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LeftishBrit

(41,210 posts) Sat Oct 26, 2013, 05:08 PM Oct 2013

Student gets 40 years for terror campaign against Muslims

A white supremacist who hoped to "ethnically cleanse" Muslims has been told he will serve at least 40 years imprisonment for a terror campaign in which he hunted down a Muslim to murder before he bombed three Midlands mosques aiming to kill and maim worshippers.

Pavlo Lapshyn, 25, came to Britain in April from Ukraine after winning a prize to further his studies. Instead he tried to trigger a race war, fuelled by extremist material on his computer – including a video game called "ethnic cleansing" which celebrated racist violence....

His victim was Mohammed Saleem, 82, walking home from a mosque with the aid of a walking stick in Small Heath, Birmingham, just after 10pm.....

Three hundred people would have been in the path of the shrapnel that shot across the car park, leaving nails embedded in tree trunks. But the mosque had temporarily moved prayers back one hour....

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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/25/student-40-years-terror-campaign-muslims

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Student gets 40 years for terror campaign against Muslims (Original Post) LeftishBrit Oct 2013 OP

So many are so eager to find "someone" they can feel superior to. xfundy Oct 2013 #1

Horrifying what the post-Soviet political and social mores are doing to a certain kind of person ... non sociopath skin Oct 2013 #2

thing issue is Jeneral2885 Oct 2013 #3

It was weird how much it was downplayed at the time muriel_volestrangler Oct 2013 #4

xfundy

(5,105 posts)

1. So many are so eager to find "someone" they can feel superior to.

Reply to LeftishBrit (Original post)

Sat Oct 26, 2013, 07:13 PM

Oct 2013

Apparently it's a part of human nature that refused to evolve out. It takes a reasoning mind (I guess?) to block that kind of reptilian thinking out of consciousness. (In my case, I was raised to be a racist, found it illogical, but still sometimes have to catch myself; indoctrination seems to always be there.)

I would guess those who do things like this imagine they will be cheered, admired and rewarded somewhere, somehow. It's nuts.

non sociopath skin

(4,972 posts)

2. Horrifying what the post-Soviet political and social mores are doing to a certain kind of person ...

Reply to LeftishBrit (Original post)

Sun Oct 27, 2013, 06:49 AM

Oct 2013

... and, as always, the vulnerable reap the whirlwind.

I expect we'll soon be seeing The Usual Suspects taking time out from denigrating muslims in order to denigrate Ukrainians without any sense of irony.

The Skin

Jeneral2885

(1,354 posts)

3. thing issue is

Reply to LeftishBrit (Original post)

Sun Oct 27, 2013, 02:57 PM

Oct 2013

that COBRA was not convened when he bomb those Mosques. When Lee Rigby was killed Cobra was convened even those that was not a terrorist plot.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,361 posts)

4. It was weird how much it was downplayed at the time

Reply to Jeneral2885 (Reply #3)

Sun Oct 27, 2013, 04:10 PM

Oct 2013

Why did police drop claim a bomb wasn’t terrorism?

The story was reported in the news on Sunday and the police immediately said it was not an act of terrorism.

A statement by Assistant Chief Constable Sharon Rowe from West Midlands police said:

Specialist investigators have been working all day and continue to ensure that we maximise every opportunity from the crime scene.

At this stage we are keeping an open mind on a motive. There is no evidence or intelligence to suggest that this is an act of terrorism.

But given the recent spate of attacks on Muslims, it was bizarre the police ruled out terrorism as a motive so early.
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West Midlands police have now quietly deleted that quote saying there was no evidence to suggest it was terrorism.

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2013/06/27/why-has-wm-police-quietly-deleted-the-claim-walsall-bomb-wasnt-terrorism/

They quickly arrested a 75 year old - he turned out to have nothing to do with it.

It was 3 weeks later they arrested the actual culprit - after a 2nd explosion at Tipton.

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