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ahojunk

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I wonder if Merkel will review her policy of allowing mass influx of unvetted Mid East refugees to Germany.
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It's too late now. The horse has bolted.

More than a million refugees have entered Germany. I suspect that a small number of them are terrorists pretending to be refugees.

Merkel is also forcing east European countries to take some of the asylum seekers. But they are resisting.
 
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Monday 25 July 2016 06.39 BST
Germany bombing: Syrian man kills himself, injures 12, in Ansbach explosion
A 27-year-old man who had been denied asylum dies after ‘deliberate explosion’ in southern German town

A Syrian man killed himself and injured 12 people after a “deliberate explosion” outside a music festival in the German town of Ansbach.

Authorities said the 27-year-old had been denied asylum a year ago and had a history of making attempts on his own life.

It is believed a device he was carrying exploded although it is not clear whether it was a suicide bombing or whether the man intended to plant it and harm others.

At a media conference in the early hours of Monday the Bavarian interior minister, Joachim Herrmann, said the man had attempted to gain entrance to the Ansbach open music festival.

More than 2,000 people had been in the festival crowd in the small town of 40,000 people southwest of Nuremberg that is also home to a US Army base.

Herrmann said the man was carrying a backpack at the time of the blast, at about 10pm on Sunday, but was turned away at the entrance to the festival.

The backpack contained metal items used in “wood manufacturing” and could have killed many more people, he said.

Hermann did not specify whether these items were nails or screws but he said that because of the contents a terrorist motivation for the incident could not be ruled out.

However, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in Ansbach said the attacker’s motive was not clear.

“If there is an Islamist link or not is purely speculation at this point,” said the spokesman, Michael Schrotberger.

Hermann said the man’s request for asylum was rejected a year ago, but he was allowed to remain in
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on account of the situation in Syria.

“It’s terrible ... that someone who came into our country to seek shelter has now committed such a heinous act and injured a large number of people who are at home here, some seriously,” he said.

“It’s a further, horrific attack that will increase the already growing security concerns of our citizens. We must do everything possible to prevent the spread of such violence in our country by people who came here to ask for asylum.”

Herrmann added it was unclear if the man had planned to kill only himself or “take others with him into death”.

At least 12 people are reported to have been injured in the blast – three of those are believed to be in a serious condition.

Shortly after the explosion, the mayor of Ansbach, a town near Nuremberg in Bavaria, said the blast had been caused deliberately.

A police spokesman said: “An explosion went off in the city centre and a man, which the latest enquiries show caused it, was killed in the event.”

After the explosion the entire area was evacuated and the music festival cancelled.

Thomas Debinski, who was interviewed by Sky News, described a “disturbing” scene as people in the small city came to realise a violent act had taken place.

“People were definitely panicking, the rumour we were hearing immediately was that there had been a gas explosion,” he said.

“But then people came past and said it was a rucksack that had exploded. Someone blew themselves up. After what just happened in Munich it’s very disturbing to think what can happen so close to you in such a small town.”

Police blocked off the town centre and emergency services were on the scene. Bomb experts were sent to determine the cause of the explosion.

The explosion, which followed the
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, occurred at a wine bar called Eugene’s, the Nürnberger Nachrichten newspaper reported.

Police had said earlier the explosion might have been caused by a gas leak.

But a spokesman for the Bavarian interior ministry later said the explosion was not an accident and appeared to have been intentional.

“The explosion was set off deliberately,” said Michael Siefener, a spokesman for the regional interior ministry.

Germany, Bavaria in particular, has been on edge after a deadly rampage at a Munich shopping mall on Friday in which nine people were killed, and an axe attack on a train near Wuerzburg last Monday in which five people were wounded.

Both came shortly after a Tunisian man in a truck killed 84 people when he ploughed through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in the French city of Nice, on the French Riviera.

Bavarian public broadcaster Bayerische Rundfunk reported that about 200 police officers and 350 rescue personnel were brought in following the explosion in Ansbach.
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Janiz

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So much for the big two religious institution of "peace" are going to war at each other. Hopefully the rest of the world doesn't get burned by this 21st century "crusade".:(:mad:
The days of Christian Western Europe are gone after WWII aside from Italy, Spain, Portugal and southern Germany (Bayern). The only people who pray to God in Paris right now are Muslims...
 

Equation

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The days of Christian Western Europe are gone after WWII aside from Italy, Spain, Portugal and southern Germany (Bayern). The only people who pray to God in Paris right now are Muslims...

What's the difference it's still a part of the two big religious institution of "peace" right?
 

Janiz

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What's the difference it's still a part of the two big religious institution of "peace" right?
Catholic church is against using violence towards followers of other religions and is openly against discrimination etc. There are surely more Christians around the world who get killed and discriminated around the world (mainly in Africa) because of their believs than any other religion's followers right now so I would call the way you write about those matters as pretty bad... It's a serious problem.
 

Equation

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Catholic church is against using violence towards followers of other religions and is openly against discrimination etc. There are surely more Christians around the world who get killed and discriminated around the world (mainly in Africa) because of their believs than any other religion's followers right now so I would call the way you write about those matters as pretty bad... It's a serious problem.

Yes, but what about Christian dominated countries with their poor relationship with Muslim countries that had oppressed them for decades after WW2 and the caused for deaths of millions ever since? It's not like a Muslim just woke up one day and decided to kill a Christian, something has to happen to them in order for them to react or fight back in their belief. :rolleyes:o_O
 

Janiz

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It's not like a Muslim just woke up one day and decided to kill a Christian, something has to happen to them in order for them to react or fight back in their belief. :rolleyes:o_O
Islam isn't one-coloured like Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants. It's much more varied. There are people who use it for bad matters and there isn't anyone who have any sort of power over them, no hierarchy. It was expansionist from the beginning. It's not only about killing Christians but they have even less respect for atheists. Buddhism, Hinduism - those are their foes the same as Christians. Any other religion I mean. Not all of the Muslims are bad people - but those who obey bad religious leaders and are ready to kill anyone in the name of God are out there.
 
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Japan knife attack: At least 19 dead
At least 19 people were killed and 26 injured in a stabbing spree at a facility for disabled people west of Tokyo, making it one of Japan's deadliest mass killings since World War II.Nine men and 10 women, ranging in age from 18 to 70, were killed in the attack.
Officer Satomi Kurihara of the Sagamihara Fire Department confirmed the death toll at the Tsukui Yamayurien facility in Sagamihara, a residential area approximately 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of the capital.
Satoshi Uematsu, a 26-year-old who worked at the facility until February, broke in through a window about 2 a.m. Tuesday (1 p.m. ET Monday), Kanagawa Prefecture officials said at a news conference.
Police said they received a call from an employee of the facility reporting the attack, according to state broadcaster NHK.
About 3 a.m., Uematsu turned himself in at the Sagamihara police station, carrying a bloodstained knife and cloth, officials said.

Former employee
He had been working there since 2012, Motoko Rich, the New York Times' Tokyo bureau chief, told CNN. It is unclear what he did there, nor if he resigned or was fired from his job at the home.
He had trained to be a teacher and former colleagues said he was personable and good with children. Neighbors were shocked to hear of his involvement in the incident.
While the motivation for the attack remains unknown, Rich reported that the suspect had taken a letter to the Japanese legislature outlining a society in which euthanasia of the disabled was accepted.
Of the 26 injured, 13 are "severely" hurt, according to a local fire official. Ten suffered moderate injuries and the remaining three minor injuries. They are being treated in a number of local hospitals.
In a brief press conference, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga confirmed that there was no terror link with ISIS.
He added that the government would analyze information from the city government and the police department, and that the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare would ensure this kind of incident does not happen again.

Serene location
The 7.5-acre site in the bucolic mountain town is home to 149 residents, ranging in age from teenagers to those in their 70s, according to the Kanagawa prefectural website. It can house a total of 160 people. Just under a third of those living at the facility are elderly.
A total of 222 people work at the facility, but only nine -- one of whom was a security guard -- were on the premises when the incident occurred.
The incident sent shock waves through Japan, where mass killings are rare. Because gun ownership is highly restricted, mass stabbings and poisonings are more common, CNN's Paula Hancocks said.
In June 2001,
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when a former janitor entered an Ikeda elementary school in Osaka and began stabbing students at random.
In June 2008, a man ran over a group of people with his truck and then stabbed 18,
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seven, in Tokyo's famous Akihabara gaming district.
The biggest loss of life in Japan's recent history was in 1982, when 24 people died after a Japan Air Lines pilot
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into Tokyo Bay.
The last time Sagamihara made global headlines was in 2012 when Naoko Kikuchi, a member of the
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responsible for the 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway, was arrested there. The attack killed 13 people and injured more than 5,500 people.
The cult, Aum Shinrikyo, was responsible for
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the previous year that killed seven people and sickened some 200 more.

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