‘Something or Other’ Happens in Paris
The Guardian’s Michael Tomasky once explained that “Allahu Akbar” is just “something Arab people often shout before doing something or other”. Or afterwards, in the case of a Paris teacher beheaded by a peaceful religionist.
The Guardian’s Michael Tomasky once explained that “Allahu Akbar” is just “something Arab people often shout before doing something or other”. Or afterwards, in the case of a Paris teacher beheaded by a peaceful religionist:
A knife-wielding teen beheaded a middle-school teacher on a street in Paris on Friday — after the educator showed students cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Mohammad in the nude, according to reports.
Immediately after the beheading, the attacker claimed responsibility and posted an image of his victim’s severed head on Twitter, a police source told NBC News. The grisly image was removed by the social-media site.
The attacker then confronted responding cops with an air-gun rifle — and shouted “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is great” in Arabic — as the officers opened fire, killing him.
“The working hypothesis is terrorism,” a law-enforcement source told the UK’s Telegraph newspaper.
They might be on to something there. The teacher had excused Muslim students before showing the image:
A parent of a pupil at the school said Friday that the teacher may have created a “polemic” by asking Muslim pupils to leave the room before showing the cartoons.
The teacher “simply said to the Muslim children: ‘Leave, I don’t want it to hurt your feelings’. That’s what my son told me,” he said.
The 18-year-old killer was not a student at the school. This attack follows recent incidents in France of Islam-inspired bloodlust:
Last month, charges were brought against a 25-year old Pakistani man who wounded two people with a meat cleaver to avenge the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed by the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo …
That attack came three weeks into an ongoing trial of suspected accomplices of the authors of the January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket, which also saw a policewoman gunned down in the street.
The trial has sparked protests across France, with thousands of demonstrators rallying against Charlie Hebdo and the French government.
“Je Suis Charlie” didn’t have much of a shelf life.
The attack comes only days after a follower of the Islamic State militant group who attacked a police officer outside Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris with a hammer was sentenced to 28 years in jail.
Farid Ikken, 43, charged at officers on patrol outside the cathedral on June 6, 2017, shouting “this is for Syria”.
What about the British in Malaya in the 1950s?