Folks Do the Randomest Things

National Review ^ | 2/11/2015 | Andrew C. McCarthy

[mojito]

I don’t understand why folks are giving President Obama and his spokes-minions such a hard time over his insistence that Ahmedy Coulibaly, the terrorist who just happened to be Muslim committing terrorism that had nothing to do with Islam, was just “randomly” picking out folks in Paris to kill when he randomly came upon a grocery that just happened to be Jewish and, coincidentally, to have Jews in it, whom he randomly killed.

Sure, we know Coulibaly called a French TV station during the siege, said he was loyal to the Islamic State that has nothing to do with Islam, and that he picked this kosher market because he was targeting Jews. But you can’t believe everything you hear on TV — just ask Brian Williams.

[mojito]

Closeted Muslim presidents say the taqiyya-est things.

[Steely Tom]

A series of isolated incidents.

[cuban leaf]

taqiyya

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I see what you did there. Nice one.

My take since 2008, though I didn’t learn that word for it until much later.

[redhead]

Speaking of taqiyya, why can’t the GOP in congress just start the impeachment proceedings, and when asked why they promised not to, just say they were, like el presidente, using taqiyya?

[Beagle8U]

Just random events that just happen to spell out Allah Fubar in pin heads on a map.

It’s all coincidence.

[willywill]

of course, obama meant the jews in the store were there randomly, and the killer didnt go there because those specific jews were there.
just ask josh, because thats basically what he said.

[TigersEye]

0bama World View:

In the randomness of all things it was only a random chance that it was a Kosher deli. It could have been a Bavarian deli.

It's only random that it was a deli. A Dutch florist might have rented that building.

All things being morally equivalent; the violent, vicious zealots may actually hate tulips!

My administration is going to work with Holland to make sure they are more sensitive about how they plant their bulbs in the future.

[miserare]

Well, I went to my favorite neighborhood Wendy’s yesterday only to find out it had been turned into a Wings and Barbecue joint!

Randomness happens.

</sarc>

[Travis McGee]

The Taliban is inside the building.

[Travis McGee]

Yes, if you suss out the logic, that is his “defense” of randomly.

[BitWielder1]

So a Muslim killing random Jews is somehow not as bad a specific Jews?
No, Mr. President, that is not an acceptable viewpoint.

To paraphrase a recent slogan: All Jews' Lives Matter.

[Iron Munro]

[Iron Munro]

Randomness happens.

[GOPJ]

Sure, we know Coulibaly called a French TV station during the siege, said he was loyal to the Islamic State that has nothing to do with Islam, and that he picked this kosher market because he was targeting Jews. But you can’t believe everything you hear on TV — just ask Brian Williams.

LOL - layers upon layers of contempt for idiot liberals...

[miserare]

YESSS!

[D-fendr]

That’s a great headline on this incident:

“Folks Do the Randomest Things”

I think another could be:

“Something Random This Way Comes”