Terrorist Plot Thwarted, Terrorist Motives Unclear: About half of the
local news stories I saw yesterday avoided using the M-word, or the
I-word when they described the plot. (The TV stories I've seen this
morning have been more honest — and less silly.),, Here's an example. ,
Two men have been arrested in a plot to attack a Seattle military
recruiting station, reports the U.S. Justice Department and FBI.,, Abu
Khalid Abdul-Latif, who also went by Joseph Anthony Davis, 33, of
Seattle, and Walli Mujahidh, also known as Frederick Domingue, Jr., 32,
of Los Angeles, will face terrorism and firearms charges for the
suspected plot.,, The pair were arrested Wednesday night after nearly a
month of surveillance and recordings by FBI, with the help of an
informant recruited to join the plot. During that time, law enforcement
say they learned Abdul-Latif and Mujahidh intended to shoot people
enlisting in the armed forces at the Military Entrance Processing
Station on East Marginal Way (MEPS). , You can search that entire
article and not find the word "Muslim", or the word "Islam". Abdul-Latif
and Mujahidh may believe they were defending their religion, but King 5
saw no reason to share that fact with us.,, The stories that did mention
their religion, and their religious motive for the plot, usually
followed that with the usual PC lecture from our very political US
attorney, Jenny Durkan, who assured us that most Muslims were not like
these two. True enough, and almost everyone in this area has figured
that out already. (I doubt that she would feel it necessary to give us a
similar reassurance if she were prosecuting a Catholic priest.),, It
would be interesting to know just how many local Muslims do sympathize
with terrorists, but I do not expect any of our local "mainstream"
journalists to investigate that question.,, (This unwillingness to call
a Muslim a Muslim, even when the Muslim calls himself a Muslim has an
eerie similarity to the way many "mainstream" journalists treated left
wing extremists like Angela Davis. She might be an open Communist, she
might proudly call herself a Communist, but the reporters would usually
describe her as an "activist", or something similar.,, Abdul-Latif is
married to a women from Niger. No one has explained how the two got
together, which makes me wonder whether it was an arranged marriage.) ,-
6:59 AM, 24 June 2011 [link]
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