Blog Heap of Links for the day 23 December 2015

A driver screaming “Allahu Akbar!” (Arabic for “God is great”) appeared to deliberately mow down about a dozen pedestrians in the French city of Dijon before being arrested on Sunday …

Two Palestinian assailants on Wednesday carried out a stabbing attack outside Jerusalem's Old City, killing one Israeli, before they were shot and killed, Israeli police said. A second Israeli died after apparently being shot mistakenly by police in the confusion. …

On Monday, a terrorist attack on a bus in Kenya failed when Muslim passengers threw themselves over Christians to shield them from the Islamists’ wrath. …

…In November, Marine veteran Charles Anderson passed away in Lincoln. At the time of his passing, Anderson's family could not afford to bring his body back home to Oklahoma, prompting them to ask the Patriot Guard Riders to deliver his ashes. … "We're standing for him today because he stood for us back in the Vietnam War. It's a brotherhood. It's something that's never going to be broken. We're doing out part to get this man home to his family before Christmas," American Legion Riders Post 11 Commander Mike Gentes said.…