While listening to NPR on Sunday, October 9, 2020, at 1:25 PM Pacific Time, I heard the NPR announcer mention the “anti-Muslim killings some years ago in Chapel Hill.” This dreamy bit of misinformation, so offhandedly delivered (as if no one could disagree), startled me. And not for the first time. On February 10, 2016, […]
Craig Hicks Sentenced to Life for Killing Three Neighbors (Part 2)
The campaign by Muslims to rewrite Hicks’s history, to de-emphasize his obsessing over parking and noise and to claim, without the slightest evidence, that he was “anti-Muslim,” has succeeded. “It was a bias crime” has become the accepted narrative. On the day of his sentencing, District Attorney Santana Deberry said: “There was no plea offered […]
Craig Hicks Sentenced to Life for Killing Three Neighbors (Part 1)
Craig Hicks is the unhinged man who killed three neighbors in a dispute over parking privileges at his apartment house in Chapel Hill in 2015. He has pleaded guilty to killing all three and just been sentenced to three consecutive life terms. Here are representative titles of media reports on his sentencing: NPR: N Carolina […]
Obama on Chapel Hill murders: “No one in the USA should ever be targeted because of…how they worship”
Obama has decided that the murder of three Muslims in Chapel Hill, North Carolina Tuesday was a hate crime. What is the evidence that it was a hate crime? Well, the victims were Muslims, and the murderer was non-Muslim. And the father of two of the victims says he expressed opinions that he never told […]