By this, German authorities mean that they did not find an ISIS or al-Qaeda membership card in his wallet, and above all, Please don’t think that there is anything wrong with Merkel’s filling the country with Muslim migrants because of this. But in reality, when Hingst said this, it was only hours after the attack. Police simply hadn’t had time to conduct a thorough investigation into his Internet habits, his bookshelf, his friends and acquaintances, the local mosque, etc. So this was more an expression of what German authorities hoped was the case, and wanted the public to believe, than it was of reality. The German authorities may turn out to be right, but if they do, it won’t be on the basis of the investigation that had been conducted up to the point that Hingst made this statement.
“Knife attacker on Germany bus arrested, nine injured,” AFP, July 20, 2018:
Nine people were injured Friday in an attack by a man wielding a knife on a bus in northern Germany, officials said Friday, although his motive remained unclear.
The packed bus was heading in the direction of Travemuende, a popular beach destination close to the city of Luebeck, when a man pulled the weapon on passengers, Luebeck chief prosecutor Ulla Hingst said.
Regional interior minister for Schleswig-Holstein state, Hans-Joachim Grote, told news agency DPA that six people suffered knife wounds and three others different injuries, while the attacker also punched the bus driver….
“The passengers jumped out of the bus and were screaming. It was terrible. Then the injured were brought out. The perpetrator had a kitchen knife,” a witness who lives close to the scene, Lothar H., told local daily Luebecker Nachrichten.
An unnamed female passenger on the bus said one of those injured had only just given up his seat to an elderly woman, “when the perpetrator stabbed him in the chest.”…
Prosecutor Hingst told mass-market daily BILD that the suspected attacker is “a 34-year-old German citizen of Iranian origin”.
“We have no indication of political radicalisation of any kind,” she added….
While the motive of the perpetrator has not yet been established, Germany has been on high alert after several deadly Islamist extremist attacks….
Buraq says
“The Independent” (an on-line leftist British newspaper) runs this story today. However, it never mentions the attackers Iranian connection. In fact, it states: ‘Authorities had no immediate information on the assailant’s motive but they believe the suspect had no background in terrorism.’
The so-called Independent knows full well what this attack was all about, but point-blank refuse to betray a hint of it in the article. Conclusion? That clown Lizzie Dearden has a lot of colleagues at ‘The Independent’ who are self-deluded as she is.
From the 10 comments posted on the article’s thread, so far, 6 have been removed! It’s easy to deduce they did not fit the Independent’s leftist narrative, of course.
BC says
“all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds” Pangloss in Voltaire’s Candide
J D S says
What?????? I think the German govt. has lost it.
Ole Pederson says
All the German government is capable of (other than ignoring laws, constitution, and international treaties) is make believe and close eyes and hope for the best. “Get moving, nothing to see here.”
rooare says
When we hear the authorities making “we haven’t found any links to…” statements this early in an investigation you can bet the perp is a Muslim.
Joe says
You can also bet that they suspect links to terrorism will be found.
MTMLA says
I read on another source that the muslime had a backpack that he threw on the floor of the bus and it was smoking…the article didn’t say what was inside the backpack.
Grace says
this will continue to happen because you Europeans have forsaken Christ and had stopped going to church. it was Europeans that preached Jesus to us (Africa) and now we shall export Jesus to you. If Arabians succeed in converting you people to islam, using jihad just like Turkey, your children, children will never forgive you.
mccode says
“There are some people who, if they don’t already know, you can’t tell ’em”
Yogi Berra
Lydia Church says
Uh… the knife would be… their first clue…
his place of origin… the next…
etc.
dumbledoresarmy says
AND .. the day on which the attack took place. FRIDAY. The Muslim ‘holy’ day. The day when they specially go to mosque to get pumped full of hate.
andra says
Please don’t think that there is anything wrong with Merkel’s filling the country with Muslim migrants because of this.
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This guy has probably not been imported by Merkel. He has got a German passport, that means he must have been in Germany at least for eight years. German news speak of a man who has got the passport for a Long time by now. I guess that his parents came here after Islam took over in Iran.
This man is the typical example that muslim refugees do not integrate into their guest society.
MSM take these examples to prove that it is not the refugees who are criminal. I take them as proof that the integration of Islam in our countries will never work.
The European says
To Andra
“This man is the typical example that muslim refugees do not integrate into their guestsSociety.”
1. We do not know yet what promted this Iranian to stab randomly People on a bus. Thus, we should not rush to conclusions, before we know the Facts.
2. Most Iranians who live in Germany provide an example to the contary. They are integrated. Many of them have got a higher education, and they fled from Iran just because Islam is so oppressive and inhuman over there. Most of them are secularists, they do not practice their religion anymore, they are Muslims but in name. Many of my former co-workers were Iranians, and we often had conversations about Islam and Iran. So, I know what I’m talking about.
Your generalizations and your hate speech-like comments have two bad effects: A lot of Muslims who are willing to assimilate will join up with Muslims who cannot be assimilated, because you want to expel all of them; and you provide those with arguments who have always reviled German patriots as nazis and racists. Sorry, but you are not very helpful.
Generally speaking, it is more difficult to integrate Muslims than other foreign populations, and fundamentalist, supremacist and sharia-compliant Muslims cannot be assimilated. They must be vetted, monitored, and expelled – if need be!
andra says
1. I do not see true Integration with someone who starts terror attacks from one day to another. Within the last 70 years Germany had about 80 autochtone terrorists. Now there are about 80 a year who are not autochtone but mostly Muslim invadors.
2. Most Iranians who live in Germany flew from Islam and not in order to spread it.
The European says
1 I never intended to offer any excuses for this Iranian on a stabbing spree, he is an example of failed Integration, no doubt about that.
2.I think we can be in agreement on the Iranians who escaped from Khomeini and his Islamo-Fascist state.
Indiana Tom says
Geee,,,,first time I have ever read of somebody using the word autochtone. Oh,,, indigenous or native….okay.
Interesting.
Epidermoid says
You are right. The Iranians I know are mostly doctors who fled Iran when the vicious maniacal and perverted Mullahs took over. They of course have long since abandoned Islam for one cannot practice medicine properly whilst cleaving to delusional ideas of a deity.
gravenimage says
I had a nasty run in with Iranian Muslims censoring my artwork (there was a tasteful nude figure) that led to the damage of many pieces.
This was in 1979. I had also assumed that any Iranians in the US would have been happy to be in the West, rather than intent on imposing the strictures of Islam.
I was wrong then–and assuming that all Muslims from Iran are ‘moderates’ now is no less misguided.
andra says
The AfD leader in parliament Ms.Weidel has commented on this attack very well. I admit that I did not like her in the first place as I did not expect she would counter the Islamisation of Germany, but she is doing a good job.
https://www.mmnews.de/vermischtes/80417-weidel-tickende-zeitbomben-mit-deutschem-pass (in German)
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, Andra.
utis says
This incident is only the latest of numberless attacks all over the globe. Ordinary citizens cannot rely on their traditional safety net. They must learn to protect themselves — and one another when there is no official help. One man should not have been able to hurt so many people, even on a space-limited place like a bus. Everyone, women too, need to learn skills to protect themselves — singly or as a group. You are not SHEEP, people!
brane pilot says
Muslim refugee refuses to integrate into European culture since the local mosque prohibits it as un-Islamic.
Muslim refugee has no job and lives on welfare.
Muslim refugee develops mental problems.
Muslim refugee exclusively attacks non-muslims due to ‘mental problems’
Government officials: Islam has nothing to do with this attack.
Sure. Whatever you say.
Giacomo Latta says
If the attacker had had extremely short hair, blame would have been laid at the feet of Neo-nazism. However, if he looks somewhat foreign in skin colour or dress then he is automatically mentally disturbed. All of the aforementioned should be described the same.
FYI says
Where,oh where does a muslim get the idea to slay the unbelievers wherever they find them?
“And slay ye the unbelievers wherever ye find them”
koran 2:191
Oh.It’s from allah the deceiver in his “perfect” book..I wonder can the cops figure that one out..
dan christensen says
Maybe the perpetrator, in a bad German accent, mumbled “Ich schaffe dass” (“I’ll fix it”) ; inspired by Merkel.
myneighboursarenoisy! says
Ich schaffe das does mean ”I’l fix it” but it also and more likely means and is meant as ”I will accomplish this” or ”I will succeed”. But it would be so ironic if he really had said this.
Merkel never said exactly how she would accomplish taking up millions of muslims and integrating them successfully. One thing I just can’t understand is even if you want a pro migration policy why of all people bring in large numbers of 3rd world people and especially muslims, that is people from a culture with which the western world is at war with. How about inviting Americans, Canadians, Kiwis, Aussies, Argentinians, Han Chinese, South Koreans, Japanese etc. People who don’t bring religious fanatic baggage and who already know about humanism and how to live in a western society.
gravenimage says
The joke is that Merkel’s slogan was “Wir Schaffne Dass!”
It comes from Obama slogan–“Yes We Can!”, which in turn comes from the United Farm Workers slogan “Sí Se Puede!” (“Yes We Can!”).
Rufolino says
I’m very interested by what will happen in Germany when Merkel goes. She is completely identified with a catastrophic immigration policy. Will a new person with identical policies replace her ? Or will there be a political earthquake as people wake up to reality and to Merkel’s disastrous effect on Europe ?
Tonic says
The western politicians, all part of the NWO think, by bringing in third world people they will be compliant, work for low wages, put up with bad conditions and put up and shut up…Well they are reaping the consequences of their bad decisions big time..None of these people will be told what to do..Instead many are violent and totally destroying our cultures and way of life… Import people from war torn violent countries..They will bring that mindset and attitude with them..We are now living with the result of ignorance and stupidity..
Jacqueline Johnstone says
In January three young boys were mown down by two muslims in a car in Hayes. The police quickly put it down to drunken driving and such was the charge. They, the police, didn’t bother to investigate further; they did not search their homes nor look at their computers. The families did hack into the facebook pages of the passenger and Lo! Behold! what did they find I wonder. Yes, ISIS and other terrorist type rantings. The MSM duly reported the tragic ‘accident’. All details given were not correct.
Seems like there is a concerted EU wide effort to downplay all these incidents. (There are many others.)
gravenimage says
I am not surprised.
MTMLA says
For each citizen killed or maimed by an islamic jihadist, a politician who supported open borders should be taken and the law of an eye for an eye applied, starting with the Hitlerinskirt, Merkel. I’m sure things would change fast. At this point and time politicians are not held in account for the crimes against their own people.
dumbledoresarmy says
The thing that makes *me* strongly suspect that it was Jihad is this: it took place on a FRIDAY.
gravenimage says
True.
johnf says
Rather than reveal the attacker was “a 34-year-old German citizen of Iranian origin”, our local newspaper, here, in Northern Germany simply wrote that he was a German and then later, that the prosecutor did not say what village/town/city he was from (implying he was autochthonous). A cheeky redirection!
Indiana Tom says
“We have no indication of political radicalisation”
Said the same thing about the Nazis in the 1930s.
I am of German descent, but I really have to admit the Germans are usually morons.
I can see why my ancestors and millions of others wanted to move away.
gravenimage says
German prosecutor on Muslim migrant stabbing rampage: “We have no indication of political radicalisation”
……………….
Might it be…Jihad?
mortimer says
Robert Spencer is too droll for words: “they did not find an ISIS or al-Qaeda membership card in his wallet”.
Hilarious! But, the German government should be warned THEY ARE A LAUGHING STOCK for comments like that.
The MUSLIMS laugh at them and the KAFIRS laugh at them.
The German government are DHIMMIS.
MTMLA says
Follow the $$$$$$.