Ah yes, another moron “radicalized” by Islam. Now I’m no lover of religion, believing that all of them are a quackery, if not worse. But isn’t it something that one never hears of radicalized Catholics, or Buddhists, or Hindus, or Presbyterians, or Lutherans; or even brain-dead Scientologists and Mormons! No, this “specialty” only pertains to that religion of piss. And yes, the piss (as opposed to peace) was intended. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
New York (AFP) – A hatchet attack on rookie New York police officers was a “terrorist act” carried out by a self-radicalized loner who had been in the military and recently converted to Islam, police said.
“This was a terrorist act,” police commissioner Bill Bratton told a news conference Friday, a day after the attack, saying he was “very comfortable” describing it as a “terrorist attack.”
Police said Zale Thompson, 32, had looked at websites about terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda and Islamic State, and acts of violence, including beheadings and Wednesday’s deadly attack in Canada.
Officer Kenneth Healy, 25, is in hospital in a critical but stable condition after being injured in the back of the head during the attack Thursday in broad daylight in a busy
shopping area of Queens.
Another officer was hit in the arm.
In an attack that lasted just seven seconds, Bratton said Thompson charged with a hatchet in his hand, striking two officers before he was shot dead by the two other officers, who were uninjured.
A 29-year-old female bystander was accidentally shot and is also in hospital in a critical but stable condition, Bratton said.
Police said Thompson converted to Islam two years ago, and that relatives described him as a “recluse” and “lately depressed.”
He had no police record in New York but had come into contact with the force as a victim of assault when he was 16, and was arrested six times in California in 2003-04.
He spent three years in the military but was involuntarily discharged in 2003, most likely due to drugs, police said.
– Online history –
Chief of detectives, Robert Boyce, said that Thompson had made anti-Western, anti-government and in some cases anti-white statements on social media.
He visited websites that focused on terror groups such as Al-Qaeda, the IS organization and Shebab Islamists in Somalia.
Police said Thompson’s Internet browsing history went up to and including the fence-jumping incident at the White House this week and Wednesday’s shooting in Canada, a day before the hatchet attack.
“It appears… this is something he has been thinking about for some time and thinking about with more intensity in recent days,” said Boyce.
Bratton said police believed that Thompson acted alone and was self-directed.
“The investigation is hoping to determine as quickly as possible if there were any other actions that he was engaged in with others that might indicate a continuing a threat,” Bratton said.
“The father described that he spent extensive amounts of time by himself in his bedroom and by all accounts was a true proverbial loner,” he added.
The SITE monitoring group said that he displayed “extremist leanings” in an array of statements on YouTube and Facebook.
SITE, which monitors radical Muslim groups, said Thompson described “jihad as a justifiable response to the oppression of the ‘Zionists and the Crusaders'” in a comment posted to a pro-Islamic State video on September 13.
Queens residents said that they were disturbed by the attack.
“A thing like that isn’t supposed to happen, children can be on the streets,” said a woman who gave her name as Helena.
“Anyone could get caught in this incident and I don’t think that’s right, it’s not right,” she told AFP.
