In
May of 2018, the second year of Mrs. Clinton’s administration, national
puzzlement was high over the continuing wave of mass killings. A week before,
nineteen children had died in the Blaintree Kindergarten massacre in San
Francisco when Mohammed Shah Massoud, Faisal ibn Saud, and Hussein al
Rashid burst into the school and began firing.
As in
the shooting three months earlier of thirteen in Washington by Mohammed Faisal
and Sala al Din Hussein, and in the preceding fire-bombing of the Hancock Tower
in Chicago by Farouk ibn Mohammed, experts struggled to make sense of events.
The head of Homeland Security, Chupamela Sanchez-Jones, explained it
succinctly: “It is almost impossible to prevent attacks when they have nothing
in common. What do you look out for? What is the connection between
killing children, firebombing a restaurant, and flying aircraft into buildings?
There is none. It is baffling.”
Everyone
of importance—the New York Times, MSNBC, NPR, the Huffington
Post, Mother Jones, and Salon—agreed that there was no
obvious motive. Time and again for many years attackers had come from nowhere
and killed for no reason. There was no pattern except the strange cry, “Allahu
Akbar.”
Mrs.
Clinton’s Secretary of Defense, Wilhelmina “Creepy” Crawley, offered an
explanation.
“My
staff at the Pentagon have determined that “Akbar” is a combination of “AK,”
automatic Kalashnikov, which I am told is a form of gun, and BAR, Browning
Automatic Rifle. This shows an unwholesome fascination with guns. We are investigating
links to the NRA:”
Logic
indeed urged control of guns. In October of 2017, three gunmen—Mohammed
Massouf, Mohammed Ali ibn Hussein, and Abu Bakr ibn Saud–had shot and killed
fourteen people at Starbucks in Philadelphia. They too had shouted about Browning
Automatic Rifles.
Priscilla
Latvi-Germond, Director the FBI, offered another possibility. “We think the
killers may be white-supremacists, perhaps linked to the KKK.” When it was
pointed out that few of the terrorists were white, she said that this was
evidence of a dangerous spread of White Supremacism to people of color.
Some
suggested that the killers were troubled youth who had suffered the trauma of
broken homes. Others suspected the aggregate effect of microaggressions
over the years.
Desperate
to find some common thread, scholars looked to historical events. For example,
on November 12, 2015, at a school for retarded adults in San Bernardino, Syed
Rezwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik shot dead
14 people. They too had shouted the mysterious “Allahu AK-BAR.”
Then-President
B. Hussein Obama was as puzzled as anyone else by this massacre.
He said
,“It is possible that this is terrorist-related, but we don’t know; it is also
possible this was workplace-related,” adding, “we don’t know why they did it.”
But
there were clues. Rachel Maddow summed it up thusly, “What do all of these
shooters have in common? Guns. Whenever someone is shot, a gun is involved.
It’s a hundred percent.” It
was inarguable.
Yet
inconsistencies persisted. When Omar ibn Osama Mohammed suddenly cut the throat
of little Martha Clark, age nine, on the streets of Santa Cruz, neither AK nor
BAR was involved. Yet he shouted “Allahu Akbar!” California authorities
suggested that the heinous act might be a cry of desperation from a man so
impoverished by an unjust society that he couldn’t afford a Browning Automatic
Rifle.
Investigation
revealed that the young men who had shot up the Starbucks in Philadelphia were
of the 150,000 Syrian and Afghan refugees brought in by former President B.
Hussein Obama. Perhaps the stress of immersion in a racist white society had
proved too much for them, said Salon. Perhaps slow service at Starbucks had
produced unbearable frustration. They were responding the only way they could. The
inexplicable bloodshed continued.
In
Paris, Ahmad Al Mohammad, Bilal Hadfi and Brahim Abdeslam among others
conducted a murderous rampage, but again no motive, no commonality could be
found. Were they out of work and sunk in despair? Were they recently divorced?
Mrs.
Clinton’s Attorney General, Lasagna Woodley-Park, said, “As a woman of color I
deplore these killings, but I think we need to remember that some of these men
were suffering from recent trauma reflecting cultural insensitivity resulting
from colonialism, White Privilege, and institutional racism.”
She
was referring to the death of Al Mohammad’s daughter of septicemia following a
botched genital mutilation, and of Hadfi’s daughter, whom he had been forced to
drown in an honor killing after finding the seventeen-year-old kissing her boy
friend.
Psychologists
agreed that drowning a daughter might cause PTSD, but most of the killers in
recent years hadn’t drowned their daughters, only mutilated them. Once again,
there seemed to be no commonality.
At
Harvard the sociologist Barbara Levin-Oslieber said, “Some studies suggest that
it is a matter of malignant hyper-masculinity caused by addiction to violent
video games.”
Or
perhaps, as B. Hussein Obama had suggested, the killings were due to problems
at work. People having disagreements at work often shot up schools and
firebombed restaurants. But many felt that there must be some other underlying
cause, some pattern. Drug addiction? Extended use of methamphetamines sometimes
triggered violence. Failed marriages? Schizophrenia? Bullying in middle school?
Michelle
Obama, then the First Lady, had a novel explanation of the Twin Towers that
demonstrated the value of a Princeton education. “I think they were trying to
land those planes. They weren’t very good pilots, and those big planes must be
very hard to fly.”
This
actually made a great deal of sense. The Pentagon is close to National Airport.
A terribly inexperienced pilot could easily miss the runway.
Mrs.
Clinton, not yet a candidate, had made an impassioned plea for control of
box-cutters. “We cannot allow these vicious devices to be used to kill
thousands of innocent Americans,” she said. The Association of Department Store
Managers pointed out that without box-cutters they would not be able to unpack
Chinese merchandise. Mrs. Clinton had replied with a magisterial “Unopened
boxes are a small price to pay for national security.”
On
November 5, 2009, at Fort Hood, Major Nidal Hasan shot
and killed 13 people. Outraged, President B. Hussein Obama said that it showed
the insanity of the Second Amendment and argued for disarming the military.
Finally
a break came. Roberta Prangle-Dinwiddie, head of the American Psychological
Association, said in a press conference, “We keep searching for a common
thread, but there seems to be only one: perpetrators are all male apart from
the ones who aren’t. In a post-colonialist society in which men—ugh!–can
no longer batter people of color, their innate aggressiveness seems to be
fueling this.”
In his
retirement home in Jakarta, Hussein Obama returned from prayer and said that
the incident was “regrettable, but understandable in light of the history of
oppression and colonialism, and that guns need to be outlawed.”
That,
everyone agreed, must be the case, as the killers otherwise had nothing in
common.
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