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A terror attack near a London mosque is "every bit as sickening" as others in recent weeks, Theresa May says.
A man drove a van into worshippers close to Muslim Welfare House in Finsbury Park as they were gathered to help an elderly man who had collapsed. He later died, but it is not clear if this was a result of the attack. Nine other people were taken to hospital.
A 47-year-old man was held on suspicion of attempted murder and later further arrested over alleged terror offences. Scotland Yard said he was being held on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of terrorism including murder and attempted murder.
Source: BBC News
Darren Osborne, 47, was arrested in the early hours of Monday on suspicion of driving a van into a crowd of Muslim worshippers in north London. He is alleged to have shouted "kill all Muslims" and "this is for London Bridge" in the wake of the attack.
Muslim residents on the Cardiff estate where he lived with his partner and four children, claimed he had previously been friendly but said his attitude had changed in recent weeks.
He allegedly hurled insults at his Asian neighbour's 12-year-old son, in the wake of the Islamist attack in the capital earlier this month.
[...] After being dragged from the van by an angry mob, he was protected by the Imam of the mosque, Mohammed Mahmoud, who ordered people not to attack him, but hand him over to the police.
Source: The Telegraph
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 20 2017, @11:33AM (2 children)
Also true of the far left, [wikipedia.org] so we can simply say "extremism".
(Score: 2) by quacking duck on Tuesday June 20 2017, @05:29PM (1 child)
The far left have been behind far fewer attacks and casualties. The wiki article about far right terrorism [wikipedia.org] lists over 20 in the USA over the last decade, and notes the following:
"As of July 2016, the New America Foundation placed the number killed in terrorist attacks in the U.S. (since 9/11) as follows: 94 killed in jihadist terrorist attacks, 50 killed in far-right attacks, and 5 killed in far-left attacks".
Since then, victim deaths have increased by 1, 3, and 3 respectively, according to NAF's spreadsheet which lists incidents up to April 2017. Jihadist attacks numbered 30, far-right 21, and far-left (actually there's no such ideology in the spreadsheet, both are listed as "Black Separatist/Nationalist/Supremacist") had 2.... I'll be generous and increase it to 3 by including the baseball practice shootings last week, which had no victim deaths.
Of course, this is not a defence of far-left extremism, but objectively speaking (if the New America Foundation is as non-partisan as they claim to be), far-right extremism is way, way more dangerous to the US than the far-left.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 20 2017, @06:42PM
Wikipedia is really quite a poor source for contemporary potentially controversial topics. You can find sources, which can be spun as reputable, saying just about anything which enables Wiki editors to say just about anything. The article that Wikipedia sources to produce those data is extremely arbitrary. For instance this [wikipedia.org] is listed as one of the 'far-right terrorist attacks.' A 22 year old, living with his mother, have a dispute over a dog urinating in the house. She calls the police. He kills 3 of them as they come to investigate. That's not terrorism by any possible stretch of the word. The justification for labeling it terrorism probably comes from his personal beliefs, yet that's really stretching it. Their choice of terrorism seems to be more sourced from social media than actual research. In particular I suspect had the authors genuinely researched all murderers who held extreme views, the total number of acts of 'terrorism' would be rather higher than 94+50+5!