The Register-Guard; Keeper of the One-Sided News

As if we don't know how biased the MSM is, in today's RG there was more obfuscation and spin than I have seen in a while.  Here I answer their take on the Portland jihadist.
Read the RG today, and see what you think.

Mohamud Osman Mohamud: A Jihadist in Oregon

It is always the quiet ones, isn’t it.  Friends and family say that no, he never did or said anything to make it seem as if he was minutes away from blowing people up in the name of Allah.  His peers and fellow students, never ones to point a finger say that Mohamud Osman Mohamud, or “Mo-Mo” as he was called was an easy-going guy, liked to drink beer and have sex outside of marriage.  A typical American college student with nothing going on behind the mask of university life.  So the question is: why did he do what he did?

   In todays R-G 11-30) there is not one, or two but four published pieces on this attempted murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children, and they all did their best to not tell us the motives and reasons behind his actions. 

  The first article we see, on the front page immediately sets Mohamud up as a patsy who was “groomed” by the FBI into wanting to blow up a bomb.  There is no explanation of how, at age 15 Mohamud prayed to Allah that he wanted to be a jihadists and either go to a foreign location to kill, or just stay here and kill Americans.  There is nothing on his statement to his pals at Beaverton High School that he hated Americans, and wanted to be a terrorist.  No reporting on Mohamud’s jihad video in which he is wearing the same clothing as bin-Laden, saying he wanted to look “Sheik Osama style”.  The entire article is emotionally framed with his entrapment by the FBI, not on the facts of his behavior and his own statements.

   Bob Welch, in his usual folksy way tries to explain what was driving Mohaud to murder, yet he ends up leading the reader down a primrose path of apologetics and spin.  Trying to acquaint Bruce and Josh Turnidge, who murdered two police officers with a bomb in Woodburn two years ago, with Mohamud is absurd.  Welch tries to make the religious relativism argument, yet he cannot point to any Christian doctrine or tenet accepted or practiced by any recognized authority which calls for the death of non-Christians.  He quotes local historian Doug Card who says “You hear it…Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim…the Turnidge case shows that’s just not true.”  To use just one case to prove the point, Card misses the salient nugget: over 16,000 attacks world-wide by Muslims since 9/11, and just one in Oregon.  Even taking into account McVeigh, Waco, Ruby Ridge, abortion clinics and doctors and others we have much less than one hundred attacks by non-Muslims.  Lets then say that not all Muslims are terrorists, but the majority of terrorists are Muslim.

   Welch ends with saying that the common trait of these murderers is a total disregard for the lives of others.  I agree, yet by dumbing it down and not exploring the doctrine by which Mohamud acted, we are left clueless as to motive and reason.

   The main editorial also whitewashes Mohamud’s actions, and offers no investigation on the driving force behind the attack.  The editors ask why would someone try to kill and maim thousands, they then answer their question with one word “Terrorism”.  Terrorism is a tactic, not a theology.  Terrorism is a means to an end, and in this case the end is murder of non-Muslims in the name of Islam.   

   The editors also assume that the fire at the Corvallis mosque must be deliberately set by Muslim haters.  It undoubtly was an arson fire, yet there has been at least one other arson fire against a mosque, but it turns out that fire was set by the mosque attendants themselves, in order to create a false “hate crime”.  The possibility is there, let us not forget to take that into account.

   Mohamud Osman Mohamud’s actions are being blamed on family problems, but if one looks at his past actions and words it is clear that he wanted to be a jihadist, and murder in the name of Allah.  The FBI, as bumbling as they can be at times, were in the right place at the right time and prevented a major catastrophe.  There is no doubt, given the time and space, Mohamud Osman Mohamud would have found those willing to help kill in the name of Allah, instead of being stung by the FBI.