He Should Have Had An American Flag
Well, here’s something new. In 2001, we had nineteen very determined Islamic terrorists slamming planes into buildings, killing thousands of Americans in the process. This month, we had one deranged Muslim man with a Palestinian flag and a copy of the Quran in his trunk slam his car into a Home Depot in Arizona.
On Sunday, December 18th at 6:00 AM, with Arabic music blasting from the radio, Ali Warrayat drove his car straight through the front doors and all the way to the paint aisle where he deliberately aimed for the flammable paint remover section. He then got out of his car and tossed a lit cigarette lighter onto the spilled liquid, igniting a blaze that resulted in more than one million dollars in damage. He was arrested in the parking lot. When police asked if he spoke English,Warrayat replied, "Do you speak Arabic?"
Warrayat is a former Jordanian and now a U.S. citizen and college student who is evidently very confused about his responsibilities as an American. Among items seized from his parent’s home, where he lives, was a computer on which they found images of Middle Eastern men holding Molotov Cocktails and a cartoon of dead children covered in blood with an unidentified Middle Eastern flag in the background.
According to Warrayat, the early morning attack had a dual purpose. First, as a former employee of this Home Depot, he was protesting the raise he didn’t get. And second, he was protesting the growing support among Americans for a fence along the U.S.- Mexico border. He believes a fence would be moving the country in the wrong direction and instead, we should become "more free."
If becoming "more free" means allowing dangerous terrorists like Warrayat to freely wander back and forth over our borders, it’s not an idea that will fly with the American people.
And as for the fate of Warrayat, he’s been charged with aggravated assault and arson and is being held without bond. If only he had the forsight to carry an American flag in his trunk along with the Palestinian flag, with the help of the ACLU, he could have turned the arson charge into a charge of burning an American flag in protest.
January 12th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
I worked with Ali for many years and I know for a fact that he is not the monster people are making him out to be! You don’t know him, you don’t know his background! All you know is the rumors that you have heard from frightend citizens who would rather hear that this is a Muslim thing instead of what it actually is…a troubled human being.