Truck driven into crowd in Stockholm - No Speculation

pumpkin4life

Europe is an insane asylum run by the inmates.



RIP to the victims.

Lovely Bloke

Depp wrote: »

look we get confirmation isis is involved ill be firmly encamped on the racist islamophobes side but no point jumping the gun at the same time!

Good for you, and more power to you.

It's very clear what's gone on here, according to Swedish police reports.

Depp

Lovely Bloke wrote: »

Good for you, and more power to you.

It's very clear what's gone on here, according to Swedish police reports.

any links to them? wouldnt mind having a look! reports of shootings at the scene seems to count out the ''heart attack'' angle anyway!

Donal55

Your Face wrote: »

You're all over this thread like a rash.

3 one liners including this one. Doubt it. Just outside the shops waiting for the mrs!

Tabnabs

Truck was stolen/hijacked. Talk of three armed men seen emerging from truck after incident and one man has been arrested in the vicinity of the crash.

endacl

Donal55 wrote: »

3 one liners including this one. Doubt it. Just outside the shops waiting for the mrs!

Txt her. Tell her to hurry dafuq up.

Lovely Bloke

3 men? so it's more than some "lone maniac" then

unlikely to be 3 brainwashed Magnus Holmsson's either.

rob316

Just commonplace now unfortunately.

andekwarhola

Depp wrote: »

Can we wait till we have more info before we turn this into an isis apologists vs racist islamophobes debate?

Who do you think would be behind this? The PFJ? Legion of Mary?

Depp

Police seemingly telling people to get out of city centre, other unconfirmed reports one or more attackers tunisian citizens...just waiting for the hordes blaming this on trump!

gw80

Tabnabs wrote: »

Truck was stolen/hijacked. Talk of three armed men seen emerging from truck after incident and one man has been arrested in the vicinity of the crash.

Be interesting to see if the Swedish government give there names or show there faces,

Depp

andekwarhola wrote: »

Who do think would be behind this? The PFJ? Legion of Mary?

gave the situation benefit of the doubt! could have been an accident but with info out since its clearly not!

SEPT 23 1989

Hopefully the truck driver is ok these hard working men are getting it in the neck literally by these fcuking animals

RobertKK

Per Nyberg a Swedish journalist on CNN says there are unconfirmed reports of other incidents in the city.

Cheerful Spring

I saw a picture online of truck rammed inside a department store. Just think of the mess if a truck smashed into your local Penney's department store. I be surprised if it just 1 or 2 people dead here?

SterlingArcher

The Swedish people will be told go back to work. Yeah stick it to the terrorists by acting like it didn't happen...don't question a god damn thing about the disastrous immigration policy.

No doubt this is a response to Swedens constant meddling in the middle east.

joe40

pumpkin4life wrote: »

Europe is an insane asylum run by the inmates.



RIP to the victims.

Absolutely RIP to the victims and everyone wants to stop it.
What do you suggest doing that would make people call you a racist or bigot?

EagererBeaver

murpho999 wrote: »

Aren't all the major religions peaceful?

Not excusing their behaviour but its extremist muslims carrying out these acts.

Christians have done the same too.

IRA a good example as they thought that their catholic god was on their side.

This might be the single most idiotic thing I've ever read on Boards.

Il Fascista

EagererBeaver wrote: »

This might be the single most idiotic thing I've ever read on Boards.

Is this your first terrorism thread? We get this every time.

masculinist

its obviously the fault of one of those white cisgendered Swedish males and their toxic masculinity . Really they are such mean people arent they. They are so mean to minorities and never welcome new cultures with open arms and they constantly oppress and invade other... oh wait nevermind

King George VI

Il Fascista wrote: »

Is this your first terrorism thread? We get this every time.

"No" - guy on his second terrorism thread.

BlinkingLights

There is quite likely an element of copycatting and online radicalisation going on with these.

The only way to break the cycle is to tackle the ideology. How one does that however is another question entirely.

Irish Praetorian

murpho999 wrote: »

Aren't all the major religions peaceful?

Not excusing their behaviour but its extremist muslims carrying out these acts.

Christians have done the same too.

IRA a good example as they thought that their catholic god was on their side.

On a few technical points, the IRA was closer to a revolutionary-socialist mindset than a theocratic one - I think they would have been more interested in having 'the people' on their side rather than 'the lord'.

In any case, the problem that remains is that while you might look back in history (or indeed the far flung parts of the world) to find Christians doing similar acts in the name of religion, when it comes to the sheer death toll of attacks and proximity to major European centres, Islamist attack pretty much have the monopoly.

On the question of wider peacefulness or culpability, to be frank I think the major problem that remains (which might not be 100 miles from the situation of Irish people during the troubles) is that the attitudes of the majority don't really matter, it is the violent minority that determines the course of affairs and that violent minority has been rather busy either in terrorist attacks within Europe or fighting for violent Jihadist groups abroad. I believe one stunning statistic showed as many or even more British Muslims fighting for ISIS than fighting in the British army.

Of course, this is taking the position that there is a binary state for Muslims as either loyal citizens or violent jihadists, which is clearly false. This presents another problem, namely the issue of non-violent extremists, that is to say populations of European Muslims who though non-violent, hold utterly abominable views on things like gay people, adultery and apostasy. Polling by Pew and others has shown some rather disturbing trends which would make people uncomfortable even if there was not one bomb involved.

So this essentially leaves the fairly troubling situation of a small number of violent extremists, backed up by a somewhat larger number of supporters existing within a demographic with still larger (albeit non-violent) support for many of those violent jihadis objectives. To put it another way, you have on the one hand the problem of the guys who attacked Charlie Hebdo, but then you have the problem of the people who essentially took the line that CH was asking for trouble.

Now this is and of itself would be pretty problematic for any society to get a grip on, except in addition to all this we have the problem of popular attitudes (which we've seen parodied in this thread already) to the issue which boil down to wanting to brush the problem under the carpet, decry anyone saying there is a problem as a racist, or just diminish the problem as insignificant. Surprisingly, that doesn't seem to be working any-more...

biko

On Swedish radio police says
3 dead
8 inured
1 arrest

ziggyman17

Sadly this was always on the cards to happen in Sweden.. Their policy of letting anybody into their country to live, was always going to come back and bite them on the arse..

judeboy101

Mormon extremists?

RebelButtMunch

Bacchus wrote: »

Reports of at least three people killed and you think you're being clever with a comment like that?

Whether you missed the point or not, you jumped to conclusions.

masculinist

biko wrote: »

On Swedish radio police says
3 dead
8 inured
1 arrest

One Swedish male was arrested for mansplaining in the aftermath of the attack.

Lovely Bloke

judeboy101 wrote: »

Mormon extremists?

Could be Zoroastrians

Well known for it.

jacksie66

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Depp

murpho999 wrote: »

Aren't all the major religions peaceful?

Not excusing their behaviour but its extremist muslims carrying out these acts.

Christians have done the same too.

IRA a good example as they thought that their catholic god was on their side.

Agree in part, Islam and Islamism are definitely different things, but can we not have this dissolve into a thread about how sh!t the ira/crusades were?

alchemist33

pumpkin4life wrote: »

Europe is an insane asylum run by the inmates.



RIP to the victims.

RIP indeed, and hopefully the bastards who did it, and anyone who aided them, are stopped and stopped fast, by whatever means.

But the cartoon is trite at best, and a load of bull at worst. 2Nothing" is not being done. Police and security services have never been so active around Europe against terrorism. It's near the top of the agenda every time leaders meet. Everyone wants it to stop, not just those who want no refugees.

It would be more accurate to say that the people termed "racists, bigot, hater" are those who can't see any difference between average Muslims and Muslim extremists, not people saying "stop".

SterlingArcher

Lovely Bloke wrote: »

Could be Zoroastrians

Well known for it.

It's the gender neutrals.

Hey can someone bring up the Ira. I'm not feeling enough self loathing or guilt up in here.

Lovely Bloke

IRA!

CRUSADES HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO MEANS WE DESERVE THIS!!

BUT BUT BUT WE BOMBED THEM!!!!

Give it a rest lads.

mac.in

Some religious orgasm might have driven the driver to do so.:(

masculinist

SterlingArcher wrote: »

Could get a truck and fill it full of explosives and drive it into a mosque full of muzzrats.

Woops I thought you were looking for actual suggestions.

If you draw parallels between attacks in the West and the Ulster Unionist reaction to the IRA , history indicates this might unfortunately be what eventually does happen. Those with that mentality will eventually find justification in blaming whole communities. And that will increase ballkanisation. A lot further down the road but the pace of attacks is accelerating. I think we need to learn from history before history is repeated.

TheQuietFella

Round 'em all up and send them home!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2a6-1UD1kI

It was a social experiment that didn't work!

Guy Sajer

We're going to need more 'nothing happened in Sweden yesterday' videos.

skankkuvhima

jacksie66 wrote: »

Happened the same day the US attacked Syria. Deflect the attention away from that..

You reckon Trump was driving the truck?

SterlingArcher

masculinist wrote: »

If you draw parallels between attacks in the West and the Ulster Unionist reaction to the IRA , history indicates this might unfortunately be what eventually does happen. Those with that mentality will eventually find justification in blaming whole communities. And that will increase ballkanisation. A lot further down the road but the pace of attacks is accelerating. I think we need to learn from history before history is repeated.

I guess you missed my post about someone Dropping the Ra bomb.

You know the romans slaughtered the Jews?

masculinist

jacksie66 wrote: »

Happened the same day the US attacked Syria. Deflect the attention away from that..

It may have escaped your attention that 'US' and 'Sweden' are pronounced and spelled completely differently. This is like being bullied at work and then going home to beat on the wife and kids . The Swedes have given nothing but love to those ingrates.

Widdershins

Winterlong wrote: »

Not really. In the past terrorists blew up bombs or shot people. Now they simply get in a vehicle and drive in to crowds. I have not heard of this as a terrorist tactic before Nice.

It's been used as a mode of attack in the Middle East and on Israel for a while. It was recommended by what's-his-name who issues the instructions to ISIS 'fighters'. The other one that has stuck in my head since I first read those instructions, was the poisoning of water supplies and, I think, food.

chupacabra

Confirmed terror attack.

rob316

Swedish PM says its a terror attack. RIP to the victims and a speedy recovery to the injured.

Edit: 3 confirmed dead, other reports say 5

whoopsadoodles

biko wrote: »

On Swedish radio police says
3 dead
8 inured
1 arrest

All yours OK biko?

pumpkin4life

joe40 wrote: »

Absolutely RIP to the victims and everyone wants to stop it.
What do you suggest doing that would make people call you a racist or bigot?

To start off?

Proper border controls and a complete ban on Muslim immigrants and refugees.

RebelButtMunch

chupacabra wrote: »

Confirmed terror attack.

Interesting that the words terror attack are used, and not terrorist. Not a slight on you though, just an observation

masculinist

SterlingArcher wrote: »

I guess you missed my post about someone Dropping the Ra bomb.

You know the romans slaughtered the Jews?

yep . never saw whatever it was. However I'm not on a Terror attack in Sweden thread in order to discuss who was better than whom in the 'troubles' . Thats a mugs game and extremely counterproductive now that the Good Friday Agreement is in place and the institutions are embedded.

SuprSi

I'm in Stockholm now, just arrived for the weekend. Got the news on the train on the way from the airport. Our hotel is right beside where it happened. Lots of understandably upset people, huge amount of armed police. We've been advised to stay inside the hotel until the all clear is given.

Omackeral

Bubbaclaus wrote: »

24/7 media will be causing the sky to fall again today I see.

Go on, trot it out there... Europe has never been safer.