Knowing Nothing About the Murderer, Wing-Nuts Tie Canadian Beheading to Islam

Posted by Gavin M, Sadly, No! at 12:01 PM on August 1, 2008.

Maybe you've already heard this story:

Man Stabbed, Decapitated on Bus in Manitoba

July 31 (Bloomberg) -- A man in Canada was stabbed to death and decapitated on a Greyhound bus by a stranger in the seat beside him, the Globe and Mail reported.

We were like, "Jeez, that's awful." And then we were like, "Wow, Pam Atlas is going to go cawing off her perch trying to tie it to Muslims."

And then we were like, "Nah, Pam and all those people have gotten more careful lately. They're not as gullible as they used to be."

Right?

Man Beheaded on a Canada Bus

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UPDATE: I emailed the reporter. The police have not released the name of the beheader or the victim or if the victim was wearing some identifiable religious symbol BUT there are a lot maniacs out that to lunatic shiz. DEVELOPING STORY.

UPDATE: Waiting for verification of details on who and why. Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day called the attack bizarre, but did not discuss details, saying he did not want to jeopardize the investigation.

Um, yeah.

There are indeed a lot maniacs out that to lunatic shiz. But it seems to us as though there's one more maniac that to lunatic shiz since Pam arrived on the case.

Or maybe several. Let's look at her comments:

Even if the offender wasn't muslim, it can still be traced to them.

When anyone does something, whose blamed? Hollywood and video games. If they're seriously blamed, I'm sure a certain group is responsible for embedding the idea of doing this into peoples heads. If there weren't so many beheadings, and video's all the time, I don't think the thought or idea to do it by hand would be in most peoples minds! If a non-islamic person strapped bombs onto themselves, where did they get the inspiration from?

Like Abbas said, he taught the world terrorism.

Posted by:jusa | Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 06:45 PM

D'oh!

Compounding the tragic fun is the way in which, in one short comment thread, they manage to conflate the victim (who was aboriginal) with the assailant (who is of unspecified ethnicity) and to blame the incident on 'aboriginal gangs'; to blame Muslims (as above); to properly correct the ethnic misidentification'; and to end up in a reverse-double backflip, claiming that the very fact that the assailant's ethnicity and religion are unspecified stands as evidence that his Muslamitude is being concealed by PC dhimmi liberals and the jihad-sympathizers in the media.

Because, you know, Islamic extremists behead people on Canadian Greyhound buses all the freaking time. It's gotten so that whenever someone is beheaded on a Canadian Greyhound bus, you just naturally assume it was an Islamic extremist.

I mean, sometimes someone is beheaded on a Canadian Greyhound bus and your natural inclination is to blame it on Islamic extremism, but then it turns out to be some maniac just randomly beheading a guy. And then people are all like, "Well if you can't be totally 100% super-sure that the beheader is a Muslim, then nyeah nyeah, don't say anything at all."

See, I think that just encourages the global Muslim conspiracy. I think it makes them send out more lone maniacal assassins to behead people on Canadian Greyhound buses, because how would you feel if you'd just sent your man Hassan Farouk Mohammed to go behead a person on a Greyhound bus in Winnipeg, and you're eating breakfast the next morning, and in between bites of egg you open the paper and see the headline, splashed right across the page, right where people can see it, "Man Stabbed, Decapitated on Bus in Manitoba."

You would be like, "'Man stabbed!?' Nice passive voice there, so-called journalism experts. Bismillah, man stabbed BY WHOM? Man stabbed in the neck and then his ENTIRE HEAD CAME OFF, no? Who writes these papers these days? Kids -- it's as if they barely train these kids." And then you would read down the column and see that ol' Hassan Farouk Mohammed's name and ethnicity, not to mention religion, were unmentioned, and you would be like, "Is this really so-called helping us, oh press lackeys and sympathizers of jihad of the media? HOLY JUMPING ALLAH, can we please get some solid press coverage around here!? This is not terrifying."

You would turn to your friend Jawad, with whom you were having breakfast. "Is this terrifying?" you ask.

"It is not so terrifying, no"


"This stabbing-on-a-bus, this now-apprehended mystery stabber?"

"I would not be terrified."

"What are we attempting to do? What is our raison d'etre in this endeavor, as the French would phrase such a thing?"

"Oh, it begins with a 'T,' I think."

"This has no 'T' -- this is just an 'error.'"

"Ha ha! Oh, it has no 'T!' It is 'errorism!' Ha ha! Oh, there is a good one!"

"Freaking liberal media."

"I will send out another 'sabber' to 'decapiae' another 'vicim.' Ha ha! Excuse me, for I have once again forgotten the freaking 'T.'"

"Would you like a cup of?"

"Ha ha, I almost did not get that one. Oh, it is soothing to laugh when our job is so thankless."

Sigh. Will Debbie Schlussel be the next to pick this story up and twist it into a demented balloon animal? First we were like, "Oh definitely." But now we're like, "Nah, Schlussel has gotten a lot more careful lately.

... And indeed, she has weighed her options and concentrated on this story, as helpfully provided by Pam Atlas.

Is there a moral to this story? No, no I don't think there is, alas. No, probably not.

Joshua H. adds ...

William Blum:

After many contra atrocity stories had been reported in the world press, it was disclosed in October 1984 that the CIA had prepared a manual of instruction for its clients which, amongst other things, encouraged the use of violence against civilians ... Congressional intelligence committees were informed by the CIA, by present and former contra leaders, and by other witnesses that the contras indeed "raped, tortured and killed unarmed civilians, including children" and that "groups of civilians, including women and children, were burned, dismembered, blinded and beheaded". These were the same rebels whom Ronald Reagan, with his strange mirror language, called "freedom fighters" and the "moral equal of our founding fathers".

Nick Gier, via SOA Watch:

In 1966 the CIA launched the Phoenix Project, a program designed to destroy the South Vietnamese Communists, better known as the Viet Cong. Specially designed torture chambers were constructed in all 44 provinces and rape of women suspects, electric shock, water torture, and hanging from ceilings were standard methods during interrogations.

Of the tens of thousands of South Vietnamese detained, at least 20,000 were summarily executed. Copying a Viet Cong practice, the severed heads of those executed were frequently displayed in the villages.

Of course, beheading one's enemies is a time-honored tradition among that crazy group we call Homo Sapiens ...

Tagged as: racism, wing-nuts, canadian tragedy, beheading, prejudice

Gavin McNett is a writer and designer in the New York area.