Recordings by New Orleans attack suspect express extreme religious views

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Source: The Guardian

Thu 2 Jan 2025 14.50 EST
Last modified on Thu 2 Jan 2025 15.37 EST


Nearly a year before he allegedly killed 14 people and injured dozens more by driving a pickup truck flying an Islamic State (IS) flag through a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, Shamsud-Din Jabbar expressed his beliefs that music, intoxicants, sex and other pleasures were evils deserving of destruction.

An account on the SoundCloud platform under the name of Jabbar posted three recordings totaling about 20 minutes each containing those and other expressions of extremist religious views.

SoundCloud did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The voice on the recordings match that of Jabbar’s as heard on a video promoting a real-estate business he was confirmed to have run before authorities say he aimed a deadly terrorist attack at one of the world’s most famous festive drags, killing or injuring a mix of local area residents and foreign visitors. He was shot dead by police at the end of Wednesday’s attack on Bourbon Street, bringing the total number dead to 15, the local coroner said Thursday.

Muslim scholars have widely rejected the extremist positions IS or those who sympathize with the terrorist group have with respect to the religion, saying Islam teaches mercy and peace as well as the importance of justice.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/02/new-orleans-attack-suspect

[republianmushroom]

1. Another religious fruitcake.

[LizBeth]

2. Nothing about the country all about behavior, no different then fundamentalist anywhere.

His wife had restraint order, he was violent, doesnt like they way people behave.

[LudwigPastorius]

3. He sounded kind of like a Republican.

They are both haunted by the fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

[lonely bird]

4. Sounds familiar

Sayyid Qutb was offended by similar things around the late 1940’s. He was, iirc, instrumental in the Muslim Brotherhood.

[uncledad]

5. Sounds like he couldn't

control his own impulses so he decided to control other people's by killing them. Untreated mental illness soaked in religious fundamentalism a dangerous but all too common combination.