By John Lillpop ——Bio and Archives--January 9, 2016
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The Muslim man who said Islam motivated him to shoot a police officer does not represent the teachings of Islam, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney stated in a press conference on Friday afternoon, following an attempted execution by a man who had reportedly pledged to the Islamic State. According to Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross, the suspect said he had committed the attempted execution in the name of the Islamic State, the jihadi terrorist insurgent group that controls territory in the Middle East. "According to him [the shooter], police bend laws that are contrary to the teachings of the Quran," said Commissioner Ross. Mayor Kenney began his spiel by expressing his well-wishes for the officer who the Muslim man attempted to execute, but then spent the latter part of his statement distancing Islam from the shooter, who claimed he was carrying out the shooting for Islam. "In no way shape or form does anyone in this room believe that Islam or the teaching of Islam has anything to do with what you’ve seen on the screen," said Mayor Kenney. "That is abhorrent. It’s just terrible and it does not represent this religion [Islam] in any way shape or form or any of its teachings," he added. "This is a criminal with a stolen gun who tried to kill one of our officers. It has nothing to do with being a Muslim or following the Islamic faith."Good heavens, the assailant voluntarily admitted his motive (loyalty to Islam), yet Mayor Kenney releases a goofy statement which contends that the “criminal with a stolen gun who tried to kill one of our officers has nothing to do with being a Muslim or following the Islamic faith." How in the world could Mayor Kenney have even the vaguest notion about what lurks in the heart and mind of a crazed jihadist looking to avenge police actions which run contrary to the Quran? And even more outrageously, why in the heck would a mush-brained politician like Mayor Kenney be so eager to provide unsolicited cover for sub-human behavior executed in the name of Allah?
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John W. Lillpop is a recovering liberal. “Clean and sober” since 1992 when last he voted for a Democrat. For years, John lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, the very liberal sanctuary city which protects, rather than prosecutes, certain favored criminals. John escaped the Bay Area in May and now lives in Pine Grove California where conservative values are still in vogue.