Knife Attack on London Bridge - Two Dead

[Vassenor]

And then decided it couldn't possibly be that because you don't want it to be that.

No?

Weirdo.

You're one to talk.

So what evidence do you have that this was an Islamist terror attack when the police have released nothing about the suspect's identity?

[Munkcestrian Republic]

No?


You're one to talk.

So what evidence do you have that this was an Islamist terror attack when the police have released nothing about the suspect's identity?

Fake suicide vest and a stabbing spree.

[Bear Stearns]

Weirdo.

You're one to talk.

I'm joking. I think you're funny. And you understand the values of Anglo-Saxon Yankee Puritan Calvinism! Hail Cromwell!

[Vassenor]

So what evidence do you have that this was an Islamist terror attack when the police have released nothing about the suspect's identity?

Fake suicide vest and a stabbing spree.

You mean the fake suicide vest that no-one is reporting on?

[Greed and Death]

And of course coverage will hinge on the suspect's ethnicity.

Bojo is going to use this to improve his odds of election.

[Eastfield Lodge]

Three minutes later...

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These types of stabbings are starting to get embarrassingly common now...

Very difficult to see coming. At least the response was quick.

Why now though?

Because we're in the middle of an election campaign. What better way to up support for the party of law and order?

[Munkcestrian Republic]

Fake suicide vest and a stabbing spree.

You mean the fake suicide vest that no-one is reporting on?

... almost every news site is saying there was a fake suicide vest

[Gormwood]

So what evidence do you have that this was an Islamist terror attack when the police have released nothing about the suspect's identity?

Fake suicide vest and a stabbing spree.

People keep talking like Islamists would wear working suicide vests. A fake suggests he really isn't that committed to dying or he wanted to pass himself off as one.

[Fartsniffage]

Fake suicide vest and a stabbing spree.

You mean the fake suicide vest that no-one is reporting on?

Apart from the Met spokesman who talked about it in his statement....

[Loben The 2nd]

You mean the fake suicide vest that no-one is reporting on?

... almost every news site is saying there was a fake suicide vest

But the blade However was very real.

[Eastfield Lodge]

Fake suicide vest and a stabbing spree.

You mean the fake suicide vest that no-one is reporting on?

You mean the one the Met confirmed in their press statement?

[Estanglia]

So what evidence do you have that this was an Islamist terror attack when the police have released nothing about the suspect's identity?

Fake suicide vest and a stabbing spree.

Stabbing people isn't unique to Islamic terrorists.

[Vassenor]

You mean the fake suicide vest that no-one is reporting on?

... almost every news site is saying there was a fake suicide vest

No, they're saying the cordon was in place because someone said there was a vest, which the police have determined to not be accurate.

[Fartsniffage]

Fake suicide vest and a stabbing spree.

People keep talking like Islamists would wear working suicide vests. A fake suggests he really isn't that committed to dying or he wanted to pass himself off as one.

He only revealed it after the police had tased him. He wanted to be martyred. It's the same thing the attackers in 2017 did.

[Dogmeat]

Fake suicide vest and a stabbing spree.

People keep talking like Islamists would wear working suicide vests. A fake suggests he really isn't that committed to dying or he wanted to pass himself off as one.

Let's just everyone try to reserve judgement and not read-into things.

[Vassenor]

Also by that logic doesn't that make this guy an Islamist terrorist?

[Bear Stearns]

Fake suicide vest and a stabbing spree.

Stabbing people isn't unique to Islamic terrorists.

yeah, "urban youths" frequently do it on the subway where I live

[Andsed]

Terrible. Though luckily it sounds like no one aside from the attacker was killed so silver lining I guess?

[Munkcestrian Republic]

Fake suicide vest and a stabbing spree.

Stabbing people isn't unique to Islamic terrorists.

Of course not. There were over a hundred fatal stabbings in London last year.

[Vassenor]

People keep talking like Islamists would wear working suicide vests. A fake suggests he really isn't that committed to dying or he wanted to pass himself off as one.

Let's just everyone try to reserve judgement and not read-into things.

It's a bit late for that.

[Agarntrop]

Stabbing people isn't unique to Islamic terrorists.

yeah, "urban youths" frequently do it on the subway where I live

and white supremacists do it too

[Bear Stearns]

Stabbing people isn't unique to Islamic terrorists.

Of course not. There were over a hundred fatal stabbings in London last year.

Dang, those "teens" are always up to no good.

[Estanglia]

Stabbing people isn't unique to Islamic terrorists.

Of course not. There were over a hundred fatal stabbings in London last year.

So using the fact that this was a stabbing as evidence for it being an Islamic terrorist attack seems kind of pointless, no?

[Andsed]

So what evidence do you have that this was an Islamist terror attack when the police have released nothing about the suspect's identity?

Fake suicide vest and a stabbing spree.

Neither of which are things only used in Islamic terrorist attacks. So I would say the methods of how the attack was carried out are not exactly suitable for saying what this attack was.

[Munkcestrian Republic]

Of course not. There were over a hundred fatal stabbings in London last year.

So using the fact that this was a stabbing as evidence for it being an Islamic terrorist attack seems kind of pointless, no?

Right, yeah, I forgot about all of them having fake suicide vests.