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Italy: Muslim migrant drives car toward church in crowded pedestrian area “to feel closer to Allah”

Mar 30, 2018 5:40 am By Robert Spencer

He had already been deported from France and wasn’t supposed to be in Italy, either, but there are just so many such people to keep track of. In any case, he clearly viewed this attempt at vehicular jihad — he crashed his car into the concrete barriers placed in front of the church precisely in order to stop jihad attacks of this kind — as a holy act: “The young Algerian, during the validation hearing, asserted ‘that he was not in a position to know why he had done that except to feel closer to Allah, which would have been made easier by the taking of a drug.'” And: Furthermore, “the arrested during the hearing has continually chanted and recited an Arab litany in the name of Allah.”

No doubt after he serves part or all of his brief sentence, he will become a loyal, stable, productive Italian citizen, no? Celebrate diversity!

“Algerian drives car towards the Shrine of Pompeii: ‘I did it in the name of Allah,'” translated from “Algerino si lancia con un’auto verso il Santuario di Pompei: «L’ho fatto nel nome di Allah»,” by Titti Beneduce, Corriere Della Serra, March 18, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Investigated for terrorism, he crashed against the barriers placed in front of the church. At the hearing, he played a litany in Arabic. The man is 22 years old: expelled from France and by the police chief of Cagliari, but he was still in our country.

He crossed the street via Bartolo Longo crowded with pedestrians, then crashed against the cement planters arranged to protect the Basilica of Pompeii from terrorist attacks. Othman Jridi, a 22-year-old Algerian, landed in Italy after being expelled from France. He was expelled again by the police chief of Cagliari, but still remained in our country. He was stopped by traffic police after a brief escape. The autocratic judge of Torre, Annunziata Fernanda Iannone — expert on international terrorism and author of a monograph on foreign terrorist fighters — not only validated his detention, but, accepting the request of the prosecutor, also ordered precautionary custody in prison. For the offenses that he was charged with (theft of a car and false statements to a public official), the Algerian was tried quickly: the lawyer who represented him, Enrica Visconti, asked for an abbreviated sentence and therefore, instead of the four-year and one-month sentence requested by the public prosecutor, Jridi was sentenced to two and a half years; a punishment, however, that was very severe compared to the small offenses with which he was charged. The documents were sent to the counter-terrorism pool of the Naples Public Prosecutor’s Office for the necessary details.

«Extreme danger»

The defendant could have been given house arrest (the law allows this for sentences of less than three years), but the judge decided differently: there too many elements to his detriment. First of all, the magistrate argued, we must bear in mind “the extreme danger of the conduct of the arrested person, that due to the methods (invasion of the pedestrian area, a square normally frequented by hundreds of people, as well as by thousands of pilgrims on festive days), the place (the square in front of the shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii), the person (a man of Algerian nationality, illegally on Italian territory, expelled from French territory), physical psychic conditions of the person (who had taken, he admitted, drugs and psychotropic substances), that evoke episodes of terrorist attacks.” Not only that: the young Algerian, during the validation hearing, asserted “that he was not in a position to know why he had done that except to feel closer to Allah, which would have been made easier by the taking of a drug.”

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Furthermore, “the arrested during the hearing has continually chanted and recited an Arab litany in the name of Allah”…

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  1. Sentinel says

    Mar 30, 2018 at 5:52 am

    A failed wannabe mass murderer demands and receives leniency ?

    Considering that he has no right or reason to be in Italy other than to perform atrocities, why would any sane country want him at all ?

    • balam says

      Mar 30, 2018 at 6:28 am

      I think THE POPE should take him in the VATICAN ,wash and kiss his feet.The pope seems to be the ALLAH of the Catholics!!!

      • Angry Aussie says

        Mar 30, 2018 at 9:22 am

        What rubbish. The Pope is not “the ALLAH of Catholics”. The Pope is the head of the Catholic Church. Regardless of the fact he is clearly a Socialist that is in denial about the true threat of Islam, he is not, nor has ever been recognised as a God. Moron yes, God no.

        The Pope doesn’t tell Catholics to kill non Catholics. The Pope doesn’t promote FGM, subjugation of women, keeping of sex slaves etc.

        • Agabus says

          Mar 30, 2018 at 10:00 am

          The Pope is a Jesuit. He employs sophistry, which is the Jesuit way. Noah Webster’s Dictionary (1828) defines Jesuitism as cunning, deceit, hypocrisy, prevarication and deceptive practices to effect a purpose.

          Francis is not in denial about Islam. He knows full well what Islam is. Everything that a Jesuit does is carefully planned. Francis is also wanted on charges of aiding and abetting child abuse and trafficking (http://itccs.org/2015/09/21/will-the-pope-face-arrest-by-interpol-this-week/).

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 30, 2018 at 11:50 pm

          True, Angry Aussie.

    • J D S says

      Apr 1, 2018 at 3:31 pm

      Muslim taking drugs Ohooooooo Noooooo! Allah will be so displeased…..wait a minute …wasn’t he in the process of committing vehicular jihad…Oh, in that case Allah will forgive and I suppose the Italian cops will also and just send him on his way to the next murder.

  2. Phil Copson says

    Mar 30, 2018 at 6:02 am

    “…. For the offenses that he was charged with (theft of a car and false statements to a public official)……instead of the four-year and one-month sentence requested by the public prosecutor, Jridi was sentenced to two and a half years….”
    ——————————————————————————————–
    The actual offences – terrorist attack and attempted murder – were considered to be so trifling that they didn’t merit charging him, then ? whereas the almost irrelevant details that he used a stolen car rather than his own, and that he lied to officials, are what exercised the Italian prosecutors ? Maybe Jridi isn’t the only one taking psychotropic substances…

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 30, 2018 at 11:51 pm

      Yes–insane.

  3. FYI says

    Mar 30, 2018 at 6:35 am

    translation:

    He decided to do something evil which is sanctioned by the false moslem god allah in his “holy” koran but which is clearly prohibited by the True God as murder in His Sixth Commandment.

    avoiding Evil and OBEYING God’s Commandments=becoming closer to God{the way of the Good}

    doing evil sanctioned by allah=becoming closer to allah{the way of the evil}

    allah or God?
    koran vs Bible?
    warping and violation’s of God’s laws vs Full agreement with God’s Commandments?
    the immoral life of the “prophet” muhammed vs the moral life of Christ?
    chaff or wheat?

    Choose the Lord God or the counterfeit god “allah” {baal}…..

    “If the lord is God,
    follow Him.
    but if baal be your god,
    follow him”
    I kings 18 v 21

    Look up the “ten commandments” on Wikipedia:there is no reference to islam because… they are not truly part of islam.

    That explains why muslims (especially converts to islam) feel FREE to break God’s laws:allah himself does not subscribe to them.

    That is why a muslim feels perfectly entitled to disobey God’s Laws(because as long as allah says so then it must be alright!)

  4. duh swami says

    Mar 30, 2018 at 6:39 am

    When I want to be closer to Allah I relieve myself facing Mecca…

    • JawsV says

      Mar 30, 2018 at 7:41 am

      Thanks for the morning chuckle!

      • Lydia Church says

        Mar 30, 2018 at 10:16 pm

        Since he wanted to ‘feel closer to allah,’ and allah is the devil, I think he got his wish. This is what evil people do, and the devil honors evil. (as we know…)
        Soon he will feel ‘very close to the flames of hell.’

        And just goes to show you can never have enough protection around churches.

  5. Dan says

    Mar 30, 2018 at 6:52 am

    This is a bit off topic here but, with Muslims pushing halal on us, and we not knowing about it, I found a link on the Rebel Media that warns Muslims about companies whose products are not halal.

    So, to para-flip Aesop, since one man’s poison can another man’s meat..

    http://www.canadianhalalfoods.com/alerts.html#a109

    Basically, the companies on this list either haven’t, or won’t, capitulate. Lots of interesting companies and products.

    One I particularly like is Columbia Sport Wear. Seems they have shoes and boots made of pigskin so, I figure it would be kind of handy to have a pair, and as long as you can get some nut to believe what you’re wearing, a good swift kick in the you know where is all most of us’ll ever need.

    Truth be told, it might have the same effect as the Second Amendment. If Muslims never know who’s packing pig, they’ll have to be more careful around everybody.

  6. Clive J Maclennan says

    Mar 30, 2018 at 6:55 am

    Ship it to the UK they will look after all its needs and woe to anyone who questions the reasons why 😉

  7. cyrus basile says

    Mar 30, 2018 at 9:03 am

    Success is just a few km from my house, the shrine of Pompei is protected by the howler monkeys like him, I hope and believe that when it finishes his sentence is accompanied to the airport and expelled to the hell of Sand and camels from which it came. if someone does not know the judges in Italy are all left, what happens to the president trump now, was experienced in Italy against Berlusconi and the center-right, for this we Italians and support trump

  8. mortimer says

    Mar 30, 2018 at 9:28 am

    Vehicular jihad + taqiyya about the jihad + extreme Islamic piety. This guy is seeking martyrdom. He wants revenge because he was refused residency in Europe.

    I believe that Europe will have to instate the death penalty for JIHAD-TERRORISM. That is the only way to reduce the number of jihadists.

    I have been an abolitionist, but I believe the death penalty is necessary, unless governments will institute ABSOLUTE PROGRAMMING of Muslims right out of Islam.

    • Santa Voorhees says

      Mar 30, 2018 at 4:06 pm

      Yes, we need the death penalty, period. And possibly before they carry out an attack.

      Everyone found with Isis-related materials, making threats of attacks, or indoctrinating other people into hating the unbelievers etc… should be immediately dealt with and instantly killed. No arrests, no courts, no jail, just a bullet.

  9. elee says

    Mar 30, 2018 at 11:56 am

    The closest thing to justice would be selling this guy in a Muslim slave market in Libya, but some Muslim would just spring him and send him back to the West. So let’s lodge him in an Italian Dawa Hiulton at great expense so he can raise a new brood of snake disciples.

  10. HugoHackenbush says

    Mar 30, 2018 at 10:18 pm

    Hopefully the Neapolitans will put him on the strict pepperoni pizza and wine diet. With a side of porchetta.

  11. gravenimage says

    Mar 31, 2018 at 12:05 am

    More vehicular Jihad.

  12. gravenimage says

    Mar 31, 2018 at 11:23 pm

    What makes a Muslim feel “closer to Allah”? Why, murdering peaceful Christians and other Infidels.

    God, I hate Islam.

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