Islamic Massacre in Germany > Another Hateful Vehicle Attack on a Christmas Market

 

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As long as Islam continues to grow in Germany,

these kinds of insane attacks will become annual.

Islam has no place in a civilized society!

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Graphic CCTV footage shows the heinous terror attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. German citizens cannot share this video, otherwise they will be arrested because it likely shows an iIIegal migrant doing this.

At least 2 dead and 60 hurt after a car drives into

a German Christmas market in a suspected attack

MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 60 others in what authorities called a deliberate attack.

The driver was arrested at the scene shortly after the car barreled into the market at around 7 p.m., when it was teeming with holiday shoppers looking forward to the weekend.

Verified bystander footage distributed by the German news agency dpa showed the suspect’s arrest on a walkway in the middle of the road. A nearby police officer pointing a handgun at the man shouted at him as he lay prone. Other officers soon arrived to take the man into custody.

The two people confirmed dead were an adult and a toddler, but officials said additional deaths couldn’t be ruled out because 15 people had been seriously injured.

The violence shocked the city, bringing its mayor to the verge of tears and marring a festive event that’s part of a centuries-old German tradition. It also prompted several other German towns to cancel their weekend Christmas markets as a precaution and out of solidarity with Magdeburg’s loss.

The suspect is a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who moved to Germany in 2006, Tamara Zieschang, the interior minister for the state of Saxony-Anhalt, said at a news conference. He has been practicing medicine in Bernburg, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Magdeburg, she said.

“As things stand, he is a lone perpetrator, so that as far as we know there is no further danger to the city,” Saxony-Anhalt’s governor, Reiner Haseloff, told reporters. “Every human life that has fallen victim to this attack is a terrible tragedy and one human life too many.”

The violence occurred in Magdeburg, a city of about 240,000 people west of Berlin that serves as Saxony-Anhalt’s capital. Friday’s attack came eight years after an Islamic extremist drove a truck into crowded Christmas market in Berlin, killing 13 people and injuring many others. The attacker was killed days later in a shootout in Italy.

Christmas markets are a huge part of German culture as an annual holiday tradition cherished since the Middle Ages and successfully exported to much of the Western world. In Berlin alone, more than 100 markets opened late last month and brought the smells of mulled wine, roasted almonds and bratwurst to the capital. Other markets abound across the country.

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said late last month that there were no concrete indications of a danger to Christmas markets this year, but that it was wise to be vigilant. 

Apparently, they weren't so wise!

Hours after Friday’s tragedy, the wail of sirens clashed with the market’s festive ornaments, stars and leafy garlands.

Magdeburg resident Dorin Steffen told dpa that she was at a concert in a nearby church when she heard the sirens. The cacophony was so loud “you had to assume that something terrible had happened.”

She called the attack “a dark day” for the city.

“We are shaking,” Steffen said. “Full of sympathy for the relatives, also in the hope that nothing has happened to our relatives, friends and acquaintances.”

The attack reverberated far beyond Magdeburg, with Haseloff calling it a catastrophe for the city, state and country. He said flags would be lowered to half-staff in Saxony-Anhalt and that the federal government planned to do the same.

“It is really one of the worst things one can imagine, particularly in connection with what a Christmas market should bring,” the governor said.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the attack interrupted the anticipation of a peaceful Christmas.

Chancellor OIaf Scholz posted on X: “My thoughts are with the victims and their relatives. We stand beside them and beside the people of Magdeburg.”

NATO’s secretary-general, the European Commission’s president and U.S. Vice President-elect JD Vance also expressed their condolences on X.

“Our prayers go to the people affected by this terrible attack on a Christmas market in Germany. What a ghastly attack so close to Christmas,” Vance wrote.

Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry also condemned the attack on X but did not mention the suspect’s connection to the kingdom.

Magdeburg Mayor Simone Borris, who was on the verge of tears, said officials plan to arrange a memorial at the city’s cathedral on Saturday.

After a soccer match Friday evening between Bayern Munich and Leipzig, Bayern CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen asked fans at the club’s stadium to observe a minute of silence.

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Germany was Definitely Not Ready for Merkel's Emotional Acceptance of a Million Muslims

German police failed to probe THOUSANDS of tip-offs on refugees

suspected of war crimes – reports

FILE PHOTO © Reuters / Michael Dalder

Thousands of war crime-themed cases involving asylum-seekers were referred to the German authorities in recent years, but only a small portion of them was eventually picked up for investigation, a new report has found.

From 2014 to early 2019, the German migration and refugee services referred around 5,000 cases of “crimes under international law” to the police and the attorney general but only 129 cases ended up being investigated, Bild reported on Thursday.

This included the time between 2015 and 2016 when the nation saw a spike in the influx of migrants and asylum-seekers from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Sub-Saharan Africa. Some 3,800 referrals were filed during that period. Only 28 of those prompted an investigation.

Why, because the police had no department set up to investigate these referrals and certainly did not have the resources to do it out of existing departments. Germany was not ready, not by a long shot.

The data was revealed following an official request lodged by the opposition Free Democratic Party (FDP), according to the paper. The report in the media didn’t provide the breakdown of the cases and didn’t specify the countries of origin of the persons involved.

The spokesperson for the Interior Ministry told the paper that the “large number of referrals prevented immediate investigation of each case.”

Lawmaker Linda Teuteberg (FDP), who sits on the parliamentary interior affairs committee, said that war criminals should not be granted protection in Germany.

“I have doubts as to whether the federal government has always pursued this with the necessary seriousness in the past few years,” Teuteberg said.

Now there's an understatement!

The effects of migration flows on national security remain a point of contention in Germany as foreign nationals have committed a number of high-profile terror attacks in recent years.

Migrant in Germany Accused of 542 Crimes Can't Be Deported Because Nobody Knows Where He's From

In 2016, Anis Amri, a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia, drove a truck through a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people.

Media reports said that, nine months before the tragedy, the state police in North Rhine-Westphalia had notified the state’s interior ministry that Amri was planning a suicide attack. 

However, the authorities left the notice unanswered and ruled that the man couldn’t be deported.

How utterly insane is that? The Interior Ministry has the blood of those 12 people on its hands.

What is the Solution to the Terrorism Problem in Europe?

Combat marginalization or expel troublemakers? MEPs offer solutions in wake of Strasbourg attack

A French soldier stands guard near a closed wooden barrack shop at the traditional Christkindelsmaerik (Christ Child market) in front of the Cathedral the day after a shooting in Strasbourg, France, December 12, 2018. © Reuters / Christian Hartmann

The Strasbourg Christmas market shooting has fanned the flames of a debate about how to keep Europe safe, with MEPs from opposite sides of the aisle providing RT with radically different views about what must be done.

The deadly attack in the northeast French city, which killed two people and left more than a dozen wounded, seems to have had a profound effect on EU parliamentarians – many of whom were present when their Strasbourg-based headquarters was put on lockdown following the shooting.

However, serious disagreement remains over how to move forward, with conflicting views on immigration, terrorism, and borders dominating the security debate.

Worried and angry

Greek MEP Stelios Kouloglou, a member of the European United Left-Nordic Green Left, said that his deep concern for those stuck on the streets of Strasbourg during the attack quickly turned into anger.

“We were worried about our colleagues who were outside already. But there was also anger. Anger against those cowardly people killing innocent people passing by … Killing kids, tourists, what is this? It looks like they don’t have any kind of heart or soul,” he told RT.

The left-leaning MEP said that the parliament held a minute of silence for the victims of the attack – a practice that, according to him, was becoming far too frequent due to the regularity of similar attacks across Europe.

He thinks what needs to be done is “changing policies to find the sources of terrorism and to attack the resources of terrorism.”

Hailing from the opposite end of the political spectrum, Christine Arnautu – a French MEP for right-wing National Rally, and the party's vice president for social affairs – also noted the solidarity displayed by parliamentarians following the attack. She warned, however, that candlelight vigils won’t keep France safe.

© REUTERS / Vincent Kessler

“Everyone has showed compassion, all the deputies, because these incidents are very traumatizing. But when it comes to real solutions … it is not enough to light up candles, to cry, to say, like they do all the time, ‘je suis Charlie’, ‘je suis Strasbourg’, ‘je suis Bataclan.’ No, we are France and we want France to live in peace.”

Integration or deportation?

The suspected gunman in the attack – 29-year-old Cherif Chekatt, who was born in Strasbourg but whose family roots trace back to Morocco – has rekindled a longstanding debate in Europe over immigration and integration.

“We have to reintegrate the marginalized youth in the suburbs of Paris and Brussels and Strasbourg,” Kouloglou said. “Give them jobs. Give them hope for life. Because those are miserable, desperate people. And they end up doing such cowardly things.”

In order to create lasting security in Europe, the wars in the Middle East must be brought to an end, Kouloglou said. The Greek MEP also encouraged Europe to engage with “moderate Islam” and stressed that stereotyping Muslims would only lead to more hate and violence.

French police evict thousands of migrants living on sidewalks in French cities © REUTERS / Pascal Rossignol

His French colleague took a different approach, arguing that the act of “Islamic terrorism” shows that there are some who are incompatible with French values.

Arnautu urged France to expel all people currently on the country’s terror watch list, noting that Chekatt had been flagged but was still not stopped from carrying out an attack. She also accused immigrants of not being sufficiently loyal to the French state.

Having a nationality should mean something. And those people, hate France, hate our country, hate our culture, because of this there was no coincidence in the fact that it happened on a Christmas market

Ultimately, according to Arnautu, the Strasbourg attack should compel France to rethink its open borders with the rest of Europe, which has allowed for a “free circulation of people” resulting in “criminals” entering the country.

“It was said that this attacker has previously been in Germany or elsewhere. He might be crossing borders now. Every time we have such a tragedy, we get back to the topic of border control. For example tonight I believe the Franco-German border is controlled, but it's too late.”

Clash of ideologies

Both parliamentarians believe something must be done to prevent further attacks on European soil – but a clash of ideologies may serve as a serious hurdle to comprehensive action that can be agreed upon.

“The right and the extreme right are trying to blame the refugees for the terrorist attacks,” Kouloglou said, adding that in reality, “almost all” such attacks are carried out by people holding European passports. 

Returning to the issue of integration, the Greek MEP noted: “We don’t have to blame refugees or immigrants. We have to blame ourselves.”

It is not a refugee problem! It is a radical Islam problem! The issue with refugees is simply that they dramatically increase the Muslim population which, potentially, increases the radical Islam problem. 

German police are seen at the Franco-German border after a shooting in Strasbourg © REUTERS / Christian Hartmann

He said that painting Islam and refugees with such a wide brush would only lead to more tragedy.

[The right] try to blame Islam as a whole and now refugees and immigrants. This is not solving the problem. You create more enemies, you create enemies among the refugees.

He is right, to a point. However, pretending that Islam is not at the centre of the problem is colossal stupidity.

Arnautu, on the other hand, blamed Europe’s left-leaning and liberal parties for the continent’s security problems.

“There are ideologists, (idealists?) who, despite all the tragedy, the deaths we've been witnessing for the past six years, keep saying that we should be tolerant, we should live together,” she said.

“No, we don't want to live together with them. And I think we will see a lot of bad things if we stay in this EU, instead of protecting our sovereignty.”

Radical Muslims must be dealt with. They must be segregated from the normal population, and waiting until they kill people is not the solution. As Kouloglou said at the beginning of this article, "It looks like they don’t have any kind of heart or soul,”. They don't! They are hardly human and do not deserve to be treated with any respect or privilege. 

My solution is to lock up every radicalized Muslim in a sanatorium, declaring them clinically insane, for they surely are.

“I came to the absolute conviction that it is impossible…impossible…for any human being to read the biography of Mohammed and believe in it, and then emerge a psychologically and mentally healthy person.”

- Syrian Psychiatrist Dr. Wafa Sultan

Self-Confessed ISIS Recruit Denies Instructing 12yo Boy to Blow up German Christmas Market

The New Normal - Germany, Austria

Teen, radicalized in prison, recruits pre-teens for terrorism

© Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters

Austrian prosecutors have filed charges against Lorenz K., the teenage son of Albanian immigrants who they say mentored and guided a 12-year old German-Iraqi boy through two failed Islamist attacks in late 2016.

The 55-page indictment delivered by the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office and cited by Austrian media, alleges that Lorenz, now 18, pledged allegiance to Islamic State in the summer of 2016, and began contacting even younger boys in a bid to recruit them.

The 12-year-old resident of the town Ludwigshafen in Rhineland, Germany, with whom the 18-year-old had formed a bond, left a bag filled with unlit fireworks and nails near at a Christmas market on 26 November 2016, and outside the city hall a week later on December 3, when he was caught.

It would appear it was either a trial run or was just meant to frighten people.

Investigators say the explosives would not have detonated on its own, but said Lorenz talked the the perpetrator through every step of the planned attack – from helping him prepare and successfully test the bomb; encouraging him to pick a market instead of a church; as well as writing to him on Whatsapp: "Put on a thick jacket... Then go behind a hut and light and run," minutes before the scheduled explosion.

Lorenz K.’s lawyer says his client rejects the charges of terrorism, which could land him with 15 years behind bars. "We will deny everything except IS membership," said Wolfgang Blaschitz, according to Austrian news website OE24. "Lorenz is certainly not public enemy number one".

Lorenz was jailed for aggravated robbery for 29 months in 2015, but found Islam while behind bars, and began to attend mosque while on day release. His preacher, Ebu Tejma, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for extremist recruiting in 2016.

It seems that prisons in Austria and Germany need to segregate radicalized Muslims from the regular population of criminals. I'm amazed they haven't done that yet.

Lorenz K.'s accomplice, born in 2004, was too young to face justice according to German law, and was placed under supervision by the authorities.

Islamic Insanity Spreads to Europe Just in Time for Christmas

Twas a week before Christmas and all through the world

Assassinations galore as madness unfurled

December 19th, 2016:

Turkey - Russian ambassador shot and killed

A Turkish riot policeman shot and killed the Russian ambassador to Turkey. Ambassador Andrey Karlov was gunned down on Monday evening as he was delivering a speech at an Ankara art gallery. The assassin was killed in a shoot-out with security forces.

The attacker was identified as Mevlut Mert Altintas, a 22-year-old officer with the Turkish riot police. He yelled "Allahu Akbar" and began screaming about Russian involvement in Aleppo and elsewhere. 




SWITZERLAND - Shooting at Islamic Centre leaves 3 injured 

Three people were injured in a shooting at an Islamic center in downtown Zurich on Monday.
A male suspect entered the center’s prayer room, often used as a mosque, at around 5:30pm local time and opened fire. Three men aged 30, 35 and 56 were injured in the attack, according to police.

The suspect fled the scene near the main train station in Switzerland’s financial capital and remains on the run. Police have sealed off the surrounding area as they conduct a “major search” for the assailant.

The suspect was described by police as a man of "about 30 years" who was wearing dark clothing and a dark wool cap. 

A short time after the attack a man’s body was found in Gessnerallee, an area "close" to the scene.

Zurich police say they are investigating if the body has any connection to the mosque attack. 




Germany - 12 Dead, 48 injured as terrorist ran down people in Christmas market

Germany is reeling after a truck plowed into a Christmas market in western Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring dozens more in a suspected terrorist attack.

The incident took place at 8:00pm on the pedestrianized Breitscheidplatz, home to one of Berlin’s largest Christmas markets. It is beside the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and also close to the city’s key shopping mile, Kurfuerstendamm.


At least 12 people have died and 48 others were injured in the Christmas market truck incident, Berlin's police said.

It is believed the truck was driven by a Polish man, brother to the owner. There is some suspicion that the truck and driver were hijacked. The incident may have been inspired by the Bastille Day massacre in Nice, last summer, when 86 were killed and more than 400 injured.

Top 6 countries, at least, where reporters are killed are Islamic countries. Yet, Europe insists on bringing this violence into their midst. Is it any wonder there is terror in the streets?

107 reporters killed in Syria since conflict began

People carry belongings as they walk on the rubble of damaged buildings in the government controlled area of Aleppo, Syria December 17, 2016. © Omar Sanadiki / Reuters

Syria was the deadliest country for journalists in 2016, according to a report. At least 14 journalists were killed there in the line of duty this year alone, bringing the total number of war reporters who have died since the conflict broke out to at least 107.

According to the report by international press freedom group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), deaths in combat or crossfire reached their highest number since 2013, as conflicts in the Middle East showed no sign of ending.

Journalists sent into the thick of the action appear to be at high risk of not only losing their lives, but of being kidnapped and executed by Islamic State and other terrorist groups.

“Islamic State is responsible for the disappearance of at least 11 journalists since 2013. They are feared dead, but do not appear in CPJ’s data on killed journalists because their fate cannot be confirmed,” the report said. It added that the two professions that proved to be the most dangerous in 2016 were those of photographer and cameraman.

Twenty percent of the journalists killed in 2016 were freelancers.

In April, Syrian journalist Zaher al-Shurqat was shot in the head by a masked man in the southern Turkish town of Gaziantep. IS claimed responsibility for the murder, making al-Shurqat the fourth Syrian journalist the group claimed to have killed in Turkey since October 2015, according to CPJ.

Global reporter's assassins leaders

At least 48 journalists were killed in relation to their work between January 1 and December 15, 2016, the international press freedom group said.

“More than half of the journalists killed in the year died in combat or crossfire, for the first time since CPJ began keeping records. The conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan, and Somalia claimed the lives of 26 journalists who died covering the fighting,” the New York-based group said.

Among those killed by the fighting in Syria this year was 20-year-old photographer and video journalist Osama Jumaa, who died in June while reporting from Aleppo for the international photo agency Images Live.

Iraq proved to be among the “top three most deadly countries for the fourth year in a row,” with six journalists killed in 2016, according to the report.

In Yemen, the number of journalists who lost their lives in the line of duty has also been on the rise as fighting escalated. Six journalists were killed this year, bringing the total to 12 since 2014, CPJ said.

According to CPJ’s detailed records since 1992, about two-thirds of journalists killed are specifically singled out for murder in retaliation for their work. This year, some 18 journalists were targeted directly for murder, the lowest number since 2002.

“The reason for the decline is unclear, and could be a combination of factors including less risk-taking by the media, more efforts to bring global attention to the challenge of combatting impunity, and the use of other means to silence critical journalists,” the report said.


A number of journalists have been risking their lives covering political unrest. At least three reporters died this year covering dangerous assignments, two of them in Pakistan. Mehmood Khan – a cameraman for DawnNews – and Shehzad Ahmed – a cameraman for Aaj TV – were at a hospital in Quetta where a crowd had gathered to grieve the murder of the president of the Baluchistan Bar Association when a powerful bomb killed over 70 people.

There is no tolerance in Islam for journalists who tell the truth. They report what Islamists want them to report or they are murdered. And many such deaths are hardly even investigated especially in Islamic countries and in countries run by drug lords or other oligarchs. Apparently, there is little difference.

13 countries where journalists have been killed with impunity