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Why Was Muslim UCLA Shooter Misidentified as a "White Male"?
Frontpage Mag ^ | June 3, 2016 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 06/07/2016 10:53:41 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo

There is currently no indication that Muslim UCLA shooter Mainak Sarkar had any terrorist motives. Though his note has as yet of to be released. But of somewhat more interest is the question of why Sarkar was misidentified as a "white male".

One of the more obvious things about Maniak Sarkar is that he is not a white male. He can't be mistaken for a white male. But media coverage has prompted people to expect white male shooters.

It's a type of prejudice that we don't much talk about because it's a politically correct prejudice. It's a prejudice encouraged by the media. While Muslims certainly dominate terror statistics, there have been Muslim mass shooters carrying out attacks unrelated to terrorism.

The most prominent of these was the École Polytechnique Massacre carried out by a man popularly known as Marc Lepine, whose real name was Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi. Gharbi shot nine women. Like Sarkar, the rationale was some combination of personal derangement and hostility toward women and people he blamed for his failures.

And yet Lepine continues to be misidentified in ways that lead people to assume that he was another white male shooter. Much like Sarkar was misidentified as a white male.

Beyond the obvious derangement of Islamic terrorism, Muslim societies are destabilized in ways that help spur violence even down the road among second generation immigrants. And yet the media is far more comfortable maintaining the stereotype of the white male shooter.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: california; corruption; education; islam; media; msm; ucla
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Agreed. And yet the utter stupidity and blindness of the narrative maintainers, most of them white liberals, is shocking, since their triumph in convincing a majority of the so-called oppressed that white people are demons worthy of death will also mean their own deaths. Really, what are they thinking (if at all)?-—that once the bloodletting begins they’ll pack their bags and leave or carry signs identifying themselves as “accidentally white”? In reality, they will not escape the evil they’ve been striving so hard to unleash on white people. The graves they are digging for others will become their own.


21 posted on 06/08/2016 12:43:55 AM PDT by spirited irish
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To: Mr. Mojo

Is the author trying to claim that Indians (and Arabs) are not white? Indians are Caucasians, as are Arabs.


22 posted on 06/08/2016 1:11:31 AM PDT by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: Yaelle

First time I heard he was a Moslem.


23 posted on 06/08/2016 2:00:34 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Part of the program of subjugating the West by activating barbarian nationalist wills to genocide white people.


24 posted on 06/08/2016 2:20:51 AM PDT by lavaroise (s)
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To: Mr. Mojo

It is to throw it out because they figure quite a few people will never hear the correction.


25 posted on 06/08/2016 2:51:56 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Mr. Mojo

Most Muslims *are*, in fact, white. Or, if not white, they are dark Caucasians. The UCLA shooter looks like some sort of Asian.

It’s not the person’s race that matters, it is what is inside his head. Obviously, this guy had evil there.


26 posted on 06/08/2016 2:54:08 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Name a child maniac, er, maniak, and expect the best?


27 posted on 06/08/2016 3:25:02 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Talisker

That’s interesting.


28 posted on 06/08/2016 3:38:30 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Mr. Mojo
Why Was Muslim UCLA Shooter Misidentified as a "White Male"?

Because the MSM is filled with liars?

29 posted on 06/08/2016 3:40:00 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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To: Talisker

Sorry, but your source doesn’t appear exactly credible. The origin of this is apparently a student editor who got her information from everipedia, a source that can be edited by anonymous users. The killer’s sister-in-law says he was not Muslim.


30 posted on 06/08/2016 3:41:08 AM PDT by stormer
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To: Mr. Mojo

If George Zimmerman can be identified as a “White Hispanic”...


31 posted on 06/08/2016 3:43:35 AM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone..)
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To: Mr. Mojo

I don’t understand how there was even a shooting at UCLA! Isn’t that a gun free zone?


32 posted on 06/08/2016 5:01:10 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: iowamark
Is the author trying to claim that Indians (and Arabs) are not white? Indians are Caucasians, as are Arabs.

If the cops jobs were sitting in their cruisers reading textbooks about racial types and sub-types, "Caucasian" might be important information. I think they need skin tone information for identification. I guess Trotsky and his ilk invented Cultural Marxism to describe me.

33 posted on 06/08/2016 5:18:23 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: stormer

>>Why does the author think he’s Muslim? He’s Indian and his bio says he’s areligious.

That was my immediate question as well. Early commentary here on FR was that his name is typically Hindu.


34 posted on 06/08/2016 5:24:20 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Is this a serious question?

For the exact same reason that Zimmerman was listed as a ‘white hispanic’


35 posted on 06/08/2016 5:26:59 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: stormer; Talisker
UCLA student editor discovers that the shooter’s religion on his Twitter profile was changed – from Islam to Hindu – within hours of the campus shooting, which killed a UCLA professor as well as an ex-girlfriend in Minnesotastan.

I directly witnessed that myself. The source is accurate. Whether the source data was accurate is another question, but it clearly was changed as soon as people noticed it.

36 posted on 06/08/2016 5:32:22 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Mr. Mojo

why was zimmerman
its the first and easy propaganda move to hide the fact the piece of garbage was a muslim
its part of the anti-white libtard effeminate agenda
the media is not there to report the news... is 24/7 pravda


37 posted on 06/08/2016 5:35:43 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: stormer; Talisker; FreedomPoster

Original thread:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3436148/posts

Now everipedia has this:

https://www.everipedia.com/mainak-sarkar/

Religion - None (areligious)


38 posted on 06/08/2016 5:40:23 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Altura Ct.
Judge Curiel, whom Trump has criticized, appears to be predominantly European in ancestry, far more so than George Zimmerman, who appears more typically mestizo, in spite of his German surname. In common usage, the term “white” is applied to those of European descent, and not to Middle Easterners, though some Syrians, Turks, Kurds, Lebanese, and Iranians look similar to southern Europeans.

There is such a thing as race and nationality. However, the MSM narrative will change to suit their purposes. Thus, Curiel, whose appearance would not draw attention in Barcelona, is an oppressed Latino, while Zimmerman, who looks like the late Hugo Chavez, is an eeeeeeeeevil "white Hispanic".

39 posted on 06/08/2016 5:44:57 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Mr. Mojo

What a silly question.


40 posted on 06/08/2016 6:00:45 AM PDT by Afterguard (Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long as it's mandatory.)
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