Belgium: Muslim who murdered four told hostage he wouldn’t harm her since she was Muslim and observing Ramadan fast
This is reminiscent of other incidents, including when the Muslim in Minnesota who asked mall shoppers if they were Muslim and then stabbed non-Muslims. In Mali, Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” took hostages, freeing those who could recite the Qur’an. In September 2013 at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall, Muslims murdered people who couldn’t answer questions about Islam. In June 2014, Muslims murdered people who could not pass an Islam quiz. In November 2014, Muslims murdered 28 non-Muslims who couldn’t recite Qur’an verses. In April 2015, Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” stormed Garissa University College, and only shot those who couldn’t recite Qur’an. In a Bangladesh restaurant in July 2016, the jihadis spared those who could recite from the Qur’an. In July 2017 in Kenya, Muslims asked Christians to “recite Islamic dogmas” and murdered them when they couldn’t do so.
“Killings by Belgian inmate treated as terror; IS claims role,” By Raf Casert and Lorne Cook, Associated Press, May 31, 2018:
BRUSSELS (AP) — A Belgian prison inmate who killed four people while on furlough committed “terrorist murder” and likely intended to cause more harm, prosecutors said Wednesday as authorities searched for possible accomplices and the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the bloodshed.The convict who stabbed two police officers in the city of Liege and used their handguns to kill them and a bystander was a “soldier of the caliphate,” IS said in a brief statement on the site of its Aamaq news agency.Such wording is typical of the claims IS makes even when slaying suspects have not been linked directly to the terror group. Belgian authorities have not said if they have evidence the inmate had vowed allegiance to IS or was acting on its orders.Interior Minister Jan Jambon noted that Benjamin Herman, the Belgian national named as the Liege killer, killed a fourth person on Monday night away from the eastern industrial town.Herman, 31, a convert to Islam, was known to local authorities as a repeat offender involved in petty crime and drugs. He spent most of his time in prison since 2003 and was on a two-day leave when he launched his attack. Police shot him dead not long after.Officials said Wednesday that the death toll from the attack outside a Liege cafe might have been higher if the bar owner and a cleaning lady had acted with less skill and courage.Herman first stabbed the officers repeatedly from behind with a knife, stole their handguns and shot them as they lay on the ground.The cafe owner quickly hustled patrons out of sight as the gunman went in and out of the establishment.Crossing the road, Herman shot a 22-year old passenger in a car and shouted “Allahu akbar,” the Arabic phrase for “God is great,” several times, authorities said.
“Allahu akbar” doesn’t mean “God is great.” It means “Allah is greater,” i.e., greater than your god. It is a declaration of superiority and supremacism.
Herman then took a cleaning woman hostage at a nearby school. Imaankaf Darifa, the hostage, told The Associated Press she tried to keep him away from the children.“I told him: ‘You are in a school here, you cannot come in a school, it is not right what you are doing,’” Darifa recalled.Her captor asked if she were Muslim and she told him she was. He then asked if she were observing the holy month of Ramadan.“I answered yes. So he told me, ‘I won’t harm you,’” Darifa said….
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