We only ever see attacks of this kind from one religious group. Yet the blindness and denial over their ideological derivation remains near-universal.
“ISIS axe rampage at Christian festival parade leaves three injured before attacker is overpowered,” by Taryn Pedlar, Daily Mail, April 2, 2025:
Three people have been injured in Iraq after a man armed with an axe attacked a parade hosted by Assyrian Christians as they marked their new year, officials said.
The event in, held every year on April 1, drew thousands of Assyrians who marched through Dohuk in northern Iraq waving flags and wearing colourful traditional clothes.
But witnesses of Wednesday’s horror said an attacker, who has not been officially identified, ran towards the crowd chanting Islamic slogans before carrying out his stabbing spree.
He brutally struck three people with the axe before being overpowered by participants and security forces.
Videos circulating online show him pinned to the ground by a brave member of public, as he repeatedly shouted: ‘Islamic State, the Islamic State remains.’
A 17-year-old boy and a 75-year-old woman suffered skull fractures following the viscous attack at the annual parade.
A member of the local security forces, who was operating a surveillance drone, was also wounded. All three were taken to hospital, local security officials said….
Janet Aprem Odisho, whose 75-year-old mother Yoniyah Khoshaba was injured, said they had been shopping near the parade when the attack happened.
‘He was running at us with an axe,’ she said. ‘All I remember is that he hit my mother, and I ran away when she fell. He had already attacked a young man who was bleeding in the street, then he tried to attack more people.’
Her family, originally from Baghdad, was also displaced by past violence and now lives in Ain Baqre village near the town of Alqosh.
Assyrians faced a wave of hate speech and offensive comments on social media following the attack….
jerry glenn says
Muslims will be Muslims
OLD GUY says
Yes the religion of peace at it again as trained and taught in the mosque.
Paul Burns says
As far as I know, the Assyrian Christians were the aboriginal indigenous people of that place before the Arab Muslim conquest. The late Salwan Momika, who was murdered recently in Sweden was an Assyrian Christian who had to flee Iraq and then received no protection from the Swedish state. In fact, they were trying to deport him back to Iraq.
Gurek says
Salwan Momika example unfortunately makes it clear that no one from nowhere is safe from jihad. Ex-Muslims are vulnerable. Where should they run to after leaving islam? The places where they can live freely is now becoming non-existent. While it’s impossible to be 100% safe there could have been relatively safer spaces for them. It’s only islam that is allowed to live and spread its propaganda while non-Muslims are expected to suffer in silence.
ed says
We all know what this means
We will have to start banning axes
PRCS USN (ret) says
No doubt!