The Knife of Peace Comes to Périgueux

There were three unconnected jihad attacks yesterday in widely separated places: London, Philadelphia, and Dordogne. The three lone mujahideen used divers methods in these attacks. In Westminster the weapon of choice was a car; in Philadelphia it was a gun; and in Périgueux it was a knife (two knives, actually).

The attackers in Europe were immigrants; the one in Pennsylvania was an African American. The three incidents have these characteristics in common:

1. They were low-grade jihad attacks, as such things go. Nobody was killed, and only a handful of people were wounded in each case.

2.The three attackers — like many Muslim terrorists — appear to have mental problems, and the media are playing up this aspect. Islam is not mentioned in any of the reporting I have seen.

3. Not much attention has been paid to the three incidents in the media, either traditional or alternative. Even Counterjihad-related sites (including this one) did not focus on them much.

I attribute #3 to a syndrome I call “jihad fatigue”: unless there’s a large body count to draw MSM coverage, it’s just too much work to try to deal with it. There’s so much of this stuff nowadays that most of us have reached overload. “Ho-hum — another day, another Islamic terrorist attack.” Bleeding people lying on a roped-off sidewalk, ambulances with flashing lights, police in body armor carrying automatic weapons, shocked bystanders alternately weeping and holding up their phones to take video of the tragic goings-on, talking heads on TV explaining what happened and telling you how you feel about it… Such is our humdrum, quotidian routine in the Modern Multicultural West.

fROM:

https://gatesofvienna.net/2018/08/the-telltale-zebibah/

pHOTO AT LINK.

A zebibah is a mark of distinction — or disfigurement, depending on your point of view — that is often found on the foreheads of pious Muslims. It is caused by the frequent (five times a day) banging of one’s forehead on the floor of the mosque while praying. It marks the possessor as a devout Muslim. If you belong to a “radical” sect of Islam, not to have a zebibah may be considered suspicious, a sign of insufficient religious zeal.
Here’s a selection of zebibahs of varying styles and intensities:

Yesterday a man named Keenan Jones shot up a Walmart in suburban Philadelphia, wounding several people before fleeing. Later he was captured by police and taken into custody after putting up violent resistance.
When I first saw the headlines last night, the likelihood of jihad seemed remote — the gunfire started after an argument in the checkout line. Besides, this was in Philly, after all, which ranks just behind Chicago and Baltimore in its incidence of gun violence, most of it by African Americans.
And then this morning I saw the mug shot of Keenan Jones:

In addition to the distinct zebibah, he has a full, bushy beard, which is another indication of the presence of Islam. I may be paranoid, but I’d bet a bill that this guy is a Muslim. They don’t give his Muslim name in the news articles, but I’m sure he has one.
Mr. Jones has been convicted of felonies in the past, which means he has most likely spent time in prison. That’s probably where he converted to Islam — Muslim chaplains do intensive da’wah in the U.S. prison system. Many black men who enter prison as nominal Christians come out as practicing Muslims.
One more thing — Mr. Jones “told the judge he has mental-health issues.” That seems extremely likely; there is a strong correlation between Islamic belief and mental illness. But in addition, banging your head on the floor every day hard enough to build up a zebibah is likely to cause brain damage. If I’m not mistaken, there have even been medical studies corroborating what common sense would tell us.

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