{"id":65819,"date":"2018-01-30T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65819"},"modified":"2018-01-29T20:59:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T02:59:37","slug":"jihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65819","title":{"rendered":"Jihad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a plea in re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2018\/01\/29\/minneapolis-man-pleads-guilty-to-moa-stabbings-claims-jihad\/\">the stabbling at the Mall of America back in November<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mahad Abdiaziz Abdiraham pleaded guilty last week to two counts of first-degree assault in connection with the Nov. 12 knife attack that injured two brothers in a dressing room at the mall\u2019s Macy\u2019s store.<\/p>\n<p>The brothers, ages 19 and 25, suffered serious injuries from Abdiraham\u2019s 8-inch knife.<\/p>\n<p>According to KSTP-TV, Abdiraham\u2019s attorney read a statement in court Thursday giving Abdiraham\u2019s reasons for the stabbings.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement, Abdiraham said he was motivated by a \u201ccall for jihad\u201d and added that Americans will not be safe as long as \u201cyour country is at war with Islam.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Time to deport all the Somali?<\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe not<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He has also been previously arrested for stabbing two staff members with a pen at an in-patient psychiatric unit, according to the criminal complaint in the Mall of America case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to complain about religion here.<\/p>\n<p>No, not Mr. Abdiaziz&#8217;s Islam &#8211; the guy sounds like he might not be wired to code, ifyacatchmydrift.<\/p>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m talking about the religion of security theater that has made the MOA, at least officially, a Safe Zone for criminals; people in possession of enough rational faculties to think of such things know that anyone that follows the rules at the MOA is going to be unarmed and incapable of resisting someone with an, ahem,\u00a0<strong>eight freaking inch knife<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why if I\u00a0<em>did\u00a0<\/em>own any guns, and\u00a0<em>did\u00a0<\/em>have a carry permit, I would either never ever go to the Mall, or casually disobey the signs.\u00a0 Not that I have a gun &#8211; they terrify me, and I&#8217;d never shoot anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a plea in re the stabbling at the Mall of America back in November: Mahad Abdiaziz Abdiraham pleaded guilty last week to two counts of first-degree assault in connection with the Nov. 12 knife attack that injured two brothers in a dressing room at the mall\u2019s Macy\u2019s store. The brothers, ages 19 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65820,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65819\/revisions\/65820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}