Now we know why #illridewithyou went viral like it did. Sympathizers of Islamic terrorism would rather be inside a car running people down than outside it.
Pauline Talagrand and Francesco Fontemaggi, Daniel Abelous, AFP:
Dijon (France) (AFP) – A driver shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is greatest”) ploughed into pedestrians in eastern France Sunday, injuring 11 of them, just a day after a man yelling the same words was killed in an attack on police officers.
Two of the people injured in the car attack in the city of Dijon were in a serious condition, a police source said, adding that the driver had been arrested…
The man had targeted groups of passersby at five different locations in the city on Sunday evening in a rampage that lasted around half an hour, the police source said…
Witnesses told police that the driver shouted “Allahu Akbar” and “that he was acting for the children of Palestine”, a source close to the investigation said.
Which has nothing to do with any other crimes in which the perpetrators bellowed “Allahu Akbar” and/or claimed to be acting on behalf of Palestine. This has nothing to do with anything that’s ever happened before, or anything that will ever happen again. To draw such an inference is silly at best, and outright racist at worst.
You are getting very sleepy.
Update: There has been a very similar incident in another town in France, but that doesn’t mean anything either. You’ll stop asking questions if you know what’s good for you, mon ami.