Sympathy For The Devil

Via Tim, a shrine in memory of a death in Copenhagen.

Of course, since it’s Europe the shrine is for the shooter

On the street corner where Copenhagen’s Islamist gunman died in a shoot-out with police, his friends laid floral tributes in his memory on Monday.
Emulating the actions of the hundreds of people who left flowers outside a café and a synagogue two men were shot dead at the weekend, those who regard Omar el-Hussein as a “good guy”, not a terrorist, created a third shrine.

…”We’ve put flowers here because we must remember him,” said a young Arab man, who gave his name as Mohamed. “He was a good guy. We don’t believe he did anything wrong. It wasn’t like the police say.” A placard placed with the flowers read: “May Allah be merciful, rest in peace” in both Arabic and Danish.

…“He wasn’t someone who could kill people. He stabbed a guy, OK, but it was only in the leg,” Benny said. “When we fight, we stab, but always in the leg, not to kill. I’ve stabbed ten or eleven people. I know he didn’t have the money to buy an automatic gun. Here it costs 50,000 kroner (nearly £5,000).”

Just turn out the lights, it’s over.

2 Responses to “Sympathy For The Devil”

1. JeffS says:

   February 17, 2015 at 1:44 pm

   I’ve seen similar memorials for dead gang bangers, generally just expressing sympathy. At worse, some cretins whined about “social injustice”. But no self-appointed apologists.

   And how would “Benny”, who is all about stabbing and not killing, know the price for an illegal weapon, hmmmmmmm?

2. aelfheld says:

   February 17, 2015 at 2:20 pm

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