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I'm not worried about racism--only accuracy.

However, even before we had a description, we had self-proclaimed terrorism experts on FR loudly announcing that this was al-Qaeda's latest and greatest effort.

The tarot card is a point of evidence against this being Islamist. So's the fact that this is only happening in the DC suburbs. Nothing conclusive in themselves, but interesting nonetheless.

The tarot card is a point of evidence against this being Islamist

I disagree. I've seen muslims with Tarot cards (in fact, of the three tarot decks I've seen in the past year, two of them were owned by muslims); and I've heard them say "I am God". There is nothing blasphemous in Islam about quoting or paraphrasing scripture, and it is quite possible that this is what the assassin was doing.

Saying that this "couldn't" be a muslim assassin because of the Tarot card is as silly as saying the 9-11 perps couldn't be muslim because of their Florida bar tab. Al Qaeda training is quite clear in discussing that the act of Jihad overrules other muslim laws, and they are explicitly told to violate them if need be.