#AllahuAkbarSyndrome - When Terror Attacks Have 'No Motive'Social media users are resorting to humor to describe stabbing attacks where the attacker shouts “Allahu Akbar,” but police say the motive is unknown. https://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/allahuakbarsyndrome-when-terror-attacks-have-no-motive#Elliot Friedland
Tue, August 30, 2016
How do you describe an attack in which a person shouts “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) before attacking someone? Especially if the police go on to say they do not know the motive?
Social media users fed up of the inability of mainstream media outlets and governmental organizations to label terrorist attacks motivated by the Islamist ideology have decided to term it #allahuakbarsyndrome.
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