Minnesota stabbing attack

[rob in cal]

   Looks like possibly an ISIS inspired stabbing attack in St Cloud Minnesota, stabber killed, 8 injured. It will be intriguing to find out details of the stabber.

[Joe Republic]

stabber killed, 8 injured.

Always interesting to note the key difference between mass shootings and mass stabbings.  (Though I can surely guess how the stabber was killed, but still...)

[rob in cal]

  Yes, like the axe wielding Afghan asylum seeker-terrorist in Germany who wounded several, but was killed.

[Enduro]

Can we have a link?

[Green Line]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/18/us/minnesota-mall-stabbing/index.html

[Enduro]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/18/us/minnesota-mall-stabbing/index.html

Thank you.

[Suburbia]

This Minnesota attack may be linked to the NJ and NY terrorist threats. If that's the case, 3 attacks on one day=Saturday, September 17th, it does not look good for Barack Obama's administration.

[Joe Republic]

This Minnesota attack may be linked to the NJ and NY terrorist threats. If that's the case, 3 attacks on one day=Saturday, September 17th, it does not look good for Barack Obama's administration.

If that's the case, I wonder how the four attacks in NY, VA and PA on one day=Tuesday, September 11th 2001, looked for George W. Bush's administration, in your view?

[rob in cal]

   Star Tribune reporting that stabber was Somali immigrant who came here as a child. Not a big surprise as Minnesota+Isis inspired attack would likely equal such a scenario.

[Green Line]

Somalis in Minnesota tend to be quite radical.  Assimilation in Minny - total failure.

[Indy Texas]

Somalis in Minnesota tend to be quite radical.  Assimilation in Minny - total failure.

It's kind of fitting that Muslims in Minnesota seem to assimilate about as well as Muslims in Scandinavia do.

[Ebsy]

There is no evidence linking any of these events, and I would say from what we know, there is considerable evidence that each of these events has radically different motives, thus pointing firmly towards there being no link.

[heatcharger]

Somalis in Minnesota tend to be quite radical.  Assimilation in Minny - total failure.

One of the few things I agree with Republicans on. Of course, Republican politicians and voters always ruin it with overt xenophobia.

[MK]

There is no evidence linking any of these events, and I would say from what we know, there is considerable evidence that each of these events has radically different motives, thus pointing firmly towards there being no link.

Reading that and you know why liberalism is considered a mental disorder.

They will do anything to deny the obvious threat to the American public.   

[Santander]

We need knife control.

[7,052,770]

We need knife control.

I've never understood why conservatives get so snarky over stabbings. This is one of the few times we can know for 100% that stricter gun control laws worked, but it's like that concept is so alien to them that it just can't register.

[dead0man]

if only there was a good guy with a knife


...oh there was a good guy with a gun?  Even better!

[Boston Bread]

if only there was a good guy with a knife


...oh there was a good guy with a gun?  Even better!

This is usually what happens:
Bad guy with knife: no innocent people died even though no good guy intervened
Bad guy with gun: several deaths before a good guy would be able to intervene

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Somalis in Minnesota tend to be quite radical.  Assimilation in Minny - total failure.

Either you let people be who they are or you don't let them in. It's a simple choice.

[Green Line]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/19/us/minnesota-mall-stabbing/index.html

Police and witnesses say the attacker made references to Allah and asked victims if they were Muslim before attacking them, yet the director of the Somali American relations council says "it remains unclear if religion motivated the attack"

At the same time, Mohamoud Mohamed, spokesman for the central Minnesota Islamic center says "We are the victims of those terrorist groups". "Islam is peace".  Really?  You're the victim here?

These people are part of the problem, and yet they're community leaders..

[‼realJohnEwards‼]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/19/us/minnesota-mall-stabbing/index.html

Police and witnesses say the attacker made references to Allah and asked victims if they were Muslim before attacking them, yet the director of the Somali American relations council says "it remains unclear if religion motivated the attack"

At the same time, Mohamoud Mohamed, spokesman for the central Minnesota Islamic center says "We are the victims of those terrorist groups". "Islam is peace".  Really?  You're the victim here?

These people are part of the problem, and yet they're community leaders..

YOU are the reason why they are victims. If it weren't for the amount of anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, then nobody would even think of Islam in relation to terrorism, except for 9/11.

[dead0man]

YOU are the reason why they are victims. If it weren't for the amount of anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, then nobody would even think of Islam in relation to terrorism, except for 9/11.

You can't be serious....

[‼realJohnEwards‼]

YOU are the reason why they are victims. If it weren't for the amount of anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, then nobody would even think of Islam in relation to terrorism, except for 9/11.

You can't be serious....

I did go overboard. But, seriously, there's little if anything that makes Islam itself more prone to creating terrorism than other religions. It is the fact that they have been in so much conflict, both internal and external. Christians have done the same thing

[Comrade Funk]

YOU are the reason why they are victims. If it weren't for the amount of anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, then nobody would even think of Islam in relation to terrorism, except for 9/11.

You can't be serious....

I did go overboard. But, seriously, there's little if anything that makes Islam itself more prone to creating terrorism than other religions. It is the fact that they have been in so much conflict, both internal and external. Christians have done the same thing

Yeah, in the 17th Century. Times have changed.

[Green Line]

YOU are the reason why they are victims. If it weren't for the amount of anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, then nobody would even think of Islam in relation to terrorism, except for 9/11.

You can't be serious....

I did go overboard. But, seriously, there's little if anything that makes Islam itself more prone to creating terrorism than other religions. It is the fact that they have been in so much conflict, both internal and external. Christians have done the same thing

Christians and Muslims fought each other for years.  Muslims conquered Christian lands, Christian states retaliated.  This is not remotely relevant to what is going on in the world today, please stop.