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To: FJB who wrote (1294788)	3/6/2021 12:57:50 PM
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Nothing to See Here, Move Along Posted on March 5, 2021 by Baron Bodissey As reported here on Wednesday, an Afghan culture-enricher went on a stabbing rampage in the Swedish town of Vetlanda. Eight people were reported injured in the attack, but the number was later reduced to seven. Police were investigating the incident as an act of terrorism. Yesterday the police changed their minds and said they no longer considered the attack to be terrorism. After the Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna) called for an end to mass immigration, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven retorted that the knife rampage had nothing to do with immigration. So what did it have to do with, then? A later report (hat tip Steen) said that the attacker was alleged to have shouted “Allahu Akhbar” during his stabbing spree. As we all know by now, the phrase means “I feel marginalized and discriminated against” in Arabic. Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating two additional articles about the knife jihad in Vetlanda. First, from Fria Tider, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven’s remarks on the irrelevance of immigration to the terror attack in Vetlanda: Löfven on the Vetlanda act — Has nothing to do with immigration March 4, 2021 The 22-year-old Afghan high-school student’s attack in Vetlanda is not “a migration issue”. That is the message of Prime Minister Stefan Löfven (S/Social Democrats) now. Seven persons were injured when they were attacked by the 22-year-old Afghan in Vetlanda on Wednesday. Earlier today, Fria Tider was able to report that the Afghan is an illiterate who was granted a residence permit with the support of Stefan Löfven’s so-called high school act. At a press conference, a journalist mentioned that the Sweden Democrats on Twitter had linked the incident with immigration policy and demanded a “complete stop to all asylum-and family immigration, including quota refugees.” The journalist asked what Löfven thought about it. “That the Sweden Democrats are out speculating is on them. We don’t do that. We will await the police investigation and listen to what emerges as to motive and everything else,” answered Löfven. He continued: “Since this is not a migration issue, as the Sweden Democrats want it to be.” Also from Fria Tider, an excerpt from an article about the lack of connection with terrorism: Not a terror crime Yesterday’s atrocity in Vetlanda, where seven persons were stabbed, was initially investigated as a suspected terrorist crime. This morning, Prosecutor Adam Rullman reported that the incident is no longer being investigated as a crime with terrorist motive. “I can say this in general terms that we have a close cooperation with the police, and we also do in this case, but it is the police who have the preliminary investigation, so it is they who answer that question,” said Security Police press chief Gabriel Wernstedt to Fria Tider.

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France: Appeal in case of Muslim shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ who killed Jewish woman and was let off for being high MAR 6, 2021 11:00 AM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS In 2017, France’s lower court excused murderer Kobili Traoré for killing his 65-year-old Jewish neighbor, Sarah Halimi. He was deemed to be unaccountable for his actions due to his heavy intake of marijuana. The court chalked up his savage attack on Sarah to compromised “discernment” or consciousness, even though he was screaming “Allahu akbar” and antisemitic slogans before beating up Halimi and throwing her out the window. He was certainly alert enough to be shouting about Allah and insulting Sarah’s Jewishness, but that didn’t matter to the court; hence the Jerusalem Post line: “In France, if you smoke cannabis, you can kill a Jew.” It does look that way in this appalling and frightening travesty of justice (and display of antisemitism) by a French court. This story has three distinct parts: i) the denial of deeply rooted Islamic antisemitism; ii) the apparent antisemitism of the lower court ruling itself, given its dismissal of overt evidence; and iii) the willful blindness to the motivation behind yet another Allahu akbar-shouting jihadist committing murder. The Leftist establishment police usually explain away jihad attacks as resulting from mental illness; now this one is because of cannabis. In July of last year, Jihad Watch reported: The World Zionist Organization (WZO) is “working on a plan to bring hundreds of thousands of French Jews to Israel.” The population of Jews in France is roughly 453,000. Here’s why, according to WZO Vice-Chair Yaakov Hagoel: “Anti-Semitism is increasing and France is surrendering to jihad.” Hagoel continued: “The worsening economic situation, and the growth of radical Islam are creating a one-time opportunity to break down bureaucratic barriers and bring the Jews of France to Israel.” Let’s hope for the sake of justice and for every other potential infidel victim that Kobili Traoré not only serves time in prison (he should never be released at all, but that would be next to impossible in France), but that he is added to a terrorist watch list and is adequately monitored. So far it looks promising: “an unnamed source told broadcaster Europe 1 on Wednesday that France’s advocate-general ‘will rule in favor of confirming the criminal irresponsibility of the perpetrator of the murder.'” The higher court trial is expected to rule on “whether “the consumption of narcotics can be a cause for exonerating from penal responsibility in criminal matters.” At least that’s what a lawyer representing the Halimi family states. “In France, if you smoke cannabis you can kill a Jew – Sarah Halimi case goes to high court,” by Sarah Chemla, Jerusalem Post, March 4, 2021: In France, if you smoke cannabis, you can kill a Jew. That’s basically what France’s lower court decided in December 2019, after excusing the alleged antisemitic murderer of a Jewish woman from a criminal trial because of his heavy intake of cannabis that supposedly compromised his “discernment,” or consciousness. France’s Court of Cassation (appellate) began its deliberations Wednesday on whether or not to overrule the lower court’s decision not to try Kobili Traoré for killing Sarah Halimi in 2017 while shouting about Allah, a decision that was appealed last year. At the time of the ruling, the judge cited psychiatric evaluations saying Traoré’s consumption of marijuana before the incident led to a “delirious episode” that made him not legally responsible for his actions. However, the judge also said that Traoré, who is in his 30s, killed Halimi because he is an antisemite. On April 2017, Traoré, a 27-year-old Muslim man, beat Halimi, his 65-year-old Jewish neighbor, while screaming “Allah Akbar” (God is great) and antisemitic slogans before throwing her out of the window of her third-floor apartment to her death. The court said that he was not responsible for his actions, however, since he smoked an extensive dose of cannabis that “affected” his senses, a decision that sparked outrage among the French and International Jewish community. According to Algemeiner, if Traoré’s criminal irresponsibility is confirmed by the highest court, he will be held in mental health institutions until doctors deem him fit to be released back into society, and the only penalty he would receive would be to be banned from visiting the site of the killing and having contact with Halimi’s family for 20 years. However, an unnamed source told broadcaster Europe 1 on Wednesday that France’s advocate-general “will rule in favor of confirming the criminal irresponsibility of the perpetrator of the murder,” Algemeiner reported. “How can we have a ‘discernment’ that is abolished, but the remainder of a conscience?” asked Muriel Ouaknine Melki, a lawyer representing the Halimi family, adding that French citizens as a whole had an important stake in Traoré facing trial, as they would then be able to establish whether “the consumption of narcotics can be a cause for exonerating from penal responsibility in criminal matters.”….