I’ve been busy for a few days with child and chicken wrangling so I’ve not had a chance to write much recently. But I wanted to comment briefly on the Oslo incident where a Muslim decided that he could serve his deity the best by going out and killing gays.
Time Magazine said shortly after the latest Muslim murder rampage in Oslo :
A gunman opened fire in Oslo’s nightlife district early Saturday, killing two people and leaving more than 20 wounded in what the Norwegian security service called an “Islamist terror act” during the capital’s annual LGBTQ Pride festival.
Investigators said the suspect, identified as a 42-year-old Norwegian citizen originally from Iran, was arrested after opening fire at three locations in downtown Oslo.
Police said two men, one in his 50s and and the other his 60s, died in the shootings. Ten people were treated for serious injuries, but none of them was believed to be in life-threatening condition. Eleven others had minor injuries.
So far so not that unusual. A Muslim pumped up on Koran derived hatred and unable to reinterpret is belief system in a manner conducive to that of a civilised society, decides to go out and kill those whom Islam vehemently dislikes. Same old same old you might say.
But what is unusual is how quickly the news was revealed in the mainstream media that this was an Islamic terror incident. There was only the briefest of forays into the ‘mental health’ excuses that have so often followed such atrocities before honesty about this incident, the perpetrator and the motive came out.
By the location and timing of this disgusting crime it’s more than a little obvious that this Muslim savage was deliberately targetting LGB people. He did not attack the area because of its vibrant nightlife, this savage murderously attacked people because it was full of gay people and would be even fuller than usual because of the chronological closeness to Oslo’s Pride parade. The parade was later cancelled because of the perceived ongoing threat to the parade from similar attackers.
I commend the honesty of those media outlets that said as early as possible and much earlier than has been the case in the past with some European media platforms, that this was an Islam inspired attack. This is a marked difference between how too much of the media handled the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Florida USA in 2016 where some commentors, most notably the British Leftist one Owen Jones, followed the homophobia line as regards blame rather than the Islamist line which turned out to be the truth.
Maybe the media are starting to realise that shielding Islam from criticism after Islam based atrocities or obfuscating motives by using the term ‘mental health’ to provide a reasoning for attacks is now seen as complete and utter dishonesty? Could we be on the brink of a situation where media that would once have merrily gone down any route except the true one to find explanations have decided to be more honest? Let’s hope so.
The chilling reality is we have hundreds of potential terrorists swarming into the country across the channel every day. We don’t know who they are, where they come from or what they intend to do when they get here. Having spent some time in France and seen the thousands of mostly young men of unknown origin waiting to gain access to UK by any means possible I am truly worried about our security in our own land.
The lack of control as to who enters is indeed the problem. We have no way of knowing whether the cbannel invaders are terrorists or not.
Yes, but we also have had so many mentally ill teenagers allowed guns especially in the US who have carried out so many tragic school attacks in recent years without an ideology such as Islam. Could it be that Islamist murderers have a similar psychiatric trait?
I believe that its very obvious that Islamist murderers are motivated by an ideology unlike the majority of the mass shooters in the USA where there is often a mental health angle. What’s interesting is that there were far more guns and more powerful guns available in the USA in the 1920’s but very few of these tragic shootings. It’s only really since the 1960’s that mass shootings have become common in the USA despite the countryhaving a long history of private gun ownership. For me the issue isn’t availability of guns, it’s an issue of there being more disturbed people living in communities that have become atomised and therefore are not able or willing to give support for such people or head off any potential tragedies.