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Christchurch shootings at two mosques leave 49 dead, Australian arrested in relation to terror attack
At least one gunman with a semi-automatic weapon attacked worshippers gathering for Friday prayers in two locations: a mosque at Deans Avenue in central Christchurch and another mosque in the nearby suburb of Linwood.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed one of the people taken into custody was an Australian-born citizen.
The ABC has identified Grafton man Brenton Tarrant as the man visible in livestreamed footage of the attack.
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Two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were found on a nearby vehicle, but defence force officers disarmed one and are still working on disarming the second.
stuff.co.nz - Black Caps v Bangladesh [cricket] test cancelled after gunmen attack Christchurch mosques
The test match between the Black Caps and Bangladesh will not go ahead.
The Bangladesh cricket team escaped the Christchurch mosque near Hagley Park where a mass shooting took place on Friday. They were due to play New Zealand a short distance away at Hagley Oval on Saturday.
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* A gunman walked into a mosque on Deans Ave, Christchurch carrying a semi-automatic weapon and opened fire. He live streamed the attack.
* A second shooting occurred at a mosque in Linwood.
* At least 49 people were dead as of 9pm - 41 at the Central Mosque, 7 at Linwood Mosque, 1 in Christchurch Hospital.
* 48 people are in hospital with gunshots wounds as of 9pm, including young children. Other injured went to medical centres.
* A 28-year-old man has been charged with murder and is due to appear in the Christchurch District Court on Saturday morning.
* He was arrested on Brougham St in a car which had explosives and guns inside.
El Grauniad - Rightwing extremist wrote manifesto before livestreaming Christchurch shooting
The man who livestreamed himself attacking a Christchurch mosque and murdering at least 40 people identified himself online before the rampage as Australian citizen Brenton Tarrant.
On a now-deleted Twitter account, Tarrant posted multiple photos of what appear to be machine gun magazines and a link to what is being described as a manifesto for his actions.
The 74-page document starts off quoting a Dylan Thomas poem, Do not go gentle into that good night, and then moves onto a rant about white genocide.
Tarrant outlines his motivations: including to “create an atmosphere of fear” and to “incite violence” against Muslims while offering up autobiographical details.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 16 2019, @02:27AM (3 children)
One might expect to find some understanding of a human mind in the manifesto - however right or wrong that mind is.
And, you might expect to see, and to learn, just how horrible a massacre is, from the video. Some people might learn compassion for the victims. Others might learn to hate the perp. We do have a problem with the media, in that they sanitize everything, interpret it for us, and tell us what to think. Some thinking people might draw different conclusions than some suited penis wrinkle sitting in an office has told us to draw.
"Beware he who would deny you access to information for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
Why do you ask? Do your masters disapprove of this information?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2, Troll) by c0lo on Saturday March 16 2019, @03:15AM
Ah, I see you like pop culture.
FTFY
Is your short memory failing so badly, Runaway? 'cause just before the question there are exactly 3 words explaining why.
Oh! you were finished? Well allow me to retort [youtube.com].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @05:20AM (1 child)
Compassion? Are you serious? Centuries worth of murder and slavery by muslims is in no way balanced by this act.
Historian K. S. Lal in his book Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India claims that between the years 1000 AD and 1500 AD, the population of the Indian subcontinent decreased from 200 to 170 million. In Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India meanwhile he claimed that it fell from 200 million to 120 million by establishment of the Mughal empire because of killings, deportations, dissemination, wars, and famines. He stated that his estimates were tentative and did not claim any finality. Will Durant calls the Muslim conquest of India "probably the bloodiest story in history". During this period, Buddhism declined rapidly while Hinduism faced military-led and Sultanates-sponsored religious violence.
If you want an opinion on what muslims are really like you can ask a Hindu [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @07:00AM
"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
FTFY