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posted by n1 on Tuesday December 20 2016, @01:22AM   Printer-friendly

BBC reports:

A lorry has ploughed into a busy Christmas market in the heart of Berlin, killing nine people and injuring many more, police say. Police say they suspect it was a deliberate attack. Video shows stalls knocked over and people lying injured. A suspicious person has been arrested nearby, while a passenger was found dead, police say. The market is at Breitscheidplatz, close to the Kurfuerstendamm, the main shopping street in the city's west. Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, tweeted to say: "We are in mourning for the dead and hope that the many injured can get help."

There are now reports from local police that 12 people have been confirmed killed in the attack.

https://twitter.com/polizeiberlin/status/810940347006197760


Reuters reports:

A man stormed into a Zurich mosque on Monday evening and opened fire on people praying, injuring three, Swiss police said.

They said they had collected evidence inside the building and would make more details available on Tuesday. They declined to comment on the potential motive.

Two of the three men -- aged 30, 35 and 56 -- were seriously injured in the attack shortly after 5:30 p.m. local time (1630 GMT) near the main train station in Switzerland's financial capital, Zurich police said.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by TheGratefulNet on Tuesday December 20 2016, @04:50AM

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Tuesday December 20 2016, @04:50AM (#443548)

    sorry, but even if we stopped buying their stuff, 100% stopped - they have a religious 'drive' to conquer the whole world.

    most americans fail to see this and they deny deny deny it. they think that 'our meddling' is the cause of it.

    100% false.

    their religious book tells them that they are allowed temporary peace-times in order to regroup and regain strength. but the fight to convert the world to islam CAN NOT STOP until they reach their goal.

    the sooner we realize this, the sooner we can try to fix it. I have no idea HOW to fix it, but at least admitting what the real problem is would go a long way.

    thinking that its because of this or that or israel - all just distractions. their holy books command them to own the whole world. that's it. full stop.

    in other words, their religion is incompatible with world peace until/unless we all get murdered or converted.

    you want that?

    no, no one here does.

    but we keep lying to ourselves what the real cause is.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @06:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @06:32AM (#443583)

    some fucking liberal actually moderated you a troll for speaking truth

    • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @09:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @09:42AM (#443659)

      Must be a muslim with mod points on today.
      Same thing happens when they move to western countries to breed. Eventually they vote a muslim to power and then it goes to hell.
      Happening in Sydney right now.

      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @12:53PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @12:53PM (#443733)

        Fine. Two muslims with mod points.

        Does not stop the fact that western Sydney is turning into a shithole due to the increasing muslim population

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @04:26PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @04:26PM (#443861)

          [citation needed]

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @10:48AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @10:48AM (#444282)

            Your GoogleFu has failed you.

            https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=sydney%20muslim%20problems [duckduckgo.com]

            Let's start with: http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/10/08/22/10/western-sydney-has-got-a-muslim-problem-mark-latham-on-the-verdict [9news.com.au]

            Here's another: https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2016/03/04/australias-child-bride-problem/ [wordpress.com]

            There is a slew of news articles on the Western Sydney problem directly related to the number of muslims in the area.

            I went there recently to look for myself. Never have I seen so many police officers walking around in pairs in the shop areas. Tussles in the street. Angry looks from veiled women. Not the worst part though. Much of the area has been taken over by Vietnamese and Chinese immigrants who have built a new life in Australia. There is a vast rich society woven through the area with several cultures working and living together. Except the muslims. The locals now feel threatened by the muslims who are claiming Western Sydney for themselves. This results in conflict on the streets with bloodshed.

            Citation needed? Google it. Or visit there and see for your self.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @11:01AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @11:01AM (#444284)

            http://awesternheart.blogspot.com/2009/09/sydneys-lebanese-muslim-problem.html [blogspot.com]

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Australia#Sectarian_tensions [wikipedia.org]

            "The Sydney gang rapes formed a much reported set of incidents in 2000; a group of Lebanese men sexually assaulted non-Muslim women. In 2005, tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims in the Cronulla area of Sydney led to violent rioting; the incident resulted in mass arrests and criminal prosecution. In 2012, Muslims protesting in central Sydney against Innocence of Muslims, an anti-Islam film trailer, resulted in rioting."

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Australia#Lebanese_Muslims [wikipedia.org]

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeFe8kj70ac [youtube.com]

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 22 2016, @10:54AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 22 2016, @10:54AM (#444677)

            http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/security-guard-cannot-account-for-missing-11-minutes-with-girl-at-dfo-homebush-court-20161222-gtgpiq.html [smh.com.au]

            Mohammad Hassan Al-Bayati appeared in Campbelltown Local Court on Thursday charged with committing an act of indecency towards the girl at the DFO Homebush shopping centre on Sunday.

            Cameras from inside DFO Homebush allegedly show Mr Al-Bayati then walked down one of the centre's corridors and into a locked fire exit stairwell.

            There were no cameras inside the stairwell, where Mr Al-Bayati and the girl remained for 11 minutes.

            It is here police allege Mr Al-Bayati exposed himself to the girl and performed an indecent act in what prosecutors described as an "opportunistic attack"

            "The child made disclosures about an act of indecency and stated that she was 'taken by a policeman' who was going to take her to her mum," police documents before the court state.

            Mr Al-Bayati was arrested and charged on Wednesday where he gave an interview with police where he admitted that he did breach the centre protocol by finding a lost child and taking her down the secluded corridor.

            But he denied allegations that he had performed an indecent act or exposed himself to the girl.

            "The accused could not provide investigators with any explanations for the unaccounted 11 minutes inside the stairwell with the child," police documents stated.

      • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:36PM

        by isostatic (365) on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:36PM (#444458) Journal

        Yeah, London's gone to hell with a Muslim for mayor.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @08:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @08:02AM (#443606)

    Yes, those are generally known as extremists. They exist in all cultures. I will grant you that islam currently holds a pretty low ranking in "humanity" on a statistical basis, but every culture has its share of nutjobs. With Muslims being a rather significant percentage of humanity I think it is important to keep the distinction between violent and non-violent.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @08:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @08:21AM (#443614)

    The holy books of all religions say many things, but few even religious people take everything they say at face value. Most of the people who take what their religious books say completely literally, be they the Bible or the Quran, should be considered insane. Just as there are many denominations of Christians, there are many denominations of Muslims, and the Wahhabi sect of Islam whose doctrines you have described is like their equivalent of the Westboro Baptist Church or the various protestant denominations subscribing to extreme forms of dominion theology. The majority of other Muslims have denounced it as ‘vile sect’ and a ‘Satanic faith’. The only problem is Wahhabism has gained plenty of power and influence thanks to it being the favoured sect of the House of Saud and thus it received state sponsorship in Saudi Arabia, and the Saudis have used profits from petroleum exports to try to increase its influence worldwide. No, if we stopped buying their stuff, that would put a big dent in their ability to do that. If the West stopped meddling in their affairs that would make the fundamentalist doctrines of Wahhabi Islam less appealing.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @08:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @08:33AM (#443623)

    Most religious books have that stuff in them (for instance, the bible is full of it).

    If people act on it depends on circumstances.

    You can deny oil use and western policies have anything to do with it, but that would not solve the problems we have with islam atm.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @09:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @09:12AM (#443642)

    Ideas?

    1. Kill them all
    2. Move them all to a single country to be contained forever (WIRM)
    3. Kill most of them
    4. Stop halal certification scams
    5. Stop recognising islam as a religion
    6. Classify islam as a terrorist organisation with clear intent, funds, man power and will to do so. Respond accordingly.
    7. Ask islamists nicely to stop killing everyone else in the name of their god

  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @01:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @01:57PM (#443770)

    > they have a religious 'drive' to conquer the whole world.
    >
    > most americans fail to see this and they deny deny deny it. they think that 'our meddling' is the cause of it.

    Exactly! As the Quran says:

    “And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.'” - Mark 16:15-16

    “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.” - Matthew 24:14 NKJV

    And what about those that are sinners?

    Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves - Numbers 31:17-18

    And let us not forget how the Quran deals with unruly children:

    If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die. Duteronemy 21:18-21

    And what if someone mentions other faiths?

    If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), 8 do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. 9 You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. 10 Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again. - Duteronemy 13

    At least I swear that was the Quran, I always get my fairy tales mixed up.