Yesterday a planned Allah-Las concert in Rotterdam was canceled and the venue was evacuated after a jihad plot was discovered there — and a truck full of gas canisters near the venue. And now this today in Warsaw. It appears that Muslims dislike the name of this band.
“Warsaw TERROR: Policeman injured by knifeman near venue where Allah-Las are set to perform,” by Will Kirby, Express, August 24, 2017:
A POLICEMAN has been left injured by a man armed with a knife in central Warsaw in an incident believed to be linked to yesterday’s foiled terror plot in Rotterdam.
Polish media have reported that the policeman sustained facial injuries when he tried to intervene in an area close to where US rock band Allah-Las, whose concert in Rotterdam was cancelled yesterday following a tip-off from Spanish police over a terror threat, are due to perform tonight.
The officer was treated at the scene and his injuries were not deemed to be life-threatening.
Police were alerted after the man was spotted walking in the Polish capital holding a knife and acting suspiciously.
The incident occured at around 3.30pm local time this afternoon and local media reports claim the perpetrator was a 24-year-old Israeli man, although this has not been confirmed by authorities.
Police spokesman Rafał Retmaniak said: “We do not know if this event was related to this concert or any other event in Warsaw.”
The Allah-Las concert is believed to be set to go ahead as planned.
Earlier today, authorities confirmed plans to deploy uniformed and plainclothes officers at tonight’s Allah-Las concert in the wake of yesterday’s attempted attack….
The news comes just hours after the Allah-Las Rotterdam concern was cancelled and the venue evacuated following a tip-off, with authorities later confirming they have discovered a van packed with gas cannisters nearby…..
mariam rove says
Name[edit]
The religious reference in their name is inspired by The Jesus and Mary Chain. They chose to use Allah – Arabic for God – because they wanted something “holy sounding”. But they say they never realised some might interpret it as trivialising or mocking their religious beliefs. “We get emails from Muslims, here in the US and around the world, saying they’re offended, but that absolutely wasn’t our intention,” says Michaud. “We email back and explain why we chose the name and mainly they understand.”
In Turkey, a show got pulled because the promoter didn’t feel comfortable. “But what’s the alternative?” asks Siadatian. “We’ve had the name so long I don’t think we can change it. That wouldn’t work. We don’t dwell. You know, no regrets.” [16]
Here is the reason for the name and good for them. m
Jack Diamond says
Miles Michaud: “The name really came from sounding good. I thought it had a ring to it like the Shangri-Las, the Allah-Las…
The spelling use of Allah is kind of secondary. The reason why it worked for me is because it’s clever, a little shocking to most people, but I think that’s the point. It shouldn’t be shocking, but there’s a bad stigma attached to the word, reasons that are kind of silly – at least I feel. There’s a lot of people in the world that think it’s a beautiful word, just because we’re taught to think otherwise doesn’t mean we should.”
Who are those lot of people who think it is a beautiful word, Miles?
Guy Forester says
I did not think someone could really be that clueless and stupid, but I continue to get surprised. Even more surprising are the number of people that still insist that we treat these attacks as unrelated, spontaneous criminal acts. Or that the religion we dare not name really is one of peace, or is it pieces? I really get so confused these days.
john spielman says
I thought Poland was free from muslim attacks because they refuse to allow any muslims in?
Santa Voorhees says
Poland has 0.1% muslim population. This is another reason why any civilized country shouldn’t have any at all.
Robeaver says
??????????
Wellington says
A series of question marks is not only a lazy response but a pathetic one. Try something approaching an argument next time. That is if you’re capable. Right now I remain doubtful. But go ahead and nix my doubt.
Yeah, give it a shot. Your turn.
Samantha S. says
Sorry, Wellington, but I do understand Robeaver answer of “?????”. It just means to me that he didn’t understand the meaning of the comment by Santa Voorhees, who simply wants to let us know that if Poland with 0.01% of Muslim population can get a terrorist attacking a police officer . . . imagine what can happen (and it’s happening) in other European countries with Muslim population of 10, 15 and 20%, i.e.: France, UK, Belgium, Deutschland, USA, etc., etc., etc.
Wellington says
Sorry, Samantha, but I didn’t read it that way. Imperative to understand is that Santa Robeaver’s response was to john spielman, not to Santa Voorhees. It was a turgid, cryptic and, once again I will say, lazy response. Reconsider if you will.
Wellington says
That’s “Robeaver” and and not “Santa Robeaver.”
gravenimage says
There are a few Muslims in Poland–and it is disturbingly easy for Muslims from neighboring countries like Germany to gain access.
Westman says
Where is the Left when they could be crying “racism” and “discrimination” against this band and demanding the name be changed? When will BLM insist Samuel Jackson change his last name? The left and the Muslim apologists are becoming ridiculous.
I hope the Left media will let us know when “Jesus Lopez” or “Madelin White”, shouting something about Jesus, commit terrorist acts against unbelievers.
Voytek Gagalka says
Never change the name (“Allah-Las”)! Changing name, and particularly now, would equal to SUBMISSION to sharia demands, and thus SURRENDER! NEVER surrender! Surrender will not save you from prosecution, perhaps not even from death, so why bother. Be bold and courageous because this is absolutely the last thing jihadis expect from you (their terror tactics of intimidation and fear-spreading would then fail spectacularly).
lebel says
Where does it say he’s Muslim?
Wellington says
What? Think this was another rabid Presbyterian? An Orthodox Jew again? A nasty Buddhist monk of which there are so many?
Try waking up and calculate the odds. Yeah, do that.
Westman says
We should never forget the possibility of an Amish person on a horse, a Jehovah Witness, or some Mormon missionaries.
In reality:
“…an incident believed to be linked to yesterday’s foiled terror plot …”
” ..perpetrator was a 24-year-old Israeli man” And what non-Muslim country, surrounded by Muslim Arabs dedicated to its destruction, allows full citizenship to Arab Muslims?
Wellington says
Ah yes, Westman, those Amish (and I have lived in Pennsylvania all my life and have visited Lancaster and Lebanon counties countless times) are always causing terrorism of one sort or another. Nasty bunch. Surely.
The real threat to liberty in America are the Amish and only an Islamophobe would aver otherwise. The Amish sure do, however, make many tasty dishes, often with pork, like scrapple (was raised on it) and pig stomach (absolutely delicious——like corn-beefed hash, only better). Then there is the inimitable Shoo-Fly Pie. Hmmm. Delicious. But I digress.
My God, do we live in the Age of Nonsense or what?
somehistory says
I think it’s “or what”…spelled e v i l.. It is full of nonsense too, of course.
lebel says
Yeah but thats not evidence, you could say that its a high probability but you cannot deduce someone is Muslim without you know, evidence that they;re Muslim.
And just for your information, non-Muslims also stab people sometimes (crazy I know)
Wellington says
Over 31,000 documented Islamic terrorist acts just since 9/11 committed in the name of the most putrid religion of all time and you want to talk about evidence? Again, play the odds, doofus.
And yes, non-Muslims also stab people sometimes, but how many of those who do do so in the name of any religion but Islam?
My God, what a rank apologist for Mo’s creed you are. Which is to say you are both a fool and an excuse maker for the worst religion of all time.
Again, your turn. Give it a shot. I’m waiting.
Westman says
I can’t say you’re not a machine with perfect assurance. I’ve only found that perfection in mathematics.
Let’s just say that the knife attacker is most likey to be “mentally ill”, Muslim, or, both.
gravenimage says
Once again, lebel hopes to cast doubt on the idea that Muslims actually wage violent Jihad. Really, that is his only purpose here.
lebel says
@Wellington
Did the attacker claim his attack in the name of Islam. If he did, yes. If not, we cannot simply statethat someone is Muslim without more evidence that someone stabbed someone.
I know you understand this perfectly since only someone of very limited intelligence would have a problem with this reasoning. The real issue is that Islam has become an obsession for you and so you cannot imagine that someone other than a Muslim would do something bad somewhere.
I have already stated that the probability is high and thats the best we can say.
lebel says
@Westman
Yes, that is much more reasonable.
Of course on jwatch that makes you suspect; a secret Muslim or Muslim sympathizer or leftist. Careful
Wellington says
@lebel
It has nothing to do with obsession on my part, just, as I already indicated, a calculation of the odds. Don’t make more of this than this.
Aardvark says
I agree with Westman that the attacker was probably mentally ill. But i draw no distinction between mental illness and islam. Islam is a highly contagious and dangerous form of mental illness.
mike9a says
I’ll give 0.001% chance it is Eskimo or Japanese or rest of the normal world
Samantha S. says
@lebel . . .I will bet 1000 to 1 that HE IS MUSLIM!!!
Any bets??
Samantha S. says
“@lebel, I am surprised by your lack of understanding. TAQQYAH???
“local media reports claim the perpetrator was a 24-year-old Israeli man” JA JA JA
The Fake News Media failed to finish the sentence … was a 24-year-old Israeli ARAB.
In Europe, now days, it is forbidden to blame any attack on Muslims, it is better to use the word “Asians”, but this time since the perpetrator was a so-called Palestinian ARAB, or maybe an Israeli ARAB, it fits the narrative to avoid blaming terrorist attacks on Muslims. Poor people!
Wellington says
Again is demonstrated that Muslims have a serious impulse control problem. Fitting since their warped founder had the same problem whenever he was contradicted (in those damn Medina days after his silly Mecca days, which comes replete with the absurd abrogation nonsense, blah, blah, blah).
In fact, the Koran itself oozes an impulse control pathology. Fitting since this turgid, horribly repetitive and profoundly disturbing religious work (damn boring too), totally made up of course and anyone asserting otherwise is a fool, is DIRECTLY responsible for untold deaths, maiming and, in general, destroyed lives by the many untold millions of Muslims over the centuries who were snookered into believing that Mohammed was a good man (he most decidedly was not) and that the Koran is the word of the deity, word for word, in classical Arabic. Yep, pathology written all over the Koran, as it is with Mohammed, as it is with Islam in toto.
But hey, this most recent Muslim terror attack, of which there have been over 31,000 just since 9/11 in the name of the worst religion of all time, just justifies all the more Poland’s Prime Minister, Beata Szydlo, refusing to take in more Muslim immigrants as well as her dire warning to Western Europe to “get off its knees.” Of course, fools like Merkel, Macron, May and the present Pope (what an abomination this guy is——-glad I’m not a Catholic anymore because if I were this foolish bastard would break my heart) won’t learn. They never will. They are permanently stupid in the way that well educated people are often permanently stupid. And the worst kind, the most destructive kind, of “stupid” is the well educated version of stupid.
Meanwhile, long live a free, sensible and hopefully an almost entirely Muslim-free Poland. And I write this as one who is of half Polish descent and who wishes Poland nothing but the best, as I do the Polish policeman attacked by a believer of the most wretched religion ever.
Put another way, whatever is wrong with Poland, it’s nothing Islam can fix. Ditto for all of the West. Yes, all Western societies have problems and Islam can not only not fix any of them but will ALWAYS make things even worse. Damn, wish Western elites aplenty would figure this out. Not there yet. So, Islam still gets a pass. Damn.
gravenimage says
Wellington, it is not just impulse control How many of us would *want* to stab a policeman in the face, even if there were no consequences? This is not like–say–not paying your taxes or walking off with a big screen TV without paying–things that many of us might do if not for a sense of ethics and an understanding of consequences.
But Jihad? That has to be *be taught*–no normal person would want to do this.
Wellington says
I agree, gravenimage. Let me put it this way. Not all people with a serious impulse control problem are Muslims, but there are sure a hell of a lot of Muslims with a serious impulse control problem PRECISELY because they are devout Muslims.
Robeaver says
There is a big one coming. Somewhere. like 911. Islam is becoming bolder world wide. And again nothing will be done about this. Lock a few up, big hairy deal.
Keep writing your congress person.
b.a. freeman says
Robeaver, writing your congresscritter elicits an automated email reply and not much more, but i’ll bet that most critters will just put U on the list of crazies to check should the critter ever be physically attacked. that said, writing is *still* worthwhile, because any warning is better than no warning; one of them may actually be convinced to learn about islam.
BTW, in these modern days, writing a snail-mail letter might garner more attention than an email. i would type it rather than write it in longhand, because a longhand missive is likely to be seen as a sign of dangerous insanity.
John A. Marre says
Why does Poland have any Muslims? They serve no positive purpose, and are incompatible with a democratic republic.
mortimer says
John III Sobieski, Conqueror of the Ottoman Empire, Lion of Lechistan, Savior of Christendom at the Battle of Vienna, September 11, 1683. Don’t tread on Poland!
Jan III Sobieski, Zdobywca Imperium Osmańskiego, Lew Lechistanu, Zbawiciel chrześcijaństwa w bitwie pod Wiedniem, 11 września 1683. Nie chodź w Polsce!
D Austin says
“We came, we saw, and God conquered,” wrote Sobieski to Pope Innocent XI, echoing Julius Caesar’s famous remark on the conquest of Pontus, in modern Turkey.
Vienna, wrote one despairing Ottoman historian, had been a defeat “so great that there has never been its like since the first appearance of the Ottoman state.” He was almost right (the 1402 Battle of Ankara, in which Tamerlane’s Tatars captured the Ottoman leader Bayezid I, had been more devastating).
Guy Forester says
I guess it does look strange to walk around with a knife and head towards a venue with the name of your favorite deity attached. I think in the UK and most of the rest of Europe they would give the guy the benefit of the doubt and let him behead a few people before deciding he really is a threat.
D Austin says
The police in the pictures are armed. American police would have shot the guy before he could attack one of them.
Matthieu Baudin says
“… The Allah-Las concert is believed to be set to go ahead as planned.
Earlier today, authorities confirmed plans to deploy uniformed and plainclothes officers at tonight’s Allah-Las concert in the wake of yesterday’s attempted attack…”
The Poles will go ahead with business as usual and not be intimidated. They can afford this approach as they don’t have scores of militant aliens and fellow travellers breathing down their necks.
warren raymond says
It appears there are more Mohammedans in Poland than what we are told.
Matthieu Baudin says
The only significant numbers can be found in the Tatar population whose origins go back a long way and who by all (or almost all) accounts are socially integrated and patriotic in the Polish scheme of things. At any point in time however there may be quite a few Muslims travelling through the country and as we know quite well it doesn’t take many individuals to cause injury and chaos.
gravenimage says
Poland: Muslim stabs policeman in face near venue where Allah-Las are set to perform
……………..
Bloody thugs.
Anne Smith says
Its an ill wind…………
One can only hope that this horrible incident will encourage Polish politicians to stand up to the vile EU and refuse to allow in the Muslim immigrants which Merkel is hoping to offload on them via the quota system. So far they have been very resolute, let us hope this will stiffen their resolve.
Irene Brekelmans says
It shows already that a lot of Muslims are crazy to just approach people , stick them with a knife, kill them.
Normal people don’t behave like that.
In spiritual teachings it is taught that even when you fall into a bad mood,and you don’t feel good:
It is ALWAYS about yourself, you did something not in the right way, you lied, or something, but it is always IN YOURSELF. If you start to check it out with yourself, you might come to the conclusion…………….
I did, I first would not want to admit it to myself, but later I had to.And then you arrive on the conclusion, that : all you do to humans, animals and nature, you do it to yourself and it comes back to you, sometimes worse, than what you did.
And this is very true for all, for muslims too, all we did, will still come back, of course intentions count too, but if you have bad intentions from the beginning, it comes back to you, but stronger.
And nature, at a certain moment starts to fight back and we all think we can control nature, but you can’t. Nature is so strong, as we will see in the coming years as it has started to fight back. After the solar eclipse, it really starts, things will change.
But if you have the intention, to kill, rape, behead, stone, whip, crucify, burn, throwing people of high buildings, then that was your intention beforehand, well thought out. So, give it a thought, if you want to, if you don’t that is ok by me too.
FYI says
Allahlas poor yorick!I knew him well,Horatio!
{holding skull up to the light}
……….But then he shouldn’t have converted to islam….hark! what foolish knavery tis’ to bow thine head to the moon god…
[chorus} Waugh a ah hahahahaahaha
Exeunt Hamlet,Horatio,Rosenkrantz,Guildenstern..and a cigar merchant..
Northern says
I just saw this on CBC News. The byline says the attack was carried out by an “Israeli Citizen”.
I just did a google search – “knife attack Poland”. Before I got to JihadWatch, the previous 10 “hits” said this attack was carried out by an “Israeli citizen”. So how many readers will assume this was carried out by Jewish Israeli. The Media really is the Enemedia.