Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Arkansas soldier shootings: A rush to non-judgement?

Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, a 23 year-old American convert to Islam, has been charged with killing a US soldier and wounding another while the two were outside an Army-Navy recruiting center.

The shooting occured Monday.

Fox News has this interesting sentence about the alleged gunmen:

Muhammad was not part of any organized terrorist group, nor was his attack part of a larger conspiracy, according to Little Rock Police Chief Stuart Thomas.

Why can't Thomas just say the he doesn't know right now?

This reminds me of the "rush to non-judgement" regarding Meir Kahane assassin El Sayyid Nosair. As we learned in the later trial of the Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdul-Rahman, the initial analysis of that killing was incorrect.

Prosecutors and police at the time can be forgiven, as jihad attacks in America were a new criminal development in 1990.

But not in 2009.

Besides, how many American Muslims travel to that terror hotbed of Yemen?

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