There is tremendous sympathy for the family of the Somali student who rammed his car into a crowd of college kids, jumped out and went on a butcher knife rampage that grievously injured nearly a dozen people. A policeman happened to be nearby, responded to the commotion and shot the Somali student dead.
Soon after eleven students were rushed to area hospitals, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack and said the Somalian perpetrator was their “soldier.” Everybody who knew the boy was astonished and in disbelief. In the case of his family, it really is disbelief. They refuse to acknowledge that their close relative had actually committed this brutal act of terror. They want to see a video of their boy in action before admitting that he could have done such a thing. If integration into western society is the comprehensive answer to potential terrorists, it would seem that the young Somali had gone above and beyond what is expected of immigrants.
The family’s lawyer put out a statement on their behalf. “Abdul graduated from the Ohio community college last summer with cum laud. He was a polite and hard working person who was spending most of the time either working at Home Depot or studying. The family told me he was a good man with a brighter future and they want to know to a large extent to see some kind of proof [sic].” He went on to say that they want to see proof on video before they’ll accept his guilt.
But it’s the statement of the president-elect saying the lad “should never have been in our country” that has them truly rattled. Why, they’re afraid to go anywhere for fear of being attacked! The family’s lawyer says they are traumatized, shocked, and they want answers. “They want to make sure that nobody else has to go through the pain, the suffering and the trauma they are going through.”
Maybe it seems too obvious a question, but what about the “pain, suffering and trauma” of the bludgeoned and stabbed students who were minding their own business when the “good man” decided to mow them down and try to stab them to death? How about their families? Should anyone be concerned about their grief and trauma? As far as we know, no news organization has sought out the victims or their families for comment thus far. Will it be a hate crime if they do?
What about the families of tens of thousands of college students all across the United States who have plenty of “nice boys” in the mix with their sons and daughters? Do they have any cause for concern? What about the 300 cities and towns that are now home to some 132,000 Somali refugees? Do those citizens have any cause for concern about their safety when they go about their daily business? That’s a question that is no doubt highly inappropriate to ask. After all, there have only been mass murder attempts by a couple of Somalis. Oh, and there have been several arrests of Somalis who joined ISIS.
According to Tucker Carlson, Fox News host, the “nice boy” was taking a class on “micro-aggressions” and is working on a project to illustrate just who in our society was targeted, demeaned or discriminated against. In the end we have to wonder. Was this “nice boy” pushed over the edge by ISIS’ calls to use vehicles and knives to carry out jihad in the west? Or was it his college professor’s class on “triggers” and “micro-aggressions” that put him over the edge? Maybe it was some combination of the two.
By all accounts, he was the cream of the crop of Somali refugees. He was polite, a hard worker and a good student who got along with everybody. Until he did this. Never mind the pain and trauma of parents and grandparents whose children are hospitalized, and may never be the same. The Somali community is suffering FEAR that someone will look at them with suspicion. That, according to the family’s lawyer, much of academia and many in the press, would be a real crime.
While certain organizations are dedicated to searching out examples of “hate crimes” against minorities, they’ll point out words or symbols that showed up on a wall or the side of a shed. But who’s to say how the slur originated? There have been very visible examples of “activists” who would write themselves a death threat just so they could go public with “proof” of their cause.
There was the example of the Black Lives Matter protester who was trying to get the top administrators to resign or be fired for failing to create a safe campus environment. She “tweeted” death threats against all black students at Kean University in New Jersey, and targeted them directly to the Campus Police. It caused a major stir, as you would imagine. State and local police descended on the case as did the Department of Homeland Security. The hoax threats were tracked back to the activist using them as ammunition, and now she’s got serious legal trouble. The “tweets” were able to be tracked down. Spray paint scrawled on a wall can be more difficult, and is sometimes bogus.
The claim that many people in the heartland of America are white supremacists, xenophobes and bigots because they hope that some semblance of their traditions and their children’s future can be saved from the overwhelming transformation of recent years is equally bogus. How many violent demonstrations have we seen protesting against the millions of immigrants that have been imported and hidden out of sight all across the United States? How many have been maimed and murdered by citizens angered by the fact that national resources have been used to support immigrants on a scale where they don’t even need to find gainful employment to live comfortably? What’s that? None? In the aftermath of the Ohio State University attacks by an apparently well-adjusted, completely assimilated refugee, we have only to ask, “What more do the refugees, illegal immigrants and their advocates in the media want from the citizens of the United States?”
They want a confession to all the imagined slights, malicious thoughts and unconscious bias that characterize white American citizens, and they’re not about to stop demanding it. It’s beginning to look as though they may just be disappointed, again.
