My latest in PJ Media:
The FBI last Wednesday released new details about the case of Faisal Mohammad, who in November 2015, while he was a freshman at the University of California, Merced, entered a classroom and stabbed four people. It was already known back at the time of the attack that young Mohammad was a jihadi: The College Fix reported that he “was found to have an image of the ISIS flag, a handwritten manifesto with instructions on how to behead someone, and reminders to pray to Allah.” The new information that has just been released about the case only confirms this, and shows up the abject idiocy of the university’s utterly predictable reaction to the attack.
Mohammad, according to the Associated Press, “planned to praise Allah while slitting the throats of classmates and use a gun taken from an ambushed officer to kill more.” Then he planned to call 911 to report the killings, “read the Quran until he heard sirens, and then ‘take calm shot after shot’ with the gun” when the police arrived. He mapped out a detailed for his jihad; it “included putting on a balaclava at 7:45 a.m. and saying ‘in the name of Allah’ before stepping into his classroom and ordering students to use zip-ties he provided to bind their hands. Mohammad also planned to make a fake 911 distress call to report a suicidal guy [sic; this is how they write at AP these days] and wait for police outside the classroom before ambushing from behind ‘and slit calmly yet forcefully one of the officers with guns.’” Presumably in the officer’s throat, in accordance with the Qur’an’s directive, “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (47:4).
All this stands in stark contrast to how the attack was initially reported, and even more to the reaction to it at the University of California, Merced. Mohammad’s attack, as The College Fix noted back in November 2015, was widely characterized as “revenge for being kicked out of a study group.” Even worse, instead of waking up to the reality of Islamic jihad, many at the University of California-Merced mourned for the attacker, with a Facebook “R.I.P” tribute to Faisal Mohammad “gaining massive support among the campus community.”
Not even that was enough for the relentlessly woke UC Merced faculty, who hosted a “teach-in” that about 200 students attended, entitled “Don’t Turn Our Tragedy Into Hate.” It didn’t mention Islam or jihad at all, except in the context of discussion about how Muslims are victims of “Islamophobia.” According to one student who attended the teach-in, “‘Islamophobia’ was cited as the reason people want to call it a terrorist attack….‘People were quick to sympathize with the attacker and assume anyone who thought this was related to radical Islam was a xenophobic racist.’”
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Michael Copeland says
The Monty Python sketch continues to run.
revereridesagain says
Taylor Swift video supporting the University’s position on Faisal as a “non-cis-gendered whiteness-oppressed male” is now listed as a work in progress, delayed because she can’t find a rainbow-patterned burka.
gravenimage says
Actually, while Taylor Swift is not specifically known as an Anti-Jihadist, she did refuse to condemn the “Muslim ban”–not a bad thing:
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/does-taylor-swift-owe-social-media-activism-fans
Eur says
I do not doubt the good heart and the good intentions of this woman. On the other hand, it is evident that this position is beneficial for Taylor’s image and therefore for her businesses. She will always have the resources to live safely, the problem is for those of us who have to live with this tribal fascist scum.
gravenimage says
Actually, Eur, refusing to condemn the “Muslim ban” was *not* all that good for her image with a lot of her fans–she got a lot of flak for this. I respect her for it, though.
sweetolbob says
NO WHERE but in “higher education” will you find such abject stupidity rolled out in front of everybody !
Some Mom and Dads have actually worked and saved in their life, only to give their money to charlatans like this who claim to be teaching their nearly adult children !
Talk about wasted effort !
JIMJFOX says
Peter Medawar: ” The spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.”
gravenimage says
I think that higher education is generally a very good thing–the toxic “political correctness” and frequent hatred of the West, not so much…
somehistory says
Without “higher education,” no doctors, engineers, lawyers (needed if some aspect of the law is a challenge, even though some people seem to hate lawyers), etc.
It’s the “studies” they have invented in recent years that are a large part of the problem…and the ones they have hired to “teach” these.
Walter Sieruk says
That cruel vicious and malicious ISIS jihadist living in California should not have been allowed in this nation to begin with . On top of this he is not only a brutal and vicious fiend but a blatant liar by being to dishonest outrageous lying gall to say that his despicable unconscionable violence was caused by “toxic masculinity” and not the instructions of the Qu ‘ran for violence and bloodshed [1]
Of the bogus statement of his… First ,this may be smokescreen of Taqiyya to hide the vicious and violent nature of Islam from the American public . Second, this also reinforces that they old saying ,keyboarded so many times before, is true. Which is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
[1] Surah 2:191. 5:33. 9:5, 111,112,123. 47:4.
Phil Copson says
“On top of this he is …… a blatant liar …… to say that his despicable unconscionable violence was caused by “toxic masculinity”
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Walter – Faisal Mohammed didn’t claim that his actions were due to “toxic masculinity” – the fools at University of California claimed this. (The Left rush to find excuses the way an ostrich looks for sand.)
The problem in the West is “toxic cowardice” where the Left-wing simultaneously admire and are frightened by the violence they import.
They deny the existence of terrorism in part because they want it to succeed, and secondly because they are desperate to avoid being held accountable for what they have done.
sweetolbob says
Phil:
Good comment ! Please tell the self appointed stars of academia they’ll fid sand in the cat box !
gravenimage says
Some of these creeps *do* want terrorism to succeed–but far more common are those who deny it exists.
curious george says
People Continue to Leave California in Droves
https://thenewamerican.com/people-continue-to-leave-california-in-droves/
This seems to solve one set of problems and create another… there was a billboard in Texas that read: “When you vote, remember why you left California.”
I agree, please don’t bring your leftist ideology with you and expect a different result than what you left behind!
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.”
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
somehistory says
The Bible says, “The god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers.”
How blind some people can be. In all my life, never have I seen or heard such as supporting the murderer…mass-murderer, he was…and blaming the victims because the murderer was moslim and they didn’t have a high enough opinion of him…weren’t bowing down and converting before he could slit their throats.
It used to be that if someone killed another by accident…but had been drinking, using drugs, etc., they were still held responsible for their actions. Even women who were abused by their husbands, or children who were abused by a parent, and the abused one murdered the abuser, juries still sent them to prison. They had to prove beyond doubt that they were in fear of their lives at the moment they used gun or knife against the abuser. And frequently had to prove they had been to the hospital with injuries, time and again.
Now, if a moslim murders another…or many…they get the pity party and everyone is supposed to feel sorry for the murdering scum, even though he wanted to murder someone for his fake ‘faith.’
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
Some of this warped thinking by Leftist non-muslim apologists is due to their *ultra low* expectations of muslims.
They refuse to hold muslims accountable to the same standards of everyone else…
gravenimage says
Very true, James.
sweetolbob says
some history:
Right ! That was what they used to do. But now the self enlightened call it some kind of “toxic” problem.
What’s “TOXIC” is islam and muslims !
somehistory says
Calling it toxic masculinity is an attempt to emasculate men.
Telling men to “get in touch with their feminine side” didn’t work as well as they had hoped. Going to the next step, was to convince men that they are too masculine for the ‘good of society.’ So, now masculinity is “toxic” … but only for their goal of causing men to tie their own hands, to not having any integrity, and not defending themselves and others.
If a man opposes, disagrees with, and says how he feels about what they are pushing on society, they want to silence him for his opposing ideas or his integrity, take away his freedom to speak, make him a Wimpy
gravenimage says
Agreed, Somehistory. This is an attempt to portray mascuinity itself as a perversion. Sick stuff. And I say this as a woman–as are you.
gravenimage says
California: ISIS Jihadi Stabs Four in University Classroom, University Blames Toxic Masculinity
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Utterly ludicrous.
Mojdeh says
Islam is finished , we need those ones are moderate and drink vodka and hijab is just show off. They Wil lnot sleep with Hijab , will be getting all sorts of fungus infection between legs.So please Hijab is just for intimidation , Real Mohamed was killed by Omar Us man and that time they put their own Mohamed in to action. First 11 chapters of Quran is so nice, then after that is went very badly. Two Faces of Islam read it .
gravenimage says
There are Muslims who drink alcohol who still wage violent Jihad. Then, the Hijab is worn on the head and neck, not between anyone’s legs.
Then, even much of the Meccan Qur’an is pretty ugly.
sweetolbob says
It may not be worn there but it may wind up there. FOOGIE ! !
Clifford Fodor says
Many of our colleges and universities that ideas like that should be shut down.
Prabhakar Shetty says
Stop voting rights for them. Start deporting.
nicholas tesdorf says
Islam enshrines extreme toxic masculinity but is by its own nature even more toxic as a religion and political system than anything else.
gravenimage says
This is true, Nicholas–Islam sacralizes raping little girls and Infidel women, polygamy, divorce for men only, women losing custody of children if divorced by their husbands, wife beating, “Honor Killing”, and stoning women to death. Few things more toxic than this.
Maureen Chaloner says
Dear God I HATE Islam!
JIMJFOX says
HATE gets a bad name but there are rare cases where hate is not only justified but demanded.
gravenimage says
+1
Blackboot Jack says
Toxic Masculinity?? Hell No!!
Its Islam!! Islam is a parasite that infects the brain.
Convert to Islam and right away you want to run out and KILL KILL KILL !!
Do not convert to Islam.
OLD GUY says
Higher education? My father was raised during the depression and never got through the 8th grade. His education level at the 8th grade was higher then what most high school students are at graduation today. The reason is simple students back then where taught the basics of reading, writing and math. They where also taught discipline and social skills and that if you didn’t do the work you failed and had to repeat the grade level. They had an incentive to study and to do the work and their parents backed that up.
James Lincoln says
OLD GUY says,
“His education level at the 8th grade was higher then what most high school students are at graduation today.”
To your point, a good solid college-prep high school education circa late 50s early 60s was probably better than today’s college general studies liberal arts…
E T says
I remember talking with a high school principal in the 80s and he said most kids can’t read properly, unfortunately teachers would pass kids with 50%. Well they actually scored in the 40s and were bumped up to 50. That is how, he explained to me, they were offering remedial classes in first year university. Sweet eh!1
Shocking at the time, but does explain where we are today. Prime example OAC.
gravenimage says
All too true…
Daniel Sebold says
That photo doesn’t look like Robert Spenser up under his name.
gravenimage says
That’s the Jihadist…
Daniel Sebold says
Well, maybe it does since I misspelled his name
Daniel Sebold says
I have been banned from stating my opinions on the Minnesota State University Reporter web page, my beloved alma mater web page, after suggesting that there were students on campus who come from countries that decapitate homosexuals. Never mind that the university did nothing during the multicultural nineties when I as a returning war vet and was being regularly gay bashed on campus for my cute little Adidas Euro joggers. It took the State of Minnesota to pass hate crime legislation in 2012 to persuade the university that it was sinful to allow such naughty behavior on campus to suspected homosexuals–of course, I am not. That is the ultimate body shame, but you will never hear liberal feminists talk about this kind of thing. Women will never be gay bashed for how they dress.