Last month’s “Islamist terrorist” stabbing attack at a church in Nice, France, has put all of Europe on edge over fears of a new terror wave on the continent.
The Associated Press reported that a Tunisian man carrying a knife and a copy of the Quran killed three worshipers at the Basilica of Notre-Dame. The report said the man could be seen at a train station in the city at 6:47 AM and spent 30 minutes inside the basilica after the attack. He advanced on the police yelling, “Allahu Akbar,” according to witnesses.
He fatally stabbed a 55-year-old sexton at the church and beheaded a 60-year-old woman. A 44-year-old woman was stabbed and fled to a nearby café where she alerted people about the attack before she died, Reuters reported.
French President Emmanuel Macron deployed thousands of additional soldiers throughout the country. He reportedly said the attack in Nice was over “our values, for our taste for freedom, for the ability on our soil to have freedom of belief… and I say it with great clarity again today: We will not give any ground.”
The Financial Times reported that since the Nice attack, an ISIS militant killed four people in Vienna and injured 22 in a shooting. The U.K. raised its terror alert to “severe,” according to the report, and Germany’s domestic intelligence agency said it was “highly likely” another attack would materialize.
Raffaello Pantucci, a counterterror expert at the London-based Royal United Services Institute, told the FT he is concerned the attacks appear to be occurring so close to one another.
“The underlying problems which drive violent Islamist extremism have not gone away,” he said. “There is the fundamental problem of radicalized people who joined ISIS coming out of prison still radicalized.”
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Absent in their reporting are what “the underlying problems which drive violent Islamist extremism” are.
Ignored are the facts we have been reporting in the Trends Journal for some three decades: the ongoing western wars launched against Islamic countries that we had named “Crusades 2000.” Not a word about the destruction of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, and other wars and conflicts in Africa either started by or supported by Western nations, which have destroyed nations and killed millions.
As we used to say in the Bronx, “Payback’s a Bitch.” Violence will continue to escalate as the “Greatest Depression” worsens, and more people will leave their Arab homelands that, already economically devastated, will dive deeper into poverty, crime, and corruption.
