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March 04, 2007
No Evidence of Hate Crime in Alia Ansari Murder
As predicted several months ago at this blog, the Oct. 9, 2006 murder of Fremont Aghan-American woman Alia Ansari turns out not to be a hate crime after all. According to Alameda County Senior Deputy District Attorney Colton Carmine, parolee Manuel Urango, who has a long criminal record, was charged with Ansari's murder. As Carmine put it:
"The investigation is ongoing, and we're really not prepared to talk about motive. At this time, it's not charged as a hate crime and there's no evidence that prosecutors have that qualifies it as a hate crime."
This after community and Muslim groups used the occasion of the alleged "hate crime" to organize a "Wear a Hijab/Turban Day" and attendant rally in which non-Muslims (particularly women) were urged to don the respective head covering. Indeed, as of this writing, the main organizing group, the Foundation for Self-Reliance, is still playing up the hate crime angle.
But the story was fishy from day one and truth be told, it's still rather strange. Urango and Ansari apparently didn't know each other and apart from a random shooting, one has to wonder about the motive?
It's not beyond the pale to imagine that Urango might have been a hired gun. As I pointed out earlier, Fremont's Afghan community has been beset by internal violence, not to mention the sort of domestic violence against women found in many Muslim communities. And in 2002, one member of the Ansari family was shot and killed and another wounded by a fellow community member.
We may never know what motivated Urango, but isn't it time for all those who immediately cried "hate crime" and blamed the murder on "racism" and "white privilege" to retract their initial statements?
Instead, something tells me this false claim will be yet another in the pantheon of greatly exaggerated and in some cases, mythical, allegations of hate crimes against Muslims in post-9/11 America.
Cross-posted at CinnamonStillwell.blogspot.com.
Cinnamon | 03/04/07 at 12:14 PM | Categories: - 9-11 and its ilk
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First of all thanks for the hat tip and link. Second of all this post makes me consider all of the times Jews have done the exact same thing.
Hate Crimes are difficult to play with and figure out. You can never really know if a hate crime is pre-meditated or not, but if this was a group of suburban Jews, we would be saying the police were coving up the truth of the situation. Jews, Muslims, blacks or other minorities "cry" hate crime all the time. Perhaps it isn't crying when your own community calls sees it as hate.
So let me get this straight. When a Muslim is attacked by a non-Muslim, then according to Cinnamon it's not a hate crime, and only lefty-liberals would suggest that it was. When OTOH a Muslim attacks a non-Muslim, then according to Cinnamon it's obviously a jihad-related hate crime, and only lefty-liberals would suggest otherwise.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, KT's favourite ex-Muslim, mentions in her book "Infidel" that during her stay in Saudi Arabia in her youth she learned that everything wrong with the world was the fault of the Jews. Cinnamon clearly believes that everything that is wrong with the world, or with the US at least, is the fault of the Muslims.
Cinnamon Stillwell: lowering America to the level of a mediaeval theocracy, one post at a time.
