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A video of a pro-Palestine protester shouting "Allahu Akbar" outside New York City's World Trade Center has led to fury online. The clip was posted to X (formerly Twitter) by Shirion Collective, a self-described "surveillance network" that scrapes "digital fingerprints to aggressively track and expose antisemitism." The 12-second video shows protesters with Palestine flags and banners gathered outside a doorway. At the start of the clip, one person can be heard shouting "Allahu Akbar," an Arabic phrase meaning "God is great" or "God is greatest."

Paris police arrested a man on Saturday evening after he allegedly killed one man and injured another two while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’. UPDATE 2350: The alleged attacker, referred to only Armand R, reportedly carried out the stabbing spree in Paris on Saturday evening near the Eiffel Tower in response to the conflict in the Middle East, Le Parisien reports. According to Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, the attacker accused France of being “complicit” in Israel’s conflict with Hamas. He also reportedly said that he could no longer stand “that Muslims die both in Afghanistan and in Palestine” and therefore wanted to...

“Random” stabbing sprees and knife attacks are on a steady and marked rise in Germany, and for some reason, German leaders, politicians, and officials don’t seem too keen to dissect and solve a very non-complex problem. Instead, they’ve offered “tips” on what to do if you find yourself at the receiving end of a crazed person with a knife, reported by Thomas Brooke at Remix News: Try to get away, or “keep your distance” from the attacker. “Shout” or “scream” at your attacker—but it must be louder than their allahu akbar shrieks. (Okay, I added that second part, because we...

Democrats across Congress are calling on President Biden to allow Palestinians entry into the U.S. on humanitarian grounds as war drags on in Gaza. Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., together with Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., and Pramila Jayapal, D-Was., led a letter of 103 colleagues to the president asking him to grant the Palestinian territories Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and/or authorize Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Palestinians already living in the U.S. The TPS program allows those from war-torn or crisis-wracked countries to legally live and work in the U.S., but does not give them permanent residency. It allows...

@RepThomasMassie I condemn the barbaric attack on Israel and I affirm Israel’s right to defend itself. However, I will not be voting for House Resolution 771 today because: 1) It calls for sanctions on a sovereign country. Sanctions are a prelude to war and hurt the citizens of the country more than the government of the country that’s being sanctioned. And ultimately, sanctions create laws that will be used to prosecute American citizens (who engage in trade), not citizens of the sanctioned country. In short, sanctions do not achieve their stated purposes but do breed resentment of our country abroad....

We may not be interested in jihad, but jihad is still interested in France — and the rest of us, too. Jihad seems so passé in the wake of Joe Biden's disastrous Afghanistan pullout, which not only took U.S. forces out of the region, but seems to have emboldened Russia and China. But to paraphrase the famous saying, it also may be that we are not interested in jihad, but jihad is still interested in us. The example of France with its mass rioting, which has since spread to Belgium and Switzerland, gives one pause. What do we know about...

These guys are very unpleasant to have around. In the old days, we had mental hospitals and then they were there. Now we have them in town. You thought they would be fine when they took their meds, but it’s very hard to check it all the time if they don’t want to take them. So this will happen again. Unfortunately.” Why must Sweden inflict this upon itself? What responsibility or obligation does Sweden have to take in violent jihadists from Iran? Why can’t Milad Salari be sent home? Is fear of charges of “racism” motivating this suicidal impulse? Or...

A former Afghan interpreter resettled in California by the federal government was shot and killed last week after charging San Francisco police with a butcher knife and chanting “Allahu akbar.” In bodycam and surveillance footage, 41-year old Ajmal Amani can be seen rushing two police officers with a knife at a residential hotel in south San Francisco. The Afghan citizen can be clearly heard yelling the Islamist phrase in the bodycam, a development that suggests a terrorist motive in the attack.

A man wielding a knife was fatally shot by police inside a residential building in San Francisco Friday, authorities said. Officers responded to the building in the South of Market neighborhood after receiving a call about a man armed with a knife, San Francisco Police Officer Robert Rueca said in a statement. The officers made contact with the man and an officer-involved shooting occurred, Rueca said without offering any other information on what led to the fatal shooting.

It’s just another outbreak of that mental illness we keep hearing more and more about.. Somali killed three people and shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’: Not guilty, not an Islamist,” translated from “Somalier tötete drei Menschen und rief “Allahu Akbar”: Schuldunfähig, kein Islamist,” by Rene Rabeder, Exxpress, October 22, 2021 (thanks to Medforth): Incredulous amazement in the trial of the knife attacker of Würzburg. The Somali attacked with a stolen knife in June, killing three women and injuring several people, some of them fatally. According to a new expert opinion, the Somali was “incapable of guilt” at the time of the attack....

Police confirmed multiple fatalities after a mass stabbing in Wurzburg on Friday.. The suspect has been identified as a 24-year-old Somali man living in Wurzburg.. Videos showed pedestrians holding the attacker at bay with chairs and sticks .. A witness reported that the knifeman shouted 'Allahu Akbar' before the attack.. A Somali knifeman yelled 'Allahu Akbar' before killing three people and wounding six more in a street rampage before German police arrested him alive, according to local reports. Police identified the suspect, who was wearing a face mask and is now being questioned in a hospital, as a 24-year-old Somali...

Former French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner was booed at a rally in support of murdered Jewish woman Sarah Halimi, whose alleged killer was not charged due to his heavy marijuana use. An estimated 20,000 people took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to protest the lack of a trial for the man who allegedly murdered 65-year-old Sarah Halimi in 2017, it is claimed, by pushing her out of the window of her Paris apartment while shouting “Allahu Akbar”. Several protests in support of Halimi were held in other cities in France, such as Montpellier, according to a report by...

Sarah Halimi was beaten before she was thrown off her Paris apartment building's roof in April 2017. (Courtesy of the Halimi family) (JTA) — Lawyers for the family of Sarah Halimi, a Jewish woman whose killer was deemed unfit to stand trial in France, say they want to have him tried in Israel. The idea articulated Wednesday in a statement by lawyers Francis Szpiner and Gilles-William Goldnadel is based on the fact that Israeli citizens may litigate in Israel over alleged anti-Semitic attacks abroad. Sarah Halimi’s sister, Esther Lekover, is an Israeli. “We regret that the situation has come to...

France's top court ruled on Wednesday that the killer of an elderly Jewish woman will not go on trial, France24 reported. Kobili Traoré admitted to murdering his neighbor, Sarah Halimi, in 2017. He shouted "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great" in Arabic, and "I killed the devil," shortly before throwing her off the balcony of her third-floor Paris apartment, The New York Times said. On Wednesday, the Court of Cassation - France's final court of appeal - affirmed two prior judgments that ruled that Traoré could not be held criminally responsible for his actions because he was in a state...

She screamed “Allahu akbar” as she brandished the severed head. But never fear, psychiatrists have fixed all that. Gulchekhra Bobokulova horrified the world in February 2016 when she beheaded four-year-old Anastasia Meshcheryakova, whom she served as a nanny. Once Russian police got around to arresting her (she brandished the head and raved for fully twenty minutes), she was declared to be mentally ill. And now for the good news: psychiatrists have pronounced her cured, and she is set to walk free. The UK’s MailOnline reported Friday that after just five years in a psych ward, Bobokulova has been “cured” of...

A French teacher who had recently shown students cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed was beheaded outside his school on Friday, in what President Emmanuel Macron called an "Islamist terrorist attack". The assailant, whose identity has not been established, was shot by police as they tried to arrest him and later died of his injuries, police said. The attacker shouted "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest") as police confronted him, a cry often heard in jihadist attacks, a police source said.

A man suspected of stabbing one NYPD officer and shooting two others reportedly yelled out ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the violent attack. Dzenan Camovic, 20, allegedly walked up to the group of cops in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn Wednesday night and lunged a knife into one of the officer’s necks. According to officials, he then took control of that policeman’s gun and shot the other two deputies in the hands. Camovic is accused of screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ three times. The assailant was himself shot and injured by another police officer who quickly responded to the scene. Camovic, whose family hails...

NBC News: The suspect in Wednesday night's stabbing of a NYPD officer in Brooklyn was recorded saying "Allahu Akbar" 3 times during the incident, the NYPD says. But they're urging caution in assigning an ideology or specific motive based on what they've found so far in the case. — Tom Winter

At least one woman has been taken to hospital after a bloodied man with a knife went on a stabbing rampage in Sydney CBD, jumping on cars and taunting police. There is a heavy police presence on King St and Clarence St in Wynyard with the CBD in lockdown. The woman has been taken to St Vincent’s hospital in a stable condition. People are being warned to avoid the area. Footage of the incident, obtained by 7 News, shows a man armed with a large knife jumping on top of a car. Bystanders are seen rushing towards the man, with...