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Ramadan in Mali: Two dead as jihadis storm tourist resort popular with Westerners

Jun 18, 2017 8:09 pm By Robert Spencer

“It is a jihadist attack,” said Mali’s security minister. If it had taken place in Europe, we would probably be hearing about how the gunmen were suffering from mental illness.

“Mali attack: Two dead as gunmen storm tourist resort,” BBC, June 18, 2017:

Gunmen have stormed a tourist resort in Mali popular with Westerners and two people are dead, the country’s security minister has said.

“It is a jihadist attack. Malian special forces intervened and hostages have been released,” Salif Traore told AFP.

“Unfortunately for the moment there are two dead, including a Franco-Gabonese.”

Government troops battled the gunmen at the luxury resort Le Campement Kangaba, east of the capital Bamako.

According to the security ministry, “one of the terrorists was able to escape, after being injured”. He left behind a machine gun and bottles filled with “explosive substances”.

The ministry said another two people had been injured, including a civilian.

A security ministry spokesman told Reuters 32 guests had been rescued from the resort.

Malian special forces intervened, backed by UN soldiers and troops from a French counter-terrorism force.

Witness Boubacar Sangare was just outside the compound as the attack unfolded.

“Westerners were fleeing the encampment while two plainclothes police exchanged fire with the assailants,” he said.

“There were four national police vehicles and French soldiers in armoured vehicles on the scene.”…

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  1. billybob says

    Jun 18, 2017 at 8:23 pm

    “Gunmen have stormed a tourist resort in Mali popular with Westerners…”

    What Westerner in his right mind would go to Mali? 90 percent of Malians are Muslim (mostly Sunni). After the 2012 imposition of sharia rule in northern parts of the country, Mali was listed high (number 7) in the Christian persecution index published by Open Doors, which described the persecution in the north as severe. (Wikipedia)

    • Mak says

      Jun 18, 2017 at 9:20 pm

      Silly leftists who simply can not imagine that their chants of “Islam is a religion of peace” are not true; that’s who vacations in Mali.

      • Gary says

        Jun 18, 2017 at 11:49 pm

        No No… They got the reports all wrong. Surely it wasn’t Islamist Jihadists who stormed a tourist resort.

        It had to have been Western Islamophobes!

        You know…

        The hateful, intolerant, bigots who just want human rights for women. And believe in freedom from a bloodthirsty god of hate.

        And to think….

        over 7 Billion people actually believe in this ‘so called’ god?

        Tragic. Sad. Unbelievable.

        • Mak says

          Jun 19, 2017 at 12:28 am

          I feel depressed every time I read JihadWatch because it seems like the mass delusion is getting worse.

        • PRCS says

          Jun 19, 2017 at 10:34 am

          Not to nitpick, Gary, but…..

          1.6 billion Muslims worldwide
          To them, the same God as Judaism and Christianity
          Islamist jihadist is redundant.

          🙂

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 19, 2017 at 6:07 pm

          PRCS–with all respect–Muslims believe that Jews and Christians “worship something other than Allah”.

          The “three Abrahamic faiths” thing is mostly Taqiyya for the foolish Infidels.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 19, 2017 at 1:57 am

      EXCUSING THE ATTACK:

      1)The tourists must have drawn cartoons of Mohammed and ‘deserved’ to be attacked.
      2)The jihadists were deprived and wished to have a better life.
      3)The jihadists were angry at Trump’s travel ban.
      4)The jihadists were angry because they couldn’t get on a boat to Italyl.
      5)Everything is the fault of Americans.

      (sarc/off)

    • Baucent says

      Jun 19, 2017 at 3:04 am

      I agree, it’s beyond belief any Westerner, Liberal or not would venture into Mali or the Philippines even these days. Any Islamic country or region is extremely dangerous for anyone from the “Crusader nations”.
      My guess is they are French.

      • PRCS says

        Jun 19, 2017 at 11:00 am

        Jihad violence in the Philippines is primarily relegated to its Muslim heavy Southern provinces.

        An ongoing communist insurgency exists–generally north of that. Several SeaBees inspecting a project–years ago–on Naval Station Subic Bay property were shot to death–apparently by them.

        As corruption there is legion, and so many live in poverty, theft (some at gunpoint) is also common.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 19, 2017 at 6:14 pm

        Baucent, the Philippines are *not* Muslim-majority–the are almost 87% Roman Catholic, and another 2% belong to various Protestant denominations.

        They do have a nasty Muslim insurgency in the south, though.

    • WPM says

      Jun 19, 2017 at 6:15 am

      Philippines is not a Moslem country ,they have trouble with there moslem population .Mali is a moslem country it is over 85 percent moslem. The Philippines is a very important country to America and Eastern countries friendly to the West because of where it is located in the world. I would not visit any country were the Moslem Population was over 50 percent of the country like Java , I would not visit any country rule by a crazied idiot like North Korea. Western Europe is heeding in that direction to fall into both categories in 20 years the moslem population will be over 50 percent and they will be under rule by the EU if they do not wake up soon.

      • Custos Custodum says

        Jun 20, 2017 at 4:29 pm

        Mali is a moslem country it is over 85 percent moslem.

        The dirty little secret that Western Cultural Marxists (i.e. career communists) are trying to make us forget is that the Muslim – non-Muslim divide is largely RACIAL.

        Muslims are heavily Arabized through centuries of Arab incursions and violence.

        The few remaining non-Muslims in Mali (as in the former Sudan, in Central Africa, the DR of the Congo, etc.) are principally Black Africans.

        In Arabic and other Muslim-influenced languages, Black Africans are routinely referred to as “abeed” i.e. “slaves.”

    • Liz says

      Jun 19, 2017 at 11:17 am

      Why they like going to muslim majority countries simply beats my imagination. Are they stupid or naive or ignorant or what?

      • Matthieu Baudin says

        Jun 20, 2017 at 3:00 am

        Malaysia, the eastern Indonesian Archipelago, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, U.A.E., Morocco, maybe Chad and a couple of the Central Asian (previously Soviet) Nations. I’d give any of these a shot at the moment, to take in the flavour, but you can never tell when they might tip over the edge and turn sour.

  2. PRCS says

    Jun 18, 2017 at 8:52 pm

    Another attack in London just now.

    • Mak says

      Jun 18, 2017 at 9:19 pm

      Robert can only write so fast!

      • PRCS says

        Jun 18, 2017 at 9:30 pm

        True.

        • simpleton1 says

          Jun 18, 2017 at 9:44 pm

          http://www.smh.com.au/world/british-police-seals-off-londons-finsbury-station-after-reported-incident-20170619-gwtrcy.html

          Just after midnight London local time.

        • PRCS says

          Jun 18, 2017 at 9:55 pm

          Thanks.

          A Muslim twitter poster says it was a drunk driver.

          Does seem odd that they’d run into Muslims.

          Know, soon, I hope.

    • Mak says

      Jun 18, 2017 at 9:48 pm

      So is this Jihad or is this the people of the UK retaliating? It appears this was as a terrorist training center (i.e. mosque) was letting out after the Ram-a-van festivities.

      • David M says

        Jun 18, 2017 at 10:15 pm

        Looks like a retaliation attack to me. This could turn into civil war if the tit for tat attacks continue & escalate.

        • Mak says

          Jun 18, 2017 at 11:22 pm

          I’m honestly surprised, if it is a retaliation attack, that it hasn’t happened sooner. I know one thing: Don’t ever expect a retaliation attack in Sweden. They really seem to enjoy dhimmitude.

        • David M says

          Jun 18, 2017 at 11:34 pm

          Definitely a retaliation attack.

          The suspect screamed “I’m going to kill all Muslims” before he was tackled to the floor, a witness said told BuzzFeed News.

      • PRCS says

        Jun 18, 2017 at 10:30 pm

        Ram-a-van!

        • Mak says

          Jun 18, 2017 at 11:23 pm

          Dirka dirka!

        • PRCS says

          Jun 18, 2017 at 11:38 pm

          Dirka dirka!

  3. Ashley says

    Jun 18, 2017 at 10:31 pm

    From what I have read the vehicle targeted Muslims leaving the Finsbury Park Mosque.

    If true…not too cool.

    • PRCS says

      Jun 18, 2017 at 10:40 pm

      Some back and forth:

      Drunk?
      Not drunk?
      Knife?

    • Mak says

      Jun 19, 2017 at 12:40 am

      Muslims only understand a strong hand. It’s why the Muslim countries have evil dictators. Otherwise you get a mess like Iraq. Islam is all about war. It’s central to their culture — it’s their “language.”

    • Laura says

      Jun 19, 2017 at 4:11 am

      Well, it’s slightly ‘cooler’ than muslims attacking Christians inside their places of worship.

  4. somehistory says

    Jun 18, 2017 at 10:37 pm

    OT

    White van rams people outside a moslum barracks and the driver gets out and stabs people. London

    moslum on moslum? Will it be portrayed as “hate”?

    • somehistory says

      Jun 18, 2017 at 10:48 pm

      Sorry, the update didn’t have the “stab” part…but did include the fact “two feared dead,”

      It may have been the previous stabbings and my eyes mixed it. Apologies.

    • WPM says

      Jun 19, 2017 at 6:20 am

      PM May she will solve problems bane white rental vans!

  5. dsinc says

    Jun 19, 2017 at 12:44 am

    Robert was given his trusty Koran when he visited the Finsbury Park Mosque.

  6. David M says

    Jun 19, 2017 at 9:20 am

    http://www.smh.com.au/national/aussie-tourists-duped-into-eating-dog-meat-in-bali-20170619-gwuecx.html

    Boycott Bali, do not go there & eat dog meat.

    • PRCS says

      Jun 19, 2017 at 10:28 am

      Not sure in how many countries dog and cat meat are eaten as either a delicacy or even more frequently.

      Dog meat is eaten–primarily as a delicacy–in the Philippines

      My dog went missing while living there. Local construction workers were the likely suspect—per our landlord.

      And don’t forget Korea.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 19, 2017 at 7:05 pm

      Bali is one of the few parts of Indonesia that is not Muslim-majority. It has been targeted by Jihad terror before.

  7. Carolyne says

    Jun 19, 2017 at 12:39 pm

    Muslim sects ae known to kill each other, i.e. Sunnis and Shiites. I think it likely that this is one such incident and if it were Muslims who claimed the attacker said “I want to kill Muslims,” it was likely just an attempt to blame kaffirs. I am taking bets that the driver was either named Mohammed or a variation thereof.

  8. Valkyrie Ziege says

    Jun 21, 2017 at 5:46 pm

    ; There are thousands of beautiful places to visit, and stay, in America, which will keep American money inside America, therefore, why go to another country, and risk everything, including one’s life?

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