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UK: ‘Chilling’ footage shows London Bridge jihadist wiping knife on his beard after slaughtering eight people

May 9, 2019 8:47 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

One of the London bridge jihadist attackers, Khuram Butt, “washed his knife and wiped it on his beard in a ‘chilling gesture’ after killing eight people at London Bridge and Borough Market, an inquest has heard.”

The beard is an important symbol of honor to Allah for Salafists, so it would follow that Khuram Butt’s “chilling gesture” was intended as a form of worship as he  murdered innocents in the name of Islam.  Screaming “Allahu Akbar is another expression of reverence which the London bridge attackers shouted as they “charged into the Boro Bistro courtyard” and went on their stabbing spree in a “brief but furious assault”.

Salafists “like to let their beards grow long and wild, often leaving their upper lip clean-shaven as a nod to how the Prophet Mohammed wore his own beard 1,400 years ago.”  To illustrate an example of just how important the beard is to some Islamic adherents, some years ago in Pakistan,  a “Christian barber is badly beaten and sodomized by an angry mob for cutting a Muslim’s beard.”

“‘Chilling’ footage shows London Bridge terrorist wipe knife on beard after killing eight people”, by Jack Hardy, The Telegraph, May 8, 2019:

terrorist washed his knife and wiped it on his beard in a “chilling gesture” after killing eight people at London Bridge and Borough Market, an inquest has heard.

Khuram Butt, 27, was caught on CCTV cameras cleaning his 12 inch pink ceramic knife inside Black and Blue restaurant while Youssef Zaghba, 22, took a drink from the tap behind the bar.

The terrorists’ movements were part of harrowing footage showing the London Bridge terror attack unfolding in real time has been played at the inquests into the eight victims’ deaths.

Jonathan Hough QC, counsel for the coroner, had warned the families of the victims in court that “distressing images” would be shown, and Butt’s reaction was “the most chilling”.

A grim compilation of video clips from CCTV, dashboard cameras and handheld camera phones charted the progress of the atrocity in minute detail.

It showed the moment, at 10.06pm on June 3 2017, a white rental van first mounted the pavement on the east pavement of London Bridge and hit two pedestrians, sending one woman flying.

A packed courtroom at the Old Bailey was warned in advance about the graphic nature of the CCTV, which showed the vehicle zig-zag across the road into crowds of pedestrians.

Xavier Thomas, 45, was knocked over a balustrade to his death in the River Thames by the force of the impact.

CCTV from a bus then recorded the traumatic moment Christine Archibald, 30, was caught beneath the wheel of the van and dragged along the road for several yards.

Her partner, Tyler Ferguson, could be seen desperately chasing the vehicle and then sliding to his knees next to his stricken fiance, who later died of her injuries.

Attackers Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba then crashed their van outside the Barrowboy and Banker pub, sending debris raining down on punters in the courtyard of the Boro Bistro below.

Jonathan Hough QC told the second day of the inquests at the Old Bailey: “You will get the impression of many people out on the street on a Saturday night.”

One passerby began filming on his mobile phone as the terrorists charged into the Boro Bistro courtyard, screaming: “Allahu Akbar.”

Mr Hough said most of the stabbings that followed could be described as a “brief but furious assault”.

Terrified shrieks mixed with the sound of the bar’s loud music could be heard on the clip as the three men began stabbing customers at random.

Redouane – wearing a stripey jumper – was filmed bending down to stab Kirsty Boden, a 28-year-old Australian nurse who was tending to fatally injured waiter Alexandre Pigeard, 26……

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  1. terry sullivan says

    May 9, 2019 at 8:51 am

    nothing to do with islam?

  2. Paul says

    May 9, 2019 at 9:21 am

    I am in England. Please note a lot of people fought back against these wannabe terrorists. As this is an inquest the people who didn’t bend their necks will be forgotten. They fought back. As we all should.

    Paul

    • Michael Copeland says

      May 9, 2019 at 10:00 am

      Ignacio Echeverria was bicycling back from skateboarding when he saw a woman being stabbed. He went to her rescue armed only with his skateboard. Two other jihadis joined in attacking him as he did so.
      He died of his wounds.

      • Patriot2G says

        May 9, 2019 at 11:22 am

        Now do you understand the importance of the US Constitution’s 2nd Amendment? Why do I carry a 9mm? Because a cop is too heavy.

        • dee says

          May 9, 2019 at 7:00 pm

          You said it!!

        • Savvy Kafir says

          May 9, 2019 at 11:06 pm

          Yep. My town has recently been invaded by so many bearded, military-age Muslim men, I make a point of carrying whenever & wherever possible. I wish more infidels did. These murderous jihadis need to be met by overwhelming force, delivered by whoever is present when the Allahu-akbar-ing begins.

        • gravenimage says

          May 9, 2019 at 11:48 pm

          Paul and others, great to see Infidels fighting back.

    • Michael Copeland says

      May 9, 2019 at 10:06 am

      The first policeman at the incident was likewise greatly courageous. Unarmed, he tackled the knifeman with only his baton. He was badly wounded in the face, head, and leg, but survived, crippled for life. He said:

      “I feel like I did what any other person would have done. I’m so sorry I couldn’t do more…”

      • David M says

        May 9, 2019 at 9:25 pm

        It’s crazy British cops don’t have guns.

        • gravenimage says

          May 10, 2019 at 9:19 pm

          Actually, most situations where there is no law but only vigilantism are usually a mess.

      • vishnu raghavan says

        May 9, 2019 at 11:04 pm

        Arm the police and arm the public. Enough is enough. Down with these Jihadis and their apologists

      • gravenimage says

        May 9, 2019 at 11:49 pm

        Agreed, Michael and David.

    • Linda M Clark says

      May 10, 2019 at 9:47 am

      Paul- WANNABE terrorists? I’d say they did a pretty good job for wannabes.

  3. Jay says

    May 9, 2019 at 9:37 am

    England is lost! They have allowed the unfettered immigration/invasion of Muslims who NEVER
    acclimate! They demand and destroy!! Why the English people have elected government officials that are allowing the destruction of their soverignity and English values is beyond me! It’s costing the English taxpaying citizens their lives to accommodate this madness. No go zones, murder, rape, crimes, disease, welfare, etc etc. and these terror attacks will continue until England is no longer England!
    Germany, France, Spain, Norway, Sweden etc are all doomed for destruction unless they wake up!
    PM Churchill is not resting easy today! And the Queen is oblivious to all of this it seems,as is PM May.
    The Muslim mayor of London is an example of the infiltration and damage that is being done on a daily basis. It’s complete insanity IMHO.
    May God bless and save the English people!! No one else will be able to!
    God save the queen!
    Trump 2020 our only hope in the USA! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

    • Roger Craig Baldridge says

      May 10, 2019 at 5:18 pm

      England is finished

      • Savvy Kafir says

        May 11, 2019 at 8:35 am

        No, it’s not. Support Anne Marie Waters’ For Britain party, if you want to see sanity restored in Britain. Anyone, in any country, can become a member and throw a few dollars/pounds their way each month — and help to promote them on social media, etc.

        If the For Britain party fails to come to power, it will take bloody civil war to put things right.

        We should not write off ANY Western countries. We should not allow ANY of them to fall to Islam.

      • Carol the 1st says

        May 14, 2019 at 12:18 am

        Nigel Farage and the Brexit Party are doing very, very well in the polls. What goes around comes around!:

        EU earthquake. The Brexit Party polls higher than Labour and Tories, COMBINED!

  4. Benedict says

    May 9, 2019 at 9:51 am

    Khuram Butt is a good Muslim who understands that the Koran is not only for mind numbing recitations, but an instruction to act upon.
    Wish our politicians were blessed with the same understanding.

    • elee says

      May 9, 2019 at 10:42 am

      +1

  5. TruthWFree says

    May 9, 2019 at 10:00 am

    Until the Koran is banned and burned where ever it is found and these killers for Satan executed immediately, this sick Islamic religious act of Jihad will continue. Islam has NO place in the world. The allah god is Satan. I am convinced of that after 17 years of study of Islam.

    • Michael Copeland says

      May 9, 2019 at 10:15 am

      Gladstone held up a copy in the House of Commons and told Members:

      “So long as there is this book there will be no peace in the world.”

      • elee says

        May 9, 2019 at 10:50 am

        +1. Pretty damn smart, those dead white-guy Brits.

    • gravenimage says

      May 9, 2019 at 11:53 pm

      If the Qur’an is banned it will mostly be Anti-Jihadists who will be prosecuted and imprisoned for reading it.

  6. elee says

    May 9, 2019 at 10:49 am

    Has it occurred to anyone to investigate this POS’s imam and mosque and all associated “charities” and “foundations”? Oh say, how about the contents of the last sermon he drew inspiration from? Did they get a mail-order imam from some s****** country we’re enriching with petrobucks? Hey Britain let’s have some enforceable civil liability for all the voices behind this guy’s knife. That’s what plaintiff’s lawyers do…….anybody know about any followup?

    • esther says

      May 9, 2019 at 1:05 pm

      I vote for that one ^^^^^^^ MOST IMPORTANT STATEMENT OF THE 21st CENTURY

    • gravenimage says

      May 9, 2019 at 11:53 pm

      Agree, elee.

  7. Truth says

    May 9, 2019 at 12:55 pm

    Meanwhile the UK imprisoned Jayda Franzen and Tommy Robinson. A nation of fools.

    • Joe@joemail.com says

      May 9, 2019 at 7:50 pm

      Their leaders are fools, not their entire population. Their leaders are so “book smart” and clever at manoeuvring in government, yet inept at governing.

      Just like most of the West right now.

  8. Eric Jones says

    May 9, 2019 at 1:28 pm

    The perpetrators should receive the death penalty.

    Eric

  9. Walter Sieruk says

    May 9, 2019 at 1:31 pm

    Those jihadists /Islamic terror attacks in the city of London by the brutal vehicle jihad attack on London Bridge and then their going over and stabbing people at nearby Borough Market had the combined results of multiple casualties were heinously evil and cruel to the extreme . This, as strange as it may seem to some people is in accord to the instruction of the “holy book” of Islam the Quran , For example the Quran instructs in Surah 9:123. “O you who believe! Fight of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you…”

    So those three malicious and vicious jihad-minded Muslims they violent actions were following the instruction of the Quran. Let’s face it, stabbing people with large long knifes’ and running them over with a van is a very effective way of showing disbeliever’s harshness.
    Islam a “peaceful religion” ? BULL !

  10. Walter Sieruk says

    May 9, 2019 at 1:33 pm

    That Islamic terror attack, in London, by three jihad-minded Muslims was, indeed, as evil and as it was awful. Those jihadist/Muslims who had murdered seven people had proven themselves to be very dangerous men. After they had committed the murders those jihadists were shot and killed by the British police. Islam’s “holy book” the Quran instructs in 9:111. “The believers fight in Allah’s cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.’’

    This should tell all thoughtful people something about the actual essence of Islam.

  11. Walter Sieruk says

    May 9, 2019 at 1:34 pm

    That Muslim mayor of London said “Those terrorist attacks on London were performed by men [the terrorists] who were trying to justly their action by the religion I belong to …their ideology is a perversion [ of Islam ] and has no place in Islam” The Muslin mayor, Sadiq Khan, of the capital city of England further said that he is “Outraged at those who try to hide their evil with Islam.” He could be in a genuine mental state of denial about the violent and deadly of many of the parts of Islam or by contrast he might know and is attempting to cover up the truth about the violent essence of Islam.

    Likewise, the prime minster of England, Theresa May, when had made public statements about those violent and vicious terrorist attacks on London Bridge and nearby Borough Market. She had declared that heinous religious terror attack as the outcome of “an ideology that is a perversion of Islam,” That statement shows that she didn’t do her homework. For those jihadist Muslims were putting in the practice the instruction of real, actual, non-watered down hard core Islam. As the Quran in, for example, Surah 9:123 instructs “O you who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you…” Running over non-Muslims with a van and then stabbing them is a very effective way of showing people who are not Muslims harshness. Also Surah 9:111 teaches “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed…” The whole foundation for the ideology of Islamic terrorism is the theology of the Quran. As seen in those two, just sited, verses from the Quran and other verses well, such as, Surah 4:89. 5:33 47:4. Teresa May also denounced “Extremism.” This type of “Extremism” is based on the Quran.

  12. Walter Sieruk says

    May 9, 2019 at 1:38 pm

    That specific Muslim/ jihadist who’s picture in in the above top article and his jihadist /Muslim friends in the city of London , England who murdered seven people, those violent and murdering jihad –minded Muslims were completely demonic and murderous and also very deluded and their wicked Islamic quest of the jihad Those vicious suicide /homicide jihadist attackers against those against the people on London bridge and then Borough Market were actually behaving in accord to the instruction of the “holy book “ of Islam, the Quran. Which instructs in for example Sura 9:111. “The believer’s fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain they kill and are killed.” After those murderous jihadists died they discovered, to their shock and horror, the promise of a paradise with many houris , as the Quran teaches 44:54. 55:56. 78:31., for those dead jihadists believed an outright lie and a total falsehood .

    For those Muslim terrorists will find out the hard way , to their shock and horror, that after they die they found themselves trapped and suffering in the fires of hell .Such as the Bible describes in for example, Luke 13:28. 16:19-31.The Bible also teaches that a murderer “shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21.[K.J.V.] Furthermore, in the Bible book of Revelation in 21:8 it gives a list of the people who will end up terribly suffering without end . As in forever in that awful place , and one of those persons in that Lake of Fire are people on that list who are murderers. In short, those murderous jihadists are the real losers and they now understand that they were wrong. Very wrong and that they, in their Islamic delusion, had committed the evil of mass murder because they placed their faith in a false religion.

    • Roger Craig Baldridge says

      May 10, 2019 at 5:26 pm

      Devout believers

  13. Joe@joemail.com says

    May 9, 2019 at 7:47 pm

    Death penalty for all jihadists might be something to think about. It’s so crazy, it just might work.

  14. gravenimage says

    May 10, 2019 at 12:35 am

    UK: ‘Chilling’ footage shows London Bridge jihadist wiping knife on his beard after slaughtering eight people
    …………………….

    Bloody barbarian.

  15. AntiIslamicman says

    May 10, 2019 at 1:16 am

    Evil just like their false prophet

  16. Dr. Doom says

    May 10, 2019 at 9:35 am

    Shave their heads and their beards while incarcerated. Then deny them access to the koran and all references to their false prophet.

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