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[true believer]

Timothy 2:12 is my favourite whenever a Christian lady tries to lecture me.

as my sister is christofascist cooker it's also one of mine

big fan of acts 5 . as the first murder of the faithful for their money

 

[sydmariner]

Timothy 2:12 is my favourite whenever a Christian lady tries to lecture me.

 

[true believer]

the difference between zionists (nazis) , christofascists (nazis) and israeli citizens

Nearly 400 Rabbis, Jewish Leaders Say 'No' to Trump Push for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza | Common Dreams (2025-02-13)

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-on-gaza
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“Over 350 rabbis and dozens of Jewish public figures on Thursday placed a full-page advertisement in The New York Times protesting President Donald Trump's proposal to force all Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip and take over the coastal enclave …”

"’Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza,’ the ad states. ‘Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing!’"

"’Jewish teaching is clear: Trump is not God and cannot take away Palestinians inherent dignity or steal their land for a real estate deal,’ [one of the signatories Rabbi Yosef] Berman continued. "Trump's desire to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza is morally abhorrent. Jewish leaders reject Trump's attempts to wring profit from displacement and suffering and must act to stop this heinous crime.’"

#USPol #EthnicCleansing
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

 

[Hello Sailor]

While governments stood by uselessly and jews were threatened on campuses, outside schools [and dont forget the Opera House with the chant that sounded like 'gas the jews'] and police move on jews not the hate mongers, jewish Australians had to resort to civil law themselves.


The Australian 19 Dec 24 page 2

 

[Hello Sailor]

 

[Hello Sailor]

 

[Paolo]

While governments stood by uselessly and jews were threatened on campuses, outside schools [and dont forget the Opera House with the chant that sounded like 'gas the jews'] and police move on jews not the hate mongers, jewish Australians had to resort to civil law themselves.

...but wasn't. [/context]

 

[Hello Sailor]

...but wasn't. [/context]

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Thats good. It sounds like it was instead "Where's the Jews" also an intimidating call. Now why would a mob want to know this unless to do them harm? It was an extremely volatile atmosphere and rather than arrest these arseholes, send in the riot squad, tear gas, water cannon, horses and police dogs the cops told the jews to stay away.


"Jews were told by police to stay away amid fears they couldn’t guarantee their safety while pro-Palestinian supporters mobbed the footsteps of the Opera House, burning Israeli flags and chanting slogans, including some attacking Jews as well as Israel.

An observer known to The Jewish Independent clearly heard the phrase "Kill the Jews" chanted in Arabic and “f**k the Jews” in English. Some observers claimed the crowd had chanted "Gas the Jews", although a subsequent forensic audio analysis by police found that the protesters were “almost certainly” chanting "Where’s the Jews?”
.

Jews reclaim Sydney Opera House - The Jewish Independent

thejewishindependent.com.au

 

[Hello Sailor]

I sometimes find a quote that resonates and I hope you also find them worth reflecting on.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Attributed to Edmund Burke

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller

Islamophobia is “a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.”
Attributed to Andrew Cummins

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last.
Attributed to Winston Churchill in WW Two

​

 

[Paolo]

Thats good. It sounds like it was instead "Where's the Jews" also an intimidating call. Now why would a mob want to know this unless to do them harm? It was an extremely volatile atmosphere and rather than arrest these arseholes, send in the riot squad, tear gas, water cannon, horses and police dogs the cops told the jews to stay away.


"Jews were told by police to stay away amid fears they couldn’t guarantee their safety while pro-Palestinian supporters mobbed the footsteps of the Opera House, burning Israeli flags and chanting slogans, including some attacking Jews as well as Israel.

An observer known to The Jewish Independent clearly heard the phrase "Kill the Jews" chanted in Arabic and “f**k the Jews” in English. Some observers claimed the crowd had chanted "Gas the Jews", although a subsequent forensic audio analysis by police found that the protesters were “almost certainly” chanting "Where’s the Jews?”
.

Jews reclaim Sydney Opera House - The Jewish Independent

thejewishindependent.com.au

And all of those chants are repugnant, but you chose the most emotionally charged...and false, one to which draws a comparison to the Holocaust.

Now you may have just honestly quoted it as you recalled it first reported, rather than deliberately misled to strengthen your argument...so hopefully a simple reminder to be more careful with words.
 

 

[Hello Sailor]

Thanks for your constructive criticism Paolo. I hope you don’t mind me offering you some in return. I’m not perfect. If I’m wrong I can concede it, as you have just seen. I just hope that you can too.

Post One

You don’t seem to understand exponential population growth and focused on this failing rather than address the Jew-hating evidence in islam’s scriptures, the long history of Jewish persecution by muslims, the oppression of non-muslims in countries today and you tried to smear me with some stupid reference to a ‘great replacement’ which I did not make.

Despite this I tried to be polite by not calling you ignorant for not understanding exponential population growth and gently conceded that even if you didn’t understand this, or that if I got this wrong [which I didn’t] that you can’t dismiss the awful history of Jewish persecution and its justification in Islamic texts.

Post two

I provided newspaper articles as evidence of Islamic religious leaders’ defence of atrocities against Jews. Instead of condemning them, you admonish me for a widely reported claim as ‘sounded like gas the Jews’. When I looked further into it I agreed with you that this was incorrect and even provided a link to that effect. These charming representatives of the ‘Religion of Peace’ [sic] were chanting “f**k the Jews” “Kill the Jews’ along with “Where are the Jews”. To a terrified group facing this mob the effect on them is probably the same.

Again you focus on a minor point rather than the broader one being made. Ie that police did not adequately deal with an angry mob of muslims baying for Jews and chanting to Find them, f**k them and Kill them. Instead the police directed people who have every right to walk the streets and wear a yamulka and Star of David, to go away. The hateful mob should have been punished, not the Jews.

Instead Jews had to resort to civil law. You also don’t address the points like harassment and threats made on campuses and CHILDREN afraid to go to their schools FFS.

So here’s a challenge for you, and your fanclub Mariner Mick, PriorPeter, FFC and Captain Gus; on the content that you chose not to comment on.

A simple Y/N from each of you please.

1Do you acknowledge that the koran and hadiths contain jew-hating passages?

2.Do you acknowledge the long history of murder, forced conversion and enslavement of Jews by muslims?

3.Do you acknowledge that Nazis and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem were allies?

4.Do you acknowledge that the president of Iran, [a theocracy with nuclear ambitions] declared that Israel should be ‘wiped off the map’?

5.Do you acknowledge that exponential population growth occurs when offspring outnumber their parents, and when those offspring in turn continue this trend?

6.Do you acknowledge that this population growth is greater than that of non-muslim populations in Australia?

7.Do you acknowledge that if this trend continues that it will lead, at some point, to a majority muslim population in Australia?

8.Do you acknowledge that muslim identification numbers in our census may be understated?

9.Do you acknowledge that non-muslims in muslim majority countries get persecuted?

10.Was it wrong to accuse me of referring to a “Great Replacement’?

11. Do you condemn the Jew-hatred carried out by muslims and their supporters on campuses, outside schools, synagogues and in public places like the Opera House?

12. Do you acknowledge that the Police, and campus administrations were inadequate in their response?

13. Do you condemn any muslim preacher teaching anti-Jewish ideas?

 

[true believer]

Thanks for your constructive criticism Paolo. I hope you don’t mind me offering you some in return. I’m not perfect. If I’m wrong I can concede it, as you have just seen. I just hope that you can too.

Post One

You don’t seem to understand exponential population growth and focused on this failing rather than address the Jew-hating evidence in islam’s scriptures, the long history of Jewish persecution by muslims, the oppression of non-muslims in countries today and you tried to smear me with some stupid reference to a ‘great replacement’ which I did not make.

Despite this I tried to be polite by not calling you ignorant for not understanding exponential population growth and gently conceded that even if you didn’t understand this, or that if I got this wrong [which I didn’t] that you can’t dismiss the awful history of Jewish persecution and its justification in Islamic texts.

Post two

I provided newspaper articles as evidence of Islamic religious leaders’ defence of atrocities against Jews. Instead of condemning them, you admonish me for a widely reported claim as ‘sounded like gas the Jews’. When I looked further into it I agreed with you that this was incorrect and even provided a link to that effect. These charming representatives of the ‘Religion of Peace’ [sic] were chanting “f**k the Jews” “Kill the Jews’ along with “Where are the Jews”. To a terrified group facing this mob the effect on them is probably the same.

Again you focus on a minor point rather than the broader one being made. Ie that police did not adequately deal with an angry mob of muslims baying for Jews and chanting to Find them, f**k them and Kill them. Instead the police directed people who have every right to walk the streets and wear a yamulka and Star of David, to go away. The hateful mob should have been punished, not the Jews.

Instead Jews had to resort to civil law. You also don’t address the points like harassment and threats made on campuses and CHILDREN afraid to go to their schools FFS.

So here’s a challenge for you, and your fanclub Mariner Mick, PriorPeter, FFC and Captain Gus; on the content that you chose not to comment on.

A simple Y/N from each of you please.

1Do you acknowledge that the koran and hadiths contain jew-hating passages?

2.Do you acknowledge the long history of murder, forced conversion and enslavement of Jews by muslims?

3.Do you acknowledge that Nazis and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem were allies?

4.Do you acknowledge that the president of Iran, [a theocracy with nuclear ambitions] declared that Israel should be ‘wiped off the map’?

5.Do you acknowledge that exponential population growth occurs when offspring outnumber their parents, and when those offspring in turn continue this trend?

6.Do you acknowledge that this population growth is greater than that of non-muslim populations in Australia?

7.Do you acknowledge that if this trend continues that it will lead, at some point, to a majority muslim population in Australia?

8.Do you acknowledge that muslim identification numbers in our census may be understated?

9.Do you acknowledge that non-muslims in muslim majority countries get persecuted?

10.Was it wrong to accuse me of referring to a “Great Replacement’?

11. Do you condemn the Jew-hatred carried out by muslims and their supporters on campuses, outside schools, synagogues and in public places like the Opera House?

12. Do you acknowledge that the Police, and campus administrations were inadequate in their response?

13. Do you condemn any muslim preacher teaching anti-Jewish ideas?

yes/no answers. does anyone believe this propaganda letter is hello sailors "HS" own words ?
yes/no has anyone actually meet hs ?

yes/no in the first versions of the bible .god elohim has abraham murder his son isaac .
abraham returns alone .therefore israel has no biblical claim to the land ?
yes/no does the bible contain multiple genocides committed by the hebrews ?
yes/no christains have massacred more jews than anybody else ?
yes/no christain knights defended the muslims of Cordoba against the church ?
yes/no christains built the canons for the muslims in the conquest of constantinople ?
yes/no christains massacred the muslims and jews in jerusalem in the first crusade ?
yes/no when saladin recaptured jerusalem he spared the lives of the christains. the jews had already been murdered by the christians ?
yes/no christofascists believe israel must be restored to bring a return of christ ?
yes/no christofascists believe in british israel and that they are the lost hebrew tribes ?
yes/no winston churchill was the white supremacist behind the balfour declaration ?
yes/no christofascists in the USA funded land acquisitions in palestine which started the first conflicts with
the local inhabitants ?
yes/no after hanging british soldiers and bombing the king david hotel, by zionist terrorists .the british withdraw from palestine ?
yes/no war breaks out in 1948 the arab army of 20150 clash with 23500 israels .after the british seperate them. the israels return with another 95,000 in it's second line and 13,500 ww2 war veterans with state of the art US weapons .700,000 palestines are made homeless .15,000 are murdered in 70 old massacres .
the white supremist myth of israeli superiority is pound out in the pro zionist press .

yes/no the myth of the 1967 war .israel launched a first strike against the egyptain air force on the ground

yes/no with a two state peace negotiated between arafat and rabin .netanyahu has a manchurian candidate assassinate rabin. netanyahu reneges on the peace .and for each subsequent deal has seatters move in on more palestine land ,thus maintaining fear and war.

yes/no today ,felon,mass murderer netanyahu has a convenient war with the palestian people .
more settlers moving in .genocide in progress


but but someone might of said a mean word about jews

remember when hello sailor pretended he was a moderate sitting on the fence .

 

[marinermick]

I love how people take the extreme of one religion and use it as a template to make generalisations on the rest of the religion.

There is hatred and extremists in all religion. Even the Christian bible recommends murder for those who don’t believe in their God.

 

[true believer]

I love how people take the extreme of one religion and use it as a template to make generalisations on the rest of the religion.

There is hatred and extremists in all religion. Even the Christian bible recommends murder for those who don’t believe in their God.

that's because their books are all written by cock obsessed men .
they all have incel tales blaming women because their incapable of relationships
that also includes the hindu's (see rama and sita)

most here have f'k all idea whats in them. or they wouldn't post culture wars bullshit

 

[Hello Sailor]

The questions were simple, and easily answered with a Yes or No. If you dont agree with the question, simply say No.
None of the cheer squad or Paolo taken up the challenge?
I'm disappointed but really not surprised.



Hizb ut-Tahir
Global imposition of sharia, what fun!

 

[Wombat]

I love how people take the extreme of one religion and use it as a template to make generalisations on the rest of the religion.

There is hatred and extremists in all religion. Even the Christian bible recommends murder for those who don’t believe in their God.

Do Christian's run around stabbing people randomly and running them down in cars? I know you are coming at this with a good heart Mick but you are burying your head in the sand.

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A mother and her two-year-old daughter have died from injuries sustained two days ago when a car deliberately rammed into a trade union demonstration in Munich on Thursday. The attack wounded 37 people, including children, police said.

A two-year-old girl and her mother died Saturday from injuries suffered in the car-ramming attack two days ago in the German city of Munich that left 37 others injured, police said.
"Unfortunately, we have to confirm the deaths today of the two-year-old child and her 37-year-old mother," police spokesman Ludwig Waldinger told AFP.
An Afghan man was arrested on suspicion of deliberately driving a car into a trade union demonstration on Thursday.

Police said the 24-year-old asylum seeker, identified by German media as Farhad N., may have had Islamist extremist motives for the attack.
After the incident, the suspect uttered the words "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) to police officers and also prayed, prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann said on Friday.
The carnage came shortly before Germans head to the polls for a February 23 election where immigration is a key issue following a spate of attacks blamed on migrants.

Austria says stabbing attack suspect swore allegiance to Islamic State​

By Borut Zivulovic
February 17, 20257:20 PM GMT+11Updated 14 hours ago

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This Syrian man stopped an attacker in Austria with his car

• Summary

• Suspected attacker is 23-year-old Syrian asylum seeker
• One killed, five injured in Saturday's attack
• Suspect had IS flag at home, was radicalised online

VILLACH, Austria, Feb 16 (Reuters) - The Syrian asylum seeker suspected of carrying out a deadly stabbing rampage in the Austrian town of Villach had sworn allegiance to Islamic State and was radicalised online, authorities said on Sunday.
A 14-year-old boy was killed in Saturday afternoon's attack in the centre of Villach and five other people were wounded, three of whom are in intensive care, police said.
Interior Minister Gerhard Karner told a press conference in Villach that the 23-year-old Syrian man, who was arrested seven minutes after the first call to the police, had been rapidly radicalised on the internet and that the Islamic State (IS) flag had been found in his apartment.
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Karner, a conservative, told reporters there was sadness and sympathy for the victims, then added:
"But in these moments there's also understandably often anger and rage. Anger at an Islamist attacker who randomly stabbed innocent people here in this town."
Karner also said officials should have greater powers to screen asylum seekers and there would have to be "mass checks without cause in many areas" since the suspect had not attracted the authorities' attention.
Police said the man, who is being charged with murder and attempted murder, had recorded himself swearing an oath of allegiance to IS.
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More harm would have been done had it not been for another Syrian, a food delivery driver, who saw the attacker and drove into him with his vehicle to stop him, authorities said.
IS has not claimed responsibility for the attack so far. However, the media section of IS's Afghan branch, Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), recently circulated a post by IS calling for lone wolf attacks in America and Europe following a New Year attack in New Orleans, according to SITE Intelligence.
The bloodshed in Villach followed the thwarting of a plot in August to carry out a suicide attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna by a teenager who had also sworn loyalty to IS.

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Some residents of Villach, a town of about 65,000 people on the River Drava, said they refused to be intimidated by the threat of terrorism. Others expressed shock.

"Until now I felt secure, but it's another feeling now," said one local man, Siegfried. "I'm not so sure as before."
Saturday's rampage came just days after an attack on Thursday in Munich in neighbouring Germany by an Afghan national who drove his car into a crowd, injuring dozens of people, two of whom later died.
It took place during an extended period of political tension in Austria, where the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) - which came first in September's parliamentary election - said last week it was unable to form a coalition government.

Centrist parties are now discussing whether they could try to form a government while the president considers options including moving the country towards a snap election.
Across the border in Germany, recent immigration from predominantly Muslim countries and the integration of asylum seekers has become a charged political issue heading into a snap election on Feb. 23.
Railing against illegal immigration and pledging to increase deportations to countries such as Syria and Afghanistan, to which it is currently illegal to deport people, are central to the FPO's platform. The FPO seized on the Villach attack.
"No migrant would be able to commit murder or any other crime in our country if they were not in Austria in the first place," FPO leader Herbert Kickl said in a statement.
Officials from other parties condemned the attack while calling for the country to remain united.
"The Islamist perpetrator will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Because hatred, intolerance and extremism have no place in our open, pluralistic society," conservative Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg, whose government is serving in a caretaker capacity, said on social media platform X.
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[Paolo]

Thanks for your constructive criticism Paolo. I hope you don’t mind me offering you some in return. I’m not perfect. If I’m wrong I can concede it, as you have just seen. I just hope that you can too.

/snip/

I'm not interested in a binary yes/no game across a long list of topics, especially when each requires nuance and critical thinking. But I'm not sure you do want to engage in any legitimate discussion vs push a narrative and attack a whole religion?

In both instances I was merely looking to challenge two specific claims, without taking a position on your broader points. If your broader argument depends on these claims, then accuracy matters.

To address your two criticisms of me.
1. If you wish to play semantics over the use of the term 'exponential growth', sure we can debate it... but I don't think your point was about an accelerating trend in isolation. Rather, it was about a projected trajectory leading to an Islamic majority, something that would take a few centuries and assumes no external factors or shifts.

You're right that I shouldn't have linked your argument to the 'Great Replacement' theory, as you didn’t explicitly make that claim, though the implication drew similarities. I acknowledge that and apologise.

2. Again, I wasn’t disputing your broader sentiment, nor was I taking a position against it, only ensuring the details used to support it were accurate.

 

[Stuartmcateer]

Do Christian's run around stabbing people randomly and running them down in cars? I know you are coming at this with a good heart Mick but you are burying your head in the sand.

Crusades
Spanish inquisition
Witch trials
KKK

Not sure the Christians are in a position to be snooty about extreme zealots.

 

[marinermick]

Do Christian's run around stabbing people randomly and running them down in cars? I know you are coming at this with a good heart Mick but you are burying your head in the sand.

______________________________________________________________________________________

A mother and her two-year-old daughter have died from injuries sustained two days ago when a car deliberately rammed into a trade union demonstration in Munich on Thursday. The attack wounded 37 people, including children, police said.

A two-year-old girl and her mother died Saturday from injuries suffered in the car-ramming attack two days ago in the German city of Munich that left 37 others injured, police said.
"Unfortunately, we have to confirm the deaths today of the two-year-old child and her 37-year-old mother," police spokesman Ludwig Waldinger told AFP.
An Afghan man was arrested on suspicion of deliberately driving a car into a trade union demonstration on Thursday.

Police said the 24-year-old asylum seeker, identified by German media as Farhad N., may have had Islamist extremist motives for the attack.
After the incident, the suspect uttered the words "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) to police officers and also prayed, prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann said on Friday.
The carnage came shortly before Germans head to the polls for a February 23 election where immigration is a key issue following a spate of attacks blamed on migrants.

Austria says stabbing attack suspect swore allegiance to Islamic State​

By Borut Zivulovic
February 17, 20257:20 PM GMT+11Updated 14 hours ago

0 seconds of 22 secondsVolume 0%












This Syrian man stopped an attacker in Austria with his car

• Summary
• Suspected attacker is 23-year-old Syrian asylum seeker
• One killed, five injured in Saturday's attack
• Suspect had IS flag at home, was radicalised online

VILLACH, Austria, Feb 16 (Reuters) - The Syrian asylum seeker suspected of carrying out a deadly stabbing rampage in the Austrian town of Villach had sworn allegiance to Islamic State and was radicalised online, authorities said on Sunday.
A 14-year-old boy was killed in Saturday afternoon's attack in the centre of Villach and five other people were wounded, three of whom are in intensive care, police said.
Interior Minister Gerhard Karner told a press conference in Villach that the 23-year-old Syrian man, who was arrested seven minutes after the first call to the police, had been rapidly radicalised on the internet and that the Islamic State (IS) flag had been found in his apartment.
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Karner, a conservative, told reporters there was sadness and sympathy for the victims, then added:
"But in these moments there's also understandably often anger and rage. Anger at an Islamist attacker who randomly stabbed innocent people here in this town."
Karner also said officials should have greater powers to screen asylum seekers and there would have to be "mass checks without cause in many areas" since the suspect had not attracted the authorities' attention.
Police said the man, who is being charged with murder and attempted murder, had recorded himself swearing an oath of allegiance to IS.
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More harm would have been done had it not been for another Syrian, a food delivery driver, who saw the attacker and drove into him with his vehicle to stop him, authorities said.
IS has not claimed responsibility for the attack so far. However, the media section of IS's Afghan branch, Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), recently circulated a post by IS calling for lone wolf attacks in America and Europe following a New Year attack in New Orleans, according to SITE Intelligence.
The bloodshed in Villach followed the thwarting of a plot in August to carry out a suicide attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna by a teenager who had also sworn loyalty to IS.

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Some residents of Villach, a town of about 65,000 people on the River Drava, said they refused to be intimidated by the threat of terrorism. Others expressed shock.

"Until now I felt secure, but it's another feeling now," said one local man, Siegfried. "I'm not so sure as before."
Saturday's rampage came just days after an attack on Thursday in Munich in neighbouring Germany by an Afghan national who drove his car into a crowd, injuring dozens of people, two of whom later died.
It took place during an extended period of political tension in Austria, where the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) - which came first in September's parliamentary election - said last week it was unable to form a coalition government.

Centrist parties are now discussing whether they could try to form a government while the president considers options including moving the country towards a snap election.
Across the border in Germany, recent immigration from predominantly Muslim countries and the integration of asylum seekers has become a charged political issue heading into a snap election on Feb. 23.
Railing against illegal immigration and pledging to increase deportations to countries such as Syria and Afghanistan, to which it is currently illegal to deport people, are central to the FPO's platform. The FPO seized on the Villach attack.
"No migrant would be able to commit murder or any other crime in our country if they were not in Austria in the first place," FPO leader Herbert Kickl said in a statement.
Officials from other parties condemned the attack while calling for the country to remain united.
"The Islamist perpetrator will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Because hatred, intolerance and extremism have no place in our open, pluralistic society," conservative Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg, whose government is serving in a caretaker capacity, said on social media platform X.
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Jim, over the centuries Christians have done far worse, including the Catholic Church aiding and abetting the Nazis.

And Christians continue to harm in the name of their religion.

However, my point is that this is just extremism on all sides, the extremes you have pointed out, the extremes from Christianity, the genocide of Palestinians by zionists, the extreme religious violence in India etc.

The vast majority of those who follow religion, include Islam, are peaceful, loving people who wish no harm.

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

Crusades
Spanish inquisition
Witch trials
KKK

Not sure the Christians are in a position to be snooty about extreme zealots.

Not to mention the numerous terrorist attacks on abortion clinics in the USA including bombings and murder.

We also have nazis charged with terrorism offences here