Almost every day (and sometimes multiple times a day) a European story like the one below lands on my desk for editing and posting. It’s gotten to the point where I could create a template for these posts — kind of like Mad Libs, with a selection of choices to use to fill in the blanks — about “lone wolf” jihad attacks.

The outline might look something like this:

A {adjective denoting ethnic origin} culture-enricher entered a {school, café, town hall, police station, hospital} in the {adjective for European country} town of {name} and attacked people with a {knife, machete, handgun, AK-47} while shouting “Allahu Akhbar”. He killed {number} people and wounded another {number} before being {shot dead, wounded and taken into custody, subdued} by police.

The video below would actually require a manual revision of the template, since the attacker terrorized people on the street, rather than in a building, and failed to kill or wound any infidels.

An {ethnicity not yet known} culture-enricher in the German city of Hamburg attacked cars with a knife while shouting “Allahu Akhbar”, doing property damage but causing no injuries before being shot dead by police.

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

Video transcript: