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Well, it is about time!

Members of the local left-wing blogosphere are finally starting to talk about the shooting on Friday, but not for the reason you might think.

Shooting suspect was baptized

Those who knew Naveed Haq said Saturday that to them he was an enigma, a puzzle that they wish they could have solved before his deadly rampage in a Seattle Jewish center.

Stunned and saddened by the news, some of Haq’s acquaintances recounted many of what they saw as the contradictions of his life.

He held a degree in electrical engineering and was the son of a successful engineer, yet he couldn’t keep a regular job. He was smart, creative and skilled as a writer. He recently won an essay contest for a U.S. Institute of Peace scholarship.

Yet Haq was frustrated at his lack of friends and female companionship.He told friends he felt alienated from his own family, in part because his career had disappointed his father and also because he had disavowed Islam last year, converting to Christianity.

Haq had begun studying the Bible, attending weekly men’s spiritual group meetings, only to stop coming a few months after his baptism.

He had told the group’s leader that he seen too much anger in Islam and that he wanted to find a new beginning in Christianity.

Yes, now that this snippet has made its way onto the scene, the Seattle left has begun to counter the talk of ‘Islamic Terrorists’ with the schoolyard whine of

Whether Haq drew inspiration from online Crusadist preachers, or whether this act of terrorism was funded, organized, or propagated by a local Christian terrorist cell, something must be done.

But again, their reading comprehension skills fail them. For as soon as they read that far into the Seattle Times article, it was as if the rest of words fell off the page.

This paragraph from the story linked to above is directly below the last paragraph I quoted

Yet in the midst of his shooting spree in Seattle Friday, he declared himself an angry Muslim.

Haq may have been a guy looking for something to balance his life, but when he decided to go out and justify his rage over the problems in his life in his own mind’s eye, he made a choice as to how and who he would represent.

“I am a Muslim and I am angry at Israel!”

Naveed Afzal Haq – July 28th, 2006

“These are Jews and I’m tired of getting pushed around and our people getting pushed around by the situation in the Middle East!”

Naveed Afzal Haq, July 28th, 2006

And that settles that.

Some have asked about the security at the building and just how Naveed Afzal Haq got in to try his hand at small scale genocide.

Here is how

The man suspected in a fatal shooting rampage hid behind a potted plant in a Jewish charity’s foyer and forced his way through a security door by holding a gun to a 13-year-old girl’s head, the police chief said Saturday.

Once inside, police say, Naveed Afzal Haq opened fire with two semiautomatic pistols. One woman, Pam Waechter, 58, of Seattle was killed at the scene. Five more women were wounded.

Haq, 30, was ordered held on $50 million bail Saturday pending formal charges of murder and attempted murder.

(snip)

“He pointedly blamed the Jewish people for all of these problems,” Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske said at a news conference Saturday.

According to a statement of probable cause, Haq told a 911 dispatcher: “These are Jews and I’m tired of getting pushed around and our people getting pushed around by the situation in the Middle East.”

It is reported in unlinkable local news stories that Haq legally purchased two pistols in the Tri-Cities area of SE Washington, one in .40cal and the other in 45ACP, but it doesn’t say when. And with the extra mags he brought with him, the prosecutors have evidence of premeditation. 

Someone in the comments asked if Haq will be charged with a hate crime. I seriously doubt it, and not just because it hasn’t been mentioned in the charging papers. Though Rita Zawaideh, from the Arab American Community Coalition has said that she believes “This was just definitely a real hate crime”.

The AACC and the American Arab Anti-Discrimiantion Committee have released a statement.

The Seattle Left-Wing blogging contingent have generally been either silent: Goldy at Seattle uber-leftist blog, HorsesAss is out of town and his fill-in has only linked to a couple pieces in a link-burst, but given no opinion or commentary; and the number 2 in the NW, the whale of a left-wing hate-monger, David Neiwert, hasn’t said a thing since Thursday. Maybe he’ll get around to it today?

Or they have fallen into the standard “Blame America/Bush” mode: like this guy has. Twice.

Right-wing blog bigshots, Sound Politics, have all had something to say, but this post by Matt Rosenberg is the best one yet.

Me, I’m just hoping that everyone recovers fully and is able to live beyond this, except for Haq, of course. He needs to die by having his body buried with just his head sticking out of the ground and his victims allowed to take a swing at his hate-filled noggin with the object of their choosing.

I am also hoping that this will not turn into another anti-gun tale of woe, like how the media and state anti-gun groups forgot about the drugs when the zombie-raver shot his fellow partiers.

Since yesterday, we’ve learned that the man in question Naveed Afzal Haq, 30, of Everett, WA.

We’ve also learned that he shot six women at the JFB, killing one of them on the scene and putting three of them in critical condition at King County’s downtown hospital, Harborview. One of the women was 17-20 weeks pregnant (depending on who you read) and, as disgusting as this sounds, she was luckily only hit in the arm.

Michelle Malkin was able to find a high school yearbook photo of Haq and has it posted here.

She also links to a Seattle Times article in which an unidentified member of the Seattle PD Joint Terrorism Task Force claim that Haq has a history of mental problems.

Like her, I don’t believe it, and I don’t care. I will care even less when this bastard comes to trial. I would have rather that he saved his last round for himself or let the SPD help him make the connecting flight to Allah.

But alas, no.

So he is not only a hate filled, anti-semitic piece of shit, he is also a coward.

I’ll bring any new developments tomorrow.

Shabat Shalom to you all.