#Munich #IranianGerman Terror Attack Open Thread
/After considerable disinformation in the hours after Friday's attack, and confusion about whether there were up to three shooters (not unlike the recent attack on police in Dallas), German authorities now say a single 18-year-old Iranian-German killed nine people at a Munich shopping mall, before turning the gun on himself. Where of course this radicalized young man got his firearm/s in a country with some of the most strict gun laws in Europe will be a subject of intense interest on both sides of the Atlantic. Other questions include why the shooter reportedly engaged in shouting matches with angry victims during his rampage, in which eyewitnesses recounting him screaming "Allahu Akbar!" as he gunned down children at a shopping mall and adjoining McDonalds.
Muslim #Munich witness confirms to Gunman shouted"Alluah Akbar" as he targeted children.
Terrorism Has no Religion 😢 pic.twitter.com/JZ5hO0f5AD— Khushi #डुबती दिल्ली (@khushi2434) July 23, 2016
Gunman kills at least 9, injures 16 in shooting spree at Munich shopping center https://t.co/WvOQBi6WDa pic.twitter.com/ayQNFvSWFE
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 23, 2016
#BREAKING Witnesses say #Munich gunman screamed ‘I’m German’ and ‘Allahu Akbar’ before shooting at children https://t.co/2RqD6dzUuU #Germany
— Natasha Fatah (@NatashaFatah) July 22, 2016
There are claims that the gunman was called a 'sh-tty foreigner' and 'wanker' by angry onlookers in response to his shouts of "I'm a German", which may have sparked mainstream media attempts to falsely connect the attack to white nationalism or anti-Muslim migration sentiments.
It's beginning to look like the shooter is a right-wing xenophobe so, you know- lone nut with no political ideology. Not a terrorist.
— Russia Without BS (@RussiawithoutBS) July 22, 2016
Like many others, the Moscow-based Globalist Hipster™ and 'Russia Without (Actually with Plenty of) BS' blogger Jim Kovpak badly wanted the shooting to fit his Narrative. But he wasn't alone:
#Munich
On the bright side, soon millions will have German flags as their social media profiles. #AltRightWin— Richard B. Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) July 22, 2016
The angry reaction on Twitter to what many are calling another jihadist terror attack like the horrific attack in Nice, France has led to complaints that the social media company's search engines are deliberately blocking the hash tag #Munich or the subsequent search item #IranianGerman.
Fire Fox News Smith, false reporting #MunichShooting #MunichAttack #tcot #terror German-Iranian #AmericaFirst pic.twitter.com/HI0B2mWKrt
— ((( Sandra ))) ن (@SandraTXAS) July 23, 2016
I notice Twitter and friend of free-speech @jack have removed #Munich from country trends now its apparent the shooter was German-Iranian
— Robbespierre (@Robbo1992x) July 23, 2016
Is this latest attack in the Summer of Chaos another way to distract the German people from the pending collapse of Deutsche Bank and the financial implosion of the EU, as Jeff Berwick hinted in his discussion of accelerated chaos during Friday's Guerrilla Economist radio show?
Please share your thoughts related to this apparent mass shooting terror attack, Munich, or German/EU politics in the open thread below.