Here the Islamic jihadists had a chance not only to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah,” but to attack a museum — a repository of the artifacts of jahiliyyah, the pre-Islamic period of ignorance.
“The Latest: 21 killed in Tunisia attack; 2-3 gunmen at large,” Associated Press, March 18, 2015 (thanks to Michael):
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s prime minister says 21 people are dead after an attack on a major museum, including 17 foreign tourists — and that two or three of the attackers remain at large.
Habib Essid told national television that the foreigners included tourists from Poland, Italy, Germany and Spain.
He said that two of the attackers were killed in a gunfight with police on Wednesday, and that security forces are hunting for two or three others believed to have been involved.
The attack was the worst in years on a tourist site in Tunisia, which is struggling to solidify its young democracy and prevent violence by Islamic extremists.
Seventeen foreigners were killed, as were a Tunisian security officer and a cleaning woman, the interior ministry spokesman said….
It was the worst attack on a tourist site in Tunisia in years, and comes as the country is trying to establish democracy and keep Islamic extremists at bay….
The National Bardo Museum is adjacent to the national parliament building, which was being evacuated after the shooting.
The museum is a leading tourist attraction that chronicles Tunisia’s history and houses one of the world’s largest collections of Roman mosaics.
It is unclear who the attackers are. Tunisia has struggled with violence by Islamic extremists in recent years, including some linked to the Islamic State group.
mariam rove says
I read this earlier today. Typical Jihadists. Murdering innocent people who have nothing to do with anything. That said those tourists do they not read the news? Why go there? M
Charli Main says
Have to plead guilty M. I had a trip planned to Tunis a couple of months from now. I love all things Roman and seeing the mosaics at the Bardo Museum has been a life time ambition.
Guess I´ll have to cancel—-the Muslim vermin win again.
mariam rove says
Hi Charli! I would not go if I was you. Those places are lawless and you are taking an unnecessary risk there and if something happens you will be in deep….
There are other safer places you can go such as Turkey.
If you want to see the Roman mosaic , believe it or not one the best places to go to is Iran. You need to get a visa and you should be able to. Tons of westerners go there. As an Iranian as much as I despise the genocidal Iranian government, I have to tell is is extremely safe so long as you have nothing to do with the ruling mullah, I.E an activists etc…
Google the following:
Church of Maku, in Maku, Iran. This is one of the oldest Church’s on the planet and it was supposedly built by Peter or Paul or someone like that.
Church of St. Stephanous and church of Vank both of them in Iran. You will get the same thrill as the one you were expecting in Tunisia. m
TH says
The oldest Christian church known is in Doura Europos, which I think is in ex-Syria (Syria no longer exists). It goes back to 250 AD and there is also a synagogue there which has frescos, very unussual as the Old Testments is not in fvour of such paintings. There is no shortage of Roman mozaics in many places in Italy, especially Pompeii. Maybe you would be better gong there.
TH says
Who knows the Islamic State might destory the Roman ruins?
gravenimage says
I’d love to see the Roman mosaics there. I wouldn’t go with Islam so resurgent there, though. The same is true for Egypt and many other places. The worst thing is that virtually no Muslims have any interest in this work, except for destroying it. Even in “moderate” Tunisia, it is no surprise that most of those at the museum were Infidel tourists.
voegelinian says
If you go to a Muslim land, make sure to find trustworthy guides and translators who are Moderate Muslims (you can tell which ones are Moderates by how much they smile and say things you want to hear), who of course we can be absolutely certain will never ever enable or even actively help their co-religionists who may want to abduct you for torture, killing, and/or ransom money.
SARC DRONED
John C. Barile says
Those extremists sure are busy all over. Tunisia alone has added 3,000 to the ranks of these militants. We ought to clamp down on those Religious Right-wingers–who else could they be?–to end this terror.
/sarc
profitsbeard says
Might want to avoid all Muslim countries as far as “tourism” goes.
Plenty of Roman mosaics in sane spots.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
21 is a solid take if you’re doing a Koranic mass murder operation. The 17 foreign tourists were the main course, Infidel meat for the deep frying, just to keep the terror level up. The four natives were the apostate meat, sushi to remind all fellow hairy coreligionists that it’s time to align with the Koran and thereby with Allah, who after all wrote the book. The Moslem bible. A good day’s work along the Maghrebian shores, once again proving Thomas Jefferson was right. But he’s been wronged; the Holy Koran he bought to figure out what motivated the mujahidin pirates is now used to swear Moslems into the U.S. Congress. Terror works, one way or the other.
annieoakley says
Exactly! Bravo’
Vijay says
There is no denying that this is an attack by ISIS scum who are too cowardly to show their faces and stoop to such disgraceful levels killing harmless, innocent civilians in the name of Islam, the Quran and it’s schizophrenic, pedophile, self proclaimed prophet. It has ISIS written all over it. The world has gone to war for much less reasons. Why aren’t the other countries carpet bombing and nuking the ISIS territorities to oblivion? Is the world waiting for more innocent civilians to be killed? Even the thought of visiting any Muslim country gives me the creeps, fear for my life.
gravenimage says
It certainly could have been ISIS—but it also could have been Al Qaida in the Mahgreb or any one of scores more Jihad groups. This is not special to ISIS—it is normative for orthodox Islam.
Susan says
“it is normative for orthodox Islam” really, it is normative for islam period.
voegelinian says
Good catch; we always need to spot and apply white-out vigilantly to all these tics & spasms in the Counter-Jihad that seem to feel the need to reflect some kind of imaginary, fantasy-based taxonomy of Islam.
Once we train ourselves out of that bad habit, we still have work to do — disabusing ourselves of the equally silly need talk in terms of a taxonomy of Muslims (equally imaginary and fantasy-based).
What the motto of the Anti-Islam Movement should be:
Islam is the problem, and all Muslims enable it.
cs says
CIA/MOSAD operation, it is all western fault, we are guilty, they are poor innocents, and so and such.
Expect this discourse from many parties. They will never look deep inside themselves.
Michael Copeland says
Of course, the compromised and tainted BBC make no mention of Islam or jihad. No, just “gunmen” in an “attack”, also called a “rampage”, for which “no group has claimed responsibility”. Thus is the ignorance perpetuated. http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/live/31938459
Michael Copeland says
John Kerry calls the attack “wanton violence” thereby misinforming the American people.
It was not wanton: it was targeted.
The Doctor says
What’s Kerry’s problem with Chinese food? No wontons were involved! Oh, wait… one letter off. 🙂
(OK – lame joke, but things were getting a little too serious and depressing.)
thomasw pellow says
Supplementary.
MSM sticks to its misleading designation of perpetrators as ‘gunmen’, and ‘militants’, not Islamic jihadists.
Two minute video clip:
“VIDEO: Tunisia attack: 19 dead after gunmen storm museum”
http://www.independent.ie/videos/world-news/video-tunisia-attack-19-dead-after-gunmen-storm-museum-31077985.html?
thomas pellow says
“VIDEO: Tunisia attack: 19 dead after gunmen storm museum”
http://www.independent.ie/videos/world-news/video-tunisia-attack-19-dead-after-gunmen-storm-museum-31077985.html?
thomas pellow says
‘France 24′-
“In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24, Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said that ‘Salafist jihadists’ were responsible for Wednesday’s deadly attack on a Tunis museum, in which at least 20 foreign tourists were killed.”
http://www.france24.com/en/20150318-tunisian-forces-free-all-hostages-deadly-museum-attack-gunmen/
thomas pellow says
‘France 24’-
“In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24, Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said that ‘Salafist jihadists’ were responsible for Wednesday’s deadly attack on a Tunis museum, in which at least 20 foreign tourists were killed.”
http://www.france24.com/en/20150318-tunisian-forces-free-all-hostages-deadly-museum-attack-gunmen/
Omar BEDDALI says
Please do not stop visiting Tunisia. Tourism is a vital ressource for this sympathetical country.
gravenimage says
Tunisia is still a Muslim country, as well as the fountainhead of the horrific “Arab Spring”. There are other countries that are worse, but that is hardly a ringing endorsement. There is no real reason to consider Tunisia “sympathetical” to us.
Ernie says
Dear Omar , I appreciate your invitation , I really do , but : It’s not save for Westerners to visit your beautiful country now . It’s even not save for manyTunisians themselves . First the house must be clean and save if you understand what I mean .
Ernie says
safe , not save .
Jaladhi says
Stop going to all Muslim countries. Or face such barbaric violence which is happening to tourists in all Muslim countries. There are thousands of more beautiful and safer places in the world to visit than any of these Islamic countries! Forget these countries and let them go to hell where they are all headibg!
mariam rove says
Amen!! M
thomas pellow says
“Justice kiosk: Tunisia’s alternative law enforcers”
By Tim Whewell.
BBC News, Tunisia, July 2013.
Scroll down to end of piece for 11 min video clip-
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23469218
JMB says
I will say it again and I will keep saying it; That is intern or deport ALL Muslims from Western countries until the terror stops. It doesn’t matter who they are, taxi drivers or doctors. They do not belong here any more than we are wanted in their part of the world.
Fortunately I was able to visit the Middle east and explore so many historic sites before the present terror reached it’s present level. It is an absolutely fascinating part of the world, I would not go now and I never really felt safe way back then. The economies of these countries do rely on tourism but true Islam would rather have the country go broke rather than have foreign (infidel) visitors in their midst.
Omar BEDDALI says
How can you identify a muslim ?
JMB says
They attend the mosque. They dress as Muslims. They have recently immigrated from the Middle East. They own a Koran. They send their kids to Islamic schools. They have Islamic names. They are of “Middle East” appearance.
Many are well known to local police forces and immigration officials.
gravenimage says
Tunisia: Islamic jihadists murder 21, including 17 foreign tourists, at museum
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I just heard of this atrocity on CNN.
More:
Here the Islamic jihadists had a chance not only to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah,” but to attack a museum — a repository of the artifacts of jahiliyyah, the pre-Islamic period of ignorance.
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Yes—a “two-fer” for the pious butchers. It is also a warning to Infidels not to dare set foot in Dar-al-Islam.
And this horror is not the first of its kind.
Here’s the Luxor Massacre, where Jihadists slaughtered 62 people—mostly Western tourists visiting the Temple of Hatshepsut in Egypt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxor_massacre
And this has already reached the West. This, from last year:
“Muslim from France admits jihad murders at Brussels Jewish Museum”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/06/muslim-from-france-admits-jihad-murders-at-brussels-jewish-museum
And even threats of Muslim attack are effective:
“Police close Norway Jewish museums for fear of attacks”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/police-close-norway-jewish-museums-for-fear-of-attacks/
Actually, this is just the Jewish Museum in Trondheim—the Jewish Museum in Oslo had already been closed.
God, I hate Islam.
cs says
Mind you, people flock in museums that are not Islamic, people are not really interested in Islamic antiquities, what just makes them full of envy. Those scumbags.
thomas pellow says
“At Least 20 Tourists Killed In Tunisia Attack.
“The country’s president vows to “exterminate” extremist groups in the wake of the massacre at a leading tourist attraction.”
(video clip).
http://news.sky.com/story/1447516/at-least-20-tourists-killed-in-tunisia-attack
abad says
Does that mean it is time to blow up the Muslim Ka’aba?
sidney penny says
“It is unclear who the attackers are. Tunisia has struggled with violence by Islamic extremists in recent years, including some linked to the Islamic State group”
AT least the report does say “Islamic extremists”
“Seventeen foreigners were killed, as were a Tunisian security officer and a cleaning woman, the interior ministry spokesman said…”
Yes foreigners are a good target in Islamic countries..
“The museum is a leading tourist attraction that chronicles Tunisia’s history and houses one of the world’s largest collections of Roman mosaics.”
Anything pre Islamic is haram.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/09/destroy-countries-inciting-jihad-naipaul
“This is one of the foundations of the Islamic idea that pre-Islamic civilizations, and non-Islamic civilizations, are all jahiliyya — the society of unbelievers, which is worthless.
Obviously this cuts against the idea of tourism of ancient sites and non-Muslim religious installations such as The National Bardo Museum .
The museum is a leading tourist attraction that chronicles Tunisia’s history and houses one of the world’s largest collections of Roman mosaics..
V. S. Naipaul encountered this attitude in his travels through Muslim countries.
For many Muslims, he observed in Among the Believers, “The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.”
Naipaul recounted that some Pakistani Muslims, far from valuing the nation’s renowned archaeological site at Mohenjo Daro, saw its ruins as a teaching opportunity for Islam, recommending that Qur’an 3:137 be posted there as a teaching tool.”
“Many were the Ways of Life that have passed away before you: travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those who rejected Truth. (Qur’an 3:137)”
Islamic jihadists want to ruin the artifacts of non-Muslim civilizations because doing so testifies to the truth of Islam, as the Qur’an suggests that ruins are a sign of Allah’s punishment of those who rejected his truth:.In the process kill some tourist and destroy some museums.
David says
The world needs to unite to destroy these animals. Why aren’t they? There’s enough military resources and manpower to form an anti jihad army and go after these lunatics.
Also life imprisonment for MULLAS inciting hatred against ANYONE. EVIL MULLAS are behind these atrocities. Also deportation. Throw the book at any preacher goading attacks on anyone.
The reason they’re desperately trying to get nukes in Iran is because the Mullas sense that the Iranian people and even other countries are after them and they won’t feel their power is safe unless they can have nukes.
Obama is trying to do things the peaceful way but he doesn’t really know who he’s dealing with in Iran. But there are signs that inside Iran change is wanted by the masses who are sick of things like the ‘virtue police’ and sick of religion being pumped to them 24 hrs and want freedom to have music and choice of government.
A friend once told me that there is a saying that in the future there will be a Mulla hanging from every tree in Iran because it is they who have destroyed the people’s happiness and people are only waiting for the right time to revolt and destroy the Mullas. It’s the same with Pakestinian preachers they incite hatred.
Meanwhile I wouldn’t be visiting any Muslim countries. Go to Israel instead if you must go to that area.
David says
Correction I meant Palestinian preachers but Pakistan and all over the world Mullas teach hatred so it’s a worldwide thing.
The real cowards are the Mullas. If they went after them terrorism could be stopped in a year because they are the instigators and the teachers of radical Islam who need to be shown absolutely no mercy whatsoever.
You will find a preacher of hatred behind all these groups but being the cowards Mullas are they never lead by example and strap on a bomb themselves.
Has anyone ever seen a mulla take part in a terrorist attack yet they are the evil behind it??
In Iran too. The Mullas secretly have parties and prostitutes and drink and gamble but will police the population and arrest anyone who is caught doing the same.
The Iranian people are mostly good but when radios blare and Mullas issue fatwas against us Bahais then our properties and businesses are confiscated, our cemeteries destroyed and we are forbidden to attend university as we are declared ‘unclean’ and imprisoned. It is the hate preachers the world needs to stop.
pumbar says
“Habib Essid told national television that the foreigners included tourists from Poland, Italy, Germany and Spain.”
Poland, Italy, Germany and Spain? That spells P.I.G.S.
No wonder this took place, kuffars hurting muzzie feelers again as usual.
Jeff says
Okay Tunisia, time to kill 2,100 Islamists. For every one person they kill, you kill one hundred of theirs. This is all they understand. You know who they are. You know the mosques, the Imams, and their followers. You hunt them all down, kill them, their families, and then feed them to the hogs. Enough already. End this nonsense.
duh_swami says
Comments advocating killing are read by people who monitor JW, who are not friends. These people hold Spencer responsible for your remarks even though there is a disclaimer. it gives JW a bad name and can be used to label JW a ‘hate site’…Your post may be and should be removed. That does not mean you are a bad person, just don’t advocate mass murder, or any murders in your posts.
sidney penny says
Several Islamist militant groups have emerged in Tunisia since the uprising and authorities estimate about 3000 Tunisians have also joined fighters in Iraq and Syria – raising fears they could return and mount attacks at home.
Why are they going there? Why let them return?
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/mar/19/tunisia-attack-australian-dead
An Australian man, who was among 19 people killed when gunmen stormed a famed museum in Tunisia’s capital, has been identified as Javier Camelo.
Javier Camelo, who lived in Sydney Australia and had recently graduated with an MBA was on holiday with his family when they were caught up in the Tunis attack. His mother also died
sidney penny says
museums and temples what next?
Security iis tight around Borobudur with soldiers with M16 guarding the complex which has been attacked before.
http://www.eturbonews.com/49418/isis-planning-terror-attack-buddhism-and-travel-and-tourism-indu
Is ISIS planning a terror attack on Buddhism and the travel and tourism industry in Indonesia?
Built in Central Java in the IX century, Borobudur is known as the largest and one of the most important Buddhist monuments in the world. It was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1991, after major renovation works. With over 500 Buddha statues, it serves not only as a key tourist attraction in Indonesia, but also as a pilgrimage site for Mahayana Buddhists from all over the world.
philipine234 says
Why blame these rich guys? They r doing, what they know best. This is what their pbuh has taught them best to do. Keep up d good job. What these morons don’t realise is that violence begets violence.
nacazo says
Robert Spencer said:
“a repository of the artifacts of jahiliyyah, the pre-Islamic period of ignorance.”
I suggest:
“a repository of the artifacts of jahiliyyah, the pre-Islamic period Muslims call of ignorance but a period that had more knowledge than anything introduced by the so-called profit”
robert clark says
today walking down a street in central london i came across my first incidence of naked anti-jewish racism when 2 teenagers started shouting YAHUDI at the top of their voices at anyone they considered jewish they were from their skin tones either pakhistani or bangledeshi. things are only going to get worse!