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Belgium: “Man wearing camouflage” tries to drive car at high speed into crowd

Mar 23, 2017 10:07 am By Robert Spencer

It just happened yesterday in London, and has happened in many other places as well. We have seen a spate of attacks recently in which jihadis used their cars as weapons — and a billboard in Nazareth that actually called for them. “Moderate” Fatah called for such attacks. And the Islamic State issued this call in September 2014:

So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him….

We have seen large-scale vehicular jihad attacks in Nice and Berlin and elsewhere.

“BREAKING NEWS: Man arrested after trying to drive a car into a crowd on a busy shopping street in Antwerp,” by Gareth Davies, Mailonline, March 23, 2017:

A man wearing camouflage has been arrested after trying to drive a car with French plates into a crowd on a busy shopping street in Antwerp.

Belgian police, who confirmed more security personnel had been sent to the area, said the car was being driven at high speed.

It comes hours after a terrorist was shot dead after a massacre outside Parliament in Westminster.

Belgian police arrested a man on Thursday after he tried to drive into a crowd at high-speed in a shopping area in the port city of Antwerp at around 11am.

A police spokesman said: ‘A vehicle with French plates has tried to drive at high speed into the Meir (shopping street).

‘A man in camouflage was taken away.’

Pedestrians were forced to jump out of the way of the speeding car to avoid serious injury.

He added the driver was later arrested and additional police and military personnel had been deployed to the centre of Antwerp, but did not give any further details.

The suspect was said to be travelling in a car registered in France and that it was a red Citroën….

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  1. Dennis says

    Mar 23, 2017 at 10:18 am

    I am sure t was not serious, probably discontented Quakers or Methodsts. England will never wake up!

    • Jack' says

      Mar 23, 2017 at 12:59 pm

      Probably Mormons, someone said they were Muslims but that cant be true, because most everyone knows that Islam is the religion of peace.

  2. marc says

    Mar 23, 2017 at 10:22 am

    ban red citroens

    • mike9a says

      Mar 23, 2017 at 10:27 am

      oppps spilled my coffee …marc, you made my day today, ty

  3. Oliver says

    Mar 23, 2017 at 10:26 am

    I guess it is time for the Belgians to take to the streets again. With their chants of sending Jews to the gas chambers.

    It has been I think a few years since several hundred or was it several thousand did this.

    And the Belgian restaurant.dogs and Palestinians welcome. Jews keep out..

    Jewish graves in the Belgian military cemeteries. Died to free Belgium from the Nazis.

    Should not have.

  4. no_one says

    Mar 23, 2017 at 10:28 am

    So the posters are hanging in Nazareth, where our Lord lived during the time of the Great lent when Christians prepare for Easter. Religion of peace indeed.

  5. Berengaria says

    Mar 23, 2017 at 10:28 am

    While UK & Belgium is enduring the physical Attacks, American Politicians are trying to force City Councils to approve more & more Mosque(Islamic CENTERS). They have actually covered City & Towns with these CULT CENTERS, Building or simply Taking Over Existing Structures.
    Politicians of the LIBERAL ILK, HAVE SUBMITTED TO ISLAM & NOW ARE FORCING CITIZENS TO BOW DOWN BEFORE THESE BARBARIANS.

  6. mike9a says

    Mar 23, 2017 at 10:36 am

    MSM reporting these day is ridiculous and naïve! What is next?: A person with two holes under the nose and the legs all the way up to the earth attacked ….

  7. Frank Verderber says

    Mar 23, 2017 at 10:49 am

    The Palestinian billboard typified reasonable syntax, but went too far with run-on sentences. The writer could use some training in proper grammar. Also – he used too many hyperboles . The object of good rhetorical hate is to sell it with rationale that makes common sense to the readers and fortify it with saccharine guilt. For example, what will the individual jihadist receive as compensation in this life. Does he have a car to run over people or has it been used by his cousin as an I. E. D. The Abbas administration needs to get better language instructors into the Palestinian schools. Ignorant citizens become ignorant destroyers.

    • Oliver says

      Mar 23, 2017 at 1:31 pm

      All, or at least most, Palestinians are illiterate and dumb.

      Abbas is Yasser Arafat in a suit, rather than the rags and towel that Arafat wore ( while he stole some $1 billion or so in $$ and Euros and sterling).

      A Pakistani, a few years ago, wrote that a major problem in Muslim countries IS THE SCARCITY OF COLLEGES AND EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES.

      I forgot the numbers, but in Israel and (most) western nations, there was something like 5 or more times the number of schools per (percentage) of the population.

  8. John Comnenus says

    Mar 23, 2017 at 10:58 am

    This is the new normal, authorities in Europe have already advised their populations get used to it as nothing can be done to predict or prevent ‘lone-wolf’ attacks.

    Nothing except, maybe, properly policing and deporting that segment of society 100% responsible for said attacks?

    Nah….what a preposterous idea!

    Much better to surround soft-target areas such as public squares and markets with an unsightly mass of barriers and bollards effectively creating bottle-necks of slow moving masses of bomb-fodder trying to get in and out of said areas.

    Because five dead is third page news, but thirty-five dead buys us an avatar on Facebook!

  9. Oliver says

    Mar 23, 2017 at 1:33 pm

    Just curious- not being a police officer or involved in law enforcement.

    WHAT GOOD DOES IT DO, TO, AFTER THE FACT, SEND EXTRA POLICE INTO AN AREA?

    Any thoughts or reasons? (Other than pr to show ” the government is doing something”).

    • Milo says

      Mar 23, 2017 at 2:00 pm

      Generally to make sure the perp doesn’t have accomplices.

      • Oliver says

        Mar 23, 2017 at 2:10 pm

        Thanks, I had not thought of that

  10. Ali Bey says

    Mar 23, 2017 at 6:15 pm

    I thionk that it is time already of knowing the name and personality of this frustrated homicide, and the details of the incident, and as I suspect if he shouted the usual barking of Allah Akbar…

  11. Angemon says

    Mar 23, 2017 at 6:42 pm

    A police spokesman said: ‘A vehicle with French plates has tried to drive at high speed into the Meir (shopping street).

    Maybe Belgium should “build a wall” on its border with France?…

    • Arthur says

      Mar 23, 2017 at 8:37 pm

      That nasty ‘vehicle’, trying to drive into people! It put the poor helpless ‘driver’ at risk too! Arrest that vehicle immediately!

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