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Brussels: Muslim who had just been released from psych ward screams “Allahu akbar” and stabs police officer

Nov 20, 2018 8:40 am By Robert Spencer

Could it be that this man was never crazy, but was just a jihadi, and since Belgian authorities, like authorities all over the West, pretend that there is no jihad and that jihad activity is just an indication of mental illness, they put him in a psychiatric institution? And could it be that once he was let out, he simply resumed his jihad, as anyone who faces this problem realistically could have foreseen?

“Stabbing is being treated as a terrorist crime,” VRT, November 20, 2018 (thanks to Wim):

A police officer has been injured after he was attacked by a man wielding a knife outside the main police station in the centre of Brussels on Tuesday morning. The knifeman was shot by one of the injured officer’s colleagues. Both the policeman and his assailant were taken to hospital. The attacker’s condition is described as critical. The knifeman had just been released from detention in a psychiatric institution.

The attacker was armed with two kitchen knives, one in each hand. The incident happened at around 5:30am outside the main police station on the Kolenmarkt in the centre of Brussels. Although there is still no precise indication as to the motive for the attack it is being treated as attempting murder within the context of terrorism.

Speaking at a press conference held on Tuesday morning the Brussels Judicial Authorities Spokeswoman Ine Van Wymersch said that although “It is not clear whether it was within the context of terrorism” this avenue needs to be investigated. “Some witnesses report having heard him shout ‘Allah akbar’ (God is great). The man has not yet been question. Further investigation should bring clarity”.

The investigation has not yet been transferred to the Federal Judicial Authorities that are responsible for major terrorist investigations. There is also no indication that anyone else was involved.

The man suspected of having carried out the attack is a 33-year-old Belgian national. He has a number of previous convictions for armed robbery. In 2014 he was interned after having been found guilty of attempted murder and possession of illegal weapons. Earlier this year he asked to be released on trial. This request was granted last month despite objections from the Judicial Authorities.
“An act of cowardice”

The Federal Interior Minister Jan Jambon (Flemish nationalist) has said in reaction that “Once again the police have been the victim of an attack. The assailant is currently not known to OCAD (the terror-threat assessment agent) not the police as having links to radicalisation or terrorism. However, is reported to have been interned and was released a while ago. However, this information is still provisional”….

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  1. Michael Copeland says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 8:48 am

    Oh, a “Belgian national”?
    Is his name Mohammed?

    • Tom from Brussels says

      Nov 20, 2018 at 11:20 am

      Close, but in fact it’s Issam.

      However, Mohammad and all its variants is now the top name for new born boys in Brussels.

      He is clearly very devote as he stabbed the policeman in the neck, just as the koran demands.

      Police are still searching for the motive. If it wasn’t serious it would be hilarious.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 20, 2018 at 12:16 pm

      Hitler’s millions of followers were not ‘CRAZY’, but they were highly mentally CONDITIONED.

      Muslims are CONDITIONED from birth to HATE THE DIRTY KAFIRS ‘for the sake of Allah’.

      This ESSENTIAL TEACHING is called Al Walaa wal Baraa.

      You cannot understand the mind of Muslims if you do not MASTER THE TEACHING OF AL WALAA WAL BARAA.

      THE HATRED DIRECTED by MUSLIMS AGAINST DISBELIEVERS ‘ (Bill Warner)

  2. Jaladhi says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 9:14 am

    Just goes to show that Muslims can’t be cured of their mental illness unless they give up the cause of their mental illness——- and you what it is!!

  3. No Muzzies Here says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 9:44 am

    True insanity can be hard to distinguish from the fervent practice of certain religions. Both are irrational. Both lead to the inability to perceive reality as it is. Both lead to self-destructive behavior. Both can lead to violent actions against innocent persons.

    The only protection against both of these conditions is separation and/or sequestration of the violent party, so as to protect the innocent person.

    • b.a. freeman says

      Nov 20, 2018 at 2:08 pm

      NMH, U’re being too rational here; the liars and tools in charge of the nation (*every* free nation) are either traitors (not so many of them, so as not to draw attention to the treason) or uneducated, well-indoctrinated delusionals. yes, “separation and/or sequestration of the violent party” is the proper approach, but only if one recognizes the violence of the violent party. the traitors lie, and the tools believe the lies, and since there are only rarely victims from these protected (by armed guards) groups, they continue to fail to recognize the danger. they were brought up with a “lite” version of judeo-christian ethics, which version does not include giving a rat’s a** about what happens to people one does not personally know (unless it benefits the Party), especially when those injured parties are from the “exploiting class” and *deserve* death for just being alive today, because of the “crimes” committed by their ancestors. to the left, when a member of the exploiting class commits a crime, every single descendant of his will be guilty of that crime for all time; when a leftist commits a crime, OTOH, he is not guilty because of his “virtue,” and his descendants are therefore made more important.

      we need to remember that almost every citizen alive today – myself included, even though i’m an old fart – has been indoctrinated rather than educated. the left probably gained total control of education in the mid- to late-1970s in the u.s., sooner in canada, and in the late 1880s to 1890s (!) in eurabia (not so certain about other countries, but it’s doubtful that they escaped the perverted leadership of eurabian leftists any longer than the u.s. did). critical thought is only taught as a tool in STEM-type fields; it is *NEVER* taught and *ALWAYS* discouraged in any other field. some people manage to figure it out on their own – i did, but it took me 15 or 20 years to stop believing liberal lies, and another 20 to 25 years to figure out the islam scam – but we no longer have enough time left for the populace to learn to think and actually figure things out. no rational person *wants* war, but the left wants power a *lot* more than it wants peace, so they are willing for as many deaths of other people as it takes for them to be able to declare martial law and impose a people’s republic. we can’t avoid it at this point, but we can – and *SHOULD* – try to reach as many people as possible by encouraging them to search out the truth rather than sitting on their a**es until the end comes.

  4. Buraq says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 9:52 am

    Crazy compared to 21st Century secular norms of behaviour, yes: but perfectly sane, carrying out a purifying, noble deed in the name of Islam when measured against 7th Century Islamic standards!

    Clown!

  5. infidel says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 10:05 am

    I have no doubts now (and it is being repeatedly proven by Muslims themselves) that the more intense and devout U get as a Muslim, THE MORE MAD AND INSANE U BECOME.!!!

    MAD MUSLIMS is a perfect adjective… it has always been this way since its inception 1400 yrs ago.

  6. Raja says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 10:13 am

    If Marxism and communism are political religions then Islam is a religion of lies and murder.

    Having clarity of mind to kill someone is not a psychic problem, he is just infused with too much of Koran and Mohammad, the left calls it religion.

    • Lavéritétriomphera says

      Nov 21, 2018 at 8:13 am

      Islamic ideology is as totalitarian as marxism, communism, nazism are. It is the ideological expression that differs from one to another.

  7. Barbara says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 10:18 am

    I don’t think he was “just a jihadi” to do such a small and irrational attack. I think that the jihadis deliberately recruit crazy people and egg them on to commit terror offenses. A jihadi in his right mind would plan something like a truck attack or plant a bomb. A lot of these terrorists do small, poorly planned attacks because they are crazy or have a low IQ. We are really fortunate that most jihadis in the West are not quite right in the head, or many more would die.

  8. Angemon says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 11:49 am

    The assailant is currently not known to OCAD (the terror-threat assessment agent) not the police as having links to radicalisation or terrorism.

    And there’s the common, yet critical error in assessment – usually, when law enforcement says “there’s no known links to radicalisation or terrorist groups” they simply mean they can’t prove the perp had any contact with known terrorists. Not that long ago, the leader of the islamic state exhorted muslims worldwide to commit this kind of terror attacks. Do you think there might be a connection between that call to arms and this attack? If not, and you can’t find an explanation other than “that guy must be out of his mind”, then congratulations, you’re as knowledgeable as any given member of law enforcement.

    • Anjuli Pandavar says

      Nov 20, 2018 at 1:41 pm

      Angemon,

      “usually, when law enforcement says “there’s no known links to radicalisation or terrorist groups” they simply mean they can’t prove the perp had any contact with known terrorists.”

      —

      I’m afraid I have to disagree: “usually, when law enforcement says “there’s no known links to radicalisation or terrorist groups” they simply mean they screwed up, again! Obviously, if all you’re doing is watching for “contact with known terrorists,” you’re going to screw up. Unless, of course, there’s something altogether different going on…

  9. mummymovie says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 1:07 pm

    Yeah, I saw this one come in early this morning as news from Europe, like so many mornings lately, I can’t even recall them. Yet, I sometimes think maybe it was a figment of my hazy morning imagination, when I see it unreported in the papers, and other establishment media.

    It must be because they don’t know how to report it due to some nomenclature/terminology confusion:

    So, the fact that “allah(u) akbar” was purportedly muttered by this culture enricher, signifies that it was indeed an act of jihad (or as the Belgian authorities are preferring to call it in this case, “terrorism”):

    So, are they one in the same? Yes, or No?

    It seems by deductive reasoning, that Western authorities have established that acts of jihad are committed by mentally ill people (though we have yet to hear any prominent muslim imams or “spiritual” leaders make this declaration. Gee… I wonder who is more likely to be correct about this integral concept in the religious component of islam.?), and that acts of “terrorism” are committed in the name of a particular cause or motive (political, etc.). In cases of ultrasensitivity not to offend muslims and/or cast islam in a negative light, they go for the “terrorism” option.

    Let’s consult Merriam-Webster:

    jihad: 1 : a holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty

    terrorism: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion

    So, “coercion” would fit right into the context of “a religious duty”, given that religions generally attempt to persuade or coerce people into following them, right? Not to mention that the islamic prophet himself said that he had been made successful through terror.

    Whew! What a conundrum!

    It seems to me that now that we have established a clear distinction between “jihad” and “terrorism”, or we just need to start referring to it as “jihad terrorism”, and the mystery surrounding the motives in these increasingly frequent attacks around the world will be solved, and the wordsmiths and wizards of establishment media-speak can rest easy, knowing that they can now unanimously come together for some uniformity in their reporting.

    Yeah, right. Fat chance of that ever happening.

    They will no doubt stick with the discrepancy, because they have discovered that, thanks to the draconian Orwellian veil of tyranny recently cast over Western Europe, they can now -in lock-step with establishment media- conveniently cast us “far-right” fascists and xenophobes into the “crazy” lot, i.e. Marine Le Pen (and similarly in the U.S., who else but the “mentally unstable” President Don Trump?).

    So much for trying to resolve that one.

  10. Guy Forester says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 1:56 pm

    1, Better training of police in use of firearms appears to be needed. This should have been a terminal event for the attacker. To the Belgian Police: Please contact me, I can contact our local sheriff here and see if they can send someone there to teach you how it is done.

    2. The judge was the one that needs the mental institute, or at least a CT scan or MRI to see if there anything but air or water in the cranial vault.

  11. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 2:58 pm

    I think the route might be less Byzantine than you suggest. If they can’t sustain “mentally ill”, then it’s better to fall back onto “extremist acts”, and if the public don’t buy that either, then they fall back further to “terrorism”. “Terrorism” still has the advantage in that over the years, there’s been a handful of acts of terrorism perpetrated by non-Muslims. It’s bottom of the barrel stuff, but you could hear the collective sigh of relief, for example, when some sad guy who couldn’t get laid plowed a van into pedestrians in Toronto. Upshot: “terrorism” doesn’t have to imply that the perpetrator is Muslim. Which is the same reason for why they can never say “jihad”. In all of 1400 years, no one other than a Muslim has ever shouted “Allahu Akbar!” while killing.

    Having said that, it doesn’t mean that Islamic apologists won’t try. I’ve read in one and the same report that the murderer shouted “Allahu Akbar!” AND police are still searching for a motive!

    • Raja says

      Nov 20, 2018 at 8:32 pm

      Anjuli,

      Searching for the motive is the euphemism to closing the charge-sheet and /or criminal case. It happens all around the globe and surprisingly the Westerners are getting used to it like the 3rd world.

      I can barely disagree with you.

  12. James Lincoln says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 7:01 pm

    From a physician’s viewpoint,
    For a moment, let’s assume that the assault committed by the 33-year-old Belgian national was actually due to some underlying mental illness and admission to a psychiatric clinic was appropriate.
    What criteria would the psychiatric medical staff use as a “test of cure” before release from the clinic? What medications / psychotherapy would he be prescribed? What would be the follow-up care regimen?
    Most importantly, if it was determined by the psychiatric medical staff that the Islam ideology exacerbated his underlying mental illness, would they recommend leaving the religion? If not, why not?

  13. gravenimage says

    Nov 21, 2018 at 1:27 am

    Brussels: Muslim who had just been released from psych ward screams “Allahu akbar” and stabs police officer
    ……………………

    Well, good to know that he was well enough to be released from the psych ward–no more problems from him. Oh…wait…

  14. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Nov 21, 2018 at 3:22 pm

    “Mental illness” is just a pathetic alibi used by many criminals to excuse their own criminal desires and actions – by basically asserting:

    “It’s not my fault! My brain made me do it! And in fact, I didn’t do it at all – only my brain did it! Whee!”

    Paranoid masochism and the hypocrisy required to cover it up is what defines psychopathy: First, the paranoia: you falsely and slanderously assert that everyone else is always out to get you, which choice “makes” (lets) you feel like a helpless victim all the time (self-inflicted masochism) which then lets one create false, hypocritical scenarios of NOT-blaming others, as long as they agree to go along (with your criminal lies) to get along (with you, the extortive criminal) in agreeing that you’re a perpetually helpless victim, “too.” So as long as everyone else in your newly-formed victim-identity gang also agrees that everyone else in the gang is an equally-helpless fellow victim, they get to avoid being labelled as part of the oppressor group you can now all vilify and extort (as “intolerant hateful racist bigot infidels,” etc.)!

    Islam simply takes this common human failing to the next level, giving it the imprimatur of deity as exemplified by The Perfect Example of Humanity for All Mankind, the prophit, Dirty Old Moe himself!

    And, while all criminals are hypocrites and vice-versa, not all criminals are gangsters (but it’s very unusual for them to not at least show a token support for one or more other criminal victimal gangs, as a sort of insurance excuse, just in case)!

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