Mosque Attacks

One Mosque was burned in Texas, and six people were shot dead at a Canadian mosque over the weekend. These incidents followed in the wake of a week of President Trump's executive orders that are being seen as a "Muslim ban" on travel to the USA.

An early-morning fire on Saturday, January 28, 2017, destroyed a Victoria, Texas mosque that was a target of hatred several years ago and experienced a burglary last week.

Meanwhile...

Quebec police said six people were killed and an additional eight were wounded in a shooting at a mosque on Sunday, January 29, 2017.

Some of the wounded were gravely injured, said Christine Coulombe, the Quebec provincial police spokeswoman. Those killed ranged in age from approximately 35 to 70 years old, she said. Thirty-nine people were in the mosque at the time of the attack.

Coulombe initially said two people have been arrested. On Monday, police confirmed that only one was a suspect, and the other individual arrested in d'Orleans was an eyewitness.

The Quebec shooter, who killed 6 in a mosque, is a white male student who made right wing & anti-woman remarks on Facebook. Court clerk confirms the name of the suspect in Canadian mosque attack is Alexandre Bissonnette.

Quebec City Islamic Cultural Center President Mohamed Yangui said the shooting happened in the men's section of the mosque.

Local newspaper Le Soleil said it had obtained information that the suspect was a 27-year-old with "a Québec name," and one had an AK-47 automatic weapon in his possession. Police, however, have not released nor confirmed these details.

A witness told CBC's French-language service Radio-Canada that two masked individuals entered the mosque.

"It seemed to me that they had a Quebecois accent. They started to fire, and they they shot they yelled, 'Allahu akbar!' The bullets hit people that were praying. People who were praying lost their lives. A bullet passed right over my head," said the witness who asked to remain anonymous.

Other mosques in Quebec experienced "incidents" throughout the weekend.

Police protection has been increased around mosques throughout New York City.

This is just the beginning.

Grimmie Killed; Killer Identified

Breaking News: The killer has been identified. See below.

Singer Christina Grimmie, 22, who gained fame as a contestant on television singing contest The Voice, was hit by three shots at a concert in Orlando, Florida, on Friday, June 10, and died on June 11, 2016. She was fired upon as she was signing autographs.

Christ-like, Christina Victoria Grimmie, appears in concert.

At the June 10, 2016, the group Before You Exit flashed the devil horns and projected their signature symbol, as Grimmie sang. According to the Before You Exit website, their "band’s name [was] inspired by the sentiment 'make a difference before you exit.'" It also uses the phrase, "many short lived...artists."

Striking an Illuminati All-Seeing-Eye pose, Grimmie presented her new hair style before going on concert with Before You Exit.

Grimmie was an American singer and songwriter, best known for participating in The Voice and for her covers of hit songs by contemporary pop musicians. In June 2011, she released her debut EP, Find Me.

Grimmie was signing autographs with band members of Before You Exit, with whom she performed earlier, when a gunman approached and opened fire (three shots were reported) before her brother tackled him at the Plaza Live music venue. The Orlando Police Department said her brother's action saved others' lives.

The suspect (as yet unidentified) then turned the gun on himself and died by suicide. The suspect is a 21-year-old white male from another Florida city (not Orlando).

Grimmie placed third during the 2014 season of the The Voice, a singing competition on NBC.

Her full name was Christina Victoria Grimmie (March 12, 1994 – June 11, 2016).

The name Christina is a Latin name, meaning "Follower of Christ." She had told reporters previously she was a Christian.

Victoria, you will recall as noted in my recent "Nervous Nick" posting, is aligned with the origins of Nicholas, via Nike. The mythological Nike was a Greek goddess of victory and root origin of Nicholas. The Roman equivalent was Victoria.  Therefore, the meaning and forms are related. Victoria is the Latin word for "victory" or "conquer" and is used as the feminine form corresponding to the name Victor. In Roman mythology, Victoria was the name of the goddess of victory, corresponding directly to the Greek goddess Nike.

Grimmie is a variant of the name Grimm and Grimme.

Of some fame in popular culture currently, Grimm is an American police procedural fantasy television drama series, according to Wikipedia. It debuted in the U.S. on NBC on October 28, 2011. The plots involve homicide investigator Nick Burkhardt of the Portland (Oregon) Police Department who learns he is descended from a line of guardians known as Grimms, charged with keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures of the world called Wesen, the German word for being or creature. Throughout the series, he must battle against an assortment of dangerous creatures, with help from his Wesen friend, Monroe, and his partner, Detective Hank Griffin.

Wesen (German, "a being" or "creature") is a collective term used to describe the creatures visible to the Grimms. They are the basis not only of the fairy tales that the Brothers Grimm have compiled, but also of the many legends and folklore from many cultures (i.e. Anubis, Aswang, Chupacabra, and Wendigo).

Grimme

is a Medieval English patronymic name which translates as "the son of Grimm" (petit Grimm) but which originally derives from the Norse-Viking pre 8th Century "Grimr" a personal name meaning "The Fierce One". Perhaps not surprisingly the name was equally popular with the Normans after the 1066 invasion which may account for the surname survival as Grimme, Grime, Grimes, Grimmer, Grimm etc.. In Medieval times it became regarded as a nickname for one of a fierce appearance and was considered highly complimentary. Amongst the sample recordings of London are the christenings of Elizabeth Grimmett on August 14th 1672 at St. Andrew Holborn, and Henry Grimmett on March 11th 1714 at St. Peter's, Cornhill. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Roger Grymet, (witness), which was dated 1251, in the "Yorkshire Assize Courts," Yorkshire, during the reign of King Edward III, known as "The Father of the Navy", 1327 - 1377. Source.

Below is pictured Christina Grimmie, as shown on The Voice. It is an unfortunate caption, now, considering her death.

Was Grimmie's killer, a Wesen?

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UPDATE

Saturday afternoon, June 11, 2016, the Orlando Police identified the gunman who shot Christina Grimmie as 27-year-old Kevin James Loibl.

The name Loibl is German (Bavarian) from a pet form of the personal name Leopold (As per Leopold). Leopold is from the French (Léopold), German, and Dutch, from a Germanic personal name, Luitpold, composed of the elements liut “people" + bald “bold," “brave." The form of the first element has been influenced by Leonard. The surname is also borne by Ashkenazic Jews, in which case it is an adoption of the German forename as a surname. Leonard is English and French (Léonard), from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements leo “lion" (a late addition to the vocabulary of Germanic name elements, taken from Latin) + hard “hardy," “brave," “strong," which was taken to England by the Normans.

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Uploaded by Christina Grimmie, 11 June 2015

Lean On

Major Lazer, DJ Snake 

you recall, not long ago

We would walk on the sidewalk

Innocent, remember?

All we did was care for each other

But the night was warm

We were bold and young

All around the wind blows

We would only hold on to let go

Blow a kiss, fire a gun

We need someone to lean on

Blow a kiss, fire a gun

All we need is somebody to lean on

Blow a kiss, fire a gun

We need someone to lean on

Blow a kiss, fire a gun

All we need is somebody to lean on

What will we do when we get old?

Will we walk down the same road?

Will you be there by my side?

Standing strong as the waves roll over

When the nights are long

Longing for you to come home

All around the wind blows

We would only hold on to let go

Blow a kiss, fire a gun

We need someone to lean on

Blow a kiss, fire a gun

All we need is somebody to lean on

Blow a kiss, fire a gun

We need someone to lean on

Blow a kiss, fire a gun

All we need is somebody to lean on

All we need is somebody to lean on

All we need is somebody to lean on

Lean on, lean on, lean on, lean on...

Blow a kiss, fire a gun

We need someone to lean on

Blow a kiss, fire a gun

All we need is somebody to lean on

Blow a kiss, fire a gun

We need someone to lean on

Blow a kiss, fire a gun

All we need is somebody to lean on

Note sync that Lean On was posted by Grimmie exactly a year before she died.

H/T Theo Paijmans

Smurfs Smash in Oz

First it was Leprechauns in the USA, Oompa Loompas in the UK, and now comes a report of Smurfs bashing a man in Oz.

Are we seeing a multiple continent invasion?

The Smurfs made their alleged assault on December 16, 2012, in Pascoe Vale, Victoria, Australia. Australians pronounce Australia as "Ozstralia," and thus so "Oz" is a shortened version of referring to the country, especially by Aussies (Australians) and Kiwis (New Zealanders.

Pascoe Vale was named after the John Pascoe Fawkner Estate, which was originally a holding of 709 acres (2.87 km2). The estate, established in 1839, was bounded by the Moonee Ponds Creek to the west, Gaffney Street to the south, Northumberland Road to the east and Rhodes Parade to the north. John Pascoe Fawkner built a timber house overlooking the creek, in the Marie Street area of Oak Park.
John Pascoe Fawkner (20 October 1792 – 4 September 1869) was an early pioneer, businessman and politician of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. In 1835 he financed a party of free settlers from Van Diemen's Land (now called Tasmania), to sail to the mainland in his ship, Enterprize. Fawkner's party sailed to Port Phillip and up the Yarra River to found a settlement which became the city of Melbourne. Sources: 1, 2 & 3.

The Oompa Loompas attacked on December 27, 2012, in Norwich, UK.

The Leprechauns made their appearances in Belltown, Washington State on June 16, 2012, and earlier in March 2006 in Crichton, near Mobile, Alabama.

The Crichton Leprechaun has taken on legendary status, with over 22 million YouTube views of the report. One on-site reporter named Scott Walker remembers that

...the report didn't start out to be about a leprechaun. The TV crew was dispatched to find out why crowds were gathering in the Crichton community. Pronounced Crigh-ton, the area near Toulminville is divided by Spring Hill Avenue into North Crichton and South Crichton, bounded generally by Mobile Street, Dauphin Street and Interstate 65.

It was when the TV crew arrived to find out why people were all gathering that 'things sort of snowballed,' Walker said. 'People were looking up at a tree and saying there was a Leprechaun in it,' he wrote. Source.

Now comes the report from Australia of the Smurfs. Most accounts track back to this version of what occurred, which I summarize here:

A Pascoe Vale, Australia man, 37, bought a packet of cigarettes from a convenience store at the intersection of West and Pascoe streets at about 1:00 am on December 16, 2012. After he left the store an apparent human dressed as a Papa Smurf approached him and asked for a cigarette. The man offered him a smoke but the Smurf insisted it be lit before he handed it over. The man refused and noticed the thing dressed as a Smurf was with three other entities, who were also dressed as Smurfs. The Pascoe Vale man was then smashed and bashed but the police initial reports said they were unclear if the alleged offenders were the "group in fancy dress," as the Australian media called them.

"We are trying to piece it all together to determine the exact circumstances surrounding the assault," the police spokeswoman said. "Because the men dressed as Smurfs spoke to the man before the assault we are interested in talking to them to find out what happened."

The "group in fancy dress" (the Smurfs) apparently tried to jump start a white VS Commodore and had asked for assistance from a woman at a nearby car park before they met the Pascoe Vale man. Source.

Later four teenaged suspects were arrested. Source.

Earlier reports said three Smurfs are still being hunted. 

Photographs were released by Victoria Police from CTV screen captures.