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Thx, always good to have some more context.
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.
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.
"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."
How so? If you mean the tag, see comment.
Edit: Uhu.. because the title makes it sound like the start of a kind of an old sailor bar joke. In retrospect, the title does sounds weird.
Marked NSFW because of controversial and highly sensitive topic worldwide . If unnecessary, I'll remove the tag.
edit: tagged removed
Just found this interesting background explainer article about the Bill: "In Georgia, Russian émigrés see familiar Kremlin tactics" france24 art
" This law is reminiscent of legislation that came into force in Russia about ten years ago which initially targeted human rights NGOs financed by Western countries and gradually turned into a powerful tool of political repression."
My response was in the context of that one spefic remark, earlier. Apart from that, sure many nuances can be made, ofc.
But afaik, it was a Jewish person ( Herzl) who initiated it, and later asked support from European powers. wiki Zionism
"The Zionist movement was founded in the late 19th century by secular Jews, largely as a response by Ashkenazi Jews to rising antisemitism in Europe, exemplified by the Dreyfus affair in France and the anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire. The political movement was formally established by the Austro-Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl in 1897 following the publication of his book Der Judenstaat"