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Frankfurt Shooter Admits To Shouting ‘Allah Akbar’

Arid Uka’s Facebook friends list was a “Who’s Who of the German Islamist Scene."

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John Rosenthal

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March 4, 2011 - 9:07 am

According to the German public television broadcaster NDR, Arid Uka, the 21-year-old who shot to death two American servicemen at Frankfurt Airport on Wednesday and wounded two others, has admitted to shouting “‘Allah Akbar’ six or seven times” during the attack. An NDR press release cites Uka’s own statements to German investigators as contained in a German police report.

During questioning following his arrest, Uka is reported, furthermore, to have told police that he saw “terrible pictures” involving American soldiers in a video on the internet. The NDR press release continues:

On Arid U.’s account, the video shows American soldiers in Afghanistan plundering a house and raping a girl. After seeing the video, he “could not sleep the whole night,” he said. Arid U. claims, moreover, to have heard American soldiers at Frankfurt Airport speaking disparagingly about the Afghan population. The video and the behavior of the American soldiers are supposed to have “motivated him in particular to kill American soldiers heading to Afghanistan.”

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According to German press reports, Uka worked at a mail distribution center at the airport.

A Facebook page maintained by Arid Uka under the name “Abu Reyyan” has been removed from the internet. Before the page disappeared, however, the Swiss-based Campusblog saved several screen captures of it. The Facebook friends list of Arid Uka reads like a “Who’s Who of the German Islamist scene,” Campusblog writes. Uka’s Facebook friends include the well-known German Muslim convert and Islamic fundamentalist preacher Pierre Vogel.

According to Campusblog, the friends list also included the rapper formerly known as Deso Dogg, who in 2010 gave up his rap career and adopted the name of Abu Maleq. In a January 7 comment to an article on Abu Maleq reportedly calling for Muslims to engage in jihad, Arid Uka, alias Abu Reyyan, wrote, “And even if someone would call for jihad, so what? That is part of this beautiful religion. One is permitted to fight Kufar [unbelievers] when one is attacked. Abu Maleq, I love you for Allah!”

John Rosenthal writes on European politics and transatlantic security issues. You can follow his work at www.trans-int.com or on Facebook here.

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30 Comments, 16 Threads, 3 Trackbacks

  1. 1. proreason

    Let’s not rush to any judgements until the facts are in.

    We don’t know yet whether this yahoo was in contact with or somehow influenced by or knew about or once heard the name of Sarah Palin…as just one minor example of the unknowns that may well take years to decipher.

    • Pragmatist

      He carried a gun to work German civilians like British civilians are not allowed to carry weapons in public concealed or not therefore his action was quite clearly PREMEDITATED. He also shouted Allahu Akbar which much as Mohammedans and the moonbats want you to believe does not mean ‘God is great’.In Arabic God = Allah and great = kabeer. Allahu = My/Our God and akbar = greatest. Allahu Akbar therefore means “My/Our God is greatest’ which exposes both Islams Polytheistic roots and its confrontational and supremacist nature. It also puts paid to the Mohammedan taqqiya that somehow the violent, misogynistic, vengeful, illogical, self contradictory, antisemitic, Arab supremacist ,satanic, Allah is somehow the same God as the Judeo/Christian God.

  2. 2. The Root '83

    Lets see now…

    A Mohammedan acts like a Mohammedon, and the MSM says:

    “there is no proof at this time” of a link to terrorism.

    Hint: Mohammed = Terroism.

    Everywhere, all the time, for 1500 years.

    To deny that is like debating the sky is green, or the grass is blue….they keep trying to pretend the LEAST likely possibility is the truth, when the overwhelming preponderence of evidence PROVES them wrong, time and time again.

    So, I guess shouting ‘Allah Akbar!” when you kill American GI’s doesnt PROVE muslim terrorism, any more than a BURNING CROSS doesnt prove racist sentiments, right?

    I mean, they COULD just be lighting it to stay warm, lets not jump to any conclusions, right?

    Try that argument with them, see how far it flies.

  3. 3. Buffalobob

    Didn’t Bis Sis already decided that this was a lone shooter without any ties?

  4. 4. Anonymous

    Gosh, it’s doesn’t seem like he’s a Shriner… but I wouldn’t want to jump to any conclusions becuase that might be “islamophobic” or
    “racist” or something. (I think it’s safe to say this was religious inspired terrorism, how ’bout you?)

  5. 5. Van Grungy

    Allahu Ackbar
    allah is ‘greatest’
    ===

    muslims acknowledge that the Jew’s and Christian’s deity is not allah..

    This is important to understand as we fight against the propagandists that try to have us believe that islam is a natural ‘progression’ forwards from Judaism and Christianity..

    Adam is not muslim, Noah is not muslim, Abraham is not muslim, Moses is not muslim, Jesus is not muslim…

    Unless one wants to include allah in the Bible as a form of devil, islam is not an Abrahamic religion in any way..

    • Tim Ackerman

      Excellent point!

    • Allston

      That is true. If anything, the Quran appears to have been well-designed to exhort it’s believers into considering anyone not like them as “non-human,” that is, not worthy of any consideration as a fellow human being.

    • aesop

      @ 5. Van Grungy

      Lissen up!
      Dinn’t mo hisself tell y’all that Adam was a mussi?
      Lan sakes man. Allah is a mussi. Speaks Arabic (Saudi di’lect).
      How else would Gibril unnerstan? ‘n them thar djinns too. Huh?

      Jes like our universe is turtles all the way down,
      people is mussi all the way back.

      When we fin’ly meet a real ayleen, its gonna be a mussi, ‘n speak Arabic.

  6. 6. tdiinva

    This had nothing to do with Islam. He was put up to it by the “evilserbs.”

    • That’s right – we’re to blame for EVERYTHING. If it weren’t for us, nothing in the world would ever go wrong! LOL…

  7. 7. Jaladhi

    It is amazing how quickly our government and MSM were relieved to learn that this guy had no connection with any known terrorist group. That makes it all right since they can claim that he is only a loony binge and so his actions can be classified as a crime and not connected to religion at all. We have seen this pattern with every lone wolf jihadi attack. So how come there are so many Muslim loonies running around in Western countries?? Maybe they are all suspect of committing such attacks in the future!!! Maybe MSM and our leaders should learn that the biggest connection these jihadis have is with their religion, ummah and mosques which forces them to commit such horrible acts.

    • Van Grungy

      “Maybe MSM and our leaders should learn that the biggest connection these jihadis have is with their religion, ummah and mosques which forces them to commit such horrible acts.”
      ===

      Not ‘forces’, ‘allows’.. there is no force involved.. islam incubates and forms humans into perversion enjoyers with clear and concise permission to embrace jihad in all forms under the auspices of holy sanction.. islam guides a conscience of pristine hate into devastating action..

      This is what makes the connection of mosque and mujahideen even more insidious.. the pleasure muslims covet is encouraged by every prayer against the ‘ones who have earned allah’s wrath’ (Jews), and the ‘ones who have gone astray’ (Christians).. {Surah Fatiha}

      • Abdul Kareema Wheat

        Simple solution:

        Detain, Deport and arrest…every Muslim in the US. Have them prove their peaceful intents.

        Would we not have done ( and have done ) the same for Germans in the US from the late 30′s to the 40′s?

  8. 8. JjJ

    So, the son of an arab muslim from Kenya with the arabic name (aka Barry Soetoro) said what about this incedent?

    Why aren’t impeachment proceedings commencing in the House?

    Why aren’t we demanding that they do?

  9. 9. Seth

    In his 2007 interview with Nicholas D. Kristoff of the New York Times, Barack Hussain Obama said that the Muslim “Call to Prayer” was “one of the most beautiful sounds on Earth at sunset.”–and then Obama proceeded to chant the opening lines of that Call in what Kristoff–a Middle Eastern correspondent– said was perfect Arabic–and that Call starts off with the very same words shouted by the Muslim terrorist in Frankfort, Germany this week, “Allah is the Greatest”

    After his shameful and dismal responses or really non-responses on the occasion of the increasing and seemingly accelerating number of many other such terrorist attacks and attempted attacks by Muslims against Americans–the murderous terrorist rampage by Muslim Major Hasan, in which Hasan shot and killed 13 fellow soldiers and wounded another 30, all the while screaming the same Muslim war cry of “Allahu Akbar” comes immediately to mind–and Barack Hussain Obama’s refusal to utter the words “Islam,” “Muslim,” “Jihad,” or “terrorist” in his perfunctory and remarkably brief remarks concerning this most recent murderous terrorist attack by a Muslim against Americans, forces one to ask the question, whose side is President Barack Hussain Obama on?

    On the side of America and Americans–almost exclusively “unbelievers” all, or on the side of Islam, Muslims, and the Jihad?

    From the growing, some would say overwhelming, evidence that has accumulated so far, I know how I would answer that question.

    • Trainwreck

      Obozo also said in Cairo that he considers it his duty as president to “fight negative Muslim stereotypes.”
      Hillary Clinton recently came out extolling the virtues of the Muslim propaganda machine, al Jazeera.
      From the city in which nearly 3,000 were murdered by jihadists on 9/11, Mayor Dumberg ascibed blame for the Time Square attempted bombing on a “person unhappy with Health Care Reform”.

      With all that has transpired, it is clear that our leaders are in cahoots with the jihadists and the enemies of America. Is it Saudi money that makes politicians blind to jihad like cheap hookers are to STD’s? Or is it that they really hate America and agree with the jihadis in wanting to bring down this country from within? Or have the powers-that-be read the writing on the wall and feel that the Islamic juggernaught is unstoppable, and that by appeasing them now, they can live more comforatably as distinguished dhimmis in the caliphate to come?

      Meanwhile, TSA and Napolitano have their hands full preventing terrorism from toddlers, nuns, iraq war vets, tea party members and wheelchair-bound old men.

    • Isn’t it interesting he who claims he is not a Muslem can recite a prayer he heard as a child perfectly , but as a Consitituional scholar and a Christian in adulthood( not my claim the lefts) he can not remember we are enduwed these rights “by their creator” not once but twice.

  10. 10. Kathy Kinsley

    In defense of Obama, the Muslim call to prayer, chanted by a caller with a good voice, is quite a beautiful sound. At sunrise even. I lived practically beneath a Mosque for about 6 months, and I never once minded being awakened by it. The Mosque I lived near was in Thailand, and quite moderate, btw – I hope it still is. In fact, the Muslims in my neighborhood used to warn me of areas not to go through in town ‘because the radicals live there’. You could tell the radicals by the clothing, of course…black gowns and hijab. The regular Mslims wore regular clothing – and maybe a headscarf but not hiding all hair or any part of the face.

    • Seth

      Tell me Kathy, how do you think those, what you saw as “moderate Muslims,” would choose, if they had to choose between taking the side of fellow Muslims on some issue–it almost doesn’t matter which, or taking the side of “unbelievers”?

    • Pragmatist

      Kathy there is no such thing as moderate Islam here is a test for you show us where we can find a ‘MODERATE” Koran. You cant so dont bother trying. While there may be moderate Muslims it is THEY who are the misunderstanders of Islam but ‘moderate’ Islam is a figment of gullible, naive moonbats imagination. Mohammedans of course are only too pleased that moonbats think so and also misinterpret ‘Allahu Akbar as “God is great’ instead of what it really means ‘My/Our God is Greatest’

  11. 11. marymcl

    It’s official – the killer may think he’s a jihadi but the State Dept. knows better ~

    Administration Refuses To Call Attack In Germany An Act Of Terrorism

    http://tinyurl.com/6jlbfcw

  12. 12. FAITH7

    Funny, and they consider Americans and our Christian Religions “Violent”
    Stunning Isn’t It? Just what we need more Hypocrites.

    • On hypocricy

      Of course it’s hypocrisy on the part of the islamists and the left, and everybody knows that.

      But hypocrisy is a fact of life, and by just us pointing that out, blowing some steam and move on that is, isn’t the answer. It’s a cope out.

      Islam, muslims and above all the crypto-muslim/islamophiliac in the Oval Office must be opposed and activily so. We ought to DEMAND this fraud’s impeachment or resignation, we must demand that muslims here either ASSIMILATE or get out. We must clean house; whinning isn’t enough.

  13. 13. Tim Ackerman

    When the story broke in Scandinavian newspapers, one wrote, “Young man shot two men at airport in Germany.”

  14. 14. Seth

    Here is a very interesting psychological analysis by a psychologist with many years experience dealing with Muslims, of the effects of a Muslim upbringing (see http://frontpagemag.com/2011/03/04/a-muslim-upbringing-and-terrorism/)

  15. 15. Jim Baker

    Definitely not a terrorist attack, our boy is an Islamic jihadist. If he was a deranged psychopath, that would likely be a terrorist, unless he was a deranged communist psychopath. In which case, he would be more like an Islamic jihadist than a terrorist. You follow?

  16. 16. Bernie

    Did he yell Allah Akhbar or Halvah Akhbar? Because if it was the latter I would agree>

    • Victim of islamofascism

      Not funny Bernie.

      • Pragmatist

        It would have been funny if Bernie had said ‘Hava Nagila’ instead. But moonbats dont have much of a sense of humour.

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