Driving to work this morning, I heard this story on the radio:
FRANCISCO — As many as 14 people were injured this afternoon by a motorist who drove around San Francisco running them down before he was arrested, authorities said.
What my local news affiliate didn’t mention, but what I instinctly knew right away, was that the driver — 29-year-old Omeed Aziz Popal — was Muslim.
What else did my radio station fail to mention? That two of the victims were struckin front of the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco on California Street.
Let’s see — a Muslim man runs down people with his SUV in front of a Jewish Community Center? And the MSM doesn’t think that either of these facts is important enough to share?
The SFGate story uses 1439 words to describe the tragic events. But a quick CTRL+F of the page reveals that they ommitted the three most important words relating to this story: Muslim, Islam, and terror.
Nothing to see here, folks. Just keep moving along. It’s just an isolated incident of road rage.
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Michelle Malkin has a great roundup of local reaction and commentary in San Francisco.
Red Hot Cuppa Politics titled her post “The Word That Must Never Be Spoken” — it’s an excellent summary of Muslim crimes in the US where the media was reluctant to or guilty of not reporting that the perps were indeed Muslim men.
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Eh, ya think so?
At 12 separate San Francisco locations, he hit cars or people, sometimes missing his targets. Several of the injured were running errands or relaxing in and around the Laurel Heights neighborhood. Were they all wearing yalmukes?
But I like this part of the story:
Witnesses swamped 911 emergency lines, enabling San Francisco police to pick up the driver’s trail and apprehend him shortly after 1 p.m. after he allegedly rammed a squad car.
Were the 911 calls really necessary for the cops to find him? Doesn’t ramming a squad car get their attention?
In this PC world, the only people who seem to be accused of any hate crimes are white. When we know the guy’s motive, if we ever do, we’ll see how the mainstream media reports it.
What’s the point of seeing boogie men everywhere? Is the Right really so frightened?
In the previous incident you site ’sources say Taheriazar told police he was seeking retribution for the treatment of Muslims around the world’. Well, yes, that probably qualifies the guy as a terrorist.
In constrast, this guy is probably mentally ill.
Dianne- who is it that the guy ‘hates’?
Preston, the guy probably is mentally ill according to American standards. Over in the Middle East, he might strap on a bomb, and blow away himself and school kids — and be feted as a martry.
But the danger here in America is that we’re unable to separate mentally ill — like that loveable guy in “A Beautiful Mind” — and those who want to kill people in the name of Allah. I think that might be an important distinction to make.
Diane — I know. But look how the press has handled the Beltway snipers … and the guy at Chapel hill, etc.
Robbie, good article, with impeccable sources
But the danger here in America is that we’re unable to separate mentally ill — like that loveable guy in “A Beautiful Mind†— and those who want to kill people in the name of Allah. I think that might be an important distinction to make.
Why is this an important distinction? Actually I don’t care if an insane person is killing for Allah or the dog named Harvey that told the Son of Sam to go on a rampage.
Yah, ol’ Nash was real loveable… has a son out of wedlock (whom he denied support), numerous infidelities, and arrested for being a perv (exposing himself), to name a few…
I think we’re more than capable of distinguishing the difference…. Some just choose to label other’s actions to bolster their own comfort zone.