"Ahmed Alid, 45, an asylum seeker from Morocco, stabbed 70-year-old Terence Carney, a complete stranger he encountered on the street, on 15 October.
Minutes earlier, he had broken into the bedroom of his housemate, Christian convert Javed Nouri, and hacked at him while he slept.
Alid shouted “Allahu Akbar” – “God is great” – during the attack at the Home Office-approved asylum seekers’ accommodation, which Nouri survived. Alid then fled into the street, still armed with a knife."
If god is so great then there is no need to stab people. God will do it. Motherfucker has daggerskill maxed, there is no need for help.
That’s no revenge. That’s insanity
Well put.
I thought of sharing a relevant link from Europol with some very comprehensive graphs and several more info for those interested.
Terrorist attacks in the EU by type (2010-2021)
Europol – the EU agency for law enforcement cooperation – publishes an EU terrorism situation and trend report every year. The report provides figures on terrorist attacks and terrorism-related arrests in the European Union and is based on information provided by EU member states.
Thx, always good to have some more context.
Is the sentence life or 45 years?
This may be slightly inaccurate but in the UK, life sentences basically never happen. A life sentence normally has a minimum term, in this case 45 years, before they can go up for parole. If they get parole, their freedom remains conditional for the rest of their life.
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This atack , but also some other events like in Paris, Switserland, Belgium, made me more aware of the risen terrorist theat levels, issued by a.o. Europol. Some years after 9/11 USA, I just got desensitised to it, or maybe I already was.
Anyhow, fyi Jihadist terrorism in numbers was the most recent and comprehensive info I found. The numbers now are probably much higher.
The results showed that between 2004 and 2022, a total of 208 terrorist attacks occurred in the EU, with the majority of these attacks (118) occurring in just three countries: France, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
Edit: added " jihadist" to link description , incase it was unclear. For more context, see also other’s comments section.
This incident wasn’t a terrorist attack though, but rather a single individual with apparent mental health issues. Such attacks happen all the time, and this one only made the news because a person was killed and the attacker was of a certain ethic background.
Furthermore 208 attacks in a span of 18 years is laughably low, especially when compared to the thousands of right-wing attacks that happened during the same time.
This incident wasn’t a terrorist attack though.
apparent mental health issues
Well, both statements would be an or your opinion. But, as the court specifically investigated, these are the only facts we have atm, quote:
"She told Alid that psychiatric reports found no evidence of psychosis “or any other serious mental illness”
"Also The judge, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, told Alid he had “hoped to frighten the people of Britain and undermine the freedoms they enjoy” when he murdered Carney in a terrorist attack.
Also I’d put all kind of atacks as terroristic using a broader definition because a so called " political motivation".
Generally, I’d consider extreme right atacks equally terroristic. So, you mention thousands of atacks by right winged extremist, I know they’ve been raising. Happen to have some info on that, for comparison?
I don’t see the need to downplay any kind of terroristic atack, by whatever political motivation they might have, whether , right/ left/anarchist or whatever. It’s the killing of innocents that has me worried.
No one in their right mind goes out and stabs their flatmate and a random 70 year old passerby, not even a wanna be terrorist. The deeply racist UK juridical system is not a good reference for deciding this.
And I am not here to do research for you, but if you spend even 5 minutes googling you will easily find that right-wing politically movitated violent crime easily dwarfs those figures (despite systematic under reporting of those by the police).
And while you are at it, look up domestic violence figures which are also orders of magnitude higher, even if you just count the ones with deaths or serious injuries.
