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Austria car attacker on FB liked dozens of pages proclaiming devotion to Allah

Jun 22, 2015 8:12 am By Robert Spencer

Rizvanović likes2Not only has the Islamic State called for Muslims to use their cars to murder Infidels, but there have recently been such attacks in France, Canada, and Israel. Yet every one is ascribed to “mental illness.” If anyone is suffering from mental illness, it is the authorities who are in the throes of such deep denial.

Note also that Rizvanović liked Occupy Wall Street. No surprise, of course: Islamic jihadists and Leftists have a natural affinity and commonality of purpose.

More on this story. “Austria Car Attack – Random Act of Violence or Planned Terrorist Attack?,” by Oliver Lane, Breitbart, June 22, 2015:

The bodies on the streets of Graz, Austria weren’t even cold before police moved to reassure the public they had only witnessed a random act of violence by a mentally ill killer yesterday, but the attack has all the hallmarks of an emerging form of terror.

There were three deaths and 34 other injuries yesterday as the driver of a large family car sped though the main shopping areas of Graz at speeds witnesses have claimed to be as high as 90 miles an hour. The dead were a 28-year-old Austrian man, a 25-year-old woman and tragically, a four-year-old boy.

You may have heard the news bulletins surrounding the killings yesterday, describing the driver as a 26-year-old Austrian, a “deranged lone assassin” struggling with family problems. What you probably didn’t hear was that the killer was a migrant from Bosnia, and had been identified locally as devout Muslim Alen Rizvanović.

What appears to be Rizvanovićs Facebook page gives piles of clues to the mental position of a man who would plough his car into dozens of people before setting upon them with a “large knife”. He ‘liked’ pages on Facebook including ‘Islam: Religion Before Culture’, ‘The United States is Israel’s Bitch’, and ‘Convert to Islam’, as well as dozens of pages proclaiming his devotion to Allah, the Koran, and the Hadiths.

Yet police appear to be treating the attempted murders of dozens of people as an open-shut case of a depressed man having relationship problems with his wife and children.

Aware that sophisticated, well planned attacks are becoming nothing more than invitations for the security services to arrest radical Islamists in Europe, controlling influences in groups like the Islamic State have started calling on their followers to take a ‘low-tech’ approach. Impressed by the ease with which the Woolwich killers planned and executed the killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby in 2013, the attack has been repeatedly held up as an example to potential imitators.

Earlier this year, Islamic State spokesman and propagandist Abu Mohammed al-Adnani called upon to Muslims living in Western countries to wage jihad on a small, personal scale rather than banding together to form easily-intercepted groups. In a nine-minute video, and in comments that have been repeated in the Islamic State’s own glossy recruiting magazine since, al-Adnani said:

“We repeat our call to Muslims in Europe, the infidel West, and everywhere to target the Crusaders in their home countries and wherever they find them… We will be enemies, in front of God, to any Muslim who can shed a drop of blood of a Crusader and abstains from doing that with a bomb, bullet, knife, car, rock or even a kick or a punch”.

In March, the Islamic State again called upon its adherents to use the car – specifically calling for a ‘Lee Rigby’ style attack against British Home Secretary Theresa May. They said: “[Theresa May] an evil witch should be hunted down and run over with a car to shut her up from speaking words against Islam”….

How horrified and shocked the dhimmi appeaser May must have been to read that.

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Filed Under: Austria, Bosnia, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Vehicular jihad Tagged With: Alen Rizvanović


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  1. tilda says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 8:46 am

    We at least now have a word for this particular brand of mental illness — shoe’ite.

  2. Renee says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 9:01 am

    And liked hate speakers that called to kill every infidel. I read somewhere he killed someone who was walking in front of a synagogue, don’t know where I heard that. It’s an act of terror for sure

  3. Michael Copeland says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 10:08 am

    The Graz incident confirms Stephen Coughlin’s forecast:
    “official responses to terrorist attacks … become progressively less reality-based”.
    Even before the blood is dry on the pavement the official line is, “This is not terrorism”. Instead, and in the interest of “social cohesion” and “bridge-building”, it is “mental illness”, of someone of a violent nature with domestic troubles, who just happened to be carrying a stabbing knife in the car, and happened to copy what was done to soldier Lee Rigby, and who happens to be a muslim.
    The driver, bafflingly, is licensed as a professional driver by the Austrian authorities.

    Coughlin cites this quote from his book “To Our Great Detriment – Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad” in “The Red Pill” Part X, at 10.00 min.
    http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/06/stephen-coughlin-part-10-of-the-red-pill-briefing-the-endgame-of-interfaith

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Jun 22, 2015 at 11:27 am

      “official responses to terrorist attacks … become progressively less reality-based”.

      An important follow on to Coughlin’s forecast is that the official responses are buttressed by academia, the courts, the pulpits and of course the news entertainment industry that are just as unreality-based.

      I’m not saying this is a plot, ain’t no conspiracy theorist, I’m just saying it’s a collection of fictive reality bubbles that intersect with Moslems. Marshal McLuhan and George Orwell can only roll in their graves as a way of saying “I told you so.”

  4. bobm says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 10:41 am

    I still find the garbage truck , sidewalk run in Glasgow cries out for a SANE examination.

  5. mortimer says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 11:16 am

    The ‘mental illness’ is surely the politically-correct willful blindness of Austrian authorities and politicians WHO INTENTIONALLY DISREGARD the jihad doctrine of Islam.

    Austrian authorities refuse to examine Islam’s source texts which command warfare of subjugation against disbelievers TO THEIR OWN VERY GREAT PERIL.

    These texts are not considered OBSOLETE by Muslims, but Austrian authorities KNOW BETTER than Muslim scholars…so they put the Austrian population at risk of further DEADLY ATTACKS by jihadists.

    Shame on them!

  6. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 11:19 am

    Note also that Rizvanović liked Occupy Wall Street. No surprise, of course: Islamic jihadists and Leftists have a natural affinity and commonality of purpose.

    It’ll be interesting to see how this marriage of convenience goes when the Moslems take over. My prediction is that, when the socialists become aghast at the emerging kleptocracy, they will limit their protests, endeavor to educate their new rulers on the wonders of the wonders of equality in free money, and, when that peters out, quietly take administrative positions in this or that administrative arm of the local Sharia government to be able to put food on the table.

    Moslesm and socialists, heroes all. Er, and the Moslems are mentally ill, at least they are until they take over.

  7. mortimer says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 11:21 am

    Those uninformed authorities who without evidence make light of jihadists, either calling jihad ‘A MENTAL ILLNESS’ or calling jihadists ‘UNDERPRIVILEGED’, should be charged with criminal negligence. They leave their societies vulnerable to further jihad attacks.

  8. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 11:37 am

    Islamic State have started calling on their followers to take a ‘low-tech’ approach. Impressed by the ease with which the Woolwich killers planned and executed the killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby in 2013…

    Low tech vs. high tech. Jihadicide or a good old fashioned chest stabbing is a cheap and effective way of obeying the commands of Allah. But there is the high tech, too, and on that end we have Prez Barack Hussein and Secretary War Coward huddled with the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to bring the bargain to fruition. Oh, and Kim Jong-un is involved in that deal as a primary vendor, providing the platform to deliver the goods.

  9. Angemon says

    Jun 22, 2015 at 11:49 am

    “You may have heard the news bulletins surrounding the killings yesterday, describing the driver as a 26-year-old Austrian, a “deranged lone assassin” struggling with family problems. What you probably didn’t hear was that the killer was a migrant from Bosnia, and had been identified locally as devout Muslim Alen Rizvanović.”

    That’s because the media like to play their own version of the three monkeys: see no islam, hear no islam and speak no islam.

    • coop says

      Jun 24, 2015 at 1:54 am

      Islamic peace is futuristic, when all other beliefs and persons of those beliefs have been destroyed. The governments of the world don’t actually care about body counts, because they are so blinded by their global warming and over population beliefs that they not only don’t care how much conflict occurs, but they’ve gone to great lengths to assist it occurring.

  10. Andreas says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 12:23 pm

    The Austrian Police are right. Islam is a mental illness. Whoever has had any non superficial relationship with devout Muslims (who know the Koran from a phone book) will testify to that

  11. Adam says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 2:28 pm

    Hi, it was almost certain he was Muslim, most people from Bosnia are… And here were all this Muslims on other sites saying ‘oh its a white Austrian man so they say its mental illness, if he were a Muslim they’d say he was a terrorist”… At least now they can be proven wrong… What is the link to the facebook page??

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