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 hadnt 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 CNNs other experts, Tom Fuentes, wasnt even sure if it was a Muslim name. (We wouldnt 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 killers HS classmates if he was into guns or hunting. We just wouldnt want to assume because that would be wrong. And yet some of the few, early known facts might lead one to a reasonable suspicion, wouldnt 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 werent 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 Roofs case you found one. Having found him, as virtually every conservative Ive 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 hed 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 didnt. 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 its as close to being humorous as youll find in a dark hour such as this. And its absolutely true. There may be a one in a million chance that Abdulazeez isnt an ISIS flavored, terrorist wannabe, but the odds are that he is. And even if his inspiration didnt come from ISIS specificially, I really dont much care. Maybe he wanted to join Boko Haram. Perhaps he wanted to start his own Muslim terror group. Its all pretty much the same. And yet significant figures in our media wont say it because that would hurt the feelings of the wrong people and make them look insensitive toward a politically sympathetic group.
Heres 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, youd look slightly less ridiculous next week when this turns out to be exactly what it looks like. And with that, lets 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 wouldnt 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.
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?
Brian Williams has just reported that
'Mohammed', whatever the spelling, again PROVES
this is another crack-JudeoChristian murder spree
for Confederate flags.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
And we can blame the public skool system for most of that.
He was just showing his gratitude in the way of muslims.
All cultures are equal, you insensitive racist!
OMG, I've Micro-Aggressed a beloved minority, I shall repent, nay, flog myself immediately!
Pravda getting marching orders from the Gestapo. It really is the most transparent administration.
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.
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.
The media has deliberately and intentionally chosen to protect the savage death cult.
Motive is coming out now: http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Suspect-in-fatal-Tennessee-shooting-was-upset-over-Gaza-war-409421
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