Ivan Maertens Aramayo is Ayanna Maertens Griffin’s father. In this Washington Post report, consistent with the establishment media’s never-ending mission to exonerate Islam from all crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings, he offers two quotations from the Qur’an, apparently in order to establish that what Mohamed Aly did was completely inconsistent with his “professed love for Allah.”
The first one (“And do not kill one another…”) is Qur’an 4:29. The full verse is: “O you who believe, do not squander your wealth among yourselves in vanity, except in a trade by mutual consent, and do not kill yourselves [or one another]. Indeed, Allah is always merciful to you.” It is thus clearly addressed to “you who believe,” and does not override the Qur’an’s thrice-repeated imperative to kill unbelievers (2:191, 4:89, 9:5).
The other quote is Qur’an 5:32, which is one of the most oft-quoted verses of the Qur’an, the one that Western non-Muslim leaders refer to frequently in order to establish that Islam is a religion of peace. There is, however, less to it than Western leaders and Islamic apologists claim. It is not a general prohibition of killing: there are big exceptions to the prohibition on killing, for “manslaughter or corruption on the earth.” Also, this prohibition is not a general command, but is specifically directed at the children of Israel. After it was given, “many of them committed excesses on earth,” so all this passage is really saying is that Allah gave a command to the children of Israel and they transgressed against it. Some Islamic authorities interpret this passage in a supremacist manner, as applying only to Muslims. The eighth-century Muslim jurist Sa’id bin Jubayr is said to have explained: “He who allows himself to shed the blood of a Muslim, is like he who allows shedding the blood of all people. He who forbids shedding the blood of one Muslim, is like he who forbids shedding the blood of all people.” Then 5:33 continues from 5:32 and makes clear the dire punishments that are prescribed for the corruption and transgressions of the children of Israel, and a warning to the Jews to stop their bad behavior. Seen in its light, this celebrated passage, Qur’an 5:32, is explaining what must be done with Jews who reject the messenger and commit the vague sin of spreading corruption on earth. Contrary to popular belief in the West, the passage is not dictating lofty moral principles.
Meanwhile, is anyone even looking into the possibility that Mohamed Aly’s murders of Ayanna Maertens Griffin and Ntombo Joel Bianda may be tied to his “love for Allah”? Or has such an investigation been dismissed out of hand as “Islamophobic”?
“Nearly a year after a young couple were killed, a guilty plea provides few answers,” by Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, January 4, 2021 (thanks to Darcy):
…Ayanna Maertens Griffin, 18, and her boyfriend, Ntombo Joel Bianda, 21, were shot to death in southern Halifax County nearly a year ago. An 18-year-old student at Alexandria’s T.C. Williams High School was quickly arrested and confessed. Mohamed Aly pleaded guilty in December to first-degree murder counts and sentenced to four life terms, but his reasons for killing two acquaintances remain a mystery.
“One of the most painful aspects of this case is that the family may never know Aly’s motive to murder their loved ones. We are all left asking, why?” Halifax Commonwealth’s Attorney Tracy Quackenbush Martin said in a statement. “We may never have an answer to that question.”…
After the arrest, Maertens Aramayo had looked at Aly’s social media pages and saw that the teenager professed love for Allah. A Roman Catholic himself, he studied theology, and what he knew about Islam gave him an opening. He offered two quotes from the Koran:
“And do not kill one another, for God is indeed merciful unto you” and “Whoever kills an innocent life, it is as if he has killed all of humanity.”
newsupplements says
Can only conclude that government policy is to encourage the slaughter of innocent citizens for purposes known only to them? cull for climate change? what? Cl;early there’s so much wrong with turning a blind eye to religiously motivated murder!
newsupplements says
A county attorney who cannot determine the motive when the religious motif is very clear should surely lose his or her right to practice as an attorney. Do we want a country of officials that refuse to recognize religiously motivated slaughter? Time to wake up.
Rob Porter says
This foolish and cowardly mindset is little different in Toronto. In 2018 a Muslim jihadists, Hussain Faisal, went on a rampage in an area called Danforth. He shot 13 people, killing two girls. A newspaper reporter, Joe Warmington, afterwards visited the area and from witnesses discovered that Faisal had shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’, a dead give-away about his Muslim motives, but no, after much gutless waffle the Toronto Chief of police informed us that ‘we might never know’ what drove Faisal to do what he had. Such cowardly and willful denial is almost incomprehensible.
James Lincoln says
Rob Porter says,
“Such cowardly and willful denial is almost incomprehensible.”
No need for qualifiers, it is completely incomprehensible…
revereridesagain says
We are learning how many of our “public servants” are craven cowards who will turn a blind eye to any injustice if it allows them to focus on the big house, the new car, the vacations, and all the rest. Sad.
Walter Sieruk says
What an outright and blatant liar that attorney is for being so terribly disingenuous as to say “We may never know his motive.
For that Muslim was devoutly following the instructions for awful bloodshed and violence and murder, as the Qu ‘ran instructs as in 2:217. 471-104; 8:39-65.
That attorney is despicable for saying such BS because he is so PC
tim gallagher says
Two reports, side by side, on this continual effort by the authorities to try to disconnect poisonous, murderous islam from murders committed by Muslims and clearly motivated by islam’s evil calls for Muslims to go out and murder non-Muslims. I wonder how many halfwits out there still buy this rubbish that it is not islam that motivates these Muslim murderers. I hope that, by now, and after so many murders like these by Muslim scum, almost nobody is still buying the bullshit the authorities and the legal system seem to keep trying to sell to everyone. It is time all these cowardly apologists for Islam accepted the truth that Islam is the main cause of all these types of murders ( and not mental illness or any other bullshit excuse that we keep hearing about)
tgusa says
Clueless Tracy Quackenbush Martin was able to obtain a license to practice law and rise to the level of commonwealth attorney. How was he able to do that? We may never have an answer to that question. That will need to be filed under unsolved mysteries.
rooare says
Well tgusa, there’s a concept in management which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to ‘rise to their level of incompetence’, and Martin is a fine example of this concept.
obbop says
I expect nothing less than cold-blooded murder by any follower of the death cult that seeks to control the world. Did CAIR collect money to send to the families of the slain to assist with or pay for burial costs?
AleX says
In the photo I see the same stare of death of a mad gorgon. It repeats with every new image of a jihadi offender.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
I’m sure if you did enough fancy editing you could make Mein Kampf seem like a testimony of love.
James Lincoln says
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness,
And Nazi “apologists” would also assert that quotes from Mein Kampf were “taken out of context…”
(Sarc/off)
gravenimage says
Virginia: Muslim professing love for Allah murders two, county attorney says we ‘may never know’ his motive
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More willful ignorance.
Spiro says
To stupid or to scared just the M S M with the past election
gravenimage says
This story was proceded by this almost identical one from Britain:
“UK: Muslim migrant screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ murders 3, court trying to determine if he had religious motive”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/01/uk-muslim-migrant-screaming-allahu-akbar-murders-3-court-trying-to-determine-if-he-had-religious-motive
These thugs even look enough alike to be brothers.
OLD GUY says
It truly appears that a great many followers of Is-lame have mental problems according to the media. Or at least that is the medias go to answer when these is-lame followers commit violent crimes in the name of Allah.