Muslim Screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ Attacks Cops, ‘Motive Unclear’

How long will this ridiculous charade go on?

@Valeurs | Vidéo de l’attaque au couteau visant deux policiers à Toulouse ce lundi 10 août. Le mis en cause aurait crié “Allah Akbar” en perpétuant son geste qui, selon cette même source et selon les images, visait clairement à tuer puisqu’il aurait visé la gorge des policiers… pic.twitter.com/sLd5BkE1z8

— Amaury Bucco (@AmauryBucco) August 10, 2026

The French-language publication Actu 17 reported Monday that “two municipal police officers were injured in a knife attack late Monday afternoon on Rue d’Austerlitz, in the heart of Toulouse (Haute-Garonne). Their attacker—who reportedly made ‘terrorist-related remarks,’ according to the city’s mayor—was arrested at the scene and taken to the hospital. The Toulouse public prosecutor’s office has taken charge of the case.” In other words, it was just another day in Emmanuel Macron’s modern, multicultural France, and after this attack, there was the same ridiculous comic opera aftermath.

Actu 17 notes that “the two municipal police officers exited the vehicle to try to subdue their attacker. ‘The arrest was extremely difficult. They managed to seize his knife, but he had two others on him,’ recounted the deputy in charge of security. According to his information, the individual shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ several times. ‘My feeling is that he was determined to murder our officers,’ the official added. The suspect was finally subdued using pepper spray.”

As bad as all that was, it could easily have been much, much worse. “The outcome could have been far worse. While the two officers sustained only cuts to their arms, ‘the tip of the attacker’s knife struck one of them in the neck, right next to the carotid artery, and his colleague’s bulletproof vest bears the mark of a large gash along the flank,’ detailed Emilion Esnault.” Journalist Amaury Bucco reported that the attacker “clearly aimed to kill, as he reportedly targeted the officers’ throats.”

So we have two salient facts: the attacker screamed “Allahu akbar,” and he tried to slash the officers’ necks. The Qur’an tells Muslims: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (47:4). And as for “Allahu akbar,” it is for good reasons that jihadis so often scream this while trying to kill non-Muslims.

“Allahu akbar” does not mean “God is great,” although that is the most common way it is translated. While “Allah” is generally translated as “God,” the deity of Islam and the Qur’an is so different from the God of the Bible as to call for different terms. Meanwhile, “akbar” does indeed mean “greatest,” or more precisely “biggest,” as well as “greater” or “bigger,” and in this case, the most accurate translation of the phrase “Allahu akbar” would be “Allah is greater.”

That’s certainly what jihad terrorists mean when they scream it out in the midst of their violent acts. They do not just happen to be making a declaration of the greatness of Allah while stabbing or beheading someone. Their shout of “Allahu akbar” is meant to indicate that Allah is showing himself to be greater precisely in and through the act of violence at hand.

This is because the Qur’an designates Muslims as the executors of Allah’s wrath in this world: “Fight them, and Allah will punish them by your hands, and he will lay them low and give you victory over them, and he will heal the hearts of people who are believers, and he will remove the anger of their hearts.” (9:14-15)

If Allah punishes the unbelievers by the hands of the Muslims, then when the Muslims attack unbelievers, they are acting as the instruments of Allah, and so they proclaim his name. The attack also shows that Allah is greater, greater than the god of the unbelievers. For if the infidels’ god were greater than Allah, he would be able to protect his people and prevent the slaves of Allah from attacking them. The fact that the attack takes place at all indicates that Allah is more powerful than the unbelievers’ deity, and hence greater.

Despite all this, however, Actu 17 notes phlegmatically that “the attacker, who was injured during the arrest, was also taken to the hospital. His motives remain to be determined.”

And so here we go again. The obvious is ignored because it is politically inconvenient. We can’t give hypersensitive Muslims in France an excuse to claim “Islamophobia” and start rioting, now, can we? And so we have to continue to dissemble about what is actually going on in this ever-growing series of attacks, even as jihadis in Europe and North America grow steadily more emboldened and aggressive.