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Germany: 12-year-old Muslim boy targets Christmas market with nail bomb

Dec 17, 2016 9:45 am By Robert Spencer

“Authorities also told ZDF that the boy had been radicalized via social media and the Internet.”

Well, that neatly lets his family and his local Muslim community and mosque off the hook. But is it true? Have authorities investigated what is taught at his local mosque? Have they asked themselves why, if this boy had really been taught peaceful Islam by his parents and the mosque, he was so susceptible to the supposedly twisted and hijacked version of Islam he found on the Internet? Why haven’t they?

“Christmas Market Targeted With Nail Bomb by Boy, 12: German Officials,” by Andy Eckardt, NBC News, December 16, 2016:

A 12-year-old boy tried to detonate a nail bomb at a Christmas market in Germany, authorities said.

The explosive device was found near the Town Hall in Ludwigshafen earlier this month.

Hubert Stroeber, a spokesman for the local prosecutor’s office, told NBC News that it would “turn down an investigation in the case” due to the fact the boy is aged under 14.

However, Stroeber confirmed that Germany’s Federal Prosecutor had been informed about the incident.

The suspect was born in Germany but is of Iraqi heritage….

FOCUS quoted investigators as saying the “strongly radicalized” youth was likely “incited and instructed” by an “unidentified member of ISIS.”

He also had hoped to travel to Iraq to join ISIS last summer, it reported.

Due to the country’s laws regarding the age of criminal responsibility, the 12-year-old was not arrested but instead reportedly taken into foster care.

German security officials confirmed to NBC News’ partner ZDF that the details reported by FOCUS were correct.

Authorities also told ZDF that the boy had been radicalized via social media and the Internet….

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  1. sog says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 10:09 am

    “…but instead reportedly taken into foster care.”

    I’ll bet the Government started paying his similarly situated Aunt and Uncle a Foster stipend to live with them. They’ll simply see it as Jizya.

    • sog says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 10:23 am

      … and the boy will become peaceful so long as the society keeps paying; His parents and the Mosque will easily convince the boy that Germans become protected persons (dhimmi) so long as his family keeps being paid. All is fine until the next youngster is taught that followers of the Koran are special and should be paid by the rest of society… or else. Trick or treat! Islam: Halloween on steroids.

      We aren’t talking about a nose to grindstone philosophy here. Are there *any* lines in the Koran that indicate work might be virtuous?

    • A Harris USA says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 1:39 pm

      He will try again.. Next time with the help of some Imam, and adults who know how to do the deed right!! Which brings me to the question, Where did he get the explosives??? How did he learn about nail bombs? To many unanswered questions here… Of course he is a poor child who just can not tell the difference of right and wrong!! AWWW, poor little guy… May I suggest Merkel put him in her house, and show how loving she is toward these poor little refugees??

  2. Benedict says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 10:12 am

    “the boy had been radicalized via social media and the Internet….”

    It’s incomprehensible that adherents to a peaceful religion become violent and easily turn into terrorists when radicalized. Why don’t they become radical pacifists in correspondence and harmony with their religion? Who can explain? Are social media more powerful than the clear, peaceful passages in the Muslim canon?

  3. Phil Copson says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 10:15 am

    So – the “authorities” won’t investigate because he’s only twelve ? Well, that’s ok then, isn’t it ? After all – it’s a well-known fact that nail-bombs planted by 12-year olds don’t actually hurt, isn’t it……..?

    • Anne Smith says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 10:34 am

      How do we know he is twelve? The murderer of the poor daughter of the EU official was supposed to be 17, but has now been exposed as having been 17 at least three years ago when he attempted to murder someone else.

      Dozens of young men with six o’clock shadow have been streaming into Britain from the “Jungle” in Calais posing as unaccompanied minors. The reaction of the British authorities was not to test the authenticity of their claims, but to put up screens so that the Press and interested parties were unable to see the alleged “youngsters” on the coaches or disembarking from them.

      The British officials and civil servants obviously have no interest in protecting the British people but only their own skins.

  4. RichardL says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 11:16 am

    Focus and the police also downplay the danger the bomb played and say it wasn’t really a bomb, it would have fizzled.

    In Germany children cannot be sentenced until they 15 and between 15 and 16 it is extremely rare that a young criminal faces any consequences.

  5. AmyB says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 4:08 pm

    Send a kid to do it and there are no consequences. Pathetic.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 5:35 pm

      This is already happening with “Honor Killings”, Amy. Often underaged family members–often the sons of the father who planned the killing–carry out the actual murder.

      I think we are going to see more Jihad by Muslim women and children, because the “filthy Infidels” are less likely to consider them a threat. *Ugh*.

      • jamesmi says

        Dec 18, 2016 at 12:02 am

        Getting children to do such things is child abuse, and child abuse of a particularly horrid kind. The parents should be treated as responsible for the crimes of their offspring, and be punished as though they alone were the perpetrators. They should also be punished as child abusers, since that is what they are. Punishment should always be both severe, and inflexible, so as to send the proper message to any Muslim adults tempted to commit such crimes.

        As for heritage, absolutely no consideration should be given to that: Muzzies should be treated like kuffar and mushrikun – no provision whatever (least of all in prison !) should be made for them. If they want a holy book, it’s the Bible or nothing. No mosques, madrasas, imams, shari’a, no prayer-mats, they can eat bacon, sausages, and pork chops just like normal people, no polygamy, no hijabs, no worship on Fridays (there would be no mosques to worship in !), no prostrations five times a day, no Mohammedan holidays, no Mohammedan banking, no use of Arabic – German (or in other countries, other languages) is all that German Mahometans need. They came to Germany – so they can jolly well live, eat, think, piss, defecate, copulate, marry, earn their keep, bank, travel, pray, worship, sleep, practice law and medicine, as non-Muzrat Germans do. If they want to worship their sex addict Profit, they can go to a Muzrat country and stay there.

        Germany and other countries need to show the Muzrats that they are not the spineless pushovers the Muzrats think (with excellent reason) that they are. It really should not be difficult to de-Muzzify the West – just let’s quit making allowances for the specifically Muzrat aspects of life. Jews and Catholics have provisions of certain kinds made for them – but they don’t disrupt society by expecting everyone to follow Jewish food laws, or to follow canon law. But Mahometans try to make even infidels follow Muzrat practices. What the West needs is to realise that total de-Muzratisation of the West is both necessary, and entirely feasible: what is needed, is resolve.

  6. Oliver says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 4:16 pm

    Amy B– there was a mayor of Detroit–his name escapes me at the moment- ( 1980’s–was mayor when the Repubs had their convention there, and Reagan was nominated; he DID GO TO THE CONVENTION, WELCOMED THE PEOPLE AND CONGRATULATED MR. REAGAN, something that the Repub. gov. of Ohio did not have the courtesy to do this past summer) who was a major DRUG DEALER.

    he used young children- up to 12 or 13- (started, as I recall 9 or 10) to deliver drugs- so as there would be no legal ramifications.

    So, nothing new here. He just copied form the Dems.

  7. Oliver says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 4:17 pm

    The Germans should let him go to Syria (or back to his family’s homeland, Iraq), join ISIS and get killed. Preferably before he reproduces.

    And send his family with him.

    But, better in Germany than in the US.

  8. Angemon says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 5:24 pm

    The suspect was born in Germany but is of Iraqi heritage….

    But, muh replacement rates!!! /sarc. off

    Authorities also told ZDF that the boy had been radicalized via social media and the Internet

    Blame FB and German authorities then – if only they weren’t so keen on focusing on “anti-migrant rhetoric” “radicalizing” Germans, they might have caught wind of actual radicalization taking place in Germany…

  9. terry bare says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 10:10 am

    My heart goes out to this child, for he is a victim, as is every other innocent child who is indoctrinated into this sickness by their families.

    IMO, there is no greater crime against humanity.

  10. dave says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 10:22 am

    maybe next time he will wear a B-VEST and do the job correctly. must have had an armature GEEHADEE instructor.

  11. Troybeam says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 11:35 am

    People this 12 year old boy was not radicalized, he was used by adult Muslims. Reliance of the Traveller: Islamic Sacred Law aka sharia, page 411, k13.8 states a boy reached puberty when they are 15 years old or when they have their first “wet dream” there’s a lot of age difference in that statement.

    People, Islam uses their own people regardless of age or sex to kill non Muslims, they have one goal in mind as a unit, much like the Borg mentality from Star Trek series, enter a nation, use force, use victim mentality, demands to be met etc.

    Muslims are not victims, they are the ones making us victims do not fall for that victim crap, its made up by Muslims to advance Islamic agenda.

    Wake up America.

  12. Mark A says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 5:39 pm

    Check out the video “news” report in the article cited in the NBC News article cited in the JW article.

    It’s all about alleged police harassment of “innocent” Muslims. Nothing whatsoever about the apparent terrorist bombing.

    JW you might want to review this video. There could be a story for a post in this piece of propaganda masquerading as “news.”

    • Mark A says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 5:44 pm

      Correction to my earlier post. The video I mentioned was not in this article. It was in the International Business Times article cited in the report on the Muslim teenagers arrested in Belgium for allegedly plotting attacks on Christmas markets.

      Change the citation but my previous comments still apply.

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