More on this story. "Man arrested over Exeter blast a 'radicalised' convert to Islam," by Vikram Dodd and Matthew Weaver in The Guardian, May 22 (thanks to all who sent this in):
A man arrested in connection with a city centre explosion was tonight named by police as 22-year-old Nicky Reilly - who police believe had adopted the Islamic faith.Reilly was arrested by police at the scene of the lunchtime explosion in the Giraffe restaurant in the £230 million Princesshay shopping complex in Exeter, Devon.
He suffered lacerations to his eye and some facial burning after a device he had on him partially exploded.
Another device found in the vicinity of the restaurant did not explode.
Deputy chief constable Tony Melville said: "Witnesses described how a male entered a toilet in the restaurant shortly before an explosion was heard."
He said police and other emergency services went to the scene and the man was arrested in connection with the explosion.
"This male, who we now know is called Nicky Reilly, suffered serious facial injuries but these are not life threatening. He is currently in police custody undergoing treatment at a hospital."
Melville said police investigations had indicated Reilly, who had a history of mental illness, had adopted the Islamic faith and "was preyed upon and radicalised".
It's just a matter of time.
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"Melville said police investigations had indicated Reilly, who had a history of mental illness, had adopted the Islamic faith and "was preyed upon and radicalised"."
So which comes first, the chicken or the egg?
Pregnant with redundancy:
"Reilly, who had a history of mental illness, had adopted the Islamic faith and 'was preyed upon and radicalised.'"
He was "radicalized", i.e., became more devout. Islam is the ultimate wolf in sheep's clothing, a violent all-encompassing imperialistic political, sociological, economic, psychological ideology parading as a "religion". Cannibalism is a "religious" practice in the south Pacific. We don't tolerate that in our midst, so why should we tolerate the presence of the Islamic "religion" that unambiguously exhorts its followers to promulgate its tenets with violence against non-Muslims? It is high time to strip off the mask of "religion" from this poisonous sociopathic ideology and begin treating it as our ancestors treated it: a primitive tribal warrior code that threatens our lives and our civilized way of life.
The "mental illness" flak is proffered, time after time, to dull the edge of a truth that needs to at least nick us.
They are not insane. They are not mentally ill.
If a no-doubt deadly force situation arises and someone should and can respond legally with deadly force to end that threat, but he or she stalls to process whether the POS they're looking at is a dedicated murderer or just "crazy"... people may die.
I'm not saying be quick on any trigger to which you may have access. I'm just saying do not be fooled into waiting too long. And do not take counsel of your fears.
SaracensAtTheGates--
Sorry to be OT, but is there any evidence that cannibalism is *currently* a religious practice in parts of the South Pacific? I know some of the Polynesians used to practice human sacrifice as part of their religious rites, but I never read anything about cannibalism. Surely that no longer occurs, right? I'm just curious. Thanks.
Is "history of mental illness" the new whitewash of Islam? Can we export future jihadists to be described as having a "history of mental illness" when they are caught, so as to deny that Islam may have had any bearing on their actions?
Offtopic, re kaffirchick's question about cannibalism in the South Pacific region:
It's history.
Cannibalism *used* to be practised in many Melanesian and - I think - Polynesian island societies, from Papua-New Guinea eastward, in places like Fiji and New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga - but it is now very much a thing of the past. (It varied: in some places it was part of out and out warfare - you hunted and then ate your enemies killed in raids; in other places, it was a funeral rite wherein relatives ritually and reverently consumed their late nearest-and-dearest).
But all of these Melanesian and Polynesian societies are now at least nominally, and in some cases very devoutly, songfully and joyfully, Christian, thanks to the much-maligned and oft-parodied missionaries of the 19th century (some of whom DID get killed and eaten - and these martyrs were not only 'white', many were local people who upon embracing the new faith promptly hastened off to take it to their neighbours and hereditary enemies...just as the newly-evangelised Irish hurried off to darkest Scotland...).
Headhunting and cannibalism have, therefore, ceased - just as slavetaking and headhunting and human sacrifice ceased in Ireland, and in Scandinavia, after they were Christianised (for Ireland, see Tom Cahill, 'How the Irish Saved Civilisation; for human sacrifice in pagan Scandinavia, try checking out the pre-christian history of Uppsala - it was once a centre of human sacrifice at least as notorious as Kumasi in West Africa).
For one account of encounters between Christianity and Papua-New Guinea tribes that did practise cannibalism: see Richardson, 'Peace Child' and 'Lords of the Earth'.
Or google 'Torres Strait Islands' and 'Coming of the Light'. The Torres Strait Islanders are definitely NOT PC - each year in their 'Coming of the Light' festival they celebrate the transition from their incredibly aggressive headhunting man-eating past, to the Christian faith (thoroughly integrated with all the best aspects of their traditional culture - language, dance, song, art) that they now practise.