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UK: Four injured as taxi mounts pavement and hits pedestrians at tourist hotspot, cops say not terror-related

Nov 1, 2017 2:55 pm By Robert Spencer

It is not a terror-related incident, say police. Thus it may not be. Unfortunately, however, police the world over have an unfortunate pattern of denying that jihad terror attacks are terror attacks. Is that the case in this instance? Maybe. Maybe not. The larger problem is that the public is being misled on a consistent basis.

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….

Does that mean this is an Islamic State jihad attack? Not at all. It only means that it could be, and we need officials to be honest.

I wrote exactly those same words yesterday about the New York City jihad massacre. That one turned out to be a jihad attack, despite initial police denials. Will this one turn out to be a jihad attack as well? Maybe. But with British officials even more clueless, corrupt and compromised than their American counterparts, we may never know the truth.

“Covent Garden crash: Four injured after taxi mounts pavement and hits pedestrians at tourist hotspot,” by Hatty Collier, Chloe Chaplain and Ella Wills, Evening Standard, November 1, 2017:

Four people have been injured after a black cab mounted the pavement and hit pedestrians at a busy tourist hotspot in central London.

Scotland Yard said a taxi had crashed into people in Southampton Street near Covent Garden at about 5pm.

Initial reports from witnesses suggested people were trapped beneath the taxi after the crash.

The incident is not believed to be terror-related but the driver has been detained.

Scores of emergency services rushed to the scene and police cleared panicked bystanders from the area.

Westminster MPS confirmed it was dealing with a “serious injury accident involving a taxi” and said that casualties were being treated by London Ambulance Service.

LAS said one person was rushed to hospital with a major leg injury and two others were taken to hospital for minor injuries.

A fourth was treated at the scene.

A Met Police spokesman added: “It is not being treated as anything other than a collision.

“Police were called at 5.01pm on Wednesday to reports of a taxi in collision with pedestrians in Southampton Street, WC2.

“Officers and the other emergency services attended the scene.

“We are aware of injuries but await further confirmation. The driver of the taxi stopped at the scene and has been detained by police.

“This is being treated as a serious road traffic collision, and not thought to be terrorist related.”…

Witness Ed Hoppitt posted: “Just came within meters of being hit by a vehicle that mounted the pavement and ploughed into people. #CoventGarden people down under taxi.”

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  1. Voytek Gagalka says

    Nov 1, 2017 at 3:13 pm

    One pattern clearly visible is that those kind of “incidents” are happening now daily somewhere around the world. Related? Not related? Just a coincidence?

    • Ryan says

      Nov 2, 2017 at 6:40 pm

      No description of taxi driver? That’s strange.

  2. mortimer says

    Nov 1, 2017 at 3:24 pm

    Report: “the cab driver is a white male in his 40s.”

    We shall soon hear more. Where will the third jihad attack be?

    • mortimer says

      Nov 1, 2017 at 3:28 pm

      Police would know very quickly whether it was a jihad attack. If they know, they may be hunting for accomplices and do not wish to tip them off.

    • RichardL says

      Nov 2, 2017 at 1:33 am

      are there still non-Mohammedan taxi drivers in the UK? White means nothing because there are whitish Pakistanis.

  3. gravenimage says

    Nov 1, 2017 at 3:59 pm

    UK: Four injured as taxi mounts pavement and hits pedestrians at tourist hotspot, cops say not terror-related
    …………………………….

    This is what police in New York said yesterday. Just hours later, they admitted that it *was* terrrorism, carried out by a Muslim with a name that translates to “Sword of Islam”.

    Will it be a similar story here? Will we ever hear?

    • StacyGirl says

      Nov 1, 2017 at 4:19 pm

      There’s always a rush to proclaim “no terrorism” was involved. Contrast the description of a white male today with yesterday’s hush on that subject and NBC’s lightening of the NY murderer’s skin tone. The press is keenly aware of the need to massage facts and derail islamophobic conclusions. The media can not be trusted to give straight facts. **We can’t handle the truth**

      • apexpoint says

        Nov 2, 2017 at 1:11 am

        Not terrorist attack but these kind of attacks will kill the UK tourism industry. Are Theresa May and gang happy ???????

  4. D J says

    Nov 1, 2017 at 4:19 pm

    Black cab drivers are rarely muslim.
    Minicab drivers are often muslim, and we still don’t know about what really happened outside the Natural History Museum a fewweeks ago.

    • Jayell says

      Nov 1, 2017 at 4:43 pm

      To become a black cab driver you have to pass the very demanding ‘knowledge’ test, which requires serious dedication, a methodical mind and intelligence. You also have to be of good character and honest. Would a muslim foot the bill?

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 1, 2017 at 7:28 pm

        I hope Londoners are safer from Muslim cabbies than here in the States. In San Francisco, I would estimate that half of drivers are Muslim–here in the East Bay, it is even worse–almost 90% are.

  5. I wonder about leftists says

    Nov 1, 2017 at 4:43 pm

    Coincidence, How dumb muslims are, now they can’t even drive any more. I think they decided to make more victims in smaller accidents. Deport them now !!!

    • Greyhound Fancier says

      Nov 1, 2017 at 6:24 pm

      I know a woman who worked as a nurse in SA years ago. The women of course weren’t allowed to drive. The men were terrible drivers, back then, in the 1980s.

      Too busy thinking about how to oppress the women?

  6. Bill says

    Nov 1, 2017 at 5:59 pm

    No matter what, it will be chalked up to mental illness. It’s a pandemic.

    • Kay says

      Nov 1, 2017 at 6:06 pm

      There must be a few things that are known to bring on mental illness, dangerous things, things best avoided.

  7. Jean Davis says

    Nov 1, 2017 at 7:49 pm

    My son works in Covent Garden every other Wednesday & November 1st he was working in the office where this taxi went up the curb.He was working late thank goodness or he cud’ve been one of the injured.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 2, 2017 at 7:25 pm

      I’m glad your son is safe, Jean.

  8. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Nov 1, 2017 at 9:04 pm

    Just like the Mohammadins killed the economies around the Mediterranean Sea by their constant piracy and warfare (and helped launch the dark ages), so they will kill entire tourism economies and launch an economic dark ages in key parts of the Western world.

  9. Mark says

    Nov 2, 2017 at 9:02 am

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  10. Andy says

    Nov 2, 2017 at 10:57 am

    Tommy Robinson for Prime Minister of United Kingdom

    Breakfast at Tommy’s: NYC Terror and Lee Rigby’s Killer (11/01/17)

  11. Andy says

    Nov 2, 2017 at 10:58 am

  12. MTMLA says

    Nov 2, 2017 at 1:10 pm

    Most taxi drivers are mohammedams, Police right away says it’s not terrorism without even having time to investigate. Driver is not named…. same MO in Europe and the US, running people over… We conclude that there’s more to the story. Just give time . I hope the truth will come out and not buried.

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