Law enforcement authorities immediately acted as jihad deniers when a student named Faisal Mohammed stabbed five people at the University of California, Merced last week before being shot dead by police.  The narrative they offered was: It wasn't terrorism, police said, that led Faisal Mohammad to stab four people Wednesday morning on the UC Merced campus. Instead, it was anger from being kicked out of a study group that spurred a horrific plan, which included ambushing police officers and shooting students, according to the Merced County Sheriff. (snip) "There was absolutely nothing they could find to indicate anything other than his being a college student at UC Merced," [Sheriff] Warnke said, adding the attack was the result of "personal animosities." In the later news conference, Warnke stressed that focusing on Mohammad's religious beliefs would be unfounded. "There are lots of people of the Muslim faith that are kind, gentle,...(Read Full Post)