There is no reason why Eric Lindley could not be correct in this, even though the Royal Oman Police have classified it as an accident. Jihadis have targeted tourists in Egypt, Algeria and elsewhere. And the use of an automobile as an instrument of jihad is well established. We have seen it all over Europe in recent years, as well as in Israel, Ohio State University, and New York City.
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….
“‘It was deliberate… it was murder’: Husband, 70, who survived when car ran over and killed his wife and another British woman in Oman says it ‘WAS a terrorist attack targeting tourists,'” by Charlie Moore, Mailonline, October 22, 2018 (thanks to Red):
Two British women killed when a car smashed into them in Oman were murdered by a terrorist, a victim’s widower who survived the attack has claimed.
Audrey Lindley, 69, and an unknown woman were killed while on a coach trip during an ‘Authentic Arabia’ cruise in the Middle East last month.
The pair were stepping off a coach in Salalah when they were hit by a car after its 22-year-old unlicenced driver veered into the wrong lane.
Mrs Lindley’s 70-year-old husband Eric, who survived the crash and is recovering in his hometown of Ossett, West Yorkshire, has now claimed the driver targeted westerners in an act of terrorism.
His nephew Andrew told The Times: ‘Eric is certain that it was deliberate. He has a clear recollection of what happened.
‘He had got off the coach and was walking towards the back when the car sped up and crashed into him.
‘Then he saw the driver continue and deliberately hit his wife and the other woman… it was murder.’
Oman’s ministry of tourism said the deaths were a ‘painful and tragic accident’.
The victims were travelling on the Boudicca, a Fred Olsen Cruise Line, from Aqaba in Jordan to Abu Dhabi when they died on September 27.
In a statement published on its website, Fred Olsen Cruises said: ‘Royal Oman Police preliminary reports suggest the cause of the accident was the driver’s deviation from his lane.
‘The driver also did not hold a driving licence. Further investigations into the accident are ongoing.’
The women were on the 14-night ‘Authentic Arabia’ fly cruise, which left Jordan on September 20.
Thousands of Brits visit Oman every year, and the Foreign Office says most visits are trouble-free.
But it warns: ‘You should maintain a high level of security awareness and take care in public places and on the roads.
‘Driving can be dangerous outside Muscat; there is a risk of hitting wandering camels and goats on the road. Rainfall can cause sudden and severe flooding in dry riverbeds and on roads that cross them.
‘The standard of Omani roads is generally good. Driving standards in Oman are not always as disciplined as those in the UK, and the rate of traffic accidents in Oman is significantly higher.’…
Rouge1 says
Why would any sane person go to egypt?
Savvy Kafir says
Very good question. I would not want to give my tourist dollars to any Islamic country — much less put my life in the hands of kafir-hating Allah junkies.
At this point, I’d say the only sound reason for an infidel visiting a Muslim-majority country is to research the enemy & Islamic culture at first hand. But these days, that can be done in Manchester or London, or in Paris, Malmo, Berlin, Detroit, etc.
gravenimage says
I take your point, You should know that Oman is not Egypt, though.
J D S says
Let’s change that to, not just Egypt, but the whole mid east.
Tourism in the mid eastern nations should end NOW! and something else should end…tax dollars going to these countries from the U.S.
Our national debt is just too high to continue our gjve-away programs..not only just to the mid east but all give-away programs should stop until our national debt is brought under somewhat of
Control and any nation receiving funds from the give-away program should have to follow guidelines and American values.
Any of this going to happen? Very DOUBTFUL!
R Russell says
Or we could change it to all 57 Islamic countries and the ones like the UK who are incrementally bringing in sharia law within the law of the land.
Guy Forester says
I cannot understand why anyone would like to visit these Islamic paradises. I would consider someplace like Indonesia or Malaysia, but even then with caution and would avoid certain places.
This man is not only lucky to be alive, he is lucky the local police did not hold him accountable for the “accident” and the damages to the car. If you think I am joking, try working for a while in one of these paradises or talk to someone that has.
Garry says
Sorry to hear of the loss of life. The next step is to boycott all Muslim countries to bring them to their knees through the loss of tourism.
Kimberly Palmer says
I find it hard to understand that a couple from the UK, at their age, did not know any better than to vacation to the middle east. Maybe they wanted to go to France but that has been turned into a mirror image of the middle east as well. Do they live is a part of the UK that is so far cocooned from the ongoing and unrelenting Islamic devastation to their country? Was it their ideology, i.e. are they liberal and believe that evil is a construct of white men of privilege?
Cicero says
They are from Yorkshire —— you know where the sex grooming gangs proliferate
Ragdoll says
‘Authentic Arabia’ for sure!
Prabh says
We ought not accept travel restrictions – the idea that certain countries are designated as “Islamic” or any other designation (such as one based upon genetics) is morally repugnant and reeks of backwardness. We ought to be able to freely travel and explore the entire planet without fear. The UNO is a hopeless organization – genuine authentic multiculturalism and islamic multiculturalism are as different as nectar and poison. Islamic multiculturalism will end in genocidal guerilla warfare as well as any and all other forms of warfare imaginable and even newer forms that are beyond imagination- I am not attempting to frighten anybody but this is reality. Be prepared. At least the overpopulation crisis will be resolved. Dharm Yudh is On!!!
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Prabh108 says
This message is for the practitioners of the Dharmic Religions: Jain,Germanic Pagans of Western Aryavartasthan aka ‘europe’ Zarathustran, Vedantic-Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh,, ISKCON etc.: Travel inwards through simran aka dhyan meditation etc. instead of ever contemplating visiting Muslim or African territories or even philippines which is non-Dharmic presently (catholic xtian) though originally our Hindu lands – We Dharmics despite our significant (Fit) population – One point five billion strong and united for the first time in a very long time (!) aeons – must be EXTRA CAUTIOUS as we are on the front lines of this battle for Dharmic Sattvic Freedoms – before they go for the Saturday and Sunday peoples (Jews&Christians) – they are after us FIRST – don’t complain to the official authorities about jihad – they will not listen and will punish us – so be careful all you darling Aryavartan Yogis no matter where you are stuck. WE WILL WIN AND REGAIN ALL LOST ARYAVARTAN TERRITORIES – BHARAT MATA DI JAI! excuse errors and thank you Dr. Robert Spencer for your support – thank your for giving us actual news. Media blackouts about our Dusshera Jihad attack we will remember – Dharmic Dunya has laser sharp memory. Thank you Stephen Knapp. Thank you Hugh Fitzgerald – we adore thee. PAGAN PRIDE WORLDWIDE
gravenimage says
Yes–ideally we ought to be able to travel everywhere. But going to a country where the populace hates Infidels and the laws make such things as holding hands or reporting rape a crime is not overly wise.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Don’t visit any Muslim country. The risk is too great. Nothing you might see — not Petra, not the Pyramids, not the Sphinx , not some venerable mosque –is worth it. I went once to Morocco where I prevented a Canadian couple from being cheated by their Moroccan self-appointed “guide,” who had attachedhimsesf to them and promised to steer them to all the most reputable and reliable rug sellers. I stepped in to keep them from being robbed blind by this amiable guide and his friendly rug-sellers with whom he was in cahoots..A half-hour later, I was walking in the souk, alone, when suddenly the same guide came up behind me and whispered into my ear, in true Hollywood-style and , in good English, “If you ever do that again, I will kill you.” And he meant it,
On the same trip, I stayed on the third floor of a dismal “hotel “in a room that had a single window. No fire-escape and no way to get out or climb in, so I thought, through the window. But in that room I found a note in broken English: “Dear Guest, Please sure your window very tightened at night to prevent robberies.” I didn’t get much sleep that night.
I haven’t been back to any Muslim country since. Nor will I.
gravenimage says
My Mother-in-law–who was a docent at several collections of Ancient Egyptian Art–visited Egypt in the 1990s, not long after the terrible Luxor Massacre when Jihadists murdered 62 tourists visiting antiquities there. She had already planned the trip, and went anyway.
I knew little about Islam itself pre-9/11, but I knew this was terribly dangerous. She and her group came home safe, but this was just luck.
Then, my English cousin and her husband were vacationing in Egypt for a Nile cruise when the “Arab Spring” broke out. They had to scramble to get out. They did get a flight direct to London–but had Americans, Germans, French, and other Westerners–even Australians–on the plane, who just wanted to reach *any* civilized Infidel nation.
You take your life in your hands visiting any part of Dar-al-Islam.
gravenimage says
Oman: Driver kills two British women, husband of one says “it was a terrorist attack targeting tourists”
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These poor people.
No Infidels should vacation in Dar-al-Islam.
Baucent says
Quite frankly a tourist would be safer in Israel. There has been a history of attacks on Western Tourists from North Africa and Egypt and now a probable one in Oman.
gravenimage says
Yes–see Israel!
Terra Nova says
It is not the time any more to visit any Arab country and if you do and don’t take warnings seriously, than it’s on your own risk.
I don’t understand the English citizens.Haven’t they had enough warnings in your own country, where have you been living all this time, or did you live with eyes and ears closed? You don’t have any clue or idea, what happened everywhere. The UK is not your UK any more, half of it belongs already to muslims,
who put fear into people, kill them , behead them, flog them, stone them, rape them robbing them,
and you still went to a moslem country?
I am really very sorry for your loss, but if all citizens in England are like you and your May and Kahn, who are still proclaiming that”Islam is a peaceful religion”, you have to be out of your minds. And that is how the UK has gone under (spineless), and other western countries will follow, just out of the rest’s ignorance. . I wish the best for your children and grandchildren.
Anne Smith says
It is very sad that most English are fairly naive and gullible because they live (or used to at any rate) in a peaceful country and most people trust everyone else.
It is changing greatly now but older people are still way too trusting. If they don’t go online or if they listen to the BBC they will imagine that everywhere else is much like home and Muslims follow the religion of Peace. (As Mrs May is always so fond of telling us).
gravenimage says
Sadly true.
Dawne says
Most British people are stupid sheep, who watch only the BBC news, if that. News stories of the violence of Islamic Jihad completely pass them by. If I bring up the topic in conversation with people in an extremely mild way (e.g. the day after the Bataclan attack “how terrible, those poor people”, there is an embarrassed silence (because people believe that anyone talking about Islamic terrorism is racist – BBC/MSM narrative), or there is complete disinterest.
Many people here don’t even read a MSM newspaper or watch any news at all on the TV, never mind venturing beyond the MSM to get at the truth. Even my in-laws – intelligent, financially successful, in their 50s – care only about their new car, their next holiday, the next “fun” trend or quiz on Facebook etc I really do despair – are people like this everywhere?
I have thought for years that things will have to get a lot worse before they can get better here. There will have to be more Manchester bombings of children, more people gunned down on their beach holiday, more people driven into in towns and cities, before most people here will think about this issue at all. It may well be too late by then.
Jimbo66 says
I believe your country now jails people for hate speech? Be careful my friend, you’re one of the common sense smart people and we don’t want you going to jail for just speaking your mind. I always wanted to go to the UK and check out all the great stuff and meet some real cousins from across the pond but after the UK started taking in all the mooslems I knew I’d never want to go again. It’s sad what the UK has done to itself. There’s a reason why the world has never mixed like this before, people were smarter then.
So stay safe and keep your eyes open. Make sure you are talking to people that agree or at least won’t have you thrown in jail for speaking the truth. You might consider moving to the US, we can use all the smart people we can get to counteract all the stupid liberal leftist democrats we have. At least we don’t go to jail for speaking the truth. Yet. Good luck to you and be safe.
Jan Disher says
Why would any non-muslim go to a muslim country for a vacation?? Being British they should know what muslims are up to. Surely they can see what is happening in their own country!
Rich says
Pure and utter stupidity to go to ANY Islamic country these days. Wow.
Rich says
Moral of the story: If you have a death wish and don’t wish to take your own life, go to Oman and walk along any road dressed in Western clothing.