On Monday morning, CNN host Alisyn Camerota expressed hope that Americans would stand with Muslims and wear headscarves in “solidarity”.
That was less than three hours before a Somali Muslim would go on a midday rampage on the campus of Ohio State University, running over students with a car and stabbing others.
CNN ran a story about Muslims being fearful of living in Donald Trump’s America.
At the conclusion of the piece, Camerota said, “Maybe there’ll be a movement where people wear the headscarf in solidarity.
“You know, even if you’re not Muslim. Maybe it’s the way people shave their heads, you know, sometimes in solidarity with somebody who’s going through something,” she continued.
“Maybe you’ll see a wave of the opposite happening,” Camerota concluded.
Anything is possible, but such a “solidarity” statement is harder to picture after the attacker criticized America and ISIS claimed credit.
Yahoo News reported:
A Somali immigrant who injured 11 people at Ohio State University in a vehicle and stabbing attack before he was shot dead may have followed the same path to self-radicalization as militants in a number of “lone wolf” attacks, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the attack.
Abdul Razak Ali Artan, 20, was shot dead by a police officer on Monday moments after he plowed his car into a crowd of pedestrians and then leapt out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife.
According to Fox 8:
Artan wrote in a Facebook post he had grown “sick and tired” of seeing fellow Muslims “killed and tortured,” according to federal law enforcement officials. Authorities are now looking into whether the attack was terrorism but said it would take time to determine a motive.
In a Facebook post shortly before the rampage, the Somali immigrant urged America “to stop interfering with other countries, especially the Muslim Ummah,” a term for Muslim people at large.
“By Allah, we will not let you sleep unless you give peace to the Muslims,” he wrote. “You will not celebrate or enjoy any holiday.”
“Brother Abdul Razak Ali Artan, God accept him, implementer of the Ohio attack, a student in his third year in university,” the Islamic State news agency AMAQ said.
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