Ahamed Samsudeen: New Zealand knife attacker named as Sri Lanka refugee jailed over extremist material
Posted on September 4th, 2021
Courtesy inews
The Sri Lankan national, 32, was known to police as an Isis-sympathiser and had been under surveillance for five years
The terrorist who stabbed seven people in an Auckland supermarket before being shot dead by police has been named as Ahamed Samsudeen.
The Sri Lankan man, 32, who launched his frenzied attack on Friday, was known to police as an Isis sympathiser and had been under surveillance for five years.
Ahamed Aathil Mohamed Samsudeen arrived in New Zealand as a student 10 years ago and was granted refugee status in 2013.
He came to the attention of police in 2016 when he started posting support for terror attacks and violent extremism on Facebook.
In 2017, he was arrested at Auckland Airport as authorities suspected he was headed for Syria to join Islamic State.
He spent three years in prison after being found in possession of a hunting knife and banned extremist material, but was released in July this year under certain conditions despite court reports warning he had the motivation and means to commit violent acts in the community and posed a high risk.
Despite being monitored by up to 30 police officers, on Friday Samsudeen walked into a Countdown supermarket with a kitchen knife and started stabbing shoppers at random.
Witnesses say they heard a lot of screaming before hearing the police fire the shots that killed him.
New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern said Samsudeen had been a lone-wolf extremist who was known to authorities.
She has appealed for unity, warning that backlash against the Muslim community would be wrong”, and that the attacker alone was responsible.
Ms Ardern said: We have it within our powers to ensure that the actions of an individual do not create a knock-on of hate, judgment and vitriol. I know, New Zealand you will be kind.”
Samsudeen’s brother Aroos said the family wanted to send their love and support to everyone hurt in the attack. He said Samsudeen had been suffering from mental health problems, wanted to impress his friends on Facebook and had no support.
He would hang up the phone on us when we told him to forget about all the issues he was obsessed with. Then he would call us back again himself when he realized he was wrong,” Aroos said. Aathil was wrong again yesterday. Of course we feel very sad he could not be saved.”
It is thought that five victims remain in hospital, three of them in critical condition and two stable. Two others are recovering at home.
September 8th, 2021 at 5:31 pm
Lone wolf extremist or Islamic ideology radicalized extremist?
What is wrong is that the terrorist was radicalized while in New Zealand. It is no other than his own mother who says this. The terrorist came to New Zealand carrying a bogus immigrant application mentioning false imprisonment and torture in Sri Lanka. His application was found to be fraudulent.
After the cowardly incident where he attacked even a 77 year old, among 6 other non suspecting innocents, the New Zealand Prime Minister couldn’t get around to say that the terrorist is an Islamic Terrorist follwing an extreme Islamic ideology. It took some time to spell out his name though she was quick to mention Sri Lanka. As far as Islamic Terrorism is concerned he could have come from anywhere – that was not important. New Zealand is as much responsible for his terrorist upbringing as he spent nearly a third of his young life in New Zealand.
After the March 2019 mosque attack by a white supremacist, the Muslims in New Zealand are playing victim to the hilt and almost sucking dry mother New Zealand to get at every little benefit they can get out of the unfortunate incident no civilized being would approve. This is all happening while it took only a month for the Islamic vengeance to fall upon over 259 innocent victims in Sri Lanka at the April 2019 Easter Sunday Attacks.
Still New Zealand is ‘rediscovering the wheel’ with respect to Islamic Jihad and ISIS / ISIL formation of the modern day Caliphate. This is in the background of many countries in Europe finding the consequences the hard way! Given below are impressions of two enlightened Muslims in Denmark and Sweden respectively.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbHe6Vau5As&t=65s&pp=sAQB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S294I3CHb0&t=36s&pp=sAQB
The innocent and the naive in New Zealand should not fall prey to faraway animosities and unfulfilled religious ambitions!