A young soldier is dead and another wounded because this young man, Abdulhakim Muhammad, converted to Islam and developed a prejudice against the American military. That's of course an insane reason to randomly kill someone, but some things are hard to explain in logical terms. Muhammad had been under investigation by an FBI joint terrorism task force since returning from Yemen. Now what was he doing in Yemen? He was apparently jailed there at some point for using a Somali passport. Where did he get a Somali passport? Both of these reports from the AP wire sound like a finger print of someone being trained to be a terrorist. I don't know that was the case, but the facts as reported certainly sound suspicious. Americans newly converted to Islam going to places like Yemen and acquiring foreign passports need to be further investigated. Authorities are said to have recovered Molotov cocktails, three guns and ammunition from his truck when he was picked up for the murder of Private William Long (23) and the wounding of his companion Private Quinton Ezeagwula (18) outside an Army-Navy Career Center in a Little Rock Arkansas shopping center.It's instructive to compare this young man with the young man from Kuwait who addressed the Republican Convention in Virginia on May 30th (see my blog for May 31st). What makes one man become a terrorist and another a patriot?
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Re your question "What makes one man become a terrorist and another a patriot?" Let me humbly suggest it may be 12 years of liberal education with sex ed beginning in kindergarten and an unrelenting mantra of blame America first.
ReplyDeleteThe young man at the Republican Convention came late to the U.S. and presumably missed some of the worst of what passes for education here. Between our violent video-game culture and the liberal indoctrination, we may be lucky not to have more home-grown terrorists. Of course, if they shoot pro-lifers they'll be perceived as patriots by the liberal left.
Well certainly the "hate America first" crowd seems to have a lock on American education, but I'm not sure that happens in the K through 12. My students don't show much sign of that.
ReplyDeleteI'm also not sure how uniform it is. The young men in our armed forces come from those same schools and are largely an admirable lot.
It's probably too simplistic to just ascribe it to indoctrination. Maybe it's in the water.