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NYC truck jihad death toll now eight, “Middle Eastern man” arrested

Oct 31, 2017 5:46 pm By Robert Spencer

“Eyewitnesses told police the driver yelled ‘Allahu Akbar!’ — Arabic for ‘God is great!’ — after running down helpless riders from behind, their mangled bodies left scattered behind his runaway rental truck.”

The jihadi reportedly entered the bike path in the 40’s and drove all the way down to Chambers Street.

Will the Islamophobia never end?

“Eight people killed after terrorist shooter driving Home Depot truck rips through Lower Manhattan bike lane,” by Reuven Blau, Jillian Jorgensen, and Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, October 31, 2017:

At least eight people were killed Tuesday afternoon when a speeding Home Depot truck plowed down riders on a Lower Manhattan bike path in a terrorist attack, sources said.

Eyewitnesses told police the driver yelled “Allahu Akbar!” — Arabic for “God is great!” — after running down helpless riders from behind, their mangled bodies left scattered behind his runaway rental truck.

The Middle Eastern man was arrested after police shot him in the rear end following a Tribeca crash between the truck and a school bus. Sources said he was waving an air pistol and a BB gun when cops reached the scene.

The truck jumped the curb near Houston St. at 3:04 p.m. and began bearing down on the unsuspecting bicyclists, sources told the Daily News. Video showed crumpled two-wheelers and four bodies left in the vehicle’s deadly wake.

“I heard a truck, a car, something going down the bike path,” said eyewitness Eugene Duff, 44, who was waiting at a red light to walk across West St. “It was wrong.”

The off-duty chef watched in disbelief as the driver of the speeding truck ran down a pair of CitiBike riders about 50 feet apart, catching both from behind on the busy bike path alongside the Hudson River.

There were visible tire tracks on the bodies of the two victims as the truck continued to carve a path of carnage through the neighborhood, he said.

“I thought it was terrorism,” he said of the Tribeca attack. “That’s the first thing that crossed my mind.”…

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  1. Santa Voorhees says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 5:50 pm

    This candle lights, flowers and teddy bears business is getting big. I might as well start one and then use the money earned to go to eastern Europe or Japan, where I’ll be safe from the religion of peace.

    • Always On Watch says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 5:58 pm

      I hear ya, Santa Voorhees.

      I’m sick and tired of all the rinse and repeat.

      • Santa Voorhees says

        Oct 31, 2017 at 6:55 pm

        Me too. Known jihadists should be immediately deported or killed on the spot, and their leftist supporters jailed for life. No discounts.

      • Westman says

        Oct 31, 2017 at 7:12 pm

        Me too! Anyone want to bet against this monster having one of the 99 names of Muhammad or his companions?

        If CAIR had any soul, Hooper would be apologizing for what is being done, but, of course, CAIR will say it has nothing to do with Islam. Let’s see the SPLC try to profit from this attack; it looks more like a charlatan with every terror incident.

        Apparently Allahu Akbar means, “peace and good wishes on unbelievers”. This terror attack is merely a poignant vision of Allah’s “merciful way” on full display.

    • KH says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 6:02 pm

      Fair comment. Sadly.

      • E Y Whetzel says

        Nov 1, 2017 at 9:39 am

        He had a police record in St Louis Mo. Why was he not followed after that?

  2. neversink says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 5:56 pm

    Remember – With the help of Mayor DiBlasio, years of research into Islamic terror by the NYPD was quashed and destroyed!!!!!

  3. Emilie Green says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 5:57 pm

    Overheard in newsrooms all across the country,

    “Hope it’s not a Muslim”

    “Hope it’s not a Muslim”

    “Hope it’s not a Muslim”

    • PRCS says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 6:11 pm

      And in mosques…..

      Still not in our name. Still not in our name. Still not in our name. Still not in our name.

  4. MasQueNada says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 6:01 pm

    Thank you Mr. Islamic Terrorist for only killing eight and maiming dozens. I appreciate your goodwill gesture. We are not worthy of your kindness.

  5. Eur says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 6:03 pm

    A hug from Spain. I love New York, the capital of the free world, a true cosmopolitan city that knows what it is to suffer Islam. We must be together and put an end to this scourge.

    • JawsV says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 6:16 pm

      So glad you got the Moslems out in 1492.

      • blitz2b says

        Oct 31, 2017 at 7:19 pm

        Not so quick JawsV…. They are back with a vengeance, thanks to the Islamo-pandering EU Muslim immigrant resettlement program that has vowed to reshape and redefine what Europe is going to look like….

        BTW, Spain already has a huge Muslim population.

        • JawsV says

          Oct 31, 2017 at 8:16 pm

          I’m sorry to hear that, blitz.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 6:24 pm

      Thank you, Eur.

    • Santa Voorhees says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 6:29 pm

      The first step to put an end to this scourge is to overthrow the Left.

      Let’s be honest: without the Left, Islam probably wouldn’t have done much within our borders. After all, it is the Left who keeps letting them in. And we already saw many times the results of it.

    • abad says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 6:42 pm

      Thank you, Eur.

      We need to overthrow the lslam-loving liberal elite of the western world, put God back into our society.

      And I do NOT mean the Satanic Allah, either.

  6. PRCS says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 6:12 pm

    I’m glad he survived .

    The public needs to know about Islam from him.

    • JawsV says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 6:18 pm

      Apparently Abdullah’s sporting the obligatory gross Moslem facial hair.

      • Westman says

        Oct 31, 2017 at 6:48 pm

        Yes. It seems the tendency to violent jihad is proportional to the length and grizzly-ness of the beard.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 6:29 pm

      How many does it take, though? Most of these Jihadists spout the Islamic party line–but most Infidels still do not learn.

    • Puddin' says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 6:31 pm

      They won’t believe him

      • PRCS says

        Oct 31, 2017 at 8:51 pm

        Only one way to know.

  7. Bree says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 6:17 pm

    Emilie, although tragic, I still had to laugh at your words. Very true.

  8. Jaladhi says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 6:22 pm

    He has been identified with a Russian sounding name – so how can he be “middle eastern looking”?

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 6:34 pm

      His name is Sayfullo Saipov. Since he was yelling “Allahu Akbar!”, he is probably from one of the Muslim-majority ‘Stans.

      • Jack Diamond says

        Oct 31, 2017 at 7:00 pm

        Uzbekistan, came to US in 2010. From Tampa, Fl. He was a commercial truck driver.

        • Jaladhi says

          Oct 31, 2017 at 7:04 pm

          During and after the Bosnian crisis, US admitted so many Muslims from those “stans” and it is still continuing. And then they wonder why there are terror attacks in USA!

  9. Bree says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 6:24 pm

    Updating my post:
    Overheard in newsrooms all across the country:

    “Hope it’s a Christian!”

    “Hope it’s a Christian!”

    “Hope it’s a Christian!”

    Reply

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 6:35 pm

      They also really hope it was someone who voted for Donald Trump…

      • PRCS says

        Oct 31, 2017 at 6:40 pm

        No doubt.

    • Jaladhi says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 7:06 pm

      Ha, ha, ha, .. and God didn’t gran them their wish! Deep down there they all know who will be committing this heinous act!

  10. PATRICIA FRANCES KOENIG says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 6:39 pm

    Btw, “Allahu Akbar” translates to “Allah is greater” or “Allah is greatest.” Greater than whom? Greater than Jesus Christ, of course. And, in their opinion, greatest of all deities. (Muslims persecute Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, animists, and atheists) It shows Islam’s attitude of superiority…and their competitive, striving for global dominance.

    • Santa Voorhees says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 6:48 pm

      But you’re a white supremacist for pointing that out, which is worse than jihadists killing people. Don’t you know that?

      That’s the Left’s line of “thinking”.

    • abad says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 6:50 pm

      The only thing Islam is superior in is violence, killing, death, sexual depravity.

      Don’t forget, their prophet Mohammad was the product of a she-goat and a demon-man

  11. Eur says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 6:52 pm

    They were expelled since 1609 after multiple attacks, rebellions, alliances with North African and Ottoman pirates (in 1492 Castille and Aragon conquered the last Muslim ruled by sharia territory but Muslims stayed in the kingdom after that). … but today it does not matter. Our prayers are with New York, Muslims know that today is a special date, Halloween, the whole family celebrating in the streets. Also in the streets of Spain today children also disguise themselves, children from Spanish, Asian, African families … it is all joy … except for Muslims … they do not disguise themselves or celebrate. They are the saddest society on the planet.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 7:03 pm

      Yes–there were probably more kids in the street outside the school because of Hallowe’en. Muslims have targeted Hallowe’en celebrations before.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Nov 1, 2017 at 7:21 am

        There is something to remember about Hallowe’en though. It was on the evening of 31st October – on Hallowe’en, All Hallows’ Eve – 1917 that 800 Australian lighthorsemen charged the Turkish Muslim defences at Beer Sheba – the Well of the Oath, its name recorded and explained in the Book of Genesis – and… *took it*. A victory that opened the way to Jerusalem; the liberation of Jerusalem from centuries of Muslim rule; and the end of the Caliphate. A victory that formed part of the process that led toward the restoration of the sovereign Jewish state of Israel on traditional Hebrew land.; the Jewish state that would liberate Jerusalem a *second* time, 50 years later, in 1967.

  12. abad says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 6:57 pm

    Authorities say he came to the United States seven years ago from Uzbekistan under what is called the Diversity Visa Program, which offers a lottery for people from countries with few immigrants in America.

    http://abc7chicago.com/new-york-city-rampage-what-we-know-about-the-suspect/2589184/

    ………………………..

    Hussein Obama’s Diversity Visa program, no doubt.

    This is on the former Commander in Chief.

    • Santa Voorhees says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 7:01 pm

      The only thing diverse in Islam are the infidels it kills.

      • abad says

        Oct 31, 2017 at 7:07 pm

        True that.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 7:04 pm

      That’s about what I thought, abad, given the Jihadist’s Russian-sounding name. Thanks.

      • abad says

        Oct 31, 2017 at 7:19 pm

        You’re welcome.

  13. arauna palm says

    Nov 1, 2017 at 4:46 am

    Allah – hu means Allla-he
    kabeer is big but Akbar means “the greatest”

    So this world does not mean god is great BUT: Allah he is the greatest (god).

    It is a saying of supremacy of this one God.

  14. Linde Barrera says

    Nov 2, 2017 at 1:23 am

    May the murdered rest in peace with Jesus. +

    I can only hope justice will be served to their vile Islamist killer (who got shot in the back) by him never being able to walk again. ?

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