Justine Damond: Killed by “Islamophobia”

Frontpagemagazine ^ | July 21, 2017 | Robert Spencer

[SJackson]

Political correctness put her in the way of a “nervous, jumpy” Muslim cop who took her life.

A forty-year-old Australian woman named Justine Damond called 911 in Minneapolis Saturday night to report what she thought might be a rape; when police arrived, she approached the police car, and a Minneapolis police officer named Mohamed Noor shot her dead. Since then, Noor has refused to be interviewed by investigators, but has spoken to friends about what happened and why. The more Noor and those who know him have spoken, the more it becomes clear: Justine Damond was a casualty of “Islamophobia.”

Mohamed Noor is a Somali Muslim. He was the first Somali Muslim on the Minneapolis police force. In 2016, Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges expressed her excitement about that fact: “I want to take a moment to recognize Officer Mohamed Noor, the newest Somali officer in the Minneapolis Police Department. Officer Noor has been assigned to the 5th Precinct, where his arrival has been highly celebrated, particularly by the Somali community in and around Karmel Mall.”

Hodges wasn’t excited because Mohamed Noor had the skills necessary to become a fine police officer. She was only excited because he represented a religious and ethnic that she was anxious to court. And it is increasingly clear, as we learn about Mohamed Noor’s nervousness and jumpiness and lack of respect for women, and from his own account of events that he relayed to friends (that he was “startled” and reacted by opening fire), that Mohamed Noor was not cut out to be a policeman. He did not have the temperament for it, and if he hadn’t killed Justine Damond, he would likely have done something similar at some point.

So why was he on the force at all? Because he was the first Somali Muslim on the Minneapolis police force. He was a symbol of our glorious multicultural mosaic. He was a rebuke to “Islamophobes” and proof that what they say is false. Minneapolis authorities placed a great deal of faith in Mohamed Noor. He was for them the triumph of diversity, the victory of their worldview. But he has let them down. 

Mohamed Noor is not a jihad terrorist. This was not a jihad attack. He is just a trigger-happy, panicky, reckless individual who held his job not because he was fit for it, but because of what he symbolized. And in the wake of his failure, Minneapolis multiculturalists aren’t about to reconsider their religion. On the contrary, they are doubling down. Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges has immediately recognized — as authorities do everywhere after jihad attacks — that the real victims are not those who were killed or wounded, but the Muslim community. She should have issued a statement saying that she recognized that Mohamed Noor was not hired because he was competent, but because he was a Somali Muslim, and that she sees now that Leftist social engineering on the police force costs lives. She should have promised that from now on, police officers will be hired based on their fitness for the job, not their religion or ethnicity.

Instead, this, from Hodges’ Facebook page:

Betsy Hodges
17 hrs · Minneapolis, MN · 

To the Somali community: I want you to know that you are a valued and appreciated part of Minneapolis. I stand with you and support you. The strength and beauty of the Somali and East African communities are a vital part of what makes Minneapolis so strong and beautiful. I am grateful to be your neighbor.

This week a Somali police officer, Officer Mohamed Noor, shot and killed a woman under circumstances we don’t yet comprehend. Justine Damond’s death was tragic and awful for everyone. And I want to be very clear that Officer Noor, a fully trained officer in the Minneapolis Police Department, won’t be treated differently than any other officer.

Justine’s death is a tragedy for our city. We cannot compound that tragedy by turning to racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia. It is unjust and ridiculous to assert that an entire community be held responsible for the actions of one person. That will not be tolerated in Minneapolis. If you are experiencing discrimination, you can file a complaint at http://www.minneapolismn.gov/civil…/discrimination-complaint

Mayor Hodges is reassuring Muslims and warning against “Islamophobia,” as if a non-Muslim police officer had shot an unarmed Muslim woman. But that’s not what happened. And in issuing this warning, Hodges is only reinforcing the false premises that led to the killing of Justine Damond in the first place: the idea that Muslims are a victimized, persecuted community that needs special consideration, such that an incompetent Muslim police officer had to be hired. This just ensures that in the future, there will be more Justine Damonds.

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies). Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.

 

[Regulator]

And now do the same photoshop on a picture of Sinaloan drug mafia enforcers and you have the coming world of California "peace officers".

And the previous police shooting in Mpls involved a similarly unqualified affirmative action preference hire, from the ethnic cohort just mentioned.

He got off for shooting a guy who had carefully explained to him that he was armed and justified it by saying "he had that deer in the headlights look...".

Faced with the evidence that none of these people have any business policing the white Americans will the vapid, Al Franken voting mush brains of Minnesota start waking up and demanding an end to it?

Of course not. Their bird brained political masters will demand more of it and threaten anyone who complains with legal action. Evidence and logic will count for nothing.

PS: the rot starts at the top in Minneapolis. Janee Harteau, is a bull dyke "married" to her former girlfriend.

Instead of being a police force it's a freak show that's a threat to the populace.

[faucetman]

“I do not at all want to blame the victim with this question.”

Then why are you?

ABSURD! The police would want to FIRST of all, talk to the person that called.

Have you never seen LIVE PD?

“did you call?”, “who called?”, etc.

[Dr. Ursus]

Self loathing and projection!

[Tennessee Nana]

Yeah out of 30,000 Somalis in Minneapolis he was the best they could find...

and they employed him over much more qualified American applicants,,,black and white...

[Tennessee Nana]

we don’t know that he murdered her due to how she was dressed...

she was in pyjamas...in TN women go to WalMart dressed in their pyjamas...

apparently she was decently dressed...

[Elsie]

Nits make lice

[Tennessee Nana]

I’m wondering if theres a time limit on that...

its been a week and he still hasn’t spoken...how much longer does he have...

or has he given a statement and they aren’t saying...

I would have thought they would have required him to speak to them right away...

what about the report they are suppose to fill out for every case...

[thirst4truth]

When I was 8 my Dad brought home a puppy from Alaska, they told him it was a Siberian Husky. We named him Gih, go in Eskimo. We did not know it then, but we do now, he was a wolf. He looked just like the lighter shade wolves in that video, exactly like them, light markings, thick fir coat, straight tail, it did not curve up like a dogs.

He never barked, only howled on rare occasions, he lived outside, he would stand in the water, we lived on a lake, when drinking, but never swim and he would leave and wander the neighborhood, miles and miles away for days sometimes.

[Elsie]

[Tennessee Nana]

Mine have Eeyore...

[Carl Vehse]

Licensed-To-Carry @38: "Do all liberal woman really want to wear a burka and get their clit cut?"

In their galactic expanse of utter delusion, liberal women think that by being nice to Muslims, they will be spared when the Muslims take over. Little do they realize that what liberal women do to unborn children is nothing compare to how they will be treated by Muslims.

[fella]

Noor is on the force because of Political Correctness but now he is a tool for the islamic propagandists to portray him as a victim. The startled by a noise story just doesn’t work.

[JimRed]

The more Noor and those who know him have spoken, the more it becomes clear: Justine Damond was a casualty of “Islamophobia.”

For about the umpteenth time (and I will keep repeating it ad nauseam): A phobia is an unreasonable or unwarranted fear. It is neither unwarranted nor unreasonable to fear a system that demands you to be subjugated, enslaved or killed if you decline to adopt it and killed if you leave it. So Islamophobia does not exist.

[Elsie]

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/four/whois.htm

[Noumenon]

Affirmative action hire of a mental and genetic defective. What could go wrong ?

[Bonemaker]

May one of the future Justine Damonds be....Betsy Hodges.

[Bonemaker]

Chicago lake front?

[OldSmaj]

Have they considered calling in Lucas Davenport?

He'd get to the bottom of this travesty...quick.

[Bonemaker]

And don’t forget the family pets lost to these worries.

[who knows what evil?]

Hodges covets the moslem/somali vote. Too bad about Justine, I guess.