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Who Needs Facts? Left Forces NC Muslim Killings Into “Hate Crime” Narrative
Barack Obama didn't exactly say that the three Muslim students killed in North Carolina might have been his children, but he has made it clear that he thinks the crime was motivated by “who they are, what they look like, or how they worship” and a federal investigation has begun [Obama denounces ‘outrageous murders’ of three U.S. Muslims, by Collen Jenkins, Reuters, February 13, 2015]. So another of this Administration’s favorite “hate” narratives is underway—liberated, as they increasingly seem to be, from any considerations of the facts.
While Timothy McVeigh acknowledged the novel The Turner Diaries influenced the Oklahoma City Bombing, his psychiatrist told Gore Vidal “Tim wanted it made clear that, unlike The Turner Diaries, he was not a racist. He made that very clear. He did not hate homosexuals. He made that very clear.” [The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh, Vanity Fair, September 2001]]
Theresa Smith met face to face with Jeffrey Dahmer, the man who killed, and quite possibly ate (the remains were never found) her brother. She told CBS: “one of the things he wanted to make very clear is that he was not a prejudiced person. It wasn't out of race that he killed these young men. It was out of his selfish lust. He made that very clear.” Dahmer, who was gay, targeted mostly young minority men for murder and cannibalism, but it was because he liked young minority men.
As a committed atheist, Craig Hicks, who is accused of killing three of his Muslim neighbors, probably did not care for the Biblical commandment, “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.” Nonetheless his wife Karen is vigorously defending him. She does not claim he is innocent of murder as does Charles Manson’s would-be wife Afton Elaine Burton (Manson marriage license to expire without a wedding, USA Today, February 3, 2015). Nor does she justify her husband’s crimes as does Hayat Boumeddiene, the wife of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist Amédy Coulibaly (Islamic State magazine interviews Hayat Boumeddiene, by Kim Wilsher, The Guardian, February 12, 2015)
Though Karen Hicks did not use the words “he made that very clear,” like Dahmer and McVeigh, she proclaims that her husband is innocent of the more serious crime of racism and Islamophobia: “It didn’t matter what your religion was, it didn’t matter what your race was, didn't matter sexuality. He believed that everybody should be treated equally and fair.” She did not deny that he killed the neighbors, but she insists: “This incident had nothing to do with religion or victims’ faith but, in fact, was related to the long-standing parking disputes that my husband had with the neighbors” (Wife of triple-shooting suspect said crime not motivated by bias, WRAL.com, February 11, 2015).
The Chapel Hill police have confirmed that the parking dispute likely caused the shooting [UPDATE – Chapel Hill Police Investigate Multiple Homicide on Summerwalk Circle, February 10, 2015.] Hicks’ neighbors reported that he was a crank who displayed “equal opportunity anger” (Neighbors Say Suspect in Chapel Hill Shootings Was Threatening, by Jonathan M. Katz and Michael Paulson, New York Times, February 12, 2015)
This fact should be relevant to our Main Stream Media. A murder over parking spaces–while tragic–does not warrant international headlines and hand-wringing about Islamophobia for a week. However, in a sane society, killing someone over a parking space is just as reprehensible as killing someone over religion.
Perhaps emphasizing how insane our society is, Hicks’ wife told the media to look at his Facebook page for proof of his tolerance. ...
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