Is it relevant that Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley was a Muslim? Maybe not. But it isnt so irrelevant that every news outlet (including Fox) has to be quite so cautious about mentioning it at all. The preferred explanation for his murdering two New York police officers is mental illness. But in fact, theres less hard evidence for any mental illness than there is for radicalization, at least to the extent that Brinsley appears to have posted on his Facebook page the Koranic soundbite about striking fear into the enemies of Allah. Nevertheless, the preferred explanation is that Brinsley was mentally ill, just like the guy who beheaded a coworker in Oklahoma was mentally ill, and the Sydney bloke who took those hostages at the coffee shop was mentally ill, and the son of the Canadian Refugee Board honcho who killed a soldier at the Canadian War Memorial was mentally ill. They were also all Muslim. Oh, and the fellow in France who ran down 11 people with his car while shouting Allahu Akbar! only yesterday has already been pronounced mentally ill. By sheer coincidence, he was Muslim, too. steynonline/6720/it-not-an-either-or-question
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:57:19 +0000
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