If I was an armed police officer and I saw some frothing angry savage shouting the Islamic war cry of ‘Allah hu Akbar’, then I probably would have opened fire on the Islamic shouter. I would have based my decision on the vast number of occasions that this phrase has been shouted before an Islamic murder, or just as likely murders, have been carried out. Hearing this phrase would immediately make me think that an Islamic atrocity was about to take place, one using weapons or a vehicle or explosives. I would also be forced to consider as part of my decision making process not just my own safety but the safety of others. On balance, I would have reluctantly, after all few normal people want to have to draw a weapon in anger, have taken the actions that a Spanish police officer recently took which is to shoot the savage shouting ‘Allah hu Akbar’.

This officer was faced with this momentous and serious decision when he encountered a Muslim shouting ‘Allah hu Akbar’ and acting in a threatening manner at a police checkpoint. According to the Breitbart site the officer felt that he had no alternative but to shoot the screaming savage and to be frank I don’t blame or criticise him for doing so.

Breitbart said:

Police have shot a man who sparked a terror alert near Spain’s border with France when he shouted the Islamist war cry, “Allahu Akbar” at a motorway checkpoint.

The man, thought to be a Frenchman of North African origin, was fired at after he began shouting the Arabic phrase, which means “Allah is greater [than your God]”,  when his vehicle was pulled over around midnight on Saturday near La Jonquera.

He was hit in the leg and transferred to a local hospital where he remains in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in serious but stable condition, El Pais reports.

Juan Ignacio Zoido, a former judge and the minister of the interior and deputy for Seville, tweeted:

“Joint action of [the Guardia Civil], [Spain’s National Police Corps], and [Catalonia’s Mossos d’Esquadra police force] on the border crossing of La Junquera.

“Slightly wounded a man who resisted the registration of the vehicle with threatening attitude and shouting ‘Allah is great’.”

The more I read of this story the more justified the officer appears to be in shooting this Muslim. This was not just a deranged and aggressive Muslim screaming out the Islamic war cry that their god surpasses all others, but that he was in possession of a ‘suspicious object around his waist area’.

Although it later turned out that this may not have been a terrorist incident and may well have been a Muslim pumped up on drugs rather than the Islamic savagery of the Koran, that does not negate or call into question the police officer’s decision to open fire. The officer must have had credible reason to draw his weapon and fire as there was a trio of indications that might have suggested that the Muslim was about to go ‘full Islam’ and kill people. There was the Muslim’s attitude, the use of the Islamic war cry and the Muslim’s possession of an item that the police could not identity but which could easily been a bomb or a weapon.

The man who was shot is expected to recover and has been arrested. This man became a bullet magnet because of his demeanour, his words and his suspect property. This shooting might have been avoided had this screaming deranged Muslim been a little less screaming and deranged.