Posted on 07/21/2017 5:01:44 AM PDT by 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.
Glad I’m Old...
actually I don’t think of him as a “Somali-American”...that would be the next generation the children who are born here...
hes either Somali or an American citizen...
It isn't.
This is not going to be popular, but what else is new.
I think it is their training and their culture. The "cop vs civilians" mentality that is reinforced by their tendency not to interact with the public.
There have been some police murders and that does make police officers in general jumpy. But they have embraced a siege mentality to a point that I have not seen even groups that were under repeated daily threat. And it seems to be happening in areas that are more or less "safe".
I prefer a trial, conviction, and sentence for crimes against humanity and giving aid and comfort to the enemy be the fate of Betsy Hodges and other Demonicrat politicians.
Yup.
That was the pic I was looking for.
Between the two of them, there isn’t a full brain.
Damn straight...old age never looked so good.
‘As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.’ Isaiah 3:12
They could be sisters...then again, it IS Minneapolis. Thank G-d the sodomite lifestyle doesn’t have ANY effect on the rest of us.
Older than 77?
No, it DOES exist - there's just nothing wrong with being islamophobic. You said it yourself, fear of being "subjugated, enslaved or killed if you decline to adopt it and killed if you leave it". THAT is real fear; thus islamophobia.
Is Mohammad low IQ? Compared to Mika?
Ignore my post - I was thinking “phobia” meant fear - forgot it meant and IRRATIONAL fear. You’re right, there is NO islamophobia. I goofed.
forgot it meant IRRATIONAL fear.
LOL. Nowhere on Earth is that statement true.
'First' does not parse with 'newest'.
I do not fear islam, I despise it.
I despise it because I have studied it and understand that it hates me even MORE than I hate it.
Jesus tells me to love the sinner and hate the sin, well OK: I hate islam, but I love and pray for those stupid enough to freely practice.
A police chief who mortally sins daily enforces this city’s laws? I’d leave the damn city ASAP.
A police chief who mortally sins daily enforces this city’s laws? I’d leave the damn city ASAP.
I have seen sweat pants. That beats short shorts on fat women.
I have seen sweat pants. That beats short shorts on fat women.
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