[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Remember Joel Hinrichs? The OU undergrad who unaccountably started sprouting a scraggly jihadi beard, shopped for ANFO, frequented the local mosque, and ultimately offed himself, perhaps prematurely, outside a packed stadium with a nail-studded bomb-vest?

Curious.

[txhurl]

ping!!

[Talking_Mouse]

I hope Thomas Hinrichs will get started on the help he most obviously needs during those 3 years. Then when he gets out hopefully he will continue with treatment, so he will not harm himself and others in his community.

[Maynerd]

Curious indeed.

A media non-event that does not fit the MSM multicultural template. Had Hinrichs been a Christian fanatic or Mormon polygamist, the coverage would have been wall to wall.

[claudiustg]

-—Remember Joel Hinrichs? The OU undergrad who unaccountably started sprouting a scraggly jihadi beard, shopped for ANFO, frequented the local mosque, and ultimately offed himself, perhaps prematurely, outside a packed stadium with a nail-studded bomb-vest?-—

Oh yes, the no connection to Muslim terrorists suicide... :^)

[Tall_Texan]

Sounds like a family tree that definitely needs some pruning.

[notfornothing]

Such a bizarre story. The thing that baffled me at the time was the virtual media blackout when it happened. Here you have someone blowing himself up less than 100 yards from 80,000 people watching a football game and it barely raised an eyebrow.

[ozzymandus]

They need a little chlorine in that gene pool.

[cavador]

Judging by the name “Hinrichs” I was thinking perhaps he was a neo-nazi but I guess I was olny jumping to conclusions because his brother suceeded in doing a one man jihad.

[Uncle Ike]

Ping to a strange follow-on to a part of history.....

[Grut]

The investigation was closed in April 2006, but an FBI agent was assigned to monitor Hinrichs monthly to ensure he wasn't a threat to himself or others.

Does this strike anyone else as peculiar? Since when does the FBI 'monitor' citizens, however odd?

Incidentally, Hinrichs should have been found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed, not imprisoned.

[A knight without armor]

“Remember Joel Hinrichs? The OU undergrad who unaccountably started sprouting a scraggly jihadi beard, shopped for ANFO, frequented the local mosque, and ultimately offed himself, perhaps prematurely, outside a packed stadium with a nail-studded bomb-vest?”

Geez no. I thought it meant he just got mad.

[mtbopfuyn]

I knew we’d eventually have another chapter in that story.

[Strategerist]

Remember Joel Hinrichs? The OU undergrad who unaccountably started sprouting a scraggly jihadi beard, shopped for ANFO, frequented the local mosque, and ultimately offed himself, perhaps prematurely, outside a packed stadium with a nail-studded bomb-vest?

1) It wasn't a bomb vest. It was a backpack in his lap.

2) There were no nails.

3) Have you ever set foot on a college campus in the last 40 years? Do you have any concept of how many college students have a scraggly beard that just have scraggly beards?

4) There's no evidence he frequented mosques or was a Muslim. He had a Pakistani roommate.

[CPOSharky]

How many people carry a knife in their pocket?

Was it a selective fire AK-47 or a legal semi-auto version?

Is it illegal to have a bulletproof vest?

Sounds more like he was convicted of “contempt of cop”.

[null and void]

Whole family’s like that...

[MinuteGal]

The guy is mental. And they think three years locked up in the federal slammer and "treatment" by shrinks employed by the federal government will change his chemical makeup. Yep.

Remind me not to go to any football games in about three years hence.

Unfortunately, thanks to liberal legislation decades ago, full or marginally mentally-handicapped folks cannot be locked away without their own consent. Their families cannot afford treatment or are afraid of them. That's why they walk the streets today.

Nothing much that can be done about it either, given the liberal infiltration and control of just about everything in this country.

Leni

[DocRock]

"Remember Joel Hinrichs?"

He also went to the same mosque as Zacharias Moussawi, "the 20th highjacker", who used Nick Burg's computer to check his email. And don't forget the OK city bomber was seen with middle eastern suspects by several witnesses. OKC has a lot of interesting history regarding terrorism.

[El Gato]

This was the interesting part to me.

According to the FBI, authorities opened a domestic terrorism investigation into Hinrichs the day after his brother, Joel Hinrichs, committed suicide by detonating an explosive device attached to his neck.

So there was "no terrorism connection", but the FBI investigated his brother for terrorism.

It sound the like brother is more a few bricks shy of a full load, but that could just be MSM spin to make us feel sorry for him.