“It was carnage. They shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ [God is great]. They were getting people to shout those words and they killed anyone who didn’t. There were at least four of them. Three walked side-by-side along the beach and there was a fourth man who finished off any survivors.” The Guardian is wrong, of course. “Allahu akbar” means “Allah is greater,” i.e., superior to your God. It doesn’t mean “God is great.”
“‘At least 16 dead’ after gunmen open fire in Ivory Coast resort,” by Mark Tran and Alex Duval Smith, Guardian, March 13, 2016:
Gunmen have killed at least 16 people, including four Europeans, after they opened fire near several hotels in the Ivory Coast. The shooting came amid fears the jihadi threat is spreading in west Africa.
The government said security forces had killed the six assailants who launched attacks on three hotels in the popular seaside town of Grand-Bassam, a weekend retreat for residents of Abidjan, about 25 miles (40km) away.
Among the 16 dead were two soldiers, said the president, Alassane Ouattara. Local media reported gunmen had entered the L’Etoile du Sud (the Southern Star) hotel, seizing guests and staff on Sunday. A French foreign ministry spokesperson said one French national had been killed. A jihad monitoring group said al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb had claimed the attack.
Koba Maiga, a local trader of Malian origin, said he was at the mosque when he heard gunfire at about 1.30pm local time….
“It was carnage. They shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ [God is great]. They were getting people to shout those words and they killed anyone who didn’t. There were at least four of them. Three walked side-by-side along the beach and there was a fourth man who finished off any survivors….

gravenimage says
Ivory Coast: Jihad murderers killed anyone who refused to scream “Allahu akbar”
…………………….
In other words, they targeted anyone who did not appear to be Muslim.
Jihadists have done this many times before, including during the Westgate Mall siege in Kenya.
Angemon says
They’re getting lax, though. In the mall, they quizzed people about the life muhammad and asked them to recite from the quran.
Daniel Triplett says
Screaming Allahu Akbar rhetorically would have been easy to save one’s life. A deal with the Devil, for an Eternity in Hell.
I’m a strong Christian myself, and have tremendous admiration and pride for these Christians who refuse to abandon their God with Kalashnikovs pointed at their heads, or a knives pressed against their throats. That is serious courage and devotion to Jesus Christ.
“Everyone who acknowledges me publicly here on earth, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven.
But everyone who denies me here on earth, I will also deny before my Father in heaven.” (Matthew 10:32-33 NLT)
Shane says
I have more respect for the Christians who are taking up arms against the Jihadis. It is well past time to turn the other cheek and to declare a Crusade against Islam.
The Crusades: A Defensive Response to Islamic Aggression, Bill Warner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2OyapO4TNo&list=PL0190DA95A29367A7 The Crusades, Fact and Fiction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMGRGtiO9Ro
Did Islamic Atrocities Provoke the Crusades? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imTY5izhTDo
How the Crusades Saved Europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMjUFBYEzqQ
maghan says
They even murdered a young child in cold blood even though the kid begged for his life. Note that this atrocity would not get the huge media coverage of that drowned young Syrian boy on a Turkish beach.
sidney penny says
Robert Spencer, Thanks, for the clarification above and in the article below.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/12/robert-spencer-at-breitbart-allahu-akbar-doesnt-mean-what-media-says-it-means
Does that mean that Christopher Hitchens is wrong when he called his book God is not Great which is a play on accepted and mainstream media version of “Allahu akbar”
http://www.amazon.com/God-Is-Not-Great-Everything/dp/0446697966
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/features/2007/god_is_not_great/religion_poisons_everything.html
dragaozao says
For a jihadi was just another normal day at the office.For the victims families, is just the begining of the noghtmare. For western leaders, another oportunity for justify islam. Next…
Peter Charles says
It never ceases to amaze me that after over 1,000 years of being enslaved, mutilated, raped and killed by the arab muslims that they would embrace that so called religion. A mystery to me.
G179 says
It’s not a big mystery. They shoot you if you don’t.
maghan says
That’s not Charles’s point. His point is that Africans are being very naive(euphemism here) to embrace a religion that was imposed and spread by an Arab culture that enslaved and brutalized blacks. There was the East African slave trade from places like Mombassa, Kenya there was actual slavery in East African islands of Zanzibar and Pemba.
Point of note: the first black to enter Islam was Muhammad’s black slave Bilal.
Tarig says
Really it is amazing. You know what I was part of it, an insider so to speak, but yet I find it increasingly difficult to fathom. But more difficult than that is the prevailing Western culture, both political and intellectual elites are diehard defenders of Islam. They fail not only their nations, but believe it or not, they failed us much more.. Their rhetoric is mere hypocrisy, their actions are cowardly, and they are continuously dragging everyone to unbelievable disaster.
Shmooviyet says
Looks like it was a lovely beach.
islam destroys beauty in whatever form and wherever it can.
Throw oil or in a woman’s face, slaughter a sleeping baby…
UGLY RoP cannot abide beauty.
sidney penny says
A Turkish couple used Islam as cover and survived in Mumbai India, on the jihadi attack on Taj Mahal Hotel.
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/11/14-paris-attacks-mumbai-isis-terrorism-riedel
http://pamelageller.com/2013/01/myjihad-in-chicago-american-muslim-gets-35-years-for-mumbai-jihad-slaughter.html/
Jimmy B says
I thought that allah meant just that; allah. Is not the word for god, illah or some such spelling? Allah is not a name for god, but a transliteration. Allah, means, allah. And no, I do not capitalize anything muslim; (unless it’s at the beginning of a sentence) they do not warrant that kind of respect. Otherwise, it makes no sense whatsever. There is no allah but allah. There is no god but god. They do not say that, nor do they agree with it. I believe it says; there is no illah but allah. Allah is their god’s name, as Yahweh is the one true God’s name.
Chris Snuggs says
There is no “Allah”. It is all the delusional ravings of a terrorist, paedophile, mysogenist, narcissist, all-other-faits hating lunatic mass murderer ( the “perfect human” according to Muslims) who peddled a mindless, totalitarian death cult to illiterate Arab peasants desperate to find some meaning to their lives. Now they have meaning, but it is a meaningless meaning, the greatest example of mass-hysterical self-delusion in the history of homo sapiens, or as I prefer, homo nonsapiens.
HN’s capacity for delusion and denial is infinite. Thus it is that Cameron could say. ” Islam is a great world religion of peace.” A statement so weird as to justify putting him in a straitjacket.
Sonja says
But we all know this has nothing to do with islamic doctrine, right?
Gary says
They shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ [God is great]. They were getting people to shout those words and they killed anyone who didn’t.
To Muslims around the world who claim (God is great),I will shout…..
“The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.” (Colossians 1:15-20)
Dan Jones says
I would yet alladins lamp to a pedophile follower either…
More End Time News At:
http://www.shininginthedark.com/?page_id=6088
Western Canadian says
Rather odd thing to yell, for anyone who claims to believe in only one god….. or in the case of islam, multiple frauds…
If their pathetic battle cry is taken literally, that allah (please note lower case throughout) is greater, meaning greater than YOUR god… That is actually a statement that asserts there is more than one god, and merely that allah (note lower case throughout) is leader of the pack…. Though the only pack that their allah (note lower case spelling throughout) could be alpha in, would be both a) rabid and b) dead.
Gary says
Hear Hear!! BRAVO!!
USMAN says
GAYS BETTER THAN MUSLIMS
A gay can transform and change and live a normal life. What about a Muslim who through violence kills a person in the name of Allah.
In the early years of the establishment of Sharia law in Zamfara State of Nigeria, a Fulani Herdsman was arrested for stealing his own cow. After going through Sharia proceedings he was found guilty for stealing his own cow. His right hand was cut and dipped in frying oil. Later the Islamic Clerics who handed down the judgement realized they made a mistake and that the cow actually belongs to the now amputated Fulani herdsman. They quickly called the amputated Fulani Herdsman and gave him a bag of maize as compensation. This is the cruelty of Islam.
JIMJFOX says
“A gay can transform and change and live a normal life”
You are a sick little [Christian?] puppy. Gay people lead lives that are
perfectly ‘normal’ for them, whatever your ignorant opinion may be.
PS- I am not gay… nor Christian.
African infidel says
Homosexual people in the West are pro islam and anti-Christian and yet if they live in an islamic sharee’a state they would be thrown down from high builidngs and then be stoned to death when they hit the ground.
African infidel says
@ LR
In Africa, all people rightly believe that homosexuality is sin and shameful but there are homosexuals there and even though society shuns them and consider as disgrace they are not violently attacked and by and large they live in peace. The problem is when they start Western style homosexual activism such waving homosexual signs or “gay” parades etc and call homosexuality not sin as they do in the West, then society will react in violent ways. Western peoples have lost their sense of religion and morality and they should avoid trying to push Africans and others to do the same.
African infidel says
@ JIMJFOX
if you are pro ‘gay’ and not a Christian then watch the ‘gay’ promo video below:
LR says
Pathetic, boring people being stupid, wasting time listening to a very pathetic, boring, stupid man. With all the pain, killing, suffering happening in Africa, it’s not going to get any better if people stay so pre-occupied about what consenting adults do in their bedroom.
These ‘god’ people forgot to notice that Jesus never bothered to say anything about homosexuality.
The banality of what humans can concern themselves with is completely beyond me.
steve says
So, stop holidaying in any Muslim country, stop using Muslim shops,taxis,airlines,cross the road when you see a Muslim in the street,move if a Muslim sits near you in a bus or train,ignore them if they try to converse. Treat them like rabid animals. Their place is Saudi Arabia where they can return to the slime from whence Islam crawled sixteen hundred years ago
African infidel says
@ steve
Agreed!
It seems to me the more terror attacks they do, muslims are becoming more popular in the West and are getting even more support and are portrayed more like the real victims.
Jerry says
“…slay the idolaters wherever you find them…take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush…”
Their god commands and they obey. Know this, there will never be a shortage of killers for allah. Islam’s hateful teachings overshadow any good it contains and we see the horrible effects of that demonic morality every day. And this is what we’re letting into our nation. Every mosque is an ugly symbol of that hatred. Every muslim is a potential killer for allah. Every enclave is territory lost to their foreign culture. It’s true, we can’t always know good muslims from the bad. But we know their political faith and sharia is a clear threat to our nation’s peace and security. So that’s what we need to act against, those islamic elements that threaten our existence as a culture and nation. We need to prevent the growth of sharia and islam’s corrupting influence in our education, politics, and law enforcement. Shut down those d*mn mosques, they’re an affront to our culture because they represent islamic hate and bigotry against our people, our constitution, and our national ideals.
I want America to be for those who love America, not those who want to destroy America. And anyone who builds and attends mosques cannot be true to America. Their religion forbids it. So we must forbid them.
Florida Jim says
Please Obama, Kerry, Kirby, Hillary and bill to discuss these issues perhaps they can be more effective than bribes.I’ll bet they get their heads handed to them.