BY ROBERT SPENCER
Jihad Watch
An Afghan asylum seeker is accused of killing a 19-year-old man and wounding at least nine people in a knife rampage in Lyon, France.
Witnesses said a man armed with a knife and barbecue fork randomly attacked people at a bus stop in Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon.
A second man at the scene was carrying a kitchen spit, but his role in the incident was unclear after it was initially reported he may have been a suspect who fled.
Footage posted online shows hero witnesses confronting and detaining the knifeman at Laurent-Bonnevay station.
One video shows the man tossing the knife and fork to the floor and surrendering as he is surrounded by a mob.
Bus drivers and witnesses chased the knife-wielding suspect as he ran into the metro station and then cornered him at an outdoor lift after the attack unfolded just before 4.30pm local time on Saturday, local media reported.
The suspect is an Afghan asylum seeker who was not known to the police or intelligence services, BFM TV reported.
The knifeman claimed to be from Afghanistan as he was confronted by witnesses, including four bus drivers, after the attack, Le Progres reported.
There was no indication from the authorities that it was a terror attack….
A police helicopter was in the air looking for a second man reported as a possible suspect.
A possible motive for the attack was not known.
Lyon Mayor Gerard Collomb, the former French interior minister, told reporters: “For now, we do not know anything about the motive.
“What is certain is that it was not a fight since it was someone who attacked passengers waiting for a bus.”…
Robert Spencer - French authorities have already apparently dismissed out of hand the possibility that this was a jihad terror attack: “There was no indication from the authorities that it was a terror attack….Lyon Mayor Gerard Collomb, the former French interior minister, told reporters: ‘For now, we do not know anything about the motive.'”
Here is a possible motive. 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….
I don't fully agree with Robert Spencer on this. I doubt that French authorities have 'dismissed' terrorism' as a motive, but rather are reluctant to name it so without further evidence, as if 1 dead and 9 wounded isn't enough. It seems the French reluctance to call it a terrorist act was because the unnamed Afghan migrant was not on police radar. Mind you, there are far more radical Muslims in France than there are police available to monitor them.
After all the terrorism attacks in Europe and especially France, it's astonishing that French authorities are still protective of radical Muslims as they are in Germany and Sweden. It's PCMadness!
As I have said many times on this and my other blog, radical Muslims are not sane people. Read the sidebar comment under Great Quotes on my other blog by Syrian psychologist Dr. Wafa Sultan. Radical Muslims must be assumed to be insane and dangerous and should be segregated from the rest of society until they renounce Islam or die.
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