I reported Omar Mateen to the FBI. Trump is wrong that Muslims don’t do our part.
We love America, too, and we're horrified by what our neighbor did.
By Mohammed A. Malik June 20 at 1:40 PMMohammed A. Malik is an entrepreneur in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
Chasing a ghost: What we know about Omar Mateen
People who knew Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen describe him as a man who had many demons and potentially led a double life. (Erin Patrick O'Connor,Jayne Orenstein,Thomas LeGro/The Washington Post)
Donald Trump believes American Muslims are hiding something.
“They know what’s going on. They know that [Omar Mateen] was bad,” he saidafter the Orlando massacre. “They have to cooperate with law enforcement and turn in the people who they know are bad. … But you know what? They didn’t turn them in. And you know what? We had death and destruction.”
This is a common idea in the United States. It’s also a lie. First, Muslims like me can’t see into the hearts of other worshipers. (Do you know the hidden depths of everyone in your community?) Second, he’s also wrong that we don’t speak up when we’re able.
I know this firsthand: I was the one who told the FBI about Omar Mateen.
I met Omar for the first time in 2006 at an iftar meal at my brother-in-law’s house. As the women, including his mother and sisters, chatted in the living room, I sat with the men on the patio and got to know him and his father. Omar broke his Ramadan fast with a protein shake. He was quiet — then and always — and let his dad do the talking.
[Rep. Jim Himes: Why I walked out of the House’s moment of silence for Orlando.]
I’d seen them before at the oldest mosque in the area, the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce. We have a lot of immigrants in our community. They grew up in other countries, often with different sensibilities. A few don’t understand American culture, and they struggle to connect with their American-born or American-raised kids.
I came here from Pakistan in 1979 when I was 6 years old, grew up in Queens (like Omar) and Fort Lauderdale, went through the American education system, and assimilated well. So I was able to make better inroads with young people in our community, including that introverted teenager I met at the iftar. I tried to stay in touch with the younger generation, acting as a mentor when I could.
I saw Omar from time to time over the next decade, and we developed a relationship because most of the other Muslim kids in his age group went elsewhere for college, and he stayed behind. We mostly spoke over the phone or texted with one another a half-dozen times per year. We talked about the lack of social programs at the mosque, especially for teens and young adults like him. I often played pranks on him. Once, around 2009, I attached LED lights to the tires of his car, so when he drove the wheels glowed neon. He laughed when he figured it out a few days later.
Soon after Omar married and moved to his own home, he began to come to the mosque more often. Then he went on a religious trip to Saudi Arabia. There was nothing to indicate that he had a dark side, even when he and his first wife divorced.
But as news reports this week have made clear, Omar did have a dark outlook on life. Partly, he was upset at what he saw as racism in the United States – against Muslims and others. When he worked as a security guard at the St. Lucie County Courthouse, he told me visitors often made nasty or bigoted remarks to him about Islam. He overheard people saying ugly things about African Americans, too. Since Sept. 11, I’ve thought the only way to answer Islamophobia was to be polite and kind; the best way to counter all the negativity people were seeing on TV about Islam was by showing them the opposite. I urged Omar to volunteer and help people in need – Muslim or otherwise (charity is a pillar of Islam). He agreed, but was always very worked up about this injustice.
[Trump’s new favorite slogan was invented for Nazi sympathizers.]
Then, during the summer of 2014, something traumatic happened for our community. A boy from our local mosque, Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, was 22 when he became the first American-born suicide bomber, driving a truck full of explosives into a government office in Syria. He’d traveled there and joined a group affiliated with al-Qaeda, the previous year. We had all known Moner; he was jovial and easygoing, the opposite of Omar. According to a posthumous video released that summer, he had clearly self-radicalized – and had also done so by listening to the lectures of Anwar al-Awlaki, the charismatic Yemen-based imam who helped radicalize several Muslims, including the Fort Hood shooter. Everyone in the area was shocked and upset. We hate violence and were horrified that one of our number could have killed so many. (After an earlier training mission to Syria, he’d tried to recruit a few Florida friends to the cause. They told the FBI about him.)
Immediately after Moner’s attack, news reports said that American officials didn’t know anything about him; I read that they were looking for people to give them some background. So I called the FBI and offered to tell investigators a bit about the young man. It wasn’t much – we hadn’t been close – but I’m an American Muslim, and I wanted to do my part. I didn’t want another act like that to happen. I didn’t want more innocent people to die. Agents asked me if there were any other local kids who might resort to violence in the name of Islam. No names sprang to mind.
After my talk with the FBI, I spoke to people in the Islamic community, including Omar, abut Moner’s attack. I wondered how he could have radicalized. Both Omar and I attended the same mosque as Moner, and the imam never taught hate or radicalism. That’s when Omar told me he had been watching videos of Awlaki, too, which immediately raised red flags for me. He told me the videos were very powerful.After speaking with Omar, I contacted the FBI again to let them know that Omar had been watching Awlaki’s tapes. He hadn’t committed any acts of violence and wasn’t planning any, as far as I knew. And I thought he probably wouldn’t, because he didn’t fit the profile: He already had a second wife and a son. But it was something agents should keep their eyes on. I never heard from them about Omar again, but apparently they did their job: They looked into him and, finding nothing to go on, they closed the file.
[Glenn Greenwald: The FBI was right not to arrest Omar Mateen before the shooting.]
Omar and I continued to have infrequent conversations over the next few years. I last saw him at a dinner at his father’s house in January. We talked about the presidential election and debated our views of the candidates that were running – he liked Hillary Clinton and I liked Bernie Sanders. This banter continued through texts and phone calls for several months. My last conversation with Omar was by phone in mid-May. He called me while he was at the beach with his son to tell me about a vacation he’d taken with his father to Orlando the previous weekend. He’d been impressed by the local mosque.
What happened next is well-known. We’re still in shock. We’re totally against what he did, and we feel the deepest sadness for the victims and their families. If you don’t agree with someone, you don’t have the right to kill them. We are taught to be kind to all of God’s creation. Islam is very strict about killing: Even in war – to say nothing of peace – you cannot harm women, children, the elderly, the sick, clergymen, or even plants. You can’t mutilate dead bodies. You can’t destroy buildings, especially churches or temples. You can’t force anyone to accept Islam. “If anyone slew one person, it would be as if he killed the whole of humanity,” says the Koran.
I had told the FBI about Omar because my community, and Muslims generally, have nothing to hide. I love this country, like most Muslims that I know. I don’t agree with every government policy (I think there’s too much money in politics, for instance), but I’m proud to be an American. I vote. I volunteer. I teach my children to treat all people kindly. Our families came here because it is full of opportunity – a place where getting a job is about what you know, not who you know. It’s a better country to raise children than someplace where the electricity is out for 18 hours a day, where politicians are totally corrupt, or where the leader is a dictator.
But there’s so much suspicion of Islam here. The local paper published an unsigned editorial called “Leave our peaceful Muslim neighbors alone,” and the comments were full of hateful lies – that the Boston bombers had visited the area, that the Sept. 11 bombers came from here, that we were a hotbed of violent ideology. None of this is true. Donald Trump didn’t create these attitudes, but he plays on them and amplifies them.
I am not the first American Muslim to report on someone; people who do that simply don’t like to announce themselves in to the media. For my part, I’m not looking for personal accolades. I’m just tired of negative rhetoric and ignorant comments about my faith. Trump’s assertions about our community – that we have the ability to help our country but have simply declined to do so – are tragic, ugly and wrong.
[Editor’s note: A federal law enforcement official confirmed the author’s cooperation to The Washington Post.]
We love America, too, and we're horrified by what our neighbor did.
By Mohammed A. Malik June 20 at 1:40 PMMohammed A. Malik is an entrepreneur in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
Chasing a ghost: What we know about Omar Mateen
People who knew Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen describe him as a man who had many demons and potentially led a double life. (Erin Patrick O'Connor,Jayne Orenstein,Thomas LeGro/The Washington Post)
Donald Trump believes American Muslims are hiding something.
“They know what’s going on. They know that [Omar Mateen] was bad,” he saidafter the Orlando massacre. “They have to cooperate with law enforcement and turn in the people who they know are bad. … But you know what? They didn’t turn them in. And you know what? We had death and destruction.”
This is a common idea in the United States. It’s also a lie. First, Muslims like me can’t see into the hearts of other worshipers. (Do you know the hidden depths of everyone in your community?) Second, he’s also wrong that we don’t speak up when we’re able.
I know this firsthand: I was the one who told the FBI about Omar Mateen.
I met Omar for the first time in 2006 at an iftar meal at my brother-in-law’s house. As the women, including his mother and sisters, chatted in the living room, I sat with the men on the patio and got to know him and his father. Omar broke his Ramadan fast with a protein shake. He was quiet — then and always — and let his dad do the talking.
[Rep. Jim Himes: Why I walked out of the House’s moment of silence for Orlando.]
I’d seen them before at the oldest mosque in the area, the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce. We have a lot of immigrants in our community. They grew up in other countries, often with different sensibilities. A few don’t understand American culture, and they struggle to connect with their American-born or American-raised kids.
I came here from Pakistan in 1979 when I was 6 years old, grew up in Queens (like Omar) and Fort Lauderdale, went through the American education system, and assimilated well. So I was able to make better inroads with young people in our community, including that introverted teenager I met at the iftar. I tried to stay in touch with the younger generation, acting as a mentor when I could.
I saw Omar from time to time over the next decade, and we developed a relationship because most of the other Muslim kids in his age group went elsewhere for college, and he stayed behind. We mostly spoke over the phone or texted with one another a half-dozen times per year. We talked about the lack of social programs at the mosque, especially for teens and young adults like him. I often played pranks on him. Once, around 2009, I attached LED lights to the tires of his car, so when he drove the wheels glowed neon. He laughed when he figured it out a few days later.
Soon after Omar married and moved to his own home, he began to come to the mosque more often. Then he went on a religious trip to Saudi Arabia. There was nothing to indicate that he had a dark side, even when he and his first wife divorced.
But as news reports this week have made clear, Omar did have a dark outlook on life. Partly, he was upset at what he saw as racism in the United States – against Muslims and others. When he worked as a security guard at the St. Lucie County Courthouse, he told me visitors often made nasty or bigoted remarks to him about Islam. He overheard people saying ugly things about African Americans, too. Since Sept. 11, I’ve thought the only way to answer Islamophobia was to be polite and kind; the best way to counter all the negativity people were seeing on TV about Islam was by showing them the opposite. I urged Omar to volunteer and help people in need – Muslim or otherwise (charity is a pillar of Islam). He agreed, but was always very worked up about this injustice.
[Trump’s new favorite slogan was invented for Nazi sympathizers.]
Then, during the summer of 2014, something traumatic happened for our community. A boy from our local mosque, Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, was 22 when he became the first American-born suicide bomber, driving a truck full of explosives into a government office in Syria. He’d traveled there and joined a group affiliated with al-Qaeda, the previous year. We had all known Moner; he was jovial and easygoing, the opposite of Omar. According to a posthumous video released that summer, he had clearly self-radicalized – and had also done so by listening to the lectures of Anwar al-Awlaki, the charismatic Yemen-based imam who helped radicalize several Muslims, including the Fort Hood shooter. Everyone in the area was shocked and upset. We hate violence and were horrified that one of our number could have killed so many. (After an earlier training mission to Syria, he’d tried to recruit a few Florida friends to the cause. They told the FBI about him.)
Immediately after Moner’s attack, news reports said that American officials didn’t know anything about him; I read that they were looking for people to give them some background. So I called the FBI and offered to tell investigators a bit about the young man. It wasn’t much – we hadn’t been close – but I’m an American Muslim, and I wanted to do my part. I didn’t want another act like that to happen. I didn’t want more innocent people to die. Agents asked me if there were any other local kids who might resort to violence in the name of Islam. No names sprang to mind.
After my talk with the FBI, I spoke to people in the Islamic community, including Omar, abut Moner’s attack. I wondered how he could have radicalized. Both Omar and I attended the same mosque as Moner, and the imam never taught hate or radicalism. That’s when Omar told me he had been watching videos of Awlaki, too, which immediately raised red flags for me. He told me the videos were very powerful.After speaking with Omar, I contacted the FBI again to let them know that Omar had been watching Awlaki’s tapes. He hadn’t committed any acts of violence and wasn’t planning any, as far as I knew. And I thought he probably wouldn’t, because he didn’t fit the profile: He already had a second wife and a son. But it was something agents should keep their eyes on. I never heard from them about Omar again, but apparently they did their job: They looked into him and, finding nothing to go on, they closed the file.
[Glenn Greenwald: The FBI was right not to arrest Omar Mateen before the shooting.]
Omar and I continued to have infrequent conversations over the next few years. I last saw him at a dinner at his father’s house in January. We talked about the presidential election and debated our views of the candidates that were running – he liked Hillary Clinton and I liked Bernie Sanders. This banter continued through texts and phone calls for several months. My last conversation with Omar was by phone in mid-May. He called me while he was at the beach with his son to tell me about a vacation he’d taken with his father to Orlando the previous weekend. He’d been impressed by the local mosque.
What happened next is well-known. We’re still in shock. We’re totally against what he did, and we feel the deepest sadness for the victims and their families. If you don’t agree with someone, you don’t have the right to kill them. We are taught to be kind to all of God’s creation. Islam is very strict about killing: Even in war – to say nothing of peace – you cannot harm women, children, the elderly, the sick, clergymen, or even plants. You can’t mutilate dead bodies. You can’t destroy buildings, especially churches or temples. You can’t force anyone to accept Islam. “If anyone slew one person, it would be as if he killed the whole of humanity,” says the Koran.
I had told the FBI about Omar because my community, and Muslims generally, have nothing to hide. I love this country, like most Muslims that I know. I don’t agree with every government policy (I think there’s too much money in politics, for instance), but I’m proud to be an American. I vote. I volunteer. I teach my children to treat all people kindly. Our families came here because it is full of opportunity – a place where getting a job is about what you know, not who you know. It’s a better country to raise children than someplace where the electricity is out for 18 hours a day, where politicians are totally corrupt, or where the leader is a dictator.
But there’s so much suspicion of Islam here. The local paper published an unsigned editorial called “Leave our peaceful Muslim neighbors alone,” and the comments were full of hateful lies – that the Boston bombers had visited the area, that the Sept. 11 bombers came from here, that we were a hotbed of violent ideology. None of this is true. Donald Trump didn’t create these attitudes, but he plays on them and amplifies them.
I am not the first American Muslim to report on someone; people who do that simply don’t like to announce themselves in to the media. For my part, I’m not looking for personal accolades. I’m just tired of negative rhetoric and ignorant comments about my faith. Trump’s assertions about our community – that we have the ability to help our country but have simply declined to do so – are tragic, ugly and wrong.
[Editor’s note: A federal law enforcement official confirmed the author’s cooperation to The Washington Post.]
What we know about Omar Mateen
He was a Islamic Terrorist. He practised the religion of Peace.
Like all those been killed by the Coalition in the thousands, and by Obama's drones, The Orlando Islamic terrorist was dispatched to hell by brave US law enforcement. How ever these Islamic terrorists arm them selves they are no match for the American law enforcement and military.
ANOTHER GUESSER FAIL
Guesser = DaFinch
Shush()*
He was a Islamic Terrorist. He practised the religion of Peace.
Like all those been killed by the Coalition in the thousands, and by Obama's drones, The Orlando Islamic terrorist was dispatched to hell by brave US law enforcement. How ever these Islamic terrorists arm them selves they are no match for the American law enforcement and military.
ANOTHER GUESSER FAIL
Guesser = DaFinch
Shush()*
In case anyone else wants to read this I'm reposting it with paragraphs so you're not the second poster here to go blind - SL
By Mohammed A. Malik June 20 at 1:40 PM
Mohammed A. Malik is an entrepreneur in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
Donald Trump believes American Muslims are hiding something.
“They know what’s going on. They know that [Omar Mateen] was bad,” he saidafter the Orlando massacre. “They have to cooperate with law enforcement and turn in the people who they know are bad. … But you know what? They didn’t turn them in. And you know what? We had death and destruction.”
This is a common idea in the United States. It’s also a lie. First, Muslims like me can’t see into the hearts of other worshipers. (Do you know the hidden depths of everyone in your community?) Second, he’s also wrong that we don’t speak up when we’re able.
I know this firsthand: I was the one who told the FBI about Omar Mateen.
I met Omar for the first time in 2006 at an iftar meal at my brother-in-law’s house. As the women, including his mother and sisters, chatted in the living room, I sat with the men on the patio and got to know him and his father. Omar broke his Ramadan fast with a protein shake. He was quiet — then and always — and let his dad do the talking.
I’d seen them before at the oldest mosque in the area, the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce. We have a lot of immigrants in our community. They grew up in other countries, often with different sensibilities. A few don’t understand American culture, and they struggle to connect with their American-born or American-raised kids.
I came here from Pakistan in 1979 when I was 6 years old, grew up in Queens (like Omar) and Fort Lauderdale, went through the American education system, and assimilated well. So I was able to make better inroads with young people in our community, including that introverted teenager I met at the iftar. I tried to stay in touch with the younger generation, acting as a mentor when I could.
I saw Omar from time to time over the next decade, and we developed a relationship because most of the other Muslim kids in his age group went elsewhere for college, and he stayed behind. We mostly spoke over the phone or texted with one another a half-dozen times per year. We talked about the lack of social programs at the mosque, especially for teens and young adults like him. I often played pranks on him. Once, around 2009, I attached LED lights to the tires of his car, so when he drove the wheels glowed neon. He laughed when he figured it out a few days later.
Soon after Omar married and moved to his own home, he began to come to the mosque more often. Then he went on a religious trip to Saudi Arabia. There was nothing to indicate that he had a dark side, even when he and his first wife divorced.
But as news reports this week have made clear, Omar did have a dark outlook on life. Partly, he was upset at what he saw as racism in the United States – against Muslims and others. When he worked as a security guard at the St. Lucie County Courthouse, he told me visitors often made nasty or bigoted remarks to him about Islam. He overheard people saying ugly things about African Americans, too.
Since Sept. 11, I’ve thought the only way to answer Islamophobia was to be polite and kind; the best way to counter all the negativity people were seeing on TV about Islam was by showing them the opposite. I urged Omar to volunteer and help people in need – Muslim or otherwise (charity is a pillar of Islam). He agreed, but was always very worked up about this injustice.
Then, during the summer of 2014, something traumatic happened for our community. A boy from our local mosque, Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, was 22 when he became the first American-born suicide bomber, driving a truck full of explosives into a government office in Syria. He’d traveled there and joined a group affiliated with al-Qaeda, the previous year. We had all known Moner; he was jovial and easygoing, the opposite of Omar.
According to a posthumous video released that summer, he had clearly self-radicalized – and had also done so by listening to the lectures of Anwar al-Awlaki, the charismatic Yemen-based imam who helped radicalize several Muslims, including the Fort Hood shooter. Everyone in the area was shocked and upset. We hate violence and were horrified that one of our number could have killed so many. (After an earlier training mission to Syria, he’d tried to recruit a few Florida friends to the cause. They told the FBI about him.)
Immediately after Moner’s attack, news reports said that American officials didn’t know anything about him; I read that they were looking for people to give them some background. So I called the FBI and offered to tell investigators a bit about the young man. It wasn’t much – we hadn’t been close – but I’m an American Muslim, and I wanted to do my part. I didn’t want another act like that to happen. I didn’t want more innocent people to die. Agents asked me if there were any other local kids who might resort to violence in the name of Islam. No names sprang to mind.
After my talk with the FBI, I spoke to people in the Islamic community, including Omar, abut Moner’s attack. I wondered how he could have radicalized. Both Omar and I attended the same mosque as Moner, and the imam never taught hate or radicalism. That’s when Omar told me he had been watching videos of Awlaki, too, which immediately raised red flags for me. He told me the videos were very powerful. After speaking with Omar, I contacted the FBI again to let them know that Omar had been watching Awlaki’s tapes.
He hadn’t committed any acts of violence and wasn’t planning any, as far as I knew. And I thought he probably wouldn’t, because he didn’t fit the profile: He already had a second wife and a son. But it was something agents should keep their eyes on. I never heard from them about Omar again, but apparently they did their job: They looked into him and, finding nothing to go on, they closed the file.
Omar and I continued to have infrequent conversations over the next few years. I last saw him at a dinner at his father’s house in January. We talked about the presidential election and debated our views of the candidates that were running – he liked Hillary Clinton and I liked Bernie Sanders. This banter continued through texts and phone calls for several months. My last conversation with Omar was by phone in mid-May. He called me while he was at the beach with his son to tell me about a vacation he’d taken with his father to Orlando the previous weekend. He’d been impressed by the local mosque.
What happened next is well-known. We’re still in shock. We’re totally against what he did, and we feel the deepest sadness for the victims and their families. If you don’t agree with someone, you don’t have the right to kill them. We are taught to be kind to all of God’s creation. Islam is very strict about killing: Even in war – to say nothing of peace – you cannot harm women, children, the elderly, the sick, clergymen, or even plants. You can’t mutilate dead bodies. You can’t destroy buildings, especially churches or temples. You can’t force anyone to accept Islam. “If anyone slew one person, it would be as if he killed the whole of humanity,” says the Koran.
I had told the FBI about Omar because my community, and Muslims generally, have nothing to hide. I love this country, like most Muslims that I know. I don’t agree with every government policy (I think there’s too much money in politics, for instance), but I’m proud to be an American. I vote. I volunteer. I teach my children to treat all people kindly.
Our families came here because it is full of opportunity – a place where getting a job is about what you know, not who you know. It’s a better country to raise children than someplace where the electricity is out for 18 hours a day, where politicians are totally corrupt, or where the leader is a dictator.
But there’s so much suspicion of Islam here. The local paper published an unsigned editorial called “Leave our peaceful Muslim neighbors alone,” and the comments were full of hateful lies – that the Boston bombers had visited the area, that the Sept. 11 bombers came from here, that we were a hotbed of violent ideology. None of this is true. Donald Trump didn’t create these attitudes, but he plays on them and amplifies them.
I am not the first American Muslim to report on someone; people who do that simply don’t like to announce themselves in to the media. For my part, I’m not looking for personal accolades. I’m just tired of negative rhetoric and ignorant comments about my faith. Trump’s assertions about our community – that we have the ability to help our country but have simply declined to do so – are tragic, ugly and wrong.
[Editor’s note: A federal law enforcement official confirmed the author’s cooperation to The Washington Post.]
Are you coming here to become an American? Or to take over, or be a fucking sponge?
Somali "Refugees" on Lifetime Welfare Demand Their Free Food is halal-compliant at Food Bank in MN! #WorldRefugeeDay
Somali "Refugees" on Lifetime Welfare Demand Their Free Food is halal-compliant at Food Bank in MN! #WorldRefugeeDay
[ Nice friendly Muslim stabs 13 year old girl to death in her own bedroom. How nice. ]
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Jewish girl, 13, stabbed to death in West Bank bedroom was U.S. citizen
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Relatives hug each other at the bedroom of Israeli girl, Hallel Yaffa Ariel, 13, who was killed in a Palestinian stabbing attack in her home in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba. (Reuters)
A 13-year-old Jewish girl who was stabbed to death in her bed by a Palestinian attacker on Thursday was an American citizen, the State Department said.
Hallel Yaffa Ariel was asleep in her home in a West Bank settlement when a 17-year-old assailant broke in to the house and killed her before he was shot by security guards.
"The horrifying murder of a young girl in her bed underscores the bloodlust and inhumanity of the incitement-driven terrorists that we are facing," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after an emergency meeting with his defense minister. "The entire nation deeply identifies with the family's pain and declares to the murderers: you will not break us."
Not only do the Islamo-Nazi bastards celebrate this evil, they give the murderers family a monthly stipend as gratitude.
But hey, as long as The Guesser can keep buying his falafel, Islam is a totally peaceful non-violent religion.
[ Nice friendly Muslim stabs 13 year old girl to death in her own bedroom. How nice. ]
Jewish girl, 13, stabbed to death in West Bank bedroom was U.S. citizen
Published June 30, 2016 FoxNews.com
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Relatives hug each other at the bedroom of Israeli girl, Hallel Yaffa Ariel, 13, who was killed in a Palestinian stabbing attack in her home in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba. (Reuters)
A 13-year-old Jewish girl who was stabbed to death in her bed by a Palestinian attacker on Thursday was an American citizen, the State Department said.
Hallel Yaffa Ariel was asleep in her home in a West Bank settlement when a 17-year-old assailant broke in to the house and killed her before he was shot by security guards.
"The horrifying murder of a young girl in her bed underscores the bloodlust and inhumanity of the incitement-driven terrorists that we are facing," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after an emergency meeting with his defense minister. "The entire nation deeply identifies with the family's pain and declares to the murderers: you will not break us."
One entire Palestinian village for every terror attack.
Investigation into the death of a Muslim Marine from Michigan widens
Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press9:31 p.m. EDT June 30, 2016
(Photo: Family photo)
The U.S. Marine Corps has widened its investigation of the boot camp death of a 20-year-old recruit from metro Detroit, admitting this week in a statement that a drill instructor already under investigation for improper behavior was wrongly placed in charge of recruits.
The statement also said that about 15 drill instructors and other leaders now are being investigated in the case of Raheel Siddiqui of Taylor, who died on March 18 – 11 days into his training on Parris Island in South Carolina. The second-highest ranking Marines official in Parris Island was removed from his position earlier this month, a Marines spokesman told the Free Press Thursday.
"Existing orders, policies and procedures to prevent improper assignments were not followed," said the statement from the Training and Education Command of the U.S. Marine Corps. "A drill instructor was improperly placed in charge of recruits while he was subject to an ongoing investigation."
The case has drawn national attention for issues related to hazing and diversity in Marines training.
Siddiqui's family, their attorney, and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) have raised questions as to whether Siddiqui may have been targeted because he was Muslim and of Pakistani descent.
The statement from the Marines did not say what the senior instructor was being investigated for, but the Wall Street Journal reported this week that it was for making anti-Muslim and racist remarks toward an earlier recruit who was Muslim, at one point stuffing him into a dryer. Siddiqui died after a fall into a 40-foot stairwell, Marine officials have said earlier.
"The family is very concerned that his religion could have played a major role in the trainer's conduct against" Siddiqui, family attorney Nabih Ayad told the Free Press on Thursday.
In a letter on Thursday to the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, Dingell wrote that "reports in the Wall Street Journal of a drill instructor putting a Muslim recruit inside a clothes dryer is deeply disturbing. How do we ensure that all recruits are treated equally and receive the proper training to be effective at their jobs as soldiers without resorting to tough and discriminatory tactics that could put someone’s life at risk?"
Dingell added: "It is my understanding that a drill instructor had access Marine Corps recruits while he was the subject of an investigation. What are the allegations against the drill instructor and how was he permitted to continue working with recruits while under investigation?"
A spokesman for the U.S. Marines, Capt. Joshua Pena, did not comment to the Free Press on Thursday on whether the drill instructor mentioned in the Marines statement had made anti-Muslim remarks earlier and stuffed a Muslim recruit in a dryer.
Capt. Pena did confirm to the Free Press Thursday that on June 6th, the second highest ranking officer at Parris Island, Marine Col. Paul Cucinotta, and his senior enlisted adviser, Sgt. Major Nicholas Deabreu were removed.
The statement this week from the Marines also said that "approximately 15 drill instructors and affiliated leadership" are being investigated for "potential violations of Marine Corps orders," including "hazing, physical abuse, assault and failure of supervision. The investigations date to November 2015 and appear isolated to companies within the 3rd Recruit Training Battalion," to which Siddiqui belonged.
The developments this week show a deepening of the investigations into what happened to Siddiqui
In April, Ed Buice, spokesman for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, said "I can confirm that his death is due to injuries sustained in a nearly 40-foot fall in a barracks stairwell."
Ayad said that "we're getting conflicting stories" from investigators and Marine officials about what happened. Ayad said that initially, they were told Siddiqui told his supervisor he was suicidal in a note, "which is absurd to us" given Siddiqui's postive demeanor.
Ayad said that someone had smacked Siddiqui, waking him up after he had passed out during training. A casualty report from the Marines the family received said that Siddiqui then ran, jumping over a ladderwall to his death, said Ayad.
Ayad said that Siddiqui "was so well loved by everyone whom he came across. ... He was loved by his neighbors, his family, his teachers, his principal, a manager at the Home Depot where he worked."
Investigators have been interviewing family and others about Siddiqui's mental health, which Ayad said was solid.
Siddiqui was a valedictorian at Truman High School in Taylor and was "so excited for boot camp," he said.
"This man would have been such a great asset to the military, to this nation," Ayad said. "He loved this nation so much."
Ayad said that Siddiqui's fall into the stairwell did not appear to be a controlled fall, but rather one where he was either pushed or made to fall.
He said that Siddiqui also had a sore throat during the boot camp and had been trying to get medical attention for it, but his concerns were ignored.
There are currently three investigations into Siddiqui's death, by the U.S. Marine Corps, Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), and a Naval medical and surgery review.
The Wall Street Journal report Wednesday said that "one of the critical questions in the internal probe, according to Marine officials, is how Mr. Siddiqui ended up under the supervision of a senior drill instructor who was already under scrutiny for alleged hazing involving minority recruits. In one instance, the instructor faced allegations of putting another Muslim recruit in a clothes dryer and making racially charged remarks, according to multiple Marine officials."
"The Marines are investigating why top officials allowed him to return to duty as a drill instructor to supervise recruits such as Mr. Siddiqui even while he was being examined for alleged wrongdoing," said the Wall Street Journal report.
In their new statement, the Marines said: "Upon completion of all investigations, TECOM (Training and Education Command) Commanding General, Maj. Gen. James W. Lukeman, will determine the appropriate administrative and judicial actions necessary based on the findings."
"We take every allegation of misconduct very seriously and will review each investigation carefully," said Lukeman.
Dingell said she supports having a tough boot camp to ensure a strong U.S. Marines but has questions about what happened to Siddiqui.
"We need to have a strong military," Dingell told the Free Press. "But we need to have a military that doesn't discriminate against anyone because of their religion. There are Muslim-Americans who love this country and everything it stands for and want to fight to defend those principles, and yet may be discriminated against because of their religion."
Contact Niraj Warikoo: nwarikoo@freepress.com or 313-223-4792. Follow him on Twitter @nwarikoo
Full statement below released Wednesday by the U.S. Marines on the death of Raheel Siddiqui, 20, of Taylor, in Marines boot camp:
"Training and Education Command is pending the completion and review of investigations surrounding allegations against personnel at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island and the March 18, 2016 death of Recruit Raheel Siddiqui.
The allegations, against approximately 15 drill instructors and affiliated leadership, identify potential violations of Marine Corps orders to include hazing, physical abuse, assault and failure of supervision. The investigations date back to November of 2015 and appear isolated to companies within the 3rd Recruit Training Battalion.
During the course of the Recruit Siddiqui death investigation, facts revealed a drill instructor was improperly placed in charge of recruits while he was subject to an ongoing investigation. Existing orders, policies and procedures to prevent improper assignments were not followed. Interim corrective actions have already been taken.
All Marines under investigation are currently assigned to duties that do not involve direct access to recruits.
Upon completion of all investigations, TECOM Commanding General, Maj. Gen. James W. Lukeman, will determine the appropriate administrative and judicial actions necessary based on the findings.
"We take every allegation of misconduct very seriously and will review each investigation carefully," said Lukeman. "MCRD Parris Island and MCRD San Diego are Marine Corps institutions entrusted by the American people to transform the best of our nation's young men and women into U.S. Marines. Every day, approximately 1000 drill instructors at our recruit depots are doing exactly what they were screened, selected and trained to do in a professional, appropriate manner. The safety of the recruits and the integrity of the Marine Corps recruit training program are among our top priorities and, once the investigations are complete, we will take necessary administrative and judicial action as warranted to ensure proper accountability."
Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press9:31 p.m. EDT June 30, 2016
(Photo: Family photo)
The U.S. Marine Corps has widened its investigation of the boot camp death of a 20-year-old recruit from metro Detroit, admitting this week in a statement that a drill instructor already under investigation for improper behavior was wrongly placed in charge of recruits.
The statement also said that about 15 drill instructors and other leaders now are being investigated in the case of Raheel Siddiqui of Taylor, who died on March 18 – 11 days into his training on Parris Island in South Carolina. The second-highest ranking Marines official in Parris Island was removed from his position earlier this month, a Marines spokesman told the Free Press Thursday.
"Existing orders, policies and procedures to prevent improper assignments were not followed," said the statement from the Training and Education Command of the U.S. Marine Corps. "A drill instructor was improperly placed in charge of recruits while he was subject to an ongoing investigation."
The case has drawn national attention for issues related to hazing and diversity in Marines training.
Siddiqui's family, their attorney, and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) have raised questions as to whether Siddiqui may have been targeted because he was Muslim and of Pakistani descent.
The statement from the Marines did not say what the senior instructor was being investigated for, but the Wall Street Journal reported this week that it was for making anti-Muslim and racist remarks toward an earlier recruit who was Muslim, at one point stuffing him into a dryer. Siddiqui died after a fall into a 40-foot stairwell, Marine officials have said earlier.
"The family is very concerned that his religion could have played a major role in the trainer's conduct against" Siddiqui, family attorney Nabih Ayad told the Free Press on Thursday.
In a letter on Thursday to the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, Dingell wrote that "reports in the Wall Street Journal of a drill instructor putting a Muslim recruit inside a clothes dryer is deeply disturbing. How do we ensure that all recruits are treated equally and receive the proper training to be effective at their jobs as soldiers without resorting to tough and discriminatory tactics that could put someone’s life at risk?"
Dingell added: "It is my understanding that a drill instructor had access Marine Corps recruits while he was the subject of an investigation. What are the allegations against the drill instructor and how was he permitted to continue working with recruits while under investigation?"
A spokesman for the U.S. Marines, Capt. Joshua Pena, did not comment to the Free Press on Thursday on whether the drill instructor mentioned in the Marines statement had made anti-Muslim remarks earlier and stuffed a Muslim recruit in a dryer.
Capt. Pena did confirm to the Free Press Thursday that on June 6th, the second highest ranking officer at Parris Island, Marine Col. Paul Cucinotta, and his senior enlisted adviser, Sgt. Major Nicholas Deabreu were removed.
The statement this week from the Marines also said that "approximately 15 drill instructors and affiliated leadership" are being investigated for "potential violations of Marine Corps orders," including "hazing, physical abuse, assault and failure of supervision. The investigations date to November 2015 and appear isolated to companies within the 3rd Recruit Training Battalion," to which Siddiqui belonged.
The developments this week show a deepening of the investigations into what happened to Siddiqui
In April, Ed Buice, spokesman for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, said "I can confirm that his death is due to injuries sustained in a nearly 40-foot fall in a barracks stairwell."
Ayad said that "we're getting conflicting stories" from investigators and Marine officials about what happened. Ayad said that initially, they were told Siddiqui told his supervisor he was suicidal in a note, "which is absurd to us" given Siddiqui's postive demeanor.
Ayad said that someone had smacked Siddiqui, waking him up after he had passed out during training. A casualty report from the Marines the family received said that Siddiqui then ran, jumping over a ladderwall to his death, said Ayad.
Ayad said that Siddiqui "was so well loved by everyone whom he came across. ... He was loved by his neighbors, his family, his teachers, his principal, a manager at the Home Depot where he worked."
Investigators have been interviewing family and others about Siddiqui's mental health, which Ayad said was solid.
Siddiqui was a valedictorian at Truman High School in Taylor and was "so excited for boot camp," he said.
"This man would have been such a great asset to the military, to this nation," Ayad said. "He loved this nation so much."
Ayad said that Siddiqui's fall into the stairwell did not appear to be a controlled fall, but rather one where he was either pushed or made to fall.
He said that Siddiqui also had a sore throat during the boot camp and had been trying to get medical attention for it, but his concerns were ignored.
There are currently three investigations into Siddiqui's death, by the U.S. Marine Corps, Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), and a Naval medical and surgery review.
The Wall Street Journal report Wednesday said that "one of the critical questions in the internal probe, according to Marine officials, is how Mr. Siddiqui ended up under the supervision of a senior drill instructor who was already under scrutiny for alleged hazing involving minority recruits. In one instance, the instructor faced allegations of putting another Muslim recruit in a clothes dryer and making racially charged remarks, according to multiple Marine officials."
"The Marines are investigating why top officials allowed him to return to duty as a drill instructor to supervise recruits such as Mr. Siddiqui even while he was being examined for alleged wrongdoing," said the Wall Street Journal report.
In their new statement, the Marines said: "Upon completion of all investigations, TECOM (Training and Education Command) Commanding General, Maj. Gen. James W. Lukeman, will determine the appropriate administrative and judicial actions necessary based on the findings."
"We take every allegation of misconduct very seriously and will review each investigation carefully," said Lukeman.
Dingell said she supports having a tough boot camp to ensure a strong U.S. Marines but has questions about what happened to Siddiqui.
"We need to have a strong military," Dingell told the Free Press. "But we need to have a military that doesn't discriminate against anyone because of their religion. There are Muslim-Americans who love this country and everything it stands for and want to fight to defend those principles, and yet may be discriminated against because of their religion."
Contact Niraj Warikoo: nwarikoo@freepress.com or 313-223-4792. Follow him on Twitter @nwarikoo
Full statement below released Wednesday by the U.S. Marines on the death of Raheel Siddiqui, 20, of Taylor, in Marines boot camp:
"Training and Education Command is pending the completion and review of investigations surrounding allegations against personnel at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island and the March 18, 2016 death of Recruit Raheel Siddiqui.
The allegations, against approximately 15 drill instructors and affiliated leadership, identify potential violations of Marine Corps orders to include hazing, physical abuse, assault and failure of supervision. The investigations date back to November of 2015 and appear isolated to companies within the 3rd Recruit Training Battalion.
During the course of the Recruit Siddiqui death investigation, facts revealed a drill instructor was improperly placed in charge of recruits while he was subject to an ongoing investigation. Existing orders, policies and procedures to prevent improper assignments were not followed. Interim corrective actions have already been taken.
All Marines under investigation are currently assigned to duties that do not involve direct access to recruits.
Upon completion of all investigations, TECOM Commanding General, Maj. Gen. James W. Lukeman, will determine the appropriate administrative and judicial actions necessary based on the findings.
"We take every allegation of misconduct very seriously and will review each investigation carefully," said Lukeman. "MCRD Parris Island and MCRD San Diego are Marine Corps institutions entrusted by the American people to transform the best of our nation's young men and women into U.S. Marines. Every day, approximately 1000 drill instructors at our recruit depots are doing exactly what they were screened, selected and trained to do in a professional, appropriate manner. The safety of the recruits and the integrity of the Marine Corps recruit training program are among our top priorities and, once the investigations are complete, we will take necessary administrative and judicial action as warranted to ensure proper accountability."
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[FONT="][FONT="]Bombings come 10 days after an attack on a bus carrying Nepalese security guards
[FONT="]Two Taliban suicide bombers have killed at least 27 police officers and wounded about 40 others in an attack on buses carrying recently graduated cadets on the western outskirts of Kabul.[/FONT]
[FONT="]A police official said that, according to preliminary information, three buses were attacked as they approached the Afghan capital from neighbouring Wardak province.[/FONT]
[FONT="]“Initial information we have is that two suicide bombers were involved and there are many casualties,” he said, declining to be identified by name.[/FONT]
[FONT="]An interior ministry official said at least 27 people were killed and 40 wounded.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The incident on Thursday comes 10 days after an attack on a bus carrying Nepalese security guards working for the Canadian embassy in Kabul that killed 14 people.[/FONT]
[FONT="]In April, at least 64 people were killed by a Taliban attack on a security services facility in Kabul in the deadliest bombing of its kind in Afghanistan since 2011.[/FONT]
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[FONT="][FONT="]Bombings come 10 days after an attack on a bus carrying Nepalese security guards
[FONT="]Two Taliban suicide bombers have killed at least 27 police officers and wounded about 40 others in an attack on buses carrying recently graduated cadets on the western outskirts of Kabul.[/FONT]
[FONT="]A police official said that, according to preliminary information, three buses were attacked as they approached the Afghan capital from neighbouring Wardak province.[/FONT]
[FONT="]“Initial information we have is that two suicide bombers were involved and there are many casualties,” he said, declining to be identified by name.[/FONT]
[FONT="]An interior ministry official said at least 27 people were killed and 40 wounded.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The incident on Thursday comes 10 days after an attack on a bus carrying Nepalese security guards working for the Canadian embassy in Kabul that killed 14 people.[/FONT]
[FONT="]In April, at least 64 people were killed by a Taliban attack on a security services facility in Kabul in the deadliest bombing of its kind in Afghanistan since 2011.[/FONT]
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