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Yes, media… the motive for the Chattanooga shooting is just a mystery, isn’t it?
hotair.com ^ | July 18, 2015 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 07/18/2015 7:21:29 AM PDT by PROCON

As it turns out, I was on vacation and out of reach of cable news for the entire week, including during the horrific shooting in Chattanooga. (This no doubt came as a relief to some of our readers, though rumors of my early acceptance to the Mars Relocation Program were exaggerated.) I was still picking up details and some of the mainstream media coverage of the tragedy via social media, though, and I rather wish I hadn’t even had access to that. Upon arriving home and switching on CNN I was treated to Jane Harman talking to Wolf Blitzer and singing the praises of both the media and law enforcement for not jumping to conclusions as to the possible motives of Muhammad Youssed Abdulazeez for the attacks. Such assumptions, she assured us, could lead to unfairly biasing the story against the young man. One of CNN’s other experts, Tom Fuentes, wasn’t even sure if it was a Muslim name. (We wouldn’t want to assume, would we?)

This all came on the heels of incidents which you already read about here, such as Andrea Mitchell asking one of the killer’s HS classmates if he was into guns or hunting. We just wouldn’t want to assume because that would be wrong. And yet some of the few, early known facts might lead one to a reasonable suspicion, wouldn’t they? He was a Muslim immigrant from an Arab country. His father was a Palestinian. He had a blog with “interesting” comments. His yearbook was rapidly brought up for examination. There was that trip to Jordan which his friends said “changed him.” (Possibly multiple trips as we learn more.) True, none of that was definitive, so words such as “alleged” or “potentially” should certainly have been included. But it was verboten to even speculate?

Oddly enough the media had no trouble speculating when Dylan Roof shot up that church, did they? The authorities weren’t even finished dragging the bodies out when they were already talking about his social media posts and saying that this was most likely some evil racist who wanted to shoot up some black people. And you know what, media? You were right. The country is not chock full of hateful, violent racists as you so often like to suggest, but there are definitely some dead enders out there. And in Roof’s case you found one. Having found him, as virtually every conservative I’ve spoken to agrees, we now need to give him his full, due legal process and then strap him to a board and pump him full of poison. We found a monster, and when that happens you need to kill the monster.

So why, I might ask, is it so hard for you to make the mental leap to at least suggest that Muhammad Youssed Abdulazeez might have been a hate filled Muslim terrorist bent on killing members of our military, our police, and other citizens of the Great Satan? You were ready to convict Roof inside of an hour (and rightly so, as it turns out) but this monster needed to be treated with kid gloves? I mean, I could see if the circumstances were different. If Abdulazeez had shot up the homes of some relatives we might readily assume it was some domestic dispute gone badly awry. If he’d shot up any number of other targets where he at least had some direct connections to the victims, this might have been something else entirely. But he didn’t. He shot up our uniformed heroes. He attacked our military and our first responders, right out of the Jihadi 101 playbook. So why not at least pose the question?

For a prime example of snark which answers this rather obvious query, check out Streiff at Red State. The sarcasm is dripping to the point of being toxic, but it’s as close to being humorous as you’ll find in a dark hour such as this. And it’s absolutely true. There may be a one in a million chance that Abdulazeez isn’t an ISIS flavored, terrorist wannabe, but the odds are that he is. And even if his inspiration didn’t come from ISIS specificially, I really don’t much care. Maybe he wanted to join Boko Haram. Perhaps he wanted to start his own Muslim terror group. It’s all pretty much the same. And yet significant figures in our media won’t say it because that would hurt the feelings of the wrong people and make them look insensitive toward a politically sympathetic group.

Here’s a tip for you. You were right about Roof. And your unspoken instincts were right about Abdulazeez. You should have spoken up in the same fashion. If you had, you’d look slightly less ridiculous next week when this turns out to be exactly what it looks like. And with that, let’s get to the exit question. Is it finally time to start arming and hardening the recruiting stations? And perhaps automatic carry permits for service members in uniform traveling to and from work at those offices. Even in the bluest, most gun-grabby states we make allowances for a few people to have weapons close at hand. Surely our military qualifies. If the marines in Chattanooga had been armed that little cretin wouldn’t have gotten off very many rounds. Sounds to me like something that could be made to happen rather quickly without a lot of expense.

I can think of the families of four people who might have appreciated it quite a bit.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: abdulazeez; chattanooga; islam; islamfascism; mediabias; terrorism
Despite their falling ratings in recent years, the liberal media is still where the American sheeple get their news.

If these same sheeple found it OK to twice vote for someone named Barack Hussein Obama, why would they be suspicious of the motive of a Muhammad Youssed Abdulazeez?

1 posted on 07/18/2015 7:21:29 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Brian Williams has just reported that
'Mohammed', whatever the spelling, again PROVES
this is another crack-JudeoChristian murder spree
for Confederate flags.

2 posted on 07/18/2015 7:30:05 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: PROCON

A mystery just like the work place violence at Ft. Hood, the beheading in Moore, OK, the assaults on police in New York, 911, etc.


3 posted on 07/18/2015 7:31:16 AM PDT by boycott
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To: boycott

The only unanswered question about this attack is when and where will the next one be. They now have a template to do it again with the same result..lots of dead US Servicemen.


4 posted on 07/18/2015 7:42:53 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: PROCON
Despite their falling ratings in recent years, the liberal media is still where the American sheeple get their news.

I have a theory that the liberal position of criticizing everything American has been the cause of many youths becoming disenchanted, and sent them looking for something else to believe in.

5 posted on 07/18/2015 7:43:22 AM PDT by oldbrowser (The kangaroos have taken over the supreme court.)
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To: oldbrowser
I have a theory that the liberal position of criticizing everything American has been the cause of many youths becoming disenchanted, and sent them looking for something else to believe in. Yes, and the result is gay marriage, Caitlyn Jenner, etc.
6 posted on 07/18/2015 7:49:49 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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To: PROCON

The Misnistry Of Propaganda is not as stupid as they appear to be. They are engaging in propaganda. It’s what they do.

They are covering up the jihad that every muslim is obligated to engage in to assure Islam reigns supreme.

Islam means submission.

Every muslim is obligated to seek the submission of the world to shariah.
It’s in their book.
If we do not acknowledge the true nature of Islam we will be submitting to it soon.

Islam has been at war with everyone else since 622 A.D.


7 posted on 07/18/2015 7:56:20 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldexpat

The only unanswered question about this attack is when and where will the next one be. They now have a template to do it again with the same result..lots of dead US Servicemen.

It is only a matter of “when and where.”

One day it will be a lot more than five. One day it may be a lot more than 911.

We’re willfully bringing in 70,000 muslim “refugees” per year. 91.4% of them are on food stamps. Our leadership is destroying this nation.


8 posted on 07/18/2015 8:04:38 AM PDT by boycott
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To: oldbrowser
I have a theory that the liberal position of criticizing everything American has been the cause of many youths becoming disenchanted, and sent them looking for something else to believe in.

And we can blame the public skool system for most of that.

9 posted on 07/18/2015 8:05:53 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: PROCON
It's really simple. The US Marines freed Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez's birth country from the clutches of Saddam Hussein.

He was just showing his gratitude in the way of muslims.

All cultures are equal, you insensitive racist!

10 posted on 07/18/2015 8:06:20 AM PDT by null and void (If the government can't protect the Marines, how can we expect it to protect us?)
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To: null and void
All cultures are equal, you insensitive racist!

OMG, I've Micro-Aggressed a beloved minority, I shall repent, nay, flog myself immediately!

11 posted on 07/18/2015 8:10:54 AM PDT by PROCON (Wow! They're faster than Stalin.)
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To: Diogenesis
"Some say that the Confederate flag has no alibi for the date of the ROP shooting. To investigate its origins, I will be traveling back in time in my Wayback machine to the battle of Fort Sumter where I command a frigate ... " Brian Williams photo: Brian Williams Brian20Williams.jpg
12 posted on 07/18/2015 8:15:53 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: PROCON

Pravda getting marching orders from the Gestapo. It really is the most transparent administration.


13 posted on 07/18/2015 8:23:10 AM PDT by xander
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To: PROCON



14 posted on 07/18/2015 8:27:52 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: PROCON

Yeah, and until they find out who his high school gym teacher was to see if the kid was yelled at, they’ll never know why this stinking filthy muzzie did what he did.


15 posted on 07/18/2015 8:39:13 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: unixfox
And we can blame the public skool system for most of that.

The schools, the media, our leaders, constantly telling us that we are the problem makes people ashamed to be an American.

It's mental abuse on a mass scale.

At one time we were raised to be proud to be Americans. We cheered for our heroes. We celebrated accomplishment and hard work.

Now it's a dirty word.

17 posted on 07/18/2015 9:31:47 AM PDT by oldbrowser (The kangaroos have taken over the supreme court.)
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To: PROCON

The media has deliberately and intentionally chosen to protect the savage death cult.


18 posted on 07/18/2015 10:07:37 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: PROCON

Motive is coming out now: http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Suspect-in-fatal-Tennessee-shooting-was-upset-over-Gaza-war-409421


19 posted on 07/18/2015 3:54:14 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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