• Why Jihad Watch?
  • About Robert Spencer and Staff Writers
  • FAQ
  • Books
  • Muhammad
  • Islam 101
  • Privacy

Jihad Watch

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Robert Spencer: Vehicular Jihad Comes to Barcelona

Aug 18, 2017 9:30 am By Robert Spencer

Meanwhile, on CNN, the denial and willful ignorance continue. My latest in FrontPage:

In Spain Thursday, a man drove a truck into a crowd at Barcelona’s popular Costa Dorada area, killing at least 13 and injuring 100. On CNN, Wolf Blitzer asked, “There will be questions about copycats. Questions, if what happened in Barcelona, was at all, at all, a copycat version of what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia.”

No, Wolf, it was a phenomenon with which you and your CNN colleagues have only a glancing familiarity: Islamic jihad. Of course Wolf Blitzer immediately reached for a connection with Charlottesville, because he most likely doesn’t believe that there are Islamic jihadis at all, just mentally ill lone wolves driven to violence by “Islamophobia.” Jihad doesn’t fit his network’s narrative. And vehicular jihad? Wolf has never heard of such a thing.

Last June, the Islamic State published a poster depicting an SUV driving over a heap of skulls and bearing the legend “Run Over Them Without Mercy.”

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….

Many Muslims in the West have heeded this call. The man who rented the van used in the Barcelona attack was a Muslim from Morocco named Driss Oukabier, who was arrested, while one of his apparent accomplices was killed in a gun battle with police. This could have been just one part of a much larger jihad plot, as Spanish police now believe that a massive explosion in a house in Alcanar, 120 miles south of Barcelona, was also linked to the Barcelona jihad plotters.

There have been many other vehicular jihad attacks. Just last week in France, a Muslim named Hamou Bachir hit six French soldiers with his car in Levallois-Perret, where the headquarters of the DGSI (General Directorate for Internal Security), the country’s primary counter-terrorism intelligence agency, are located. In June, a Muslim drove his car into a crowd on the London Bridge and then jumped out and started stabbing people. We have seen several other vehicular jihadis get out of the car after they plowed into pedestrians, and start stabbing people. In June 2015, a Muslim in Austria drove his car into a crowd, killing three, and then got out and stabbed passersby. Then in November 2016, a Muslim student at Ohio State University named Abdul Razak Ali Artan drove his car into a crowd, then got out and stabbed several others.

There have been many others in 2016 and this year: in Nice, in Berlin, in Jerusalem, in Paris, and elsewhere. Yet on CNN and elsewhere in the establishment media, no analysts have connected the dots between these jihad attacks, which have an obvious connection with one another in sharing the same motivating ideology and the same goal. But Wolf Blitzer readily sees a wholly imaginary connection between Charlottesville (in which a neo-Nazi was imitating jihadis, not the other way around) and Barcelona, because he wishes to exaggerate the importance and influence of white supremacists, while minimizing the magnitude of the jihad threat.

And so it goes in the daily news of the contemporary West: another jihad massacre, and another reason to turn off CNN.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Follow me on Facebook

Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), journalistic bias, Spain, Useful idiots, Vehicular jihad, willful ignorance Tagged With: Barcelona, CNN, Wolf Blitzer


Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Comments

  1. mike9a says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 9:38 am

    An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Winston Churchill

    • John Forbes says

      Aug 27, 2017 at 7:10 pm

      WOLF BLITZER has actually never been a thinking heavy weight ! He is a parrot like many at these News Outlets !
      He has probably been told to say this nonsense & nonsense it is !
      Again & again we see this constant Stubborn DENIAL about the connection between the abusive teachings of this Ideology & the attackers !
      Again & again there is denial & then elaborate excuses with stories of Mental Illness ,radicalization & being led astray yet if one reads the entire verses in the KORAN & HADITHS the direction to kill & abuse people of other faiths is very clear !
      In no way can I see anything like a parallel with Charlotsville ! This was a RIGHT WING nutter but nothing to do with ISLAM !
      The only connection was death but the motives although twisted were in no way connected !

  2. Michael Copeland says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 9:45 am

    Once again the mainstream media shows itself to be inadequate.

  3. Andy says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 9:54 am

    Barcelona attack: 2 words the media won’t say

    • JIMJFOX says

      Aug 18, 2017 at 1:06 pm

      He’s WRONG. White or any other colour, these are NOT ‘racist attacks’ they are Islamic Jihad. The jihadis don’t care about the race of their victims, just that they are non-believers, ‘najis kuffar’, of any race or belief other than Islam. We don’t need this guy muddying the waters with ‘racist’- that is just what the jihadis do.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 19, 2017 at 12:15 am

        Exactly, Jim.

  4. common sense says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 10:06 am

    14 are now dead. Thoughts and prayers. Now, Euro’s need to stop running away, getting on their phones and crying. If it were me Lying in the street get the hell after those scum bags and let em have it! Demand your gov’t stop allowing these vile bags of shite to over run your nation, fight back! That’s what I would want.
    Imagine my shock that there was another murder1 plot foiled involving bombs and that the Gestapo SS officer Wolf Snitzer has it all wrong telling lies to the sheeple. Wait til jihadis start lobbing mortars down the streets if Europe.

    • Grace says

      Aug 19, 2017 at 6:07 pm

      The European citizens cannot change their closed minds. The Brain washing is complete. When will they wake up? When the Silent Caliphate is complete and Sharia law takes over Europe. Europeans will be outnumbered and outvoted and classified as infidels. ..

  5. Saipan Sam says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 10:13 am

    “…you and your CNN colleagues have only a glancing familiarity: Islamic jihad. ”

    On the contrary.. I believe the know exactly what’s going on here. They simply have no desire to confront it. Why the cowardice???

    Charlie Hebdo… They fear the next car will be laden with explosives and have CNN’s name on it.

    They’re cowards.

    • WorkingClassPost says

      Aug 18, 2017 at 5:45 pm

      Yes they are.

  6. mariam rove says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 10:19 am

    In some emergency cases in the hospital, they have to induce vomiting. In cases like this they should just play CNN with Wolf Blitzer and the patient will automatically vomit. m

  7. StacyGirl says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 10:23 am

    Hamou? That’s an odd name for a Nazi.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 19, 2017 at 12:17 am

      +1

  8. StacyGirl says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 10:26 am

    Yesterday it was observed by Rush Limbaugh that the media Leads us as fas from the truth as possible.

  9. mortimer says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 10:27 am

    Wolf Blitzer speaks like a man on DRUGS! The Left is STONED on their MARXIST IDEOLOGY just like heroin addicts. All Leftards like Wolf Blitzer can think of is how to GET MORE DRUG!

    The idea that Muslims want to kill the LEFTARDS is the toughest thing for Wolf Blitzer and his friend to admit. Such an admission would destroy the basis of their ideological addiction.

    It has been said that Islam is FASCISM plus ALLAH. The Muslim Brotherhood is the Egyptian version of the German Nazi Party.

  10. Northern Virginiastan says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 10:43 am

    Wolf should know better, as he studied in Israel

    • mike9a says

      Aug 18, 2017 at 11:51 am

      Perhaps visited, but absolutely NOT studied! as proven in his ridiculous comparison. Anyone with brain can read through this charlatan lies and fiction. Unfortunately, he is in position to poison generations.

  11. don vito says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 10:46 am

    may these jihadi enablers soon realise that multiculturalism is not assimilateable. Failure is an option for the west, and failure to realise is being institutionalized.

  12. Yohanan says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 11:00 am

    Copycat from when? Suicide attacks against military targets (like kamikaze) are old. Also a list of more recent vehicle ramming attacks against civilians for political terror or religious cult belief is quite long. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-ramming_attack

  13. ElderlyZionist says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 11:00 am

    Wolf is not entirely wrong. Nazis and mujahidin have learned from one another for many years. Hitler admired and emulated the Armenian genocide, and the Mufti, and many Arab leaders since, admired and tried to emulate Hitler’s holocaust. It was probably the pinhead Nazi fanboy in Virginia who learned vehicular jihad from the mujahidin, rather than the other way around, but I expect there is mutual admiration and emulation, back and forth.

  14. Traylor says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 11:24 am

    More than ever, we need to be strong for each other. Protect each other. Keep our eyes open and report anything suspicious to authorities.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 19, 2017 at 12:21 am

      True, Traylor. And hope the authorities don’t just consider us “Islamophobes” for doing so.

  15. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 1:18 pm

    Regarding that brutal and murderous vehicle jihad attack in Barcelona, Spain, President Trump keyboarded “We will do whatever is necessary to help.” This, most likely, includes not only the sharing in intelligence information but , when appropriate the use strong force against those vicious and dangerous jihadists .For the power of might is the only language that those jihad-minded Muslims will understand. Likewise, about that deadly and malicious Islamic terror attack in Barcelona, Vice President Pence said “The US and out allies will find and punish those responsible for the terror attack…” Pence further spoke about “Eliminating Islamic terrorism from the earth.”
    This reflects the wisdom of some of the words of Thomas Jefferson, who had declared “With every barbarous people…force is law.”

    • terry says

      Aug 21, 2017 at 5:49 pm

      And Reich said, ” Trump must go”, been in office ” too long’ (7 months) and race relations are bad; NK, etc.

      AND PEOPLE LISTEN TO THIS SHIT???

  16. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 1:18 pm

    That malicious and murderous vehicle jihad terror attack in Barcelona, Spain which resulted in the tragic jihad murder of fourteen people and the wounding of over one hundred more people was most heinous and wicked. That jihadist Muslim who deliberately ran down and over all those people is a jihad –minded Muslim who was acting out according to the instructions contained in the “holy book” of Islam the Quran. For example, the Quran in Surah 9:123 instructs “O you who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you and let them find harshness in you…”
    Let’s face it; intentionally running over people in a van is a very effective of showing people who are not Muslims “harshness.” Nevertheless, there are still some who, in spite of all the facts, claim that “Islam is a peaceful religion.” This claim has been proven to be blatantly false by the violet and deadly teaching of the Quran as well as by the behavior of many jihadist/Muslims who are inspired to inflect vicious murderous violence on people who are not Muslims.
    In short, Islam is a religion of cruel, deadly violence.

  17. Paul says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 5:57 pm

    One doesn’t know whether to laugh or to cry observing the Catalan press covering the story. Rajoy has clearly labeled the attack as “jihadist terrorism”, as do the police, yet certain elements continue to flog the snake oil of “nothing to do with Islam”. So, one ends up wondering; where does the word “jihad” come from? The ether? Chinese? Twitter? My feeling from talking to people in shops etc is that the people on the street here just ain’t buyin’ it, they know all to well what the real problem is…

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Aug 19, 2017 at 4:43 am

      Paul – here is something you could translate into Catalan, and into standard ‘Spanish’.

      “Got Muslims? Got Jihad”.

      Create a poster with those words, and a recognisable image from 1/ the Muslim mass-murder-by-bomb in Madrid in 2004 and 2/ the Muslim mass-murder-by-van in Barcelona, 2017.

      Then find a way of discreetly spreading it abroad.

  18. Lydia says

    Aug 18, 2017 at 8:55 pm

    The Orwellian opposite day guards strike again!

    It’s not terrorists lashing out in reaction to ‘islamophobia,’
    it’s islamophobia in reaction to terrorist islamist attacks!

    Then they pick the latest ‘white man’ incited violent event and tack all other violence on top of it,
    all the jihad terror attacks linked and attached to it like a train following the first caboose, so they
    can blame the ‘right’ and then…
    instead of coming for the true terrorists, they come for those who tell the truth about terror.

  19. gravenimage says

    Aug 19, 2017 at 12:12 am

    Robert Spencer: Vehicular Jihad Comes to Barcelona
    ……………………

    Pious Muslims have been waging vehicular Jihad in Europe for some time now.

  20. Anne Smith says

    Aug 19, 2017 at 7:06 am

    CNN man absolutely out of touch with reality.

    Hope Bannon starts up a new TV station to promote the truth. Heaven knows we need a few – BBC could do with a decent competitor, they fill their days with rubbish about India and Pakistan and ignore the death of Europe taking place under their noses.

    • Carolyne says

      Aug 19, 2017 at 10:28 pm

      I can’t imagine naming one’s baby “Wolf,” but an idiot by any name would still be a idiot. It is more like!y that the Charlottsville incident was a copycat of incidents in London, Nice, Paris and many other similar attacks by Muslims around the world.

  21. Hand says

    Aug 19, 2017 at 7:16 am

    Dear Robert,
    In the dutch news are reports that the Spanish policy is checking the DNA of an imam, who has dief in the bomb blast. Same reports in spanish newspsoer sites, but my soanish is not so good
    Hans

  22. Pro Patria says

    Aug 20, 2017 at 10:51 am

    The Spanish authorities were warned by CIA, 2 months ago. An eminent attack was expected to take place, at the Rambla in Barcelona.
    The mayor said there were not enough money for security (barricades).
    Isn’t that a question of priority?

  23. terry says

    Aug 21, 2017 at 5:53 pm

    A question.

    WHEN A MUSLIM RAMS A CAR OR TRUCK OR VAN, IT IS A ” LONE WOLF” ATTACK. The man is (if not killed) or was (if dead) “mentally ill”. (Regardless of how many are killed)

    Nothing to do with Islam.

    BUT A WHITE SUPREMACIST, KILLS 1 PERSON AND INJURES MORE, IT IS ” ALL” WHITE SUPREMACISTS, WHO ARE GUILTY.

    The question: why isn’t this person accorded the same media treatment, that he is mentally ill? Or, that he might be mentally ill?

    media bias?

FacebookYoutubeTwitterLog in

Subscribe to the Jihad Watch Daily Digest

You will receive a daily mailing containing links to the stories posted at Jihad Watch in the last 24 hours.
Enter your email address to subscribe.

Please wait...

Thank you for signing up!
If you are forwarding to a friend, please remove the unsubscribe buttons first, as they my accidentally click it.

Subscribe to all Jihad Watch posts

You will receive immediate notification.
Enter your email address to subscribe.
Note: This may be up to 15 emails a day.

Donate to JihadWatch
FrontPage Mag

Search Site

Translate

The Team

Robert Spencer in FrontPageMag
Robert Spencer in PJ Media

Articles at Jihad Watch by
Robert Spencer
Hugh Fitzgerald
Christine Douglass-Williams
Andrew Harrod
Jamie Glazov
Daniel Greenfield

Contact Us

Terror Attacks Since 9/11

Archives

  • 2020
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2019
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2018
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2017
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2016
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2015
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2014
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2013
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2012
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2011
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2010
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2009
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2008
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2007
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2006
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2005
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2004
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2003
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • March

All Categories

You Might Like

Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Recent Comments

  • revereridesagain on Erdogan: ‘Turks must defend the rights of Jerusalem, even with their lives’ for ‘the honor of the Islamic nation’
  • James Lincoln on Erdogan: ‘Turks must defend the rights of Jerusalem, even with their lives’ for ‘the honor of the Islamic nation’
  • Carol on Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, France and UAE conduct joint military exercises amid rising Turkish threat
  • James Lincoln on EU Parliament members call for firing of border agency director for preventing illegal migrants from entering Europe
  • Jayme on Canadian Mental Health Association studies Muslim women’s mental health due to ‘discrimination’ and ‘hate crimes’

Popular Categories

dhimmitude Sharia Jihad in the U.S ISIS / Islamic State / ISIL Iran Free Speech

Robert Spencer FaceBook Page

Robert Spencer Twitter

Robert Spencer twitter

Robert Spencer YouTube Channel

Books by Robert Spencer

Jihad Watch® is a registered trademark of Robert Spencer in the United States and/or other countries - Site Developed and Managed by Free Speech Defense

Content copyright Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. Images on this blog are copyright to their respective owners. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and you do not wish for it appear on this site, please E-mail with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed.

Our mailing address is: David Horowitz Freedom Center, P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks, CA 91499-1964

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.