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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe hero of the New Zealand massacre - Abdul Aziz
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/384892/abdul-aziz-saved-lives-by-running-at-gunman-in-mosque<snip>
A man who was inside a Christchurch mosque when it was attacked has been hailed as a hero for confronting the gunman, chasing him off and preventing more deaths.
A man who was inside a Christchurch mosque when it was attacked has been hailed as a hero for confronting the gunman, chasing him off and preventing more deaths.
Abdul Aziz was in the Linwood mosque when the shooter opened fire during Friday prayers. Seven people were killed there, and 41 at Masjid Al Noor Mosque. One person later died in Christchurch hospital.
Mr Aziz picked up the first thing he could find - a credit card machine - and ran outside screaming "Come here!"
Mr Aziz, 48, has been praised for saving many people inside by leading the gunman on a cat-and-mouse chase before scaring him into speeding away in his car.
But Mr Aziz, whose four sons and dozens of others remained in the mosque while he faced off with the gunman, said he thinks it is what anyone would have done.
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The hero of the New Zealand massacre - Abdul Aziz (Original Post)
malaise
Mar 2019
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Recursion
(56,582 posts)1. Shaheed
We belong to Allah, and to Allah we return.
Throck
(2,520 posts)2. Multiple stories.
canetoad
(17,171 posts)3. Absolute hero
I was just reading our local news about Abdul Aziz. After the credit card machine, it seems he found a discarded empty firearm and chased the shooter. He threw the gun like a spear and shattered the shooter's windscreen.
Aziz said as he ran outside screaming, he was hoping to distract the attacker. He said the gunman ran back to his car to get another gun, and Aziz hurled the credit card machine at him.
He said he could hear his two youngest sons, aged 11 and 5, urging him to come back inside.
The gunman returned, firing. Aziz said he ran, weaving through cars parked in the driveway, which prevented the gunman from getting a clean shot. Then Aziz spotted a gun the gunman had abandoned and picked it up, pointed it and squeezed the trigger. It was empty.
He said the gunman ran back to the car for a second time, likely to grab yet another weapon.
"He gets into his car and I just got the gun and threw it on his window like an arrow and blasted his window," he said.
The windshield shattered: "That's why he got scared."
https://www.theage.com.au/world/oceania/christchurch-shooting-man-tells-how-he-grabbed-gunman-s-rifle-and-scared-him-away-20190317-p514uo.html
demigoddess
(6,642 posts)4. I bet his sons are very proud. Proud and alive because of him.
that is a good father, good man.
FakeNoose
(32,675 posts)5. Give this man the Nobel Peace Prize
... or some other outstanding award. He deserves it!
malaise
(269,096 posts)8. That would give the vile MAGAcretin a heart attack
Give him! Give him! Give him!
Turn on ABC now - he's the main headline and they will discuss the white supremacy symbol
red dog 1
(27,834 posts)6. K&R, thanks for posting
But, but...Trump says we need more GUNS to protect ourselves from mass murderers.
"Teachers should be armed!"
"Churches should have armed guards"
"Mosques?.(He doesn't care about Mosques)
leanforward
(1,077 posts)7. He is a hero in my book
Ill serve coffee or tea to that gentleman any time.