Arrests were made in the killng of a family of Copts in Jersey City
I don't know if you remember or were a reader here when I wrote this, but that will give you the backstory to this post.
This week two men were arrested in Jersey City for the gruesome slaying of a family of Egyptian Copts a few months ago. At the time of the murders, the blogoshpere was lit up with anti-Muslim rhetoric and rumors about details of the killings. Jihad Watch has tons of stuff on this, including publishing information that had been passed on to them by people purporting to be in on the autopsies and a friend of the family (who accused some unnamed halal butcher who has fled the country). I'm not even going to link to Jihad Watch, but you can Google them and read all this yourself.
Anyway, neither of the two men are named Mohammed and they have in the past few weeks withdrawn thousands of dollars from the family's bank account. While some of Open Book's readers are backpedalling, others like on Jihad Watch are still holding out for either the aquittal of these two men, or a connection that they were hired by some extremist group to kill them, or for the mystery butcher.
This is still not settled or over, and perhaps there will be a connection back to some sort of Copt-Muslim tension in Hudson County. But it isn't looking that way, though so many blogger are still holding out hope, for whatever reason. Ugh.
This week two men were arrested in Jersey City for the gruesome slaying of a family of Egyptian Copts a few months ago. At the time of the murders, the blogoshpere was lit up with anti-Muslim rhetoric and rumors about details of the killings. Jihad Watch has tons of stuff on this, including publishing information that had been passed on to them by people purporting to be in on the autopsies and a friend of the family (who accused some unnamed halal butcher who has fled the country). I'm not even going to link to Jihad Watch, but you can Google them and read all this yourself.
Anyway, neither of the two men are named Mohammed and they have in the past few weeks withdrawn thousands of dollars from the family's bank account. While some of Open Book's readers are backpedalling, others like on Jihad Watch are still holding out for either the aquittal of these two men, or a connection that they were hired by some extremist group to kill them, or for the mystery butcher.
This is still not settled or over, and perhaps there will be a connection back to some sort of Copt-Muslim tension in Hudson County. But it isn't looking that way, though so many blogger are still holding out hope, for whatever reason. Ugh.
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