This Xinhua article identifies the attacker only as a “religious extremist.” Apparently even the Chinese establishment media wants to make sure that readers don’t get any negative impression of Islam. But this happened in Tunisia, so it’s quite clear what kind of “religious extremist” was involved here. Islamic jihadis in Muslim countries hate tourists, who are often visiting sites of jahiliyya, the pre-Islamic society of unbelievers. And if they’re visiting Muslim sites, they’re trampling them down under their Infidel feet. Either way, they’re not welcome.
“Religious extremist stabs French tourist to death in Tunisia,” Xinhua, October 14, 2019:
The Tunisian Interior Ministry said on Monday that a French tourist was stabbed to death by a religious extremist in Tunisia’s northernmost province of Bizerte.
The ministry spokesman, Khaled Hayouni, said that the Security Authorities recognised the incidence as a public law case, adding that all efforts were being made to identify the context of the incident….
However, a preliminary investigation had identified the assailant as a 28-year-old man who wounded a soldier with a sharp blade before escaping and stabbing the tourist in his face and chest….
somehistory says
“all efforts were being made to identify the context of the incident…”
The “context” is: there was a moslim and he possessed a sharp blade. he also was possessed with the spirit of satan and the desire to murder someone…or several someones..
Angemon says
Let me guess: mental illness?…
lion heart says
“ If a Muslim is a piece of gold , don’t put it in your pocket otherwise , it will rip through “ that’s a proverb said by my Iraqi Christian ancestors hundreds of years ago out of their bitter experience with Islam since it’s rise ! and I am a Canadian Christian guy originally from Iraq, and that proverb means that Muslims will eventually backstab non-Muslims especially Christians when they have the chance and power to do it especially when they take Islamic teachings seriously like ISIS do no matter how nice they maybe ! and we saw it in some parts of Baghdad and in Mosul as well when Muslims started to take Islam seriously so much so they collaborated with Al-Qaeda and later on with ISIS when ISIS emerged and they began snitching on Christians especially in Mosul to ISIS as to where Christian home are located so that ISIS would kill Christians, displace them , take Christian girls & women as sexy slaves by raping them , giving Christians three choice : Islam , paying Jizya or die ( Quran 9:29) and not only that the longtime Muslim neighbors to Christians in Mosul even ordered Muslim grocery stores not to SELL anything to Christians.
James says
I once visited Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey while the shah was still in power. I never thought it could deteriorate so much as it has now. I remember an American who led tours of the Near East, and he said he was thinking of changing his route to avoid areas that were getting violent. He said he saw police or soldiers beating a man in the open, and he said, they used to go into an alley to do that, but now they were doing it in the open. I guess those were anticipations of what was to come very soon after. It did not start with George Bush, as leftists like to claim, or even with Bill Clinton. It was a long time in the making, even before Reagan. A lot of the people I knew from this area were very nice. I had met several nice men from Afghanistan in a hotel where I worked in Minneapolis, and I supposed that Islam was just a quaint and interesting religion, and they all worship the same god as we do. No one I knew had any interest in the religion of their home country. So I had no idea of what would happen. But I had only contact with Westernized people. Now in Minneapolis they have all the people from Africa, and one sees women in Muslim costumes on the streets or even working as cashiers, and there are demands on employers and schools to islamize their cafeterias and add prayer rooms and courses on Islam, and breaks for Islamic services, etc. They have a big colony just down the street from where I once lived as a young student. At one time that area was Scandinavian, there was even a Viking Bar. For a few years there was even a Scandinavian folk festival there. There were bars and cafes where one could hear folk, blues and jazz. American popular culture pure. But it has all changed. Now I ride past my old neighborhood on the light rail and see Muslim children in playgrounds, and women and girls in Muslim costumes. Perhaps politicians thought that mass migration from primitive regions of the Near East and Africa would simply be a larger version of my experiences so long ago. But it has a different quality now. But perhaps the leftist politicians hate their own country and want to harm us, perhaps that is a way of increasing their wealth and power.
Dawne Swift says
I’ve come to the conclusion that left wing politicians do hate their countries and history/culture. They equate civilised western countries with “capitalism” which they loathe. It’s also why there’s so much anti semitism on the left – they simply equate Jews with Capitalism. Subtleties/ nuances, reality even simply bypass these blinkered idiots.
Rarely says
Ridiculous.
mortimer says
There is nothing ‘extreme’ about JIHAD for a Muslim, even though jihad may seem ‘extreme’ to a Chinese Taoist. Islam is a normative, canonical part of Islam, and one of Islam’s holiest sacraments.
Jihad terrorism has a similar importance in Islam that holy communion has in Christianity. Moreover, jihad terrorism is a COMPLETE SACRAMENT guaranteeing eternal rewards. One act of jihad would be similar in value (for a Muslim) to all the Christian sacraments done at the same time.
The spiritual merits from conducting jihad can hardly be overestimated! Any writer who can incorrectly call jihad ‘EXTREME’ is uninformed about the ‘extreme’ importance of jihad in Islam.
Western and now Chinese writers and leaders have no excuse for not knowing the following official definition of jihad from KSA :
– “Jihad is holy fighting in Allah’s Cause with full force of numbers and weaponry. It is given the utmost importance in Islam and is one of its pillars. By Jihad Islam is established, Allah’s Word is made superior (which means only Allah has the right to be worshiped), and Islam is propagated. By abandoning Jihad Islam is destroyed and Muslims fall into an inferior position; their honor is lost, their lands are stolen, their rule and authority vanish. Jihad is an obligatory duty in Islam on every Muslim. He who tries to escape from this duty, or does not fulfill this duty, dies as a hypocrite.” – Footnote commentary on jihad from p580 of Sahih Al-Bukhar, publ. by Maktba Dar-us-Salam
Trick_or_Treat says
Ahh, let me guess, he was a Tunisian Jedi religious extremist, yes? No?! Well, am I gettin’ warm?
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Lo another Infidel soul is made to pay the price. It was a final payment — by him, at least — but there are many more on the amortization schedule that will periodically come due. Hey, the Ummah has accountants too, they just work with a different unit of measure. Meanwhile, the Western population is unaware of this rhythm cuz it ain’t on TV. The assignment editors at the channels would tell you that it’s not news, and they make a good point.
Jaladhi says
I think it is sufficient to say just “Muslim” stabs French tourist to death. No point in adding all these qualifiers -“religious and extremist”. The word Muslim explains all his actions!!
Hugh Fitzgerald says
In 2015 there were two attacks on tourists in Tunisia. One was at the Bardo Museum, and the second at a tourist spot in Sousse. In that second attack 38 people were killed, 30 of them British tourists. Tunisian tourism suffered a steep drop, and only now has it come out of it. This latest killing should be a colossal blow to ‘Tunisia’s tourism industry, which is such an important part of its economy.
Any Western tourists who go to Muslim lands — even to “tolerant, moderate, secular Tunisia” — are, at this point, crazy. Visit Italy, or France, or the U.K. Florence, Rome, Venice, the Cinque Terre, the Lake District, Cornwall, East Anglia. Punt on the Cam. Tea at The Orchard. All very safe. Or visit the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, the Okefenokee Swamp .Go to Savannah and Charleston. Go to Vancouver or Toronto or Montreal, or the Far North. Go to Australia’s Outback. Go visit St. Petersburg, Kyoto, Beijing. Anywhere you want, as long as you skip all the Muslim countries. It is not worth the risk.
Lotus says
Quite right, Robert. We should take our tourism elsewhere, for our own safety.
Also, why put money in their pockets? Many Muslims secretely despise Westerners. They promote tourism in their countries solely for the money it brings in. If not for that, they would not give us the time of day.
Lotus says
I mean Hugh. 🙂
Rarely says
The Chinese government has, without any doubt, connected the dots here so, in not naming the religion of the offender, the “Chinese establishment media” is not being misleading in any significant way.
Lotus says
A ‘religious extremist’ in Tunisia? Hmm, I wonder which religion that could be?
Probably one of those ahimsa-loving, vegetarian Jains has run amok again.
tgusa says
Forbes can add another country to their solo tourist bucket list. See (insert muslim country) and die. Getting stabbed to death is not my idea of a vacation.
Peggy says
So people still go to Muslim countries on holidays. You can’t correct stupidity. They will go and get killed and more will go and get killed. If that’s what they want, who am I to stand in their way.
somehistory says
A Frenchman doesn’t have to be a “tourist” or on vacation to get stabbed by a moslim. A Frenchman can stay home, in Paris, or Nice, or St. Denis and get stabbed to death by a moslim.
Peggy says
He just increases his odds if he travels to a Muslim country.
Janice Mermikli says
True of France and of other Western European countries, especially of the UK, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, which all have large Muslim minorities.
Not true of most of Eastern Europe, especially Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, etc, because of the missing ingredient – a disaffected, unassimilated, hostile and alien minority population – and these countries would be wise to keep it that way!
Lydia Church says
With all the coverage of claimed ‘xenophobia’ and abc-xyz-o-phobia, why is there no mention of…
non-muslim-o-phobia? And he was an outsider, a tourist, which could be looked at as a form of temporary ‘immigrant’ or ‘refugee,’ but that’s only a one way street according to the Betrayer!
infidel says
Stabbing by knife is one of the fav weapons used by these mad animals..
Lotus says
It seems that the recent Saudi efforts to attract tourists aren’t going too well. The tourists keep on dying in traffic accidents. Not the best publicity for the kingdom.
Personally, I wouldn’t go there. I try not to give money to Muslims.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/17/saudi-bus-crash-kills-35-foreign-tourists-near-holy-city-of-medina