The FBI announced on Thursday that a California college student who stabbed four people on his campus was inspired by ISIS, nonetheless the White House has refused to call the incident a terror attack.
Faisal Mohammad, who stabbed four people at the University of California Merced on Nov. 4, 2015, had “pro-ISIL propaganda” on his laptop, and “had visited ISIL and other extremist websites in the weeks prior to his attack,” according to the FBI’s Sacramento office.
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“At the time of the stabbings, Mohammad was carrying a backpack which contained a two-page, hand-written plan detailing his intentions to include taking hostages and killing students and police officers,” the FBI said in a statement. “Investigators also found a photocopy of an ISIL flag and a list of items he thought he would need for an attack such as zip ties, glass breaker, and a knife among his belongings.”
According to the FBI investigation, Mohammad was self-radicalized and acted alone.
He left behind a two-page manifesto which instructed him to “praise Allah” while he was attacking his victims.
Mohammed was killed by the police and all of his victims survived the attack.
Despite evidence that showed the college student was clearly inspired by ISIS, Fox News reported that the White House has not classified the attack as terrorism.
The sheriff’s office, which is no longer involved in the investigation, said the attack stemmed from “personal animosity,” because Mohammed was left out of a study group.
This answer hasn’t satisfied John Price, the father of one of the victims. He asked the Obama Administration to classify the attack as terrorism, and wondered if they were not doing so for political reasons.
“I just wonder how much of this is driven from way higher up and is politically driven — I just don’t know,” Price told Fox News.
