Last November, 18-year old Faisal Mohammad stabbed four people at the University of California-Merced. Fortunately, all of his victims survived, though he himself was later stabbed. He had been found with an ISIS flag, a manifesto with instructions on how to behead someone, and reminders to pray to Allah.
FoxNews.com had even more chilling details in December. At the time, one of the victims’ father questioned “why don’t we just call it what it is — domestic terrorism?” And yet, just recently, the FBI has announced Mohammad had ISIS propaganda and may have been self-radicalized.
The father, John Price, also mentioned “everyone is afraid to be politically incorrect.” Authorities at the time had credited Mohammad’s rampage with him being kicked out of a study group. This included Chancellor Leland.
A statement from Chancellor Dorothy Leland mostly focused on how the school came together after the attack, though she did note “I shared your desire for a quicker resolution…”
When such tragedies bring out the best in communities, it is certainly worth commending. Except students and faculty turned to some questionable methods to respond to the attack, looking at all sorts of other factors during a “Teach-In: Don’t Turn Our Tragedy Into Hate,” which occurred the same month of the attack. Another example comes from a PhD student who used the incident to criticize those who were acting xenophobic, and, unsurprisingly, Fox News.
UC-Merced is the same university where prior to the stabbing, a professor indoctrinated his Introduction to Psychology students with how most terrorists are white, conservative, Christian males.
Students, faculty and even the chancellor at the time tried to claim otherwise from what many, including John Price, knew to likely be true. And yet likely not a word from them on being proven wrong.
