Not that this has anything to do with Islam, of course. “French police kill knife-wielding man who stabbed officer in the face,” i24News, December 20, 2014:
Man entered police station, screamed ‘Allahu Akbar’, attacked policemen
French police on Saturday shot dead a man who attacked them with a knife in a police station while shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great” in Arabic), a source said.
The man injured the face of a policeman at the entrance to the police station in Joue-les-Tours near the city of Tours in central France and injured two other officers before he was shot, the source said, adding that anti-terrorist investigators were probing the incident.
Islamic extremism is an increasing problem in France. In recent months, the country, which has Europe’s largest Muslim population, has been facing the fact that hundreds of its citizens have openly joined jihadist groups in Iraq and Syria and have even called for attacks on their homeland.
The number of French national who traveled to the battlefields of Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State terror group has doubled during the last year, the country’s security services announced on Wednesday.
The total number of French combatants enlisted by the group now stands at 1,200….