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A GUNMAN ARMED with multiple weapons went on a shooting spree in a mosque in a suburb of the Norwegian capital Oslo today, injuring one worshipper before being arrested, police and witnesses said.
The head of the mosque described the assailant as white and said he was wearing a helmet and a uniform.
“One person is shot. The severity of that person’s injuries is unknown. One suspect is arrested. The police are working at the location,” Oslo police said on Twitter.
The shooting occurred at the al-Noor Islamic centre in the town of Baerum, an Oslo suburb.
Police said there was no indication that more people were involved.
They said they had no information about the suspect, other than he was described as “white”.
“One of our members has been shot by a white man with a helmet and uniform,” Irfan Mushtaq, head of the mosque, told local newspaper Budstikka.
He later told broadcaster TV2 that the man had carried multiple weapons.
“An ethnically Norwegian man with a shotgun and pistols entered the mosque and broke glass windows. He started shooting around him,” Mushtaq said.
‘Suspect subdued’
Public broadcaster NRK reported that police had found multiple weapons inside the mosque, and that someone in the building had managed to subdue the suspect before police arrived on the scene.
The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) said it was monitoring the situation.
“We’re following the events and are continuingly evaluating. It’s to early to draw any conclusions,” Martin Bernsen, information director at PST, told NRK.
There has been recent spate of white nationalist attacks in the West, including in the United States and in New Zealand where 51 Muslim worshippers were killed in March in shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch.
The suspect in the Christchurch killings wrote a hate-filled manifesto in which he said he was influenced by far-right ideologues including Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik.
Breivik, who said he was motivated by his hatred of multiculturalism, killed 77 people in gun and bomb attacks in Norway in July 2011, many of them teenagers.
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Here we go again…. when will it ever stop. However I can’t stop thinking that the world will blame Trump
@Thomas Rowe: Well if the terrorists keep using his exact rhetoric in their manifestos what would you expect?
@Thomas Rowe: Trump is not far right he not even a conservative , Trump is what ever will get him elected. He panders and pedals “whatever your having yourself ” as long as it gets him elected.
@Daithi Ó Raghallaigh: Like most politicians.
@Graham Wilson: so who do we blame for these attacks pre Trump?
How come we can’t give descriptions of criminals over here on the daily crimes? Whats the big secret? Are they all foreign nationals or somethings?
@Johnny Conway: Why is your first question on the matter “are they all foreign nationals”? Do you hope that it is?
@Johnny Conway: It’s in the article, ‘an ethnic Norwegian’, white supremacist like Anders Breivik who murdered 69 mostly teenage kids in 2011.
@Diarmuid Hunt: no. But my point being that they gave a discription as a Norwegian white male but here they never give a description. Ever
@Graham Wilson: It’s in his comment, he’s asking about why we don’t give descriptions of people in ongoing cases in Ireland.
@Johnny Conway: Possibly because it’s a different jurisdiction with different laws, but I’m not sure.
Again, a white shooter not referred to as a terrorist. Why?
@Rochelle: don’t fret, incorrect terms are always used, e.g. the right are commonly labelled as far right, radical left are commonly called left or centrist, anti illegal immigration are commonly referred to as anti immigration, etc.
@Jack Simpson: except not really, the right and the far right both exist. Traditional republicans are the right, tea party republicans are the far right. Traditional Democrats are the left, Bernie and Co are the far left. Centrist anti illegal immigration politicians are rarely heard from as their views aren’t seen as compelling. It’s far more often thst we hear from those wishing to shut down borders completely. One thing I’ve never heard though is a politician that was for the total opening of all borders everywhere. Yet its an accusation thrown at those wanting to help genuine asylum seekers by those that wish to stop all immigration frequently
@Dave O’Keeffe: 1) Who wants to shut down borders completely? 2) More and more politicians in the US and Europe are moving in the direction of open border policies. 3) I agree with the initial part. It’s frustrating when labels are used inappropriately, i.e. ‘far right’ or ‘alt right’ used instead of ‘right’. It is usually done by left leaning publications, presumably to discredit the person/group.
Fair play to whoever overpowered him, a hero, saved a lot of lives, far more good people on this earth than evil shites like that tulip
thankfully no one was killed &hopefully the islamists won’t carry out revenge attacks like they did in Sri Lanka &slaughter more innocent men ,women &children. let peace reign in our world
More White Supremacist terrorism, these guys are out of control everywhere. Let’s hope we don’t have any far-right attacks in Ireland.
Good article on these fanatics and their ignorant ideologies in The Irish Times today White genocide: A dangerous myth employed by racists (via @IrishTimes) https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/white-genocide-a-dangerous-myth-employed-by-racists-1.3981739
@Graham Wilson: literally hundreds of horrific mass killing resultsing in the deaths of 10′s of thousands of innocents on every continent since 9/11 by Islamic terrorists and a couple of attacks by white supremacists and ” these guys are out of control”.
@Philip Siggins: I think most terrorists gunning innocent people down, by virtue of their actions, are ‘out of control’, don’t you?
@Philip Siggins: A couple?! 73% of terrorist attacks in the U.S. alone were by White Supremacists in the last decade. https://time.com/5647304/white-nationalist-terrorism-united-states/
@Philip Siggins: Bit of an exaggeration there Philip, tens of thousands on every continent?
@Philip Siggins: ‘a couple of attacks by white supremacists’. You lose for that phrase alone. Talk about willfully dismissive.
@Graham Wilson: its too easy to say black white its also cultural differences and the belief of errosion of a said culture
Madness
Some in Drogheda might sympathise with how he feels after recent nights behaviour
@Brian Mc Elwaine: Or Birmingham
Here we go again, will it ever stop. However can’t stop thinking the world will blame Trump!!
@Thomas Rowe: interesting that you’re the first and second to mention him in relation to the article.
White supremacist killings are the single biggest danger to 1st world countries, more so than Islamic attacks ever were.
@Paddy Losty: lol, the white suprematist, the new bogey man.
Will it ever end
It would seem to me some of these Idiots want to be a social media stars, even if it kills them.
@Daithi Ó Raghallaigh: True. And we’re probably adding to it with our online discussions. It would be hard not to though.
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