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Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Joining

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The Ft. Lauderdale Airport shooter is a Muslim convert who years before joining the U.S. Army took on an Islamic name (Aashiq Hammad), downloaded terrorist propaganda and recorded Islamic religious music online, according to public records dug up by the investigative news site of an award-winning, California journalist. This is pertinent information that the Obama administration apparently wants to keep quiet, bringing up memories of the Benghazi cover up, in which the president and his cohorts knowingly lied to conceal that Islamic terrorists attacked the U.S. Special Mission in Libya.


Information is slowly trickling out that links the Ft. Lauderdale Airport shooter to radical Islam while the official story from authorities is that the gunman is a mentally ill, Hispanic Army veteran named Esteban Santiago that became unhinged after a tour in Iraq. Only one mainstream media outlet mentions the possibility of Santiago’s “jihadist identity,” burying it in a piece about New York possibly being his initial target... ” The reset of the traditional mainstream media coverage promotes the government rhetoric that omits any ties to terrorism even though early on a photo surfaced of Santiago making an ISIS salute while wearing a keffiyeh, a Palestinian Arab scarf.

Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Joining Army - Judicial Watch

I wonder how quickly the Goebbels Inspried Media Propagandists (GIMPs) will move to report this?

Is mental illness going to be the go to defense for radical Islamists?
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

He's a nut. Doesn't matter if he converted to Islam or decided to worship paint drying under the all knowing heat lamp - he's a nut. He told the FBI, for God's sake, that he was hearing voices in his head.
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

It's not entirely uncommon for people with mental illness so severe they are literally hearing voices in their head to gravitate toward religion and cling to it whether it be Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, or occultism. An already crazy person attempting to follow the teachings of crazy people is only a logical step forward.
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

First thing I think of whenever someone shoots a place up: "Betcha he said 'Allah Akbar!'
Next day in the news: "Shooter said 'Allah Akbar' before shooting up the place."
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

First thing I think of whenever someone shoots a place up: "Betcha he said 'Allah Akbar!'
Next day in the news: "Shooter said 'Allah Akbar' before shooting up the place."

You're not the only one.

Only been wrong once. Brevik in Norway.
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

He told the FBI, for God's sake, that he was hearing voices in his head.

And they still gave him his gun back:

It’s the same gun the Iraq War veteran had with him after he went to an FBI office in Anchorage, Alaska, in November to claim his mind was being controlled by U.S. intelligence. He said he was being forced to watch ISIS videos.

Santiago was then committed for four days to be mentally evaluated. A month later, he petitioned to get his gun back from Anchorage police.

Without a judge’s order to commit him, police say they had no choice but to return the gun.

Why did alleged Ft. Lauderdale airport shooter get gun back from police? - CBS News
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

It's not entirely uncommon for people with mental illness so severe they are literally hearing voices in their head to gravitate toward religion and cling to it whether it be Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, or occultism. An already crazy person attempting to follow the teachings of crazy people is only a logical step forward.

Are you a mental health professional? If not, I insist that you provide literature and statistics supporting your unfounded remarks. Please be accurate and specific, or I will know you are bull****ting.
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

Are you a mental health professional? If not, I insist that you provide literature and statistics supporting your unfounded remarks. Please be accurate and specific, or I will know you are bull****ting.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4031576/

I'd post more but it is a rather well documented and well known fact that some cases of mentally ill believing the voices in their head to be god/angels/Satan/etc. Your defensiveness is really coming out of left field here.
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

First thing I think of whenever someone shoots a place up: "Betcha he said 'Allah Akbar!'
Next day in the news: "Shooter said 'Allah Akbar' before shooting up the place."

You're not the only one.

Only been wrong once. Brevik in Norway.

Charleston SC would be two. I’m sure that’s the only other one where a mass murderer didn’t yell “allah akbar” murdering innocent people.
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

He's a nut. Doesn't matter if he converted to Islam or decided to worship paint drying under the all knowing heat lamp - he's a nut. He told the FBI, for God's sake, that he was hearing voices in his head.

Lots of religious people say that, don't they?
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

Charleston SC would be two. I’m sure that’s the only other one where a mass murderer didn’t yell “allah akbar” murdering innocent people.

Sandy Hook CT would be three.
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

Charleston SC would be two. I’m sure that’s the only other one where a mass murderer didn’t yell “allah akbar” murdering innocent people.

I'm sure you're right Vern. Wait, was the guy shooting up the planned parenthood clinic yelling anything? That could be three, but its three tops. Oh, and the first thing some of us think of are the victims or hoping that aren't any deaths.
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

He's a nut. Doesn't matter if he converted to Islam or decided to worship paint drying under the all knowing heat lamp - he's a nut. He told the FBI, for God's sake, that he was hearing voices in his head.

So did Mohammad. Mental illness is now the goto excuse for Islamic terrorism.
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

So did Mohammad. Mental illness is now the goto excuse for Islamic terrorism.

It's the go to excuse for mental illness. Belief in God (religion) is not a mental illness. Having a mental illness may make you think that God has spoken to you and ordered you to commit terrorism and mass murder, but they aren't the same thing, since many people commit terrorism and mass murder without also being mentally ill. Having a mental illness may make you think that the lamp in the hall is controlling your life, not God, and that the lamp in the hall is ordering you to commit acts of terrorism and murder.
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

Hearing voices in their head?

Talking to their gods. Mental illness.
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

So did Mohammad. Mental illness is now the goto excuse for Islamic terrorism.

Well this particular shooter claims the CIA forced him to watch ISIS videos. The guy is nuts.
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

I wonder how quickly the Goebbels Inspried Media Propagandists (GIMPs) will move to report this?

Is mental illness going to be the go to defense for radical Islamists?

Mental illness is a plausible reason, lacking a credible source for your terrorism assertion. Judicialwatch is kinda flakey.
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

Mental illness is a plausible reason, lacking a credible source for your terrorism assertion. Judicialwatch is kinda flakey.

JW is flakey to Libs... for good reason. They're effective.

Interesting JW story. After JW was taking care of business during the Clinton years, I was spending a fair amount of time in Europe....

One day... early in the Bush 43 administration, I'm driving near a resort lake region in Bavaria I know well. I'll never forget it... I'm at a traffic circle and hear on the radio Judicial Watch was bringing charges against the Bush administration!!!

I'll never forget where it was... it's burned into my consciousness... a mental cattle prod.

For years I didn't hear a peep of all the charges JW brought against the Clintons in Europe, but in the first weeks of Bush43's term the German press brings this up!!! It was a revealing moment. I guess it was a slow news day... ROTFLOL...

I think mental illness will be the go to escape for Islamic Terrorists who don't die.
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

Well this particular shooter claims the CIA forced him to watch ISIS videos. The guy is nuts.

Most definitely a future resident of the Waldorf-Hysteria.
 
Re: Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Join

JW is flakey to Libs... for good reason. They're effective.

Interesting JW story. After JW was taking care of business during the Clinton years, I was spending a fair amount of time in Europe....

One day... early in the Bush 43 administration, I'm driving near a resort lake region in Bavaria I know well. I'll never forget it... I'm at a traffic circle and hear on the radio Judicial Watch was bringing charges against the Bush administration!!!

I'll never forget where it was... it's burned into my consciousness... a mental cattle prod.

For years I didn't hear a peep of all the charges JW brought against the Clintons in Europe, but in the first weeks of Bush43's term the German press brings this up!!! It was a revealing moment. I guess it was a slow news day... ROTFLOL...

I think mental illness will be the go to escape for Islamic Terrorists who don't die.

JW is flaky because it does fake news, sprinkled among the vexatious litigation cases
 
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