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Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” holds knife to tourist’s neck at Rome’s Colosseum

Jul 15, 2015 1:05 am By Robert Spencer

Chiara FriscoWhat could be more wonderfully romantic than Ramadan in Rome? “Knifeman shouting ‘Allah is great’ forces tourist to her knees as he holds a blade to her neck at Rome’s Colosseum in terrifying random attack,” by Hannah Roberts, MailOnline, July 14, 2015:

A tourist was forced to her knees at knifepoint at Rome’s Colosseum in a terrifying attack that recalled an ISIS-style execution.

Hundreds of horrified visitors to the Italian landmark looked on as the attacker held a kitchen knife to the neck of a 26-year-old woman and yelled ‘Allah is great’ and ‘It is God that sends me’.

The man held Chiara Frisco hostage for several minutes as he yelled religious fanaticism at the crowd with police powerless to act.

One witness said: ‘It seemed like a scene from ISIS.

‘He made the girl get down on her knees like you see in the terrorists’ videos, while he held a knife to her throat.

‘The only thing missing was the orange jumpsuit.’

Others told Il Messaggero he was yelling ‘incomprehensible things, but among them “Allah is great”.’

Miss Frisco, from Vasto on the Adriatic coast, who was visiting her sister in Rome to celebrate her graduation, said she feared ‘the worst’ when the knifeman grabbed her.

Speaking from hospital where she was being treated for shock, she said: ‘We came from Vasto to celebrate my sister’s graduation.

‘We were supposed to meet her in the evening. While waiting we decided to take a walk and go and see the Colosseum.’

She was sitting on a low wall with my boyfriend and other friends on Monday afternoon when the ‘maniac’ struck.

She told La Repubblica: ‘I felt myself pulled suddenly into the middle of the crowd. Then I felt the blade of the knife that he was holding against me. I feared the worst would happen.

‘I could not see the weapon. The whole attack lasted seconds but I felt a tremendous fear.

‘The man was yelling like a maniac. Luckily the police came though.’

When the police arrived, the attacker ran off through the Forum packed with tourists towards the centre of Rome, piazza Venezia, where he was disarmed and arrested. …

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  1. Mahendra Singh says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 1:15 am

    Pure Islam !

    These Bums come to Europe in preference to their 57 odd Islamic
    shitholes, including Saudi Arabia, Mali, Yemen, etc.

    I read just a few days back that a bug bunch of the “refugees”
    interned in Hungary are already creating trouble for the residents

    • Cliffhild says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 6:35 am

      —you will be glad to see the following which appeared yesterday in a UK newspaper:

      Click here: Hungary becomes the first country to shut its doors to migrants | Daily Mail Online

      • TruthWFree says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 11:41 am

        The Austria Hungary Empire fought these Muslims (Ottoman Empire) at the gates of Vienna Austria on 9/11/1683, and kicked them back. They should know Islam does not work in a civilized society…or ant place for that matter. To bad we can’t eradicate this cancer on mankind.

      • jeff says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 12:30 pm

        That is good news! Every other country in Europe as well as Canada and our great country should do the same.

    • particolor says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 7:42 am

      Welfare Payments too Low ? 🙁

    • mortimer says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 10:01 am

      Can we be safe anywhere since jihad is now in fashion with Muslim youth and they are everywhere. No one knows when they will attack…just like pit bull terriers. The court of the State of Maryland declared that pit bulls are ‘inherently dangerous’…SO ARE MUSLIMS.

    • Jack says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 1:06 pm

      This is what Muslims do, but don’t look for the mainstream media to keep us informed about the atrocities committed by these Vermin that would be Islamophobic and not politically correct.

  2. Peggy says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 1:16 am

    They subdued UK, France, Belgium, Sweden and now they are expanding in Italy as well.
    Pity the police disarmed him. They should have shot the scum and send out a message that if anyone else wants to get killed, just start this shit and it will happen.

    • Charli Main says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 4:30 am

      @ peggy

      note that this ” great warrior of holy islam ” attacked a young defenceless WOMAN.

      That’s what the ” great warriors of holy islam ” do best—–attack children, shoot defenceless women on beaches, blow up civilians on buses and trains—-just following the example of their spineless, cowardly “prophet” mohammed. The coward mohammed didn´t do any fighting, just plenty of raping and looting, after the fighting.

      • qedlin says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 6:49 pm

        Actually, the coward Mo is estimated to have killed about 3000 in his effort to spread the moon god allah’s “peace.”

        Hi butchery really took off when he made a deal with the Oas (Aus) and Khazraj tribes in Medina to launch his jihad in the face of opposition from the jews and other polytheistic tribes in the region.

        If they would accept his new “religion” he would bless them to kill, rape and pillage caravans in the area and get revenge on disbelievers. this became the blueprint for ISIS, not to mention what they have done to the other 270 million dead infidels since this disgusting perverse, demonically inspired belief system started.

        You can read about it in Rafat Amari’s book “Islam: In light of History.”

      • Peggy says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 9:41 pm

        No matter where in the world they are, they show the same cowardly selves to us. Yes, they are only brave when attacking a 13 year old boy as a group. They attack women and gang up on one man but they are still making progress. We allow cowards like this to terrorize us. Makes my blood boil.

    • laura m. says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 12:58 pm

      Peggy: I agree, why would anyone from the U.S. want to tour any part of Europe? One man came back last year and said it was a hell hole. Stay away folks, go elsewhere safe. Most all of Europe is over run with Muslims. Shiria law is gaining ground. The prez and congress allow them to come in here. This country is trashed and apathy reigns.

  3. Davegreybeard says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 1:18 am

    “Allahu akbar!” to the American Kuffar means “Aquire Target!”

    • voegelinian says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 1:25 am

      Yes, but we can safely ignore the broader majority of Muslims who don’t yell the takbir and who instead look relatively harmless, and just let their numbers get bigger and bigger over the coming years and decades without pressuring our fellow citizens and representives to do something about it (and even if we did have “something to do” about it, it of course should never, can never involve total deportation, because somehow we know beforehand that the problem is not that bad to warrant that.) I think I’ve got the asymptotic incoherence down fairly well…
      .

      • ECAW says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 2:35 am

        Banging on about total deportation is like baling out a boat while water is still coming over the gunwhales. The first thing to concentrate on is stopping the inflow. Why not put your energies into setting up a political party with a “No More Muslims” policy? That would be a practical start with a goal that is possibly achievable (and that only after we realise that war has been declared and we are in one whether we like it or not).

        Next comes ejecting illegal immigrants and then looking very closely at the affiliations of the remainder for seditious behaviour. Anyone left who merely wishes to believe that a man flew to heaven on a donkey is fine by me.

        • Jenny says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 5:02 am

          ALA

        • ECAW says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 9:22 am

          ALA – In the style of the French??

        • quotha raven says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 5:57 am

          to ECAW – I couldn’t agree more. Cheers – qr

        • voegelinian says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 3:00 pm

          ECAW’s objection would have merit were two facts not the case:

          1) I don’t direct the Counter-Jihad (much less do I direct the West). I am pushing a meme that has to be kindled so that the idea can grow into more and more acceptance, so that we as a society can hope to be able to act on it before it’s too late. In free societies, before policy is actualized, it has to be thought, and an openness to it has to grow. By contrast, all I see in the Counter-Jihad are overwhelming signs of stubborn resistance to this meme. And if the Counter-Jihad is going to continue to cultivate such dogged resistance to this meme, the wider mainstream of which it is an organic part (except for those in the Counter-Jihad who are digging in for a Mad Max Apocalyptic Civil War against those Damned Leftists outside the door) doesn’t stand a chance of being exposed to the sociopolitical pressure that would help turn it around.

          2) I don’t call for, nor have ever called for, an Either/Or approach where Waking Up to the Gravity of the Problem necessarily = Don’t Also Take Other Measures That Need To Be Taken (such as slowing down immigration, then stopping immigration, of Muslims).

          Why ECAW bases his whole objection on assuming these things is baffling, unless I simply appeal to his obtuseness.

        • ECAW says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 3:50 pm

          Voegeliinian – But you don’t bang on about stopping Muslim immigration, only total deportation as far as I’ve noticed. I invite you to consider the comparative value of doing something small and real against crying in the wilderness for something huge and unattainable this side of martial law.

          But no….obtuseness it must be. It’s the only explanation.

        • Angemon says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 5:55 pm

          voegelinian posted:

          “I am pushing a meme that has to be kindled so that the idea can grow into more and more acceptance, so that we as a society can hope to be able to act on it before it’s too late. In free societies, before policy is actualized, it has to be thought, and an openness to it has to grow. By contrast, all I see in the Counter-Jihad are overwhelming signs of stubborn resistance to this meme.”

          For all your talk about kindling an idea and thinking about policies, you refuse to discuss anything further than “deport all muslims” – either people unconditionally agree with you without making any sort of question or you deem them as “asymptotic PC MCs” who are not to be taken seriously and need to be peer pressured into silence.

          So, for the nth time: where would you deport an American convert to islam who can trace his lineage back to the pre-Columbian era? I first asked you this around a year ago, IIRC – still waiting for your reply.

          “ I don’t call for, nor have ever called for, an Either/Or approach where Waking Up to the Gravity of the Problem necessarily = Don’t Also Take Other Measures That Need To Be Taken (such as slowing down immigration, then stopping immigration, of Muslims).”

          You have scoffed at users suggesting a moratorium on muslim immigration, even if as the first step.

        • voegelinian says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 3:06 pm

          And speaking of “baling out a boat while water is still coming over the gunwhales”, to push for slowing/halting immigration in the absence of also pushing the meme of Total Deportation is like, as I wrote on my blog,

          Closing the barn door—not after the horse has got out, but after the wolves have got in.
          http://hesperado.blogspot.com/2009/10/closing-barn-doornot-after-horse-has.html

        • FredvanH says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 4:54 pm

          Oh really. So you are OK with lifelong financially supporting people, on the sole condition they behave? I, for one, am NOT.

        • voegelinian says

          Jul 16, 2015 at 1:54 pm

          Fredvan’s sensible rhetorical question could be answered “yes” if, and only if, we cuold be confident that Muslims in the various, often unpredictable and deadly, dangers they pose are not going to get horribly worse in the coming years and decades, as they remain, and aggrandize in our societies. Most of the Counter-Jihad Softies, it seems, have a perception of the problem of Muslims as a stable phenomenon (even if, incoherently, they may blurt out things that contradict this).

      • Angemon says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 6:15 am

        voegelinian posted:

        “I think I’ve got the asymptotic incoherence down fairly well…”

        No, you have a strawman that you like to wave around, even though it’s burnt beyond recognition by now. Where would you, on your “total deportation” scheme, deport an American citizen to, one without any other citizenship? Let’s say, for example, a Native American who can trace his lineage to the pre-Columbian era.

        • particolor says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 7:53 am

          Trace it back to the Big Bang ! I don’t care! Your going to the Middle East Mr Barbarian ! 🙁

        • Angemon says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 9:53 am

          That’s just the thing, particolor: not all muslims come from a foreign nation, whether in the Middle East or elsewhere. Some are converts, and if they only have one citizenship they can’t be kicked to the curb.

        • particolor says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 10:47 pm

          Do it ! Before we are all kicked to the Curb 🙁

    • mortimer says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 10:25 am

      Dave, you’re wrong. First, we should make them talk and then clean out their whole nest. Jihad is a conspiracy. There’s never just ONE. Don’t fight the same battle twice or again and again. That’s what we are doing.

      Obama is right about attacking the ideology. He’s finally coming around. But he won’t do anything to deprogram Muslims. The whole of Islam is the problem. It’s a political conspiracy.

      • RG says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 11:31 am

        @Mortimer.
        No offense, but the “whole nest” just so happens to be the LOCAL MOSQUE and it’s so-called “spiritual” leaders. It’s just that cut-n-dried! Every, but every, local mosque is a cauldron of illegal, blood-thirsty undercover terrorist activities! It’s just that cut-n-dried! Their very “prayers” are to subjugate and subdue all non-muslims, to and including vicious heinous crimes of torture and murder! THAT’S HOW THEY PRAY IN EVERY MOSQUE WORLDWIDE!!! They have no intention whatsoever of peaceful co-existence or assimilation!

        P.S. Obama is a moron AND A LIAR, who as you say, will do nothing to “deprogram” muslims. He will never “come around” to solid reasoning regarding disgusting aberrant muzzlum “ideology” because HE’S ONE OF THEM!!!! It’s just that cut-n-dried!

        • Alissa says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 1:14 pm

          Exactly right! I think we all know where this is headed but we just don’t want to say the words.
          Even if immigration was stopped today, our countries are all so over run with these savages there is no stopping the stealth and openly violent take over of our great institutions and values because: 1)there is no heart or courage to stand up to it in a decisive way; 2)the “moderate” muslims are reproducing like rats and make no effort to thwart the actions of their more extreme brethren; 3)and we feel compelled to cooperate because of oil. Eventually there will be civil war and if Obama continues Iran will deliver our final blow.
          Can anyone foresee a different future. I would love to hear it because I am afraid for my children.

        • cs says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 4:50 pm

          OH NO! BUT BUT, I just watched in the news, some specialists saying that IF WE JUST TREAT THEM BETTER (and specially like in Sweden). They will be sweetie as pussies.

          But the reality maybe:

          IF WE GIVE EVERYTHING THEY WANT, PERHAPS THEY WILL LET US SURVIVE!!! (But will convert the kids, if they did not rape them before like in Rotherham.)

      • Jack says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 1:27 pm

        Most westerners have no idea about Jihad, they believe it’s all violent, Stealth Jihad is the most dangerous in the long run and in America it’s be going on for decades, look at the ones in key positions in the government, there are many ABC Muslim organizations heavily funded mainly by the Saudis who are also in the Mosque building business. The ISIS like atrocities have been going on for almost fourteen hundred years, I suppose since they’re in America they’ll stop. this is the thinking of fools. They despise Democracy and the vast majority believe in Sharia, the Liberals think they can Americanize them, nothing could be further from the truth. It would be like trying to convince Christians that Jesus doesn’t exist, they have words that allow them to lie and be deceitful to Kafirs/Infidels one is Taqiyya their god Allah says it isn’t a sin if done to spread Islam. Our children will either submit or fight these maniacs. Remember Islam not only a Fascist Ideology but also a Highly Political Ideology they will vote, and once they get political power America is history as a Democracy(Republic)

        • voegelinian says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 3:11 pm

          “Most westerners have no idea about Jihad, they believe it’s all violent, Stealth Jihad is the most dangerous in the long run and in America”

          Stealth Jihad is only more dangerous than Violent Jihad because Stealth Jihad’s essential, cooperative, cooluding connection to Violent Jihad remains obscured. It’s not because Stealth Jihad by itself has properties that make it dangerous unrelated to Violent Jihad — which seems to be the impression given by Jack’s locution.

  4. anti zionests says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 1:23 am

    Bull’s shit, hogwash
    You guys didn’t find any new story so you started making things out of your head
    Who else reported this incident? !!!!!

    • ECAW says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 9:07 am

      http://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2015/07/13/news/roma_panico_tra_i_turisti_ai_fori_punta_un_coltello_alla_gola_di_una_ragazza_e_grida_allah_e_grande_-118994823/?ref=twhr&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

    • Beagle says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 9:07 am

      Every news outlet. If you were capable of introspection, you would be questioning your most closely-held assumptions about now.

    • Celtic says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 9:16 am

      Hello Antizionist

      Must be hard to accept that your religious brothers are causing more civilian causalties and trouble then the IDF.

      • Jack says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 1:32 pm

        Is there a way to comment on this site without having to fill out a questionnaire every time when replying to each post

        • Angemon says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 1:44 pm

          Jack posted:

          “Is there a way to comment on this site without having to fill out a questionnaire every time when replying to each post”

          Yes. Create an account.

    • Baucent says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 9:26 am

      It’s even on the dear old BBC.

    • Angemon says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 9:42 am

      anti zionests posted:

      “Bull’s shit, hogwash
      You guys didn’t find any new story so you started making things out of your head
      ”

      No, that was muhammad – he’s the product of someone’s imagination.

      “Who else reported this incident? !!!!!”

      Let’s see: Il Messagero, The Daily Mail, The Mirror, CBS and Fox News, for starters.

    • RG says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 10:25 am

      @anti zionests. Duh!!! I don’t suppose ya meant ta say ‘zionists’ – duh ah – hey “smart guy” you da man! BTW what “new story have you started making out of your head”? Oh geez, I almost forgot, YOU DON’T HAVE A HEAD!!!!

    • Jack says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 1:35 pm

      You wont find it on MSNBC. nor any politically correct media outlet.

    • Alissa says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 1:41 pm

      That’s what you are. A disgusting pile of bullshit.

      • Alissa says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 1:42 pm

        That comment was for anti-zionist aka sub-human.

  5. qedlin says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 1:25 am

    I don’t know… she looks like a shirker who got caught shirking.

  6. Cunamarra says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 1:26 am

    I’m not sure what the fuss is. Is this not the cultural enrichment a nation is asking for when it invites Islam into its territory?

    • Jaladhi says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 9:26 am

      Where are all those European PCMC people defending all these legal/illegal alien Muslims flooding their countries?? Its only a small price to pay enrich ourselves culturally!! They have no regard for the life of their own citizens/tourists visiting their countries.

  7. Cecilia Ellis says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 3:07 am

    “A tourist was forced to her knees at knifepoint at Rome’s Colosseum in a terrifying attack that recalled an ISIS-style execution.”

    Just another case of a Muslim attacker who has mental problems . . . thinking he’s a gladiator . . . thinking she’s a Christian . . .

  8. Charli Main says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 3:29 am

    Wouldn´t be surprised to learn that this piece of muslim shyte was floating around on a plank of wood, in the Mediterranean not too far back, and” rescued ” by the dumb fxxxs in the Italian navy.
    Bog standard islam—–a muslim never fails to bite the hand that feeds it.

    • jayell says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 6:58 am

      “…a muslim never fails to bite the hand that feeds it…” Isn’t that the sort of warning they give to aspiring zoo-keepers?

  9. Champ says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 4:05 am

    “…where he was disarmed and arrested.”

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Good riddance to that evil perp.

  10. Alastair says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 4:46 am

    This is a genuine question for the very knowledgable crowd on this site.
    I’m so concerned for the future of my children in the UK and more specifically their children, my grandchildren I’m considering emigrating to a country that is unlikely to have a threat in the coming century from Islam.
    After reading ‘pizza express’ use halal meat – and then ignoring / not returning my complaint, I realise Britain is past the point of no return.
    Where do you fee the brightest and most free future is for my grandchildren? I can sit and complain or I can act. It’s time to act and nobody will listen to sense and so we should vote with our feet and leave.

    • ECAW says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 9:10 am

      “I can sit and complain or I can act”

      You can sit and complain or you can act or you can run away.

      Have you no pride?

    • umbra says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 9:18 am

      With current trends, Europe is gone. No where to go except USA, Canada, Australia or NZ. Even these countries are slowly succumbing to the withering effects of the ROP.

    • Baucent says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 9:34 am

      Or you could grow a little backbone and national pride and join the EDL or UKIP and add to the awakening resistance to Islamization. Failing that I understand there are no muslims at some small Islands in the Pacific.

      • Huck Folder says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 2:36 pm

        I wish. If 100,000 a week would start joining LibertyGB, THEN you would see the treacherous government start to stir. They would do everything in their power to proscribe it, and even arrest Paul Weston on some trumped up charge, like hurting the feelings of Andy ‘fornicator’ Choudary.

    • Sage says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 9:38 am

      Alistair – I often think the same thing. I used to think how I would love to live in the UK & had planned on doing so by now. Of course that as well as all of Western Europe is out now, it has been handed over on a silver platter. Many in the US see the same thing happening here. AU & NZ being run by British crown are seeing the same thing I hear. I really do not have an answer but I know others are looking at various countries in Central & South America. I know people who have gone to Costa Rica & Uganda but not sure how formidable they are finding the infrastructure there. It gives me pause but US is going down fast. The only thing we have going here is that so far, we are still armed. The government is going to try to change this no doubt, esp.if Democrats remain in office. There are certain parts of the country that will go to a civil war before they accept that though, so you would be safer for a while.

    • Carolyne says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 10:29 am

      There is no continent which has no Muslims, except maybe Antarctica; Only because they might have to do something for themselves, like building a fire to keep warm and there is no welfare there. But, I am sure in the future, some fool kafir western government will start supplying halal foodstuffs there, so it will soon be overflowing with these beasts.

      • voegelinian says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 3:17 pm

        “There is no continent which has no Muslims, except maybe Antarctica…”

        Muslims have been spotted on Antarctica too — for example, a whole crowd of Muslimas in burkas:

        http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01470/antarctica-penguin_1470614i.jpg

        • particolor says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 11:57 pm

          Goat Substitute ! 🙂

    • Simone Fields says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 11:05 am

      Sorry to hear your fears – what a situation we find ourselves in! Japan is the answer-

      There are countries in the world, mainly in Europe, that are presently undergoing significant cultural transformations as a result of Muslim immigration. France, Germany, Belgium and Holland are interesting examples of cases where immigration from Muslim countries, together with the Muslims’ high fertility rate, effects every area of life.

      It is interesting to know that there is a country in the world whose official and public approach to the Muslim matter is totally different. This country is Japan. This country keeps a very low profile on all levels regarding the Muslim matter: On the diplomatic level, senior political figures from Islamic countries almost never visit Japan, and Japanese leaders rarely visit Muslim countries. The relations with Muslim countries are based on concerns such as oil and gas, which Japan imports from some Muslim countries. The official policy of Japan is not to give citizenship to Muslims who come to Japan, and even permits for permanent residency are given sparingly to Muslims.

      Japan forbids exhorting people to adopt the religion of Islam (Dawah), and any Muslim who actively encourages conversion to Islam is seen as proselytizing to a foreign and undesirable culture. Few academic institutions teach the Arabic language. It is very difficult to import books of the Qur’an to Japan, and Muslims who come to Japan, are usually employees of foreign companies. In Japan there are very few mosques. The official policy of the Japanese authorities is to make every effort not to allow entry to Muslims, even if they are physicians, engineers and managers sent by foreign companies that are active in the region. Japanese society expects Muslim men to pray at home.

      Japanese companies seeking foreign workers specifically note that they are not interested in Muslim workers. And any Muslim who does manage to enter Japan will find it very difficult to rent an apartment. Anywhere a Muslim lives, the neighbors become uneasy. Japan forbids the establishment of Islamic organizations, so setting up Islamic institutions such as mosques and schools is almost impossible. In Tokyo there is only one imam.

      In contrast with what is happening in Europe, very few Japanese are drawn to Islam. If a Japanese woman marries a Muslim, she will be considered an outcast by her social and familial environment. There is no application of Shari’a law in Japan. There is some food in Japan that is halal, kosher according to Islamic law, but it is not easy to find it in the supermarket.

      The Japanese approach to Muslims is also evidenced by the numbers: in Japan there are 127 million residents, but only ten thousand Muslims, less than one hundredth of a percent. The number of Japanese who have converted is thought to be few. In Japan there are a few tens of thousands of foreign workers who are Muslim, mainly from Pakistan, who have managed to enter Japan as workers with construction companies. However, because of the negative attitude towards Islam they keep a low profile.

      There are several reasons for this situation:

      First, the Japanese tend to lump all Muslims together as fundamentalists who are unwilling to give up their traditional point of view and adopt modern ways of thinking and behavior. In Japan, Islam is perceived as a strange religion, that any intelligent person should avoid.

      Second, most Japanese have no religion, but behaviors connected with the Shinto religion along with elements of Buddhism are integrated into national customs . In Japan, religion is connected to the nationalist concept, and prejudices exist towards foreigners whether they are Chinese, Korean, Malaysian or Indonesian, and Westerners don’t escape this phenomenon either. There are those who call this a “developed sense of nationalism” and there are those who call this “racism”. It seems that neither of these is wrong.

      And Third, the Japanese dismiss the concept of monotheism and faith in an abstract god, because their world concept is apparently connected to the material, not to faith and emotions. It seems that they group Judaism together with Islam. Christianity exists in Japan and is not regarded negatively, apparently because the image of Jesus perceived in Japan is like the images of Buddha and Shinto.

      The most interesting thing in Japan’s approach to Islam is the fact that the Japanese do not feel the need to apologize to Muslims for the negative way in which they relate to Islam. They make a clear distinction between their economic interest in resources of oil and gas from Muslim countries, which behooves Japan to maintain good relations with these countries on the one hand, and on the other hand, the Japanese nationalist viewpoints, which see Islam as something that is suitable for others, not for Japan, and therefore the Muslims must remain outside.

      Because the Japanese have a gentle temperament, and project serenity and tranquility toward foreigners, foreigners tend to relate to the Japanese with politeness and respect. A Japanese diplomat would never raise his voice or speak rudely in the presence of foreigners, therefore foreigners relate to the Japanese with respect, despite their racism and discrimination against Muslims in the matter of immigration. A Japanese official who is presented with an embarrassing question regarding the way the Japanese relate to Muslims, will usually refrain from answering, because he knows that a truthful answer would arouse anger, and he is both unable and unwilling to give an answer that is not true. He will smile but not answer, and if pressed, he will ask for time so that his superiors can answer, while he knows that this answer will never come.

      Japan manages to remain a country almost without a Muslim presence because Japan’s negative attitude toward Islam and Muslims pervades every level of the population, from the man in the street to organizations and companies to senior officialdom. In Japan, contrary to the situation in other countries, there are no “human rights” organizations to offer support to Muslims’ claims against the government’s position. In Japan no one illegally smuggles Muslims into the country to earn a few yen, and almost no one gives them the legal support they would need in order to get permits for temporary or permanent residency or citizenship.

      Another thing that helps the Japanese keep Muslim immigration to their shores to a minimum is the Japanese attitude toward the employee and employment. Migrant workers are perceived negatively in Japan, because they take the place of Japanese workers. A Japanese employer feels obligated to employ Japanese workers even if it costs much more than it would to employ foreign workers. The traditional connection between an employee and employer in Japan is much stronger than in the West, and the employer and employee feel a mutual commitment to each other: an employer feels obligated to give his employee a livelihood, and the employee feels obligated to give the employer the fruit of his labor. This situation does not encourage the acceptance of foreign workers, whose commitment to the employers is low.

      The fact that the public and the officials are united in their attitude against Muslim immigration has created a sort of iron wall around Japan that Muslims lack both the permission and the capability to overcome. This iron wall silences the world’s criticism of Japan in this matter, because the world understands that there is no point in criticizing the Japanese, since criticism will not convince them to open the gates of Japan to Muslim immigration.

      Japan is teaching the whole world an interesting lesson: there is a direct correlation between national heritage and permission to immigrate: a people that has a solid and clear national heritage and identity will not allow the unemployed of the world to enter its country; and a people whose cultural heritage and national identity is weak and fragile, has no defense mechanisms to prevent a foreign culture from penetrating into its country and its land.

      • underbed cat says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 12:46 pm

        Very intelligent response, from an intelligent country. They know the problem and sealed immigration and open conversion. Although the reciprocal agreement to purchase oil and gas does give these countries wealth to carry on their mission to achieve a world wide caliphate, someday they may find another source. Japan has limited space to expand and allow immigration so in effect that has lead to some good decisions. But the problem still exists world wide.
        This is very interesting as you say a “lesson: there is a direct correlation between national heritage and permission to immigrate”:…however they also travel and have internet connections.

      • voegelinian says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 3:49 pm

        Japan has over 60 mosques in various places throughout its country, according to wikipedia, which lists them all. France, by comparison, has about 90 mosques. While Japan has over twice the population as France, I’m not sure how relevant this is, vis-a-vis the dangers.

        • Western Canadian says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 6:47 pm

          Wiki is NOT to be trusted on any issue that has even a slight trace of controversy. On a very wide range of issues, it is so corrupt that it is criminal.

    • Shalom says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 1:09 pm

      Sorry to hear that – I sympathise. It seems Japan is the only answer to your question.

      There are countries in the world, mainly in Europe, that are presently undergoing significant cultural transformations as a result of Muslim immigration. France, Germany, Belgium and Holland are interesting examples of cases where immigration from Muslim countries, together with the Muslims’ high fertility rate, effects every area of life.

      It is interesting to know that there is a country in the world whose official and public approach to the Muslim matter is totally different. This country is Japan. This country keeps a very low profile on all levels regarding the Muslim matter: On the diplomatic level, senior political figures from Islamic countries almost never visit Japan, and Japanese leaders rarely visit Muslim countries. The relations with Muslim countries are based on concerns such as oil and gas, which Japan imports from some Muslim countries. The official policy of Japan is not to give citizenship to Muslims who come to Japan, and even permits for permanent residency are given sparingly to Muslims.

      Japan forbids exhorting people to adopt the religion of Islam (Dawah), and any Muslim who actively encourages conversion to Islam is seen as proselytizing to a foreign and undesirable culture. Few academic institutions teach the Arabic language. It is very difficult to import books of the Qur’an to Japan, and Muslims who come to Japan, are usually employees of foreign companies. In Japan there are very few mosques. The official policy of the Japanese authorities is to make every effort not to allow entry to Muslims, even if they are physicians, engineers and managers sent by foreign companies that are active in the region. Japanese society expects Muslim men to pray at home.

      Japanese companies seeking foreign workers specifically note that they are not interested in Muslim workers. And any Muslim who does manage to enter Japan will find it very difficult to rent an apartment. Anywhere a Muslim lives, the neighbors become uneasy. Japan forbids the establishment of Islamic organizations, so setting up Islamic institutions such as mosques and schools is almost impossible. In Tokyo there is only one imam.

      In contrast with what is happening in Europe, very few Japanese are drawn to Islam. If a Japanese woman marries a Muslim, she will be considered an outcast by her social and familial environment. There is no application of Shari’a law in Japan. There is some food in Japan that is halal, kosher according to Islamic law, but it is not easy to find it in the supermarket.

      The Japanese approach to Muslims is also evidenced by the numbers: in Japan there are 127 million residents, but only ten thousand Muslims, less than one hundredth of a percent. The number of Japanese who have converted is thought to be few. In Japan there are a few tens of thousands of foreign workers who are Muslim, mainly from Pakistan, who have managed to enter Japan as workers with construction companies. However, because of the negative attitude towards Islam they keep a low profile.

      There are several reasons for this situation:

      First, the Japanese tend to lump all Muslims together as fundamentalists who are unwilling to give up their traditional point of view and adopt modern ways of thinking and behavior. In Japan, Islam is perceived as a strange religion, that any intelligent person should avoid.

      Second, most Japanese have no religion, but behaviors connected with the Shinto religion along with elements of Buddhism are integrated into national customs . In Japan, religion is connected to the nationalist concept, and prejudices exist towards foreigners whether they are Chinese, Korean, Malaysian or Indonesian, and Westerners don’t escape this phenomenon either. There are those who call this a “developed sense of nationalism” and there are those who call this “racism”. It seems that neither of these is wrong.

      And Third, the Japanese dismiss the concept of monotheism and faith in an abstract god, because their world concept is apparently connected to the material, not to faith and emotions. It seems that they group Judaism together with Islam. Christianity exists in Japan and is not regarded negatively, apparently because the image of Jesus perceived in Japan is like the images of Buddha and Shinto.

      The most interesting thing in Japan’s approach to Islam is the fact that the Japanese do not feel the need to apologize to Muslims for the negative way in which they relate to Islam. They make a clear distinction between their economic interest in resources of oil and gas from Muslim countries, which behooves Japan to maintain good relations with these countries on the one hand, and on the other hand, the Japanese nationalist viewpoints, which see Islam as something that is suitable for others, not for Japan, and therefore the Muslims must remain outside.

      Because the Japanese have a gentle temperament, and project serenity and tranquility toward foreigners, foreigners tend to relate to the Japanese with politeness and respect. A Japanese diplomat would never raise his voice or speak rudely in the presence of foreigners, therefore foreigners relate to the Japanese with respect, despite their racism and discrimination against Muslims in the matter of immigration. A Japanese official who is presented with an embarrassing question regarding the way the Japanese relate to Muslims, will usually refrain from answering, because he knows that a truthful answer would arouse anger, and he is both unable and unwilling to give an answer that is not true. He will smile but not answer, and if pressed, he will ask for time so that his superiors can answer, while he knows that this answer will never come.

      Japan manages to remain a country almost without a Muslim presence because Japan’s negative attitude toward Islam and Muslims pervades every level of the population, from the man in the street to organizations and companies to senior officialdom. In Japan, contrary to the situation in other countries, there are no “human rights” organizations to offer support to Muslims’ claims against the government’s position. In Japan no one illegally smuggles Muslims into the country to earn a few yen, and almost no one gives them the legal support they would need in order to get permits for temporary or permanent residency or citizenship.

      Another thing that helps the Japanese keep Muslim immigration to their shores to a minimum is the Japanese attitude toward the employee and employment. Migrant workers are perceived negatively in Japan, because they take the place of Japanese workers. A Japanese employer feels obligated to employ Japanese workers even if it costs much more than it would to employ foreign workers. The traditional connection between an employee and employer in Japan is much stronger than in the West, and the employer and employee feel a mutual commitment to each other: an employer feels obligated to give his employee a livelihood, and the employee feels obligated to give the employer the fruit of his labor. This situation does not encourage the acceptance of foreign workers, whose commitment to the employers is low.

      The fact that the public and the officials are united in their attitude against Muslim immigration has created a sort of iron wall around Japan that Muslims lack both the permission and the capability to overcome. This iron wall silences the world’s criticism of Japan in this matter, because the world understands that there is no point in criticizing the Japanese, since criticism will not convince them to open the gates of Japan to Muslim immigration.

      Japan is teaching the whole world an interesting lesson: there is a direct correlation between national heritage and permission to immigrate: a people that has a solid and clear national heritage and identity will not allow the unemployed of the world to enter its country; and a people whose cultural heritage and national identity is weak and fragile, has no defense mechanisms to prevent a foreign culture from penetrating into its country and its land.

      • voegelinian says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 3:51 pm

        ” in Japan there are 127 million residents, but only ten thousand Muslims, less than one hundredth of a percent.”

        That makes it even odder that Japan has over 60 mosques, while France, which has nearly 5 million Muslims out of a population less than half the size of Japan, has approximately 90 mosques.

        • Western Canadian says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 6:52 pm

          And again, Wiki is unreliable on any issue that has ANY trace of controversy. Don’t be surprised if that is a bit of a lie, posted by a muslim.

  11. Kasey says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 5:30 am

    What a shame a police sniper wasn’t handy to the scene to take him out!

  12. jayell says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 5:56 am

    How does that song go? “Arrivederci Roma” – ‘Goodbye, Rome’ in English, I believe. You’ve been good enough to accommodate the biggest mosque in Italy – or is it Europe, even? And this is how they repay you! You might as well have accommodated the biggest lunatic asylum in Europe – you’d have had the same ‘thanks’ when the inmates escaped.

    • voegelinian says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 3:57 pm

      Time for a remake of the Vittorio de Sica movie (starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni) — retitled Jihad, Italian Style, with George Clooney and Jemima Khan (the Jewish British model who converted to Islam when she married Pakistani cricket player Imran Khan).

  13. Angemon says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 6:18 am

    I wonder if she was wearing anything that identified her as a Christian?

  14. afrostreetwise says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 6:18 am

    One of those rare moments when one has to detest to much civility. Had that been here in kenya, the police would most definately have shot him- and that is if he was lucky enough not not to have been stoned by the crowds. We met out instant justice for thugs of any designation.
    By the way Italiam pm is in Nairobi giving a speech at it University(UON)

    • Sage says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 9:40 am

      Well I like that very much but I am surprised to hear it. I would think that with so many muslims in Kenya he would garner supporters.

  15. Undaunted says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 6:31 am

    “…powerless to act…” WTF? Take that headshot and get it over with.

    • Celtic says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 6:36 am

      @Undaunted

      Taking a headshot when he holds a young woman hostage with her head not far away from his would be a huge risk and could result in the girl being shot – especially in a high stress situation.

      And these were ordinary cops, not special forces.

      • Dan says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 7:35 am

        Actually, for anybody who grew up shooting, a.k.a. your typical farm kid, a hundred YARD pin point shot is easy. Most I knew tended to sight a hunting rifle to 250.

        I haven’t shot much at all in the last twenty years, yet with a friend a little while ago had no problem putting rounds in a head sized area at four hundred yards, with an unfamiliar rifle.

        Responding police in these particular kinds of situations certainly must have been able to get as close as a hundred FEET, probably even fifty, and many times hostage takers inadvertently move the knife away from victim for a few moments; like when they’re ranting some stupid point.

        You would think any police force would have shooters trained to act when that “moment” occurs.

        • voegelinian says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 4:01 pm

          “Actually, for anybody who grew up shooting, a.k.a. your typical farm kid, a hundred YARD pin point shot is easy.

          Sure, easy when there isn’t a frantic female victim and her captor moving and jerking about unpredictably, and when the policeman in question has been keeping up on his moving target practice and doesn’t have to worry about consequences should he miss.

  16. Caronte says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 6:33 am

    No news, i repeat, NO NEWS about that in main italian TVs

  17. Celtic says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 6:34 am

    Disarmed and arrested…. His ass should be kicked for quite a while before deporting him at once. I’m totally fed up with this fucked up religion.

    • Undaunted says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 7:57 am

      Oh, yeah. that’ll teach ‘im… kick his ass. Totally fed up? This is you totally fed up? Comments at a blog is you totally fed up? Wow.

      • Celtic says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 9:27 am

        Listen, redneck – grabbing your gun and start shooting wildly is not the solution – educating the people is. Of course you’re free to do it the redneck-way – but you’ll ruin the anti-jihadi movement and make the rest of us (Sane) people here look like terrorists if you think that violence is the order of the day. Violent ressistance is the last resort and not the primary mean – obviously someone who knows nothing except beer and guns has a hard time realizing this.

        • Undaunted says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 12:10 pm

          Redneck? Your discernment skills are… awesome. Okay, I’m lying.

          Maybe I’m actually a well-trained and greatly experienced tactical operator who knows what the hell he’s talking about. Yeah, that’s it. If you want to see what people – including cops – who are not pussies should and can do in dangerous situations such as the one at issue, go ahead and take a long look at my blog, linked to here.

        • Western Canadian says

          Jul 16, 2015 at 2:31 am

          The Celts were known to be rather fierce warriors…. Why have you chosen to abuse their name as your sign-on??

          “Listen, redneck –”

          Brilliant opening shot!! Begin with stupid name calling…. As a resident of Western Canada, I will occasionally have the term thrown at me and my fellow western Canadians….. By the portion of eastern Canadians who are ignorant boors, ‘educated’ by a left wing media…..

          “grabbing your gun and start shooting wildly”

          No one was suggesting that, so why are you suggesting it? Stupidity??

          “is not the solution – educating the people is.”

          Which people?? The truly devout muslims who hate your guts… or would, if you had any??

          “Of course you’re free to do it the redneck-way –”

          Which you define as something nobody had suggested.. Brilliant!!!

          “but you’ll ruin the anti-jihadi movement and make the rest of us (Sane) people here look like terrorists if you think that violence is the order of the day.”

          You mean the same way that the allies should have shunned the use of violence against hitler and his followers?? Yeah, that’ll work just FINE!! And the only way to ‘look like terrorists’ is to attack unarmed civilians, kidnap women and children, rape them and sell them as sex slaves, blow up babies….. THAT is terrorism. Fighting back is not. Sane people realize that. You are not, and do not.

          “Violent ressistance is the last resort and not the primary mean –”

          If the allies had not been so slow to face down hitler…. WWII may have been avoided…. You find that disgusting and ‘red neck’, of course!!

          “obviously someone who knows nothing except beer and guns has a hard time realizing this.”

          Obviously you are dumbing down on stupid…… not a great move.

        • quotha raven says

          Jul 16, 2015 at 3:32 am

          to Western Canadian – I agree. Celtic’s numb as a hake and stroppy, too. Cheers! quotha r

  18. epistemology says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 6:35 am

    Well Ramadan makes aggressive, that’s why they do it. This attacker was disarmed and arrested but he won’t get more than a slap on the wrist. Scumbags like him should be deported ASAP to the shithole they came from. Rome and Athens are the cradle of Western civilisation. And muzzies dare attacking innocent Western citizens there. It’s disgusting

    • Charli Main says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 8:25 am

      Deported ?? not a chance. That would violate his ” uman rights” and the ” hug a muslim ” brigade would suffer an attack of mass hysteria.
      Most likely scenario would be, that he is given a one way ticket to Calais and taught how to break into a lorry bound for Britain.

      • umbra says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 9:26 am

        You mean his ummah rights? ummah right trumps human rights.

  19. duh_swami says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 6:53 am

    Most likely he’s not a history buff, no one told him they don’t kill Christians in the Colosseum any more. He just made a big mistake. A lead injection could cure him of those errors, so that he doesn’t make the same mistakes again……

  20. Alan Fontana says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 7:07 am

    Disarmed and arrested…and then what? Given a breath mint? Shot dead would have been more like it.

  21. abad says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 7:30 am

    How about that.

    Hungary, being one of the most defeated nations in history, finally leads the way for the rest of us. Well done, Hungary. To celebrate I’ll be watching vids of my favorite comedian of all time, Ernie Kovacs. <3

    • Sage says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 9:19 am

      What did I miSS that happened in Hungary?

      • umbra says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 9:29 am

        Building a wall to keep “refugees” (really almostly entirely ROP types) from crossing from Serbia into Hungary.

  22. ich says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 7:42 am

    Political party sounds great.

    But here in Canada most people are very very wimpy
    and politically correct.
    At least in public.

    There has to be ways to unite

    • ECAW says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 8:14 am

      Same in Britain but there is Liberty GB. This is the list of their proposed curbs on Islam:

      http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/about-libertygb/manifesto/398-islam

      Should be enough red meat there to win some approval even from Voegelinian.

      (As a lifelong wet liberal I should say that I can’t support number 3. I don’t see how you can tax someone on the one hand and deny them choice of representation on the other.)

  23. Jaladhi says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 9:17 am

    I am sure you have all seen the coverage of this incident on our MSM, TV, where they are so afraid to utter the M word. They describe “a man shouting allahu akbar tried to behead this girl in ISIS style”. Who else will be shouting allahu akbar but a Muslim or was he a Buddhist who was going to slaughter this women. It never ceases to amaze me the stupidity or willful ignorance or deliberate lies of our MSM!!

    I wonder if this guy is a convert – then the media will pontificate who radicalized him – again without mentioning the famous M word!!

  24. mortimer says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 9:51 am

    KNIFE ATTACKS IN ROME? IS THE VATICAN NEXT?

    Will Pope Francis change his mind about ‘compassion’ towards terrorists when they start attacking pilgrims in the Vatican?

  25. andrew sapia says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 9:52 am

    Maybe if tourism is affected EU countries will begin to act.

  26. underbed cat says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 11:25 am

    Some months ago, I read the headline, on JW,’ Oh Rome, Oh Rome we are coming for you”…from isis. Then we saw the muslim refugee boats arriving from on JW, Now the jihadi threatens with a knife to the neck of a tourist So are we the readers surprised, not one bit. So how will the Italian Police handle it when he explains his intent. Will they listen, will they investigate the ideology that created this incident? As we readers know this is happening and much worse, daily around the world.

    I know that Robert Spencer’s work is recognized as reality sinks in to the minds of media and journalists as they struggle against the power of misinformation and political leftists.

  27. underbed cat says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 11:36 am

    The boats of refugees came from Libya .
    How will the Pope respond to this information of the attempted jihad in his country.

    • miriamrove says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 1:27 pm

      By blessing them!! M

      • Huck Folder says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 2:23 pm

        Kiss their feet or their arses.

        Hey ‘mr. pope’ you know ‘pontificate’ is pejorative?

        If you won’t FIGHT this threat to Christendom
        (and the rest of the still currently CIVILIZED world) now,
        while you have a chance of winning, you WILL eventually
        have to fight it on THEIR terms, with a chance of enslavement.

        Your oh-so-clever-dhimmi act of washing and kissing
        moslem thug’s feet will be your future. You will wash
        the caliph’s feet every day in real humiliation,
        and be rewarded with a back-hander.

        • Huck Folder says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 2:27 pm

          I guess “Dar Al-islam” translates as “The House of the SAVAGES”
          while “Dar Al-Harb” translates as “The House of the CIVILIZED.”

  28. Moshe Akiva says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 11:43 am

    Gun control works well, doesn’t it?

  29. Voytek Gagalka says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 11:58 am

    But, they will (as ad nauseam) say “this has nothing to do with is-lam”! That man was just crazy or “self-radicalized” (whatever that means), and you (almost all of us) posting here or reading those articles, “islamophobes,” are guilty and caused that “poor” man to snap, etc., etc. I hate to repeat myself, but all those stories ARE repeating and repeating, and it will be more to come, I am certain…

  30. Bernard says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 1:47 pm

    The Italian police don’t take kindly to brown-faced loons targeting their pretty girls, so let’s hope they re-arrange his face a bit down the station.

    • Huck Folder says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 2:49 pm

      Two items, sort of O/T.

      1/. Has anyone noticed the seed of self-destruction in those islamic losers’ flag?

      The crescent moon on the left is the WANING moon; islam’s gonna die.

      2/. They obviously cannot grow forever, especially at the same percentage rate.
      Eventually they will reach some peak, which WON’T be 100%.

      Cassandras have bemoaned ‘peak oil’ for the last 30 years, without knowing the limits. For islam, the limit is the world population, so unless they start converting dogs and cats to worshipers of mo, the rate of conversion must decline after that peak. Maybe it already has?

      Duh. Peak islam.

      You read it here first!

      • Angemon says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 5:49 pm

        Huck Folder posted:

        “The crescent moon on the left is the WANING moon”

        Aren’t the moon phases reversed in the South Hemisphere? Their waxing looks like our waning and the other way around?

      • citycat says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 8:25 pm

        And then you’ve got the star which can’t be seen through the moon, which makes Samuel Taylor Coleridge the Prophet, prophecizing satellites before they were thought of, with his line-
        “The hornĂŠd moon with one bright star within the nether tip”

        • mortimer says

          Jul 16, 2015 at 11:08 am

          The Islamic symbol is the star of Venus/Astarte combined with the 28-day lunar cycle…hence it is a fertility and purification symbol. According to an ancient tradition the ‘Black Stone’ in the Kabaa was originally white but changed due to being ‘fingered by women’…apparently during a now-suppressed purification rite.

          The Kabaa is covered in a veil which represents the veil of Venus. Muslims suppress everything about women, especially the pre-Islamic goddess worship, traces of which are found in the Islamic writings.

          Islam is deeply, deeply misogynistic.

          The idea of sacrificing a woman for Allah in the Coliseum must get misogynistic Muslim men around the world very excited.

        • voegelinian says

          Jul 16, 2015 at 1:23 pm

          On p. 26 of his 2006 book Moon-O-Theism (have only just started it — looks quite good, well footnoted), the author Yoel Natan, quoting the German Arabist Ditlef Nielsen, confirms what I have intuited for years, that Allah is both a Mesopotamian war god and moon god.

          After quoting Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of World Religions (2000) — “Most of the gods of the Arab tribes were sky gods, often associated with heavenly deities (chiefly the sun and moon), and to them were ascribed powers of fecundity, protection, or revenge against enemies” —

          he then quotes Ditlef Nielsen:

          …the main god, the national god of war… this is in all South Arabian, yes, nearly in all Semitic monuments, a sure identifying mark of the moon-god.

          I had always wondered if there was some intrinsic connection between lunar theism and the war god motif in Mesopotamian and Near Eastern mythologoumena; and apparently my instincts were correct. With the advent of islam, we also seem to have a new twist on the old Moon-and-War God: an elevation into henotheism that is interestingly (and, as it has turned out, terrifyingly and horrifyingly) not a theological nor ontological monotheism strictly speaking — or, only ostensibly so; where the henotheistic Allah is declared in bellicose theology and in warmongering practice to be “greater” (Akbar), precisely through killing and conquering its human enemies and through that violent subjugation, conquering and killing the competing deities of those peoples whom Mohammedans are tasked to subdue.

          For a free Google book of Moon-O-Theism Yoel Natan, see:

          http://tiny.cc/mhbp0x

          For more on the henotheism/monotheism angle, see:

          Islam: Henotheism, not Monotheism

          http://hesperado.blogspot.com/2013/08/islam-henotheism-not-monotheism.html

    • Happenstance says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 7:31 pm

      If only we were nicer to the genocidal lunatics they wouldn’t be so upset!

    • Amit says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 9:18 pm

      I am from India and very much against the tyranny of Islam. Please don’t associate brown-faced with Islam – the ideology causes havoc across colors, races and countries.

      • bernie says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 10:19 pm

        Amit: that is true. Also, there are blond, blue-eyed converts (for example) to radical Islam, who are just as dangerous and fanatical as brown-complexioned Islamic extremists.

      • mortimer says

        Jul 16, 2015 at 11:10 am

        Amit wrote: “don’t associate brown-faced with Islam”

        We don’t. There are a lot of deluded white-faced Muslim idiots.

        • voegelinian says

          Jul 16, 2015 at 1:46 pm

          Yes, the Counter-Jihad doesn’t make that exclusive connection between Brown People and Muslims — but the PC MC mainstream that remains dominant in worldview throughout the West does make that connection, in many ways, sometimes subtle and implicit, sometimes bubbling up into overt expression (as, for example — to pluck one example from a head-towel of literally hundreds over the years one could adduce — when Talking Airhead Contessa Brewer of MSNBC news service made the explicit comparison between the “Flying Imams” — a group of Muslim clerics who were taken off a plane for frightening passengers — and Rosa Parks, the famed black woman who ignited the Civil Rights movement for black Americans).

          http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/11/msnbcs-contessa-brewer-compares-imams-taken-off-airplane-to-rosa-parks

          And it is this connection which the PC MC mainstream makes which has been, and remains, the #1 reason why the West remains myopic to the problem of Muslims, and why the West remains wary, if not hostile, to any robust Counter-Jihad sentiments & activity. For this reason, the Counter-Jihad needs to face this issue squarely, not pretend it doesn’t exist and try to wave it away with the mantra posed as a rhetorical question “What race is Islam again?” — since even though the mantra is accurate, it’s obviously ineffective in the war of ideas we are waging not as a Civil War, but as a war that remains civil calculated to persuade our fellow Westerners, most of whom are not Nefarious Leftists beyond persuasion.

    • Brian says

      Jul 16, 2015 at 10:23 am

      Italy has been overrun by Muslims for the last decade or two…Rome has the biggest mosque in Europe and even Milan, probably Italy’s richest city is also infested. In 2014, the no1 name for baby boys in Milan was not Giovanni, Francisco, Marco, or Antonio, but Muhammad and variants of that name.

      • Bev C says

        Jul 16, 2015 at 3:10 pm

        Brian, That would be Francesco in Italian. But otherwise I agree with you. I don’t want to see either Barack or Brian become a popular name among my paesani! 🙂

    • Brian says

      Jul 16, 2015 at 10:24 am

      Italy has been overrun by Muslims for the last decade or two…Rome has the biggest mosque in Europe and even Milan, probably Italy’s richest city is also infested. In 2014, the no1 name for baby boys in Milan was not Giovanni, Francisco, Marco, or Antonio, but Muhammad and variants of that name.

  31. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 2:04 pm

    I understand the attacker’s motives, and he’s not to be criticized for what he did. His action might seem a little extreme, until you put it in the proper context.

    The only criticism he might be up for is why did he not murder this Infidel girl. But on balance this action by the devout Moslem is copacetic with the Islamic scriptures, with the Ummah, with the Ulema, with Dar al-Islam political leaders, and above all with the Holy Prophet Mohammed and Allah.

    ***

    Allah Akbar = Allah (god) is great

    Allahu Akbar = Allah (god) is greater

    What the misunderstood attacker said is that his god is greater than our God. Big difference. Enormous. And in the difference sits the problem of Islam.

    • Huck Folder says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 2:41 pm

      I read it as (My) god is greatest.

      Mo’s favorite sock-puppet Al-Lat
      triumphed over the other 359.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 5:38 pm

        I read it as (My) god is greatest.

        Actually, you’re right. My recollection was incorrect when I typed my posting.

        But whether greatest or greater, either is a comparative adjective. The slogan makes clear that Islam at its root is a corrective belief system, designed to fix the terrible worship mistake made by all other religions.

        The media persist in reporting that Allahu Akbar means “god is great” cuz that is not bad slogan at all. If you or I said God is great, we’re in effect saying “Yahweh is great” with no implication at all to those who worship another god or gods.

    • bill walker says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 3:05 pm

      Are there any insane asylums in Rome ?

      • Cecilia Ellis says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 4:37 pm

        “Are there any insane asylums in Rome?”

        Bill, given what I have seen recently, I would have to answer, “Perhaps in Vatican City . . .”

        • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 5:50 pm

          Yeah, the “intellectuals” working in the Holy See.

        • EYESOPEN says

          Jul 15, 2015 at 10:36 pm

          Good point!

      • Cecilia Ellis says

        Jul 15, 2015 at 6:56 pm

        Alarmed Pig Farmer posted: “Yeah, the ‘intellectuals’ working in the Holy See.”

        -And wouldn’t you know it? Just a few hours earlier, Pope Francis, when he had the opportunity to address the entire world on grave moral issues—Islamic persecution of Christians, genocide, enabling Iran to acquire a nuclear weapons program, Islamic treatment of women, murder, slavery, unleashed evil of ISIS, etc.—, opted instead to condemn “global capitalism.” One would have thought that detonating an explosive remotely on a little baby might have captured his attention. Clearly, Pope Benedict XVI (“God’s Rottweiler”) turned out the lights when he left, but he obviously forgot to lock the door behind him. As for Pope Francis, what a missed opportunity for which there is no excuse!

    • Truth Seeker says

      Jul 17, 2015 at 1:29 pm

      The Islamic Teaching is No God but Allah. That means, Allah is above all Gods shown by all other Religions so far. Many Islamic Propagandists say, Allah and God are same. That is to Befool and Tqiyaah. Other Religions show God with Superhuman and Supernatural Powers. But Allah’s might shown by Torturing and Massacring Innocents by his Fans, shouting Allahu Akbar.

  32. Glen says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 4:12 pm

    Just a lone wolf attack you understand, nothing to do with islam? It’s just funny how many of these lone wolves keep crying ‘allah u akbar’ every time they strike. I doubt this attack will get any coverage in the UK TV news programmes, the liberals love to cover up the huge crime wave that is being waged by pakistanis/muslims..they literally can get away with murder.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 5:55 pm

      And mass child sex slavery. That ain’t murder, but it’s nearly as vile.

      No wonder the British government (read: the BBC) won’t let Spencer and Geller into England.

  33. JIMI says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 4:32 pm

    The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist

  34. Davegreybeard says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 5:55 pm

    @Celtic
    “Yeah – big difference between the US and Europe: In the US all the so called civilian rights are just toilet paper and cops shoot you whenever they have the urge to kill..”

    It is difficult to tell which is greater, your ignorance of reality in the U.S. or your stupidity.

    Quite amazing that you found your way here to JW, given your tendency to absorb mass media distortions, hyperbole and outright fabrications – but here you are.

    @Celtic
    “Listen, redneck – grabbing your gun and start shooting wildly is not the solution…”

    Well, Celtic, as usual you’ve got it wrong.

    The recommendation was not to “start shooting wildly” but to place a carefully aimed shot to the Jihadis cranium, an action that literally millions of us “redneck cowboys” are quite capable of. Stressful? You bet. But millions of us have been through various wars, police work and actively train in “action shooting.” How about you?

    @Celtic
    “Violent ressistance is the last resort and not the primary mean – obviously someone who knows nothing except beer and guns has a hard time realizing this.”

    Spoken like a true ignorant, arrogant European.

    The direct result of this line of thinking brought us World War I and World War II and in both instances, if you recall, it was Yankee Redneck blood that saved Europe from itself.

    The way things are progressing, and based on ignorant, foolish attitudes such as yours, we will be forced to do it again.

    • Western Canadian says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 6:33 pm

      You were doing fine until your stupid comment about who’s blood saved Europe….

    • Celtic says

      Jul 15, 2015 at 6:53 pm

      So – not being armed and violent enough caused two World Wars? No more questions – it’s no secret that you Yanks have a very poor education over there.

      Actually WW1 was the result of competition between different colonial/world powers – so it was not some sort of “pacifism” which caused two world wars.

      As for the glorious yanks: You traded big time with Hitler and waited until the wind would turn and then entered because you knew that you would have a lot to gain from a war in Europe. I’m not going to tell you now that Granddaddy Bush as Skull and Bonesmen was so keen in trading with the Nazis that he would even do so when it was already forbidden.

      Another of those Hitler-Friends was Allen Dulles – who coincidentally became the Head of the CIA and brought in a lot of former Nazi-Spies into the whole thing – keyword operation overcast/project paperclip.

      This same man then was responsible for Operation Ajax in Iran.

      Maybe you should get a little educated before talking bullshit. Obama was right about one thing: ideologies such as Islam are not defeated by arms, but by intelligence. Islam will not survive the information age because it thrived in the past centuries due to horrible punishment for apostasy, criticism combined with a hell-delusion. But many Muslims will find themselves confronted with truth about their religion which will disgust them.

      They believe that Mohammed was a saint – if they find out that Mohammed could be the leader of ISIS nowadays – most of them would turn their back on the religion – not because of a yank with a gun, but because of truth.

  35. Davegreybeard says

    Jul 16, 2015 at 1:31 am

    @Celtic
    “But many Europeans will find themselves confronted with truth about the Nazis, which will disgust them.”

    “They believe that Hitler was a saint – if they find out that Hitler could be the leader of the SS nowadays – most of them would turn their back on the Third Reich – not because of a yank with a gun, but because of truth.”

    There, fixed it for ya. See how ridiculous you sound?

    Who will save the world from Islam? Europe? Africa? South America? Russia? China?

    You?

    One more time, the last best hope for Western Civilization is:

    “A Yank with a gun.”

    • Western Canadian says

      Jul 17, 2015 at 1:01 pm

      Along with a Ausie with a gun, a Brit with a gun, a Spaniard with a gun, a Canadian with a gun, etc….

      • Davegreybeard says

        Jul 17, 2015 at 10:37 pm

        Glad to have all of them W.C.

        And I’ll gladly treat you to an adult beverage of your choice, while you tell me what big jerks Yanks are!

        • Western Canadian says

          Jul 18, 2015 at 2:16 am

          And where, have i done that?? Oh, I haven’t.

  36. MTMLA says

    Jul 16, 2015 at 1:53 am

    Islam transforms a man into a “maniac”…
    Isn’t multiculturalism wonderful? This creep should have been shot on spot.Thats how vicious thugs should be treated.DEATH TO THESE CREEPS, the sooner the better!

  37. Truth Seeker says

    Jul 16, 2015 at 11:55 am

    It is very Unfortunate that, even Now Westerners do not Understand, this Migrant Muslims are Part of Conspiracy Jihad and the Aim is to Islamise the Country that gave them Asylum.
    Present Act of European Governments is Something Like, Give Knife in Hand of the Foe and get Stabbed in Return.
    Long Back one knowledgeable Man Opined, Humanitarian Approach will work with people who have a Little Bit of Human Element, but it won’t work with those have Beastly or Satanic Elements.
    Anyway it is for Europeans to Select and Elect to Power, those who have Practical Wisdom and will act to befit to the Situations, instead of making Citizens’ life Miserable.

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