"Allahu akbar!" - Algerian stabs French cop "in the name of the Prophet"

News of attacks on Europeans by would-be jihadis is so commonplace that I don't even try to post all the incidents. There was one somewhere in Europe last week in which a civilian was wounded by a Muslim wielding a knife, but it was just the one victim, who the "authorities" said was mentally unstable, yada yada yada, so no biggie. But today it's a cop, so I guess that rates a report. 

From the French city of Cannes, famous for its film festival, comes news that police have shot "a man" who attacked a group of them with a knife. One against many doesn't seem like a good idea, but no-one ever said these Islamic extremists were rational. 

Quite the contrary. What's unusual about this case is that security sources have told the meeja that the attack appears to have been motivated by Islamist terrorism. Inspector Clouseau of the local gendarmerie said the attacker claimed to have been acting "in the name of the Prophet." No kidding! 

 The attacker, a 37-year-old Algerian who reportedly got into Italy as a "refugee", opened the door of a police car stationed in front of the Cannes central police station, before stabbing the officer in the driver's seat. He then tried to attack a second policeman in the vehicle but a third officer fired his weapon, seriously injuring the attacker. Sounds to me like a defence of insanity might be mounted, but that's wearing a little thin. 

The attack coincides with the trial of Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of an ISIS cell responsible for the killing of 130 people in gun and bomb attacks on entertainment venues in Paris in November of 2015. Worries over violent crime and terrorism -- almost always the work of Islamic extremists welcomed into Europe as "refugees" and asylum-seekers -- feature among voters' main concerns in the run-up to the 2022 French presidential election. 

Thank goodness Americans and Canadians don't have to worry about Islamic extremists being allowed into their countries by too-liberal governments. Oh... wait... 

Further reading: "Referendum on immigration? What a novel idea!", WWW 10/10/21.