He is a Muslim. He asked his victims if they were Muslim. Then he stabbed them when they say they weren’t. If this isn’t a hate crime, what is? The fact that Terrence Lavaron Thomas has not been charged with a hate crime shows yet again that hate crime laws are political tools in the hands of the powerful, used to menace the powerless groups they dislike. In the Detroit area, the Muslim community is powerful — so this must not be a hate crime. “Detroit Muslim accused of stabbing victims over religion not charged with hate crime,” by Gus Burns, mlive.com, February 19, 2015 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):
DETROIT, MI — Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper didn’t charge a Detroit man with a hate crime after it’s suspected he stabbed two people at a Southfield bus stop, possibly motivated by religious hate.
Nick Loussia, Deputy Chief of Police for the Southfield Police Department, said the suspect, 39-year-old Terrence Lavaron Thomas, “is Muslim, and asked the victims what religion they were” before allegedly attacking them.
He’s charged with two counts of assault with intent to murder, carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent and possession of marijuana.
Oakland County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Paul Walton said the evidence doesn’t support a 2-year felony charge of ethnic intimidation, although investigators are still interviewing witnesses.
Walton said an argument started over “bad breath and bad teeth” before it “deescalated to a physical altercation.”
“At this point … I’m not hearing anything that is going to monumentally change any of the charges,” Walton said.
The FBI is looking at the case also to see if any federal hate crimes were committed.
“We’re taking all of the logical investigative steps with regards to the sorts of violations we investigate,” David Porter, spokesman for the Detroit FBI field office, said Thursday. “There is no update to provide[.]
“I’m not saying anything beyond we are investigating the matter.”
Thomas’s bail was set at $1 million cash or surety bond.
According to police, Thomas attacked the victims, a 52-year-old man and 51-year-old man from Detroit, after he “made several comments about his religion and asked the victims about their religious beliefs just before the assault occurred.”
When police arrived to the scene Saturday night, they found that the 52-year-old victim had been stabbed in the head, neck and back. The 51-year-old victim had been stabbed in the hand….
jack says
Eric Holder hates White people.
Georg says
We can conclude it’s not hateful to stab non-Muslims or randomly cap Jews.
Charli Main says
Of course not—the are just good Muslims practicing their religion. To claim that Muslims killing and raping infidels constitutes a ” race crime” would be racist. bigoted and Islamophobic.
mortimer says
Muslims believe that they have a right to ‘practice their religion’ by conducting self-directed vigilante jihad anywhere, any time they want.
Jihad is the ‘original religion’ of Islam according to Mohammed. Mohammed is the only authority on Islam.
boakai ngombu says
we can also conclude that the Muslim (slaves all to the dictates of SHARIA) has no understanding of the Golden Rule, part 2: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
this is a bad aspect of the mosque “culture” … some cultures are evil; cultures are not equal
M S case says
Well this is Detroit what can you expect. No offence to the good citizens of Detroit but your law system is broken
The Doctor says
Apparently “hate crime” only applies if the victim is part of some “minority”. I place “minority” in quotes because I suspect that a white person attacking a black person in Detroit because the black person is black would be considered a hate crime even though blacks may in fact outnumber whites in Detroit.
Or is it only a “hate crime” if it is a _positive_ identification. E.g.: you are Jewish, so you’re a target. You’re Black, so you’re a target. It’s not “you’re not white, so you’re a target” or “you’re not Muslim, so you’re a target”?
I used to think that hate crimes were fairly straight forward – if the crime was at least in part motivated due to any of the protected distinctions (gender, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation) then it was a hate crime. It doesn’t seem to be that simple any more.
Angemon says
The Doctor posted:
“Apparently “hate crime” only applies if the victim is part of some “minority”.”
Pretty much.
moses says
If this guy was a christian it would have spread widespread condemnation but since he’s a muslim its thrown under the carpet as usual.What a shame!!!
Islam_Macht_Frei says
Does CAIR know about this? I’m sure they will be OUTRAGED!!!!
mortimer says
OUTRAGEOUS! There should be protest parades. This was OBVIOUSLY a hate crime against kufaar!
Perhaps the stabber wanted revenge for the three Muslims killed by the atheist in parking spot dispute.
Prinz Eugen says
Will the GOP Senate and House ever come out of their stupor and at least make a timid show of opposition to khalifa Barry and his push for the caliphate crusade to include the USA?
This “hate” crime scam must be eradicated. Ragheadx, ape-minkies, commiunists, illegal invaders and race hustlers must follow the same laws as normal citizens.,
[FA] says
Don’t hold your breath the last GOP president made it clear he thinks “Islam is a religion of peace”.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2015/02/detroit_muslim_accused_of_stab.html#incart_river
has a large-size portrait of Terrance Lavaron Thomas, with photo credit given to the Southfield Police Department. Nick Loussia, “Deputy Chief of Police for [not ‘of’?] the Southfield Police Department”, deserves credit for being the only member of the Southfield Police whose email address can be found on the website of the department, whose police photographer has trouble illuminating the lower face of subjects whose skin tone is not light enough; see
https://www.cityofsouthfield.com/CityDepartments/LZ/PoliceDepartment/ChiefofPolice/tabid/280/Default.aspx
In Mr. Thomas’s photograph, his distinctively droopy eyes, along with his eyeshadow, are captured well, but his chin, like the police chief’s, is too much in shadow for the viewer to see whether he is clean shaven or sports a soul patch.
“The Doctor” raises a good legal point: whether, if Muslims constitute a protected group under hate speech laws, non-Muslims do too.
myxlplik says
The slaughter of Infidels, who cause trouble (mischief in the land), by Muslims is protected under the 1st Amendment isn’t it? I think the Muslim should sue these infidels for not being killed, clearly they have infringed upon this pious Muslims right to practice Islam.
Myxlplik says
I think this Muslim should contact the SPLC, and or Eric Holder then sue the Detroit police department for violating his civil liberties over the attempted killing of Infidels and his religious freedom.
What comes first the lives of infidels or the freedom of religion… seems like we need the Supreme Court to intervien.
Richie says
‘hate crime’ legislation is liberalism at its worst. The law should be blind, applied equally to all, but ‘hate crime’ legislation makes some groups of people more important than others and creates privleged classes- , and i think is designed to be used against others. You seldom if ever see someone who is not a white Christian male being charged with a hate cruime
cs says
This guy looks hi on ganja, but then again rastafaris are normally pacific people.
Nicu says
Retarded inbred !
Imagine a Non – Muslim had done this – he would rot in jail 🙁
Matthieu Baudin says
The all pervading, wholly unbalanced, anti-western prejudice of New Left political attitudes serves up this inequality before the law wherever you turn these days. This anti-western fixation is beginning to seriously undermine the credibility of the self acclaimed ‘progressive politics’ that unites disparate social groups solely by the volume of the grievances they utter. With true revolutionary arrogance, the New Left has turned the backbone of the citizenry into the cultural enemy and captured the minds of the Obama administration amongst others. Anti discrimination and anti hate laws have been drafted to benefit those outside of the social mainstream which is instep with the ‘one-way street’ approach that Islam demands wherever it has influence.
ML/NJ says
He’s just following “religious” doctrine.
How could it be a hate crime?
Kevin says
Dear US. Congrats on joining us in the new Western Caliphate. Love from dhimmi Europe.
Screeminmeeme says
Those of us who live in Michigan are well aware of the no-zones in Dearbornistan and parts of Detroit where the Constitution is irrelevant.
We knew there would be no hate crime charge. The ”justice” system in that area is non-existent.
el-cid says
Did anyone notice that the article was written in such as way that it could be interpreted to be exactly the opposite situation, e.g. not a Jihadist attacking non-Muslims, but the opposite? The Hate crime aspect was completely eradicated from the report. I suspect it will become part of CAIR’s statistics on Islamophobia.
Andrew G says
Hi El-Cid; very insightful of you.
So I was trolling through the Feb 2015 “Islamophobia Bulletin” on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (Very big brother to CAIR) and amongst the sorry details of the occasional stone through a mosque window) this very same story was reported as an islamophobic attack! See #8 page 3
http://www.oic-oci.org/oicv2/upload/islamophobia/2015/Islamophobia%20Monthly%20Bulletin-February%202015.pdf
David Olds says
Muslims are Orcs.
Ian H says
Sounds like there was an argument and he decided to knife them. But being a good Muslim he checked first to make sure they were not Muslim because killing Muslims is Haram.
BC says
Are the victims alive or dead it is not clear from the article? Surely this was attempted murder