On Monday, November 28, an Ohio State University (OSU) student drove a car into a group of students before exiting the vehicle and stabbing them, leaving 11 people injured.
Abdul Razak Ali Artan, 18, is a Somali refugee who fled to Pakistan with his family in 2007. They arrived in the United States as legal permanent residents in 2014.
Prior to attending OSU, the attacker attended Columbus State University. In August, he gave an interview to the OSU paper, The Lantern. He was quick to criticise OSU concerning prayer facilities and said he was scared.
It would be interesting to find out why he left Columbus State University.
Frankly, he should have asked about a prayer room before enrolling. I am certain that university officials would have gladly discussed the topic with him.
It is unclear why the attacker harboured such hate of the United States, which so generously took him and his kin in, giving them permanent residency. The Daily Mail reported on his Facebook post, made shortly before the attack:
Authorities are currently investigating the posts, allegedly made by Artan, which mention radical cleric Anwar Awlaki and accuse America of ‘interfering’ with other nations.
‘I am sick and tired of seeing my fellow Muslim brothers and sisters being killed and tortured EVERYWHERE,’ it stated. ‘I can’t take it anymore.
‘America! Stop interfering with other countries, especially Muslim Ummah (communities)… [if] you want us Muslims to stop carrying lone wolf attacks.’
He must have become radicalised. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.
However, ISIS issued videos shortly before the attack encouraging Muslim radicals to employ Nice-style methods (July 14) — using a motor vehicle — and use knives, which was exactly what this guy did.
Gateway Pundit has the ISIS videos in question.
Luckily for all concerned, Officer Alan Horujko arrived very quickly. He fatally shot the attacker. The officer deserves a medal. Unfortunately, he will probably be in for a lot of abuse from social justice warriors and leftist pundits. Here’s documentary film maker Tariq Nasheed with Tucker Carlson on Fox News:
Horujko was checking out a chemical leak on campus at the time. Hmm. That’s curious, too, but the OSU spokesperson who discussed the attack with Tucker Carlson viewed them as unrelated incidents (first interview in the video):
The Conservative Treehouse (CTH) has an excellent post on records from Catholic Charities which indicate that they helped the attacker and his family settle into the United States (emphases in the original):
There are currently estimated to be more than 100,000 Somalian refugees living in the United States. (link) […] Between 2013 and 2015 alone, the United States accepted more than 25,000 Somalian refugees. […] The suspect, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, lived briefly in a temporary shelter in Dallas before settling in Ohio, according to Catholic Charities records, obtained by NBC
CTH rightly points out that these Christian humanitarian outreach efforts could be putting the United States in danger — and taxpayers are footing the bill for attacks on themselves.
This beggars belief (purple highlight mine):
The potential for Unvetted Islamic Refugees becoming ISIS terrorists was a hot-button issue within the 2016 Presidential race. Candidate Donald Trump promised to halt the program; candidate Hillary Clinton and President Obama promised to increase the refugee influx.
In addition, various religious “humanitarian” organizations have been at the tip of the spear promoting refugee and illegal immigration status. The business model for ‘Baptist Child and Family Services’ as well as ‘Catholic Charities’ are dependent on hundreds of millions from the taxpayers via immigration/refugee resettlement programs.
To give you an idea of the scope: so far in 2016 BCFS has been granted over two hundred million. $201,069,016 to be precise. The scope of awards given to Catholic Charities is even more jaw dropping (SEE HERE)
This is further evidence that Donald Trump is not scare-mongering or being discriminatory. He is absolutely correct in saying that there must be a ‘temporary’ halt to migration from certain countries until officials figure out what is going on.
He’s been proven right time and time again. San Bernardino in December 2015 was the first attack during the campaign. Then there was Orlando in June. Then the mall incident in Washington state in September. Now this one.
Here’s an idea: why not take in Christians from Muslim countries instead? No Western country is making them a priority. In fact, they’re almost prohibited from entering as refugees. Why is that?
Maybe Trump can stop the trend in 2017. Let’s hope that he does.
In the meantime, I pray the wounded make a full recovery.
6 comments
December 1, 2016 at 11:55 pm
OIKOS™-Redaktion
Hat dies auf Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region! rebloggt.
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December 3, 2016 at 11:33 am
churchmouse
Thank you very much for the reblog.
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December 2, 2016 at 3:26 pm
undergroundpewster
I know that we should be welcoming of strangers, but I don’t think we are supposed to be stupid about it. One has to check them out before letting them in the door lest they harm the children. The good shepherd watches over his sheep and drives wolves away (or takes other actions against them).
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December 3, 2016 at 11:40 am
churchmouse
Absolutely agree. Nations should be adopting legislation that would parallel what a homeowner would do with a stranger demanding entry into his house. Would we let strangers into our homes? As you say, ‘One has to check them out before letting them in the door lest they harm the children.’
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December 3, 2016 at 12:25 pm
churchmouse
Attacker’s mother at funeral: ‘I love you my son. I know they kill you for no reason’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3994090/Ohio-State-knife-attacker-buried-relatives-remain-stunned.html
Wow.
The article says he had completed his associates degree (a two-year degree) with honours at Columbus State and was studying logistics management at OSU. He also worked at a local Home Depot store.
Also:
‘Authorities say that Artan and his family were thoroughly vetted before coming to the U.S. and that Artan underwent a second background check when he became a legal permanent resident in 2015.’
The good news is that the injured are expected to survive.
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December 6, 2016 at 1:28 am
churchmouse
December 2:
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/30230/
‘An Ohio State student named Mackenzie called into Sean Hannity’s radio show Dec. 1 to voice her frustration over how campus leadership responded to President Donald Trump’s election compared to how it responded to the recent terrorism-inspired rampage on campus …
‘“After this terrorist attack I’ve truly learned that the left is more scared of conservatism and Trump and Republicans than they are of ISIS and terrorists,” Mackenzie told Hannity. “Because after this terror attack I haven’t heard anything about, you know, ‘We’re praying for the victims’ or this and that. I’ve heard things about how we need to understand Islam, the vibrant Somali community we have here, how we need to embrace them even though this is the third attack by a Somali in the last year here in Columbus, and all this stuff about, you know, Muslim sensitivity.”
‘“That’s all they care about,” she continued, “and they are more scared of the Right and Trump than they are of this terrorist attack that just happened on our campus. It’s sickening to me because I feel like they are gambling with my life in order to reach this multiculturalism lie that they worship in all of my classes — and it’s crazy” …
‘Cincinnati.com reports that “with more than 50,000 residents, the Somali refugee community of Columbus is the second largest in the United States, behind only that of Minneapolis” …
‘It’s not unheard of for a campus community to mourn its terrorist-inspired attacker.
‘Last year, after Faisal Mohammad went on a similar knife attack at UC Merced, injuring four before being shot and killed by a campus police officer, the campus community mourned Mohammad, and called for understanding’ …
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