Last week, on the same day no less, a guy named Mohamed and another named Mohammad attacked Old Dominion University (Mohamed) and a Jewish center in Michigan (Mohammad), looking to do harm.
The Old Dominion Mohamed, according to numerous reports, barged into an ROTC class, confirmed it was, indeed, ROTC, yelled “Allahu akbar,” and began shooting. He killed the instructor, a decorated military veteran, and wounded at least two others before some class members sent Mohamed to his 72-virgin reward for martyrdom in the cause.
These heroic students reportedly used a knife or knives, what with Old Dominion being a gun-free campus. I guess Mohamed missed the signs prohibiting guns. And I wonder whether the students will be punished for possessing a knife or knives on campus.
A little background on Mohamed: He’s reported to be a former member of the Army National Guard (yes, ours) who pleaded guilty in 2016 to a felony charge of aiding the Islamic State (ISIS) group. Mohamed got out of prison early (in 2024), because, well, no one really knows. He was a naturalized U.S. citizen from Sierra Leone.
Authorities are said to be “investigating” whether this Old Dominion attack was an act of terrorism.
Move on to Michigan Mohammad, who plowed his truck into the Reform synagogue and preschool, but didn’t manage to harm anyone, other than himself. When security guards began shooting at him, Mohammad is reported to have accelerated the process by shooting himself.
Born in Lebanon, he had come to the U.S. on a visa given to him because he’d married an American citizen. Eventually, he became a citizen, too.
Ah, but there are reports he recently lost two brothers, members of the Hezbollah terrorist group operating in Lebanon. These two siblings were said to be working a rocket unit, dangerous duty with the Israeli Air Force frowning on such and willing to do something about it, like the air strike that took out the brothers.
Michigan Mohammad also is reported to have had a niece and nephew killed in Lebanon fighting.
Hey, but rest assured, he was on our government radar as a potential problem due to his family being Hezbollah and all that. But, the bureaucrats charged with keeping us safe felt Michigan Mohammad was not a member himself and therefore not a threat. Wrong. Again.
If he was willing to ram a truck into a Jewish center and try to kill or injure people, does it really matter if he carries a Hezbollah membership card?
This incident has been called antisemitism, but, again, more investigation is said to be needed before we can throw out the T-word, as in terrorism.
This would be laughable if the subject were not so serious.
Each day I awake hoping to find the world returning to sanity, and each day there is yet more disappointment. The way these stories and investigations have been handled is additional evidence of how entrenched the insanity is, among media, bureaucrats and, to a lesser extent, the general public.
God save us.
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