Of course this is a case of mental illness. Why, what else could it possibly be, you greasy Islamophobe?
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….
“Man ‘shouting Allahu Akbar’ drives car into a crowd in France before being wrestled to the ground by bystanders,” AFP, September 14, 2018 (thanks to Robert):
A man has been arrested after driving his car into a crowd of people outside a bar in southern France while shouting Allahu Akbar, witnesses and local officials said.
The 32-year-old suspect, believed to be a local, sped towards a crowd of about 50 outside the bar at around 1am Friday local time, witnesses said.
However, his white Peugeot ran into barriers set up for the town’s annual grape-harvesting festival featuring bull-fighting which attracts thousands of people.
Two people standing behind the barriers received slight injuries to their legs.
After the crash the man tried to flee but was dragged to the ground by onlookers and ‘roughed up’ before police arrived.
He was in a state of ‘mental confusion’ during his arrest and has been hospitalised, public prosecutor Eric Maurel said.
Several witnesses told AFP that the man shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ – God is Greatest in Arabic – during the incident.
A source close to the investigation said the man was not known to police for suspected radicalisation.
The man is being held on suspicion of attempted murder.
A police spokesman declined to comment on the man’s motives, but said the investigation was being handled by regular police rather than anti-terror police….