polite_gandalf wrote on Jul 18
th, 2016 at 5:40pm:
Is there anything besides his name and (presumably) ethnic background which links this attack in any way to Islam?
Serious question - as I haven't seen any reports of him doing stuff like pledging loyalty to ISIS/Islamic jihadists, releasing any sort of message about fighting for Islam, meetings with radical sheikhs, Islamist propaganda on his phone/laptop etc etc...
I'm with you, gandalf. I'm finding all this Islamophobic hysteria quite nauseating.
Witnesses reported he was yelling 'Allahu Akbar' as he drove the truck through the crowd, but maybe they just imagined this.
Come on guys and gals, let's help Gandalf out here.
It's quite possible the accelerator pedal got stuck to the floor, and maybe he really was delivering ice cream just as he told the police.
As for the gun he was firing, it's my guess he was only trying to warn people ahead to get out of the way.
In the final wash-up, when all this Islamophobic hysteria has died down, I bet this guy will prove to have been a pillar of society with not a nasty bone in his body.