But don’t you dare jump to conclusions!
French authorities say that 13 people were injured Sunday when a driver deliberately slammed his car into crowds in several locations around the city of Dijon in eastern France, amid reports that the driver was heard shouting “God is great!” in Arabic.
Sky News reported that witnesses also heard the driver shouting that he was acting on behalf of “the children of Palestine” during the rampage, which lasted approximately 30 minutes. Two of the injuries were described as serious, though no further details were immediately available.
The Interior Ministry told the Associated Press that the driver in Sunday’s car attack, a 40-year-old driving a Renault Clio, was known to police for minor offenses in the 1990s. Eric Delzant, a local police official, told Europe 1 radio the driver, who was detained, suffered from psychological problems.
French officials Monday cautioned against jumping to conclusions about the attacker or his motives. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that the investigation in Dijon was just beginning. […]
The Sunday night rampage came a day after a knife attack on police in the town of Joue-les-Tours in central France that counter-terrorist police are investigating. In that incident, two police officers were seriously injured and the 20-year-old attacker was killed, according to the ministry. Anti-terrorism police are involved in the investigation, and Sky reported that police suspect the attack was motivated by radical Islam. Cazeneuve described the station attack as “very unstable” in an interview with television station TF1.
It was not immediately clear whether the two weekend incidents were connected.
The Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations have repeatedly called for attacks against France, notably because of the French military’s participation in U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq. Some extremists have specifically suggested that anyone angry at the French government could use weapons easily at hand — such as cars or knives — to stage “lone wolf” attacks.
I have driven around in Dijon, and it is a good thing the streets are narrow and twisty or this nutcase could have gotten up some serious speed.
Mustard!
A series of bombs has exploded in Malmö over the past few days. As most readers know, Malmö is the most culturally enriched city in Sweden
i am screaming i am slamming
i can scream and slam at the same time!
scream scream scream
slam slam slam
it’s what i do
I scream, you slam, we all scream for I slam.
“culturally enriched”? Is that the new euphemism for ghetto?
That’s “Colonel” to you. And he has an alibi: he was in the conservatory.
Of course there is never a “last attack” to think of, and yet it appears one can hardly make note of a single attack like this in Dijon than it’s already time to make note of an entirely new (though similar) attack in Nantes. Another van, another claim the driver screams “Allahu Akbar”, another crowd of people mown down — and best of all, another assertion by authorities that no-one knows what prompts such crazy behavior.
“We’re mystified,” says the political left in America, “we’ve no idea how our hate campaign against the police could be taken up by a lone nutter the likes of this Brinsley character, and all to be turned on us who meant no harm but only the good of ridding American society of its racist Tea Party components! And most certainly decades of anti-Jew propaganda in Europe had nothing to do with the heinous murders of millions of Jews by lone German nutters during the second World War! We’re completely at a loss to explain why anyone would accuse us of having a hand in such horrors!”
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t the actual translation, ” Allah is greater than [the other gods]”?
”Allah is greater than [the other gods]”?
Yup. “Allah is greatest.”
nicely done Mr. Red
Are we sure Allah Akbar isn’t more appropriately translated ” [our] God is swishier”?
Greetings:
Me, I’m guessing that it will take something like the Pakistan school massacre before Les Francais realize it’s time to dust old Madame Guillotine off.
>The Takb?r (????????), also written Tekbir or Takbeer, is the term for the Arabic phrase All?hu Akbar (???? ????), usually translated as “God is [the] greatest,” or “God is great”.[1] It is a common Islamic Arabic expression, used in various contexts by Muslims; in formal prayer, in the call for prayer (adh?n),[2] as an informal expression of faith, in times of distress, to express celebration or victory, or to express resolute determination or defiance.
The form All?hu is the nominative of Allah, meaning “God”. The form akbar is the elative of the adjective kab?r, meaning “great”, from the Semitic root k-b-r. As used in the Takb?r it is usually translated as “greatest”, but some authors prefer “greater”.[3][4]
The term Takb?r itself is the stem II verbal noun (taf??lun) of the triliteral root k-b-r, meaning “great”…..
It has been used historically as a battle cry during war. It was first used in war by the prophet Muhammad in the Battle of Badr, the first battle in Islam.[45]<
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Allahu nutbar!
ALLAN is greatest infidel dogs
Gary Allan?
Garry Owen.
Impostor!
The real Garry Owen.
no >allan< like a deranged 7th century lunatic. a proggresive.
“Go Ask Allan,” Jefferson Hairpie.
He was Buddhist?!
I thought that was RS McCain for a moment.
So it all comes down to “My god’s better than your god.” Except the muzzies brook no disagreement and the West is more afraid of appearing intolerant than losing one’s head.
In that way lies madness and the destruction of Western civilization.
But, other than that, it’s all good. Merry Christmas to all!
Wouldn’t surprise me if they were related, SW.
France: Muslim destroys Christmas decorations, screams “Allahu akbar