Here we go again ~ Somali student behind car, knife attack at Ohio State University that injured 11 ~

A Somali-born student at Ohio State University injured 11 people, one of them critically, on Monday when he attacked a crowd of pedestrians on campus in an incident one lawmaker said “bears all the hallmarks of a terror attack.”

 
Learning that the perpetrator was Muslim, I was immediately reminded of a strange incident that occurred after the Ohio State vs. University of Michigan game.
 

Saturday’s football contest in Columbus certainly didn’t lack for excitement ~ Buckeyes rally, beat Wolverines in 2 overtimes. As MSU Spartan fans (despondent over this season’s performance) I gotta admit we were cheering for Ohio, and thrilled with the outcome, so we continued to watch as the celebration flooded onto the field.
 
 

While the sideline reporter babe was interviewing the Buckeyes post-game -I think she was talking to Coach Urban – inexplicably, some dude was wildly waving a keffiyeh (You know, that black and white checked scarf that Yasser Arafat popularized – looks like the wearer has a tablecloth on his head?) in the crowd, just a few people behind them.
 
It just struck me as so odd at the time. The guy wasn’t just waving it, he kept shouldering others aside and jumping up and down to make sure he was always in the camera, flashing a crazy grin all whole time . (Wish I could find a video — I think it was on ABC…)
 
What caught my attention was the jarring incongruity. I remember thinking what in the world does a Palestinian keffiyeh have to do with American college football? And why was the fool so determined to be noticed?
 
And now, just two days later on the very same campus, this senseless, “lone wolf” attack on total strangers? Too weird. I’m sure it wasn’t the same dude (mostly sure…), but it’s an eerie coincidence just the same.
 

From what the press has reported so far, we learn that Abdul Razak Ali Artan was a Somali refugee…

… who left his homeland with his family in 2007, lived in Pakistan and then came to the United States in 2014 as a legal permanent resident.

Source: NBC News

 
At least this Islamist attack ended better than most; “suspect” dead, and all 11 injured expected to survive. The Columbus Dispatch has a fairly detailed account of the incident ~

Monday morning dawned on the Ohio State University campus in positive fashion. Students had just returned after visits home for Thanksgiving weekend. And they were still in a celebratory mood from the Buckeyes’ football win over rival Michigan on Saturday.
 
Nothing would have prepared anyone for what had happened by late morning.
 
 

A student, Ohio State police say, drove a car into a group of people standing outside a campus building, throwing some into the air and running over others. The driver then jumped from the car with a butcher knife, slashing more people. Less than a minute after the attack, an OSU police officer had shot and killed the man. In the end, 11 people were injured. All are expected to survive.

Unfortunately, the Dispatch couldn’t stop themselves from veering into progressive subjectivity, seemingly frustrated with the Ohio state treasurer for stating the obvious ~

While officials have not disclosed motive, Mandel blames ‘radical Islamic terror’ for Ohio State attack ~
 
While the typical “thoughts and prayers” dominated political reactions to the attacks Monday at Ohio State, a few responses veered into rhetorical land mines.
 
State Treasurer Josh Mandel tweeted: “Looks like Radical Islamic terror came to my alma mater today. So sad what happened at OSU. We must remain vigilant against Radical Islam.” About two hours later, he tweeted the last line again.
 
The likely 2018 U.S. Senate candidate’s response came after the student responsible for the attack was identified as a Muslim, a Somali refugee who stayed for a short time in Pakistan.
 
Officials invesitgating [sic] the attack have not disclosed a motive.

Really people?

 
Why do Leftists simply refuse to face the obvious?

Guy could say he would KILL A BILLION INFIDELS & motive would still be unknown.
Oh, wait. He DID say he wants to kill a billion infidels! https://t.co/2DZuENCams

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) November 29, 2016