{"id":24913,"date":"2011-06-23T17:43:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T21:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=24913"},"modified":"2011-06-23T17:54:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T21:54:04","slug":"say-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24913","title":{"rendered":"Say it&#8217;s name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Yonathan-Melaku.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24920 aligncenter\" title=\"Yonathan Melaku\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Yonathan-Melaku.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Yonathan-Melaku.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Yonathan-Melaku-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/crime-scene\/post\/marine-reservist-charged-in-dc-area-military-shootings\/2011\/06\/23\/AGZ5CMhH_blog.html?hpid=z3\">Washington Post<\/a>, Yonathan Melaku video taped himself shouting \u201cAllah Akbar&#8221; while firing at Quantico&#8217;s Marine Corps Museum last year;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a news conference Thursday morning, prosecutors and the FBI declined to comment on Melaku\u2019s motivation in the shootings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s charges allege a pattern of violent behavior&#8230;we believe his statements that he\u2019s targeting military installations speak to his desire to engage in violent activity against the military,\u201d U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, why would they need to comment on his motivations? Obviously, he has a thing about militaria kept in museums. OK, he has a desire to engage in violent activity against the military, he videos himself shouting &#8220;God is great&#8221; in Arabic while he shoots at a window, so why can&#8217;t you guys just say the words we all have bouncing around in our heads?<\/p>\n<p>How does not calling him a Muslim jihadist make us safer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Washington Post, Yonathan Melaku video taped himself shouting \u201cAllah Akbar&#8221; while firing at &hellip; <a title=\"Say it&#8217;s name\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24913\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Say it&#8217;s name<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}