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This finding from the FBI is going to get the chatterers going great guns.<\/p>\n

The FBI says it has found “no terror link” to Alton Nolen, who beheaded a female co-worker in an apparent act of rage in Moore, Okla.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/219342-no-terrorist-link-to-oklahoma-suspect-authorities-say<\/p>\n

OK, I’ve heard some discussion on conservative talk TV — Fox News, to be specific — that debunk this notion. The talking heads and the experts say the act by itself constitutes a terrorist act. The FBI says otherwise, that it is a “workplace incident.”<\/p>\n

Of course, let’s introduce the Muslim element here. Nolen had converted to Islam, so that makes him a terrorist — yes?<\/p>\n

Of course not.<\/p>\n

The FBI reportedly has gone through several electronic devices in Nolen’s possession and can find no apparent link to known terrorist groups. That’s why it is declining to define the hideous murder as a terrorist act.<\/p>\n

According to The Hill newspaper: “Officials have said the Oklahoma attack at Vaughan Foods was likely triggered after Nolen was suspended from the job for making a remark disparaging white people. After learning that he was suspended, officials said, he went to his home to pick up a kitchen knife and returned to the plant.”<\/p>\n

Does that sequence sound like an act of terrorism, or is it the action of someone with a serious mental disorder?<\/p>\n

I’m open to some discussion on this one.<\/p>\n\n

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