“French investigators believe they have identified the hostage-taker. The man is known to the intelligence services and flagged in a database of radicalized Islamist militants, Franceinfo reported.”
How many “radicalized Islamist militants” are walking around freely in France? Why wasn’t this man under surveillance? Just too many jihadis for French authorities to keep track of?
This is the France that the French political and media elites have created. This is the France that they want.
And remember: CNN wants you to think of the phrase “Allahu akbar” as a “celebration of life.”
An update on this story. “Gunman shot dead after three killed in French shooting, supermarket attack,” Jerusalem Post, March 23, 2018:
Three people were killed in southwestern France on Friday when a gunman held up a car, opened fire on police and then took hostages in a supermarket, screaming “Allahu Akbar.”
Police later stormed the supermarket in the small town of Trebes and Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said on Twitter that the attacker had been killed.
A source at the Interior Ministry said two had died at the hostage-taking in Trebes. “It is a provisional assessment as it could unfortunately get worse. Three people are wounded, including one of them seriously,” the source said.
Later, a police union official said the attacker had also killed one person with a bullet in the head in the nearby historic town of Carcassonne before the hostage-taking.
French President Emmanuel Macron said the incident appeared to be a terrorist attack and security forces were securing the area.
The station reported that the hostage-taker has claimed allegiance to Islamic State and that he has demanded the release of Salah Abdeslam – the prime surviving suspect in the Islamic State attacks that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015….
The man first shot at four police officers in the historic town of Carcassonne before barricading himself in the Super-U supermarket in Trebes, about 8 km (5 miles) to the east.
A police union official said the attacker had killed one person with bullet in the head in Carcassonne before the hostage-taking.
Menassi also told LCI TV that the man had entered the shop in Trebes screaming “Allahu Akbar, (God is greatest) I’ll kill you all.”
Philippe said: “All the information we have as I speak lead us to think that this would be a terrorist act.”
No kidding, really?
Carole, who was shopping at the supermarket, described how people had taken refuge in a cold room.
“A man shouted and fired several times. I saw a cold room door, I asked people to come and take shelter,” she told Franceinfo radio. “We were ten, and we stayed an hour. There were more gunshots and we went out the back door.”
French investigators believe they have identified the hostage-taker. The man is known to the intelligence services and flagged in a database of radicalized Islamist militants, Franceinfo reported….
The Paris prosecutor’s office said counter-terrorism prosecutors were investigating the incident but did not comment on the possible Islamic State allegiance….
Emilie Green says
Because no one wants to read the history books, particularly the lessons on government and Muslims, even more severe lessons will have to be dished out.
Ascribed to Pittsburgh Pirate pitcher Vernon Law, this remark sums it up. “Life’s a tough teacher; it gives the test first, then the lesson.”
Government will always abuse the people. Though the Founders understood this point, explaining why their first act in creating the US was to set out mechanisms for controlling the government, their structural impediments simply haven’t proved strong enough in the face of people bound and determined to destroy. If the people populating your government believe not in any sort of oath, then the paper handcuffs of the Constitution won’t hold them. Adams made this point with his famous observation that our Constitution was made only for a moral people (by which he meant Christians whose yes meant yes, whose no meant no).
What Muslims have done over 1400 years is all there in the history books. Kindness is a concept not found in Islam.
With today’s attack, and the lessons still not learned about government abusing its people (here, bringing in even more Muslims) and about Islam (which will always operate on the rules of Islam), more attacks will be coming. Until the lessons are learned, or sadly, until Islam prevails.
But their structural imepedicament simply weren’t strong enough.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Good post
Carroll Nigg says
Unfortunately the vast majority of Americans for a variety of reasons deliberately avoid the truth.
History is a great teacher. What we see in Europe, Sweden and others is part of our history. For many decades too many Americans have had this fascination with the Socialistic lifestyle of Europeans. The Elitists in America want so desperately to achieve the Global Utopia that they will join forces with the devil to make it happen. One should be able to see the total corruption, morally and ethically, in our Government. The educational system is a cesspool, the media is a destructive tool of the hard left and the Uni-Party, and Corporations are run by soul less creatures.
Many have a optimistic view of America’s future. Wishful thinking at best.
mariam rove says
Known to the police……
Had they done something about it before this carnage they would have been labeled Islamophobes. Lose lose situation. m
Phil Copson says
That French Presidential statement in full: “The moment that I heard the news, I immediately did nothing.”
Lavéritétriomphera says
I did not really hear that, he interrupted all his activities because he was too upset. We all are.
balam says
Allah hu Akbar should never be translated :GOD IS THE GREATEST .The Muslim god Allah is SATAN which incites them to kill INFIDELS until they renounce the GOD OF ABRAHAM,ISAAC AND JACOB-THE TRUE GOD and follow Mohammad’s pagan Arabian god of SEX AND SAVAGERY. The word MOHABA,which means LOVE in ARABIC can not be found even once in the Quran.
gravenimage says
The main reference to love in the Qur’an is what Allah does *not* love, or things that people love that will send them to hell.
Yogi says
Western Europe is totally lost , this European Union is a big scam !!, as long boarders remains wide open , this nightmare will be continue with all this traitors politicians!!!, country with no borders is no more country..
LeftisruiningCanada says
Patriots: “Repel Boarders!”
Communists : “Repeal Borders!”
Shmoovie says
Excellent! ?
Eric jones says
This story and the one where the Muslim cab driver threatens the Jewish passenger is an indication that Muslims are now in open warfare against France. These cannot be isolated incidents. They should not be treated as isolated incidents. To me it is a pattern. Its time for French authorities to round up and question all of the radicals they know about. If they resist arrest them. If they will not submit to arrest shot them. Its time raid where these jihadist live and work. Declare a state of emergency.
Eric
Santa Voorhees says
Raid and shoot them? Are you crazy? How can you say that you islamophobe?!
I will definitely call the Clown Police and report you to the counter-terror clownish agencies for your offensive comments about our beloved jihadists. Islamophobia will not be tolerated (but jihad terror will, but shhh don’t tell anyone, we are clowns after all).
JMB says
Talking of Obama, he is presently visiting this part of the world (Oz/NZ & Japan) He was given a high security celebrity welcome here, basically screened off from the public. In his speech in Sydney last night he emphasised the need for change, but I ask, in what direction? More open borders and inclusiveness? Commentators here describe him as the most influential person in the world today.
Shmoovie says
JMB said “Commentators here describe him as the most influential person in the world today”.
The most chilling thing I’ve read today.
Beware when O speaks of ‘needed change’ or of ‘fundamental transformation ‘.
JMB says
Chilling, absolutely, it just gives me a chill also. (Thank you for that brief reply to my comment)
Lebel says
Disgusting and monstrous. Here is news with real links to Islam, extremism, terrorism and which requires responses.
This is the kinds of news that should be on jihadwatch, not Somali-American policemen who make mistakes on stakeouts or drunk arab guy get in fight outside the Club.
LeftisruiningCanada says
It is more obviously related to islam for sure, but because of the deceptive nature of jihad taught in the koran and hadith collections, you must understand why suspicions are aroused by the less obvious stories too?
Shmoovie says
Officer Noor “made a mistake” while on a ‘stakeout’ ? Shooting past the body of your partner from inside a police vehicle is hardly a mistake. Just for starts.
Please re-read info about Noor– among other facts, how he was rewarded with that job by a mayor who pushed “wear the hijab day” on city employees, desperate to show the city’s multi-culti– before including the story in your ‘what doesn’t belong on JW’ list.
Excuse the o/t, please.
Lebel says
Let’s assume that all of that is true. And it could be, I don’t know for sure.
That is not jihad.
gravenimage says
Lebel will tell us what is Jihad. So far, in all the years he has been posting here, he has identified this and one other case as Jihad.
See? Islam is not a problem! It’s rare as hen’s teeth…sarc/off
Lebel says
He is a Moroccan national, not an asylum seeker.
LeftisruiningCanada says
A good argument lebel, but not for allowing in more followers of mohammad.
dumbledoresarmy says
Exactly. If he’s a Moroccan national then he should never have been in France in the first place. What rule says France *has* to let in any Moroccan who proposes to come? NONE.
If France stopped letting in people like this – persons carrying passports from OIC countries and who are manifestly NOT members of persecuted non-Islamic communities but, rather, members of the majority – Islamic – population of those countries – then France would have a lot fewer ‘incidents’ like this.
If they rounded up and *returned to sender* all persons like this creep, currently within France, who are NOT French citizens, then that would be a hell of a lot of Mohammedans gone, right there.
All dual-nationals with their alternative citizenship being that of a Muslim country, and who are manifestly NOT Coptic Christians, or Syriac Christians, or Yazidis – could have their French citizenship revoked and be required to leave.
Investigate all Muslims who hold French citizenship and are of immigrant/ ‘refugee’ background; if there is *any* question about how they obtained their citizenship.. .remove them.
Then: intern *every* French-citizenship-holdimg mohammedan who has ever come to the attention of the police. Because a lot of those who are going jihad seem to have some sort of pattern of flouting infidel law, in various ways, well before they ‘Go Jihad’, even if some others are ‘cleanskins’.
As a matter of course, intern *all* who are on the current ‘terrorism’ (i.e. jihad plotters / inciters/ enablers) watch list. Pending a rejig of the laws to permit stripping of French citizenship, and deportation to the dar al Islam.
Chand says
This guy Redouane Lakdim was a French citizen born in Morocco. Hid parents were probably first or second generation Moroccan immigrants. France did not gift citizenship to African immigrants out of her great love or generosity really but was a consequence of her long and brutal history of colonization.
Not that any of this matters. Murdering innocents is still murder.
Chand says
sorry typo: I meant……………. “His parents”
gravenimage says
Here’s the appalling Chand, again demanding that the West take in more of these Muslim murderers because the West should feel so very, very guilty.
Of course, if the West were *really* so bad, then those around the world would have no interest in flooding in here.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yes, as if past military actions necessitate allowing mass migration as a way to do penance.
Ever think that it is just that ” generosity” which led to France allowing so many to head their way?
They could, and probably should, never have allowed it, just like the UK should have more careful.
gravenimage says
Notice that Lebel has not a word of criticism for the Jihad massacre. But then, why would he?
Lebel says
Yes, the “mask is slipping” leaving only the hideous face of jihad underneath.
gravenimage says
Lebel has always hoped that sneering will cover for his refusing to say anything negative about the horrors of Jihad savagery–but this is really very revealing.
Eur says
Another maroccan… they are a plague.Bums, rapists, thieves, religious fanatics ….
dumbledoresarmy says
Note well: this occurred on a FRIDAY.
gravenimage says
Very true, DDA.
Compare this to Sunday after Church, where many people often see a film, do yard work, go to the park, and then have a nice dinner with the family.
dumbledoresarmy says
The French police killed him.
Good. No expensive trial; no expensive stay in prison, conducting ‘prison dawa’. He’s GONE. Dead and gone.
Now, they need to find out what mosques he hung out at, and surprise-raid-and-search them; and if anything at all, er, untoward is discovered… any hosting of rabid jihad-fomenting/ sharia-pushing ‘preachers’ is found to have happened… any *other* criminal and / or seditious activity by persons associated with the mosque is revealed… shut them down, permanently, and.. raze to the ground.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Fair points in your last two comments.
Friday fridays fridays…..i don’t like fridays…
Tell me why
I don’t like Fridays
I want to shoot
The whole day down
Down, down
Shoot it all down
gravenimage says
Fridays are great when there are no Muslims around.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Agreed. It is a great pity that islam can even ruin one of the best days of the week!
gravenimage says
France: Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar, I’ll kill you all” murders three, was known to police
………………….
More and more, we are hearing that these Jihadists were “known to the police”–yet the police do nothing, so often, to protect the public from them.
LeftisruiningCanada says
I suppose the German Army was also known to British police, during the Wars.
At least they could just call them ‘the enemy’ and not feel bad about it.
Brother Charles says
Now the truth is being told ,Be careful ?
gravenimage says
All true, Jay Boo.
Brother Charles says
Every Muslim attack on people seem to have MENTAL ISSUES ,I think we ought to check that BOOK THEY READ ?
David says
Well, Brother, they do definitely have mental issues, possibly brought on by inbreeding. It shows how islamic indoctrination can easily twist the mind of people who probably have a low IQ, statistically speaking.
I think it is time to say: No more Mr. Nice Guy! That clearly has failed as a policy.
Lebel says
I know you are being sarcastic but we actually have evidence that this is not a mental issue.
ISIS claimed it
he screamed Allahu Akbar
He was known to security services
Multiple attacks including against law enforcement
No evidence or claims of mental illness.
gravenimage says
Lebel is trying to distract from the fact that so many Western authorities consider Jihad terrorists mentally ill, rather than driven by the foul ideology of Islam.
Guy Jones says
I defy anyone — even the astute readers of this website — to recall with specificity every single Islamic terror attack that has taken place in the U.S. and in Europe, over the past ten years. These crimes are occurring with such nauseating frequency, now, and it’s quite clear that the Left is willing to tolerate their occurrence as an inevitable and unavoidable price to pay for “diversity.”
It’s also obvious that, with the exception of the four Visegrad nations, France, the U.K., Sweden, et al., lack the will and th gumption to take serious, substantive, non-politically correct measures to protect their populations from the goose-stepping, jackbooted Muslim hordes.
gravenimage says
Good point, Guy–it is not possible.
I am pretty knowledgeable, but a couple of times I have read about a more obscure Jihad terror attack from a few years ago, and thought I had not heard of it–then found that I had actually commented on the story.
This is not due to poor memory on my part, but just to the absolute unending flood of Jihad terror.
TheBuffster says
Not only the terror attacks that have taken place in Western nations is significant. Crimes have been committed in the name of Islam all over the world, and they should all count as evidence of the dangers of admitting huge numbers of devoted Muslims into non-Muslim countries.
For anyone fairly new to investigating jihad and the dangers of islam, here’s a website that keeps count of jihad attacks all over the world.
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Yes, I know, not all Muslims take their religion with such complete dedication to the texts as those who terrorise and those who aim to install Sharia every place they can. Muslims do vary widely in their knowledge of and dedication to their religion. But the civilised Muslims can’t do much to dissuade the those who read the Koran and the words and deeds of Muhammad and believe they must obey them in full in hopes of avoiding hell and gaining paradise. There are enough True Believers among 1.6+ billion Muslims to make the world a hellish place wherever they go.
gravenimage says
True, Buffster.
TheBuffster says
This is a bit off topic for this particular thread, but I’ve been wanting to address this topic for a while and I don’t know where to put it.
The ex-Muslim community online is a treasure-trove of information and insight that I think we all should delve into. When you read and listen to lots and lots of former Muslims you round out your understanding not only of Islam, but of human psychology – why people believe in Islam, what kinds of things makes a Muslim have doubts, the personal difficulties of coming to terms with these doubts, and the personal perils and heartbreaks of coming out of the closet as apostates.
A few of you may think that personalising Muslims in this way somehow would lead to weakness in standing against Islam. But I think that acknowledging the humanity of Muslims and noting how the thinking of these former Muslims changed over time is extremely valuable information. Also, it’s good to be aware that many Muslims who leave Islam had a misinformed and re-written idea about what was in their texts. It was when they actually read the texts that they began to lose their faith.
There are many aspects to winning a protracted war, but the most effective way is to get as complete a picture of your enemy’s nature, his strengths and weaknesses as possible. One of Islam’s weaknesses is that its texts themselves are contrary to the need of the mind to think and question. Wake up the thinking, questioning mind, treat a Muslim like the human being he or she is, plant a seed, and move on.
You may think that anyone who could accept Islam must be rather dumb. But the many apostates I’ve read and listened to are not dumb – not even the ones who had read the Koran and ahadith and accepted them for a time. Their belief wasn’t because they were inherently low on the IQ scale – the problem was psychological, social, or a matter of having been indoctrinated from an early age. Sometimes I think the change came about as a matter of reaching the age of mental maturity and the discovery of critical thinking – they grew up and were ready to face the possibility that their religion was flawed.
But really, there are so many different ways in which former Muslims woke up and began to question. And that potential is there in many Muslims just waiting for the right window to open.
Anyway, after having left the religion these YouTubers are showing themselves to be quite intelligent, reasonable, analytical minds, freed from the religious bubble.
Some ideologies make people function below their intellectual potential. And people with a decent intellectual potential might be won to the side of reason if they’re approached with reason.
gravenimage says
Agreed–Muslim apostates are often both a treasure trove of information and very brave. Just think of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ibn Warraq, Wafa Sultan, and Nonie Darwish.