This article says that two others have been arrested, and a third person has been arrested as well. So this does seem to be a coordinated jihad plot. In a note, Tanis said he was doing it in the name of Allah. Will the Islamophobia never end?
“Brazen Shooting Traumatizes Dutch City, Three Days After Christchurch Killings,” by Milan Schreuer and Richard Pérez-Peña, New York Times, March 18, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
UTRECHT, Netherlands — Gunshots shattered the tram ride in a heavily Muslim neighborhood of this old Dutch city. The prime minister called it possible terrorism. SWAT teams rushed in, residents were ordered indoors, and all mosques closed as the police sought a killer in a country that had been spared large-scale terrorist attacks….
The suspect was later identified by the police as Gokmen Tanis, 37, an immigrant from the central Turkish town of Yozgat. Mr. Tanis had been arrested before and is facing a rape charge, according to the Dutch national broadcaster and people who know him….
“He’s very religious,” but also “a real guy of the streets, aggressive as well,” Alptekin Akdogan, who said he knew Mr. Tanis, told The New York Times. He said he and Mr. Tanis had grown up in the Kanaleneiland neighborhood.
Zabit Elmaci, 39, said he used to work with Mr. Tanis, washing dishes in a restaurant called Abrikoos. He described Mr. Tanis as “always in trouble.”
“I don’t remember him as a religious person, but about two years ago he started acting weird, so I gradually stopped seeing him,” Mr. Elmaci said….
Whether others were involved in the shooting remained unclear, although the police said they had made two additional arrests by Monday evening. Some witnesses said they had seen more than one assailant on the tram….
The authorities ordered the evacuation of all mosques in Utrecht, and security was increased at mosques elsewhere in the Netherlands….
Utrecht, about 25 miles from Amsterdam, has been a center of Dutch culture and commerce for a millennium….More than 30 percent of the city’s population is foreign-born, according to the Dutch census.
Walter Sieruk says
The jihad-minded Muslim shooter and murderer who in that tram committed actions of Islamic terrorism , in Utrecht, is a very strong the its very important to reiterated the message that that vicious and murderous jihadist who is a Islamic terrorist shooter in that tram in the city of Utrecht of the Netherlands was not the first nor will he be the last Muslim terrorist to inflect deadly Islamic violence on the people of Europe in a European nation.
Many jihadists have the Islamic agenda and quest to conquer the nations of the West for Islam. Either “by hook or by crook” as in by engaging in the stealth jihad or in the violent and deadly “jihad of the sword” As seen in this recent jihad attack in Germany which harmed twelve people. Likewise part of all this in is by the Muslim infiltration of the Western countries which is being accomplished by the great number of Muslim migrants who are entering the Western nations.
As a Former Muslim had revealed in his book when he wrote that “there has been large –scale immigration into the West, from Islamic nations…of Muslims who are implacably hostile to the West, have no desire to learn why the West became so rich and tolerant , and certainly have no desire to assimilate. They feel no gratitude of allegiance to their Western host nations; their only obligations are to fellow Muslims.”
The author further clarifies by adding. “The mere presence of so many Muslims in the West had affected the domestic and international behavior of governments, whose foreign policy is dominated by fear of offending their Muslim population ready to riot on the slightest pretext. Those unassimilated Muslims are committed to introducing Islamic laws in the West. , and they are able to do so cleverly exploiting the freedoms created over the centuries by the infidels.” [1]
As for that above statement that the “Muslim population [is] ready to riot on the slightest pretext…” This is valid evidence that the old saying is true .Which is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
On this very important subject another scholar in his book informs the reader that “Islamic involvement in the political process is much more advanced in Europe than in the United States.” and he further makes it known that “Of all the continents of the world, Europe is probably the number one target by Muslim strategists who are seeking world dominance.” [2]
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq, page 354
[2] HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANCE THE WORLD by William Wagner , pages 176, 195.
Walter Sieruk says
For today and the last three days observing the Yahoo News much information and coverage has been and is still is being reported about the awful criminal man in New Zealand who murdered those Muslims. it was despicable and wrong of him to do what he did Nevertheless , a jihad -minded Muslim man who a few days later murdered those people in the tram in Utrecht. the Netherlands. that was also very despicable and wrong of him to did that he did. .Yew very little of this murderous jihad incident was covered in Yahoo. news.
This should tell all thinking people .something
Walter Sieruk says
That vicious and murderous jihad-minded Muslim terrorist in that tram in the city of Utrecht, of the Netherlands who murdered those people by shooting them. He is despicable in the deadly violence and Islamic contempt for people who are not Muslims.
Likewise many of those Muslim migrants who have entered European countries and then show only contempt .dishonor and reproach towards the people of those Western nations who were kind yet foolish enough to allow them, those Muslim migrants to enter, invade, their home countries of Europe in the first place. This type of situation is f reflected in the Bible .Which reads “When the wicked comes, contempt comes also; with dishonor comes reproach.” Proverbs 18:3. [N.K.J.V.]
Those jihadist Muslims with their Islamic way of thinking by their well thought Islamic schemes for the action of involvement in their violent and sheath jihad for the advancement of Islam in the many different Western nations. Those sly scheming jihadists are, somewhat, of a reminder of the information reveled in the Bible in Proverbs 15:26. In which the reader is informed that even “The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord…”
PRCS says
When one becomes convinced that facts and rational thought are subordinate to religious beliefs…
gravenimage says
Netherlands: Friend says Utrecht jihadi “very religious,” three other Muslims arrested in connection to the massacre
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No surprise there…
Jack Holan says
I wonder how much it cost whoever to plant the seeds of doubt and turn this terrorist into a mentally ill , unstable individual with a criminal history history. They’ll some how convince the population that the other 3 were coincidental. Yhe Authorities regardless of Country believe the Public is Stupid. They’re in for a surprise. Remember the other possible character in this Play is Caliph Erdogan with his spearheading Mosques across Europe with a dual purpose.
Joe says
So the non-Muslims were being attacked, and the police moved to protect the Muslims who were attacking in the name of Allah.
infidel says
The criminal MSM has long stopped about this Jehaadi animal in Holland. But they are still ranting and raving about the White Aussie NZ shooter as if this is the only terror act that humans have seen thus far in their history and as if Whites are the embodiment of evil.. How disgusting indeed!!!
infidel says
I mean the criminal MSM has long stopped talking and analyzing the Holland Jehaad.
KWJ says
While the Christchurch, New Zealand massacre is horrific indeed, it pales in the number of Muslim attacks and those our FBI and law enforcement have discovered of plots planned or attempted. A few years ago I read from the State Deoartment that Islamic/Muslim attacks accounted for 90% of terrorist attacks. I think that number is now outdated.
Some attacks planned in the US have been arson, plan in Cleveland, Ohio to bomb Independence Day, July 4th parade, plan to use firearms, plan to shoot synagogue, plotting violence, attempt to detonate explosive, attempted travels to join ISIS-Muslims from Sacramento, CA, Dearborn, Michigan, Chicago, Arizona, Utah, Florida, Texas, St Paul, Minnesota, etc. I have these names and they are “trial pending.” That’s besides successful attacks and Muslims trying to recruit. MEMRI, for example, showed a Facebook account where a guy in my state was asking people to join him in attacks here.
If this guy in the Netherlands had a rape conviction why wasn’t he deported and why are rape sentences so short? Rape does a lot of psychological damage to a woman especially when combined with physical assault such as those girls in Europe who were beaten and their pretty faces almost unrecognizable. A few I’ve been aware of got abortions.
Then there’s the Americans killed overseas including a few soldiers killed by allied soldiers of the Afghan army against the Taliban by Muslims who suddenly got religious and decided to follow the Qur’an…”don’t take unbelievers as allies, helpers and friends.”
It’s disturbing that they, as usual, worry about Muslims and closing mosques while the large majority of attacks are outside mosques in Europe whether 1, 5 or more innocents are killed. If they are thinking of retaliation, well, at any time and place that could happen as well as the murders and vandalism of churches in Europe and plots against churches which is systemic.
Two Australian converts moved to New Zealand and attended this mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand and then joined Al Qaeda in Yemen and killed by a US drone strike. The parent of one said they were radicalized in the mosque and meeting the fellow convert there. Why do they convert and become violent?
Mosques have been breeding grounds for jihad and a recruitment outlet just as we know with terrorists who attended mosques such as those who mentored or partook in 9/11. Obama spoke at that very mosque. Several mosques in Europe in France, Germany and England had a stockpile of weapons-the one in England training men to fight in Afghanistan and incidentally the same mosque that non-Muslim guy drove a van to purposely hit mosque-goers outside. In Canada the non-Muslim who shot people inside was one crawling with Muslim Brotherhood members who seek jihad and Islamizing Western countries and recruit immigrants in inculcating their ideas which is sharia law dominance from Egypt to America.
The media, ruled by their overlords, who don’t mention many terrorist attacks in non-Western countries act as if those violent-minded denizens don’t migrate to Western countries or just the fact that attacks are happening nearly every day such that a Kenyan women told me they don’t like Somalians coming to Kenya so it’s not like “Islamophobia” is just in Western countries! Kenya actually did a mass deportation which was prudent.
Since jihadists are well connected and also religiously and ideological rooted it’s difficult to catch a single non-Muslim such as this latest on in NZ. Muslims congregate, recruit, and have Qur’ans or listen to well-known Muslim scholars and leading figures who perpetuate violence and anti-infidel attitudes clearly expressed in the Qur’an and Hadiths. But I suspect there might be more retaliation because of Muslim migration and their demands and infiltration of Western society which the Islamic Party of Toronto which seeks election, so clearly laid out and including Muslim Canadian politicians and we (our politicians, state and federal, are guilty too but what do they expect if you have an enemy within who clearly doesn’t like our way of life and secular laws?
When a neighbor constantly plays loud music people don’t much like them? Couple that with the power cabal and Marxists creating division on race, society, and being anti-free speech. People don’t much like being suppressed and they boil inside…we saw that in the 60s and 70s…anger at corporations, law enforcement, etc.