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Media Blame Israel Over Paris Knife Attack and Hide Jihad

by Robert Kogon
7 December 2023 3:00 PM

I believe it was none other than the Italian Communist party leader Palmiro Togliatti who is supposed to have observed that one of the three invariable characteristics of Communist regimes is that the leadership lies even when it doesn’t have to. (The other two characteristics, if memory serves, are that the economy is dysfunctional and the chocolate is bad.)

Well, it would appear that the same observation could apply now to the international media and the French Government, which is the presumptive source of much of what the media have been telling us about last Saturday’s terror attack in Paris.

Why in the world is the main victim of the attack being constantly described as a “German tourist” when, as previously reported on the Daily Sceptic, he was in fact a native of the Philippines who had only moved to Germany earlier this year?

It is technically true that Collin Christian Bröter (see photo below) was a German citizen: a status which, judging from his last name, he will have inherited from a German father. But why has this bureaucratic fact been allowed to eclipse his Filipino identity and, just as importantly, the Filipino identity of the two women he was with when he was attacked? Indeed, there is virtually no mention of the latter, one of whom was Bröter’s girlfriend Lyn, in coverage of the attack – as if they did not even exist!

Collin Christian Bröter in the profile picture from his LinkedIn page

The fact of the matter is that Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, the assailant, attacked a group of Filipino tourists. This is a potentially highly significant fact, which could provide insights into his motives, given that Rajabpour-Miyandoab has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and the Islamic State claimed responsibility for a terror attack on Filipino Christians in the Philippines which took place literally just hours after Rajabpour-Miyandoab killed Bröter in Paris.

Bröter, his girlfriend Lyn and an unidentified third Filipino tourist on the day of the attack

As touched upon in my report, the Islamic State sponsors an Islamist insurgency in the Philippines which aims to incorporate the latter into a global caliphate. (Further information on ISIS-Philippines, also know as ISIS-East Asia, can be found here, for instance, from the U.S. Director of National Intelligence.)

But are we hearing about any of these connections in the mainstream media coverage? No. Instead we are hearing that, according to unnamed French police sources, Rajabpour-Miyandoab is supposed to have said that he acted to avenge the killing of Muslims “in Palestine and Afghanistan” or even, per the latest version, that he was triggered by the Eiffel Tower being lit up in the colours of the Israeli flag. The Eiffel Tower was lit up in the colours of the Israeli flag two months ago: namely, on October 9th, as a gesture of solidarity with the victims of the October 7th Hamas terror attack. Soon thereafter, the French Government would revert to form, blaming Israeli for its “disproportionate” response and pledging an additional €100 million (£85 million) in aid to Gaza.

But, in any case, if Rajabpour-Miyandoab was indeed triggered by the lighting of the tower, why did he not do something at the time? Why did he wait two months?

Moreover, we do not need to rely on unnamed French police sources to learn about Rajabpour-Miyandoab’s motives. As is the custom of Islamic terrorists, he laid out his motivations in a video recorded before the attack.

As the French- and Arabic- speaking specialist in Jihadism Wassim Nasr notes, Rajabpour-Miyandoab makes “no mention of Palestine or Gaza” in his video. Rather, in Nasr’s words, Rajabpour-Miyandoab “claims he is acting ‘to avenge Muslims’ and he salutes the jihadists of the Islamic State in all their zones of activity one by one”. Again, neither Palestine nor Gaza is included in this list. But East Asia is. There is no allusion to Israel or Hamas. But Rajabpour-Miyandoab explicitly mentions the “guardians of the religion in East Asia” – which would be, namely, ISIS-Philippines.

It should be noted, by the way, that Rajabpour-Miyandoab’s video has largely disappeared from X. See below, for instance. Why? Why is the evidence – and hence the ability of the public to judge for itself – being destroyed? The video, which was recorded in Arabic, remains available with French subtitles on Telegram here.

To summarise, according to the current version of events, based on anonymous but official sources, Rajabpour-Miyandoab, having been triggered when the Eiffel Tower was lit up in the colours of the Israeli flag two months earlier, is supposed to have murdered a German tourist to avenge the killing of Muslims in Palestine. What? A more absurd construction is hardly imaginable.

Why are French officials peddling such an absurd story? Why is the international media uncritically disseminating it? All that this version of events serves to do is to divert attention from the reality of global jihad and to make Israel into scapegoat.

Robert Kogon is the pen name of a widely-published journalist covering European affairs. Subscribe to his Substack and follow him on X.

Tags: FranceIslamist ExtremistsIsraelIsrael-Palestine ConflictJihadMainstream MediaParisPropagandaTerrorism

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wokeman
wokeman
1 year ago

Hamas attacking Israel = Israel’s fault. Jews and Christians cleansed from the rest of the Middle East also Israel’s fault. When Bradford declared independence here absolutely certain it will be because of the bloody pesky Jews. See how it works.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Not really sure how Israel can be blamed for a Muslim extremist, who is an ex-con with known psychiatric issues, going full-on psycho and stabbing people in France. Bit of a stretch, that one, but it’s what we’ve all come to expect in Clown World. This article also refers to the victim as a ”German tourist”;

”He had already been arrested in 2016 for planning an attack, eventually serving four years in prison, and had been under close watch following his release.
Darmanin said the attacker’s mother had warned police that her son was no longer taking his medication and intelligence services had offered that he should be hospitalized. But she did not want that and then reported he was doing better.

He said regional authorities currently did not have the power to issue an administrative order for such an individual to undergo psychiatric treatment and “this has to change.”
Rajabpour-Miyandoab had been radicalized through contacts on the internet rather than meeting people at a mosque, he emphasized, adding the attacker had also been in touch with perpetrators of similar past attacks.
These contacts included the radicalized Islamist from Russia’s northern Caucasus region who would eventually behead teacher Samuel Paty outside his school in 2020.
“Terrorism is changing and exploiting the weaknesses of our system,” said Darmanin.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/france-admits-failure-in-psychiatric-care-of-radical-islamist-who-killed-tourist/

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
1 year ago

Isn’t it strange that Isis never attacks Israel.
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Matt Dalby
Matt Dalby
1 year ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

Can you distance yourself any further from reality?
ISIS a US puppet!!!
Whatever next, Hamas being controlled by Mossad?
When was the last time you had a mental health check up?

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Marque1
Marque1
1 year ago
Reply to  Matt Dalby

First a brain needs to be found.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

US bases are regularly attacked in Syria and Iraq. Trust me though, you wouldn’t get within 10 feet of one in the US or Europe with your rucksack mate. I know these brainwashed Jihadist people think they are heading to paradise but if they want to get there faster than a speeding bullet they should try attacking a US base in the USA or Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece etc

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

They’re not being attacked by Isis.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

Oh dear have you always been so mundane? Have you checked if they all have an ISIS subscription?

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago

There is a danger in trying to ascribe rational motives to someone with a psychiatric condition.

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