This may be the most idiodic mainstream media analysis I have ever seen...
The cyanide found in this Somali Muslim's Denver hotel room could have killed hundreds, yet terror has been ruled out.
Apparently being wrong about a large number of "sudden jihad" incidents does not stop this irresistible impulse on the part of law enforcement. Apparently they are not familiar with the fallacy that absence of evidence does not constitute evidence of absence.
In this case, however, a man with this name posted a threat calling for the murder of Christians on July 11th.
Then, after the death, someone posted mocking comments on the same Internet site under the same name, pretending to be writing from Paradise lamenting his lack of 72 virgins. The Rocky Mountain News considers this to be proof that the July 11th poster was the same person "unless someone had taken the name as a joke." I kid you not.
Let me repeat this in case the journalist is trying to understand this. Someone who posts on the Internet after a Muslim death using the name of the deceased claiming to be writing from Paradise lamenting his lack of 72 virgins has most certainly posted the comment as a joke. There is only one other possibility: that it is indeed the deceased, that he has an Internet connection in Paradise, that he mistakenly received male virgins as prizes for his martyrdom, and that he has taken up the term "dudes" to refer to them.
Prediction: this case will be revealed to be yet another case of sudden jihad syndrome.
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