Mohamed Merah

@panda12 wrote:

@j_in_france wrote:

Three young Jewish children shot dead as well as the father of two of them, three french people killed, an unarmed American teenager killed by police in Florida, 10 people killed in an attack on a bus in Syria.

Thousands die each day all over the world. In some cases it is due to circumstances as above but many die to infected water supplies, treatable medical conditions or simple malnourishment.

Yes I believe it is a good thing Merah is no longer able to kill others as that appeared to be his soul purpose once he had started but let us try not to focus just on the extremes we hear in the news but of the day to day deaths that occur in other countries

Yes I agree with you. One thing I don’t think the World is prepared for though is an hysterical, irrational Teapot sprouting hypocritcal shyte.

Actually panda I was responding to Mrs Teapot’s initial post and although I do not agree with all her sentiments I do respect her views about Merah which is the topic she posted about.

@duwpin wrote:

of course he might have been innocent though :shock:

:? of course he might have been but that would be ignoring the fact he admitted to the murders, all three times which he filmed and that he went out all guns blazing :shock:

@jen_jen wrote:

@panda12 wrote:

I don’t agree with what he did but he’s not the only one to have killed a little girl just because he can.

Read this:

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/child-killed.html

The soldier got off scot free. Now perhaps you can understand why Merah did what he did.

No, that does not explain why he did what he did.
He launched 3 separate attacks, cold blooded, premeditated, and he even filmed them. He killed 3 soldiers to avenge his “brothers”, and then 3 children and an adult. That’s 4 adults and 3 children, not “one little girl with Jewish background”. Who knows how many more he would have gone on to kill. When the siege came to a head he came out all guns blazing – literally.

Any unneccesary loss of life is abhorrent, whatever the circumstances, race or creed of the perpetrator or the victim. Personally I’d rather he’d been captured alive and denied the salvation he believed he would get for dying for his cause.

Merah stated his motive was to avenge the deaths of Palestinian children. So yes my link to the murder of the young Palestinian girl does help to explain and understand what drove him to do what he did. :roll:

@jen_jen wrote:

No, I’m sorry, it does not explain it to me.

Many people are appalled at the unnecessary loss of life of both children and adults in many countries across the world. They don’t then go out killing other children and adults using those deaths to justify their actions. It explains nothing.

It helps explain what this extremist, trained by terrorists in Pakistan, perceived to be his “motive.”

You don’t agree with his motive or actions and neither do I but my point is, the killing of Palestinian children is what drove this irrational man to kill.

Did he actually go to Pakistan to be trained?

Was he motivated by the fact that Palestinian children had been killed or was that just an excuse?

There are many questions that can be asked in situations like this one and most of them will never be possible to answer. He could quite simply have been a complete nutter who tried to explain what he did by blaming other things