Of course this is a case of mental illness. Why, what else could it possibly be, you greasy Islamophobe?
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….
“Man ‘shouting Allahu Akbar’ drives car into a crowd in France before being wrestled to the ground by bystanders,” AFP, September 14, 2018 (thanks to Robert):
A man has been arrested after driving his car into a crowd of people outside a bar in southern France while shouting Allahu Akbar, witnesses and local officials said.
The 32-year-old suspect, believed to be a local, sped towards a crowd of about 50 outside the bar at around 1am Friday local time, witnesses said.
However, his white Peugeot ran into barriers set up for the town’s annual grape-harvesting festival featuring bull-fighting which attracts thousands of people.
Two people standing behind the barriers received slight injuries to their legs.
After the crash the man tried to flee but was dragged to the ground by onlookers and ‘roughed up’ before police arrived.
He was in a state of ‘mental confusion’ during his arrest and has been hospitalised, public prosecutor Eric Maurel said.
Several witnesses told AFP that the man shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ – God is Greatest in Arabic – during the incident.
A source close to the investigation said the man was not known to police for suspected radicalisation.
The man is being held on suspicion of attempted murder.
A police spokesman declined to comment on the man’s motives, but said the investigation was being handled by regular police rather than anti-terror police….
Micheal Proulx says
‘Allahu Akbar’ The interpretation is actually (our god is greater)
SJ says
It should be called. I’M GOING TO MURDER YOU! Enough said.
Thinker-1 says
It really says, “My god is weak and cannot do anything himself,”
Elaine says
Yes , mental confusion. Well I guess all of them are mentally confused, because all follow the same quoran.
Rarely says
Of course he suffers from “mental confusion” or, at least, “mental deficiency”. How else can you explain his vicious attack of an inanimate object? Obviously he misunderstands islam which obligates him to attack living things. There are others like him so can we expect more barriers to be attacked so viciously?
What a moron.
Joey says
He did not misinterpret Islam… He did exactly what the original Islamic terrorist commanded lowlives to do…. Get busy studying
gravenimage says
Joey, Rarely is being sarcastic.
Adan Tirith says
Props to the civilians who held him down until the police arrived. Thank god no one was hurt.
Gary says
Apart from the attacker that is.
gravenimage says
+1
PRCS says
After the crash the man tried to flee but was dragged to the ground by onlookers and ‘roughed up’ before police arrived.
He was in a state of ‘mental confusion’ during his arrest.
Mental confusion from:
Hitting his head on the dash?
The roughing up?
Islam?
nicholas tesdorf says
Belief in Islam is undeniably a form of ‘mental confusion, but it leads to unusual violent behaviour. It is pleasing to hear that some of the locals were able to get to him and impart some good advice before the police took him into protective custody.
Fedup says
Exactly how many mentally confused jihadis are there?
gravenimage says
France: Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” drives car into crowd, is hospitalized for “mental confusion”
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Willful ignorance.
The only good things about this story is that the Jihadist did not manage to murder anyone, and that bystanders wrestled him to the ground and roughed him up. Good for them for acting!
UltraSkeptic says
The thesis of “mentally disturbed” raises a powerful issue. If religious belief produces powerful adherents, and those adherents behave in ways contrary to the general values of the area, is that mental illness? Or is it religion? And if it’s religion, does faith reflect mental illness? Don’t forget Western religious obscenities, burning, lynching, and drowning folks for heresy, murdering those minority groups of different faith streams, murdering people of the same faith but a different color.
Perhaps it really IS mental illness. But maybe we should be looking at first causes? And the first cause of mental illness and the unacceptable behavior it evokes is religion itself.
David says
Ultra, the main religion that provokes this type of behaviour is the incorrectly named ‘Religion of Peace’. Western religions have mostly stopped acting like barbarians.
gravenimage says
Of course, Christianity and Judaism do not teach such atrocities, and you have to go back centuries to find any examples of this. Not so with Islam…
Lorensacho says
Sounds like America where mentally confused people take their weapons out and gun down their families and co-workers and then as a final act of cowardice turn the weapon on themselves.
David says
Lorensacho, yes but they are not inspired by their religion. Muslim terrorists are.
gravenimage says
More false Tu Quoque from Lorensacho.