Sure, He Went into a Church and Screamed ‘Allahu Akbar,’ but You See, He Was High as a Kite.

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During recent travels in a blue state, I noticed that a high percentage of counter clerks and other “customer service” personnel were slow-moving and found it difficult to comprehend even the simplest and most direct requests. Then I noticed that practically every other retail store was selling cannabis, and suddenly it all made sense. Everyone has decided nowadays that cannabis is perfectly harmless and even good for you, so why not partake freely even during work hours? Yet some people still use getting stoned out of one’s gourd as an excuse for all manner of antisocial behavior. Even Islamic jihad.

The strange story of the stoned Salafi unfolded when a certain Aymen B. (it’s the policy of the European media to conceal the surnames of accused criminals), a 43-year-old Muslim from Tunisia, entered a church on Holy Saturday, April 4, the day before Easter. According to the French-language publication Valeurs Actuelles, Aymen was “taken into custody after entering the Saint-Clément Church in Arpajon (Essonne) and shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ multiple times.”

That wasn’t all. Aymen also “shoved a female worshipper inside the church.” He also “knelt down before prostrating himself on the floor to pray; he then stood back up and knocked over several objects.”

And so, however reluctantly, the French police, who seldom expend too much energy chasing Islamic jihadis, swung into action. Aymen’s “home was also searched. Although the search yielded no results, it was determined that the individual had consumed a large quantity of cannabis.” Ah. Now French authorities had the excuse they needed for Aymen’s actions, and once again didn’t have to face the reality of Islamic jihad.

Aymen himself helped out when he “confessed that he had been seized by a momentary fit of madness and admitted to having smoked a joint just prior to the incident.” He claimed he was so stoned out of his mind that he “had not realized the nature of his actions.” And that certainly makes sense. After all, who among us hasn’t smoked a joint and then, in a “momentary fit of madness,” decided to drop by the local church, scream “Allahu akbar,” and start knocking things over and shoving people around?

Back on planet Earth, however, there was cause for concern. “Allahu akbar” means “Allah is greater,” i.e., greater than your god. To scream it out in a church is a particular declaration of the supremacy, superiority, and victory of Islam. The scream of “Allahu akbar” is also designed to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60). 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta reminded himself to “shout, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers.” For that reason, jihadis routinely scream it while they are in the process of doing violence to non-Muslims.

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