A loner, a quiet teen, a kid with psychological problems, a teen obsessed with mass shootings, especially the one done by Breivik.
It's only waiting for the verdict that he was autistic. The other kind of dangerous people.
A Muslim man screaming "Allahu akbar" before killing innocents and the German media being unable to imply a radical Muslim extremist narrative, instead chose to infer a relationship with Breivik, the far right wing terrorist. I can understand why the Liberal Media in the Liberal Germany would do that. Doesn't mean I will not see that there was possibly a little bit of both.
What I read in Dutch and German news is that this shooting was not IS related. "Amokläufer".
If I were IS, I'd claim anything I could get away with. Anything to spread the fear. That's what they want, and they are pretty good at it, so far.
That there are IS related attacks is beyond doubt. That that needs attention too. That there are other shootings and attacks is also clear. Blaming all on IS would make the world delightfully clear, with good and bad, god and devil. The world is not that clear. The lone shooters/car drivers/ etc will be part of our world and will go undetected till they do their deeds.
(With the car I am not referring to the truck in Nice, but to Apeldoorn, 2009)
I do not think people ARE blaming ALL on IS. So not sure how this holds water with what you are saying?
Germany first thought this was a terrorist attack, then they concluded it was not. Yet you say it probably is, but that Liberal Media does not want to have it so. That is what I reacted on. Germany has a history with terrorism. Germans are not fainthearted when it comes to naming something by the name it deserves. The RAF knew how to kill. They were part of the news a lot, when I was a youngster.
Further, if I were part of IS, I would make sure lots of nasty incidents were claimed by IS. Anything to spread the fear. If I were a member of IS, I would be delighted that people thought this loner was a soldier for the bloody cause.
You can't be "reacting" on my comment because I have never said ALL terror attacks are. So it would make no sense at all to even infer it.
You did not say all. Correct.
You do imply that the Germans, especially the media, may be deliberately missing out on terrorist motivation of the shooter in München. I do not get why the Germans would do that. I see not a single reason why they do.
This happened to be a shooter like they've had before, a kid running amok. Not that different from the plane that crashed a while ago. A man going down with a plane full of people, for no other reason than his own bizarre psyche.
I cannot understand why media would benefit from taking a terrorist reason away from it, if it was there. There is no logical reason to do so.
I can well imagine. If Germany wishes to be seen as inclusive, views the open borders as important and Europe as being a supernation of which Germany is stripped of individual identity, then it starts making sense.
Look at Angela Merkel here
German flags, how perfectly revolting. Why celebrate your own country's identity?
What I posted above can be, like any ideology or perspective, taken to some strange, crazy or dangerous lengths.
If you believe that regular attacks by radicalised Muslims may panic the population and perhaps make
it seem that you are not as tolerant as you would like to be perceived, then you spin things. Why? Well even here, whilst I was so very careful to criticise radical Muslim extremists and made it absolutely clear that this is the group I had issues with, what was Odeon's response?
He called me a bigot. Could not back himself when asked to show where I had been a bigot and doubled down irrespective of what I had said. That is expected whenever you go there. Are there problems with Muslims who are radical Muslim extremists...No..you are a bigot. You hate all Muslims. You are so intolerant.
I think they know this and I think they are trapped by their own ideological positions. I think the European media take the same position as the governments and the culture generally and so they look to throw the scent off with every attack. I do not find it cautious I find it harmful.