A further example of Cao’s invincible ignorance

Here is the latest ignorant burble from the Cowster…

Terrorism didn’t hit Amerikka until 9/11 and it happened to be people yelling ‘allah akbar’.

Herewith, a selection of terrorist incidents that took place in America (note the correct spelling, bovine one) prior to 09/11/2001 (source: Wikipedia)…

• 1863: Morgan’s Raid led by John Hunt Morgan
• 1868: The Ku Klux Klan in Georgia engage in many acts including whipping of black women and assassination of Republican Party members.
• 1886: Bomb at Haymarket Square, Chicago during a labor rally kills twelve people.
• 1910: A bomb at the Los Angeles Times newspaper building in Los Angeles, California, United States, killed 21 workers.
• 1915: Frank Holt, (a.k.a. Erich Muenter) a German professor exploded a bomb in the reception room of the U.S. Senate. The next morning he tried to assassinate J.P. Morgan, Jr., son of the financier whose company served as Great Britain’s principal U.S. purchasing agent for munitions and other war supplies to try and stop the United States entry into World War I against Germany.
• 1920: Wall Street Bombing kills 38 people and wounds 300 others.
• 1927: The Ku Klux Klan launch a wave of political terror in Alabama.
• 1933: A Boeing 247 is destroyed in midflight by a nitroglycerin bomb. All seven people aboard are killed. This incident is the first proven case of air sabotage in the history of aviation.
• 1940 – 1956: George Metesky, “the Mad Bomber” placed over 30 bombs in New York City in public places such as Grand Central Station and The Paramount Theater injuring ten during this period in protest of the local electric utility. He also sent many threatening letters.
• 1950s: During this and the next decade The Ku Klux Klan re-emerges. Some of the tactics used are lynching, cross burning and assassination.
• 1950: Puerto Rican nationalists fail to assassinate U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
• 1955: Lynching of Emmett Louis Till in Mississippi.
• 1958: Bombing of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple, Atlanta, Georgia suspicion done by white racists.
• 1963: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. A member of the Ku Klux Klan bombed a Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls aged 11-14.
• 1963: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated while riding in an open vehicle in Texas.
• 1965: The Ku Klux Klan murders Viola Liuzzo, a Southern-raised white mother of five who was visiting the South from her home in Detroit to attend a civil rights march. At the time of her murder Liuzzo was transporting Civil Rights Marchers.
• 1965: The Monumental Plot – New York Police thwart an attempt to dynamite the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Bell, and the Washington Monument by three members of the pro Castro Black Liberation Front and a Quebec Separatist.
• 1970: the Army Mathematics Research Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was blown up resulting in one death.
• 1974: A bomb set off by the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN in East Harlem, New York permanently disables a police officer. The officer lost an eye as a result of this act.
• 1977: Three buildings in Washington, DC are seized by members of the militant African-American Muslim Hanafi sect and over 100 hostages taken. One bystander is shot and killed, and Washington city councilman Marion Barry is shot in the chest. After a two-day standoff all hostages are released from the District Building (city hall), B’nai B’rith headquarters, and the Islamic Center.
• 1980: A bomb destroys most of the exhibits in the Statue of Liberty story room. No one is arrested, but Croatian separatists are suspected.
• 1983: U.S. Senate bombing. A time bomb consisting of several sticks of dynamite explodes at the United States Senate in response to the U.S. invasion of Grenada. No one was injured, a group known as the Armed Resistance Unit claims responsibility.
• 1990: Assassination of Meir Kahane head of Israel’s Koch party and founder of the American vigilante group the Jewish Defense League in a Manhattan, New York hotel lobby by early elements of Al Queda.
• 1993, February 26: World Trade Center bombing bombing kills six and injures over 1000 people, by coalition of five groups: Jamaat Al-Fuqra’/Gamaat Islamiya/Hamas/Islamic Jihad/National Islamic Front
• 1995: Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 people, 19 of them children; the most deadly act of domestic terrorism in the United States to date.
• 1995: An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by anti-government saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona. One person is killed and 78 are injured.
• 1996: Centennial Olympic Park bombing, killing one and wounding 111.
• 1998: The anti-abortion Army of God bombs a health clinic in Birmingham, Alabama killing a police officer and injuring a worker at the clinic.
  

I’ve not included every US terrorist incident listed in Wikipedia, and have edited out a number of irrelevant links; feel free to consult the original Wikipedia page for details. But there can be no doubt that terrorism, much of it homegrown, has a long history in the United States, and predates by more than a century the attacks of 09/11/2001.

The motivation for Cao’s ignorant claim is, of course, the by-now-familiar wingnut meme of HATE MUSLIMS! HATE MUSLIMS! HATE MUSLIMS! HATE MUSLIMS! HATE MUSLIMS! Alas for Cao, history puts the lie to her clumsy attempt to proselytize for religious bigotry.

UPDATE 01/05/08 10:02 PM EST: Cao has, quite naturally, responded with her usual mix of hysteria and thrashing, factless denial:

So true to his socialist ideology which aligns itself with Bin Ladenist Al Qaeda terrorists like Jose Padilla, Bisson’s lookalike posts a cut and paste from Wikipedia – the international music-hall joke for inaccuracy, which shows a list of terrorist acts around the globe.

Two simple questions for the Cowster:

1. Why are you unable to cite any specific inaccuracies in the list of pre-9/11 terrorist acts provided by Wikipedia?
2. Given that it is now clear that a multitude of terrorist acts occurred on US soil before 9/11, can you explain why you chose to lie to your readers and claim that “Terrorism didn’t hit Amerikka until 9/11”?

UPDATE 01/09/08 7:35 AM EST: Cao has been kind enough to provide further evidence that she lied when she claimed that “Terrorism didn’t hit Amerikka until 9/11”. She has posted a list of terrorist acts carried out by ecoterrorists between 1984 and 2002. Most or all of the attacks in her list took place in the United States. We can therefore see that Cao’s claim that terrorism did not hit America until 9/11 is quite false.

P.S. to Cao: Who owns the actual copyright on this graphic in your post? Can you provide proof that you have the copyright owner’s permission to use his content on your blog? Just wondering…