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From Reuters:

French police detained a man on Monday after he attacked three women with knives…
The man attacked the three women, who were aged ⁠19, 24 and 36, with two kitchen knives, severely wounding two of them…
“It is Allah who commanded me,” the man lying on the floor said.

The motive of the attack remains unknown, [Interior Minister Laurent] Nunez said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/french-police-arrest-man-after-knife-attack-paris-2026-07-27/

If you feel like you’ve seen the same report a hundred times, yes, this is a fresh one from today.

This is not the same Muslim terrorist who attacked gays in Berlin yesterday and New Yorkers last week. Nobody has any idea what is motivating them, of course.

15 responses to “On Repeat”

  1. cliff arroyo Avatar
    cliff arroyo

    “Nobody has any idea what is motivating them”

    I don’t think they’re pretending, I think they really don’t understand. The idea of belief is so alien to them so they reject it out of hand and then compulsively search for something they can understand, like mental illness or anti-colonialism or whatever.

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      Anonymous

      They can’t afford to understand how that works. If it’s possible for an ideology, transmitted from person to person as ideas and culture, can provoke acts of mass violence against perceived ideological enemies… looking in the mirror might get weird.

      ethyl

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        oldcowboy3

        methylethyl

        LOL, well, it certainly isn’t the Amish doing this ;-D

        Yesterday, I questioned how many readers of this blog have bothered to inform themselves enough about Islam to have at least read the Quran and some of the collected Hadith. Despite this being a fairly well read group, there was no response. The general population is unlikely to have any understanding of Muslim beliefs.

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          Guilty as charged. I have read a lot of commentary on those, but never the text itself, even though I have read, wholly or in large chunks, founding religious texts of my own and other religions. I have some solid prejudices based on belonging to a religion that has been dealing with Islam since its founding. That collective historical experience is pretty damning. I’ve thought about it, mind, but it’s kind of like deciding to read the collected works of Anton LaVey if I don’t have to. I also don’t go skinny dipping in manure lagoons for fun. (shrugs)

          ethyl

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          cliff arroyo

          “how many readers of this blog have bothered to inform themselves enough about Islam to have at least read the Quran“

          I sort of started once but…

          Someone who’s considering reading it might want to read it in chronological order which is not how it is assembled. It’s basically ordered from longest to shortest chapter and not in the order it was written/revealed whatever

          There is broad agreement about which chapters were written in what order with some quibbling here and there and apparently makes a bit more sense when read that way. The way it is printed ends up being mostly incomprehensible as it jumps around chronologically and from topic to topic without much sense.

          A shortcut for finding out a lot about islamic doctrine is the website Islam question and answer, founded by a cleric which answers questions and backs up the answers with extensive quotes from the koran and hadith (https://islamqa.info/en).

          Spending some time with it is…. very revealing.

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          1. Clarissa Avatar
            Clarissa

            I have read the Koran. But I won’t express my opinion about it because I’m afraid.

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      Anonymous

      Cliff Arroyo’s point about them not understanding might be correct. One of the streamers I watch on youtube had a clip of a girl from the lgbq group in Germany after the attack. In her statement she said three things that make me think Cliff’s point is correct.

      She said it was just one guy and not to blame the whole group for the actions of that one fellow. (To be fair she started with. It is presumed at this time that the suspect is muslim.) She then went on to blame White men, Christianity as a whole, and anyone and everyone on the right wing. Stating they were to blame for the attack.

      The streamer came to the conclusion that nothing can change their minds and they are perfectly willing to die for their beliefs. Now while I am not willing to go that far as we have seen people change their minds. The very thought of this is what they believe never even crossed that girl’s mind. Not once. Which provides proof in my opinion that Cliff’s comment of ‘they aren’t pretending, they actually don’t know’ rings fairly accurate.

      • – W

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        Clarissa

        At which point one thinks, hey, good luck with your gay rights in this environment. If the gay people themselves don’t care, then that’s that.

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      Anonymous

      How large do the religious wars of the 16th and 17th centuries still loom in the collective memory there? I’ve read plenty of European commentary from the last hundred years claiming that humanity as a whole has moved on from caring enough about religion to fight over it. Not true, of course, but many people think that they are cosmopolitan when they are not.

      I have read some sections of the Quran, mostly to confirm that the things being quoted by others are genuine. Most of it is not as interesting as the parts that people like to quote but those bits do appear to have an outsize influence on how they interact with outsiders.

      -K

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        Anonymous

        If you’re an outsider, then the parts about how they interact with outsiders are the relevant bits.

        ethyl

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        1. oldcowboy3 Avatar
          oldcowboy3

          LOL ;-D

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        oldcowboy3

        All of the Abrahamic religions have a problem of identifying exactly who wrote what, where, and when. But historically there is no doubt that all of the Islamic lands outside of small parts of the Arabian peninsular was acquired by violence.

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    Anonymous

    As my favourite pundit likes to quip, ”Allahu Akbar’ translates to ‘Nothing to see here.”

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      oldcowboy3

      Hmmm, how about, “Deus Vult” ;-D

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    Anonymous

    This isn’t about loving Islam, it’s about hating christianity.

    Walnut

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