Move Along, Nothing To See, Just Another Muslim Student Murdering Another Jewish Professor
Why is this the first I’ve heard of this story?
Another Case of PTSD? [Mark Steyn]
…and this time the poor guy’s not even in the military! From Channel 12 WBNG:
A Binghamton University professor is dead tonight after being stabbed by an anthropology student.
That’s one way of putting it. Another is that Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani killed Richard T Antoun, author of Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic and Jewish Movements.
More here, including a mug shot of the “alleged” assailant:
As usual, he seemed like such a nice person:
“The police, they came, and when they were allowed to enter into his room, they took all his stuff,” said Jules Sakho, Al-Zahrani’s roomate.
His roommates say police also found a knife in a dumpster near the apartment.
But police do not have a motive at this time.
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“I would think it was because of the whole dissertation being rejected. But I cannot confirm it, he had issues with his financials.
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His roommates and neighbors also say his behavior was strange.
“He was all the time shouting in Arabic, shouting threats, insulting this country for no reason,” said Sakho.
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“Sometimes, for no reason, asking if I am afraid of death or not, ” said Sakho.
“He says a comment like, ‘I feel like just waking up and destroying the world’,” said Pena.
Al-Zahrani was a Saudi Arabia national and Sakho says he was Muslim.
But the D.A. believes the stabbing was not religiously motivated. Sakho says he thinks Al-Zahrani had psychological problems as well.
Holmes, you amaze me!
Look, the guy was nuttier than a Snickers bar—hardly unusual for a grad student—but police are supposed to look for motive when investigating a murder. I hope they look beyond “financials”.
The predictable denouement:
But both roommates say they never thought Al-Zahrani would kill.
“It’s crazy that you can have someone living with you like that and not know,” said Pena.
“He kept on making threats, but I thought it was just a way to intimidate people. I couldn’t imagine that he could go so far,” said Sakho.
Doesn’t that describe Muslim terrorism? For years we thought their howling and ululating about death to the Great Satan and lopping off heads was their just blowing off steam. Little did we realize (fools that we are), that the steam was actually the black acrid smoke of jet fuel and skyscraper in flames.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
December 7, 2009 @ 11:29 am
Now might be a good time to mention that I have no way of knowing if the late Professor Antoun was Jewish or not, and probably should correct the headline.
His cv is here.
I note one publication with sorrowful irony:
1997 “Institutionalized deconfrontation: A case study of conflict resolution among tribal peasants in Jordan.” In Conflict Resolution in The Arab World, ed. by P. Salem. American University of Beirut, Beirut.
Oh boy, that’s just too sad.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
December 7, 2009 @ 11:56 am
True pacifists never acknowledge that sometimes their technique fails. This is true of the conflict resolution professional crowd and of Quakers, for example. I am sure that there are other groups out there that simply refuse to admit to the possibility that some people don’t want to make nice.
- Aggie