mikelincs

Now Japan, 19 residents of a care hope for mentally disturbed people killed by an ex employee, with a knife, many more injured. He went to the police and gave himself up, saying he had done it to end their suffering. When he left his employment there he did spend some time in a psychiatric unit as a patient, and did say he wanted to end the suffering of the people there.

Japan knife attack: 19 killed at care centre in Sagamihara - BBC News

IKnowNothing

And back to France....

France knife attack: Two men armed with knives 'take hostages in Normandy church' | Europe | News | The Independent

Couple of nuns and a priest allegedly ... Wonder where the knifemen are from.

iggle

I might make a global thread, "Update on attacks" Thats not sarcastic

mikelincs

Priest is dead, as are the two knifemen.

France church attack: Priest killed in hostage taking near Rouen - BBC News

DXBtoDOH

DT reporting the attackers shouted 'daesh', other sources reveal no motivation yet. We'll see who's right.

Millhouse

at least we now know what's inside Pandora's box. Thanks to Merkel for opening it.

redShark

and now over to America:

Muslim doctor shot near Houston mosque on way to prayer | Reuters

scrubbedexpat141

'Revenge' attacks are hateful.

I blame Trump.

iggle

I am not a trump supporter, but what has it got to do with him?

scrubbedexpat141

Think bigger picture.

Trump is the posterboy for the internally facing hatred. EG: 'regular' Americans killing / attacking American Muslims.

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of people who will do this without encouragement or without a figurehead and political leader alluding to racial hatred....but it doesn't help.

DXBtoDOH

Looks like it happened a few weeks ago. In a poor neighbourhood in America. Could be a racial crime, then again given it's a poor American neighbourhood, could have been a robbery as well. They love their guns in the US

And unfortunately (or fortunately for you) it doesn't demonstrate an ongoing pattern of violence against Muslims in America (by non-Muslims, which is probably what you were hoping for).

IKnowNothing

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/150472...ws-_-526913645

And again, yes I know it's the Sun but it was on my Twitter feed.

iggle

Where are the guns coming from?? I know we have freedom of movement...so a gun could technically be bought in Lithuania, and taken to France quite easily.

iggle

Brexit, what a fantastic idea!! If we had a vote today, it'd be 60%+ leave

Boomhauer

A very rare occurrence and attacks against Muslims pales into insignificance compared to attacks against non-Muslims by Jihadis. The West allows Muslims to live there and retain their religion, which is in stark contrast to Muslim nations' attitude towards non Muslims.

The US government even goes soo far as to deliberately try and censor the Islamic idealogical motivation for the Orlando shooting. Could you imagine a Gulf country trying to cover-up for non-Muslims that attack its citizens.