had found the perfect location for a terrorist attack: the city’s annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony..” and that he had “…dreamed of carrying out an attack for years.”  

    Merry Christmas, everyone.