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7962 (6,054 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141251870
Attacker identified as UC Merced freshman
Faisal Mohammad
What ever could be the motive?
Abouttime (116 posts)
1. Sad that in this day and age This child could not get the mental health treatment he so desperately needed for the abuse heaped upon him by the sick twisted right wing mouth breathers in our society. In no way am I defending his actions but this kid was only 3 years old when the neocons launched the so called 'war on terror'. His entire childhood and young adulthood was filled with hate directed towards him and his family just for being Muslim and the crime of being named Mohammed. Can any of us imagine what this kid must have endured and what drove him to this act of madness?
We need to look no further than Ahmed Mohammed to see a blatant example of this kind of fascist hatred. A smart young man makes a clock and takes it to school, next thing he knows is he's an accused terrorist arrested and cuffed. Do we honestly think the same thing would have happened to a boy named Jimmy??
I seriously doubt it, but be named Faisal or Ahmed or Mohammed and society looks at you like you are a pariah about to go on a killing spree. It's no wonder his kid cracked, it's not his fault. It's ours, sad his oh so short life was wasted.
Abouttime (116 posts)
10. Some of you are pretty harsh
I was referencing the clock incident with Ahmed Mohammed. He was profiled as a terrorist suspect because of his name and race.
One can't deny young Muslim boys and men have been profiled since 9/11.
My point was this boy may have simply been pushed too far, obviously he had underlying mental issues. Issues that may have been made much worse by a constant feeling he is being profiled, or issues made worse by harassment because of his religion, name and race.
I'm not making excuses for this horrible attack [um... yeah... you really are!] , I'm just pointing out that we, our society in the USA profiles young Muslim men, this behavior of society at large Just may result in these kinds of attacks by driving some of these kids over the edge, even to the point of acting out like the 'terrorists' they see in the news, young Palestinians for example, see what happens when young men are treated as less than human?
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has called for a new wave of 9/11 strikes on the United States while praising Palestinians who are carrying out stabbing attacks across Israel.
The terror chief, who was a close advisor of Osama Bin Laden released the 16-minute propaganda message on the internet where it was spread by social media by armchair jihadists.
In the message, al-Zawahiri ordered his followers to attack 'the West', with the United States the main target over its continuing support for Israel.
My brother in the West Bank: Stab! My brother is the West Bank: Stab the myths of the Talmud in their minds! My brother in the West Bank: Stab the myths about the temple in their hearts!Do not fear what will be said about you. Oh men of the West Bank, next time, attack in a group of three, four, or five. Attack them in groups. Cut them into body parts.A law enforcement bulletin obtained by FoxNews.com warned that Islamic State fighters have increased calls for "lone wolves" to attack U.S. soldiers in America in recent months, citing one tweet that called for jihadists to find service members' addresses online and then "show up and slaughter them."
The authorities also moved quickly to scrub Mohammad’s social media sites before they released his name
“As the authorities quickly removed the young Muslim’s social media pages from the Internet to obscure from public view what motivated him, it will fall to investigative reporters to seek out the influences from family, friends, imams, or his local mosque that impelled him to attempt murder,†Lopez continued.
