‘Mattress Girl’ Emma Sulkowicz Releases Crappy Porn Video With French Title
Posted on | June 5, 2015 | 145 Comments
“Ceci N’est Pas Un Viol” is French for “This Is Not a Rape” and if recent Columbia University graduate Emma Sulkowicz intended this eight-minute video as “art,” it’s very bad art. Sulkowicz claimed she was raped by fellow student Paul Nungesser, who was cleared of wrongdoing in subsequent investigations by the university and by New York City police. Sulkowicz then made herself famous by carrying a mattress around campus as a senior art project to publicize her (disproven) accusation; in April, Nungesser filed a lawsuit against Columbia (see “Emma Sulkowicz Is a Vindictive, Dishonest and Crazy Slut — Allegedly”).
Natasha Vargas-Cooper at the feminist blog Jezebel writes:
Artnet has confirmed that Emma Sulkowicz . . . is behind the website “Ceci N’est Pas Un Viol.” The site hosts an artist’s statement from Sulkowicz, who graduated from Columbia in May of this year, and a video she filmed with director Ted Lawson several months ago over the university’s winter break.
The eight-minute video features Sulkowicz and a man, his face blurred, engaging in what appears to be consensual sex that turns violent. The unidentified man open-palm slaps Sulkowicz, chokes her, removes the condom, then continues to have very rough sex with Sulkowicz, who whimpers and protests from pain.
Is that actually Emma in the video? I didn’t watch it myself, so I can’t say whether the unattractive blue-haired woman in the video is her or not. Either way, the site at which she posted the video is full of craziness:
Trigger Warning: The following text contains allusions to rape. Everything that takes place in the following video is consensual but may resemble rape. It is not a reenactment but may seem like one. If at any point you are triggered or upset, please proceed with caution and/or exit this website. However, I do not mean to be prescriptive, for many people find pleasure in feeling upset.
Ceci N’est Pas Un Viol is not about one night in August, 2012. It’s about your decisions, starting now. It’s only a reenactment if you disregard my words. It’s about you, not him.
Do not watch this video if your motives would upset me, my desires are unclear to you, or my nuances are indecipherable.
You might be wondering why I’ve made myself this vulnerable. Look—I want to change the world, and that begins with you, seeing yourself. If you watch this video without my consent, then I hope you reflect on your reasons for objectifying me and participating in my rape, for, in that case, you were the one who couldn’t resist the urge to make Ceci N’est Pas Un Viol about what you wanted to make it about: rape.
Please, don’t participate in my rape. Watch kindly.
As if this wasn’t crazy enough, Sulkowicz then appends “a few questions to help you reflect,” which include these:
- How well do you think you know me? Have we ever met?
- Do you think I’m the perfect victim or the world’s worst victim?
- Do you refuse to see me as either a human being or a victim? If so, why? Is it to deny me agency and thus further victimize me? If so, what do you think of the fact that you owe your ability to do so to me, since I’m the one who took a risk and made myself vulnerable in the first place?
- Do you hate me? If so, how does it feel to hate me?
Comments at the site range from crude to hilarious. This is not an art project. This is what we call “a cry for help.” Feminism often functions as a substitute for therapy, but not an effective substitute. Crazy women who become involved with feminism just keep getting crazier.
“If you want to understand feminism, begin by studying abnormal psychology.” SEX TROUBLE p. 18 http://t.co/SqNKYKNyCc pic.twitter.com/dxZezqFjGs
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 5, 2015
HEADLINES:
- The Ralph Retort: Mattress Girl Emma Sulkowicz Puts Out a Rape Porno (Yes, It’s Real)
- The Daily Caller: Columbia’s Mattress Girl Has Made An ‘Artistic’ Sex Tape
- Reason: Yes, Emma Sulkowicz Appeared in a Pornographic Art Video. Doesn’t Mean Much.
- Jim Treacher: Is Emma Sulkowicz The First Porn Star To Attend The SOTU?
EMMA SULKOWICZ DOES PORN: "I hope you reflect on your reasons for objectifying me and participating in my rape." http://t.co/k2VPh44JdR
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 5, 2015
If this video is actually Emma Sulkowicz, she is mentally ill. Period. http://t.co/k2VPh44JdR
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 5, 2015
@KotakuInAction I can already hear the "people respond to trauma in different ways" morons striking up the band. @rsmccain
— Conversativism (@InTwittVeritas) June 5, 2015
Confirmed: Emma Sulkowicz is zany, deranged, demented, bonkers, nuttier than a Snickers bar, cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. https://t.co/pwayDz8Ysg
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 5, 2015
Nailed it. @tradwifey https://t.co/ZLRlgDhv5R
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 5, 2015
It seems Emma Sulkowicz's erstwhile feminist supporters are greeting this video with embarrassed silence. http://t.co/k2VPh44JdR
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 5, 2015
@rsmccain Emma's parents paid for a Columbia education just so their daughter could be a porn star.
— Kim Priestap (@kimpriestap) June 5, 2015
Totalitarian Ideologue @JennyKutner Asks: ‘Why Aren’t You Totalitarian, Too?’
Posted on | June 4, 2015 | 20 Comments
In case you missed it, in April, a poll commissioned by the left-wing blog Vox.com found that “feminist” is not a popular identity. This made Jenny Kutner at left-wing blog Salon.com very sad:
Eighty-five percent of people favored “equality for women,” and 78 percent agreed that they believe in the “social, political, legal, and economic equality of the sexes.” But when asked if they considered themselves to be feminists, not even a fifth of Americans polled said yes.
Although only 18 percent of respondents identified as feminists, and although 52 percent gave a definitive no when asked if they identified as such, there is some more good news: People don’t think talking more about feminism is a bad thing. Thirty-five percent of people said they think feminism is being discussed more, and nearly as many think that’s good.
Yes, it certainly is a good thing that “feminism is being discussed more,” because people will learn that “Feminism Is NOT About Equality,” that “Men ‘Calling Yourself Feminist Is Invading a Movement That Was Not Made for You'” and that “Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It.”
The more you know about feminism, the more you hate feminism.
Feminism Is NOT About ‘Equality’
Posted on | June 4, 2015 | 18 Comments
Feminist Tumblr clarifies this common misunderstanding:
When did I ever say I support equality?
Feminism is about anything as half assed as “equality.” Equality for whom? With whom? Who is to be made equal with whom, and at what cost? With white men, the most well off group in our world? But white men only have it so good because they’ve exploited and brutalised the entire world for centuries. Their benefits have come to them at the cost of every one else. God forbid anyone else be equal to them, can you imagine? We need less f that, not more.
Can’t be done under capitalist patriarchy.
Feminism is a radical politics that tears down the whole system with all its inherent structural inequalities and beginning anew. It’s revolution. It’s not EQUALITY.
Misandry Mermaid (“Forever Bathing in Your Male Tears”) laughs at your pathetic delusion that feminism is about “equality.” You may notice the citation of Why Marx Was Right.
What have I told you? “Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It.” Feminists keep saying the same thing. Are you paying attention yet?
Men ‘Calling Yourself Feminist Is Invading a Movement That Was Not Made for You’
Posted on | June 4, 2015 | 64 Comments
Feminist Tumblr makes explicit the movement’s anti-male ideology:
Feminism as a movement is not about prioritizing the feelings of cis men as above or equal to our own. You are welcome to be an ally for us. But calling yourself feminist is invading a movement that was not made for you and in which your voice is not necessary and often not wanted. It is male privilege to think you are entitled to join and gain a title in any club, group or movement you want. I’ve noticed that cis men who insist on being called “feminists” rather than “feminist allies” put their own feelings and need for legitimacy/validation above the actual goals and priorities of feminism. Feminist can be used as an adjective/descriptive term for men, like “I met a guy who seemed very feminist.” Or “He has some strong feminist beliefs”. A man could say “I believe in feminism”. But to adopt the title of feminist is appropriation of a movement that has been built on and by the suffering of women and other people who experience gender-based oppression. Basically, if a man says he’s a feminist and, when asked by us to call himself a “feminist ally” instead, he refuses, he proves that he doesn’t actually care about women or our needs and feelings, and he has no right to be involved in feminism in any way.
Feminism means: Men have no rights. Period.
“Feminism is a totalitarian doctrine of hatred. It cannot be reformed, nor can it be appeased. Feminism is an ideology that demands war against human nature, and the question is whether we can stop this deadly menace before it destroys our civilization.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, April 13
Radical equality requires the negation of liberty, because only the oppressed have rights, and their oppressors have none. The feminist worldview requires that any apparent inequality between males and females must be condemned as injustice. All men are members of the oppressor class, benefiting from and participating in the victimization of women (all women) under a system of male supremacy. To speak of men’s “rights,” according to feminist ideology, is to justify inequality, and to assert that women deserve to be treated as inferior.
This is feminism’s formula for insanity, a totalitarian theory that denies the reality of sexual difference and seeks evidence of patriarchal oppression in every individual decision (because “the personal is political”). Once this principle of Feminist Consciousness is grasped, we see why The First Rule of Feminism is SHUT UP!
“Feminist consciousness is consciousness of victimization . . . to come to see oneself as a victim.”
— Sandra Lee Bartky, Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression (1990)
Feminism means men have nothing to say, because men have no valid knowledge. Whatever a man believes is wrong, whatever a man does is oppressive, and anything a man says is sexist. Therefore, SHUT UP!
It is especially important that feminists should be empowered to insult men, and to ridicule men who resent such insults:
Some feminist on the internet: Haha white boys are gross, it’s funny how they think they can dance or their opinions matter lol
No white guy ever: See this is okay because she has a right to express herself under free speech. Plus if I can’t laugh at myself, who CAN I laugh at? Also I’m sure she was just kidding and doesn’t really believe that, I should give her the benefit of the doubt.
You see how her chip-on-the-shoulder resentments are expressed as an ostentatiously “clever” reversal: Feminists are accused of being over-sensitive and humorless, and so therefore — har-de-har-har — the joke is on you, “white guy,” whom she accuses of being too stupid to “get” her cleverness, so that you don’t even know whether she’s “just kidding” or whether she “really believes” the hateful things she says about you.
You know who excels at this kind of manipulation, smokescreening, gaslighting and psychological projection? Narcissistic sociopaths.
“Misandry Mermaid,” as she calls herself, is a warped and sadistic personality who derives perverse pleasure from imagining the humiliation and mental pain she endeavors to inflict on males. Men deserve this humiliation, the feminist believes, because men are her inferiors and have unjustly refused to recognize her superiority. The man who refuses to kneel before her in worshipful adoration has deprived her of what is rightly hers, and the man who dares speak in his own defense thereby proves himself a misogynist, by justifying his existence, which oppresses her. Any cruelty the feminist inflicts on a man is social justice, and he cannot be permitted to say a word in reply.
“Forever Bathing in Your Male Tears,” you see.
Most people cannot understand Feminist Logic™ because it is so difficult to imagine hating anyone as much as feminists hate men.
The Lesbian Strangler: Jessica Ewing Murdered Friend Who Rejected Her
Posted on | June 3, 2015 | 45 Comments
Jessica Ewing (left) and her victim Samanata Shrestha (right).
Virginia Tech senior Samanata Shrestha was 21 when she was strangled to death in February 2014 by a fellow student, Jessica Ewing, 22. Police and prosecutors had not publicly discussed the motive, and it was not until a sentencing hearing this week that Ewing testified that she is a lesbian, and had been in love with Shrestha, who rejected her. Ada Calhoun at Cosmopolitan reports:
Shrestha had invited Ewing over for dinner. At the apartment, Ewing strangled Shrestha, then put the body in a sleeping bag and put it in the victim’s car. Her plans to burn the body were thwarted when a friend wouldn’t help her. She described this in a damning journal entry as: “Some friend. He fucking won’t even help me move a goddamn body . . . friendship test failed.” . . .
During her statement, pulled out of her bit by bit by her attorney, Ewing described a fragile mental state that made her “lose it” the night of the attack. She said she had been sexually abused by a friend’s father as a young girl, had been drugged and raped at a campus party by an unknown assailant in spring 2013, and had felt deep conflict around her sexual feelings for Shrestha. She said she had kept these secrets from everyone except for therapists at a local counseling center, whom she told about the rape. In fall 2013, she was depressed and failing classes, and that, too, she kept from her family. “The only thing I know how to do is hide things,” she said when explaining the steps she’d taken to conceal the murder. “The only thing I’ve ever done is hide what I don’t want people to know.” . . .
One of those in the courtroom was Shrestha’s boyfriend, Scott Masselli . . . They had talked, Masselli said, about getting married next year, and he’s haunted by a sense that he should have protected her . . .
Ewing said yesterday that she thought of Shrestha as a “golden child” or a “perfect person,” a derogatory descriptor she used for someone to whom things came easy. But Shrestha had overcome obstacles. She came to the United States at the age of 3 from Nepal and learned English at school while speaking Nepali at home. Shrestha eventually also became fluent in Spanish, Hindi, and American Sign Language. . . .
The week of Feb. 3, 2014, on one of their daily calls (Masselli graduated from Virginia Tech in 2012 and is now finishing up law school at William & Mary), Shrestha told Masselli that she was going to make dinner for Ewing on Friday. The girls had been around each other three or four times, Masselli said (Ewing said in court it was more like six).
The girls had also kissed once or twice. “Sam’s boyfriend was aware that Sam had some interest in finding out what it would be like to kiss another girl,” Commonwealth’s Attorney Mary Pettitt told Cosmopolitan.com. “There had been a kiss exchanged between the two girls, but he doesn’t like the characterization even of ‘experimenting.’ I don’t know how you describe that. It was curiosity or interest. He didn’t feel like she was bisexual or not interested in him or anything.”
“You would be greatly mistaken if you wrote that Sam had a romantic relationship with the defendant,” Masselli wrote in an email. . . .
Problem: One girl is “bi-curious” or “hetero-flexible,” and the other girl — well, it’s serious for her, you see? One girl is popular and successful and has a boyfriend in law school, and the other girl — well, she’s damaged, you see? We are expected to ignore the fact that damaged people are often dangerous people. We aren’t supposed to mention this, because we aren’t supposed to “stigmatize” the mentally ill. Certainly we cannot be permitted to “blame the victims,” and Jessica Ewing depicted herself as a victim twice-over, first of childhood molestation and then of campus rape, although (conveniently) this is an unverified narrative, a poor-pitiful-me story offered as an excuse for murder.
Excuse me for being unsympathetic to murderers. For every killer who tells this kind of tale of youthful woe, there are hundreds of other people who had worse childhoods and yet managed to grow up to be law-abiding responsible adults. Now we return to The Tale of The Lesbian Strangler:
At 3 in the morning the night before the dinner, Ewing texted a friend from her Bible study group: “Tomorrow night is worrisome. And I can’t stop this idea. It slowly creeped its way to consume my black heart. I want to … let someone else decide, but I’ve already etched it in history.”
Shrestha’s mother, Rajshree Shrestha, said in court yesterday that the family prides itself on being good hosts and believes it is the ultimate treachery to eat food someone has prepared for you knowing all the time that you plan to kill them. Ewing, however, said there was no plan, and that she and Shrestha had been secretly dating. Ewing said the “worrisome” text was about how she was expecting they would have sex that night, something she was excited for but also anxious about. For one thing, she said, she felt she would be cheating on her boyfriend. Also, she said growing up Baptist in the small town of Easton, Maryland, she was led to believe that homosexuality was wrong. . . .
(News flash: Lots of people grow up Baptist in small towns and don’t become lesbian murderers.)
“Jessica’s never been an aggressive person,” her mother, Donna Ewing, a band teacher, told the judge. . . . Answering a question about all the surprises her daughter introduced in court — shame around lesbian feelings, rape, childhood sexual abuse — Donna Ewing said through tears to the judge, “It just breaks my heart knowing what she’s had to endure.”
(Again: There are people who had worse childhoods, but did not grow up to become lesbian murderers.)
She said in court that she was ultimately kicked out of the [university’s] Corps [of Cadets] following an accusation around the same time made by someone “who had it in for me” that she had hazed new recruits by pouring water on their faces while they exercised. . . .
Once ostracized from her Corps friends, Ewing said, she spiraled into a depression. It was then that she met Shrestha. Both biology students, they’d met outside a classroom where they had back-to-back classes. They wound up talking about The Lion King, which Ewing said was her favorite movie and which Shrestha said she had never seen. They made a plan to watch the film together, and Ewing described that as their first date. . . .
(So “somebody had it in for” her, and she was ostracized and depressed and then she meets the girl she is destined to murder. Notice it’s always poor pitiful Jessica we are expected to feel sorry for? Not, y’know, the girl she strangled.)
About two months later, Ewing drove to Shrestha’s apartment with a large bottle of Yellowtail wine and a can of whipped cream. She spent a long time getting ready and was an hour late. When she arrived, she said, she was disappointed that Shrestha was wearing yoga pants and complained about it. Ewing said Shrestha then changed into a dress, the same dress found later with her naked body. They then bickered, Ewing recalled, over the proper way to chop bell peppers for the meal . . .
Shrestha texted with her boyfriend throughout the evening, and then after a lull, “She hid my phone, sorry. Ha ha. Love you.” . . .
(Notice Jessica was an aggressive pursuer? Notice she was “disappointed” and “complained”? Notice Samanata kept texting with her boyfriend — reassuring him — and this caused Jessica to hide her phone? This is what an obsessive, controlling personality is like.)
As they drank, Ewing said, they became playful, making a fort out of blankets and having a whipped cream fight. Ewing said they then both took all their clothes off and had sex in the fort. A fight followed, Ewing said, during which Ewing called Shrestha a “whore” and a “spoiled bitch” who had a paid-for apartment and a Mercedes. Ewing said Shrestha then told her she was only an “experiment,” and Ewing became “beyond mad. I was hurt and upset. I would say enraged . . . I loved Sam. I couldn’t believe she would be . . . that I could be just some experiment to her. It hit me where I was most vulnerable. It’s no excuse. But I couldn’t control it at the time.”
In a struggle, Ewing said, they knocked over a hamster cage. Ewing then overpowered Shrestha and strangled her to death.
You can read the rest. Jessica’s tale of sudden rage and loss of control, we understand, is intended to show that Samanata’s murder was not premeditated. But exactly why, after having sex with her, would Jessica call Samanata a “whore” and a “spoiled bitch”? If she harbored such resentments toward her, what was all that “playful” stuff about? Never mind. If this was a premeditated murder, Jessica’s plan for getting away for it was badly flawed. One interesting detail: Jessica asked “her best friend, Keifer Kyle Brown, to rid her apartment of ‘dark’ books — books about tarot cards and the occult and, inexplicably, a Shakespeare compilation — that she feared might make her look suspicious.”
Books about “tarot cards and the occult”? The lesbian murderer was dabbling in that stuff, huh? It makes sense.
"… practice witchcraft … and become lesbians." http://t.co/lhvV4dHIDE @SeverEnergia pic.twitter.com/hRPbWSvroX
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 3, 2015
Five Relatives Arrested in Texas Teen Abortion Horror; Dead Baby Burned
Posted on | June 3, 2015 | 30 Comments
The perverted nightmare culture of Obama’s America:
A 14-year-old girl who was impregnated by a relative was beaten by four other family members to induce an abortion, Dallas police say.
After the eight-month pregnant girl delivered, the family tried to cover up the crime by burning the stillborn baby on a charcoal grill at a Pleasant Grove home, police say.
Cedric Jones, 27; Sharon Jones, 45; Cecila McDonald, 25; and Lonnell McDonald, 27, were arrested Tuesday on charges of engaging in organized criminal activity. . . .
The hours-long attack allegedly occurred in 2013, but the girl stayed quiet until another woman, who said she witnessed part of the assault, took her to a police station May 22.
The girl said she became pregnant after she was sexually assaulted by a family member in August 2012 . . .
She told police she was a virgin before she was raped and “did not tell anyone about the sexual assault because … she was embarrassed.”
Police said the girl’s relatives found out between January and March 2013 that she was pregnant and “became very nervous and were concerned about . . . [Child Protective Services] removing children from the residence,” the affidavit says.
Sharon Jones gave the girl “multiple doses of birth control pills, Plan B [emergency contraception] pills and cinnamon tablets . . . to abort the baby,” police said.
After the pills failed to induce an abortion, Cecila McDonald pinned the girl down while Lonnell McDonald began “repeatedly bouncing up and down” while sitting on the girl’s abdomen. He also is accused of kicking the girl repeatedly. . . .
Robert Joseph Cayald, 22, is charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child. He is being held in the Dallas County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail.
Deputy Chief Gil Garza said the family members who “took matters into their own hands” to abort the unborn child were cousins of the teen, who is now 16. He did not say how Cayald was related to the girl. . . .
CPS spokeswoman Marissa Gonzales said the agency has no previous history with the family.
She said in addition to the 16-year-old girl, six other children were taken into CPS custody Tuesday. They were the girl’s 15-year-old brother and 14-year-old sister and Cecila McDonald’s four children: a 9-year-old girl, 7-year-old girl, 6-year-old boy and 3-year-old boy.
The culture of death is pure evil. Democrats celebrate it as “choice.”
(Via Memeorandum.)
Muslim Youth Leader Ahmed Saleem Arrested in Florida Child Sex Sting
Posted on | June 3, 2015 | 9 Comments
He was “dedicated to empowering Muslim youths,” IYKWIMAITYD:
Detectives from Polk and Lake counties on Tuesday announced the arrest of 101 people in a sex predator sting in which detectives posed as children between the ages of 12 and 14.
Judd said detectives used a vacant house in Clermont and chat forums to pose as a child, a parent or an individual looking for prostitution.
Those arrested included theme park workers at Universal Orlando and SeaWorld, and a Disney World cast member who quit before he was arrested, deputies said.
Also arrested was Ahmed Saleem, founder of Saleem Academy, an organization dedicated to empowering Muslim youths, detectives said. The academy’s website and Facebook page were not available Wednesday.
Saleem traveled to the Clermont home in car that had a license plate that read: “Invest in Children,” according to detectives. . . .
Authorities said he operation was named “Operation: L and P” — for Lake and Polk counties — and lasted from May 18 to 28. . . .
“If we didn’t get you in this operation, you better be sure we will in the next one,” Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said. “We are after you. Leave our children alone.”
Sooper Mexican reports that the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) quickly scrubbed Saleem’s profile, which included this:
Ahmad Saleem is an active community organizer in Orlando, Florida. He is responsible for spreading CAIR Florida’s impact and presence in the Orlando community . . . He is the son of Pakistani immigrants. . . .
He graduated with a degree in Psychology from the University of Central Florida (UCF). During his time there, he led many initiatives via his leadership of the Muslim Student Association at UCF. . . .
Apart from being the former MSA president at UCF, he was the MSA National service director, a board member of Muslim Youth Project USA . . .
Mr. Saleem is the founder of Saleem Academy, an organization dedicated to empowering Muslim youth globally. Under it, he has conducted his “Inspired by the Quran” and “Muslim Youth Survival Guide” weekend seminars. . . .
“Inspired by the Quran”? Yeah, tell it to the judge, Ahmed.
More at the Orlando Sentinel (via Memeorandum).
Police in Boston Shoot Terror Suspect Whose Brother Is California Imam UPDATE: Plans to Behead Police?
Posted on | June 3, 2015 | 35 Comments
An armed man in his 20s being surveilled by the FBI counterterrorism unit was shot and killed by an FBI agent and a Boston police officer in Roslindale [Tuesday] morning, according to Boston Police Commissioner William Evans.
“He was on foot, under surveillance,” Evans said. “The officers have been surveilling him and again they wanted to speak to him … and he turned and our officers gave several commands for him to drop the weapon and unfortunately he came at the officers and they did what they were trained to do and that’s never an easy decision for any officer to make.”
One FBI agent and one BPD officer fired, FBI Special Agent in Charge Vincent B. Lisi said.
Evans said the suspect was wielding a large military-style black knife that he could have “done a lot of damage” with.
A man under round-the-clock surveillance by an anti-terrorism task force was shot and killed Tuesday by a Boston police officer and FBI agent when he lunged at them with a menacing military knife, according to police. The shooting sparked an expanded investigation that quickly led to an arrest in Everett and a search in Rhode Island.
Usaama Rahim, 26, had made threats against law enforcement, according to two law enforcement officials with knowledge of the case. Officials declined to explain what had led to the ongoing antiterrorism task force investigation or detail its scope, although they said it had been going on for a while.
The real shocking news comes from CNN:
Rahim had been under surveillance by the U.S. Joint Terrorism Task Force, officials said.
Ibrahim Rahim, an imam at the Lighthouse Mosque in Oakland, California, earlier posted about his brother’s death on social media.
Ibrahim Rahim wrote on Facebook that his brother was shot while at a bus stop on his way to work. He asked for prayers for his brother.
In a 2013 interview with CNN, Ibrahim Rahim voiced his objection to presiding over the funeral of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
“We don’t want people looking at us as though we are empathetic in any way to what has happened at the hands of this man and his brother,” he said at the time.
Ibrahim Rahim said his brother was on the phone with their father and was shot three times in the back during the confrontation. . . .
The FBI-led task force had been watching Rahim and two associates believed to be radicalized by ISIS and other extremist influences, according to a law enforcement official. Rahim had been monitored for at least a couple of years. Investigators were talking to the associates, and various locations in Massachusetts and Rhode Island were being searched, officials said.
The FBI noted a recent change in the suspect’s behavior, including social media threats against police, which prompted agents to try to approach him Tuesday, according to the official.
The fact that his brother is an imam seems highly significant.
Usaama Rahim’s brother is an imam at a California mosque & of course, he blames @bostonpolice for brothers death. http://t.co/HiwqnsQzSy
— Mary Forbes (@MaryForbes14) June 3, 2015
UPDATE: More from Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:
Police arrested another man, David Wright, as a suspected accomplice in Rahim’s alleged plot, and say they’re looking for more suspects too. CBS reports that investigators believe the plot was tied to ISIS . . .
Martha MacCallum says Fox News has confirmed that Wright and Rahim “were plotting to kill officers and behead them.”
It would seem that the Democrat Party’s anti-police activism and the Democrat Party’s policy of surrendering to Islamic terrorism have had an interesting sort of convergence in this case.
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