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Netherlands: Muslim who opened fire on tram while screaming “Allahu akbar” gives finger to judge, spits at lawyer

Mar 9, 2020 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Many times we have seen Muslims refusing to stand in court, because they recognize only Sharia, which they regard as divine law, as opposed to “man-made law.” The actions of Gökmen Tanis also proceed from that assumption.

“Utrecht tram shooter removed from court for spitting at lawyer as trial begins,” Dutch News, March 2, 2020:

The man accused of carrying out a terrorist attack on a commuter tram in Utrecht was removed from the courtroom on the first day of his trial for spitting at a defence lawyer.

Gökmen Tanis refused to answer questions and raised his middle finger to the judges several times as the hearing got under way at the district court in Utrecht. He has admitted shooting dead four people but the court will have to decide whether to convict him of murder or manslaughter and whether the offences were of a terrorist nature.

When defence lawyer, André Seebregts, appointed by the court to represent Tanis after he refused to accept legal support, asked the judges to outline a psychiatric report slowly and in simple terms to the defendant, Tanis spat at him.

The judges ordered him to be taken away to a side room where he followed the rest of the proceedings by video link.

The court heard that Tanis, 38, had several previous convictions for theft and violence. Officers who responded to the shooting recognised him on video footage from the tram because of his criminal record. A report by the Pieter Baan Centre, which assesses suspects in criminal trials, found he had a personality disorder and low mental capacity.

Earlier hearings, which Tanis refused to attend, were told that he had diminished responsibility.

The court was shown a digital reconstruction of the shootings on the morning of March 18, when Tanis opened fire on board the commuter tram on 24 Oktoberplein, near Utrecht central station. He then turned his gun on motorists who were stuck behind the tram, one of whom died after being shot through his windscreen.

Tanis escaped in a Renault Clio that had been abandoned in the queue, but was arrested several hours later. One of the first victims, a 19-year-old woman, was talking on her phone to her boss when she suddenly said: ‘What the f***, I’ve been stabbed.’

Another girl was shot in the back as she leapt from the tram. Several passengers heard Tanis shout ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he fired the shots. He left behind a note in the stolen car which said: ‘I’m doing this for my belief. You are killing Muslims. You want to take our belief away from us, but it won’t work. Allah is great.’…

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  1. Wellington says

    Mar 9, 2020 at 4:42 pm

    This nothing in The Netherlands proves again that Islam is the turd in the punch bowl of world religions. Guess it was almost inevitable that mankind would get a major religion which stinks. It happened. Mankind got Islam.

    Anyone paying this religion any respect (and please, no encomiums to medieval Islam—done with that because 1) the achievements have been greatly exaggerated; 2) many of the achievements that did occur were developed by non-Muslims living in Muslim lands; and 3) the more nominal a Muslim a ruler was the far greater likelihood that anything good would be accomplished) is ignorant and foolish at best or, at worst, pushing an agenda which will destroy liberty, a true Golden Rule for all, equality under the law, true women’s rights, graciousness all around, a real sense of fair play, an open mind, music and pictorial art, and, as well, fine pork products and good beer, wine and liquor—quite the list, no?

    Muslims in the West are such a downer. They’re parasites, everyone of them. Fitting, since Islam itself is parasitical to the max, staring with its ripping off Judaism and Christianity for its own dumbed-down purposes. I despise Islam. Far more should by now. To followers of Mo’s creed, I say, stuff it.

    • Li W says

      Mar 9, 2020 at 11:29 pm

      So true! Hateful hate filled excuse for a religion!

  2. mccode says

    Mar 9, 2020 at 4:52 pm

    Islam is the worst contagion the world has seen. COVID-19 and Bubonic plague don’t hold a candle to the Cult of Mohammed.

    • FYI says

      Mar 9, 2020 at 5:13 pm

      Yes.

      The Koranovirus[1400+]

      1400+ years of this islamic contagion,this toxic religion that destroys everything it touches and everywhere it goes.

  3. Alexios Comnenus says

    Mar 9, 2020 at 5:02 pm

    Who is to be blamed? The dutch politicians who betray their own people. And the people accept this democratic suicide until the time when some of the will wake up. Thus is not new.

  4. Deanns says

    Mar 9, 2020 at 5:06 pm

    GOD BLESS ALL WHO STAND FOR AMERICA & AGAINST ISLAM!!!

    Tolerating those who hate us is an Obama policy we MUST ABOLISH NOW! America shouldn’t be allies with anyone from the middles east except Israel, we have the best economy in the world and is energy independent & don’t need Saudi’s help or any nation that practices sharia, period. America shouldn’t be helping sharia supporters to fight with our own planes or any weapons , PERIOD.
    NO SUCH THINGS AS “PEACEFUL” , “MODERATES”,”COPYCATS” OR “LONE WOLVES”! They are all one in the same according to their own sharia ideology.
    FACT…
    All cultures are NOT equal and anyone who respects a culture who bases their entire ideology & laws on “HONOR KILLINGS”(killing their own children for shaming their family), stoning women to death, 8 yo. child brides, rape, marital rape, molestation, pedophilia and torture is to say that you respect the atrocities that it perpetrates. They can call themselves, al qaeda, boko haram, isis,devout, moderates, etc., the COMMON DENOMINATOR is ALWAYS SHARIA which violates our Constitution, breaks every single LAW in America and should not be on American soil.All cultures CANNOT COEXIST & that’s why every nation has borders & laws. REENACT the NATIONALITY & IMMIGRATION ACT of 1952…
    What defines a religion from a cult is what happens when you try to leave either one:#ExposeSharia
    PS- there are NO “lone wolves” or “copycats” when it comes to the SHARIA IDEOLOGY
    #WorldwideCrusaders

  5. gravenimage says

    Mar 9, 2020 at 6:26 pm

    Netherlands: Muslim who opened fire on tram while screaming “Allahu akbar” gives finger to judge, spits at lawyer
    ……………..

    This should surprise no one. Muslims do not recognize Infidel courts, and only respect Shari’ah law.

  6. tgusa says

    Mar 9, 2020 at 6:39 pm

    “gives finger to judge, spits at lawyer”

    Cry me a river. Dutch politicians have foisted much worse on the general population of the Netherlands. The judge and the lawyer need to shut up, bend over and take it lest they be hauled in front of a tribunal and reprimanded, fired and perhaps un-personed for insulting islam.

    I assume that in the Netherlands the courts are the judicial wing of the government. It will get increasingly uncomfortable for the establishment as they get their comeuppance for what they have already inflicted on the people. Did the establishment really believe that they were immune? Why yes, they did.

    • Peter Thomas says

      Mar 9, 2020 at 7:35 pm

      tgusa,islam is the pits..

      • tgusa says

        Mar 9, 2020 at 7:37 pm

        That is the understatement of the century, Peter Thomas.

    • Jeff says

      Mar 11, 2020 at 6:17 am

      Islam is a false BS religion and should be treated as such.

  7. Al says

    Mar 9, 2020 at 8:48 pm

    The trial was a painful reminder of the disconnect between two opposing worldviews: secular humanism vs. Islam.

    The victims and relatives of the victims made use of their right to ‘confront’ Gökmen Tanis with their pain and grief, apparently in an attempt to solicit even a glimmer of remorse.

    However, Tanis seemed to revel in the pain he had caused them and was indeed sorry – that he had not been able to cause more harm for his religion.

    On a side note, a Dutch curiosity is the self-imposed ban of the media to never use the full name of a suspect or a convict. Subsequently, relatively few people know his has last as all reporting refers to him as Gökmen T.

    Should his name become widely known it is not unlikely that he would receive a lesser sentence because his “good name and reputation” would be harmed by the public knowledge of his name.

    By the way, one of the people on the car claims that Tanis fired twice at him, but that the gun malfunctioned both times. However, the Dutch government denies his claim and is refusing to show him the video footage.

    • Westman says

      Mar 9, 2020 at 10:58 pm

      This is the same corrupt Dutch government that lies to its citizens about how Islam poses no danger while it busily prosecutes Geert Wilders for warning them.

  8. mortimer says

    Mar 9, 2020 at 11:32 pm

    Gökmen Tanis understood the RETRIBUTION DOCTRINE of Islam:

    He wrote: ‘I’m doing this for my belief. You are killing Muslims. You want to take our belief away from us, but it won’t work. Allah is great.’

    The Koran says:
    -K.11.173 “Believers, retaliation is decreed for you in bloodshed.”
    -K.2.178 “O you who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain.”
    -K.5:33 “The reprisal against those who wage war on Allah and His Messenger, and go about the earth corrupting it, is that they should be killed or crucified, or have their alternate hands and feet cut off, or be banished from the land.” Waging war against Allah is rejecting Him.”–Tafsir of Imam al-Bukhari

  9. Bikinis not Burkas says

    Mar 10, 2020 at 3:49 am

    It hinges on Quran 33:1
    O Prophet! Keep thy duty to Allah and obey not the disbelievers and the hypocrites. Lo! Allah is Knower, Wise.

  10. Goofy says

    Mar 10, 2020 at 9:51 am

    We must stop being ignorant about Islam and we must stop thinking the best of people, even those who have committed atrocities.

    We must accept that there are people who have committed their lives to hurt and humiliate others for the sake of their so-called religion and we must avoid the knee jerk reaction that they are mentally challenged and therefore not culpable or less culpable when they have committed crimes of unfathomable evil.

    Many of them have a low IQ which is helpful when you are a follower of Mohammed but this result of inbreeding and of growing up in an environment of absolute subjugation to stupidity cannot exonerate them.

    Let us forget about terrorism and let us simply recognise that this is the way committed Muslims behave and let us thereafter decide whether we can live with the enemy inside our walls.

  11. Keith Ryder says

    Mar 10, 2020 at 1:44 pm

    inject the fkn rat with pigs blood

  12. Stieve says

    Mar 10, 2020 at 3:58 pm

    Mentally diminished, as we see frequently, but still able to state clearly the reason for doing so (koran/allah/jihad)…

    Are they related?

    • SKA says

      Mar 12, 2020 at 5:16 am

      His diminished capacity needs to be further diminished to make him incapable of harm: total frontal lobotomy

  13. OLD GUY says

    Mar 11, 2020 at 11:20 am

    They assimilate well into our society, at least he knows international hand signals. This islamic wants to be a martyr, so grant him has wish and hang him.

  14. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 11, 2020 at 12:35 pm

    This Muslim/ jihadist shooter and murderer in the country of the Netherlands is a very harsh reminder of those violent and deadly Muslim migrants who have entered the different nations of Europe and commit crimes of the most vile ,brutal and heinous sort countries, as seen in this recent Muslim/jihadist shooting murders in that tram in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands is wicked enough Still this jihad affront also reveals the jihad minded Islamic contempt .dishonor and reproach towards the people of the Netherlands as well as Muslim malice toward the people of all other 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 reflected in the Bible .Which reads “When the wicked comes, contempt comes also; with dishonor comes reproach.” Proverbs 18:3. [N.K.J.V.]

    Furthermore, 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…”

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