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Vikingo
Joined 2009
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The Southport murder trial

19d ago

Even though I am supporting a poor Afro-Colombian family and their well-being with a third of my pension income for the last eight years going on nine, I was called out being a racist by one of the forum members on the subject of Southport, because 'the murderer is a regular UK citizen with a Christian upbringing, born in the UK' (and not a radicalized Islamist.)
Without knowing details, common sense told me that today's Christians don't go around killing three little girls and seriously injuring 10 more people, there has to be more to the story.
The act pointed very much to radical Islamism and today's news proves I was right.
News which has been withheld from the public since July until the trial started today, possibly for legal reasons, because surely his home was searched and his computer was examined very shortly after the murder. It also bears the question what will happen to the 400 Brits who are in jail for demonstrating, not exactly peacefully I must say though.
The reason for this post is not to start a huge political/religious discussion but to set my record straight and give me a reason to return to the forum. Therefore I suggest to release this post and close the thread right after.
The truth will come out anyway because it's all over the news.
BTW, to the best of my knowledge there is no known antidote for the deadly ricin which the potential terrorist thankfully hasn't been able to use yet.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/teen-accused-uk-southport-murders-court-ricin-terrorism-charges-2024-10-30/

https://news.sky.com/story/southport-attack-murder-suspect-axel-rudakubana-in-court-over-ricin-and-al-qaeda-manual-charges-13244519

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/30/reality-check-southport-attack-not-declared-terrorist-incident

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/29/uk/southport-attack-terrorism-charge-gbr-intl/index.html

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