Given the way these things usually go, Ali Muhammad Brown likely meant that he had a misguided understanding of the peaceful notion of jihad, but the words he chose to express this are actually far more accurate. He was misguided by Islamic jihad. But he understood Islamic jihad perfectly well.
“Killer on ‘jihad’ murder spree in King County gets 93-year sentence,” by Deedee Sun, KIRO 7 News, September 9, 2022:
KING COUNTY, Wash. — A man convicted of murdering three people in King County and one in New Jersey was sentenced in court on Friday to 93 years in prison.
That’s on top of a life sentence that Ali Muhammad Brown is already serving for fatally shooting a young man in New Jersey.
It’s been eight years since the 2014 murders that Brown self-described as a “jihad” killing spree….
Brown has been convicted of murdering four people. He spoke to the families in court toward the end of his sentencing hearing.
“I’d like to apologize to the family members and let them know I do regret killing their family members. And there’s nothing I can do to change it now because it’s already been done,” Brown said. “I wish I could go back in time and change that with all my heart. I wish I could go back in time and change instead of being evil,” he said….
At the time, Brown said in interviews with investigators that his motive was to avenge US foreign policy in the Middle East.
“I decided to do those things because I was misguided by Islamic jihad,” Brown said in court Friday.
On April 27, 2014, he shot 30-year-old Leroy Henderson in the back and killed him as Henderson was walking home from a convenience store in Skyway after buying a soda and chips for his uncle.
About a month later on June 1, Brown connected with two young men on a gay social networking app and met up with them at a bar in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
In their car, he shot them both. One victim was 27-year-old Ahmed Said. The other was Anderson-Young. Brown told investigators he killed them because they were gay.
“They had to identify him by his orthodontist records,” Young said. She says her son came out to her when he was 14.
“I said, ‘I don’t care. I love you, you’re my son.’ My concern was, you’re black, you’re male and you’re gay, and not everyone is going to accept you. And my worst fear came true,” Young said through tears.
Family described Anderson-Young as “brilliant” – a University of Washington grad and the first in his family to finish college. Multiple family members and pleaded in court for justice.
“I just ask you give him the maximum,” Young said.
After killing three men in King County, Brown escaped to New Jersey. In the Newark area, he killed another young man, 19-year-old Brendan Tevelin, who was sitting in his car at a traffic light….
Infidel says
If he was really misguided, he can easily prove it by openly apostatizing from islam and denouncing it for promoting jihad! Let’s see how genuine he is! 😈
Aristotle says
He is applying Taqiyya.(Taqiyya is a component of Sharia that allows, and even encourages you to lie to achieve your goals)
somehistory says
He may actually regret the murders. Men cannot judge the hearts of others, but can only go by the fruits produced.
God knows and will judge him accordingly.
Dave says
How is killing gay men connected to avenging U.S. Middle Eastern policy? Not to mention that even Shariah puts some kind of courtroom between getting caught acting like an Afghani and getting pushed off a tall building or cliff.
gravenimage says
Well, often but not always, Dave. People are murdered by individual Jihadists and Muslim mobs all the time, even in Dar-al-Islam. But especially in the civilized world, there are no Shari’ah courts that can sentence gay people to death–so if a pious Muslim wants them dead he has to do it himself.
gravenimage says
Washington state: Muslim says he murdered four people ‘because I was misguided by Islamic jihad’
Given the way these things usually go, Ali Muhammad Brown likely meant that he had a misguided understanding of the peaceful notion of jihad, but the words he chose to express this are actually far more accurate. He was misguided by Islamic jihad. But he understood Islamic jihad perfectly well.
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He probably just wishes he hadn’t been caught.
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It’s been eight years since the 2014 murders that Brown self-described as a “jihad” killing spree….
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Are authorities still looking for a motive? sarc/off
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Brown has been convicted of murdering four people. He spoke to the families in court toward the end of his sentencing hearing.
“I’d like to apologize to the family members and let them know I do regret killing their family members. And there’s nothing I can do to change it now because it’s already been done,” Brown said. “I wish I could go back in time and change that with all my heart. I wish I could go back in time and change instead of being evil,” he said….
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Maybe–but it is more likely he is just looking for some clemency.
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At the time, Brown said in interviews with investigators that his motive was to avenge US foreign policy in the Middle East.
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Uh huh–because what is more indicative of avenging US policy in the Middle East than murdering gay people in the US? Well, they’re all Infidels…
But really, he just wants to blame his savagery on the ‘filthy kuffar’.
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In their car, he shot them both. One victim was 27-year-old Ahmed Said. The other was Anderson-Young. Brown told investigators he killed them because they were gay.
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Because they were gay–and he probably singled out the Muslim because he deemed him an “apostate” for being homosexual.
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“I said, ‘I don’t care. I love you, you’re my son.’ My concern was, you’re black, you’re male and you’re gay, and not everyone is going to accept you. And my worst fear came true,” Young said through tears.
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Yes and no. He wasn’t killed by some white, racist homophobe, but by a pious Muslim following the diktats of his vicious creed.
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After killing three men in King County, Brown escaped to New Jersey. In the Newark area, he killed another young man, 19-year-old Brendan Tevelin, who was sitting in his car at a traffic light….
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We see how remorseful he *really* was…
John ..Smith says
When he first committed these murders he obviously felt no remorse as he firmly believed he was carrying out the will of allah. People don’t change over night, but he’s had eight long years to think of what he has done and he may well be feeling genuinely remorseful.
I personally believe his apology was genuine, but that’s just me.
somehistory says
I agree. We can’t know his heart, but God does and if he really is sorry for what he did, he will be forgiven.