Last year, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European Union leaders opened their countries’ borders to millions of Muslim refugees, critics warned that serious problems would likely follow.
It didn’t take long for those dire predictions to come true. Mass sexual assaults and terror have shaken the continent in the months following the mass migration.
Monday, ISIS itself struck Germany, claiming responsibility for an ax-and-knife attack on a German train that left at least five people injured. The assailant, a 17-year-old Afghan refugee, was shot and killed by police as he fled the scene.
The teenager shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he hacked at innocent people on the regional train near the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg Monday night, and a hand-painted flag of the Islamic State was found during a search of his room, according to state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann.
Though the Islamic State group claimed responsibility through its Aamaq news agency, Herrmann said the suspect, whose identity has not been released, had written notes in his native Pashto that indicated he could have been self-radicalized and may not have been directly connected to the ISIS group.
Herrmann said people close to the attacker told investigators he had seemed like a calm person, not overtly religious or an extremist.
Herrmann said investigators were still looking into the evidence found in the teenager’s room, saying it could be possible that the notes included a farewell letter to his father.
“There are hints that he — in a text — writes about the lives of Muslims, but also that Muslims must take action on their own and resist now,” Herrmann said.
The 17-year-old attacked at least four passengers with an ax and knife on a train near Wuerzburg-Heidingsfeld on Monday night, but was shot and killed by a special police unit which happened to be nearby.
Four people on the train were injured, along with a woman outside as the attacker fled.
German officials did not identify the victims, but Hong Kong’s immigration department said that among those injured in the attack were four members of a family of five from the southern Chinese city.
The university hospital in Wuerzburg confirmed that it was treating two patients from Hong Kong with life-threatening injuries.
Hong Kong’s top official, Chief Executive Leung Chun-Ying, condemned the attack and extended his sympathies to the victims and their families.
Herrmann said it was a tragedy that a “family from Hong Kong comes here as tourists to visit Wuerzburg … and then becomes victim on a train here in Bavaria in an attack conducted by an offender who came from Afghanistan and who was originally seeking shelter here.”
The dpa news agency reported that the attacker injured the 62-year-old father, the 58-year-old mother, their adult daughter and her boyfriend. The teenage son was not injured. The father and the boyfriend had tried to defend the other family members, dpa said.
The assailant jumped off the train after someone pulled the emergency cord and got about 500 meters (yards) into Wuerzburg-Heidingsfeld, attacked a woman there with his ax and ran away before the police special unit chased him. As police drew near, the assailant started attacking the officers and was shot, according to Herrmann.
Prosecutor Christopher Rosenbusch in nearby Bamburg, who is in charge of the investigation, said he could give no further details on the injured people, including the woman who was attacked outside the train.
Witnesses said the interior of the train was covered with blood and looked “like a slaughterhouse,” the German news agency dpa reported. About 30 passengers were on the train at the time; more than a dozen were treated for shock.
On Tuesday morning, officers could be seen removing the attacker’s body from the scene.
The attacker came to Germany more than a year ago as an unaccompanied minor, was first registered by German authorities in the German-Austrian border town of Passau and applied for asylum in March of last year. He lived in a home for young refugees in Ochsenfurt near Wuerzburg until two weeks ago when he was placed with a foster family in the same town, Herrmann said. Investigators were talking to the foster family, witnesses and the attacker’s friends.
According to dpa, the attacker was interning at a bakery and had good chances of getting into a job training program.
Germany last year registered more than 1 million asylum seekers entering the country, including more than 150,000 Afghans.
In May, a man stabbed four people at a German train station in a random early-morning attack in Grafing near Munich. One man later died. The attacker, a German citizen, also shouted “Allahu Akbar” during the attack, but authorities found no evidence of links to Islamic extremists. He was later sent to a psychiatric hospital.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
The media refuses to label folks from hater cultures as hateful bigots. Yet, the media and politicians quickly label those who show concern about these haters as hateful.
Have you ever noticed that they always fall back on the line “he was self radicalized”? They refuse to face the fact that these are terrorists and they are all influenced by the same common denominator….. RADICAL ISLAM! Until that is addressed as the problem and eradicated, we will continue to see these types of crimes against humanity!
Radical Islam is still just Islam. Islam is the problem. The Koran calls for the extinction of those who are not Muslims. Naturally this is insane.
RD, you are right on target. Islam is the problem……..the so called peace loving ones are no more peace loving than the open terrorists. They sit back and let the their “radicals” do their damage. None of them care and if any do care they are too afraid of their own kind to do anything about it. The whole (hole) of Islam is to dominate all people. We are sitting here and allowing our Government to invite them over, pay their way, support them, and then do nothing to try and stop them from destroying our once wonderful Country. We are headed towards complete and utter destruction if we do not do something to stop them……on an individual basis, if necessary. I am tired of all of the liberal posturing that is going on here. This is not the legacy I chose to leave my children and grandchildren.
NO MORE CLINTONS, NO MORE OBAMAS, NO MORE LORETTAY LYNCH, NO MORE COMEY
a vote for Hillary would be four more years of obamas misdeeds and we would surely see more of the Islamic radicals handy work…..
Trump/Pence in 2016 thru 2024
One could, COULD.. take passages from a number of religions ‘Holy’ Books, and interpret exclusion of others and possible violence. The point relevant is that the ‘group think’ and leaderships within the bulk of Religions has adapted, evolved, with the times.. some so long ago, a millennia is some cases.
Where Islam is concerned, it is heavily influenced by leadership for power over its participators, still preaching exclusion and violence… and extreme to say the least.
Leadership is where a change has to start, the Mullahs greed for power over their dominions/populaces has to be engaged. Islam can evolve but if it has to be from the bottom up, the change will be a arduous one. 1.5 billion Islamists contain 1-2-3 million wiling to be ‘extremists’ and there are those willing to commit to extremism with little pushing. Too much attacking by way of war in general helps this process.
So we are back to the leadership.
There are many ‘moderate’ ‘leaders’ in the Islamic faith outside the conflict areas, those individuals must be raised above those leaders promoting and funding violence. This will take a general assembly, not of the U.N. members that hare dominated by Muslim countries with leaders force-feeding their populaces with hate, fear and extremism.
Leadership, people in general, are not unique, they follow paths well worn. We simply need our own leadership to actually raise up the ‘good’, over the ‘bad’..
Which beats falling into the trap those extremists actually wish for, an apocalyptic future. This necessity of American leadership entails a number of models that won’t be served up by Obama or Hillary as it entails risk to themselves personally and politically.
Also our general political class is not interested either, in risking themselves in either manner.
But it has to be done.
LEADERSHIP.
The media is dysfunctional. Imagine if the police “just didn’t happen to be there”? All you defenseless people in Germany would have been hacked over and over again. This is the problem here in America with gun free zones. If our constitutional right to carry concealed or otherwise was not infringed there would be many people with concealed weapons and the crazy terrorist would not have lasted long. A CCW holder would have seen the one act of aggression on a person and would have put the assailant down in 3 seconds saving many other people. Germans see no need to be armed. Maybe now they are seeing a glimmer of their future and why the government can’t always protect you and go back 70 years and you will see how the government can be the murderer – with no personal arms you are sheep going to slaughter.
All migrants who do not assimilate into American culture or shows resistance or lukewarmness to assimilate, shoiuld be deported.
Yes! Get the barbarians out of all Christian countries immediately!
No one is safe anymore!
Yes, get these uncivilized barbarians out of these countries, they don’t deserve any sympathy.
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I agree with you. People who want to come here legally and want to be “American” are welcome. Others should stay away!
They just want to TAKE from us and kill us. Send them home.
j l yulo, you just described our President, Obama. where should we deport him to?
I am very glad to answer that question: STRAIGHT TO HELL VIA A COUPLE OF bul….ets.
How about Siberia as a deportation area?
Maybe he can become a community organizer there, unless he freezes to death first.
How about hell!!
I tend to agree with you. All patriots are being marginalized along with Christians. If we don’t stand up and beat back evil, we will all be murdered.
Kenya does not want him anymore – they are embarrassed by him now. Even his uncle denounces Obama for being who he is and what he has done. I hope history is corrected and shows Obama to be the communist he is and the worse president in American history because – he sucks! You idiots that voted him in are a clear and present danger to the life of our country. His Nobel Peace Prize should be revoked and he should get the top honors by the Liars club.
We need to deny these people entry into our countries. They cannot and will not assimilate into other cultures and feel that killing is a “good” thing. They are raised by their family and culture to believe that way. Monsters!
Another example of why Donald’s position on immigration from those Muslim countries where terrorist is an issue makes sense.
Only an idiot or in this idiots President O’bozo and Hillary the “Hun” would think otherwise.
Did you mean Hillaroid the hemorrhoid?
When Trump becomes President i hope he deports odumm dumm back to kenya
Hear we go again ! Ban 20 ton trucks. Ban knifes / ban axes / ban pressure cookers / ? On and on and on.It”s time to ban the real problem. ! Ya! Think?
TRUCK VIOLENCE!!!! It must be stopped immediately because trucks can be used for mass murder. Forget about the criminal driving it – it is the TRUCK that must be gotten rid of! Just think of all those women and children that have been killed by TRUCK VIOLENCE – it is an outrage that trucks are still on the road.
When will Obozo talk about TRUCK VIOLENCE! We must limit the speed of these trucks to 10 mph so people can get out of the way fast enough. The terrible way these trucks can be used just shows that something must be done immediately. It matters not that there are millions of trucks that are not used to kill people. Ovomit and Hillaroid want to prevent all deaths from trucks, so they say all trucks need to be gotten rid of to stop the TRUCK VIOLENCE! Sarcasm can easily show how brain dead liberals are!
Enoch Powell of the UK foresaw all these problems back in the early 70’s. The ruling elite and the media made fun of him. Chickens have now come home to roost.
Stuart Davies-
i’d never heard of Enoch Powell, and googled him; he apparently was warning of the “madness” of allowing 50k dependents of immigrants to enter Great Britain as early as 1968! Apparently, in May of this year, Die Welt(german: “The World”) published an article praising just how right Powell was!
Haven’t read it yet, but apparently a speech of his, “Rivers of Blood,” is a classic.
Guys, it’s over. Rather than feebly complain, get ready to lose – to lose everything. I know you don’t understand why the leaders are feeding you to the wolves. Atheists will never understand it. It’s evil – spiritually evil. When conspiracy theorists call the leaders Luciferians, they’re correct. Our persecution is going to be very, very ugly.
I tend to agree with you. All patriots are being marginalized along with Christians. If we don’t stand up and beat back evil, we will all be murdered.
Ken W-
So your counsel is craven surrender – or is it apathy? – can’t really tell…
Time to clamp down on those animals of the Taliban, ISIS, Al Queda, deport them all back to Syria, Iran, the region of the world they fled from NOW, NOT next year, not 2,3,4, or 5 years from NOW, BUT NOW!!!!!!!!!! That 17 year old Afghan refugee that murdered those 4 Chinese tourists in Germany
will have China most likely wanting to go after those animals which is what ISIS, the Taliban & Al Queda are-A bunch of animals that love killing & violence who believe violence & killing are the solutions to all of their problems. They fled their countries and spread what they are fleeing from, but won’t take a stand and fight AGAINIST the forces they are fleeing their own countries from, THEY ARE PROFESSIONAL KILLERS IS WHAT THEY ARE. They don’t want to change their ways, but yet they want to force their ways elsewhere, the free world don’t need them around at all.
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you? It already has.
I bet that pissed off Obama!! He was wanting to invite him to the WH for a beer fest and to give him the congressional Medal of Honor.
As Melania said “Being a US citizen is a privilege”
Its not a reward for illegal trespass. Trump is on the right path to kick out illegals, limit ingress to our quotas which have precise limits already and heavily screen & pick as choose wisely who we privilege to enter via visa etc. for strict purpose etc. and yea per rules after 5 years (think should be longer but is what it is now) after 5 contiguous years of being a working, law abiding, tax paying foreign worker helpful to our nation, they are eligible to prove they learned our language, laws, and love our country and then have right, if they desire, to become a permanent resident citizen.
The impressive people who immigrate here are individuals who come to work, to be part of the mainstream, raise their children and develop as the US offers opportunities that are not available in many countries. Melania Trump should be congratulated for living the American dream. She is a mother, a business owner and is proud of her US citizenship,. She is fluent in 5 languages and she has a lot to offer the US whether she is a First Lady or not. She pays taxes, educates her son, is loyal to her family, and participates in worthwhile charities while running her own business and is happy about it all. I am sure not all immigrants are like Melania trump but equally not all immigrants are like these crazies who think they are martyrs to Islam by murdering, wounding and harming others. There are no generalities here but one thing is good and that is to close borders until the various governments can get this under control. Anytime you have had mass migrations of people in history there have been a lot of wolves in with the lambs. It would be a good idea to stop immigration for a few years and to stop foreign aid until the US budget is back in balance.
Remember the old saying?
Kill’em all and let God (in this case Allah) sort’em out.
HMMM
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For the PC crowd; no, I’m not advocating violence.
Snake will always be a snake and must reproduce young snakes with super poisons. The west must checkmate and reduce the influx of Anti-Christ in their countries, who will seize their government, destroy all the rules of law, change their culture and tradition and forced them to learn a new language as a slave in their own countries. A stich in time saves nine, western countries be warned.