Muslim Who Stabbed Americans for Not Being Muslim Won't Be Charged w/Hate CrimePosted: 2015-02-22 February 22, 2015 by Daniel Greenfield
Obviously not. That would ruin the narrative.
If our friend here had been a non-Muslim who stabbed a Muslim, the hate crime charges would materialize out of thin air. But it doesn’t work the other way around.
First a refresher on the case
Both of the victims were standing at the bus stop outside of Detroit with the suspect on Saturday. Several people there “engaged in conversation” until the suspect, identified by Hawkins as 39-year-old Terrence Lavaron Thomas, “asked in general whether any were Muslims, and only the two victims said ‘no’,”
Hawkins said. “The suspect said, ‘I’m a Muslim,’ and wouldn’t accept that the (two victims)” were not Muslims.
“[Thomas] was not not happy with that answer,” Hawkins said.
When police arrived to the scene Saturday night, they found that the 52-year-old victim had been stabbed in the head, neck and back. The 51-year-old victim had been stabbed in the hand.
Thomas had two knives on him when police took him into custody, according to police.
So not a hate crime. Obviously.
Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper didn’t charge a Detroit man with a hate crime after it’s suspected he stabbed two people at a Southfield bus stop, possibly motivated by religious hate.
It’s a bad breath issue.
Oakland County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Paul Walton said the evidence doesn’t support a 2-year felony charge of ethnic intimidation, although investigators are still interviewing witnesses.
Walton said an argument started over “bad breath and bad teeth” before it “deescalated to a physical altercation.”
Sure. A parking dispute shooting is a hate crime despite a complete lack of evidence. But stabbing someone after they said they were non-Muslims isn’t.
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.
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