Tokyo police have arrested the man they say attacked his fellow passengers on a train with a knife yesterday injuring 10, one severely.
The alleged stabber’s motive? He told police he was enraged by seeing “happy looking” women on the train and wanted to kill them all.
According to the AP:
The 36-year-old man told police he wanted to kill women who appeared happy, and chose his targets at random, public broadcaster NHK said. The initial victim, a woman in her 20s, was in serious condition, according to NHK and other Japanese media. …
He also told police that he chose to stage the attack inside a train because it offered the chance to kill a large number of people.
The suspect, who boarded the train with the knife, scissors, cooking oil and a lighter, moved to other carriages after stabbing the first woman. In one car, he poured cooking oil on the floor and tried to set it on fire, …
The man also told police he initially planned to attack a female shop employee who reported him shoplifting to police earlier in the day, but realizing it was past closing time, he decided to carry out attacks on the train, TBS reported.
The suspect later turned himself in to police, saying he was tired of running.
The AP, remarkably, described the stabbings as a “random burst of violence unrelated to the ongoing Olympic Games.” The tabloid The Sun, while reporting that the would be killer had been planning some sort of attack for six years, declared that “there were no immediate details about the attacker or a motive.”
What?
The stabbing spree might not have been related to the Olympics, but there was nothing random about it; it was an attack motivated by misogynistic rage, and not the first one seen in Japan. As the AP notes,
In 2019, a man carrying two knives attacked a group of schoolgirls waiting at a bus stop just outside Tokyo, killing two people and injuring 17 before killing himself.
It’s not known if this would-be killer was radicalized online, as many previous misogynistic killers have been.
But he’s already got fans amongst the readers of the incel forum The Black Pill Club, who have declared the news of his stabbing spree to be”lifefuel.”
“He stabbed 10 women today,” one incel happily announced, though the gender of most of his victims has not yet been reported.
Seems to be the first big ER event in a long time.
Praise Saint [name of suspect]. Indeed, he will go down among the greatest saints.
Thet were heartened by the motivation for the attacks . As another incel commenter wrote
Jfl based
Yea it makes me mad when I see women happy too
Still another commenter took it a little further.
To think of it, in 2021 a femoid that looks “happy” almost certainly just got raped by a chad/ a dog, aborted a baby or commited some other nasty thing.
Despite the acclaim the would-be killer is getting from incels, it’s not known if he identified as one.
We may learn more about the suspect in the next few days. Or the media may just drop the story as just a “random burst of violence.”
Violent attacks on women especially by a partner or ex, are so commonplace that, at least in the US, they rarely make the national news.
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Ohlmann
Who wants you dead and why?
I’m just asking questions. I’m a moderate. I think both sides of this are insane. Neither one of y’all debate each other. All you goes do is try to prevent each other from having a forum to express yourselves.
I actually think both sides have the freedom of speech.
@insurgency
You’re not a moderate. Moderates don’t make excuses for murderers and their cheerleaders.
@Makroth. Didn’t I say the Manosphere is mentally ill just like the neo feminists and Antifa.
Y’all want men to be slaves to society
Incels think they are entitled to attractive women
MGTOWs can’t answer accept scrutiny or being questioned.
Feminists want no such thing. You would know that of you actually listened to any of them.
@Makroth
What do neo feminist want from men?
Be specific. If you need to refer me to a link then do it. I really want to want to know what neo feminists from us.
I already asked the incels what they wanted, and I told them what they was asking for wasn’t legal or moral. They want a woman to have sex with no questions asked. They’re asking for sex slaves.
MGTOW wants to be left alone while they mock neo feminists and antifa online. Well being left alone is legal right and talking shit online is freedom of speech. I’ve seen worst hate on stormfront and chimpout.
In their first post Insurgency stated,
And as usual they don’t demonstrate this. Instead they just add insults in their next comment. Pathetic. All they can do is politically posture.
Actually this is really interesting
Compared to that other part I quoted.
What “pushing”? And what “talking shit”?
I have a feeling the “pushing” is criticism, and the “talking shit” is sexism and misoginy. But they haven’t had the courage to quote or cite anything yet.
I think it’s because incels don’t feel sorry women, because of how a lot of women treat men.
And how, exactly, do a lot of women treat men?
gosh, I wonder why our latest trollikin reminds me so of that old observation …
“men are afraid that women may laugh at them. women are afraid that men may kill them” :-\
On Halloween night, there was another stabbing/arson attack on a train in Tokyo. A man dressed as the Joker from Batman stabbed an elderly man on a train, then spread an apparently flammable liquid and ignited it, causing a fire. The stabbing victim is in critical condition, and 16 others are reported injured. The train was evacuated at a station, and the attacker was arrested by police.
The attacker claimed to have used the incident mentioned here as a reference.
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/31/1051005304/man-dressed-as-the-joker-injures-17-people-on-tokyo-train