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Vehicular jihad in Sweden? Man plows car into pedestrians, then pours gasoline on the ground

Jul 18, 2017 5:46 pm By Robert Spencer

“He steps out of the car and a gas can in his hand. Then I realized that this is not an accident. He just opened the can, you can see now that it is gasoline on the ground.”

The attacker could, of course, be a “right-wing extremist,” but then there is also the fact that 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….

This may not be jihad, but it does fit the vehicular jihad M.O.: plow into pedestrians, and then jump out of the car and continue the attack.

“Horror as car ploughs into pedestrians in Sweden – man ‘holding gasoline can’ arrested,” by Rebecca Flood, Express, July 18, 2017 (thanks to Marc):

A MAN has ploughed into crowds in Sweden near a busy shopping district with the driver said to be ‘holding a gas canister’.

Panic rippled through Ullared, Sweden, after a car crashed outside the Gekas superstore in the town.

Shoppers scattered after witnesses claimed the driver hit two shopping carts before coming to a stop.

Two people are believed to have been injured in the incident, but not seriously.

Police spokesman Tommy Nyman said they were struck as the car careered towards the store.

Jenny Sundström, 19, and Nathalie Lodén, 20, who were at the scene, describe a white car driving at “high speed”.

Ms Lodén told local media site Expressen.se: “We hear that a car starts honking. I see a white car running straight at us.

“Then we took away that person is not going to give way, we move our cart.”

Ms Sundström added: “We were right in front of him. He sped past us.

“We saw how a man and a child standing there and how they could move.

“We were so shocked that we were there and also afterwards and then got the guards out.

“The man was charged with a gas can in his hand, and then people started running.”

Others at the scene said they initially thought it was an accident, but then the driver emerged from the car holding a gas canister.

An eyewitness, named as Mans, said the driver ‘opened the can’ and poured gasoline on the ground.

He said: “There was a car driving alone at high speed. Just a few meters from the end, he slams in two shopping carts.

“He steps out of the car and a gas can in his hand. Then I realized that this is not an accident.

“He just opened the can, you can see now that it is gasoline on the ground.”…

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  1. gravenimage says

    Jul 18, 2017 at 6:25 pm

    Vehicular jihad in Sweden? Man plows car into pedestrians, then pours gasoline on the ground
    ………………….

    Deeply disturbing, and it certainly fits the Vehicular Jihad profile.

  2. moeped says

    Jul 18, 2017 at 7:00 pm

    Probably just mentally ill and/or Sweden failed to integrate him. He should receive compensation, an apology, and be appointed the Queen of England.

  3. somehistory says

    Jul 18, 2017 at 7:01 pm

    But will they say it is terrorism by a moslum?

    • John Forbes says

      Jul 19, 2017 at 5:12 am

      Again many excuses will be offered by the SWEDISH ELITE – that is if in their ARROGANT SUPERIOR state they can be BOTHERED to answer or comment at ALL ??

      IF they can be BOTHERED -Mental Health I would imagine !
      Any attempt at stating that the TEACHINGS of ISLAM are to blame will INSTANTLY be met with RACIST CARD followed by threats of fining & possibly incarceration !

      With protection like this ISLAM needs not even respond at all !

      IT is the SWEDISH PEOPLE who NEED TO REALIZE that these – so called LEADERS – are GIVING away the FUTURE of their Children,& grandchildren & this is something these people DO NOT OWN !

      • Bob says

        Jul 19, 2017 at 6:01 am

        More, John, the whole of the western politico gang is giving away their countries’ future, tied down as they are by fears of ‘racism’, ‘islamophobia’ and PC..They sit in their protected offices while the accursed sharia is creeping in!

        • Jean Terry says

          Jul 19, 2017 at 2:45 pm

          It is absolutely insane. To deny reality. And of course the elites have bodyguards while all the people who are not allowed to have guns do not.

      • Grace says

        Jul 19, 2017 at 7:24 pm

        When the Swedes are out bred, out voted and sharia law is instituted into their country and they are required to accept Allah or be taxed or beheaded then they just might wake up to what is happening in their country. It will happen in Germany too..

  4. Rolf Wittwer says

    Jul 18, 2017 at 7:07 pm

    Again, very very poor information in times of “Breaking News”, I-Phones, Handys, fast Telecommunication, social networks etc. etc.!
    Indeed – yes a “Man”!
    That’s all we know.
    Seems to match the Sorros’ plan, to put down European Culture and their requests for free information.
    Europe is capitulating without any resistance, never happened before!

    • Grace says

      Jul 19, 2017 at 7:28 pm

      It’s called the Silent Caliphate. Invade as a refugee, out breed the natives, overwhelm their schools, outvote them. install Sharia. Conquest complete without firing a shot.It’s being touted by all the Mullahs in the Mosques. Why are we so dumb?

  5. Terry says

    Jul 18, 2017 at 7:21 pm

    But, the Swedes (like the Germans –coming soon, and the Austrians just a short time ago) will return these same crooked politicians to power.

    They must all be CNN FOLLOWERS.

    • Mockingjay says

      Jul 18, 2017 at 7:38 pm

      “They must all be CNN FOLLOWERS…”

      – Not necessarely – Europeans mostly watch their country’s state broadcasting channels – and even if you can’t imagine it – these are usually even WORSE than CNN.

      • Terry says

        Jul 18, 2017 at 8:17 pm

        You are correct–I cannot imagine a “news” channel worse than CNN.

        I heard earlier today, or perhaps it was yesterday, that a CNN “reporter” refuses to refer to Pres. Trump as “her president”. I would suggest, then, that she move to Zimbabwe, or South Africa, or Venezuela, or Iran or Pakistan, as, i am sure that the presidents there would be more to her liking.

        But, I say again, hard to beleive “news” stations worse than CNN

        • dsinc says

          Jul 19, 2017 at 3:05 am

          Yes, send her here to South Africa. The President’s supporters are very thin on the ground.

        • Susan W says

          Jul 19, 2017 at 7:45 am

          Actually, Australia’s ABC is equal or worse than CNN. Such a disgrace these Marxist elites are in control of the media and government.

  6. brane pilot says

    Jul 18, 2017 at 7:38 pm

    You really cannot help someone who is determined to commit suicide.
    Not much you can do for an entire society that has come to the same decision either.
    It is a sad spectacle but, from outside, there is really not much anyone can do.

  7. Georg says

    Jul 18, 2017 at 10:04 pm

    Not something you see often in Sweden. In some other countries, yes, but not Sweden.

  8. Mike says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 12:29 am

    Note how vehicles drive themselves, rather than being driven – that’s an indicator of jihad, when coming from the Controlled Media.

    If it were a right-wing extremist, the car wouldn’t have a will of its own.

    • Terry says

      Jul 19, 2017 at 5:37 pm

      Well, aren’t such firms as Uber, Google ( via one of its subsidiaries), and ( either or both) Ford or GM experimenting with driver-less cars?

      The Muslims in Sweden are just ahead of the Americans, in the technology.

  9. Susan W says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 7:53 am

    We are definitely PRAYING for you RCH, India’s Armed Forces and India. India cannot fall to these thugs and barbarians. God bless!

  10. Manual Paleologos says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 9:19 am

    Amen. In my prayers.

  11. Louis Schwartz says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 10:01 am

    We will indeed pray for your people and the Nation of India. Muslim have murdered millions of Hindus and Buddhists and anyone else they can get their filthy hands on in the Indian Sub-Continent. We will pray for us all.

  12. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 12:14 pm

    This vehicular jihad attack in Sweden may serve as an example of Muslim ungratefulness and unthankfulness for letting them enter Sweden to live. This this further r exposes the Muslim’s Islamic contempt for people who are Westerners and Western civilization, Western laws.
    This Muslim violence may be yet better explained by one of the fables of Aesop which is entitled THE FARMER AND THE VIPER. So here it is “Once in ancient Greece there was a farmer outside on a very cold winter day walking in if field to make sure that everything is in order and as it should be. The farmer came upon a half-froze viper about to die from the bitter cold. The kind yet foolish farmer took pity on the viper and in an action of kindness put it his is vest jacket to warms and up and thus save its life. The viper warned up revived and then bit farmer through the vest jacket. So the kind but foolish farmer died a slow painful death in awful agony because he felt sorry of the viper and saved it life. The point to this fable is the no amount of kindness will change and vicious and evil nature.
    So it is with those Muslim migrants who were allowed to enter Sweden to live . Those violent migrants who are Muslims will not be impress and change because kindness of Westerners. This is because those violent Muslims have that ungrateful dangerous viper nature because of their venomous and violent religion which is Islam.

    • Rob says

      Jul 22, 2017 at 4:43 pm

      This is repeated in the lyrics of “The Snake”. The woman rescuer asks the snake why it bit her, knowing that she would die. The snake replies…”Shut up foolish woman. You knew I was a snake when you took me in”. That’s how I view the flood of Muslims into Europe and the U.N. demand that other countries also accept large numbers of Muslim “refugees” (while ignoring Syrian Christians, Iraq’s Yazidi,, and other non-Muslims). Accepting these Muslim “refugees” is like shooting live cancer cells straight into your vein.

  13. clap says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 12:17 pm

    How much longer until Sweden bans cars? I know it’s already been proposed.

    • Terry says

      Jul 19, 2017 at 5:38 pm

      Clap-I think it would be better to ban Muslims and progressives.

      Send them to Syria, Somalia or Pakistan- their choice. (I forgot, sorry, Iran)

  14. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 12:23 pm

    The jihadist or jihadists attacks in Western nations be the Muslim terrorists is extremely wicked and dangerous .be the jihad attacks be in a city of Sweden or the cities of Stockholm, London, Manchester, Brussels , Paris, Nice, Berlin ,Madrid. Those jihad-minded Muslim terrorists who engage in those vicious Islamic terror attacks cannot be and will not be reasoned with. They will not respond to either logic or reason. They aren’t interested, at all, in reason or logic. So they have to be dealt with by a strong force of might, either by the police or the military. For to even try to reason with a jihad-minded Muslim terrorist is just as much an act of futility as trying to teach algebra to a rabbit.

    • Mark A says

      Jul 19, 2017 at 12:44 pm

      Logic and fanaticism never mix well.

  15. Mark A says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 12:43 pm

    I’m sure the Swedish government will treat this as yet another case of “mental illness” requiring this individual to be hospitalized and treated in Sweden at taxpayer expense.for a lengthy period, if not the rest of his life.

    Watch for more outbreaks of this particular symptom of “mental illness” in Sweden and throughout Europe.

  16. Ivan the Terrible says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 12:45 pm

    In this particular case, the perpetrator was an elderly Swedish man with a history of mental illness. He seemed to have a personal grudge against the shop in question. In fact he – ironically – shares the same first and last name as the founder of the shop in question, but they are not related.

    He honked his horn all the way up to the shop, and nobody was hurt, not even the dog that was travelling with him on the back seat.

    Before you lash out with comments doubting the info (which is easy to corroborate if you care to google, speaking Swedish helps of course), let me just say that the general situation in Sweden is indeed dire/insane and that the next, real, gory terrorist attack from the Religion of Peace (TM) is a mere matter of time. But Islam is not to blame for this particular instance.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 20, 2017 at 12:42 am

      The article above noted that this might or might not have been Jihad.

  17. gravenimage says

    Jul 20, 2017 at 12:40 am

    I will not just keep India in my prayers–I have also written to President Trump about supporting democratic India.

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