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Breaking: Vehicle Plows into Pedestrians in London
The first report from the BBC:
A vehicle has struck pedestrians “leaving a number of casualties” in north London, police said. One person has been arrested following the incident on Seven Sisters Road in Finsbury Park.
Officers were called at 12.20 BST and are at the scene with other emergency services, the Metropolitan Police said. A London Ambulance Service spokesman said: “We have sent a number of resources to an incident in Seven Sisters Road.”
Early reports indicate that the vehicle struck people leaving the Finsbury Park mosque, which has been implicated in several terror incidents. It remains to be seen if this an attack of retribution.
Update from the BBC (6:50 pm ET):
Published in GeneralThe Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said a van “intentionally” ran over worshippers. Many of the victims are believed to have just left evening prayers after breaking the Ramadan fast.
One eyewitness who lives in a flat on Seven Sisters Road told the BBC she saw people “shouting and screaming”.
“Everyone was shouting ‘a van’s hit people’.
“There was this white van stopped outside Finsbury Park Mosque that seems to have hit people who were coming out of the mosque after prayers finished.”
It’s another crime that wouldn’t have happened if there were no Muslims in the U.K., but perhaps a little less ‘on message’.
Also this being reported from the US. Any further info?
This is the actual guy, is it not?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/19/suspect-behind-finsbury-park-mosque-attack/
You can only push people so far. Now usually, there are no consequences for acts of terror like Manchester, London Bridge,San Bernardino, Orlando– ‘crept mushy platitudes and hashtags about “strength” (after-the-fact!)
But sometimes, , acts of terrorism, gratuitous murder, especially multiple instances visited on a population, have actual, real world consequences. This may be one of those times.
Make fun of this man for being an “army of one”–just like Hodgkinson, who very nearly succeeded in decapitating the legislative branch of our government. Just like the “lone wolf” Ramadan killers.
If this does turn out to be a white Brit motivated by a desire to avenge the deaths in Manchester and London,
please, I implore you, just remember one thing:
We’re not all like him! Most of us are peaceful law-abiding citizens! Christianity is a “Religion of Peace”! Please: don’t give in to hate!
Hmmm, are you imputing motives to the moderators? Careful, you may find your comments cut o
Oh, DUH! ????? I’m sure you and your Likers are all “Grecian”.
You’re right. This man never would have been able to mow down innocent Muslims leaving a mosque if they hadn’t been allowed in the country.
But that’s true, Hypatia.
To tar all Christians, or white Brits, with this man’s actions would be crazy behavior.
There are a lot of crazy people out there these days.
If no one flags it then we don’t see it. Wasn’t online last night (and this was a flag heavy weekend) so am asking in all honesty: was it flagged?
It sure would! I’m sayin’ let’s see if we get the same break we’ve been so generously extending.
I can’t imagine anything else from anybody with even the minimum of intellectual credibility. (Or influence, come to think of it.). Let’s see how it pans out.
My feeling is that respectable people (Muslims or otherwise) don’t go down that path, only lowlives and morons do.
After 9/11, I remember here in Ohio there was a similar nutjob who crashed his van into a large mosque up near Toledo.
Hey, #BigCityLiving, remember?
and by the way councilor, that was the topic I was responding to. But keep setting up the straw men.
@kozak you’re setting yourself up for unhappiness. Learn from the mistakes of others and disengage before you waste any more of your time!
Imagine? You don’t need to imagine it! Check into the Wayback Machine with Omar Mateen! I was still on Facebook at the time, nad it was full of people saying things like,” if you opposed same-sex marriage, you were the bullets in the gun”. It wasn’t the Muslim Mateen who did the shooting; it was Evangelical Christians! All of ’em, guilty!
And this despite Mateen’ own heroic efforts (calling 911, tweeting) to make it unmistakeably clear what his motive was.
No one with “intellectual credibility” (ok I’ll give you that one) or “influence” blaming their opposition en masse? Ya hear Schumer and Pelosi? A Leftist soldier kills Republicans–and its Trump supporters’ fault. We’re all just like Hodgkinson. They can’t even be bothered to wait till some Trimp,supporter actually does some violence (which hasn’t happened yet.)
I’ll take it. There is a God. Go in peace.
What we won’t see is the London Metropolitan Police deploying officers in “white”neighborhoods because they fear a backlash.
i.e. the standard response to the usual brand of terror attack.
:-)
I guess what I meant didn’t come through. Schumer and Pelosi do NOT have “intellectual credibility”, but they do unfortunately have “influence”. And they blame their opponents.
But,
that said, nice to hear from you, Zafar. It’s been a while! Peace be upon you, too.
Not talking about them but yes, w alaykum salaam, if you wish
The info in the article seems fairly complete. There is one puzzling aspect of the story:
Indeed, why isn’t this being treated as a hate crime? One possibility: the alleged killer is Darwin Martinez Torres. Perhaps this is a bit too intersectional for the police. The poor dears are probably confused about the grievance hierarchy.
I’m puzzled as well. I wonder if there’s something in the background of the suspect or of the crime that hasn’t been released. What else happened. If he only wanted to kill her because she was a Muslim, moving the body doesn’t make sense. But if he was out prowling for a victim to rape and murder, then it isn’t a hate crime. And if that doesn’t demonstrate the intellectual bankruptcy of the entire concept, nothing ever will.
No, I didn’t flag it and wouldn’t flag such a thing. I can deal with it myself. I’m just pointing it out.
Would this be a good place to point out that those people on Ricochet who call for killing all Muslims should cut it out?
If we aren’t reading a post, and no one flags it, we don’t see it. I’ve got north of 200 alerts on posts I’ve been hoping to read, some of which go back to February.
To be fair, I’ve not seen that per se, though I have seen a lot of other rather heated rhetoric.
Oh, c’mon. Why be fair? False accusations are more fun, no?
Usually it’s couched more in terms like, “the problem won’t be solved until we kill all the Muslims.” I suppose you could say that’s not a call for killing all Muslims.