Munich Mall shooting

[HarryH93]

Originally Posted by MBates

Critical thought can be enlightening. Give it a try.

How hard is it for any person to yell the words "Allah Akbar"?

That should cause someone to investigate the possibility of Islamic extremism, for sure, but you deem it to be conclusive proof....even in the face of evidence to the contrary.

You know terrorist groups also claim responsibility for attacks they had nothing to do with right?

Even if we assume he was saying those words the entire time, how does that (in your view) prove he was an Islamic extremist?

I am genuinely interested to know your rationale.

Because T@T is the smartest person on earth. He knows more than German authorities and terrorist experts.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by calgaryblood

Nothing has been linked to islamic terrorism and they've went through his computer and everything they could so far. I think I'll believe the police rather than some religious bigot who spews more hate than any religious person I've ever met.

Exactly. It's kind of understandable to jump to the conclusion that an attack in Europe by a German-Iranian has something to do with Islam, but this incident is an example of why you should wait for the facts to come out. They have, and it appears that this was nothing more than a guy going off the deep end, who also happened to have a Muslim background, with no connection between the two things.

Frankly I still haven't seen much of substance to suggest that the Nice attack was religious, even though the French authorities are suggesting he was a self-starter inspired by ISIS. Not that I don't believe them, it's just all pretty vague stuff.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Exactly. It's kind of understandable to jump to the conclusion that an attack in Europe by a German-Iranian has something to do with Islam, but this incident is an example of why you should wait for the facts to come out. They have, and it appears that this was nothing more than a guy going off the deep end, who also happened to have a Muslim background, with no connection between the two things.

Frankly I still haven't seen much of substance to suggest that the Nice attack was religious, even though the French authorities are suggesting he was a self-starter inspired by ISIS. Not that I don't believe them, it's just all pretty vague stuff.

There's a fair bit of evidence to shot that the Nice attacker had become radicalized and that was the motivation for his attack. The strange bit about him was how quickly it happened. He seemed to go from swinging party guy to terrorist within the span of about 4 months.

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by blankall

There's a fair bit of evidence to shot that the Nice attacker had become radicalized and that was the motivation for his attack. The strange bit about him was how quickly it happened. He seemed to go from swinging party guy to terrorist within the span of about 4 months.

Fragile minds and all that.

[CroFlames]

Might wanna edit the thread title to say shooter is dead.

[Itse]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ge...-idUSKCN1021YZ

A German-Iranian teenager who shot dead nine people in Munich was a deranged lone gunman obsessed with mass killings who drew no inspiration from Islamist militancy, police said on Saturday.

The 18-year-old, born and raised locally, opened fire near a busy shopping mall on Friday evening, triggering a lockdown in the Bavarian state capital.

Seven of his victims were themselves teenagers, who police said he may have lured to their deaths via a hacked Facebook account on what was the fifth anniversary of twin attacks by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik that killed 77 people.

Other sources confirm that the shooter had also used a picture of Breivik as his picture on WhatsApp, and police have made statements that he was fascinated by Anders Breivik and a 2009 school shooting in Germany.

I've also read from Finnish papers that the shooter considered it an honour to have the same birthday as Adolf Hitler and called himself an Aryan.