As you know by now, three people in Fresno, California lost their lives yesterday at the hands of Kori Ali Muhammad shouting "Allahu Akbar!!!" as he gunned them down before surrendering to police. Muhammad also used the phrase on social media prior to the incident. For good measure, Muhammad despised white people and praised the murder of Dallas police officers last July.
Authorities in Fresno state Muhammad was motivated by racism, not Islamic terrorism. With all due respect I'm not buying it. With perhaps the possible exception of the Quebec City mosque shooting in January, if you shout "Allahu Akbar" in the act of killing someone then you are doing it in the name of Islam.
Let me put it another way. There were voices (many in the Muslim community) clamoring for Dylann Roof to be charged with terrorism following the murder of nine parishioners at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina in June 2015. Although Roof was ultimately not charged with terrorism related offenses it is fair to say that most Americans would consider Roof a terrorist - myself included.
If nothing else, because Roof posed with the Confederate Flag it was effectively banished from polite society up to & including re-runs of The Dukes of Hazzard. If the mainstream media considers the Confederate Flag synonymous with racism then why isn't "Allahu Akbar" synonymous with Islamic terrorism? Let's just say the mainstream media would be paying fare more attention had Kori Ali Muhammad posed with a Confederate Flag.
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