This may have nothing whatsoever to do with jihad. There is no information about the perpetrator in news reports so far. It could, however, be another manifestation of Austria’s marvelous new “diversity.” Randomly stabbing pedestrians is a jihadi hallmark, 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….
“BREAKING: City centre knife rampage leaves ‘several injured’ as manhunt launched,” by Nicholas Bieber, Daily Star, March 7, 2018:
Several people are reportedly injured after a man went on a knife rampage in Vienna, Austria.
Unconfirmed reports say at least three people are “seriously injured” after the attacker “randomly attacked pedestrians”.
The three people are reported to be an Austrian family – a mum, dad and daughter – who were attacked outside a Japanese restaurant.
Another man near the scene also suffered a knife wound, it is alleged.
The attacker has fled the scene, sparking a major manhunt.
The area in Vienna’s second district Praterstrasse is now on lockdown with a heavy armed police presence….
Bob Carrillo says
I remember a time, when the thought of Vienna Austria was actually a very romantic thought, connected to an amazing place.
Please show me anywhere in western Europe, and the UK, or any other country for that matter, where this “social Justice” – multi-cultural mass migration – experiment in sociology, connected to the “people of the book”, that has been successful in terms of assimilation, and where any semblance of “peace” and harmony has been the end result.
Just one will do..
Anyone?
Anyone?
Anyone?
And, for goodness sake, please do not point to this failed experiment in Sweden..
Gjallarhornet says
Let’ take it country by country then, and see if such a country exists in Western Europe. Your criteria was what we can designate as s ‘successful multicultural immigration country in Western Europe’.
Here is the breakdown, microstates excluded. ‘N’ means negative for your criteria, ‘Y’ positive.
– Portugal: little immigration, doing fine by staying outside the madness. N
– Spain: multiculturalism affects some regions, others not so much. A failure where instated. N
– France. We all know know the answer. N
– Belgium. From some angels even worse than France. N
-Netherlands. A disaster. N -Switzerland. Bad N
– Austria. Badder. N
-Germany. Dear me. N
-UK. Oh no. N
-Ireland . Argh. N
-Denmark. The Danish government recently retracted their positive view of m.culturalism. N
-Norway. Bad. Better than Denmark and Sweden, but that just because numbers are smaller N
-Finland. Not much immigration so far, but what has been has been really, really bad. N
– Iceland. They have not tried much, but seem hell bent on doing so, poisoning people who
say they shouldn’t. N
-Italy. Italians are having a capuchino from a designer cup, hoping all people who are ruining
their country will head north and ruin other countries. N
The Verdict: Nope. No country in Western Europe can point to a success story here.
Gjallarhornet says
Ps. I did not bring Greece and Cyprus into the equation, since they are not located in western europe, unless we by ‘Western Europe’ mean European countries that just were never under the Soviet yoke. It would not change anything, though:
Greece. Few immigrants have Greece as their target. Greece is mostly a transit point. And what experience Greece have with the muslim world from earlier on, it is an abysmal history. So: N
Cyprus: Not invaded by muslim multiculturalists. Invaded directly by muslims insted. N.
Sweden: Apocalypse. N
Ross says
We need knife control here in the US. It’s the only to stop the coming wave of knife attacks. Pre-emption is the key.
boakai ngombu says
i hope you jest. life on the street would teach you the usefulness of a wellmanaged blade.
CRUSADER says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8uvwTjyKtU
Street Fights / Knife Fighting
CRUSADER says
http://hiconsumption.com/2015/01/best-self-defense-knives/
6 recommended knives for inclose, CQB….
Be Safe, Everyone!
GreytigerTX says
Or swords. Texas recently made swords legal to carry. Legal but not convenient.
J D S says
I really do like the idea that some will bring a knife to a gunfight…The problem is. ..the one with the gun,though he wins the fight, most likely will loose in the end because of our present day situation..I can remember a different time though.
gravenimage says
Sarcasm?
Axolotl Gunch says
Ross. i’m with you. We need to be proactive.
We should be thinking about all those potentially deadly rocks too. And cars and trucks. Oh, and buildings more than a couple of stories high. Damn, that means we’ll have start thinking about trees, bluffs, gulleys, cliffs…
Holes! I forgot all the holes!
Hmmmm…
Surely, there must be an easier solution?
Lebel says
OK, if the below is correct (one eyewitness claims to have heard someone yell Allah), this appears likely to be an ISIS attack:
http://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/chronik/Amoklauf-mit-Messer-auf-der-Praterstrasse/325051880
gravenimage says
Well, thank you for that information, Lebel.
Here’s the salient part, thanks to Google Translate:
“This man later claims to the oe24tv team ironclad that the psychotic, dark-clad knife assassin, the direction Praterstern ran away, “Allah, Allah” screamed. However, there are no confirmations from the police.”
(Google Translate is always a bit clunky, but the meaning is clear).
Lebel says
To be fair, it’s still a bit murky but it dies look like a terrorist attack.
Jaladhi says
OMG, how many “mentally deranged” Muslims in this world — close to 1.6 billion or whatever their population is!
boakai ngombu says
islamomaniacs
eli says
JW seems to have missed the Leicester supermarket explosion story.
Three men have been charged: Aram Kurd, 33, and co-defendants Hawkar Hassan, 32, and Arkan Ali, 37
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5464701/Explosion-Leicester-supermarket-caused-petrol.html
Robert Spencer says
We don’t miss much:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/03/uk-three-muslims-charged-with-arson-over-shop-blast-in-leicester-that-killed-five-people
gravenimage says
Jihad Watch *really* doesn’t miss much. I find stories all the time to send in, then find that they have already been covered by JW. Kudoes to Robert Spencer and staff.
CRUSADER says
Touché !
eli says
Sorry, I looked for it on your site but didn’t find it.
Ray Sears says
Look Harder Next Time, And You’ll Probably Find It !
Mockingjay says
This is jihad alright. They just arrested a muslim who came to enrich us all from beautiful Afghanistan.
– This is not going to stop. In fact, it will only get worse again from now on. – Watch the coming months, especially the summer months.
But people in Europe still don’t get it – or should I say: they still don’t get what needs to be done to STOP this.
Protesting peacefully, like they are doing all over Germany now, isn’t going to change a damn thing, I’m sorry to say.
Europe is just starting to vote differently, but it is very far from being sufficient to bring about the change we need. And time is already WAY overdue as it is.
– Hey – Germany is going to bring in “at least” another 200.000 muslims EVERY year, for the next FOUR years, the next four Merkel years – how the bloody hell did that even happen, Germany?
Europe won’t get it until it is too late. It happened before. It will happen again.
gravenimage says
Thanks for the information, Mockingjay.
Here’s the story from Reuters:
“Four people seriously hurt in knife attacks in Vienna”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-austria-attack/four-people-seriously-hurt-in-knife-attacks-in-vienna-idUSKCN1GJ32O
“A male citizen of Afghanistan was later arrested in connection with the second assault…”
dumbledoresarmy says
“A male citizen of Afghanistan.”
At least he hasn’t wangled any infidel-country-citizenship status.
He can serve his sentence mucking out pig-pens for exercise, and then be deported back to Afghanistan in the clothes he stands up in, and be told, if he is found in Europe again, he will be assumed to be an enemy combatant, and shot on sight.
THAT is what the Freedom Party of Austria should be advocating as the proper response to his act of war in the streets of Vienna.
Santa Voorhees says
“if he is found in Europe again”
Yeah, IF he is found in Europe again. He could be anywhere other than Austria the second time. That is why it will be better off to shoot him on sight the first time around, rather than deport him.
Think about it. Austria will be safer, Afghanistan will be safer, he gets to his 72 virgins, and we’re all happy except leftist idiots.
gravenimage says
Deport him after he has served his time.
CRUSADER says
How are they going to enter Germany?
Denmark, Hungary, Austria, Italy…..they are all starting to crack down on the insanity.
Rob says
Mockingjay – it seems to me that it’s the western politicos who don’t “get it”! With all the spouted bilge about the wonderful contribution they’re making to,our society, and so forth, ignoring the truth that the vast majority are mere benefit scroungers and refuse, on ‘religious’ grounds to integrate!
Eur says
Not so random … that crazy man would not have stabbed bearded men with flip-flops and veiled women.But of course the reasons are inexplicable and this has nothing to do with Islam … as always.