The perpetrator is identified only as “a local man, 57.” However, photos of the arrest show a man with a long beard, wearing Muslim garb. That raises the possibility that the killing may have been motivated by something like this: 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….
“Woman is STABBED ‘in the neck’ and another is seriously injured by knifeman while shopping in Marks & Spencer on ‘Wild Wednesday’ as stores reopen for first time after lockdown,” by Faith Ridler, Mailonline, December 2, 2020 (thanks to the Geller Report):
Two women were today stabbed as they shopped in Marks & Spencer just hours after lockdown ended and all non-essential stores reopened in England.
A local man, 57, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the attack in Burnley at around 9.30am, Lancashire Police said.
The two victims were rushed to hospital with serious injuries which are ‘not thought to be life threatening at this time.’
The stabbing came as shoppers flocked back to the High Street after the national coronavirus lockdown was lifted and all shops reopened on ‘Wild Wednesday.’
Footage from the scene captured a man in a face mask being detained by officers outside the Marks & Spencer store this morning.
Witnesses claimed one of the women was stabbed in the neck during the attack, but this has not yet been confirmed.
Lancashire Police said a knife was recovered from the scene following what is believed to be an ‘isolated incident.’…
Officers were unable to speculate on a motive for the attack but confirmed nobody else is thought to be involved.
A force spokesman said: ‘We were called at about 9.30am today to a report of a stabbing inside the Marks and Spencer store in Burnley….
The force added: ‘We would kindly ask that you don’t speculate about the motivation behind the incident….
Phil Copson says
Surely the head-line should read: “Local man, 57, endangered by police-officers not wearing face-masks or observing social distancing.” ?
I won’t speculate on their motivation, but I wonder if mental illness may be a factor ?
Rick Spencer says
Belief in Islam is, most certainly, a mental illness!
Clifford says
Bingo!
Jim says
Rick, it is sanctioned in the Koran, sura (chapter 9) and in the biography of Mohammad (Sira) and the Hadith, (traditions and actions of Muhammad) which every Shariah orthodox Muslim must follow. These are jihadists terrorist actions to force non- Muslims, Infidels, Kafirs to “submit” to Islamic Sharia law and Muslim dominance. Please lookup the term Kafir, which to a Muslim is the lowest form of life.
PRCS says
+1.
revereridesagain says
I see we don’t have “men in Muslim garb” as all to obvious in the photo but we have a “knifeman”. So if they kill kafirs with a truck attack do we now have “lorrymen”?
Linda McGuire says
Probably, that would be the most “Politically Correct” assumption,”Lorrymen”!
Dani D Mills says
More like knife person/ lorry person ?
Bikinis not Burkas says
Has anyone except the perpetrator and me read Quran 8:12?
100% the Police haven’t!
Margaret Melnick says
Really doesn’t matter it is time all Racist follow the law of the Country and if they don’t they get the same punishment and I really don’t care what their religion is. Tired of certain religions being treated differently than other Criminals simply because they say it is their religion.
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terry sullivan says
islam
Walter Sieruk says
In the different nations of Europe as a whole 91% of the victims of Islamic violence ,as in many cases deadly Islamic violence .
The jihadists use firearms as well as using bombs .Even using themselves as human bombs time bombs ,just waiting to go off in the many cities of Europe . It only takes a few out of many to inflect much murderous harm. Those jihadists engaging in Islamic suicide/homicide bombings attacks is for a large part, the outcome the extreme brainwashing that is performed in Islamic mind programming centers which are mosques and madrasas. In those jihad mind control places students are thoroughly indoctrinated into the jihadist mindset of committing murderous bombing attacks in the jihad for the advancement of Islam. As Islam’s “holy book,” the Quran instructs in 9:111. , for example, “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain they kill and are killed.” Therefore, those who come out of those Quran based mind programming centers .mosque and madrasas, are so terribly harmed and damaged that they are literally, as it has be rightfully called, “dangerous to self and others.” This results in jihad suicide /homicide attack in which those jihadists who commit such murderous actions are so very deluded that they think of that jihad mass murders as “martyrdom operations.” This is Islamic delusion of the most heinous and malicious kind.
This may be, somewhat, explained by the narrative from the fable of Aesop which is entitled THE SCORPION AND THE FROG So “Once upon a time there was a scorpion who really wanted to get to the other side of the river, but he could not swim. Therefore, the scorpion begged a frog to carry him on his back across the river. The kind but foolish frog agreed and then half-way across the river the scorpion stung the frog. In shock and horror the dying frog asks the scorpion “Why did you sting me since this means that we both are going to die” The scorpion replied “The reason that I stung you even though we both will now die is because that just what a scorpion, by nature, does.”
In conclusion, just as that scorpion in the fable had proven himself by the dangerous and deadly, to self and others, because of his nature. The violent and murderous jihadists of Islam are as that scorpion, dangerous so self and other because they is their nature because they have been thought programmed in the ways of the violent and murdering jihad of Islam.
As always stated above ,this is the sad and tragic reality of Islamic terrorism in today’s world.
Linda McGuire says
Walter, that is exactly their thought process. Our world today is more tragic than ever before, because Political Correctness has added the words we are offending someone regardless. That “Ethnic” group are the most offended by our culture and what we believe. As you state it is a reality of Islamic terrorism in the world. I fear for this generation and the next should Islam take hold of our countries, women will be at the end of the stick, along with dogs and pigs. I won’t be around for that, thank God.
Mount Zion says
Why would you ask not to speculate about the motive , of course it’s to protect muslims . I’m so sick of it . There is a new protected class of people worldwide , people who are killer , rapists and liars .
Judith chesney says
Good question. Are the police trained to dumb down incidents for the sake of peace and safety where there is no peace and safety?
Linda McGuire says
Everything today is based on this Cancerous Political Correctness we in our countries find ourselves. It’s all about not offending expecially the Muslim community. That is why there was no speculations about the person or reason for the attack. Police are not dumb, they have to serve until this new umbrella.
Mount Zion says
It’s also astonishing to me that whenever there are innocent harmless comments on muslims who kill by beheading or vehicular jihad or any other way , no matter how truthful you report on it you will be branded as an anti moslem biggot , where as on the actual killing you will be asked not to speculate . It’s just upsetting , are we out of our mind , have we lost our mind ?
Ecosse1314 says
I hate speculation
So I am not going to speculate that this moron is a Christian, Buddhist, Jew ,Sikh or indeed a normal human being. Hope that satisfies the PC pcs
Jaladhi says
The motive is to kill non-Muslims! Isn’t it still clear after the killing of more than 300 million non-Muslims by them in last 1400 years. The West has become so stupid that one cannot comprehend.
Unn Nair says
When you have been hearing, reading and memorising Qu.an since childhood, you dont need any other motivation. Its all in there.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Islam- The get out of jail free card. Why didn’t he go to his local mosque (hate center) and perform this heinous act? Why is it almost always white Christians at the receiving end of Islam’s proto nazi ideaology?
Michael Copeland says
“Stabbed in the neck” is a suspect circumlocution.
It is how French police described the soldier attacked by a muslim, and how Waltham police described the victims of the triple slaying there of 2011. In that latter case a police spokesman, years later, declared that “their necks had been slashed with such ferocity that their heads were almost severed”.
We have ro read between the lines.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/07/a-triple-unsolved-murder-unconnected-dots/
Lancashire has a high muslim population in its old Mill Towns. It may well be that Lancashire police are equipped with dots to connect, but they are determined not to express them.
Michael Copeland says
The victims are not identified. It may be that one of them is the perpetrator’s wife (or one of them). Burnley has a high muslim population.
Antiislamicman says
Surah 9.29 will give you the answer to the motive.
Cops will have to keep searching and telling lies to themselves.
In the meantime Islam will just keep on killing people who do not believe in Allah or the last day.
Welcome to Islam and a continues war on the innocent
Tony N says
Imagine this: “Nazi stabs a Jew. Authorities are searching for motivation.”
tim gallagher says
Whenever I see men who dress in this type of “devout” Muslim clothing, which I do see fairly regularly at local shopping centres here in Australia, I know that pretty much everything such men, wearing the type of gear that indicates that they are dedicated Muslims, do is going to be motivated by their Muslim ideology. It is bloody obvious that men dressed in this way would have a Muslim religious motive for everything they do, including stabbing people. People who dress like this “devout” type Muslim probably even take a shit in some way that fits in with correct Muslim practice. People dressed like this man aren’t just nominally Muslim. It is the same for the women dressed in the “devout”, totally covered Muslim gear. People like these definitely don’t belong in any non-Muslim society. In this case, the police would surely immediately have known that this “devout” type Muslim had a Muslim motive for suddenly stabbing a couple of people. Even Mr Magoo would be able to see the hardline Muslim gear this scumbag is wearing and know the motive for this attack.
PRCS says
Going out on a limb, here:
The guy in the picture was obviously NOT born in the UK. Like so many others, he emigrated from Pakistan to take advantage of the ‘free’ health and social service benefits and has NO intention of assimilating or acculturating into that filthy kuffar society (as with so many other Western nations–(Australia for example).
tim gallagher says
PRCS, what you say is definitely true. People like this man are mainly aiming to take over the whole world for Islam. They are invaders who want to impose barbaric Islam on the citizens of whatever non-Muslim country that has been foolish enough to let the backward, primitive Muslims inside their borders. That’s really their only goal in life. In this case it’s the UK, but we certainly have plenty of scumbags like this man in Australia, that’s for sure. They should be kept in their own backward, barbaric Muslim countries. Of course, as you point out, they love to bludge on the welfare systems in our countries while they plot and scheme on how to impose islam on all of us. I believe that people who dress like this man would spend all their time thinking about Islam, Islam, Islam and how to advance Islam and impose the primitive ideology of everybody.
PRCS says
As Muslims are already living in Western nations (whether immigrants or native born), those governments MUST make clear that their law is THE law and that infractions will result in appropriate charges and punishments
Few are doing so, however.
tim gallagher says
I agree, PRCS. All the governments in our western counties seem to be just too nice and too soft to get tough with the Muslim enemy living inside their countries. It’s good to be civilised and pleasant, but it doesn’t work with the Muslim enemy. Maybe one day they will toughen up, I suppose when enough of the population of the countries wake up and demand that our politicians get tough with Muslims. The best thing we can do is not add to our problems by letting more of the Muslim enemy into our countries.
Check Burry says
Most likely not working either.
PRCS says
No doubt.
John Smillie says
PRCS.
They see themselves as soldiers of Allah, living among the enemy. We can only thank our Western politicians for the state of things in our countries.
Linda McGuire says
John & PRCS, it is true in Canada we have a bill to protect anyone making nasty comments against Islam. With this law should you be convicted you can go to jail. Oh, joy, Oh bliss. In Toronto, Ontario they have Muslim Only apartment buildings. The lastest last year Mayors from major Canadian cities allowed the call to prayer via loud speakers. The old saying of give an inch and they take a miles, is the current standard today. The PM of my country uses diversity and political correctness to put my country into a “Cluster Muck” that we will never get out from under.
Sylvia Drummond says
Mohammedans are good at attacking women
gravenimage says
Yes–Muslims so often target the vulnerable.
Walter Sieruk says
That vicious cruel Muslim who stabbed those two women was actually following the instructions on the Qu ‘ran when he was maliciously stabbing them .
For example, that “holy book” of Islam instructs in”O in Surah 9 123 . “O you who believe !. Fight those of the deiselivers who are close to you and let them find harshness in you.”
Let’s face it, stabbing people who are not Muslims with a knife is very effective way of showing them harshness.
slam, what a brutal violent and bloody religion it ,truely ,is.
owensgate says
“Cops search for motive”
That was a joke, right? They CAN’T be that stupid.
James Lincoln says
owensgate,
The cops will search for any motive – as long as it has nothing to do with islam.
For cops in the UK, a motive attributed to islam is the “third rail”…
Michael Copeland says
They could try some of these, courtesy of Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad of Jordan, chairman of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought (RABIIT):
“From what we have witnessed, it seems to me that the primary causes of the current tension and conflict in Nigeria are not inherently based in religion but rather, rooted in a complex matrix of political, social, ethnic, economic, and legal problems, among which the issue of justice — or the lack of it — looms large as a common factor.”
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/10/for-peace/
gravenimage says
Of course this is more Taqiyya.
JIMJFOX says
‘Fraid so. Cops like these have trouble finding their own a**hole!
Check Burry says
Oh yes they can! Ill tell you what it is, we dont have enough cops to stop it if they go on a peaceful smiting rampage, they swarm , soon have a few hundred on streets with smiting tools at the ready.
Linda McGuire says
No, they aren’t, but when the country is under this cancerous political correctness realm, the police fall under that. One cannot offend “Muslim”, but it doesn’t work both ways. We are so “Hootched”.
gravenimage says
UK: Muslim stabs two women in Marks & Spencer, one in the neck, cops search for motive
………………..
Might it be…Islam?
Jaydam says
GI, It surely can’t be Islam, as we are told over and over that Islam is a religion of peace and love.
And anyone who says otherwise is Islamophobic. 🙂
gravenimage says
So they say, Jaydam…
Check Burry says
There are lots of them in this town, smouldering hate, awaiting the moment to spread the word, but as the gullable cops say we would ask you not to speculate, well our non rose coloured specs see exactly what it is.
Fred van de Bunt says
“This is not being treated as a terrorism incident but due to some comments made at the scene counter terrorism detectives will be leading on the investigation.”
https://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/crime/burnley-double-stabbing-not-terrorist-incident-police-say-3055656
“Some very evil witness comments cause a terror related investigation into a confused man dressed as one of Snow white’s 7 dwarfs, enough to prove good intentions”, British top government intellectuals must think.
Colin Broughtin says
When one finds that a Muslim has stabbed a non-Muslim stranger in the neck, one knows what the motivation is.
This method of murder of a non-believer for the crime if refusing Islam was ordained by Mohammad.
Giacomo Latta says
”The force added: ‘We would kindly ask that you don’t speculate about the motivation behind the incident.,”
Kindly get yourself some rifle-cleaning equipment then get creative, Thought Police. Who the hell gave you the right to suspend my democratic rights?
Mason Stewart says
Grotesque lying from the media, as usual.
Brian says
whatever could be the motive — his guiding BOOK maybe?
Check Burry says
Miss guiding may be more accurate Brian.
OLD GUY says
I think you could place a sizable wager that he was muslim and acting out his Muhammad lead duty to strike infidels.
Check Burry says
Local man my arse, he is a square pig, sorry peg in a round town.
Cronos W. Spoiler says
Motive there is No motive Hatred is bred and taught at a early ”friggin” age Violence Hatred is what hold them together.
gravenimage says
Cronos, the idea that Muslim have no motive for their violence is mistaken. The whole purpose of Jihad terror is to force the Infidels to submit to Islam.
Neil Thomas says
Please don’t speculate, are you serious don’t speculate, whether muslim or not it was a terror attack, striking two ladies with a big knife I’d say that was terror wouldnt you?
Now the fact that he has a long beard and is wearing pajama like clothes is not the image of a muslim or is it.
If it looks like terror and smells like terror I’d say it was ……g terror, stop protecting the so called religion of peace, if it was a peaceful religion why do so many thousands and thousands of them want to kill all none believers.
By protecting these people behind the law I’d say their very own protection detail, all you are doing is lying to the people and driving an even bigger wedge between the races, say it as it is and be honest before people take the law into their own hands and retaliate.
Mojdeh says
Islam is religion of peace. I approve this massge?