Don’t you dare call things by their right names and acknowledge reality. If you do, the full power of the political and media elites will be deployed to destroy you. And you can’t blame the elites, really: it’s hard work to force people to deny clear and obvious facts.
“Call it terrorism, says father of hero who helped stop stabber at Calif. college,” by Malia Zimmerman, Fox News, December 10, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
The California college student who stabbed four people last month in a campus spree that ended when he was killed by campus police was described by his roommate as “an extreme Muslim” and carried a manifesto and a photocopy of an ISIS flag — more than enough to convince John Price he was a terrorist.
Yet, more than a month after the Nov. 4 attack at University of California Merced, local and federal authorities continue to insist that Faisal Mohammad, 18, carried out the vicious attack because he’d been banished from a study group. Price, whose son Byron Price, a 31-year-old construction manager for the family business who was working nearby and was stabbed when he heroically intervened, suspects the White House’s reluctance to identify acts of radical Islamic terror has trickled down to investigators who are still probing the Merced attack.
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“Why don’t we just call it what it is — domestic terrorism?” said Price. “Everyone is afraid to be politically incorrect. I do believe in law enforcement and believe they will do their job, but it seems like to me we aren’t getting the whole story. I just wonder how much of this is driven from way higher up and is politically driven — I just don’t know.”
Mohammad, whose victims all survived, left behind a rambling, two-page manifesto in which he instructed himself to “praise Allah” as he worked his way through his hit list, a photocopied ISIS flag and at least one shaken roommate who remembers him as a menacing loner.
“He was a loner and an extreme Muslim,” Ali Tarek Elshekh, Mohammad’s roommate, told Merced Sheriff’s Department Detective Jose Silva in a statement, also noting Mohammad was “way out there.”
Elshekh, who is Muslim, told sheriffs that a friend of his had asked Mohammad what would happen if he touched the mat he used for praying, and got a chilling response.
“I will kill you,” Mohammad calmly vowed, in what Elshekh said was not a “normal” response for a Muslim.
Elshekh, whose statement was included in a warrant obtained by FoxNews.com through a Freedom of Information Act request from the Merced Superior Court, said he last saw Mohammad just minutes before the attack, sitting on his bed in their dorm room, dressed in a hooded sweater, hood over his face, with his backpack on his back, staring straight ahead in silence.
The warrant, which authorized detectives to search Mohammad’s dorm, car and other possessions, showed investigators found a second copy of the manifesto in Mohammad’s garbage can, along with several discarded petroleum jelly cans, duct tape wrappers, large zip ties, a package that had contained a knife and sharpener, a red prayer rug and a copy of the Koran.
Authorities believe Mohammad, who carried out his attack with an 8-inch hunting knife, planned to steal a gun by overpowering a campus cop and then take several more victims. Price was credited with slowing his attack, providing a chance for others to escape and helping to ensure that police ended the onslaught before anyone was killed. To his father, Price helped stop a terrorist.
The hesitance to call a crime “terrorism” is a familiar scenario replayed last week some 326 miles south in San Bernardino, where authorities took several days to ascribe terrorism as the motivation for an attack despite what seemed like overwhelming evidence. And while authorities, including President Obama, have now said the attack that left 14 dead in San Bernardino was a terrorist act, the motive for Mohammad’s spree, which resulted in no fatalities, remains unattributed.
The manifesto authored by the 18-year-old freshman, copies of which were found both on his body during the autopsy and in the trash can in his dorm, bore names of his targets, a vow “to cut someone’s head off” and as many as five reminders to “praise Allah.”
He detailed how he wanted to behead, stab and shoot his victims, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke told FoxNews.com, in an earlier interview.
“No. 27 was to ‘make sure people are tied down,’ No. 28 was “sit down and praise Allah,’” Warnke said. “I remember seeing four or five times, scribbled on the side of the two-page manifesto, where he wrote something like ‘praise Allah.’”
“There was a gruesome statement he made about wanting to cut someone’s head off and kill two people with one bullet, and he planned to shoot the police,” Warnke said. “He did not have a firearm with him and didn’t seem to have a lot of experience with firearms because he thought he could kill two people with one bullet. He reminded himself in the list to raise the gun slowly. He scripted everything out in chronological order.”
Warnke, initially involved in the case, told FoxNews.com weeks ago that his office would release the manifesto to the press after the sheriff’s role in investigation wrapped up, but the sheriff’s department has since withdrawn from the investigation, leaving it to the UC Merced Police Department and the FBI, and Warnke is no longer responding to media requests from FoxNews.com.
A spokeswoman for the FBI in Sacramento would not provide any information other than to report, “the investigation is ongoing.” Neither UC Merced police, the lead agency on the case, nor the university’s administration, have made public the manifesto or the copy of the Islamic State flag Mohammad was reportedly carrying, despite repeated requests from FoxNews.com, also maintaining the investigation still continues.
“It seems like people way higher up are not taking this as seriously as they should, at best, and, at worst, they are deliberately ignoring what has really happened for political reasons,” Price said. “Even if Faisal Mohammad is only one individual, his aim was to cause terror, and while it may not have been commanded by ISIS, the group inspired him.”
somehistory says
He was doing these things before he got kicked out of the study group. The only way it could have been *provoked* by being kicked out is if he was a fortune teller and saw the future far enough to see he would be kicked out, but not far enough to know he wouldn’t succeed and would be killed for trying to murder others.
He was a terrorist…not an unhappy studier.
gravenimage says
*Very* true. I don’t know the precise reason he was kicked out, but this likely reverses cause and effect.
Over my college career, I had a few annoying, distracting, or unproductive fellows in study groups–but no one every suggested kicking them out–I imagine it would take some fairly extreme behavior to get someone kicked out.
That being said, I’m sure there are *thousands* of college students who have been asked to leave some study group or other over the years. I have heard of no one else who responded to this by knifing and trying to murder students.
This was Jihad, not a reaction to minor social rejection.
mortimer says
RADICAL ISLAMIC CHIC is prevalent among Muslim youth today. They try to ‘out-Islam’ one another.
There is no way to stop the radicalization of Muslim youth except by trying to deprogram them out of Islam. Governments need the will to begin deprogramming Muslims for the greater security of the world. We cannot afford the large numbers of police required to watch all the potential terrorists.
Spot On says
PC has been turned into a science by very deceptive people, especially professional government liars. People are too forgiving these days and let them get by with it.
The truth is obvious. this young Muslim was a supremacist Muslim trouble maker and was kicked out of the study group by his peers. There wasn’t any other reason, except his superior violent attitude.
Somehow it would never occur to me or 99% of other sane people to go out and try to kill 4 people, after being rejected. Muslims are taught this violent supremacist attitude from birth. They believe they are chosen by Allah to be top dog. ISIS is their champion. Women, children, or anyone they disagree with are their prey. From their point of view, we are all potential prey.
Michael Copeland says
His aim was to cause terror.
He caused terror.
ISIS inspired him.
Nah! Can’t be terrorism.
Ashley says
Elshekh, who is Muslim, told sheriffs that a friend of his had asked Mohammad what would happen if he touched the mat he used for praying, and got a chilling response.
“I will kill you,” Mohammad calmly vowed, in what Elshekh said was not a “normal” response for a Muslim.
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Not a “normal” response for a Muslim?
gravenimage says
UC-Merced stabber an “extreme Muslim” with ISIS flag; authorities still won’t call it terrorism
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The denial becomes more willful all the time.
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“Call it terrorism, says father of hero who helped stop stabber at Calif. college”
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Kudos to John Price and to his brave son Byron.
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Mohammad, whose victims all survived, left behind a rambling, two-page manifesto in which he instructed himself to “praise Allah” as he worked his way through his hit list, a photocopied ISIS flag and at least one shaken roommate who remembers him as a menacing loner.
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Sure as hell sounds like Jihad to me–and to any other person not desperately wedded to “political correctness”.
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“He was a loner and an extreme Muslim,” Ali Tarek Elshekh, Mohammad’s roommate, told Merced Sheriff’s Department Detective Jose Silva in a statement, also noting Mohammad was “way out there.”
Elshekh, who is Muslim, told sheriffs that a friend of his had asked Mohammad what would happen if he touched the mat he used for praying, and got a chilling response.
“I will kill you,” Mohammad calmly vowed, in what Elshekh said was not a “normal” response for a Muslim.
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Why didn’t Elshekh consider Mohammad threatening to murder his Infidel friend grounds for warning the authorities? It is because no Muslim may *ever* deal with Kuffar authorities when it comes to another Mohammedan–no Infidel may ever have authority over a Muslim.
It’s not *impossible* that Elshekh knew nothing about Mohammad being a supporter of Jihad and plotting the attack–but let’s just say I don’t consider it very plausible.
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“It seems like people way higher up are not taking this as seriously as they should, at best, and, at worst, they are deliberately ignoring what has really happened for political reasons,” Price said.
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So true. This was a fully planned Jihad attack, that was intended to result in the gruesome murder of many students. And it probably would have, if not for John Price’s brave son.
I have the greatest admiration for this man to continue to warn about the danger they faced–even though it is apt to get them branded as “Islamophobes”, rather than acknowledged as heroes.
Angemon says
Yes, just one more among the countless number of cases of “People-Who-Went-On-A-Stabbing-Rampage-After-Being-Kicked-Out-Of-A-Study-Group” – I’m sure there’s even a scientific term for that, since it’s such a common occurrence… sarc./ off
underbed cat says
Alternate reality that this can’t be named ….I guess since it was stopped , that is a good thing……..most commenters know what’s up, so I will leave it at that since I get weird popups.
mortimer says
Police and other elites have not studied the Koran, hadiths, Sira or Sharia law or Islamic history and yet routinely lecture us about what is ‘real Islam’ and what isn’t. How would they know without actually studying Islam?
How do they know what is in Islamic source books without having read them? Are all Western elites using their sixth sense to know Islam or are they just spouting rubbish?
underbed cat says
This is the perfect description of the problem. I sense that just from the people I have spoken to that I am precieved to be mistaken. The political pressure from the top is to be ignorant or un-informed works and it is covered with love your muslim neighbor, just don’t know about the ideology that he may or may not follow.
Earl says
Does anyone know the location where this Moslem terrorist is buried? It would be interesting to find out if any bacon wrapped teddy bears have been left as a memorial.
Denis says
When is a terrorist attack as committed by this Muslim not a terrorist act.? Answer. When the political left thinks its just a misguided individual acting on his own. Problem, He is a Muslim. He committed these acts in the name of the ARAB god Allah. Authorities find it convenient to say, ” he did it because he was banished from a study group.” The old adage is if if walks like a duck quacks like a duck then it is a duck. If a Muslim acts as told by the Koran to kill the kufirs, (non-believers) Writes about then goes out and commits an act as written in the Koran, then he is a Muslim terrorist, But Muslim acts are COVERED UP by media and politicians because it may be politically incorrect to call it a terrorist act.
Dave J says
These 3 go together: Islamic prayer rug, copy of the Koran, large knife, sword or AK-47. Because it is “the Religion of Peace”, don’t you know.
The regular, endless “search for a motive” is ridiculous – pretty much staring you in the face there Mr. Investigator.
These attacks are not going to stop, they are going to increase in both frequency and savagery. The infidel death toll mounts while we scratch our heads in puzzlement and sympathize with the moderate Muslims suffering so horribly from our “Islamophobia”.
Jeez, we are so bad maybe we should just commit suicide – oh, wait, we are.
JAS says
The muslim responses to anything never belong in the normal category . The followers of the murder cult live in the 7th century with all its sub-human backward beliefs and barbaric practices. Letting them into our free, advanced nations is an enormous blunder. They immediately try to turn our country into the same wretched, dark ages shithole they left.