Christmas market attack in Germany tonight😥 article linked

[Treetops11]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/dec/20/germany-christmas-market-madgeburg
I have attended many Christmas markets over the years. They are so crowded especially at the moment as German children finished school for the Christmas holidays. Frightening, my prayers are with all the victim's 🙏

That's not what I said. I've said what some words mean and what the voice shouting appears to be saying in the video.

Does it not also have a wider colloquial meaning - like 'Thank God' in English?

We have concrete bollards around pedestrian areas for safety, not solely from terrorist attacks but from accidents too.

Do you need help?

No. No we do not.

Why the armed police then?

Not really no.

The minimising and gas lighting on this thread is appalling.

This is exactly the reason why people are moving towards hard right political parties.

Allahu Akbar is a widely used phrase in conversation, as are phrases like Alhamdulillah, JazakAllah, MashaAllah, SubhanAllah, etc. It can be used in multiple ways - as a celebration, at a time of grief or struggle, in a time of uncertainty... So, it can be used in the expression of a variety of concepts and emotions.

More facts are emerging

https://www.ft.com/content/df017b42-22f9-4db8-b51c-7b087863a943?desktop=true&segmentId=7c8f09b9-9b61-4fbb-9430-9208a9e233c8#myft:notification:daily-email:content

It’s good to take sensible precautions, it’s good to look into why this happened and take action, that is not the same as using what happened to justify racism and spread hysteria.

We don't want facts here @DuncinToffee !! Give us more twitter spats!! And unhinged emoting on SM

Well at the moment we are all supposed to believe alleged "twitter posts" from the mainstream media who always refer to twitter as a hotbed of misinformation!
The critical thinkers ain't buying it!

Police in Germany are always armed. It's pretty normal in much of Europe.

Much like its Christianity derived equivalents, in fact. And in any case it is not what the attacker said.

Oh no Klatter, I'm sorry to hear that . Hopefully it is just a weirdo but I'm sure the German authorities will be taking it seriously.
I was just reading security is really tightening up ahead of New Yeas across Europe so I'm sure authorities will be following all leads.

And usually shouted just before some one is about to murder several people

Irony

Well you show us time and time again your 'lack of critical thinking'

Most recent example being you promoting a twitter spat as evidence of islamic terrorism

I rest my case

Yep this poster is so clueless & uninformed Allahu Akbar is a slur! Absolute ignorance.

We are in the U.K where its not normal AT ALL.

Stop gaslighting

@pointythings is absolutely clueless. She said that Allahu Akbar is a slur! What ignorance towards Muslim people who consider it a very sacred blessing. Spreading misinformation.

She didn't, she pointed out that using th word 'Aloo' instead of 'Allahu' was

Good to see you managed to google the right word, will be helpful with your asylum claim

Oh FFS just because some people are trying to have a nuanced debate it doesn't mean we will be inviting pillaging hordes of muslim radicals into the country.
A known supporter of a right-wing party anti-muslim has claimed so many victims and the first thing people can come up with is spouting right-wing and anti-muslim rhetoric
That's insane.

No she snidely corrected the ops spelling & said the phrase was a slur! Stop trying to twist her ignorant , misinformed post. Let's hope the poster educated herself.

I have liked a number of posts & shared posts belonging to the Green Party , I am not a supporter but some of their proposals I approved of. The same with other political parties. Was this man a member of said party?

Why not say "their reasons"

You got upset and accused people of trying to shut you down.
But then you try to tell others what to say.

The IRA had their reasons. ISIS have their reasons. Other terrorist groups have their reasons.

You may or may not agree with a terrorist groups reasons. And in some people's minds, they wouldn't describe these groups as terrorists.

People can justify any kind of awful action and can give themselves a reason why they did it.

Radicalisation is a massive part of that. I think that some of the posts on here could help build a picture in some people's minds of them and us, cause division and potentially help radicalise someone to hate another group.

We need to ask ourselves who can be radicalised, what does radicalisation look like and how are people radicalised - and what then leads them to commit acts of terror.

I think that there are people on many sides of debates being radicalised now, and they probably don't even know they are being radicalised.