MEMPHIS, TN – Tonight, Mohamed Ibrahim is out after posting $100 bond. Earlier in the day, he was arrested after police say he walked into several Memphis businesses and threatened to blow them up.
Court records show Ibrahim was also telling people he was Muslim, and wanted to start a jihad, or holy war, in Memphis.
Police say when they arrested him, he had a butcher knife hidden in one of his jacket sleeve
Notice that MyEyeWitness News is reporting that Mohamed Ibrahim was “telling people he was Muslims” as if there is some question about whether or not this is true. I point this out to give some insight into the political culture of Memphis.
Ryan Poe at The Commercial Appeal gives you a sense of how dangerous Ibrahim is:
A Memphis man was arrested Friday after he walked into seven local businesses and announced that he would bomb them if they didn’t close, according to a police affidavit.
The report states that Mohamed Ibrahim, 35, threatened businesses on Poplar Avenue, Summer Avenue, Mendenhall, Perkins and Danny Thomas Boulevard.
“If you don’t close this place up, I’m going to blow it to pieces,” Ibrahim told customers at the BP Gas Station on the 300 block of Poplar, according to the report.
A police officer pulled over the suspect’s black PT Cruiser on Poplar and arrested Ibrahim, who was “very nervous” and appeared as if “he was trying to hide something,” the report stated.
The suspect tried to kick out the windows of a patrol car during the arrest and police said they had to use pepper spray to subdue him.
Ibrahim was found in possession of “Islamic cassettes” which I assume weren’t audio of Sufi poetry and was charged with commission of a terrorist act as well as filing a false report and disorderly conduct. Given those facts bail seems pretty low.
N.T.A. is on this story. Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs have analysis.
sounds like the american law system to me.im not shocked,noone should be really.after all untill you actuly kill some people your not dangerious, right legal system? hum… they have no comment. wonder why?
The worst part is that if some Tea Party goer did the same thing they’d be sitting in supermax now while everyone associated with him was being investigated.