Terrorist attack in Nice - woman beheaded.

[Bobby]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fran ... SKBN27E17D

Three dead as woman beheaded
in knife attack at French church

By Eric Gaillard

2 Min Read
NICE, France (Reuters) - A woman was beheaded by an attacker with a knife who also killed two other people at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, police said, in an incident the city’s mayor described as terrorism.

Mayor Christian Estrosi said on Twitter the knife attack had happened in or near the city’s Notre Dame church and that police had detained the attacker.

Police said three people were confirmed to have died in the attack and several were injured.

A police source said a woman was decapitated. French politician Marine Le Pen also spoke of a decapitation having occurred in the attack.

The French anti-terrorist prosecutor’s department said it had been asked to investigate the attack.

Reuters journalists at the scene said police armed with automatic weapons had put up a security cordon around the church, which is on Nice’s Jean Medecin avenue, the city’s main shopping thoroughfare. Ambulances and fire service vehicles were also at the scene.

The attack comes while France is still reeling from the beheading earlier this month of French middle school teacher Samuel Paty in Paris by a man of Chechen origin.


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The attacker had said he wanted to punish Paty for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a civics lesson.

It was not immediately clear what the motive was for the Nice attack, or if there was any connection to the cartoons, which Muslims consider to be blasphemous.

Since Paty’s killing, French officials - backed by many ordinary citizens - have re-asserted the right to display the cartoons, and the images have been widely displayed at marches in solidarity with the killed teacher.

That has prompted an outpouring of anger in parts of the Muslim world, with some governments accusing French leader Emmanuel Macron of pursuing an anti-Islam agenda.

Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Writing by Christian Lowe; Editing by Giles Elgood

[Bobby]

Muslims for sure -
idiots brought them here too -
they will start cutting our heads off before long.

[Black Orchid]

The religion of peace

[Bobby]

The religion of peace

Multiculturalism is strength

diversity is strength.

[Black Orchid]

The loony left would agree with you.

[Bobby]

The loony left would agree with you.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-29/ ... d/12828942

The man suspected of carrying out the fatal knife attack kept shouting
"Allahu Akbar"
even after he had been arrested by police, Mr Estrosi told reporters.

[Texan]

Why did they even mention automatic weapons? It would have been Nice if someone could have protected those 3 victims from the terrorist attack with a gun. The last terrorist attack in Nice was stopped by a good guy with a gun only after the terrorist already killed 80 defenseless people. The only thing these animals understand is violence and they will continue to use it until they are stopped with legal defensive violence as a deterrent. It's obscene that a government allows these animals to invade their country and not allow It's citizens to protect themselves. What works at a national level also works at a personal level. Peace through strength is called for in these times of covert invasion.

I try hard not to push gun rights on people who don't want them, but government cannot guarantee protection for its people and the people should have access to the tools to protect themselves and get out of the way of the peaceful law abiding folk when they do defend themselves.

[Bobby]

France needs to bring back the noose.

[Bobby]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 24838.html



Muslims have a right to ‘kill millions of French people' over past actions, former Malaysian PM suggests

Former leader criticises Macron over defence of controversial Charlie Hebdo cartoons
Conrad Duncan
@theconradduncan
4 hours ago
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A former prime minister of Malaysia has sparked outrage by suggesting that Muslims have a right “to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past”.

Mahathir Mohamad made the comments just after a woman was beheaded and two others killed in a knife attack at a church in Nice in southern France on Thursday.

On 16 October, a teacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded outside his school in a suburb of Paris after showing his class a controversial set of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad which were republished by the magazine Charlie Hebdo in September.

Two weeks before that, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, had sparked criticism when he set out a plan to combat “separatism” and claimed that Islam was “experiencing a crisis today, all over the world”.

The former Malaysian leader, who was prime minister from 2018 until March this year, commented on the murder on Thursday by arguing that Muslims would not approve of the killing but warned that France should “not show disrespect for the values of others”.

“Macron is not showing that he is civilised. He is very primitive in blaming the religion of Islam and Muslims for the killing of the insulting school teacher,” Mr Mahathir said.
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“It is not in keeping with the teachings of Islam.”

He added: “But irrespective of the religion professed, angry people kill. The French in the course of their history have killed millions of people. Many were Muslims.

“Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.

“But by and large, the Muslims have not applied the ‘eye for an eye’ law. Muslims don’t. The French shouldn’t. Instead the French should teach their people to respect other people’s feelings.”
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Mr Mahathir’s statement led to widespread calls for Twitter to remove his posts, with some users describing them as an incitement to violence.

“Take this down urgently, @TwitterSupport,” Brian Klaas, an associate professor in global politics at University College London, wrote in response to the tweets.

“It's an incitement to mass killing by a former prime minister of Malaysia with more than a million followers. How has this been allowed to stay up for over an hour?!”

[Black Orchid]

Expect to see more attacks.

Macron's defence of the media's right to mock religion -- as exemplified by Charlie Hebdo's blasphemous cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed -- has stirred angry protests across Turkey and swathes of the Muslim world.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday became the latest Islamic figure to criticise the French president, saying his defence of cartoons of the prophet was a "stupid act" and an "insult" to those who voted for him.

Macron's defence of Charlie Hebdo's right to publish drawings of the prophet, which is forbidden under Islam, came after the brutal murder on October 16 of a school teacher who had shown cartoons to pupils during a class discussion about freedom of speech.

Over the last week, protests and rallies have taken place in many Muslim-majority countries to denounce Macron.

Tens of thousands marched Tuesday through the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.

In Syria, protesters burned pictures of Macron and French flags, while others rallied across the Indian city of Mumbai and parts of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.

"If the statesmen of Europe want peace and stability in their countries, they must honour the dignity of Muslims, respecting their values," protester Ozgur Bursali said at a rally outside the French embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday wrote to the leaders of Muslim countries calling on them to act together against Islamophobia, while a leading Kuwaiti supermarket chain said that most of its stores had stripped their shelves of French products.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/turkish ... im-2317264