Those Violent Amish

Three men are dead in Fresno, after a man named Kori Ali Muhammad opened fire, hitting four white men in total and killing three of them. He is also suspected of the murder of a security guard this past Thursday.

A survey of his Twitter shows him using the well known Amish hate phrase "Allahu Akbar." Not that you would know that from the AP, as they said that he was instead shouting "God is great" as he went on his murderous rampage. True that is a rough approximation of what the phrase means, but I am reasonably sure that everybody these days knows who is likely to be shouting that phrase as they murder the innocent.

It's the Amish of course.

Anything to further obfusticate the facts of the case and push the Narrative of Muslims(I mean Amish) as peace-loving, misunderstood individuals, not like those violent Christians who go to church on Sunday where they plot to further their terroristic reign over the world.

ABC is now reporting that the aforesaid violent Amish extremist has been arrested. We can all rest easier now.

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