NC Hit-and-Run Case Publicity Trivializes Real Terrorism
By Andrew Cochran
The cable news networks and some of my favorites blogs are in danger of trivializing real terrorism by trumpeting the case of the University of North Carolina graduate student from Iran, who tried to run down students to "avenge the deaths of Muslims around the world." One top blogger e-mailed me and justified the coverage as an effort to educate college students on the real thing. I suggest that instead of focusing on one nutcase who wasn't born here (and no real terrorist turns himself in on a 911 emergency call!!), try calling attention back to the 20-something Hamid Hayat's (in California) and Ahmed Omar Abu Ali's (across the Potomac from Washington) who were born here, raised here, brainwashed on radical Islamist propaganda in their communities here, and then went overseas to learn how to attack their fellow Americans. They aren't the only ones. If that doesn't scare a college kid, nothing will.
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