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White House: Too early to know if OK beheading was terror or workplace violence

Sep 28, 2014 5:58 pm By Robert Spencer

Jah'KeemYisrael2Jah’Keem Yisrael was shouting Islamic phrases as he stabbed and beheaded. He is clearly a devout Muslim. He has photos on his Facebook page glorifying beheadings and showing him giving the one-finger sign of allegiance to the Islamic State. What does all that signify for the Islamic State? Workplace violence, of course! They haven’t ruled out the possibility that he is a “lone wolf” jihadi but are investigating whether he was just angry over being fired. But angry workers who go on rampages don’t generally behead. That is a particularly Islamic reaction.

“Oklahoma City beheading case leaves national security experts wondering,” by Mark Flatten, Washington Examiner, September 28, 2014:

It’s too early to know whether the beheading of an Oklahoma food plant worker was a terrorist act or workplace violence, a top White House national security adviser said Sunday.

Tony Blinken, deputy national security adviser to the president, said the FBI is investigating whether the suspect, Alton Nolen, is a so-called “lone wolf” terrorist or a disgruntled worker who went on a rampage, killing and beheading one co-worker and seriously wounding another.

Nolen’s Facebook page is riddled with anti-American posts, glorification of brutal tactics used by Islamic terrorist groups, and a photo of Osama bin Laden.

“We don’t know,” Blinken said when asked directly whether the attack was an act of terror. “The FBI has an active investigation. I’m not going to get ahead of it. Let’s see what they find.”

Though Blinken appeared on at least three Sunday news shows, “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace was the only host to raise a possible terrorist connection to the Oklahoma attacks.

CNN’s Candy Crowley set up her interview with Blinken by asking about warnings from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security about lone-wolf terrorists acting alone in retaliation for the U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. But she did not tie that discussion to the beheading in Oklahoma.

“Face the Nation” host Bob Schieffer, who also interviewed Blinken on the CBS program, made no mention of the Oklahoma attack.

Though Blinken did not appear on ABC’s “This Week,” the network’s senior Justice Department correspondent, Pierre Thomas, did mention Nolen’s efforts convert fellow employees to Islam in the setup of a broader discussion about homegrown terrorism.

The Obama administration was chastised for calling the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, an act of “workplace violence” by Maj. Nidal Hassan, who espoused militant Islamic beliefs. Thirteen people died in that shooting. Hassan was later convicted of premeditated murder by a court martial and has been sentenced to death.

Nolen was fired from his job Thursday, apparently after trying to convert co-workers to Islam. He returned to the food processing plant in Moore, Okla., and attacked two fellow employees, beheading one woman and stabbing the other, before being shot by a company executive who is also a reserve sheriff’s deputy.

Nolen’s Facebook page is riddled with phrases like “Sharia law is coming” and calling America “wicked.” It also has photos of various terror groups and their leaders, including bin Laden, who was killed by U.S. forces operating in Pakistan in 2012.

Moore police sought assistance from the FBI after learning of Nolen’s fundamentalist beliefs, in part because of the brutal nature of the crime.

Nolen has an extensive criminal history, which includes a prison stint for assaulting a police officer and drug offenses.

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  1. Annie Oakley says

    Sep 28, 2014 at 6:05 pm

    The White House had no problem jumping to conclusions about Treyvon Martin or Ferguson, MO! Why does this administration only have trouble reaching “conclusions” when muslims are the aggressors?

    • RKMacUalraig says

      Sep 29, 2014 at 4:05 am

      Because the regime sympathizes with totalitarian sub-humans.

      But as a long time JW reader, you know this.

    • Ralph says

      Sep 29, 2014 at 10:58 am

      Well; this Black Muslim President does not want to harm his precious Islam… Ever Wonder why there are Dinners for Muslim’s in the WH? Or better still, why he always takes his ‘ring and watch’ off during Ramadan? BECAUSE He Is A Black Muslim…

    • Jack Gordon says

      Sep 29, 2014 at 9:03 pm

      The reason is as simple as it gets: Barack Hussein Obama and Eric Holder are racists. They think Blacks are superior to Whites and therefore they only take seriously the questionable death of Blacks. You would not expect serious moral reasoning from a KKK member so why expect it from the likes of these two race hustlers or any of their ilk?

  2. nacazo says

    Sep 28, 2014 at 6:23 pm

    My money is on the white house concluding it was a case of workplace violebce.

    • William says

      Sep 28, 2014 at 7:35 pm

      Since Muhammud Hussein Obama ruled that the murder of the soldiers by Army Major Hassan, who was shouting Allahu Akbar while shooting his victims, was workplace violence, then we should expect the same here again. Terrorism? Absolutely not.

      • Ralph says

        Sep 29, 2014 at 10:58 am

        https://www.youtube.com/embed/JOaiP7ZbfbI

  3. nacazo says

    Sep 28, 2014 at 6:24 pm

    violence*

  4. mortimer says

    Sep 28, 2014 at 6:24 pm

    They made up their minds A PRIORI…because…beheading has NOTHING to do with Islam…Koran 47.4 has NOTHING to do with Islam…Nolen’s Facebook page has NOTHING to do with Islam…Nolen’s Islamic clothing and jihad beard have NOTHING to do with Islam…proselytizing also NOTHING to do with Islam.

    Conclusion: Apparently, nothing Islamic has anything to do with Islam.

    Nope…workplace violence. Not Wahhabism created by the House of Saud.

  5. mortimer says

    Sep 28, 2014 at 6:27 pm

    Nolen should also be charged with terrorism. He is a terrorist for ISIS.

  6. jihad3tracker says

    Sep 28, 2014 at 6:30 pm

    Hello Annie —

    Here is a video I have posted before, with Obama showing his deep love for Islam — WITH HIS OWN WORDS.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE9mZCRX2mg

    A more mature, less narcissistic man would have grown beyond such obvious errors — especially because those clear illusions PUT THE UNITED STATES AT RISK of serious harm.

    So now, facing obvious clear evidence of Jah’Keem Yisrael’s fully-faithful jihad, our dear president goes into the only recourse available for him — denial, no matter how ridiculous and transparent such behavior is.

    • Beagle says

      Sep 28, 2014 at 10:44 pm

      When I see all of Obama’s many paens to Islam and diminishing of his supposed Christianity in one video it is tough to conclude anything but his only true religious allegiance is to Islam. I have known for over six years he always supports the Muslim Brotherhood, but it seems like it could be a lot more.

      The way Obama makes a point of supporting and pronouncing zakat is something I vaguely remember from Cairo, but he is far too obviously passionate about the major source of material support for terror given his job description. Versus the way he mailed it in when subsequently dealing with the victims of jihad, Obama’s real concern is more obvious now. It’s not protecting non-Muslims from jihad.

  7. somehistory says

    Sep 28, 2014 at 6:33 pm

    It’s terror in a place where people work as opposed to terror on a bus, or on a plane or at a park. People work everywhere! When one rides a plane, someone is working; ride a subway, bus, someone is working; an amusement park, theater, hospital: people are working in all these places.
    When the planes were crashed into the WTC buildings, people were working there; same with the Pentagon. And people were being terrorized.
    It isn’t that they don’t know that terror can and does take place where people work. They must protect the image.
    Revelation 13

  8. zulu says

    Sep 28, 2014 at 6:41 pm

    Suspect in Oklahoma beheading tried converting co-workers to Islam
    http://nypost.com/2014/09/26/woman-beheaded-by-co-worker-in-oklahoma/

    Fired Muslim convert store-worker who beheaded female colleague after losing his job was ‘shouting Islamic phrases’ as he carried out his bloody rampage

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2771940/Fired-Muslim-convert-store-worker-beheaded-female-colleague-lost-job-argument-stoning-women.html#ixzz3EeXolgCl
    Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

  9. Leith Wood says

    Sep 28, 2014 at 6:42 pm

    Tony Blinken, Obama, the Washington crew are why Americans pay them no mind. They have lost all credibility. Denial is dangerous. Lies kill people.

  10. Leith Wood says

    Sep 28, 2014 at 6:48 pm

    Denial is dangerous. People die. Washington has no credibility!

  11. yohanan says

    Sep 28, 2014 at 6:57 pm

    More politically correct appeasement not to stir up Islamophobia?
    Of course the President must know better. Not least having gone to elementary schools in Jakarta in 1967-71 when Sukarno was supplanted by Suharto. Did BO hear no rumor, receive no intangible childhood impression, of the recent “Indonesian killings of 1965–66″? Wiki: >>” Methods of killing included shooting and beheading with Japanese-style samurai swords. Corpses were often thrown into rivers…<<

  12. Bowen G says

    Sep 28, 2014 at 7:41 pm

    OKLAHOMA BEHEADER TIED TO AL QAEDA LEADER AWLAKI, BOSTON BOMBER’S MOSQUE!
    Suhaib Webb, an Imam with ties to former Al Qaeda mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki, had also previously been the leader of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, which had been attended by Alton Nolen — the man who on Thursday beheaded a former coworker after recently converting to Islam, Breitbart News has learned. Webb now serves as Imam of the sister organization of the mosque attended by Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
    Imam Suhaib Webb has a history of ties to radicalism. FBI surveillance documents found that he was a known confidant of Al Qaeda mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki. Just two days before the September 11, 2001 attacks on America, Webb spoke at a fundraiser with Awlaki with hopes to raise funds for Atlanta-based H. Rap Brown, a man that shot and killed two police officers. The FBI documents also found that “Webb and Awlaki may be associated with the Muslim American Society,” which is a group described by the Investigative Project on Terrorism as being “founded as the United States Chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
    Nolen took a picture of himself September 5th, just three weeks before he brutally murdered an innocent woman, standing in front of the gates of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City.
    http://www.americasfreedomfighters.com/2014/09/27/oklahoma-beheader-tied-to-al-qaeda-leader-awlaki-boston-bombers-mosque/

  13. David says

    Sep 28, 2014 at 8:53 pm

    The attacks were clearly inspired by Islamic propaganda. It appears that the attacks were probably that of a lone wolf. It appears such attacks are encouraged by Muslim leaders.

  14. roger says

    Sep 28, 2014 at 10:09 pm

    It shouldn’t be too difficult to find out wether it was terrorism or just WPV.

    If the attacker is a Muslim and promotes killing of infidels on social media and if the attack is on infidels and, if he shouts Islamic slogans during the attack, and finally if the attack involves beheading after the manner of Mohammad’s example, then….. its only work place violence.
    |A mere spat between co-workers.

  15. PAthena says

    Sep 28, 2014 at 10:32 pm

    President Barack Hussein Obama is, at the very least, an apologist for Mohammedanism, if not himself a Mohammedan manqué. What is “workplace violence” supposed to be? Major Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he massacred the soldiers at Fort Hood, so it was an act of Mohammedan jihad. Calling it “workplace violence” is an attempt at Orwellian history rewrite; it was an act of mass murder in the name of Mohammedanism.

  16. Joan in Houston says

    Sep 28, 2014 at 11:12 pm

    It sounds to me as though we American citizens deserve a MUCH MORE INTELLIGENT AND MUCH MORE ALERT “top White House national security advisor.”

    • William says

      Sep 29, 2014 at 12:21 am

      America has lost her mind. Just a few short years after murderous Mohammedans massacred thousands of people on September 11, America put a Mohammedan in the White House. That is living proof that you get dumb-down democracy when you dumb-down the people.

      What a tainted country!
      What a democrazy!
      How foolish she now becomes,
      When to lowly rank she succumbs.

  17. Tommy Guns says

    Sep 28, 2014 at 11:42 pm

    Come on now, let’s stop the stupidity. WE ALL KNOW these attacks ( Fort Hood, Oklahoma food plant) are related to muslim terrorism. Why do we have to dance around the issue?? Tell it like it is and stop the bullshit. The American public isn’t that dense.

  18. Salah says

    Sep 29, 2014 at 2:11 am

    The White House’s true masters are the Muslim Brotherhood. Obama and his gang are merely their puppets.
    Do you have the balls to actually do something about it?
    In Egypt, after only one year in power, the Muslim Brotherhoods thugs have been crushed by the people. In the U.S.A., you are waiting, and waiting, and waiting.
    Elections won’t save you, only a popular uprising will. Here’s how to do it:

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html

  19. Edward Cline says

    Sep 29, 2014 at 9:36 am

    Tony Blinken? What a perfect name for a White House adviser who can’t make up his mind about the Oklahoma beheading committed in the name of Allah. Curly of the Three Stooges I think had a higher IQ than Blinkered’s. Excuse me, Blinken’s.

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