Muslims ‘terrified’, Galway mosque attacked during prayers.

[Animavore]

The imam of a Galway mosque which was attacked during the hour of prayer on Monday evening has appealed for “calm” in the wake of the London terrorist attack.

Imam Ibrahim Ahmad Noonan of the Masjid Maryam mosque in Galway told The Irish Times that up to 100 members of the Galway mosque were left “terrified” when rocks smashed through the windows during the attack on Monday evening.

The attack comes in the wake of the terror attack in London on Saturday night and news that one of the three attackers lived for a time in Ireland and got married here. A cross-border inquiry is seeking to establish if Rachid Redouane (30), who lived in Rathmines for a time, got married in Ireland for immigration reasons. Police said Redouane claimed to be Moroccan or Libyan.

An investigation in recent years found some men who had been refused immigration status or whose marriage plans had been questioned in Britain sought to marry in Ireland as a “back door” to staying in the European Union. It is understood he married in 2011 or 2012 before leaving for London and that he made an unsuccessful application for asylum in the UK in 2009.

Imam Noonan said the the attack in Galway took place at approximately 11.20 pm on Monday evening. “Last night, during the time of prayer and

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-an ... -1.3109231

Fear and hatred winning.

[JimC]

I hate to sound like a vindicated prophet, but I suspect this will be the first of many such, unless the right steps are taken by both the authorities and muslim leadership to reassure people that real progress can be made. Otherwise, the backlash will simply gather momentum, and apart from the harm to innocent muslims, it will further radicalise more young muslims, so the upward spiral continues...

[Animavore]

Why are you playing down this incident instead of condemning it? Why are you trying to blame the Muslim victims? Don't you think the Galway community should be making efforts to find these scrotes and make a citizens arrest and frog-march them to the Garda Station?



Can't believe how quickly a fly landed in my web. Too easy.

[JimC]

Why are you playing down this incident instead of condemning it? Why are you trying to blame the Muslim victims? Don't you think the Galway community should be making efforts to find these scrotes and make a citizens arrest and frog-march them to the Garda Station?



Can't believe how quickly a fly landed in my web. Too easy.

What the fuck do you mean by saying I'm downplaying it? And of course the perpetrators should be arrested! I regard it as a very serious and worrying harbinger of a dangerous backlash, a backlash that will continue to get worse if the public cannot be convinced that the threat of terrorism is being dealt with more effectively than it has been.

[Animavore]

You immediately made it about the Muslims needing to do something about terrorists in their community. You said nothing about the people who did it.

[pErvinalia]

I hate to sound like a vindicated prophet, but I suspect this will be the first of many such, unless the right steps are taken by both the authorities and muslim leadership to reassure people that real progress can be made. Otherwise, the backlash will simply gather momentum, and apart from the harm to innocent muslims, it will further radicalise more young muslims, so the upward spiral continues...

FFS Jim, steps are being taken. It's only because moderates like you are letting the fear get to them that the right feels more emboldened. If nothing extra was done this would still be a minor minor problem. By blowing it totally out of proportion you are vindicating the right in their fears.

[JimC]

The backlash is real, and will grow unless the population of western countries affected by terror attacks is convinced that everything that can be done is being done. That is not me advocating such a backlash, it's what I think is a reasoned prediction...

[Brian Peacock]

This is a dirty business. Seems the actions of some deluded idiots in London is inspiring idiocy all round.

[JimC]

Certainly any examples of attacks against muslims need to be dealt with by the full force of the law - no argument there...

[Feck]

I'm still not sure of any reason,apart from fear, why nobody is willing to have a real conversation about Islam. The media is still portraying it as a nice religion like an equivalent to post enlightenment christianity .
There is this stupid idea that as a religion it MUST serve to make people better . So many people talking about Islam who have not read one single word of the confused rubbish that is the Quran or the litany of horrors that is contained in the Hadith
Pundits wailing that they don't know how muslims have become 'radicalised' without ever reading one word of the source material the religion is based on .
Islam IS Evil, root and branch. It IS the personality cult of one of the most monstrous, dishonest men ever documented . Islam IS a blight on humanity: NOT 'radical' Islam NOT 'extremist ' Islam, Just plain Islam .
While Muslims are brought up to believe that Mohammed was the perfect messenger who is to be quoted and imitated in every way I see little chance of "real progress" .
And no I don't advocate any sort of violence against muslims it's often thinly veiled racism and only serves to legitimize the call to arms so many young muslims fall prey to .

[Svartalf]

yeah, because Chretinity was not still burning "witches" right in the middle of the enlightenment era...

[Hermit]

Pundits wailing that they don't know how muslims have become 'radicalised' without ever reading one word of the source material the religion is based on .

It's the same Qur'an Muslims have read 50 years ago. Why haven't Muslims been radicalised then? Conversely, the Old Testament is no less evil than the Qur'an, and it lies on the pulpit of every Christian church today, so why are there next to no radicalised Christians today? And no, don't give me this "New Covenant" story. The "New Covenant" was around while the crusaders massacred Muslims till they were wading to their ankles in blood, and they reported that with pride.