http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/truck-crash-berlin-christmas-market-1.3903677A truck crashed into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing at least twelve. As of about four hours ago, nothing was known about the identity of the driver. (I haven't looked too closely to see what else has been determined in that regard, and quotes should be taken in the context of having been made more than three hours before this post.) That didn't stop a Trump supporter from posting this (images hidden because large):
So I took issue with that blatant leap, and said:
I see nothing in that article (or in this one, or this one) to say that it was a Muslim who committed this atrocity, assuming that it was indeed deliberate (though eyewitnesses claim that it was). Even if the driver of the truck was a Muslim, that doesn't mean he attacked in the name of Islam or was affiliated with any particular terrorist group. He could just have been unhinged, like the shooter who murdered 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando*.
*Yes, the shooter claimed allegiance to various groups, but those groups disclaimed him and the general agreement among law enforcement was that he fit the profile of a mass shooter, not a religious terrorist.
And instead of posting any sort of rebuttal to this, he just posts another large image:
Then I said:
For fuck's sake, I didn't say it wasn't. I'm just not jumping to conclusions based on no evidence.
Crickets from the other person, but I'm wondering just how stupid his next response will be.
(Also, given what's happened in Europe over the last year or two, it wouldn't surprise me at all if this was a terrorist attack and the driver was affiliated with some sort of Islamic terrorist group. I just don't see any evidence to that effect as yet.)