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Germany: Muslim who stabbed four screamed “Infidel, you must die” as well as “Allahu akbar”

May 10, 2016 12:12 pm By Robert Spencer

“Koehler said investigators will follow up on statements the suspect made in questioning to determine whether he might have converted to Islam.”

Yes, clearly he converted to Methodism.

Germany Stabbing

Germany Stabbing

“Officials: Germany stabbing suspect mentally unstable,” by Matthias Schrader and Geir Moulson, Associated Press, May 10, 2016:

GRAFING, Germany (AP) — A German man yelled “infidel, you must die” and “Allahu akbar” as he stabbed one person to death and wounded three others at a Bavarian train station Tuesday, but authorities said they’ve found no links to any Islamic extremist network.

The 27-year-old, who had previously been in psychiatric care, made a “rather confused impression” as he was questioned by investigators, authorities said.

He had a 10-centimeter (4-inch) survival knife tucked into his belt when he was caught at about 5 a.m. near the scene of the attack by the Grafing Bahnhof station, near Munich, they said.

One man died in a hospital after the apparently random attack and three other men were being treated for their wounds.

The suspect’s name wasn’t released in line with German privacy laws, but authorities said he is a German citizen with a traditional German name.

The man, a former carpenter who had been unemployed for two years, admitted to the crime, said Ken Heidenreich, spokesman for the Munich prosecutor’s office in charge of the case.

But Heidenreich said that there were questions about whether the man can be held criminally responsible and that authorities were evaluating whether he should be taken to a mental hospital.

Senior police official Lothar Koehler said the suspect told them he had been taking drugs, and that around the time of the attack he took his shoes off because “he felt bugs on his feet that had caused blisters and were generating intense heat.”

Koehler added it wasn’t immediately clear whether the suspect was under the influence of drugs at the time of the attack, and authorities have found no record of any previous narcotics cases against him.

A woman reported hearing the words “infidel, you must die” as the attack began, and the suspect himself admitted yelling “Allahu akbar,” Arabic for “God is great,” senior police official Guenther Gietl said.

Koehler said it was “difficult to get coherent, plausible and comprehensible information” during questioning of the suspect.

Investigators said there were no indications that the man had any accomplices or an extremist background.

There are “no indications from intelligence services so far that this person had any links in any form to Islamist or Salafist groups, people or organizations,” Koehler said. “We also have no indications that there was any radicalization or perhaps trigger for this act as a result of the consumption of (extremist) videos.”

Koehler said investigators will follow up on statements the suspect made in questioning to determine whether he might have converted to Islam. But, he added, “it has been difficult so far to get sensible statements out of him on this. And if he did, it must have been relatively recent.”

He said the man underwent psychiatric care on Sunday night, though he didn’t give details.

Authorities said the suspect lived near the central city of Giessen, in the state of Hesse. It wasn’t clear why he traveled by train to Munich on Monday evening, but investigators said he may have had plans to go to either Austria or Portugal.

The man didn’t have enough cash to pay for a hotel in Munich Monday night. He hung around the main station for a while, but told police that he had then “felt unwell” and boarded a train to Grafing, around 30 kilometers (nearly 20 miles) to the east. Surveillance camera footage showed that he was there about three hours before the attack, Koehler said.

The 56-year-old victim who died was attacked on or near the train, as was a second victim. The two others were attacked outside the station….

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  1. ICH says

    May 10, 2016 at 12:14 pm

    didnt he know he was stereotyping ?

  2. Jay Boo says

    May 10, 2016 at 12:31 pm

    Tourist
    He probably wanted to be near Hitler’s old Munich hangouts or reflect on the 1972 Munich Olympics.
    Dachau is nearby as well.

  3. Mike at the Beach says

    May 10, 2016 at 12:31 pm

    In keeping with the borderline obsessive desire to avoid even a sideways reference to radical Islam in the mainstream press, NPR this morning reported that the attacker yelled, “political statements.”

    What, he screamed, “I believe in increased immigration flexibility within the EU?”

    Bizarre.

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      May 10, 2016 at 1:12 pm

      So yelling “Allahu Akbar” is now a political statement? Interesting idea. Maybe we should treat Islam as a political party instead of as a religion.

      • Georg says

        May 10, 2016 at 1:31 pm

        Yes and yes. The degree to which they insult the people’s intelligence would be shocking, to use one of their beloved terms, if it weren’t as regular as a clock tick.

        It seems Islam is a religion when they want stuff and an political kerfuffle when it brings shame upon itself. What wonderful grounds for rational argumentation.

      • Ted Jaeger says

        May 10, 2016 at 10:01 pm

        Islam is an ideology akin to Nazism.

    • Michael Copeland says

      May 10, 2016 at 2:45 pm

      “Political statements” are a new addition to the script.

  4. WorkingClassPost says

    May 10, 2016 at 12:35 pm

    Before you know it, every blood thirsty, drug addicted, nut case will be converting to islam.

    Nothing new there I guess.

  5. WorkingClassPost says

    May 10, 2016 at 12:41 pm

    In the UK even a pack of cigarettes carries a health warning, maybe we could try that with korans.

    You know the sort of thing:-

    Warning: This book can seriously damage your sanity, and send you to hell.

    Might save a few…

    • Lanya LaPunta says

      May 10, 2016 at 9:24 pm

      I like that one. Absolutely magnificent.,

  6. Guest says

    May 10, 2016 at 1:23 pm

    This is what happens to those who convert to Islam.

    • Sandra Lee Smith says

      May 11, 2016 at 1:59 pm

      Whether he actually converted or not, in the hands of an already-historically unstable person, as this guy is described, a Quran is lethal. If any book should ever be banned, that 1 is it. It lends to insanity in all who buy into its teachings. In this, as in most cases, prior “affiliation” just isn’t requisite to terrorist behavior among those who read and believe the Quran.

  7. Angemon says

    May 10, 2016 at 1:24 pm

    Do tell, nation that gave us Oberinspektor Derrick, what could his motive possibly be?

  8. Dan Jones says

    May 10, 2016 at 3:11 pm

    Oh those loving followers of the pedophile are so misunderstood… He did it out of LOVE…

    More End Time News At:
    http://www.shininginthedark.com/?page_id=7760

  9. guide inside says

    May 10, 2016 at 3:18 pm

    So this is where P.C.-ness started. Same markers. Wonderful reference to Muslim mental illness susceptibility as the “bugs” of hell were giving him a hot foot.

  10. KLM says

    May 10, 2016 at 4:59 pm

    no matter how much they tell us they are killing for their non existent god, the fools on the left and the media just won’t say it. Islam is evil and violent, there I said it. Hey, no sky falling, huh, what a surprise. CBC in Canada, the multicultural disaster of the west with a baby for a prome minister, (what an insult to the office of prime minister, both him and his dad were the worse nightmare in Canadian history) even stated today repeatedly, that it wan`t terror related, ask the victims.

  11. Jerry says

    May 10, 2016 at 6:24 pm

    He must be totally deranged and basically peaceful like his 1.75 billion fellow co-religionists and anyone who says otherwise must b clearly an Islamophobe

  12. stubb says

    May 10, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    The guy was an Iraqi immigrant named Rafik Y. with a long history as an islamic extremist. The newspapers lied about his having a German name. I don’t think the news has appeared in English-language sources yet but you can Google for German sources.

  13. darshan says

    May 10, 2016 at 11:58 pm

    Wonderful excuse. All mentally unstable Muslim’s are so stable and their instability consistently hurts only the non Muslim’s. They never kill their family and friends so directed and targeted is their instability.

    Angela merkel and her cronies are new villain of Europe. Veiled Obama is doing same to USA

  14. Richard Ashton says

    May 11, 2016 at 1:26 am

    The investigation by the German police must have been thorough and if both them and the BBC say it has nothing to do with Islam then that’s good enough for me, after all, surely they wouldn’t tell us lies…..would they.

  15. RichardL says

    May 11, 2016 at 1:28 am

    for those who read German:

    http://www.pi-news.net/2016/05/allahu-akbar-und-die-schwierige-wahrheit/

    For the others: none of the three big newspapers in Germany has one line about the jihadi today. Yesterday he was called “the German, Paul H.” His name is Rafik Youssef.

    The police press office said, the do not know his name or his nationality, but it has nothing to do with islam…

  16. WorkingClassPost says

    May 11, 2016 at 5:19 am

    Still haven’t seen this on BBC TV (maybe I blinked, and missed it) but Euronews Channel covered it again briefly last night, and I heard what someone else noted here.

    They quickly mentioned reports of the Alla Akabu shout then said that police were not aware of any political motive!

    Don’t these idiots realize that by their own mouths they condemn islam as political terrorism?

  17. Politicallyincorrectistruth says

    May 11, 2016 at 8:43 am

    TRUTH…YOU CAN`T HANDLE THE TRUTH.So the German government will not tell the public the truth because…..

  18. Ninsuna says

    May 11, 2016 at 9:42 am

    The second I heard on the radio news that there had been a stabbing attack at a German train station by a “German man” with “mental health issues”, I instantly thought, “… let me guess — named Mohammed or Ahmed?” I’ve noted in similar reports descriptors like “American citizen” or “British man”, and it never requires much imagination. And my guess is uncannily accurate time and again. I must be a bigot.

  19. David says

    May 11, 2016 at 10:21 am

    I am no psychic, but within two years or sooner, scum like this will be tried, juryed and excuted within minutes in Germany. The true brave and proud Germans will disregard the present government as being Uncapable of maintaining order. Merkel and her loons need to step down NOW. Soon we should witness a “Muzziewitz”. If Germany is to survive, Muzziewitz, has to come to reality real soon. Train cars work real well for transportation. Think this is cruel and evil, the muzzies dream of infidelwitz!

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