Prosecutor Argues Oklahoma Beheader is Racist, Not Jihadist

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Usually prosecutors and the media would avoid attributing a racial motive in a crime like this, but now they would rather go the racial route than the Jihadist route.

Mashburn said Vaughan’s human resources department had suspended Nolen earlier Thursday after another co-worker, Traci Johnson, had complained she had had an altercation with Nolen “about him not liking white people.”

While the FBI is investigating, and while he believed Nolen may have been using Arabic terms during the attack, Mashburn said the attack seemed to be tied more to the complaints against him.

“It had more to do with race rather than trying to convert people,” Mashburn said.

The Arabic terms are unspecified, but odds are that Allah Akbar was one of them.

Racism and Islam are not contradictory motives here, as the prosecutor insists. Racism helped fuel interest in Islam in the US. Based on his use of the name Yisrael and Judah tattoo, Alton Nolen appeared to have drifted at some point into the often racist Black Hebrew movement. It’s surprising that he didn’t end up in the Nation of Islam.

Nolen would have seen the women he killed as enemies on account of race and religion. His Facebook posts, his beheading and his use of Arabic terms frames the attack in religious terms. Nolen saw himself as going on a Jihad. The Jihad may have been triggered by racial animosity, but Nolen would have framed the racial animosity in religious terms.

  • NJK

    A terrorist says he does it for Islam, and these moronic people in the govt. say it’s not true? Are they brain dead? I really think there is something wrong with these people. It’s as though they can’t reason. Why are they so reluctant to believe a Jihadist when he tells them why he did it?

    “Black Hebrew Movement?” Is this made up like the Khorasan group? What in the heck is that? Now it’s the Jews fault?

    God, I feel like America is an insane asylum, and I’m the only sane person in it? I hope one day these idiots who can’t come to terms with who’s responsible for terrorism, are personally touched by it.

    • Gee

      The also claimed that Major Nidal murders were mere workplace violence

  • roger

    The prosecutors and judges are just like everyone else, no one wants to say it, because they don’t want to appear bigoted before their peers , that this is another manifestation of Islamic doctrine from a devout Muslim who was trying to convert infidels. He was practicing “Dawah, and when the infidels refused to submit and pay the “Jizya, he had no recourse but to ‘Strike them in their necks cut of their finger tips’ etc. etc.

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    Say it’s anything but Islamic jihad. Anything. We don’t want to go there, says the prosecution. We’d risk being accused of Islamophobia. We don’t want to know about his Arabic jabber as he beheaded the woman. For all we know, he might have been ranting in Polish, or even in Hebrew. But, we’re not going the Islamic terrorist route. That would be irresponsible and discriminatory and unfair to all Muslim converts who haven’t taken a blade to someone’s head…yet.

    • Bamaguje

      Apparently, in the topsy-turvy world of leftist political correctness,
      it’s more acceptable to tar a Black person as racist than a Muslim as
      Jihadist.

      • truebearing

        What will happen if a white Muslim beheads a black man who is also gay?

        • kafir4life

          Not sure, but I think muslim trumps black and gay.

        • Gee

          They will call him a White Supremacist

  • truebearing

    Kudos to the prosecutor. he got it half-right. Sure, the slimebag is a racist, but so is virtually every Muslim on Earth, and if they aren’t, they are probably apostates. Being a racist doesn’t exclude Muslims in the least.

    What is wrong with these idiots? They wouldn’t have any trouble connecting the Catholic Church with pedophile priests…even though there isn’t a single word of the Gospel supporting such evil. In fact, there are some rather dire admonitions against hurting children. The Quran, on the other hand, is explicitly racist, sexist, misogynistic, homicidal, genocidal, etc. This is unbelievable.

  • cheechakos

    He’s a true muslim African American.
    He hates non- muslims and whites.

    • DennisMets

      how right you are , years of preaching about the devil whites to their followers and asking them to kill all whites and their babies . you see blacks running around playing knock out games then you see millions of the black thugs raping young girls in schools and beating white student unconsciousness.

  • http://tinatrent.com/ Tina Trent

    And this is precisely why we need to start working to get hate crime laws out of our judicial system: they turn the process into a spectacle that tacitly endorses the drama of the offender’s views. Certainly we need to understand why he did what he did and not conceal the jihad story, but when you try to bring charges based on ideas, you are feeding the grandiose ambitions of the killer himself — and also, inevitably, deeming some aspects of the complex hatreds fuelled by Islam less important than others. Why race and not gender? We’ll have less lunatic acting out when the system becomes less accomodating of these fantasies of supremacy. Charge the animal with murder and throw away the key. Then take a look at employment law. I can only imagine how bad this guy had to be to be fired in the first place. They probably had to keep employing him out of fear of discrimnation lawsuits. The system has been feeding and validating his resentments for years, I imagine.

  • Hard Little Machine

    His tortured reasoning was the same as saying “We can’t accuse someone of murder before they’ve been convicted of murder,” Ignoring of course that that’s the entire point of HIS job in the first place.

    • Gee

      Indictment – a formal charge or accusation of a serious crime.

      He did accuse him of murder.

      • Hard Little Machine

        His logic is we can’t call it terrorism because we haven’t seen the end of the trial, yet. In his words.

        • DennisMets

          how many times do I have to tell u, this is another example of years of blacks programming their youth to hate the devil privileged whites, SOON ENOUGH millions of blacks will convert to Islam and the war on the devil whites will be a blood bath count on it

  • kafir4life

    It just religious freedom. Jews light Sabbath candles, Catholics pray the Rosary, muslim cut off the heads of infidels as prescribed in their holy book, the terror guide, the koran.

  • ObamaYoMoma

    Judging by his past criminal history, my guess is that there were some sort of underlying racial among other issues going on with that dude, but he nonetheless converted to Islam probably because he was a disaffected black. Which is exactly the kind of people the Imams are looking for because they are easier to convert and to inculcate into doing their dirty business for them. Combine his past underlying problems together with what he ignorantly considered to be his new found religion of truth, and we have a recipe for jihad murder. Indeed, he did it because he convinced himself he was a soldier of Allah and also because he had become infatuated with beheading infidels.

    Thus, it is definitely not a case of just workplace violence, but it is also not an act of terrorism either, especially when you understand the fact that Muslims kill defenseless infidels in cold-blood, not because they are terrorists, but because they are waging jihad against all infidels and because the defenseless make the easiest targets. Instead, it was an act of jihad since in stark contrast to terrorism which traditionally has been perpetrated for a myriad of reasons, he did it in the cause of Allah to ultimately make Islam and its followers supreme and he figures, of course, that he will receive his just rewards when he dies in Allah’s version of carnal paradise.

  • tagalog

    Why does it have to be one or the other? Can’t both be factors? Racism AND Islamism?

    • Gee

      Not according to Muslims in America. It can never be a factor where they are concerned

  • tagalog

    We seem to be on a collision course with a clash of PC-isms. I thought black people, because they are oppressed and powerless, can’t actually BE racist. So it must be Islam, but then we don’t attribute anything bad to Islam.
    Such a dilemma. Is this an instance of cognitive dissonance?

  • Pete

    Racist and jihadist are not mutually exclusive.

    But the DA is doing the PC thing, because … well we know why.

  • Paul of Alexandria

    Response to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Column on Sen. Rick Santorum on Violence in Christianity and Islam – Dr. Alvin Schmidt, 9/30/14
    http://issuesetc.org/2014/09/30/4-response-to-a-pittsburgh-post-gazette-column-on-sen-rick-santorum-on-violence-in-christianity-and-islam-dr-alvin-schmidt-93014/