When someone converts to a different religion or takes a stronger and more fundamentalist path within their existing religion it’s normal for the person to take their new or strengthened religion very seriously. A new Christian will pray harder or take care to show love to all and follow the example of the founder of that faith. A new Jew may be much more ardent in keeping the Sabbath or following the dietary rules of Kashrut or making a point of following the commandment to do good works. This in a Western society is both normal and socially acceptable. Yes, the individual concerned may withdraw from the wider world, but those who choose Christianity or Judaism are rarely a serious problem for the rest of society.
Unfortunately this statement of affairs does not apply to those who choose Islam.
Those who choose Islam seem to have a marked propensity for becoming violent thugs once they convert and that may have a lot to do with the violence that is both preached and encouraged by Islam. Islamic scripture, religious leaders, Islamic history and Islamic culture itself, all supports the aggressive and violent supremacism of Islam.
Because Islam is by its nature violent and its founder was violent, is it any wonder that those who choose Islam do so either because they are violent individuals themselves or they are made violent by Islam? We’ve seen a constant parade in recent years of converts to Islam who have committed some of the most appalling acts of violence. Islamic converts have beheaded old ladies in London, murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby, travelled to Syria to fight with ISIS and have committed numerous other terrorist crimes.
Now we have another case of someone who chooses Islam and then goes off to commit acts of violence. Just as the new Christian will find it difficult to pass a charity box without giving and just as the new Jew will avoid the bacon sandwiches that they may have once enjoyed in the past, so the new Muslim goes apeshit and waves a sword and a knife at police officers shouting ‘bow to Allah’. This savage was so violent that he had to be shot by a SWAT team at the location of the incident in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Below is a report of the incident from the Michigan Live website. What you may notice but which the Pamela Geller website has corrected is that the man concerned is an Islamic convert and has an Islamic name as well as the Western name that the Michigan Live website used. The Pamela Geller site said that the assailant in this case is called Roger Abdul Latif Ketchman, something the Michigan Live site omitted.
PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI – A man taunted police officers by waving and rubbing together the edges of knives in a small Ypsilanti apartment before he was shot by a member of Washtenaw Metro SWAT in a January encounter, police testified Thursday, July 20.
Two cases against Rodger Ketchman, 33, of Ypsilanti were bound over to circuit court following preliminary examinations Thursday at Washtenaw County’s 14A-1 District Court.
Ketchman initially faced charges of first-degree home invasion, carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent and malicious destruction of a building costing $20,000 or more in damage for the incident on Jan. 13, 2017.
Police were initially called to the Ypsilanti apartment building in the 700 block of Lowell Street when Ketchman began banging on his neighbor’s door with a crowbar, neighbor Emerald Cox, testified.
“He was saying, ‘I’m going to kill you,’” she said.
Cox said she’d had previous encounters with Ketchman, claiming he came to her door on Christmas Eve to ask if she and her family were part of the CIA.
She also said she saw him attack a neighbor with a crowbar on Jan. 12, an incident for which he is charged in a separate case with assault with a dangerous weapon and carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent.
In that incident, neighbor Daniel Stults testified Thursday that Ketchman ordered him to get on the ground and bow before his god [allah].
On Jan. 13, he knocked off Cox’s doorknob with the crowbar, she testified.
When she called police, then-Ypsilanti Officer Tommy Porter – now with the Hazel Park Police Department – and Ypsilanti Officer Anthony Schembri responded.
The were among six law enforcement officers who testified.
Porter, who knew Ketchman from various past incidents – including a medical assist call for a drug withdrawal and issues with neighbors – said he the man was yelling in his apartment when the officers arrived.
The two officers attempted to coax Ketchman out of his apartment, Porter said, but he kept yelling and said he wanted the officers to watch him wash his genitals.
He also told them they were trespassing, and said he would fight them and defend his property, Porter said.
When Ketchman eventually opened the door, he kept one arm hidden, Porter said.
“I asked him to see his hands multiple times,” Porter said. “I could see his left hand and at one point, he props his right hand on the top of the door, and at that point, that’s when I noticed he had (what) looked like a kitchen knife in his hand.”
The two officers drew Tasers, but Ketchman slammed the door, Porter said.
They deployed a Taser when Ketchman opened the door again, but lost the connection when he slammed the door once more, Schembri testified.
After higher-ranking command officers arrived, police forced their way into the apartment and found Ketchman had gone into his bedroom, Schembri said.
He’d occasionally open the door in the small apartment, between six to eight feet away from the officers, and show the knives in his hands.
Another Taser attempt failed against another slamming door, Schembri said.
“He’d open the door and then he’d close it and open the door – it was like he was playing with us,” Schembri said.
Washtenaw Metro SWAT and the Washtenaw Crisis Negotiation Team were both called to the scene, with Ann Arbor police Detective William Stanford the first to enter the apartment as a crisis negotiator, according to court testimony.
Schembri also stayed in the room.
Stanford and Schembri described lengthy attempts end the situation peacefully, with Ketchman continually denying orders and displaying a sword.
Then, with SWAT members in the hallway, Ketchman made a motion as if he was going to throw the knife at Stanford, forcing the negotiator to dive out of the room, Stanford said.
Shortly afterward, Ketchman gave a countdown and exited the room, and SWAT engaged, Stanford said.
A less-lethal weapon that uses projectiles with foam tips was fired once at Ketchman to get SWAT members into the apartment. But it didn’t seem to have an effect on Ketchman, SWAT member and Ann Arbor police Officer Andrew Vainner testified.
When Ketchman opened the door with a knife and sword over his head, two SWAT members deployed their less-lethal weapons.
At the same time, Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Lt. Mike Trester, a member of SWAT assigned to use lethal force that day, fired a shot with his Glock, members testified.
Read the source here:
http://pamelageller.com/2017/07/ann-arbor-jihadi-lunged-sword.html/
Although this particular violent thug appears to have had a history of mental illness he appears to have the sort of personality that is both attracted to Islam and which Islam attracts. Violent nutters seem to be quite common in the world of Islamic converts.
The problem with Islam is that headcases such as Ketchman find a home within it. It should not surprise us to find that individuals who are violent, self centred and more often than not mentally ill, choose Islam. After all there’s no real incentive in Islam for the violent to become peaceful or the selfish to become altruists because Islam is a bad ideology founded by an appalling man which condones and encourages behaviour that in civilised countries would be beyond the pale.
Those who choose Islam should be seen for what they are, which is a threat and they are a threat because they have chosen a path that is so inimical with free and open societies. Converts to Islam should be treated as we in the world of normal functioning human beings would treat ardent admirers of Hitler or Stalin or similar dictators and that is to shun them, distrust them and guard ourselves and our families against them. I’ve known many people who have changed their religious path, the vast majority who chose non Muslim religions were on the whole sane, those who choose Islam on the other hand are often irredeemably and dangerously insane.
