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Islamic State jihadis celebrate Barcelona vehicular jihad attack

Aug 17, 2017 3:39 pm By Robert Spencer

Self-professed lovers of death celebrate mass murder.

“Van swerves into crowds in Barcelona’s popular Las Ramblas district; 13 reported dead and more than 50 injured,” by William Booth, Karla Adam and Brian Murphy, Washington Post, August 17, 2017 (thanks to Darcy):

LONDON — A driver swerved a van onto a pedestrian area Thursday in Barcelona’s historic Las Ramblas district, ramming into crowds and leaving at least 13 people dead and more than 50 injured scattered along a stretch of tree-shaded sidewalk. Authorities described the incident as a terrorist attack.

Joaquim Forn, the interior minister of the Catalan regional government, confirmed the casualty toll in a Twitter message.

Some of those injured were in serious condition, raising the possibility that the death toll could rise.

Earlier, Spanish police described the carnage as “massive.”

Spanish police did not immediately give details on the driver or other aspects of the incident.

But Spanish news media reported that two people were involved. One was arrested, and the other was killed in a shootout with police on the outskirts of the city, according to news outlets, citing police sources.

The TVE network said one attacker was shot after running a police checkpoint and that a member of the Catalan police force was wounded.

Regional police arrested one man in connection with the attack, Catalan police authorities announced earlier on Twitter, without offering additional identification. They said there was no hostage situation in a bar in the city center, denying rumors that quickly spread in the confused hours after the van plowed through the crowd….

Islamic State supporters celebrated the Barcelona attack on Thursday and promoted previous threats made against Spain, but the group did not immediately issue a claim of responsibility, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist activity.

The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, has called on supporters to carry out attacks using vehicles. The group has claimed responsibility for car attacks carried out in Europe, as well as on the campus of Ohio State University last year….

The bustling avenue in the heart of Barcelona was packed with tourists at the height of vacation season….

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  1. nicu says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 3:42 pm

    Get them out of our countries – right now !

    all of them !

    • Ferdinando says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 4:06 pm

      ? I LIKE IT !!!!

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 4:28 pm

      If anyone has an alternative solution that might actually save us, I’ve never heard of it.

  2. mariam rove says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 3:43 pm

    Animals they are. m

    • JawsV says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 3:48 pm

      No, they’re human psychopaths called Islamic Jihadists.

      • PRCS says

        Aug 18, 2017 at 12:01 am

        The term Islamic jihadists is redundant.

  3. marina says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 3:47 pm

    I hate Mo and his vile religion. Islam needs to be wiped off from the face of the earth.

    • JawsV says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 3:49 pm

      Should have happened long ago.

  4. Rog Stresman says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 5:04 pm

    Yes, let’s “celebrate” the senseless killing and maiming of dozens of innocent people by brutal, hate-filled savages who belong in the Dark Ages and have no place in a civilised 21st century world. STOP ANY MORE FROM ENTERING and crack down ruthlessly on any already here who refuse to behave like civilised beings.

    • JawsV says

      Aug 17, 2017 at 6:14 pm

      Anyone who follows Islam cannot behave like a civilized human being. 65% of the Koran is about waging war against non-Muslims (Jihad). If they behave it’s in spite of Islam.

      • Rog Stresman says

        Aug 17, 2017 at 7:05 pm

        100% correct. Islam is not compatible with the civilised world.

  5. Paul says

    Aug 17, 2017 at 6:21 pm

    This just in. Police now consider that there is a link between an explosion that took place in a small town near here last night and today’s attack. The explosion seems to have been caused by an accumulation of butane gas canisters. Apparently, they were planing something even bigger.

    http://www.ccma.cat/324/els-mossos-consideren-que-latemptat-de-barcelona-esta-connectat-amb-lexplosio-dahir-a-alcanar/noticia/2804687/

  6. Chand says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 5:48 am

    Terrible events. Sadly this horror will go on for some time now, maybe some generations to come. The Jihadis are bent on eroding the ‘gray zone’ between Believers and Infidels. They want more backlashes against Muslims, which’ll harden the Muslims further and they’ll increasingly support Jihad.
    As things deteriorate, many people will try to find refuge in religion in these terrible times. So will many Muslims who believe that the cause of their troubles and the problem with their religion is because they haven’t been good enough Muslims! Instead of analyzing and criticizing the religion they might try to follow it with increased dedication and fervor, believing that might please Allah, who’d solve their problems.
    Also many Muslims all over the world, especially the youth, are already increasingly becoming sympathetic towards resistance and Jihad as they feel that the whole world has turned against Islam.

    Don’t think this war can be stopped now with any kind of measure.

    Don’t think Muslims will be deported from any place because of their religion anytime soon. We’ll all have to weather this one out.

    Meanwhile, all govt.s have to………….

    Eliminate jihadis whenever possible.

    Stop money laundering; the funding of mosques and Madrasas from rich Muslim countries. Watch and record all sermons in mosques, secretly if need be.

    Erode the grip of religion with aggressive promotion of scientific education.

    Keep an eye on Muslim migrants and immigrants as far as possible.

    Make all immigrants go through extensive courses in modern culture and civilization, compulsorily.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Aug 18, 2017 at 6:39 am

      There is absolutely no reason why Muslims currently within western / other infidel countries who do NOT posess citizenship should be permitted to remain. Got Muslims? Got jihad. Therefore, finding ways to reduce the number of Muslims inside the gates is perfectly rational; and removing all those who are NOT citizens (and stripping dual-citizens of the infidel-country half of their citizenship) is quite doable; it needs to be *pushed for*, by every citizen of every infidel land. If we keep pushing – and all the time, over and over, keep insisting – Got Muslims? Got JIHAD (i.e. got Nice, Bataclan, Charlie Hebdo, Muslim ‘grooming’ gangs all over the UK, Berlin Christmas markets, Barcelona, Madrid, London Bridge, Westminster, Lee Rigby, etc etc etc ad nauseam and ad infinitum) – then eventually laws WILL be changed.

      And there is absolutely no reason why Muslims – ANY Muslims, since you don’t know which ones will Go Jihad and which will not, and if Muslim X doesn’t, then there’s NO guarantee his kids or his grandkids won’t – should be allowed to *enter* infidel lands. Which means: you bar *all* entry of persons holding OIC-country passports, *unless* they can be shown to be bona fide members of the beleaguered and abused non-Muslim minorities in those countries (i.e. this would mean granting entry to bona fide Coptic Christians, or Assyrian Christians and Yazidis, but NOT to anyone else from Egypt or Syria who could NOT prove that they were a member of those minority groups; note, the emigre non-Islammic groups already present – e.g. Copts in USA and Australia – and other groups such as Barnabas Fund, are perfectly capable of telling who is who and who isn’t, because they’ve had plenty of contact with said non-Islamic minority groups, over many years).

      All of us, in our various countries, *can* make those two points, over and over and over, unremittingly and unapologetically, to our elected representatives… and to everyone else we know, every time something like this ghastly Muslim mass-murder attack in Barcelona happens… and every time something like it is *plotted* but either fails or is foiled. Stress the precautionary principle.

      We didn’t NEED Muslim mass immigration. It’s been a disaster, everywhere in the world that it has happened; a disaster for the non-Islamic host socieites. And it is NOT a force of nature. It’s not gravity, or the atmosphere. It’s NOT fate. I’ts the result of a lot of very bad decisions… which can be reversed.

      I don’t care how well educated and smooth and plausible a smilingly-besuited Mohammedan or doe-eyed hijabette is; I don’t care how perfect their English may be. I know they can be – or *become* – a mass murderous jihadist, at the flip of a coin. I remember ‘Lady Al Qaeda”. I bear in mind the smarmily slithery sinister Tariq Ramadan.

      And I don’t want them here!

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