Posted on 09/04/2014 6:44:38 PM PDT by Mount Athos
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)
“When you gonna wake up, and strengthen the things that remain?” (Bob Dylan, echoing Revelation 3:2)
This is denial and willful ignorance on a scale so massive as to spell nothing less than a doomed society.
“Woman beheaded ‘with machete’ in north London garden,” by Tom Whitehead, Ed Malnick, Tom Brooks Pollock and Gordon Rayner, the Telegraph, September 4, 2014
An 82-year-old woman was beheaded in a north London garden after a crazed attacker went beserk with a machete.
Pensioner Palmira Silva was decapitated at her house in Edmonton in broad daylight in an apparent frenzied assault by a 25-year-old man who randomly targeted victims.
The horror scene unfolded as terrified eye witnesses saw the man, who was wielding a foot long blade, attack a passing vehicle and a cat before roaming back gardens for a victim.
Police believe the man also tried to attack two people at another address in Nightingale Road but they were able to escape without injury.
The man was arrested after armed police, who had distracted him to avoid other attacks, cornered him in a house and Tasered him, during which some officers were injured.
Ms Silva was pronounced dead at the scene.
One line of inquiry for detectives is now understood to be whether the man had been inspired by recent footage of the Isil beheadings of two US journalists in Syria.
Locals last night claimed the arrested man had converted to Islam last year.
However, detectives said they had ruled out terrorism as a motive for the killing.
Eye witnesses described a dramatic operation by police called to the scene in which officers were smashing windows of neighbouring properties lift screaming children and terrified residents to safety.
One neighbour told of her narrow escape and that she believed the attacker was a local man.
Catering worker Freda Odame, 30, said she heard a commotion and pulled back her curtains and saw a black man aged in his mid 20s.
“Someone was shouting and the door was banging. I could hear the screaming but I could not hear what he was saying,” she said.
“I could see that he had a big curved knife, about the size of an arm’s length and he was crouching as if frantically searching for something.
“He had a crazed look in his eyes so I closed my curtains because I was scared. My next door neighbour was in his garden but did not seem to realise anything was going on.
“I have seen him around here all the time, I think he lives on the road, He has a grey car and I think he lives with his family.
“I was just so very scared. Five minutes after I heard him screaming the police knocked on my door and told me I had to get out.”
Neighbour Sue Mahadooa, 50, who saw police cars screech to a halt outside her home, said officers were running down the street shouting at people to get out of their homes.
Officers with battering rams began breaking down front doors and smashing windows to help neighbours to safety, unaware of which property the killer was in.
Ms Mahadooa said the house at which it is believed the woman was killed in the back garden is split into three maisonettes and police were desperate to get residents out of the flats without sending them into the corridor of the property.
“These officers ran up and started trying to help these two children and a woman out of the little top window of the ground floor,” she said.
“The woman couldn’t get through the window so they started smashing the bigger one, but then I saw them get her out of the front door.
“She was very frightened. The kids were crying and looked very scared. There was clearly something awful going on inside the house.”
George Stylianou said: “Policewomen were sprinting past us and screaming at us ‘get back – you don’t understand how dangerous this man is.’
“Then we saw that policemen were running along the road dragging women and children out of windows – they had to smash windows to drag women out.”
Ahmed Yusuf, 19, said: “At first there were two police cars, then all of a sudden there were 20.
“The police said to drop everything. I said ‘What’s going on?’ and they said there’s a guy jumping over gardens.”
Earlier one witness had Tweeted: “Madman on the loose with a machete in Edmonton”.
Edmonton MP Andy Love said: “I am absolutely horrified and stunned by what has happened in my constituency.
“This is a relatively solid community with relatively good relations between all of the people living there. It comes as a shock that it has happened.
Mini cab driver Ricardo Kwiek, 23, told of how he saw a young man fighting with police before being bundled into a van.
“There were policemen trying the front door and the back. The chap inside wasn’t letting them in,” he said.
“They got in the back door. They came out with a man who was struggling and fighting.
“He wasn’t giving up. I could see loads of police fighting with him. They all piled on top of him and arrested him.
Metropolitan Police Commander Simon Letchford said: “Officers who attended the scene evacuated a number of those people from those premises to make them safe.
“During that period they distracted the man from carrying out any further attacks.”
He said his officers had done “everything they could to evacuate people from those premises and that clearly they were aware of what had happened and they put themselves in extreme danger to protect the public, to ensure that his behaviour was stopped as soon as it possibly could be”.
DCI John Sandlin, who is leading this investigation, said: “This is was a highly visible attack in broad daylight on a residential street. I can understand why this may cause people concern, however we are confident that we are not looking for anyone else at this stage.
“Whilst it is too early to speculate on what the motive behind this attack was I am confident, based on the information currently available to me, that it is not terrorist related.”
The arrested man was being treated for minor injuries suffered during his apprehension.
Any American saying this is either a hypocrite or very disingenuous. American officials lead with these lies before the stories hit the wires.
I would love to see all the politicians and journalists fired over their treason, but it’s commonplace.
Yeah, that machete chopping head removing stuff is as common and widespread in every culture as dirt. Move along now, nothing to see here.
That’s why I’d never even trust a moderate islamist.
It’s their “holy” book that is the problem. It instructs them to kill. Why is it not banned as hate literature?
Nope
“They’re pretty well indoctrinated, though. I’m probably wildly optimistic.”
Cognitive dissonance will eventually overpower even the most idiotic liberal indoctrination. And, when this happens, the victims will go after the people who fooled them.
I think he had heartburn or a bad nights sleep.
You are quite the optimist. Cognitive dissonance is the natural state of modern liberals.
As far as I am concerned, the people who deny the reality of this event are just as much to blame, as they are enablers of Muslim terrorism.
Shame on the people who said it was not terrorism. Black is white and white is black - and we are supposed to believe them?????
The pent up anger of normal people is seething under the radar. Eventually it will erupt.
No, not yet. However, via Comment posted at Mirror.co.UK:
7:50pmOne neighbour described the alleged attacker as a ‘large black man’ known locally as “fat Nick”.
His mother is believed to also live in the street.
The neighbour, an eyewitness, gave a statement to police saying he beheaded his mother’s cat using a large machete.
The neighbour said:” I know him quite well. His mum lives on this road. I was in my house when I heard shouting.
“I looked out and saw him screaming, ‘Where’s the cat, where’s the cat”.
“He then went into my back garden and started chopping at my roses in the back with the machete. He was going crazy because he couldn’t find it.
“Then he saw it in another garden further along and chopped its head off with the machete. There was blood everywhere. I went and called the police.”
Also...source for following comment:
"The media also made a quick point to dismiss terrorism because of the fear from murdered soldier Lee Rigby , plus that area is also about 80% ethnic minorities – mostly Turkish, polish, Romanian, Albanian , Somalian etc and has a high muslim community, so people were quick to say it was a Islamic attack."
And via TheSun.co.UK…Horror as ‘Muslim convert’ beheads woman in garden
drag the bastard out in the streets and let the women of the community urinate on him and and wrap his sorry carcass in bacon before they bury him in a pile of garbage
“Diversity makes us stonger”
“Arbeit macht frei”
Gotta understand liberal logic..when a Muslim beheads someone its “Workplace violence....” when Israel protects itself from constant rocket attacks and fights back then its considered terrorism
Not nearly enough
Sigh....ain't it the truth.
Still, I believe that a point will come when the bulk of the Western world finally says, "Enough!" All bets are off when we get there. It ain't gonna be pretty.
Eye witnesses described a dramatic operation by police called to the scene in which officers were smashing windows of neighbouring properties lift screaming children and terrified residents to safety.
That caught my attention. Rather than deal with the threat, people will run around like chickens with their heads cut off waiting to be saved. That is why the west will fall right there.
Interesting, I didn’t know that, and had often wondered. Thanks for the insight.
It’s sad to see a country not react to being slaughtered
It sure is, it will also be in the US and Canada soon enough too, time will tell how we handle it.
We did after Rigby. Remember the anger, the antimuslim marches, the rise of islamophobia and stacks on Islam.
With all due respect, do you want us to seriously rise up and murder and attack every UK Muslim?. Smash their homes, mosques, businesses?.
Remember the last people to do such.
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