Truck driven into crowd in Stockholm - No Speculation

BoatMad wrote: »

gun crime in the US, will kill more people then radical Islam will ever in Europe

To be fair they also manage to carry on a fairly open and lengthy argument on the role of guns in the us, something we might consider doing.

C Montgomery Gurns II wrote: »

I sympathise with the individuals killed and wounded on a personal level, but do I sympathise with the state of Sweden, with the Swedish electorate?

As cold as it sounds, not really.

They elect clowns who have overseen an epidemic of rape, murder, no go zones, welfare dependency, extremism.

The poster display a complete and wilful lack of understanding of Sweden,

They tolerate a media which doesn't even report this type of thing.

No evidence offered by the poster, a simple factcheck will display his complete lack of knowledge

They mock and abuse civil servants such as the policeman a couple of weeks back who said most of his criminal caseload concerned new arrivals who would never be deported.

Mock and abuse ..... provide material evidence

Sweden doesn't prosecute returning ISIS fighters. It doesn't ban them or strip them of citizenship. It has a programme to try and placate them by offering them improved benefits and housing upon their return.

IN general countries do not prosecute citizens that commit crimes elsewhere ( with the exception of sex crimes in very specific situations ) , they certainly do not strip them of citizenship ( I dont even see how you would do that anyway , to a native born citizen )

Swedes were falling over themselves to take Donald Trump's comments about "last night in Sweden" deliberately out of context. Trying to paint it as a non existant terror attack when what he was referring to was a documentary he had watched the previous night.

Trump was and is an idiot .most of hat he says is just TV junk

Sweden is, in effect, a loser country that is reaping what it sows. Along with Germany, Canada under that gimp Treadeau and Holland- they had their chance with Wilders last month and they blew it. Straight Dutch men are currently walking the streets holding in hands in solidarity with a couple who were gay bashed by.....do I even need to tell you who.

Wilds was never going to win , he's not that popular in Holland, Sweden has a higher standard of life then the US and many other countries . Your comments are racist , ill researched and just plain ignorant

And the fact is, we have to ask ourselves. Are we a loser country? Or on the way to becoming one?

Who is us, you certainly dont speaks for me

In the midst of the biggest housing crisis this state has ever witnessed

facts suggest otherwise

housing is allocated to new arrivals within 3 months of coming here.

temporary housing, or perhaps you might put them all up in your front bedroom or have them all sleep on a roundabout

These people are subject to, at best, rudimentary background checks. We are a country with a media that refuses to publish the truth about Ibrahim Halawa and his family.

AN irish lad, gets caught up in a protest ( in itself nothing wrong with that ) and gets jailed for years without a trial .....

We are a country that covers up the nationality/ background of those involved in a gang rape last year. We have taken zero action against the 30 plus Irish residents/ citizens who have fought with ISIS. We took 17 years to deport an ISIS recruiter to Jordan only a few weeks ago (and now our state is funding a case via legal aid to try and bring him back home. I wonder is his council house in South Dublin lying empty in case he returns?)

nationality in rape , is irrelevant

We are not quite at the level of the cuckistani nations like Germany, Canada and Sweden, but we are on the right track.

given the tiny numbers of refugees ( we agreed 4000, have accepted only 1000) I see little problem developing here


You really need to get out more

Is this Islam again presumably? Islam does not appear to be compatible with civilisation.

Walter H Price wrote: »

Before people start the autistic screeching about mental illness please remember

Mental Illness is an affliction , Religion is a choice

RIP to those who have died , your government and euopean politics has let you down

Cultish behaviour is a big draw to people who have mental problems.
It's no accident that the more desperate and deprived people are, the more likely they are to be religious.
Reality isn't giving them any solutions so, in desperation, fantasy is where they turn to.

In the case of adults as converts, I would imagine that north of 90% of people who convert to religion or certainly to a more involved religion, whether they be Jehovah's witnesses, Christian fundamentalists or Muslims, do so on the back of mental problems.
The intertwining of Alcoholics Anonymous with religion or the oft-heard "finding jesus" after the breakup of a marriage or other difficult period, aren't coincidences.

Most of the views Muslims are derided for fall on the general spectrum of conservatism.
There's plenty of Americans with similar views to Muslims on issues of LGBT rights, separation of church and state and so on.

The proportion is different, of course, but never the less, these people aren't all suicide bombers in waiting. They're more like a very large block of Christian fundamentalists.

Whether or not those who are terrorists are mentally ill (I don't understand how you could carry out an attack like this and not have some form of mental illness) isn't all that important in and of itself.

If population A's mentally unstable people kill a fraction as many as population B's mentally unstable people, then it's reasonable to ask questions of the whole culture underpinning population B and why it leads to more violent mentally ill people.

Or, if there are more mentally ill people in population B than population A, there too, questions need to be asked.

However, if you're trying to come up with solutions to the terrorism problem, while not throwing the foundations of your society in the bin, it's worth taking these issues into consideration.
Also, different solutions aren't mutually exclusive.

The West could stop bombing the **** out of the Middle East and we could look at our immigration system.

We could make more of an effort to integrate Muslim communities and more effectively deport, arrest, etc those who pose a genuine threat.

With this spate of vehicle attacks, the most remarkable thing is that such attacks have been so rare down through history.
We've always had 1+ tonne hurtling death machines in close proximity to large groups of people and have trusted to human nature to keep everyone safe and somehow it's generally worked.
I don't know what's changed or why the penny has dropped now.

Autonomous vehicles will help, but perhaps we'll need to look at more pedestrianisation, more barriers between footpaths and roads, reinforcing the fronts of certain buildings to withstand direct impacts and so on.
Bearing in mind recent accidental fatalities, such as this one in Glasgow in 2014, there may already be reason enough to do it without terrorism so you'd be killing two birds with one stone.

Rezident wrote: »

Is this Islam again presumably? Islam does not appear to be compatible with civilisation.

Islam is perfectly compatible, the problem is islamist extremist scum within islam

Deleted User wrote: »

Or maybe we shouldn't pass around images from unverified sources?

My friend taking pics of the scene isn't good enough for ye huh?

The West could stop bombing the **** out of the Middle East

and the truth is revealed to all that choose to see it

Depp wrote: »

Islam is perfectly compatible, the problem is islamist extremist scum within islam

No the problem is Liberals who are willing to jump through hoops to appease Muslims to the detriment of everybody else living in the country, which causes hostility. I have no problem anyone coming to Ireland but I think they should be willing to fit in. There are many Muslims in England who have never bothered to learn the language, we should not let that happen here

Help!!!! wrote: »

No the problem is Liberals who are willing to jump through hoops to appease Muslims to the detriment of everybody else living in the country, which causes hostility. I have no problem anyone coming to Ireland but I think they should be willing to fit in. There are many Muslims in England who have never bothered to learn the language, we should not let that happen here

and how do you intend to " force " that to happen here

BoatMad wrote: »

and how do you intend to " force " that to happen here

Why do you think its OK to go live in a country & never learn the language? Well any immigrant who wants to come to Ireland should be made take English lessons, it shows they want to come here & will be a benefit to the country. If they dont want to learn, then they can go elsewhere

Mod: Please don't speculate on the identity of the perpetrator.

Deleted User wrote: »

So that you can get attention from it? Huh.

Well, my mate sent me this picture. Make of it what you will.

If this thread isn't for speculation and discussion of this specific event, what is it for? I uploaded a pic my friend took of the scene and of a suspect getting arrested, intending people to comment on it. What is the problem? What's the difference between me passing around the image and Daily Mail posting the same thing a few minutes later?