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March 05, 2007
Stephen Jay Wilson: The Fremont Victim No One Talks About
In my last post, I addressed the recent disclosure that the murder of Fremont Aghan-American woman Alia Ansari late last year turns out not to be a hate crime. This after much hype to the contrary by local Muslim groups and media. But in contrast to the outcry surrounding Ansari's death, the Fremont community has been strangely silent on the murder of another member, Stephen Jay Wilson (hat tip Daniel Pipes).
Wilson, it may be remembered, was the first victim of Omeed Aziz Popal, who went on a killing spree earlier last year, using his car as a weapon. Popal, an Afghan immigrant, began his hit-and-run rampage in Fremont, where Wilson was unfortunate enough to cross his path and to lose his life in the process. Popal then ended up in San Francisco, where he wounded fourteen people. Although authorities and the mainstream media continue to deny it to this day, Popal's crime had all the hallmarks of Sudden Jihad Syndrome.
Unlike the case of Ansari, there were no rallies or moments of silence in Wilson's honor. And the local media didn't pay half as much attention to his death as they did to Ansari's alleged hate crime murder. Could it be that the reason for the silence surrounding Wilson's death is that he was a non-Muslim victim of Muslim violence?
It seems that in the politically correct world we live in, some lives are worth more than others.
Cross-posted at CinnamonStillwell.blogspot.com.
Cinnamon | 03/05/07 at 01:36 PM | Categories: - 9-11 and its ilk
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"It seems that in the politically correct world we live in, some lives are worth more than others."
Funnily enough, that is exactly the impression any reader of Cinnamon's blog would get. If deaths can be blamed on Muslims, they're terrible tragedies. But a dead Muslim here or there is just another "jihadi" to be railed at.
Perhaps if instead of linking to Daniel Pipes' irrelevant list of supposed instances of Muslim "jihadi" crimes from all round the world over the past five years, she looked instead at hit-and-run killings, or serial killings, in the US over that period, her post would have more value. Seems to me that all Popal has in common with the people on Pipes's hate list is his religion. But then to Cinnamon, no crime is worth bothering with unless it can be used as a stick with which to beat Muslims.
To paraphrase Cinnamon's previous post here, something tells me her false claim about Popal will be yet another in the pantheon of greatly exaggerated, and in most cases mythical, allegations of "Jihadi" hate crimes by Muslims in post-9/11 America.
