The attacker says he screamed “Allahu akbar” during the attack. The investigators say he didn’t. How they determined this was not revealed. They ruled out terrorism because of the “profile of the perpetrator,” which likely means that he didn’t have any connection to jihad terror groups. However, the possibility that he might have derived the idea to wage war against unbelievers by reading the Qur’an (cf. 2:191, 4:89, 9:5, 9:29, 47:4, etc.) was almost certainly not considered. The implications of that possibility would be too terrible for French authorities to contemplate.
“Spanish tourist attacked with cutter in central Paris,” translated from “Un touriste espagnol agressé au cutter dans le centre de Paris,” AFP, July 10, 2021:
A Spanish tourist was injured on Saturday afternoon in rue de Rivoli, in central Paris, by a man who attacked him with a cutter, said the Paris prosecutor’s office and a police source.
The victim’s vital prognosis has not been released, the prosecution said. A man of Romanian nationality was “immediately arrested,” added this source.
The terrorist possibility ruled out
The woman who accompanied the Spanish tourist was unharmed. The motives for the attack which took place shortly before 4:30 p.m. are unknown, but the terrorist possibility has been ruled out due to the profile of the perpetrator, the source said.
The assailant, who was heavily intoxicated, was quickly overpowered by passers-by and police. During his arrest, he said, according to the same source, that he shouted “Allah Akbar” during the attack. But this was not corroborated by the investigation….
Michael Copeland says
The Monty Python sketch goes on.
gravenimage says
France: Muslim screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ attacks man with box-cutter, terrorism ruled out
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Grimly laughable–what does it take?
Rob Porter says
It was no different in cowardly Toronto after Faisal Hussain in 2018 went on a shooting spree in the Danforth area. He shot 13, killing two girls. He was heard by witnesses to either say or shout ‘Allahu akbar’, but Toronto’s wondrously cowardly authorities didn’t want to hear that, so immediately they distanced Hussain from Islam and made out that he had mental issues – that his close friends had already denied. Then police chief, Mark Saunders, in defiance of the facts said that “we might never know” what led Hussain to commit this crime. Such is the way of cowards and liars.
Michael Copeland says
The Head of London Metropolitan Police said the same about the man who stabbed the policeman to death outside Parliament before being shot.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
It takes a bunch of village idiots.
James Lincoln says
What if it had been a non-muslim 100% native Brit doing the exact same thing:
Screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ and attacking another man with a box-cutter.
Would terrorism be ruled out?