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Israel: Muslim runs over policeman, his family insists he did it in anger over traffic ticket

Mar 5, 2018 10:05 am By Robert Spencer

The Israeli police are saying this was a terror attack, but his family says: “There is no way he would do a terror attack. He really loves his wife and did everything for their success. Many times I heard him say that he is for peace and coexistence without any problems or harming of others.” They claim that it’s all a frame-up: “Police wanted to frame him on trumped up charges. They are the ones behind conflicts in the country. If the driver were a Jew, they would not say that the case is nationalist, an Arab is always suspected of the most serious acts.”

Of course. Ever the victim.

Another relative claimed that the driver “had a psychiatric problem in the past. He may still be suffering from it.”

Ah yes, the global outbreak of mental illness. Commonly played card.

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….

“Father of Acre car-rammer insists son not a terrorist,” by Ahiya Raved, Ynet News, March 4, 2018 (thanks to D.):

Relatives of the Arab driver who committed a car-ramming attack Sunday morning injuring two soldiers and a Border Policeman before being shot are rejecting the police’s assertion that the incident was terror related.

His father told Ynet, “Why would my son do such a thing? All that happened is he took his pregnant wife to the hospital for a checkup and intended to return home.” He added that he was not informed of his son’s condition after he was shot and moderately wounded by security forces at the scene.

At the end of an assessment of the situation at the Acre police station at noon Sunday, police determined that the incident was a terrorist attack. The announcement stated findings at the scene indicated that this was a nationalistic attack by the driver, a 26-year-old Arab-Israeli from the north of the country. Police noted that the driver tried to run over police officers and soldiers in several arenas deliberately.

The police also clarified that there was no connection between the traffic ticket given to the driver and his actions. The wounded were all evacuated to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, where it was reported that the 21-year-old Border Policeman was moderately wounded. Two IDF soldiers were wounded lightly.

In addition, a 51-year-old man wounded in the head and leg during the incident was still receiving treatment in an emergency room. A 23-year-old woman who suffered from shock was released to her home.

The police commander of the region, Deputy Inspector Benny Abaliya, said that, “There is a certainty of almost 100 percent, if not 100 percent, that this is a terror attack.” He added that the driver had already been questioned and that his background was being investigated both by the police and by the Shin Bet security service.

Abaliya visited the wounded in the attack together with the police commander of the coastal district, Inspector Peretz Amar. Nahariya hospital director Dr. Mas’ad Barhoum appraised them of the condition of the injured.

Earlier, police visited the perpetrator’s home and conducted a search. “They made a huge mess in the house. I asked the officers who will clean up the house. They responded ‘When he returns he will clean up,’” said the father. “They found nothing,” he added.

He described his son as a respectful young man who worked with him in his framing shop. “You can ask anyone in the city about him.”

Another close relative of the driver said, “The guy who was wounded recently got married, his wife is pregnant, he is really waiting for his first son. He always said, ‘I’m dying to see my son,’ ‘I’m in favor of peace and living together without any problems or harming people,'” he said.

In his words, “There is no way he would do a terror attack. He really loves his wife and did everything for their success. Many times I heard him say that he is for peace and coexistence without any problems or harming of others.”

He argued that the “police wanted to frame him on trumped up charges. They are the ones behind conflicts in the country. If the driver were a Jew, they would not say that the case is nationalist, an Arab is always suspected of the most serious acts,” he said.

Another relative said, “From what I understood he got mad at a parking ticket. Apparently, he felt threatened and did not know how he hurt anyone.” He added that, “The wounded man (the driver—ed) had a psychiatric problem in the past. He may still be suffering from it.”

Shimon Cohen, an eyewitness at the scene, told Ynet: “He drove up on the sidewalk, hit the traffic sign and bushes, and then ran over a Border Policeman. The driver received an NIS 1,000 ticket for parking in a disabled parking spot and got angry and drove onto the sidewalk, hit the traffic sign and bushes, and ran over a Border Policeman. The policeman fired, but did not hit him. The driver continued to drive toward a railway station and hit two more. I did not see that.”…

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  1. bodega says

    Mar 5, 2018 at 10:15 am

    After reading maybe hundreads of articles on Muslims lossing tempers, I just have to say one thing:

    They are not in control of their emotions and have never been taught how to get and keep control.

    That is what makes them absolutely intolerable as immigrants. It is like having ravening hounds on the lose, killing and tearing up anything in their one-sighted emotionally deranged way. Disgusting as humans.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Mar 5, 2018 at 11:08 am

      As Nikolai Sennels explains, an aggressive response, a display of temper, is admired as manly by muslims (from Pakistan, mainly), while reasoning is regarded as weakness. His work was as a prison psychiatrist with youth offenders in Denmark.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 7, 2018 at 1:10 am

      It’s worse than not being in control of their emotions, though–Muslims are *taught* to murder Infidels.

  2. Emilie Green says

    Mar 5, 2018 at 10:17 am

    He always said, ‘I’m dying to see my son,’ ‘I’m in favor of peace and living together without any problems or harming people,’” he said.

    *****

    From people whose cult religion authorizes lying to the kafir, You’re going to believe them and all their self-serving statements?

    Taqiyya about Taqiyya, by Raymond Ibrahim, is just excellent on this topic,

    http://raymondibrahim.com/2014/04/12/taqiyya-about-taqiyya/

    • Phil Copson says

      Mar 5, 2018 at 11:04 am

      “‘I’m dying to see my son,’ ” he says – if the policeman had been a better shot, he could have been dying to meet his Maker…

      • Savvy Kafir says

        Mar 5, 2018 at 11:54 am

        Yeah — too bad about that.

  3. StellaSaidSo says

    Mar 5, 2018 at 10:21 am

    There are three kinds of liars – liars, damned liars, and Muslims.

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Mar 5, 2018 at 12:40 pm

      Nice one, Stella! They do take it to a whole new level, don’t they? When taqiyya is part of a person’s religion & worldview, I guess it should be no surprise when they turn out to be utterly shameless, bald-faced liars.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 7, 2018 at 1:11 am

      🙂

  4. Savvy Kafir says

    Mar 5, 2018 at 11:59 am

    Hey, I get it. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve run over a police officer when he wrote me up for speeding or running a red light or something. It’s annoying. People get annoyed.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Mar 5, 2018 at 12:31 pm

      Agree completely. It’s the only reasonable response.

      • eduardo odraude says

        Mar 6, 2018 at 1:01 am

        In fact if anything, an overly restrained response.

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Mar 6, 2018 at 5:01 pm

          Johnny Cash said it best – “Don’t take your guns to town son, don’t take your guns to town.”

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 7, 2018 at 1:12 am

      Brilliant.

  5. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Mar 5, 2018 at 12:26 pm

    ” He always said, ‘I’m dying to see my son,’ ‘I’m in favor of peace and living together without any problems or harming people,’” he said.”

    So….don’t get bent out of shape over a parking ticket and try to kill police officers with your car.

    Simple.

  6. Leondegrance2 says

    Mar 5, 2018 at 12:42 pm

    Yes he does have a mental illness. I can diagnose from here. It’s called holding Muhammad up as your moral guide post. This causes aggressive delusions along with illiteracy. Now off to the funny farm with him. Straight-jacket for life. No cartoons of Muhammad are permitted in his cell as this may induce frothing at the mouth and/or growing a jihadi beard. This may get caught in his straight-jacket rendering him unable to feed. Which would probably be a bad thing.

  7. carlos danger says

    Mar 5, 2018 at 9:10 pm

    Why is this hajji still alive?

  8. brane pilot says

    Mar 5, 2018 at 9:51 pm

    No one has ever escaped alive from the Planet of the Apes.

  9. eduardo odraude says

    Mar 6, 2018 at 12:59 am

    Gosh, anyone who gets a traffic ticket might run over three policemen. How can he be punished for that? And imagine, he has to clean up the big mess the police made in his house during the search. It’s not fair! Besides, he can prove he’s not a terrorist, just a would-be mass murderer for non-ideological reasons! They police should just give him another ticket, that would be reasonable, as long as the fine is moderate.

  10. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Mar 6, 2018 at 5:03 pm

    How that guy in the video survived is beyond me.

    Very nasty. The driver clearly made zero moves to avoid hitting him.

  11. gravenimage says

    Mar 7, 2018 at 12:59 am

    Israel: Muslim runs over policeman, his family insists he did it in anger over traffic ticket
    …………………

    Lots of people get angry over traffic tickets–they don’t commit vehicular Jihad as a result…

  12. alex dennison says

    Mar 7, 2018 at 1:37 am

    These stories could write themselves. An attempted murderer “was annoyed because of (insert pathetic excuse here) and the police are trying to frame him. He was a good family man and a loving person who did so much for the community. He had some mental health issues but his parents and family do not believe that he was capable of doing anything like this.”

  13. dumbledoresarmy says

    Mar 7, 2018 at 3:04 am

    The Israeli English-language press, parts of it, is almost as mealymouthed as our western press.

    ‘Arab driver’. If he had been a Christian or atheist or even a Druze Arab, this attack would not have occurred.

    He should be described as an “Arab Muslim” driver; or even drop the ‘Arab’ bit, because what matters is the Muslim bit; that’s the motivator.

    Next inaccuracy – “a nationalistic attack”. WRONG. Jihad. Jihad is engaged in as a result of the Jihad teaching of Islam: as part of a non-stop neverending pursuit of nothing less than Total World Domination. The Muslims don’t care two hoots about ‘palestine’ or any other nation. Their loyalty is given to the transnational Mohammedan Mob, the de facto Empire of Islam. Within which, to be sure, *Arab* Muslims have a status supreme over that of any other kind of Muslim; but mere nationalism is irrelevant to any pious mohammedan. Islam trumps ‘Arabness’; a Muslim Arab will happily subjugate or kill a Christian Arab. A fellow Arab Muslim who becomes a Christian will be killed as an apostate. Likewise in, say, Somalia or Persia: a Muslim of these ethnicities will happily kill a fellow ethnic-Persian or ethnic-Somali – even a member of their own family – if that person leaves Islam.

    This Muslim tried to kill Jews because… because he was a Muslim and killing Jews is something Islam emcourages him to do. Muslims in France have attacked and killed *French* Jews… because they were Jews, nothing else. Muslims were killing Jews for being Jews, long long long before the modern sovereign Jewish state of Israel was established. There are still a lot of Jews in Israel who seem not to have grasped that the Jew-hatred of Islam has got nothing whatsoever to do with western notions like ‘nationalism’ or ‘national liberation’.

    And finally – “a 26-year-old Arab-Israeli”. No: – “an Israel-passport-holding ethnically-Arab Muslim”.

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