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UK: Muslim carrying knives, “acting suspiciously” refuses to stop even when tasered, cops say not terror-related

Mar 15, 2020 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“The investigation is at an early stage and we are still gathering information.”

“Police have said the incident was not terror-related.”

How do they know, if the investigation is still at an early stage? Could Hassan Yahya have had anything like this in mind? The Islamic State issued this call in September 2014: “So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him.”

Will that possibility even be investigated? Almost certainly not. Investigators in shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain are too busy monitoring the terror threat from “right-wing extremists.”

“Westminster knifeman shot dead by police named as Hassan Yahya,” BBC, March 13, 2020:

A man shot dead by police in Westminster has been named by the watchdog investigating the killing.

Hassan Yahya, 30, was carrying two knives and said to be “acting suspiciously” before he died on Sunday night.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said he is thought to have run over Hungerford Bridge and into Northumberland Avenue.

Three Tasers were fired before Mr Yahya was shot by City of London police.

The armed officers had been responding to an emergency call, but police have said the incident was not terror-related.

In a statement, the IOPC said its investigators “have obtained accounts from officers on the scene and gathered CCTV and body-worn video footage”.

It added: “The investigation is at an early stage and we are still gathering information. The coroner has been informed, a post-mortem examination carried out and we are awaiting the results.”

Mr Yahya’s next of kin has been informed, the watchdog said.

Following the shooting, investigators said two Ministry of Defence police officers, who were on patrol, were told a man was acting suspiciously near Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank.

He failed to stop and, after they fired a Taser, they radioed for back-up warning he was carrying knives.

A second Taser was fired by Met Police officers in Northumberland Avenue, and a third Taser was fired before the victim was shot dead by a City of London officer after two armed response vehicles arrived on the scene.

Two knives were recovered from Great Scotland Yard, a road that connects Whitehall and Northumberland Avenue, near Trafalgar Square….

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  1. Antiislamicman says

    Mar 15, 2020 at 12:24 pm

    If he’s a Muslim then it’s terror as Islam has nothing to do with peace

    • Michael Copeland says

      Mar 15, 2020 at 12:32 pm

      “Jihad is not inhumane, despite its necessary violence and bloodshed, its ultimate desire is peace.”
      Ibrahim Sulaiman

      • Trick_or_Treat says

        Mar 15, 2020 at 12:51 pm

        Yep, I can equate that to old Adolf standing up at the podium and saying that, the German Nationalist-Socialist Party’s ‘Final Solution’ to the ‘Jewish problem’ is not inhumane, despite it’s necessary mass gassing exterminations and cremations, but it’s ultimate desire is peace. Yep, makes lots of sense – NOT.

        • Phil Copson says

          Mar 15, 2020 at 1:51 pm

          Well, it does – all depending on your definition of the word “peace”: Our definition of “peace” is when different peoples achieve a modus vivendi and get along together.

          The islamic definition of “peace” is when the whole world has been conquered, converted, subjugated, or killed: The dead are perpetually at peace.

          Same thing with the claim that they don’t “kill the innocent” – in their definition, if you’re not muslim then you’re not innocent, so killing non-muslims doesn’t count as “killing the innocent”.

          Ditto the claim that “there is no compulsion in islam” because the unbeliever is “free” to choose death instead.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 15, 2020 at 6:00 pm

          Yes–Muslims use words differently than we do.

    • abad says

      Mar 15, 2020 at 5:41 pm

      What is considered ‘peaceful’ to Moslems is considered violent to non-Moslems.

      And Moslems are a violent group of people and Islam is an extremely violent religion.

      There is no forgiveness or love in Islam, only violence.

      And Moslems are not wanted nor needed in the western world.

    • Rufolino says

      Mar 16, 2020 at 4:42 am

      The British authorities don’t want anything to be “terror-related”, unless it cannot be denied, because people are killed.
      This is unspoken policy.
      Speaking the truth has become “a revolutionary act” in Britain.

    • LB says

      Mar 16, 2020 at 9:07 am

      That’s funny, your statement is THE EXACT OPPOSITE of the official UK government and media narrative. Basically, something like:

      “If he’s a muslim then it’s not terror as islam has everything to do with peace.”

  2. Michael Copeland says

    Mar 15, 2020 at 12:37 pm

    “It is not terror-related.”
    What a fatuous statement. A man carrying two knives and acting suspiciously would easily evoke terror from passers-by.
    What do police mean?
    It seems that they mean “It is not related to any specific banned terrorist organisation”, which is not the same thing at all.
    In these days of abject political correctness the word “terror” seems more and more to be a stand-in for Islam.

    • Ray Jarman says

      Mar 15, 2020 at 1:14 pm

      The worst part is that if one deliberately refuses to see and understand the obvious, how in the world is this disease to be combatted much less eradicate?

  3. mortimer says

    Mar 15, 2020 at 1:28 pm

    The UK’s unread, unstudied leading idiots believe they can stop jihadists by banning the sale of KNIVES ??? Think again. Jihadists will weaponize everything ‘in the cause of Allah’. They will even continue to shoot and stab after police officers shoot them.

    The only way to stop the jihad is to deprogram Muslims right out of Islam. That will require a clandestine, high-level program of the government spy agencies to develop methods to deprogram Muslims generally.

    We have to start deprogramming Muslims right now. It is risky, dangerous work and can only be done by operators working anonymously in secret. It will take a lifetime of hard work to set up this program so we have to begin right away.

    • James Lincoln says

      Mar 15, 2020 at 5:40 pm

      mortimer,

      Because I strive to evaluate studies using factual, evidence-based logic, please provide at least one linked reference that addresses the successful large-scale deprogramming of muslims.

      I respect your encyclopedic knowledge of islam – I am not trying to be a smart *ss…

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 15, 2020 at 6:25 pm

      Mortimer, how would you “deprogram” Muslims in secret?

      • Ixor Kleb says

        Mar 16, 2020 at 2:35 pm

        I’m feeling ranty today. craven I am sure, is too nice. My apologies to Mortomer and Gravenimage. Politics often follows culture. Media is a powerful shaper and molder of culture. Perhaps Muslims and us will benefit by receiving the same treatment Hollywood has lavished upon Christians and Christianity in general over the past sixty decades. I imagine best-selling novels made into movies. Here’s an original idea (lol), The movie opens depicting an Indian shaman in the dessert at nighttime. He having a vison while tending an obviously sacred bonfire. The starry sky opens, the sparks part. He sees a robed Buffalo Calf-woman in a life-or-death struggle with a lady-headed horse. Sparks fly heavenward from buffalo Calf Woman’s cosmic gourd-rattle. The lady-horse screeches, explodes, along with its pale rider. the shreds of his glowing thawb, and his red and white ghutrah flutters away into darkness. Fading sparks emanate from what is left of his agal. It spins nd disappears. Before the last sparks dissolve, the camera turns downward on a scene to sparks flying from another fire. The camera zooms down further, we see an imam presiding over CGI demons being exorcised from a little child, It is a macabre blood-fest in the very same desert we saw the shaman…Flash fade to San Bernardino 2015: a muslim family man polishes off a bottle of Tequilla. Shallows the worm. Its a Jinntergiest ! etc. / / Lifetime movies should fill out their oeuvre with a dozen or more plots featuring an adulterous hypocritical pro-abortion imam. And, all his sorrid affairs. How about giving us a whole six season TV series staring a haplessly shallow persnickety Muslim family or, Friends getting the Hollywood Jewish stereo-typing treatment. The pilot episode takes off with them kvetching and shouting over the dinner table. It’s Aisha’s lip-stick, again! It seems endless, for six seasons. Or, The Amazing Mrs. Muslim, where, every now and then, they are revealed in private for what they really are, shallow schmucks. Every so often HW can drop a Little Mosque on the Prairie, into the mix. “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander”, is what they say out on the farmosque.

        • Ixor Kleb says

          Mar 16, 2020 at 2:37 pm

          Dear “waiting for moderation” please feel free to fix my typos. Thanks

        • marc says

          Mar 16, 2020 at 6:43 pm

          might try https://www.google.com/search?q=professional%20editors%20near%20me

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 18, 2020 at 1:22 am

          Actually, Ixor, Islam is not anti-abortion as many people believe.

  4. Naram-Sin says

    Mar 15, 2020 at 1:43 pm

    The “incident was not terror-related” it was stupid related. It’s hard to tell the difference when dealing with Muslims.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 15, 2020 at 1:57 pm

      The police say the “incident was not terror-related”, because their narrative is that ‘Islam is benign’. The KORANOVIRUS is not benign. The KORANOVIRUS is DEADLY.

  5. mortimer says

    Mar 15, 2020 at 1:55 pm

    Knives don’t kill people. The KORANOVIRUS kills people.

  6. Norwegian says

    Mar 15, 2020 at 3:04 pm

    Western culture is like a peacock, islam is like a cassuar, prove me wrong. if we stand up we get temporary truce,, it is no time to be sleepwalking

  7. James Lincoln says

    Mar 15, 2020 at 5:42 pm

    The default should be that actions like this ARE terror related – unless proven otherwise…

  8. gravenimage says

    Mar 15, 2020 at 5:51 pm

    UK: Muslim carrying knives, “acting suspiciously” refuses to stop even when tasered, cops say not terror-related
    …………………..

    And more willful denial…

  9. IanB says

    Mar 16, 2020 at 5:02 am

    Meanwhile, a teacher from Rotherham, England, is to be hauled in front of a disciplinary hearing for stating the actions of the notorious Pakistani Muslim rape gangs were, based upon evidence, connected with misogyny and hatred of non-Muslims, as mandated in Islamic scripture.I

    See https://www.forbritain.uk/2020/03/12/press-release-anne-marie-waters-to-represent-teacher-at-disciplinary-hearing

  10. Giacomo Latta says

    Mar 16, 2020 at 9:23 am

    Gee, a guy can’t walk down the street showing everyone his knife collection anymore.

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