• Why Jihad Watch?
  • About Robert Spencer and Staff Writers
  • FAQ
  • Books
  • Muhammad
  • Islam 101
  • Privacy

Jihad Watch

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Netherlands: All mosques in Utrecht evacuated as a precaution after shooting on tram

Mar 18, 2019 8:50 am By Robert Spencer

An update on this story. It appears that in the wake of the New Zealand massacre, Dutch authorities are treating all random shootings as if they were perpetrated by white supremacists and “Islamophobes.” It is possible that this shooting in Utrecht was indeed perpetrated by such a person. It is also possible that this was a jihad attack, but churches and synagogues are not being evacuated as a precaution.

“Utrecht shooting: Eyewitnesses describe horror as passengers gunned down on tram,” by Elaine McCahill, Mirror, March 18, 2019 (thanks to Lookmann):

Eyewitnesses have described the terrifying scenes as passengers were gunned down on a tram in a Dutch city this morning.

One person has died and numerous others are injured following the shooting at 10.45am local time in Utrecht.

Police have said they are investigating if there was a “terrorist motive” for the attack and are looking into whether there were multiple gunmen.

Primary schools were placed on lockdown and all mosques in Utrecht have been evacuated as a precaution.

Utrecht University has also closed all its buildings and no one is allowed in or out.

One woman told NRC that a man got up and started shooting “with a big gun”.

She escaped the gun fire by jumping through a smashed window.

“I was in the back of the tram. He shot around, but seemed to be aiming at people sitting on the benches – everyone ducked away,” she said.

“The conductor did not open the doors immediately. Two boys next to me kicked in a window, so I fled outside. More people did that.”

An eyewitness called Jimmy de Koster told RTV he saw saw four men shoot a woman who dropped to the ground as she screamed: “I didn’t do anything”….

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Follow me on Facebook

Filed Under: Netherlands Tagged With: Utrecht


Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Comments

  1. WhiteKnight says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 9:01 am

    Islam is know for its attacks on public transport

  2. Peter says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 9:02 am

    But also all schools are closed too!!!

  3. Keith Ellerby says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 9:35 am

    BBC news say the Dutch police are looking for a Turkish man, so a very good chance that he is not a right wing white supremacist.

    • rbla says

      Mar 18, 2019 at 10:04 am

      He is a right wing white supremacist. First of all the Turks are white. The small proportion of East Asian genes were overwhelmed by that of all the converted and enslaved non-Muslims from Anatolia and the Balkans. Second what is more right wing than an ideology that justifies slavery, hates Jews and regards women as second class citizens? In addition he is also a right wing white nationalist. Who is more nationalist than Erdogan and his followers who want to restore the Ottoman caliphate?
      QED

      • SoloStiX says

        Mar 18, 2019 at 1:56 pm

        Your an idiot, most people are Muslims there lol, you are clearly a liberal fool that believes only the white race (you know, the one that built and founded America) is the problem, you are clearly on the wrong website and will be known as literally a moron here.

        • rbla says

          Mar 18, 2019 at 11:56 pm

          Not my fault that you are incapable of understanding irony; undoubtedly a product of our failed education system.

      • The Roofer says

        Mar 18, 2019 at 1:56 pm

        You mean to say Left Wingers are the ideology that justifies slavery, hates Jews and regards women as second class citizens? Look at the Democrat liberals in the US. They hate EVERYONE who disagrees with them, and they eat their own. Slavery? Fine with the leftists! Genocide? Sex trafficking? All good with the lefties! Go shill somewhere else for the pedophile mohammed.

  4. Peter says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 9:43 am

    It’s out…….Turkish (new-Dutchman) Muslim!!

  5. Paul says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 9:56 am

    latest: Dutch police are seeking a Turkish-born man. What a surprise…

    https://nos.nl/artikel/2276544-politie-utrecht-zoekt-37-jarige-verdachte-gokmen-tanis.html

    • tom parry says

      Mar 18, 2019 at 10:00 am

      time to lock out all non citizen muslims from utrecht , not lock out peope from their lives.

    • Paul says

      Mar 18, 2019 at 10:10 am

      It gets worse: at the bottom of the article I linked to, it says the guy was in court 2 weeks ago for a rape he is accused of doing in summer 2017:
      Tanis stond twee weken geleden terecht in een verkrachtingszaak, blijkt uit informatie van de rechtbank in Utrecht. Het zou gaan om een verkrachting in de zomer van 2017.

    • David M says

      Mar 18, 2019 at 10:21 am

      Yes, typical bearded Muslim terrorist, normal service has been resumed. I’m sure all the Muslims in the world are going to come out & express outrage over this like they did in New Zealand……….not! They won’t say a word.

      • kuriakose says

        Mar 18, 2019 at 10:45 am

        Only to say we provoked this attack.

  6. Jayell says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 12:53 pm

    So they’re evacuating the mosques in Utrecht. The Netherlands is a small place, so the bad feeling will spread quickly. Where else will they feel the need to evacuate these ‘places of worship’? Apart from disasters, natural or otherwise, the only occasions I can recall the authorities organising evacuations would be in wartime. Maybe this is a belated official response to an undeclared conflict that’s been going on for quite a long time now – and they can’t claim that no-one told them so.

  7. eduardo odraude says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 1:43 pm

    Is the predicted civil war in European nations coming true? Let’s hope against hope that European authorities realize that censorship of discussion of Islam leads to violence. Why? Because censorship uses force and is itself a kind of violence. And because if people do not have a peaceful way to express their views, they tend to find violent ways. John F. Kennedy: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

    The only speech that should be against the law is speech explicitly and specifically calling for illegal violence. Europe, and in particular the European Left, so civilized in other matters, is quite backward and barbarian in its failure to recognize this elementary requirement of civilization. Free. Speech.

    • eduardo odraude says

      Mar 18, 2019 at 1:45 pm

      The remedy for bad speech is not censorship, but more speech. Wake up, Europe!

FacebookYoutubeTwitterLog in

Subscribe to the Jihad Watch Daily Digest

You will receive a daily mailing containing links to the stories posted at Jihad Watch in the last 24 hours.
Enter your email address to subscribe.

Please wait...

Thank you for signing up!
If you are forwarding to a friend, please remove the unsubscribe buttons first, as they my accidentally click it.

Subscribe to all Jihad Watch posts

You will receive immediate notification.
Enter your email address to subscribe.
Note: This may be up to 15 emails a day.

Donate to JihadWatch
FrontPage Mag

Search Site

Translate

The Team

Robert Spencer in FrontPageMag
Robert Spencer in PJ Media

Articles at Jihad Watch by
Robert Spencer
Hugh Fitzgerald
Christine Douglass-Williams
Andrew Harrod
Jamie Glazov
Daniel Greenfield

Contact Us

Terror Attacks Since 9/11

Archives

  • 2020
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2019
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2018
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2017
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2016
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2015
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2014
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2013
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2012
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2011
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2010
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2009
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2008
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2007
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2006
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2005
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2004
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2003
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • March

All Categories

You Might Like

Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Recent Comments

  • Graham Bryant on Canadian Mental Health Association studies Muslim women’s mental health due to ‘discrimination’ and ‘hate crimes’
  • Sabri S. on Iranian Kurdistan: Muslim brothers behead their sister in honor killing over her romantic relationship
  • Hoi Polloi on EU Parliament members call for firing of border agency director for preventing illegal migrants from entering Europe
  • OLD GUY on Why so many Muslims can’t wait for Biden to get inaugurated
  • gravenimage on Iranian top dogs approve bill to end UN nuclear inspections, increase enrichment

Popular Categories

dhimmitude Sharia Jihad in the U.S ISIS / Islamic State / ISIL Iran Free Speech

Robert Spencer FaceBook Page

Robert Spencer Twitter

Robert Spencer twitter

Robert Spencer YouTube Channel

Books by Robert Spencer

Jihad Watch® is a registered trademark of Robert Spencer in the United States and/or other countries - Site Developed and Managed by Free Speech Defense

Content copyright Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. Images on this blog are copyright to their respective owners. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and you do not wish for it appear on this site, please E-mail with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed.

Our mailing address is: David Horowitz Freedom Center, P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks, CA 91499-1964

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.