Not an Islamist Terrorist But a Paranoid Social Deviant

Alissa’s own writings reveal he is a sharia adherent muslim. His numerous writings on Facebook and elsewhere reveal he is committed to Islam and its doctrinal teachings. On December 18, 2018 Alissa posted the following on his Facebook page: “Muslims might not be perfect but Islam is.” On May 7, 2019, Alissa posted “So Mary wears a hijab and Jesus doesn’t eat pork and prays on his knees and hands. There (sic) both Muslims it’s obvious.”  

The Islamic Center of Boulder works with known hostile jihadi organizations including the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and its affiliates. Evidence in the largest terrorism financing trial ever successfully prosecuted in American history – US v Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (“HLF”), Northern District of Texas, 2008 – identifies ICNA as a member of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s network, whose stated goal is the overthrow of the U.S. government and the implementation of an Islamic State under Islamic Law/sharia.

A snapshot of Colorado reveals there is a significant jihadi (terrorist) network across the state which has been present for decades with little interference from state/local officials or law enforcement. The following organizations primarily present themselves as non-violent community organizations, when in fact they are at the core of the U.S. jihadi Movement:

• The Muslim Students Association (MSA), the first national Islamic organization established in America, is a Muslim Brotherhood organization whose goal is identical to that of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State (formerly ISIS). MSA chapters are present on every major college/university campus in Colorado.
• Hamas, doing business as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), has at least one office in Colorado.
• The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), and their affiliates including Islamic Relief, have offices in Colorado.
• Numerous properties across Colorado are owned by the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), the bank for the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, which has directly funded Hamas terrorist organizations and leaders.
• The Muslim Brotherhood’s Muslim American Society (MAS) has at least one office in Colorado.
• The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), identified in the US v HLF trial as a Muslim Brotherhood organization which funds the terrorist group Hamas and its subsidiaries have chapters across Colorado, including the Islamic Society of Colorado Springs and the Denver Islamic Society.
• Anwar al Awlaki, the leader of Al Qaeda in Yemen, who was killed in a U.S. missile strike in 2011, was the President of the Muslim Students Association at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, one hour north of Boulder.

  John D. Guandolo, former FBI agent, Jihad Watch

A mourner leaves a bouquet of flowers Tuesday along a fence put up around the parking lot where a mass shooting took place in a King Soopers grocery store Monday in Boulder, Colo. (David Zalubowski/The Associated Press)

 

Although the link is plainly there, it is unspoken. A delicate dance of avoidance. No mainstream news reports suggest anything as controversial as a Muslim terrorist, doubtlessly locally radicalized in an area mosque as another successful recruit to Islamism, set out -- well weaponized, to hunt down Jews in a place where he assumed Jews would be available -- to terrorize and shoot to kill with little interference before he would be able to take a sizeable toll. The supermarket he chose, catering to Jews as a 'kosher' market was certainly crowded on Monday when a man by the name of Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa stormed in shooting to kill. But those within weren't all Jews.

That Jews were the target is an unassailable argument. The connection is blatant. A man posting his questionable views on social media. A man whom his brother identified as socially averse and 'paranoid'. A man whose sister-in-law informed police that she had seen him toying with an assault rifle in the home the family shared. Born in Syria, raised in the United States where he attended school during his formative years. He had amassed a little collection of weapons, discovered in the family home. No one there in his family questioned him?

The three pieces of a readily-solved puzzle; young radicalized Muslim, assault weapons, kosher supermarket equalling Jews there for the harvesting where martyrdom and notoriety/celebrity status beckoned. No authorities have so much as murmured the word 'terrorism' in public though unavoidably he is spoken of as the 'suspect', and nor have any news outlets spoken of an antisemitic assault leading to the murder of ten innocent people. Yes, the suspect has been charged with ten murders, but authorities claim to see no 'reason' for the atrocity.

And perhaps that being the case, during his prosecution, his defence will claim not guilty by reason of mental imbalance, which has already been alluded to by his family who evidently seem to feel that mental delicacy and assault weapons pose no risk to anyone. Witnesses describe the man shooting wildly before he even exited his vehicle parked in front of the supermarket. Then he repeatedly shot an  elderly man standing outside the supermarket, before entering.

 

Among the dead ...Denny Stong, 20; Neven Stanisic, 23; Rikki Olds, 25; Tralona Bartkowiak, 49; Suzanne Fountain, 59; Teri Leiker, 51; Kevin Mahoney, 61; Lynn Murray, 62; and Jody Waters, 65.

 

Once in the crowded supermarket, shots rang out repeatedly, people panicked, streaming out of the store. A 911 call earlier had reached police, and Eric Talley, a 51-year-old, father of seven, ten-year veteran of the Boulder police force was the first to respond. In a gunfire exchange with the terrorist, he lost his life. He and nine other people, including the store manager; victims from age 20 to 65. Boulder, Colorado is now ten people poorer, and well and truly traumatized.

"My heart aches today."

"Flags had barely been raised back to full-mast after the tragic shooting in Atlanta that claimed eight lives, and now a tragedy here close to home at a grocery store that could be any of our neighbourhood grocery stores."

Colorado Governor Jared Polis

But it wasn't just any neighbourhood grocery store. The King Soopers outlet in Boulder was a kosher supermarket, deliberately chosen for the assumption that there would be within Jews, perhaps only Jews and the hunt was on. In Atlanta days earlier it had been Asian-Americans who were the target, when eight people were shot, six of them Koreans. Racists in general have been targeting those they think are Chinese, linking them, though they are as American as any others, to the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing COVID-19 which originated in Wuhan, China.

"It would be premature for us to draw any conclusions at this time", advised the agent in charge of the FBI's field office in Denver at a news briefing. Authorities claim to have no idea what might have motivated the killer to open fire on helpless shoppers at the King Soopers supermarket. Just as in the Atlanta shooting spree at the massage parlours, there is a denial that the killings were racist-motivated but rather stemmed from the murderer's sex-overdrive mental state.

People are led out of the King Soopers grocery store after the shooting on Monday. (Hart Van Denburg/Colorado Public Radio/The Associated Press)