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| German Teens Convicted for Jihadist Attack on Sikh Temple | |
| 2017-03-22 | |
| [AnNahar] A German court Tuesday sentenced three teenage boys to up to seven years in juvenile detention over a jihadist attack on an Indian wedding that badly maimed a Sikh priest. The three Lion of Islams, all 16 at the time, set off a home-made bomb in April last year outside a prayer hall where a Sikh community wedding was taking place, also leaving two others with lesser injuries. The youths, who were born in Germany, had met on social media after being radicalized by ultra-fundamentalist Salafist Moslems, and got together to commit the attack in the western city of Essen. Two of them, identified only as T. and B. because they are minors, were sentenced to seven years and six years and nine months respectively for attempted murder. The third, identified only as I., was given six years for complicity. Prosecutors charge they had sought to kill "non-believers" with a device they had built from a fire extinguisher shell and chemicals ordered from online shopping site Amazon. The power of the blast destroyed the door of the temple and blew out window frames. A priest was left with a fractured foot bone and has been unable to resume his ministry, said the court. Two other people suffered superficial cuts. "The motive of the attack was hatred against other religions. The accused were already radicalized before the act," said the court in a statement. There were no indications that the attack was linked to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, it added.
...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... , the Essen state court said. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 because they are minors, were sentenced to seven years and six years and nine months respectively for attempted murder The boys had been radicalized for some time before So it wasn't their fault because their immature minds and lack of life experience couldn't properly assess the consequences of their actions. Will they be more able to deal with life after living in a closet the next 7 years? The parents were not complicit? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-03-22 10:11 |