The New Orleans car attack perp: what is known so far
In no surprise whatsoever, the identity of the mass murdering terrorist in New Orleans is revealed to be a Muslim and perhaps an ISIS-follower; his name was Shamsud din Jabbar:
Inside Jabbar’s truck — a Ford pickup that “appears to have been rented” — was an Islamic State flag, weapons and a potential improvised explosive device, according to an FBI statement. The agency said it is investigating the slaughter as “an act of terrorism” and looking into how Jabbar gained possession of the vehicle. An FBI official said the agency believes Jabbar may have been working with accomplices, though none had been identified by Wednesday afternoon.
In a statement, the FBI’s Houston office said it was “conducting law enforcement activity” with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office near the intersection of Hugh Road and Crescent Peak Drive, the north Houston intersection where Jabbar’s most recent known address was located.
The possible accomplices supposedly placed IEDs in the area. Jabbar himself is an army veteran and was born in the US. This is not unusual for jihadis, who are at times native to the countries they attack but have been radicalized somewhere along the way, often in a mosque or online. Jabbar seems to most closely fit the profile of Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood attacker who was also born here and was in the military at the time he attacked (and in fact for Hasan, people in the military were his targets as well).
Some outlets are still reporting the death toll as “at least 10,” but the UK’s Daily Mail says fifteen:
Mechanical barricades which normally stop traffic from entering the street during pedestrian-only times are in the process of being replaced, per the city website, potentially leaving it vulnerable to such an attack.
A witness who was at the scene in the French Quarter on Tuesday night said the steel bollards were not raised in position at the time.
‘Those barricades were not up, period,’ New Orleans resident Jimmy Cothran told CNN. ‘They had the flimsy orange ones that you could just push over with your finger. We actually thought it was kind of odd.’
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said the suspect ‘went around our barricades’, suggesting there also may have been enough space between the temporary ones to plow a vehicle through.
As is so often the case, the Daily Mail already has a great deal more information than US papers. For example, here’s a video made by the perp for a previous real estate job, in which he seems totally normal and friendly. But there’s this:
The suspect’s love life was scattered – having been married twice. His first marriage ended in 2012, and his second in 2022.
His second wife’s new husband, Dwayne Marsh, said Jabbar had begun to convert to Islam within the last year and was ‘being all crazy,’ reported The New York Times.
Marsh said Jabbar had two daughters, one a teenager and one a young adult, and that they were ‘a mess’ after the attack.
Divorce and then Islamic radicalization, ending in mass murder and suicide by cop.
More:
The FBI confirmed Jabbar had attached an ISIS flag to the truck he used to plow through the crowd.
‘An ISIS flag was located in the vehicle and the FBI is working to determine the subject’s potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations,’ the agency said.
And in this article some of the victims are identified, all young people. RIP.
The US must eventually realize that Islam is a political, not religious entity, and is undeserving to be termed avoice of a religion.
CAIR, the “Council on American-Islamic Relations” is afforded religious status by the Federales though it itself states “CAIR is a grassroots civil rights and advocacy group.” It is tax-exempt. That is why CAIR has such easy access to our MSM.
Islam itself requires obedience or death thanks to Mohamed, whose Koran is the expressed will and dictation of Allah circa 700AD. “Islam” in Arabic means “obey”.
Diversity is our strength.
Some Muslim wackos are from Pakistan, some from Somalia, some from Uzbekistan, some from Qatar…………and so forth.
The ironically titled WSJ “news” division fretted about several cases of “vehicle attacks”. There was another commonality to those attacks they didn’t mention. Hint: the perps were not all Methodists.
The need for humans to have a credo or some tenets to guide their behavior is clear. Unfortunately, we have such credos as Islam and Communism.
Islam’s higher power, Allah, is a jealous, vengeful entity that demands obedience and intolerance of infidels. It is, for its fundamentalist believers, more like a cult that traps the person in a prison of beliefs that worship hatred and death because they will be richly rewarded in an afterlife.
Communists, on the other hand, deny any higher power or afterlife. Their belief is that paradise must be established in the here and now. They are also trapped in a cult that worships at the altar of egalitarianism. They will gladly lie, cheat, steal, and murder to achieve their Early paradise. All while believing that they have a higher moral purpose.
It’s well for those who don’t subscribe to those beliefs to recognize that while the Islamists and Communists may at times be less active and dangerous, they will never go extinct. For those who want to live a secure life, we must always be alert to that fact and keep our guard up.
A high trust society, like ours, is especially vulnerable to sneak attacks and sabotage.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance against those who despise it.
@FOAF:
Look to our billionaires for morality? NO.
Bezos owns the leftist Washington Post.
The Wall Street Journal is owned by Dow Jones & Company, which in turn is a subsidiary of News Corp. The News Corp media conglomerate is controlled by Rupert Murdoch’s family with 40% ownership, making the family one of the world’s largest media owners.
They all allow, nay, require leftist nonsense to be published for the stupids and the ignorant to read and believe.
Let me know when they start fretting about the potential for anti-islamic backlash on MSNBC.
Let me know when they start fretting about the potential for anti-islamic backlash on MSNBC.
“Muslims preparing for backlash after next week’s terror attack”
Incidentally the second wife appears to have moved pretty fast.
I think it is an error to say that Islam is not a religion. It is, but it does not recognize any boundaries between Allah’s commands (through Muhammad) and the secular world. There is no secular world, in the Islamic view.
It is no accident that the militant expansionism of Islam is largely unknown to much of our population.
Over on the Jerusalem Post website there was some guy complaining about Islam a phobia.
I posed a number of questions about things such as, What happened to the Buddhist, Hindus and Followers of Zoroastrianism that used to make up what is now Afghanistan? A number of history questions like that.
Mr lefty refused to make the connection and said I should get back to the conversation at hand.
Deliberate blindness or are lefties really this clueless ?????
Jon Baker
As has been said by our hostess and others over the years, the point is to attach oneself to the Good, Just, Righteous cause. Once there, that’s part of who you are. You cannot afford to find out there’s a problem with any particular support to your self image. Hating islamophobia is Good, Just, and Righteous. Thus, Muslims can do no wrong, unless they do, in which case they didn’t.
After a heated discussion on a similarly-heated subject, one guy asked me, angrily, “How do you know all this stuff?” I had shut down the argument with facts. He wasn’t complimenting me in being a veritable encyclopedia. He was angry that I had threatened his position and thus his self-image.
Surely Lone Wolves with mental health problems? Nothing to see here infidels. Move along. Until the next slaughter.
Prompt and painful public executions after miserable incarceration must return. Get rid of the taxpayer-financed public defenders, or give them just a narrow time window in which to feed off public funds, none of this 20 years’ appeal because of claims that cell bunk mattresses are too hard or too soft nonsense.
America must become hard, law-and-order again. And Dem bleeding heart wimps who coddle evil can go to Hades.
With 15 deaths, this has already ranked as the 11th worst terror attack in the US — or on a par with the Fort Hood shooting.
YES, Richard Aubrey to Jon Baker. THIS is the fundamental Truth
A mosque nearby to where Jabbar lived has told its members that, if questioned by the FBI, they were not to talk to the FBI but, instead, to refer them to CAIR.
* See https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/01/02/mosque-near-new-orleans-terrorist-urges-congregation-not-to-speak-with-media-fbi-n2649894
I was also under impressed by the young black female FBI Agent in Charge with a nose ring, no less—a DEI hire?— they rolled out to speak to the press, stating that this “was not a terrorist attack.”
An assessment directly contradicted by the New Orleans way over the hill old crow of a police chief —who looked absolutely stupid in her glittering cap and outfit—when she said it was terrorism at work .
O.S. The old police chief looked like she was wearing her bigger brother’s uniform. Honestly, just totally unimpressive.
Where the hell do they get these people?
And one with a very checkered past at that.
@ Snow > “I was also under impressed by the young black female FBI Agent in Charge with a nose ring, no less—a DEI hire?— they rolled out to speak to the press”
https://babylonbee.com/news/fbi-assures-nation-it-will-put-its-most-diverse-agents-on-terror-case
Corollary:
https://babylonbee.com/news/fbi-asks-x-users-to-please-stop-solving-crime-before-they-do
If the mosque above had even the slightest involvement in “radicalizing” the terrorist it should be closed permanently, the building destroyed, and everyone involved in that mosque should be subject to extreme scrutiny.