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Number of casualties as 'van hits worshippers' outside mosque in north London
The Telegraph ^ | 06-18-2017 | staff

Posted on 06/18/2017 6:59:23 PM PDT by NRx

A van has reportedly crashed into pedestrians outside a mosque in London, causing a "number of casualties".

Officers arrested one person after they were called shortly after midnight to the incident on Seven Sisters Road, near Finsbury Park station.

Police said they were responding to a "major incident" with "a number of casualties being worked on at the scene".

Witnesses reported seeing six people on the ground after the van ploughed into worshippers who had been attending evening prayers at the Muslim Welfare House. London Ambulance Service said they had sent "a number of resources" to the incident.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 3rdthread; finsburypark; localnews; london; mosque; northlondon; searchworks; uk; unitedkingdom
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To: noiseman

Seeing as how they’ve had the perp in custody for going on 5 hours, it seems they’d at least know his name by now.

U.K. police saying one of the people that were hit has been pronounced dead.


81 posted on 06/18/2017 8:58:06 PM PDT by lonevoice (diagonally parked in a parallel universe)
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To: brewcrew1965

Giddy Up! Cowboys and Muslims is coming soon.


And the Cowboys are good shots.


82 posted on 06/18/2017 8:59:26 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Mr.Unique

He looks like he’s drunk.


83 posted on 06/18/2017 9:05:25 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: kjam22

If that were the case, That is a relative of a victim of one of the recent attacks, God help us. But as the blacks were saying after the1992 riots in LA, “I condemn the acts, but I understand the acts.”


84 posted on 06/18/2017 9:12:35 PM PDT by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: NRx

[[False flag or maybe some people have had enough? ]]

Maybe one of the drivers family members had been killed/injured in one of the recent terrorist attacks and it was revenge .


85 posted on 06/18/2017 9:33:07 PM PDT by Lera
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To: laplata
He looks like he’s drunk.

That's what I thought.

86 posted on 06/18/2017 9:33:31 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: ShivaFan

You state the reason why we have trials, needing the context of actions. That said, this might be the “inevitable moment”. We’ll see but at some point somebody is going to break, and easily if they’re a family member of an attack victim.

If this is the case, today may be the “spiral of death” that is the “powder keg” underlying the UK. You can’t have these opposing ethics systems living side by side. All religions are NOT the same. If this is retaliation, it will be a call-to-arms for all Muslims. Islam is under attack (in their minds). This will accelerate the terrorism and, hence, the responses.

If not today, it is still inevitable.


87 posted on 06/18/2017 9:39:11 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: NRx

Hopefully this is directed violence at Muslims. we don’t like the world our childless gelded leaders have shap bed. Islam is direct threat to western civilization. Allowing islam to operate in the the open is analogous to allowing nazis to start a hitler youth center in you neighborhood. Don’t substitute kindness for blindness. Islam Muslims mosque’s are a death cult masquerading as just another religion. I advocate and support fighting back and working to combat Islamic. Violence against islam is justified on the basic groundz of survival. At least this point the only innocent Muslims are children. Mosque’s are simply armories.


88 posted on 06/18/2017 9:43:45 PM PDT by datricker (Build the wall. If you build it, they won't come - Field of Dreamers)
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To: chuckles

The system targets the “far right” and has given up on all the extremist Islamists, there’s too many of them. They’re structured to effectively police the “football hooligan” types that would, at the drop of the hat, engage to save England. Tommy Robinson is a similar case, although he’s no saint he’s also no criminal, but has been imprisoned due to his “thoughts on Islam”.

...there’s millions of them. This might be a response, but it may also be a trigger for a far bloodier future if the Muslims take it as “Islam is under attack” - it’s exactly what the ISIS types want. It’s probably inevitable.


89 posted on 06/18/2017 9:46:14 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: proust; All

BBC MAKING A BIGGER DEAL OUT OF THIS, THAN THEY DID ABOUT THE MUZZIE BRIDGE ATTACK


90 posted on 06/18/2017 10:00:44 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

From Twitter: “The most horrific aspect of #finsburypark is the cultural appropriation of Muslim culture.”

Assuming that, as early reports say, the perpetrator is a “white guy”.


91 posted on 06/18/2017 10:06:58 PM PDT by AZLiberty (A is now A once again.)
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1 dead

White male, 48, in custody. Police say he said ‘kill me, kill me. I want to kill all muslims.’


Recent timeline of attacks:

Eight people were killed and 50 injured on June 3 when three Islamist militants drove into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbed people at nearby restaurants and bars.

Two weeks earlier, a suicide bomber killed 22 people at a concert by American pop singer Ariana Grande in Manchester in northern England.

On March 22, a man drove a rented car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in London and stabbed a policeman to death before being shot dead. His attack killed five people.


92 posted on 06/18/2017 10:18:17 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: Yaelle

The Moslems are ratcheting up the war and the government will not fight back. Some of the indigenous population will. It is inevitable.


93 posted on 06/18/2017 10:35:54 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: laplata

[ “From watching the coverage on Fox, the “peaceful” Muslims outside the mosque are on the verge of rioting. If this turns out to be a revenge killing by a non-Muslim, the “peaceful” Muslims will probably set London on fire”.

I’ve been watching Fox and I’ve been thinking the exact same thing.

It’s going to get much worse over the summer. ]

Why haven’t we found out the name yet?

My theory, the guy who did a “van of peace “ attack was the father of one of the victims of the recent Muslim terror attacks.

Remember that today is also Father’s day in the UK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_Day#United_Kingdom

What if the father and their child had a Father’s day tradition and they took his child from him, and he got drunk and said fine, i don;t care, they took my son, now I am going to take one of theirs....


94 posted on 06/18/2017 10:48:23 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, that it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: NRx
From the Telegraph: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4616452/Man-arrested-van-ploughs-people-outside-mosque.html

"One dead and ten hurt in new London terror attack as a white van driver, 48, ploughs into Muslims..."

First time i've ever seen an attack headline reference the race of the assailant.

95 posted on 06/18/2017 11:20:00 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: NRx

Apparently someone in the UK decided on the Goose/Gander philosophy...


96 posted on 06/18/2017 11:23:38 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Are they describing the color of the van or the driver?


97 posted on 06/18/2017 11:33:36 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Retired Greyhound

You would think if he really is White and a non-Muslim, this would be immediately reported. Makes you wonder.....


98 posted on 06/18/2017 11:56:47 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: snarkytart

“Are they describing the color of the van or the driver?”

Flagrant cultural appropriation if driver is not muslim he will do time.


99 posted on 06/19/2017 12:04:15 AM PDT by nicepaco
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To: Mr.Unique

Interesting how the tweet framed the van driver as racist...

I don’t think that Islam is confined to one race...


100 posted on 06/19/2017 12:27:46 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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