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'COME HERE!': Man saved lives by standing up to gunman at New Zealand mosque
Ottowa Citizen ^ | 03/16/19

Posted on 03/16/2019 6:31:21 PM PDT by Simon Green

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — When the gunman advanced toward the mosque, killing those in his path, Abdul Aziz didn’t hide. Instead, he picked up the first thing he could find, a credit card machine, and ran outside screaming “Come here!”

Aziz, 48, is being hailed as a hero for preventing more deaths during Friday prayers at the Linwood mosque in Christchurch after leading the gunman in a cat-and-mouse chase before scaring him into speeding away in his car.

But Aziz, whose four sons and dozens of others remained in the mosque while he faced off with the gunman, said he thinks it’s what anyone would have done.

The gunman killed 50 people after attacking two mosques in the deadliest mass shooting in New Zealand’s modern history.

The gunman is believed to have killed at least 41 people at the Al Noor mosque before driving about 5 kilometres (3 miles) across town and attacking the Linwood mosque, where he killed seven more people. One person died later in a hospital, and police announced Sunday that a 50th body had been found.

White supremacist Brenton Tarrant, 28, has been charged with one count of murder in the slayings and a judge said Saturday that it was reasonable to assume more charges would follow.

Latef Alabi, the Linwood mosque’s acting imam, said the death toll would have been far higher at the Linwood mosque if it wasn’t for Aziz.

Alabi said he heard a voice outside the mosque at about 1:55 p.m. and stopped the prayer he was leading and peeked out the window. He saw a guy in black military-style gear and a helmet holding a large gun, and assumed it was a police officer. Then he saw two bodies and heard the gunman yelling obscenities.

Latef Alabi, the Linwood mosque’s acting imam, said the death toll would have been far higher at the Linwood mosque if it wasn’t for Aziz.


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; christchurch
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1 posted on 03/16/2019 6:31:21 PM PDT by Simon Green
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To: Simon Green

NZ just went all-out censorship, banning Dissenter and threatening 10 year sentences for POSSESSING video of the event.

That means anything that does get out of NZ is passing the government filter. Could be this story is entirely false and is just giving people something to talk about besides the accumulating obvious signs of false flaggery here.


2 posted on 03/16/2019 6:36:24 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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To: thoughtomator

Well, I’ve got the video and ANYONE can get the video right now, if they want. New Zealand can’t stop it.


3 posted on 03/16/2019 6:38:43 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Simon Green

And ... that account has been confirmed through other news sources, too. Also, the shooter almost got taken down at the first mosque ... from what I saw in his video. A guy rushed him and it looked like he had a hold of his gun, but the shooter managed to shoot the guy. It could have been over, with half the casualties, at that first mosque ... with an unarmed man.


4 posted on 03/16/2019 6:41:47 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: thoughtomator

The way the banned Dissenter was by banning Gab which had nothing to do with any of this. The problem they have with Gab is that they don’t control it like they do Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook.


5 posted on 03/16/2019 6:45:20 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Star Traveler
Alarma TV only showed 45 seconds of the shooting, including the guy rushing in.

Alarma TV will air anything 'cept nudity (FCC Rules).

6 posted on 03/16/2019 6:52:58 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Simon Green
Whatever … (yawn).
 
7 posted on 03/16/2019 7:08:57 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: thoughtomator; Star Traveler; Revel

How do you “ban” Dissenter?


8 posted on 03/16/2019 7:16:28 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: an amused spectator

You have to have a Gab Account to use Dissenter. So when they banned Gab then Dissenter won’t work either.


9 posted on 03/16/2019 7:19:26 PM PDT by Revel
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Here’s something regarding that ... the censorship going on there ...

https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1106987664903933953


10 posted on 03/16/2019 7:20:58 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: an amused spectator

Government in NZ firewalled it off


11 posted on 03/16/2019 7:21:12 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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To: Revel

I used a proxy for Pirate Bay and both the document and the video was there. BitTorrent always seems to work for me.


12 posted on 03/16/2019 7:22:33 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: an amused spectator

Also note that all those comments are stored and reread from Gab’s servers. So if those servers are blocked then Dissenter cannot function.


13 posted on 03/16/2019 7:23:06 PM PDT by Revel
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here’s what they did: https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1107026265603751939

monopoly carrier nuked their DNS entry locally until they are “censorship compliant”

ah, Stalinism


14 posted on 03/16/2019 7:25:49 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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To: thoughtomator

https://www.whatfinger.com/ Here is the video... if you care to access it.


15 posted on 03/16/2019 7:43:55 PM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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To: thoughtomator
Coincidentally, I'm currently reading about a dedicated Communist who spent 20 years in Stalin's gulags.

I just shake my head every time I read about Stalin's "hijinks", and how none of the Russians or subject peoples manned up to rub him out.

16 posted on 03/16/2019 7:46:44 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: Revel
What a bunch of Nazis.

It will be enjoyable listening to the screams of the women of these NZ dhimmis when they're taken as "captives of the right hand".

The NZ dhimmi government won't be able to block the rape videos put on the Internet by their new Muzzie masters...

17 posted on 03/16/2019 7:49:45 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: Star Traveler

Thanks.


18 posted on 03/16/2019 7:50:14 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: Simon Green

Has New Zealand shut off Facebook access yet?


19 posted on 03/16/2019 9:11:21 PM PDT by Delta 21
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Abdul Aziz was a hero... prayers for the the loved ones of the wounded and dead.


20 posted on 03/16/2019 9:18:16 PM PDT by GOPJ (More than 49 people murdered by illegals in the US where's the press outrage?)
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