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Manchester Mayor: Bomber Was A Terrorist, Not A Muslim [Even though he really was a Muslim]
lbc.co.uk ^ | May 24, 2017

Posted on 05/27/2017 10:38:06 AM PDT by grundle

Salman Abedi killed 22 people, including children as young as 8, when he detonated a suicide bomb outside the Manchester Arena on Monday night.

He was born and raised in Manchester to Libyan parents and worshipped in a mosque in Didsbury, not stopped going because the imam was speaking out against ISIS.

But the Mayor of Manchester insisted that this man was a terrorist who had noting to do with Islam.

Speaking to Nick Ferrari on LBC, he said: "Manchester always reacts in the right way and we did that last night. People came together.

"The message that I would want to get over - and this is how the vast majority of people feel - this man was a terrorist, not a Muslim."

"He does not represent the Muslim community. We've got to keep that distinction in mind all the time. This was an unspeakable act."

"The worst thing that can happen is that people use this to blame an entire community, the Muslim community."

"In my view, the man who committed this atrocity no more represents the Muslim community than the individual who murdered my friend Jo Cox represents the white, Christian community."


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To: grundle
The worst thing that can happen is that people use this to blame an entire community, the Muslim community.

The worst thing that could happen, did happen.

41 posted on 05/27/2017 11:56:33 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: grundle

Just keep buying “your head in the sand” over there and the muzzles will literally bury your head in the sand, after they cut it off....
Stupidity is strong over there.
That’s NOT a mayor, it’s a muzzle plant that is hell bent on killing your innocent.


42 posted on 05/27/2017 11:57:47 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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I am so sorry folks,

I can usually abstain from cursing and overt profane displays.

But this onslaught of revisionist/lying spin Cr*p is pushing my envelope.

My middle finger has developed a ‘knee jerk’ response.

If I am not careful, I might put my eye out.

Hope the GOPe health care covers vision care!


43 posted on 05/27/2017 11:58:45 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: grundle

My next door neighbor’s five-year-old son said, “What a doo-doo head!!” (His mom freaked out and went off on me for laughing.)


44 posted on 05/27/2017 12:08:40 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: grundle
But the Mayor of Manchester insisted that this man was a terrorist who had noting to do with Islam.

Is the mayor of Manchester a Muslim himself, and does he hold some position of authority within the Muslim religion that qualifies him to specify who is and isn't a Muslim?

No?

Then I'll go with the fact that the terrorist claimed to be a Muslim, was born to Muslim parents, attended a Muslim place of worship regularly and committed his terrorism in the name of Islam.

Always pathetic to hear non-Muslim defenders of Islam making idiotic proclamations about who is and isn't Muslim. It's not a religion of peace and Western Christians, agnostics and atheists have no business trying to say that these terrorists aren't exactly what they say they are.
45 posted on 05/27/2017 12:09:22 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: grundle

Openingly lying to everyone! Does he have no shame?!


46 posted on 05/27/2017 1:31:34 PM PDT by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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To: grundle

The people of the UK, US, and most of the West elect these traitors. Suicide by Muslim invasion.


47 posted on 05/27/2017 1:31:42 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: grundle

Some people can walk and chew gum at the same time.....


48 posted on 05/27/2017 1:35:22 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: ifinnegan

Let’s take away the body guards of all these folks that think all we need to do is show these terrorist love or give them good job an everything will be ok.


49 posted on 05/27/2017 1:42:49 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: grundle

Words of wisdom and discernment:

15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.”

—Matthew 7: 15-20


50 posted on 05/27/2017 1:55:25 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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To: grundle

Some of these public officials (so-called) are NUTS. They will get more folks killed!

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its mighty waters.

The struggle may be a moral one or it may be a physical one, or it may both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” Frederick Douglass

BOTTOM LINE: EVIL, IN ALL ITS FORMS, MUST BE RESISTED BOTH IDEOLOGICALLY AND BY “AGITATION” (in the instant case, WAR)!
The alternative is submission.
The ARABIC word for submission is — ready? — ISLAM!

And to those of you who respond that Douglass was talking about SLAVERY, SO AM I!

Its name is ISLAM!!


51 posted on 05/27/2017 2:30:05 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (America dodged a bullet. But remember that millions of morons are STILL OUT THERE!)
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