More on San Francisco Terrorism

Fox News may be marginally more centrist than other news outlets, and it may employ more conservative commentators, but it suffers from the same blind spots as the rest of the MSM, probably because it inevitably must employ on its low-level staff -- i.e., the writers for their Internet site -- young men and women fresh out of Journalism School, who will skew left, and also because, like all of the MSM, relies on the Associated Press for reporting news. Here is the Fox News report on the San Francisco terror attack, which is essentially the same AP report from other outlets recycled.

The report repeats the meme that has dominated coverage of this story so far. That meme is that Omeed Aziz Popal ran over 14 people because he was "crazed" or "deranged." The mayor of San Francisco,
Gavin Newsom, augments the meme by mouthing the typical bland pablum of the elite:

"These are the things, these are so senseless. They're utterly inexplicable. They're impossible to rationalize," Newsom said afterward. "The fact that this individual felt compelled for whatever reason to be determined to do what he did is beyond imagination."

But this story is not "utterly inexplicable." There appears to be a fairly simple explanation sitting right there in the same story. Here is what we do know as facts:

1. Omeed Aziz Popal's family is from Afghanistan.
2. Popal recently had an arranged marriage.
3. Popal's arranged marriage was in Afghanistan.
4. Popal recently returned from Afghanistan.
5. His family suggests that he was "under pressure" in Afghanistan.
6. Popal chose to run down people in front of the Jewish Community Center and in the most heavily Jewish area of San Francisco.
7. All of this is happening as the worldwide jihadist segment of Islam has been roiled by Iran's brinksmanship on nuclear weapons development and by the Hezbollah-Israel "war."

Now, don't the MSM always complain that President Bush "failed to connect the dots" before 9/11? Are these dots that hard to connect?
Is it too much to ask that the media simply ask Mayor Newsom to comment on these possible connections? To ask whether his office has been in contact with the Homeland Security Department or the FBI about Popal? That's how the MSM makes news in other circumstances... they ask public figures to comment about things. Don't they have any curiosity about what the answer might be?

Imagine if a Christian fundamentalist had run down 14 people in a predominantly gay area of San Francisco after just returning from a trip to, say, Mississippi where his family says he was "under pressure." Just imagine what curiosity the MSM could summon then.

UPDATE: According to the website, jihadwatch.org, Popal identified himself to police as a terrorist. Why exactly hasn't that filtered by now into the MSM?