Allahu Akbar means I love you Wrote:
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> > ISLAMIC workplace violence Wrote:
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> > > Nobody tried to pretend that their
> motivations
> > > were anything other than what they were.
> >
> > You missed the point by a country mile. The
> > question was whether we should be surpised that
> > the gunman was a Muslim. The point is that we
> > often assume that it must be, but then are
> proven
> > wrong. .
> >
> >
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Ibrahim Ahmad sat quietly behind an
> array
> > of microphones, reluctant to talk to yet
> another
> > crush of reporters about how for a single day
> the
> > world thought he had blown up the Alfred P.
> Murrah
> > Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Ahmad, a
> > Jordanian American, had been traveling from his
> > Oklahoma City home to Jordan on April 19, the
> day
> > the 4,800-pound bomb ripped through the
> building,
> > killing more than 160 people.
> >
> > Scooped up in the FBI's initial dragnet, he was
> > questioned in Chicago, and then again in
> London,
> > where British authorities grilled him for six
> > hours. "When they said, 'You are under arrest
> in
> > connection with the bombing,' I thought that
> was
> > the end of the world for me," he told
> reporters.
> >
> > But it soon became clear that domestic
> right-wing
> > extremists were the prime suspects in the case.
> > Did the media jump too quickly to speculate
> that
> > the bombing was the work of Middle Eastern
> > terrorists? Or were they simply reporting what
> > federal law enforcement presumed for the first
> > day-and-a-half after the explosion?
> >
http://ajrarchive.org/Article.asp?id=1980
> >
> > If McVeigh had not been so incompetent that he
> was
> > quickly arrested ...
>
>
> That was a different time and place. And again
> nobody tried to pretend that they weren't what
> they were.
>
> In this case, and many others, it was relatively
> clear.
I try to be polite, but you are thick. The question is: Who was suspected? The answer is that a Muslin travelling through the U.S. who had no connection whatsoever was detained. That was the initial narrative. Again, if McVeigh had been anything other than a right-wing dunderhead, he would have escaped capture and Muslims would have suspected for a long time.