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UK: Muslim migrant attacks people with knife after asking their nationality, wanted to kill English people

Jul 2, 2019 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

But remember: anyone who questions mass Muslim migration into Britain is a racist, bigoted Islamophobe who will be ruthlessly persecuted by the British government — as Britain circles the drain.

“Afghan asylum seeker, 32, ‘who attacked random members of the public with a knife after demanding to know their nationality was fuelled by desire to kill English people,’” by Joseph Curtis, Mailonline, July 2, 2019:

An Afghan asylum seeker who allegedly attacked random members of the public with a knife was ‘fuelled’ by a desire to kill English people, a court heard.

Samiulahaq Akbari, 32, is accused of swinging a 10ins kitchen knife at three ‘total strangers’ within a 10-minute period in Thornton Heath and Croydon in south London after ‘demanding to know their nationality’.

Jurors at the Old Bailey in London were told he approached the first alleged victim, Nicholas Speight, in a Tesco Extra in Thornton Heath on January 8, tapping him on the shoulder.

After Mr Speight confirmed he was English, Akbari allegedly ‘took a powerful swing at him’ with the blade.

Prosecutor Heidi Stonecliffe said Mr Speight could not have known that ‘events would unfold with such frightening speed’ following that ‘fateful reply’.

She claimed Akbari ‘settled on him because Mr Speight was English’.

Ms Stonecliffe added: ‘This defendant had set out deliberately to threaten, harm and kill members of the public by virtue of their nationality, or what Mr Akbari perceived to be their nationality – they were English.’

Despite only lasting a matter of seconds, jurors heard it was more ‘by luck rather than any design’ that Mr Speight managed to kick Akbari off and escape from the attack without a mark on him.

Within 10 minutes or so he allegedly pulled a knife on two other men ‘fuelled with the same intention’ in Croydon; first in the Kebabish restaurant and then in the Plough on the Pond pub.

He allegedly accosted John Hoy as he sat at a table with three friends getting ready to eat having just come from a pool tournament at the pub nearby.

Jurors heard Akbari ‘aggressively and repeatedly’ asked Mr Hoy where he was from before going behind the counter, arming himself with a huge red-handled knife and lunging at him.

It was only when the men fought back that Akbari fled, Ms Stonecliffe said.

Akbari then made his way up to the pub where he confronted Barry Watkins, who was on his way out clutching his pool cue and case.

Jurors were shown CCTV footage of him marching Mr Watkins back inside where Akbari similarly demanded to know their nationality.

Ms Stonecliffe added: ‘He and his friends replied that they were English, at which point the defendant started lunging at them with the knife.

The group ‘perhaps somewhat heroically’ managed to wedge a table between them and the knifeman, forcing Akbari again to flee.

Akbari, of Thornton Heath, south London, denies attempted murder and wounding with intent against Mr Speight and threatening Mr Hoy with an offensive weapon….

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Filed Under: Featured, immigration, Jihad in the West, United Kingdom Tagged With: Croydon, London, Samiulahaq Akbari, Tesco, Thornton Heath


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  1. John McKenna says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 4:27 pm

    England is an easy touch, where a kind of self loathing, encouraged by liberal political elitism, has made it more or less impotent. There at the moment seems little hope of change. God help us has never been more appropriate in utterance.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 2, 2019 at 5:35 pm

      Traditional Britain Group —

      The irrepressible Katie Hopkins. “This is our time. We will not let this country fall.
      We will get furious and we will fight back for Britain, for a traditional Britain” ….

      • Prabh says

        Jul 3, 2019 at 12:11 am

        I hate wymyn who wear pearls around their badly ageing neck: hideous.
        Would she not be better off making cream of broccoli soup at home? In the kaliyuga women do men’s work. Really sad.

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 3, 2019 at 12:22 am

          The bizarre Prabh wrote:

          I hate wymyn who wear pearls around their badly ageing neck: hideous.
          ………………………….

          Note that Prrabh doesn’t consider this Muslim knifing people to be hideous–just women wearing pearls.

          More:

          Would she not be better off making cream of broccoli soup at home? In the kaliyuga women do men’s work. Really sad.
          ………………………….

          In other words, how *dare* this brave woman oppose the horrors of Islam and stand up for her own civilized society and its values?

          As for the idea that women not be allowed outside the home, it seems that Prabh would be happy converting to Islam.

        • Joseph Doll says

          Jul 3, 2019 at 4:56 am

          She can wear what she wants. Why do you care?

        • Carolyne says

          Jul 3, 2019 at 9:56 am

          Prabh, you are an idiot. If there is a woman in your life which is highly doubtful, you are likely jealous because you can’t afford to buy her pearls.

        • Wellington says

          Jul 3, 2019 at 10:59 am

          Carolyne: I second your remark about Prabh being an idiot.

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 3, 2019 at 5:44 pm

          He’s an idiot, all right.

  2. Angemon says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 4:42 pm

    An Afghan asylum seeker who allegedly attacked random members of the public with a knife was ‘fuelled’ by a desire to kill English people, a court heard.

    Random people but not a random attack. In any case, good luck trying to find English people in London… And, islamic courage being what it is, he ran away when he found resistance.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 2, 2019 at 11:53 pm

      Agent UhOh:

      My name is Ban, Tali Ban.

      I’m here to assassinate the British traditions….

      • JM says

        Jul 3, 2019 at 4:29 am

        Is Tali Ban accompanied by his sibling, Sis, Isis, , or perhaps his cousin Al, Al Qaida?

  3. R Russell says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 4:44 pm

    I suppose I ought to be relieved he only wanted to kill the English people from the UK, but I cannot be relieved. I watched a youtube video today and the speaker was saying Muslims are coming to Christ within the UK. A Christian Revival is the only way out of this mess. YHWH God please grant it soon.

    • Edmund says

      Jul 2, 2019 at 5:22 pm

      People from Europe are not more special then other ones. All has the same value, no matter of skin/region/religion. God let Christian population dissapeared in many countries ex. Egipt. Lebanon, so We cannot expect better treatment. It would be a sin of pride.

      Problem lies only partially in religion or its lack, but in mass imigration. Englishman like other Western Countries decided that nationality of their citizens is not important. As in interview one of Swidich minister answered to question: and what will happen when Sweden would be not longer Swedish. She said, it is not my problem. But this view must have support in society which gave her power, so people already choosed their future. Future without England as nation. and this is not God problem. God is ethernal and above it. Our mortal lives matter, but not in a sense that He, make miracles to save them, or “save Christianity” today.

      People form ex. concentrations camps understood that perfectly. Those who did not belive, started, becouse sinking will grab a razor, and those who belived, they stopped, seeing how their belived ones dissapear in smoke from the chimney …

    • Westman says

      Jul 3, 2019 at 8:57 am

      Has anyone considered that the rash of Muslim “mental illness” might be a result of a Muslim realizing that his fervent lifelong adherence to Islam is not going lead to world domination or any other promise of Islam, here in the West? The feeling of climbing the Islam ladder and then discovering it’s leaning against the wrong wall and half too short? To where does a disaffected Muslim flee when immersed in the Muslim beehive? A last effort to gain Jannah on the way to suicide?

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 3, 2019 at 5:53 pm

        Actually, Westman, this Muslim “mental illness” is mostly just pious Muslims practicing their vicious faith. It is only Infidels who consider this mental illness–for pious Muslims, it is how they have always acted

        But this cluelessness of the West does come in handy for Jihadists when they are caught.

      • David says

        Jul 3, 2019 at 6:46 pm

        This illness is called Islamania.It manifests itself when triggered by listening to imams at the local mosque, and watching on-line videos of Jhadis in action.

        • Carol the 1st says

          Jul 5, 2019 at 12:47 am

          Watching the video in the Mailonline link you can see Akbari heading to his first attack looking sturdy, speedy, and determined (and not weaving at all – though a prosecutor says “he’s expected to claim he was too drunk to form an intention”. What? No A for effort?). The downed Speight luckily used his right leg to kick the back of Akbari’s head and that’s likely what caused him to back off. In the next ten minutes he also managed to attack the Hoy and Watkins groups. He jumped over a string of fences when police gave chase (a cousin had frantically called police about his intentions).
          Police eventually found him lying in a back garden ‘pretending to be out of it’ so they ‘would leave him alone’.
          A rather inglorious ending.

  4. Lydia Church says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 4:56 pm

    Circling the drain is the perfect term for all of this…
    a downward spiral converging to hell.

  5. CRUSADER says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 5:24 pm

    This stuff gets enabled and condoned.

    Sad what is ramping up in UK.

  6. Older Canadian says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 5:33 pm

    Mental illness will end up being his excuse and he will get a hug. I really do not understand how anyone with half a brain tolerates this. Deport those who do harm period.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 2, 2019 at 5:37 pm

      Can’t even ask a valid question these days….

      So much for loving one’s neighbour !

      Can’t even get knife-thrust close….

    • David M says

      Jul 2, 2019 at 9:10 pm

      British officials might process his asylum claim faster after this & let him stay now.

    • smoris says

      Jul 3, 2019 at 7:39 am

      In a once-sane world, insanity would prevent someone like this from entering the country. But that would keep the vast majority of Muslims out. Islam seems to be full of insane people. As to being a “refugee”, we should no longer admit refugees into civilized countries. We should try to provide some assistance to such people as are actual refugees in camps near their homelands. When things clear up they can return to these homelands. If they are nearby maybe they can help clean up their homelands. There is no reason why a young physically sound man should be seeking asylum in the first place. And he should never have been allowed to immigrate. The over-fed toffs over there have a lot to answer for. Their day seems to be done. I don’t know why the people continue to support them or their “royal family”. It makes me appreciate the 4th of July that much more. Which reminds me – why is Tommy Robinson in the dock AGAIN for trying to save young English girls and these vermin are running around trying to kill innocent men? Well, here’s another idea – put down the pool cue and take up some kind of cudgel and be ready to defend your own women. What about that? Some of you could have voted for Robinson in Manchester at least, instead of that quitter Farage. But then, he’s “respectable”. Your class system there has nothing on the traditional one from India. Your system is no better.

      • Carol the 1st says

        Jul 5, 2019 at 12:08 am

        “We should try to provide some assistance to such people as are actual refugees in camps near their homelands. When things clear up they can return to these homelands. If they are nearby maybe they can help clean up their homelands.”
        _____

        Sounds good but will it work?
        I think it was Gavin McInnes who said (‘tongue in cheek’?) something like “the reason they’re refugees is because they chased each other out of Iraq.”

    • David Pimentel says

      Jul 3, 2019 at 8:03 am

      I suggest using a very large circus cannon to deport them over the channel — no parachute or safety net. Let the EU sort them out. There should be no tolerance or sympathy for such insanity.

  7. mortimer says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 7:42 pm

    Jurors cannot understand the motive of Samiulahaq Akbari unless they study the Islamic ‘essential’ teaching of Al Walaa wal Baraa.

    ALL Muslims are required to HATE and SHOW HOSTILITY towards the dirty disbelieving KUFAAR ‘for the sake of Allah.’

    Samiulahaq Akbari showed his hatred towards the dirty kufaar and so is a ‘good’ Muslim.

    • Rufolino says

      Jul 3, 2019 at 3:21 am

      Thanks for reminding us of this Mortimer, it’s so important. You put it well. Please keep doing it !

  8. gravenimage says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 7:48 pm

    UK: Muslim migrant attacks people with knife after asking their nationality, wanted to kill English people
    ………………………

    More proof–as if any was needed–that Muslims do not consider themselves to be English–or French, or American, or German, or Dutch, or Italian, or Australian…

    • Edmund says

      Jul 2, 2019 at 8:20 pm

      Why do they had to consider ? If ex. Brazilian will move to ex. Chile, he will be still Brazilian etc. Then next: when white will imigrate to black Kongo, he should think about himself as Kongoese, when all natives will be seen him as foreigner, just after look at him. And ask Yourself, will You deny Your nationality in such situation. Me as Pole – never ! It’s just unbelivable to me. In my country it is seen as denationalization and it is not seen as normal, but rather as crime vs other people. Invaders like Germany and Russia, when Poland was divided for more then 100 years, tried this methods on us, but they failed. If somebody will do that by himslef, he will be seen like son, which no longer has respect to his mother. Just a traitor …

      So why people in democratic countries think, that others should consider their countries as their own, and forgot about thier nationality ? It’s not human.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 3, 2019 at 6:01 pm

        If you seek asylum in a nation, you should agree to live by the laws and values of that nation. This does not, as Edmund appears to believe, mean rejecting every aspect of your heritage.

        Many Poles–including my beloved husband, who is half Polish in heritage, is also a patriotic American, where his family has lived for over a hundred years.

        Edmund might be happy that so many invading Muslims continue to adhere to their savage creed when they come to Europe, and slaughter people on that basis–but civilized people *do not*.

  9. mortimer says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 8:58 pm

    Muslims conducting JIHAD have attacked ‘perfect strangers’ in public squares, on bridges, in buses, in child care facilities, in department stores, in hardware stores, on train platforms, in theaters, in night clubs and now in a cozy English pub.

    Conclusion: WESTERN PEOPLE ARE ALL ON THE FRONT LINE WHEREVER MUSLIMS GO.

    Meanwhile, Leftist politicians and tech companies don’t want anyone to criticize the IDEOLOGY that MOTIVATES MUSLIMS TO RANDOMLY KILL.

    • Edmund says

      Jul 2, 2019 at 9:05 pm

      Becouse they know, that % of muslim population will be rising and they do not want to confront them, to have even more problems today and in the future. In future they will be “English”, whatever it means, and problem will dissapear. Becouse who give a …., what is going on in some distant country. Or mayby just think that every has the some rights, so if Muslims like to force Islam on others, so why they cannot do that anyway ?
      It’s a free country 😉

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 3, 2019 at 6:02 pm

        Edmund does not appear to understand the meaning of freedom–unless, of course, this is black humor.

  10. eduardo odraude says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 11:26 pm

    Another David Wood video:

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 3, 2019 at 6:03 pm

      Yes–very funny *and* spot on!

  11. Jayell says

    Jul 3, 2019 at 3:06 am

    So an Afghan comes uninvited to England (nominally the land of the English people, hence the name,of course) to seek asylum (which costs money), therefore using the hospitality (and money, of course) of the people who own the land (the English, of course), then asks people if they are English and then says he wants to kill them – because they because they are English – in England. Now, what sort of people did this specimen expect to find in England and did he not make the connection in his brain between the name of the country and the people who own it? And did he not make the connection that these are same people whose expensive hospitality he is taking? That would all assume, of course, that this character (a) was civilised, (b) had a modicum of intelligence and (c) was sane. Clearly he apparently didn’t make those connections, so are we to assume that he was profoundly feral, or profoundly ignorant, or stupid, or insane? If that were the case,why should we in the UK have to accept uninvited alien specimens like this who lack basic civility or are totally ignorant, or stupid, or insane? We may (apparently) offer ‘asyluim’, but that doesn’t mean that the UK is ipso facto an international lunatic asylum or doss-house for the world’s mentally or socially deficient.

    Suppose he’s not feral, ignorant, stupid or insane? Are we then to assume that this is some sort of pathetic one-man hostile invasion, and he’s going to take over the place and kill or subjugate the inhabitants? if so who, or what. gave him the outrageous notion that he somehow had rights to everything and over everyone here in the UK and could dispose of the native inhabitants at his own pleasure? Some ideology or religion, perhaps?

    • Alan Jackson says

      Jul 3, 2019 at 7:26 am

      Very well put, now let us see if we can guess how this trial is going to go?

      A – The perpetrator is a member of ISIS or ISIS inspired and intended to kill anyone who was ethnic English in a terrorist attack.
      B – The perpetrator was suffering from mental health problems, and didn’ intend to cause any serious injuries to anyone.

      If I was a betting man I would put my money on option B.

  12. terry sullivan says

    Jul 3, 2019 at 4:07 am

    deportation

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 3, 2019 at 6:04 pm

      Yes–after a stiff sentence.

  13. nomuslimusa says

    Jul 3, 2019 at 4:57 pm

    If Western people that are against the violence and the takeover of Islam and Muslims, and are called “Islamophobes.”
    Then Freedom loving Westeners should call the Islamics and Muslims “Christophobes, Westophobes, Jewophobes,, Femophobes, Caucasianophobes, and finally, Freedomphobes.”

    Turn the tables on them!

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