Politico Finds ‘Capital of American Jihad’–Based on 2 Cases, 6 Years and 268 Miles Apart
Roughly 10 hours after another white, apparently racist Christian senselessly opened fire in a public place in the American South, Politico (7/23/15) published what has to be one of the worst pieces of Islamophobic pseudo-journalism this side of Pam Geller.
In his piece “Tennessee Is the Capital of American Jihad,” author and
“War on Terror” think-tanker James Kitfield sets out to draw a
connection between the the recent Chattanooga shooter Mohammad Youssef
Abdulazeez and the case of Carlos Bledsoe, who shot up a recruiting
station in Arkansas in 2009. The fact that both attacked recruiting
stations, both lived in Tennessee and both were Muslim is apparently
enough to make Tennessee the “Capital of American Jihad.”
Yes. There is no other evidence provided. That is all.
