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When gunman advanced on New Zealand mosque, this man ran at him
Abdul Aziz, 48, is being hailed as a hero for preventing more deaths
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Latef Alabi, the Linwood mosque's acting imam, said the death toll would have been far higher at the Linwood mosque if it wasn't for Aziz.
Alabi said he heard a voice outside the mosque at about 1:55 p.m. and stopped the prayer he was leading and peeked out the window. He saw a man in black military-style gear and a helmet holding a large gun, and assumed it was a police officer. Then he saw two bodies and heard the gunman yelling obscenities.
'He went after him'
"I realized this is something else. This is a killer," he said.
He yelled at the congregation of more than 80 to get down. They hesitated. A shot rang out, a window shattered and a body fell, and people began to realize it was for real.
"Then this brother came over. He went after him, and he managed to overpower him, and that's how we were saved," Alabi said, referring to Aziz. "Otherwise, if he managed to come into the mosque, then we would all probably be gone."
Aziz said as he ran outside screaming, he was hoping to distract the attacker. He said the gunman ran back to his car to get another gun, and Aziz hurled the credit card machine at him.
'I just got the gun and threw it'
He said he could hear his two youngest sons, aged 11 and 5, urging him to come back inside.
The gunman returned, firing. Aziz said he ran, weaving through cars parked in the driveway, which prevented the gunman from getting a clean shot. Then Aziz spotted a gun the gunman had abandoned and picked it up, pointed it and squeezed the trigger. It was empty.
He said the gunman ran back to the car for a second time, likely to grab yet another weapon.
"He gets into his car and I just got the gun and threw it on his window like an arrow and blasted his window," he said.
'That's why he got scared'
The windshield shattered: "That's why he got scared."
He said the gunman was cursing at him, yelling that he was going to kill them all. But he drove away and Aziz said he chased the car down the street to a red light, before it made a U-turn and sped away. Online videos indicate police officers managed to force the car from the road and drag out the suspect soon after.
Macdoc wrote:I guess when you grow up in Afghanistan .....no fear.
Aziz said four of his children were with him at the mosque when the attack occurred.
felltoearth wrote:And? He deserved to die at the hands of a nutjob for that opinion?
quas wrote: He has probably posted worse things.
Macdoc wrote:I guess when you grow up in Afghanistan .....no fear.
When gunman advanced on New Zealand mosque, this man ran at him
Abdul Aziz, 48, is being hailed as a hero for preventing more deaths
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Latef Alabi, the Linwood mosque's acting imam, said the death toll would have been far higher at the Linwood mosque if it wasn't for Aziz.
Alabi said he heard a voice outside the mosque at about 1:55 p.m. and stopped the prayer he was leading and peeked out the window. He saw a man in black military-style gear and a helmet holding a large gun, and assumed it was a police officer. Then he saw two bodies and heard the gunman yelling obscenities.
'He went after him'
"I realized this is something else. This is a killer," he said.
He yelled at the congregation of more than 80 to get down. They hesitated. A shot rang out, a window shattered and a body fell, and people began to realize it was for real.
"Then this brother came over. He went after him, and he managed to overpower him, and that's how we were saved," Alabi said, referring to Aziz. "Otherwise, if he managed to come into the mosque, then we would all probably be gone."
Aziz said as he ran outside screaming, he was hoping to distract the attacker. He said the gunman ran back to his car to get another gun, and Aziz hurled the credit card machine at him.
'I just got the gun and threw it'
He said he could hear his two youngest sons, aged 11 and 5, urging him to come back inside.
The gunman returned, firing. Aziz said he ran, weaving through cars parked in the driveway, which prevented the gunman from getting a clean shot. Then Aziz spotted a gun the gunman had abandoned and picked it up, pointed it and squeezed the trigger. It was empty.
He said the gunman ran back to the car for a second time, likely to grab yet another weapon.
"He gets into his car and I just got the gun and threw it on his window like an arrow and blasted his window," he said.
'That's why he got scared'
The windshield shattered: "That's why he got scared."
He said the gunman was cursing at him, yelling that he was going to kill them all. But he drove away and Aziz said he chased the car down the street to a red light, before it made a U-turn and sped away. Online videos indicate police officers managed to force the car from the road and drag out the suspect soon after.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.5054009
Hermit wrote:
No, he does not. Connolly intends to give most of the money raised to the Christchurch victims. One of them was a rabidly militant Muslim. Presumably he means family members of those who were killed or injured. How many of them do you think are also rabidly militant Muslims?
juju7 wrote:Hermit wrote:No, he does not. Connolly intends to give most of the money raised to the Christchurch victims. One of them was a rabidly militant Muslim. Presumably he means family members of those who were killed or injured. How many of them do you think are also rabidly militant Muslims?quas wrote:...or at least less inclined to donate money to Muslims like Lilik.
1 in 80?
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