{"id":199,"date":"2014-10-25T01:32:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T01:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/?p=199"},"modified":"2014-10-25T01:32:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T01:32:01","slug":"friends-said-the-assailant-recently-converted-to-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"friends said the assailant recently converted to Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dateline\">NEW YORK \u2013 <\/span>New York City police Commissioner William Bratton says the hatchet attack on four rookie officers was a terrorist act by a homegrown radical.<\/p>\n<p>Bratton said Friday the suspect, Zale Thompson, was a Muslim convert who ranted online against America, but had no clear ties to international terrorism. He believes Thompson was self-radicalized.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/10\/24\/hatchet-attack-on-nypd-officers-act-terror-commissioner-says\/<\/p>\n<p>The gunman who fatally shot a Canadian soldier and wounded three other people during a shootout inside Parliament Wednesday was reportedly a recent Muslim convert.<br \/>\nRead more at http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2014\/10\/canadas-parliament-under-attack-dozens-of-shots-fired\/#XIbsK41MwYdFko4S.99<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;just two examples in the last couple of days.\u00a0 All the media really needs to say when reporting these murders is:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The assailant was a recent convert to Islam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Religion of peace my ass.\u00a0 Wake up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013 New York City police Commissioner William Bratton says the hatchet attack on four rookie officers was a terrorist act by a homegrown radical. Bratton said Friday the suspect, Zale Thompson, was a Muslim convert who ranted online against America, but had no clear ties to international terrorism. He believes Thompson was self-radicalized. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}