MICHIGAN: MUSLIM WHO SLASHED COP'S THROAT WHILE SCREAMING "ALLAHU AKBAR" SAYS HE REGRETTED NOT KILLING MORE PEOPLE
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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“Prosecutors have said he told investigators his ‘mission was to kill and be killed.'”
Where did he get the idea for such a mission? Could it have been from the Qur’an?“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (9:111)Will authorities in Michigan or anywhere ponder the implications of the congruence of this jihadi’s mission with the Qur’an’s promise of Paradise to those who kill and are killed? Of course not.“Man convicted of terrorism at Flint airport gets life, says he regretted not killing more people,” Fox2 Detroit, April 18, 2019:FLINT, Mich. (FOX 2) – A Canadian man convicted of terrorism for nearly killing an airport police officer in Michigan was sentenced Thursday to life in prison.U.S. prosecutors said Amor Ftouhi drove 1,000 miles from Montreal to the airport in Flint, Michigan, where he yelled “God is great” in Arabic and repeatedly stabbed Lt. Jeff Neville in 2017.Investigators said Ftouhi wanted to stab Neville, take his gun and start shooting people in the airport. He legally drove into the U.S. at Champlain, New York, and arrived in Flint five days later. He tried but failed to buy a gun at a gun show and instead bought a large knife.During Thursday’s sentencing, Ftouhi told the judge that he “regretted he did not get a machine gun” and regretted he did not “kill that cop.”He also asked for a life sentence and said he had jihad in his heart and blood and didn’t kill enough peopleFtouhi is a native of Tunisia who moved to Canada in 2007. He had a degree in sociology, worked in insurance and had no indications of being radicalized until the attack in Flint.Prosecutors have said he told investigators his “mission was to kill and be killed.”His defense lawyer, Joan Morgan, said Ftouhi wasn’t attempting to create mass casualties and wanted to be killed so his family could collect life insurance and so he could become a martyr….Neville, who was on duty at the airport, when he was approached from behind by Ftouhi and had his throate slashed….
