Terror in Munich mall: No end to this barbarism, 9 killed
The arc of savagery is widening by the day, with the latest terror rampage in a Munich mall shows. Dhaka, Nice and now Munich – these terror attacks across continents in less than a month underlines the increasing ferocity of terrorists inspired by radical Islamism and neurosis.
The latest lone wolf attack at the Olympia Einkaufszentrum shopping center wherein a man with a rifle went on a killing spree, slaughtering nine people and injuring over 20, is deeply distressing as it shows some freak deranged creature can go on a mayhem anytime anywhere.
The mayhem was the third act of terror to rattle Europe in eight days. The Bastille Day massacre by a Tunisian-born man who ploughed his truck into revellers in the French Riviera city of Nice killed 84 people on July 14. This week, an Afghan teenager wounded five people on a train with an axe near the Bavarian city of Wurzburg. These increasingly idiosyncratic modes of attack shows that the Islamic State and other assorted terror outfits are able to infiltrate impressionable minds of young zealots, leaving no place in the world safe from their barbaric grip.