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Austria: Muslim arrested for plotting jihad massacre at Christmas market

Dec 8, 2017 5:54 pm By Robert Spencer

“He had visited mosques, but it was not yet clear whether he had been radicalized.”

No, he hadn’t been radicalized. Waging war against unbelievers, including the “People of the Book,” is just ordinary Islam (cf. Qur’an 9:29).

“Bosnian suspected of plotting Christmas market attack in Austria’s Graz,” Reuters, December 8, 2017:

VIENNA (Reuters) – A 25-year-old Bosnian man has been arrested in the Austrian city of Graz on suspicion of planning an attack on its Christmas market, police said on Thursday.

The Muslim man was detained on Dec. 1 at an emergency shelter where others saw him watching videos about last year’s attacks in Nice and Berlin on a computer, a force spokesman said.

Witnesses heard him talking about Berlin and death, the spokesman added.

He had visited mosques, but it was not yet clear whether he had been radicalized or had any accomplices, police said….

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  1. jihad3tracker says

    Dec 8, 2017 at 6:00 pm

    ANOTHER WORSHIPPER OF BLOODTHIRSTY ALLAH, WHO WAS THE SUBCONSCIOUS OF MUHAMMAD — AN EMOTIONALLY SICK PERSON.

    But for privilege-guilt leftist Westerners, who say that all cultures and religions deserve equal respect, such reality can NEVER be admitted.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 8, 2017 at 11:33 pm

      Bosnians were ‘moderate’ Muslims, until Soddy Barbaria started sending SALAFIST MULLAHS to teach the Bosnian Muslims about HATING the dirty KUFAAR ‘for the sake of Allah’ and about jihad.

      • acs says

        Dec 10, 2017 at 12:33 am

        Before the last war in Bosnia,around 25 years ago around 30% of inhabitants of Bosnia and Herzegovina were Muslims. Now they have reached 50%.

        During that war the Bosnians Muslims had strong support of USA. At that time Bin Laden was still considered “cool” in the USA. There were the Muslim “world” “fighters” flowing from all around, just like they were coming to Syria. USA and the West supported them then.

        The same way, the jihadists books for children still used in Afghanistan were paid by the US taxpayers:

        https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/12/08/the-taliban-indoctrinates-kids-with-jihadist-textbooks-paid-for-by-the-u-s/

    • Bob says

      Dec 9, 2017 at 7:44 am

      Ah yes, another poor mentally challenged soul!

  2. Voytek Gagalka says

    Dec 8, 2017 at 6:20 pm

    “…it was not yet clear whether he… had any accomplices.”

    His accomplices are his fellow believers who pay obligatory zakat and will defend him and his reputation no matter what.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Dec 8, 2017 at 6:54 pm

      HELLO V.G. —- Your comment reminds me of a truth said by Dr. Bill Warner, in one of his many videos:

      “THERE ARE NO LONE WOLVES IN ISLAM. EVERY JIHADI HAS TWO COMPANIONS WITH HIM — ALLAH AND MUHAMMAD.”

      For readers of Jihad Watch who do not already know about Dr. Warner’s website, please visit it: www [dot] politicalislam [dot] com. He has written excellent books, and they are available for purchase.

      He is one of our best counter-jihad experts, along with Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, David Wood, Frank Gaffney, and many others in the war against pathological supremacism pretending to be a religion.

      • mortimer says

        Dec 8, 2017 at 11:35 pm

        Agree… ‘pathological supremacism’ and genocidal ideation as well. It’s an emotional disorder.

  3. Gary says

    Dec 8, 2017 at 6:35 pm

    “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.”

    ….brings a new meaning to the lyrics; “Do you see what I see!”

    • dhans says

      Dec 9, 2017 at 9:46 am

      Someone once asked a muslim’ “If your God is all powerful, then why does he need you to act in his interests?”. I have yet to hear a credible answer.

      • Carol says

        Dec 10, 2017 at 10:46 am

        In their world ‘Truth is a Troll” and they often prefer to ignore it. .

  4. WorkingClassPost says

    Dec 8, 2017 at 7:03 pm

    Interesting that he was detained “at an emergency shelter where others saw him watching videos about last year’s attacks in Nice and Berlin on a computer, a force spokesman said.”

    Seems that he was reported, so there are good muslims around (of course, it might not have been a muslim shelter…)

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 8, 2017 at 7:34 pm

      Yes–hard to tell if this was a shelter for immigrants or a winter shelter for the homeless.

      Kudos to whoever notified the police, in any case.

      • WorkingClassPost says

        Dec 8, 2017 at 7:49 pm

        Yes, what’s the muslim-speak for ‘One phone call saves lives’?

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Dec 8, 2017 at 8:57 pm

        And they do mix Christians and Yazidi in with the muslim majority in those places you hear.

  5. gravenimage says

    Dec 8, 2017 at 7:24 pm

    Austria: Muslim arrested for plotting jihad massacre at Christmas market
    ………………………..

    Yet another plot to slaughter children and families as they enjoy a Christmas market.

    And now some are just folding up entirely in the face of this threat:

    “France: Lyon Christmas Market canceled, organizers couldn’t afford $23,800 for anti-jihad barriers”

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/12/france-lyon-christmas-market-canceled-organizers-couldnt-afford-23800-for-anti-jihad-barriers

    God, I hate Islam.

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Dec 9, 2017 at 9:23 am

      I agree. Islam is pure evil.

      Lyons wouldn’t have needed to spend all that money on anti-jihad barriers, if they had just posted some police officers there, armed with rifles. If people hear rifle fire, they’re gonna look up and get out of the way of that truck speeding towards them. And there will be one less jihadi in the world.

      We need to be able to improvise, so that holiday venues & celebrations, etc. don’t have to be canceled. So that life can go on as normal, without allowing the Muslim invaders to terrorize us.

      And we need to take bloodthirsty jihadis out of circulation, efficiently & permanently.

  6. PRCS says

    Dec 8, 2017 at 7:47 pm

    “not yet clear whether he had been radicalized”

    That idiocy, and the “radical Islamic terrorism” nonsense parroted by our president, Mufti McMaster, and far too many others–now more than 16 years post 9/11–must surely provide comedy relief to jihadis around the world.

    • WorkingClassPost says

      Dec 8, 2017 at 7:53 pm

      Anyone reading the koran is bound to be radicalized: either for or against.

      It all depends on whether they have an IQ in double figures or not.

      • PRCS says

        Dec 9, 2017 at 1:10 am

        Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and Ayman al Zawahari have been “radicalized”?

    • JawsV says

      Dec 9, 2017 at 9:20 am

      There is no comedy in Islam.

      • Carol says

        Dec 10, 2017 at 10:57 am

        Onlookers are often in stitches however (literally and figuratively).

  7. Lydia says

    Dec 8, 2017 at 7:47 pm

    Guess where I’m going tomorrow?!

    Yup! You guessed it!
    A CHRISTMAS MARKET!!!

    Because… that’s what I was gonna do… anyway!

    If I die a martyr, we win and they lose. (see Bible)
    If I don’t die, we win and they lose. (either way I celebrated)
    If I don’t go, they win and we lose.

    I did the math a long time ago.
    : D

    • Greyhound Fancier says

      Dec 9, 2017 at 6:32 pm

      As a serious Christian, one of my hopes is that if I ever face a “push comes to shove” situation with mohammedans, that I can be a good witness.

      The Coptic Christians come to mind.

  8. Westman says

    Dec 8, 2017 at 7:53 pm

    Islam, the Grinch trying to steal Christmas all over Europe.

    I feel sorry for Muslims who are chained to a schizophrenic warrior ideology that generates violent Jihadists as easily as peaceful people and is unable to express itself without threats. I can’t see a path that allows Islam to be reformed without the reformers being assassinated before any real reformation occurs. Can anyone?

    • Michael Copeland says

      Dec 8, 2017 at 10:30 pm

      “This day i have perfected for you your religion” – Koran 5:3
      Allah said it.
      It is not possible to reform something that is perfect.

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Dec 9, 2017 at 4:46 am

      Westman — I agree that Islam cannot be reformed in any meaningful way; certainly not fast enough to save us.

      At this point, if I really stop & think about it, I can still find some sympathy for Muslims, who have had their minds & their lives poisoned by this toxic ideology. But most of the time, I’m just so alarmed about the Muslim invasion of the West, and so worried about the survival of the civilized world, that I basically see them all as enemies, to varying degrees.

      Islam creates an Us versus Them worldview — the “House of Islam” forever pitted against the “House of War”. And now that Muslim invaders are in the West in large numbers (again), waging their Demographic Jihad, their Stealth Jihad, & their Rape Jihad, as well as lethal terrorist attacks, it’s very hard not to take that view ourselves.

      One side is going to win this thing, and one side is going to lose. And the consequences will be profound. Until the conflict is resolved, and the free world is (hopefully) saved, I think we need to harden our hearts against the enemy, and get on with the business of defeating them utterly & expelling them from the West.

      Once the West is safe, we can afford to take a more sympathetic view of Muslims, and try to help them shake off their gruesome religion, by promoting critical thinking in the Muslim world via the Internet, etc.

    • dhans says

      Dec 9, 2017 at 9:44 am

      Islam did have it’s reformation. It’s called “Wahhabism”. Just as in Christianity, that Reformation was a return back to the source. The only thing left for muslims is to reject it for atheism or another religion.

    • Greyhound Fancier says

      Dec 9, 2017 at 6:34 pm

      Pray daily for mohammedans. Pray that they will hear the Gospel (through the computer, radio, TV, or any other method), that they will understand what they hear, appreciate what they hear, and come to love Jesus and follow Him with all their heart. May God cause this to happen in the hundreds of millions!

      • Carol says

        Dec 10, 2017 at 11:10 am

        The barnacle of the idiotically and passionately inclined might drag down even Christianity.

  9. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Dec 8, 2017 at 8:58 pm

    The market in the photo looks very nice. Little bit of snow and it would be perfect 🙂

    • Donovan Nuera says

      Dec 9, 2017 at 1:24 am

      Your religion might be wrong for you if you are not allowed to drink Gluhwein and eat pfeffernusse in storybook markets and exchange gifts for friends and sing carols but instead compels you to be ecstatic when slitting the throats of large livestock animals and letting them thrash around on the pavement in agony.

      • Greyhound Fancier says

        Dec 9, 2017 at 6:35 pm

        How about the ecstasy when slitting the throats of the unbelievers? Can’t beat that!

  10. Mike Tarleton says

    Dec 8, 2017 at 10:34 pm

    Muslim life in America should be extremely difficult & unpleasant. Until it has to get physical. Where is Thomas Jefferson ?

  11. Donovan Nuera says

    Dec 9, 2017 at 1:27 am

    If the otherwise lazy PC Austrian police did not picked up this guy and he then killed a bunch of innocent kids and babies in Graz this weekend, would Graz’s favorite son, Arnold Schwartzennegger, side with the grieving Christian families or would he be an apologist for poor widdle unemployed asylum seeker and castigate islamophobes?

    • Donovan Nuera says

      Dec 9, 2017 at 1:28 am

      [correction: “…had not picked up this guy..”] Whoopsie

  12. Nietzsche says

    Dec 9, 2017 at 3:37 am

    Not a peep in the Austrian media. What a surprise.

    • Sarah says

      Dec 9, 2017 at 4:40 am

      Where is this new Leader of theirs, in all of this?

      I thought Austria elected some new young gun who was promising all sorts of things about Islam and immigration into Austria?

      • Nietzsche says

        Dec 9, 2017 at 4:55 am

        You can spare your cynicism. The new government isn’t in office yet, and the media are strictly left wing. Go figure.

      • Nietzsche says

        Dec 9, 2017 at 4:58 am

        OK, found the first Report.At last.

      • Carol says

        Dec 10, 2017 at 11:27 am

        Yes, Sebastian Kurz seems very smart and interesting. It would be nice to hear everyone’s comments.

  13. FYI says

    Dec 9, 2017 at 9:48 am

    Christmastime:a time of goodwill and peace to All people.

    At least in theory.

    Except of course,for the members of the ironically named “Religion of peace”.

    For the young,devout(=falsely pious),male adherents of the cult it means something different in Europe:

    the Grope(nfest)

  14. Isabellathecrusader says

    Dec 9, 2017 at 4:21 pm

    Oh good, it just wouldn’t be Christmas in Europe without some Muslim blowing Christian stuff up.

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