Hardware Store Jihad

What is it about that lovable ol’ guy Allah that inspires so many “lone wolves” to commit “workplace violence”?

This seems especially true of converts. In many cases the ink isn’t even dry on their Believer’s Diploma before they’re out there a-stabbin’ and a-slayin’ on behalf of Allah and his righteous rasul.

A recent instance of Sudden-Onset Extremism (SOE) may be found in this story about a brand new revert to Islam who found his way into a hardware store in Southern the Bay area in California and started doing his mandatory community service for the Ummah. From The Contra Costa Times:

Man who killed Ace hardware employee was on “mission from Allah,” deputy DA says

RICHMOND — A 34-year-old Sacramento man who went to an El Sobrante hardware store on a “mission from Allah to help people” before fatally stabbing an employee 17 times was arraigned on murder charges Tuesday, prosecutors say.

Daymond Agnew, charged with murder with use of a knife in Sunday’s slaying of 49-year-old Daniel Joseph Stone, of Pinole, at Oliver’s Ace Hardware, did not enter a plea and was ordered to return to the Richmond courthouse on Aug. 13 with a public defender.

Agnew has been held in County Jail on $1.3 million bail since prosecutors say that — by sheer coincidence — he was captured in the store owner’s family home, located not far from the store at 4071 San Pablo Dam Road.

According to witnesses, surveillance video and the defendant’s own account, Agnew went to the store and walked up to Stone and a customer as they were discussing a paint purchase, deputy district attorney Mary Knox said. After Stone told Agnew that he would help the customer on his own, Agnew used the store’s spray paint to paint his face in Oakland Raiders’ silver and black because the football team is “in favor with Allah,” Knox said.

Agnew stabbed Stone at least once in the store after Stone told colleagues to call 911, Knox said. Agnew allegedly stabbed Stone many more times outside the store before running to a nearby creek.

By way of the creek, Agnew ended up in the backyard of the home of the store owner, Richard Oliver, who had just received the call about the attack on his employee, Knox said. Oliver, who was with his wife and son, fled the residence and called police to their home.

“Somehow he ends up holding the family dog and in their house,” Knox said. “He’s wearing a bloody hoodie, crouched down with the knife beneath him.”

Stone, a grandfather of two, was described by his corporate office as a dedicated employee who had worked at the El Sobrante store for about a year.

Agnew’s family said they were stunned to learn of his arrest. They said he had been visiting family in Hercules that day and when he left, they assumed he was headed back to Sacramento, where he lives with his wife and young daughter. He had recently converted to Islam, they said.

As the Muslim Issue noted:

Angry young men are attracted to “the religion of peace” and don’t think they are not. How many people have to suffer horrific deaths before America starts talking about this issue? It will be a lot more as long as we have a president who is on his own personal jihad. If a Christian would have done this on a “mission from God” this would certainly be national news. Wake up people.

Hat tip: Vlad Tepes.

10 thoughts on “Hardware Store Jihad

  1. It isn’t just “angry young men”, but those who do not have the philosophical inclination to appreciate the very different ideas of eternal rewards which are found in other religions. The idea of an afterlife filled with ample access to the suppressed or inaccessible desires of corporeal existence only really appeals to a pathetically limited imagination. It is telling how often Muslims work themselves up to their acts of Jihad by using porn (or rape) to preview the delights of Paradise, and how this is not-so-secretly promoted by radical Islamic teachings.

    Of course, the impoverished imagination also affects the kinds of acts which these brutish (in the sense of being animals) thugs conceive of as Jihad. They do not see others as people, with individual rights and responsibility for particular actions, but as undifferentiated prey animals, to be killed according to the convenience or impulse of the predator.

  2. Just a small note: El Sobrante is not in SoCal, it is just north of Oakland along the I-80 corridor.

  3. Clearly, he has misunderstood the Religion of Peace. If only spoke Arabic like a native, he would read in the Koran not to do such things.

  4. Do you think he will also be charged with a “Hate Crime” ?
    I think not, the liberals that control CA. would not allow such a charge, unless he were a white Christian.

  5. While islam is certainly not blameless in this epsiode, this guy is obviously a crackpot. Even the most fanatical jihadists don’t paint their faces in the colors of their favorite football team before going on a spree. He’s bound for the cuckoo hatch.

  6. Of course this person was a crackpot. The point is that Islam is primarily attractive to two kinds of people, those with the misfortune to be born to it and unwilling to risk death to find a less horrible religion, and those who are drawn to the promise of unlimited sex and mastery over others as a reward for horrific acts of violence against others.

    Both groups help us understand a great deal about Islam.

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