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Who was Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the New Orleans truck attack suspect?

The suspect in the car-ramming attack in New Orleans has been

At least 15 people have been killed and dozens wounded after a man, identified by the FBI as a United States military veteran, ploughed a pick-up truck into a crowd of New Year’s revellers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, the United States.

The suspect, who has since been killed in a police shootout, has been identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US citizen from the state of Texas.

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I haven’t seen news on the Bourbon Street attack circulate much on Tumblr, but I implore other Palestine activists in the US to keep our Arab/Muslim communities in mind. Right-wingers and Z*nists have already been attempting to twist the tragedy to further their xenophobia and islamophobia. This is all the more insidious when one of the confirmed victims of the attack was Kareem Badawi, a 18-year-old Palestinian American from Baton Rouge. 

As a lifelong New Orleanian: please don't let z*onists and right-wingers twist this tragedy to spread their hate.

If you want to support the victims of this attack, The Greater New Orleans Foundation has set up a fund to support families of victims and people injured by the attack:

Palestinian activists in New Orleans also have an ongoing campaign for the Middle East Children's Alliance to provide essential services in Gaza:

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If only there had been 300 “good guys with guns” on scene…

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I’m a musician who played on Bourbon street on New Year’s Eve. Here’s what I have to say about the republican politicians trying to score points at the expense of all the people around me that night.

Every act of terrorism is inherently political. And since the right wing power structure in charge of this country is rushing in to speak on behalf of me and my friends and coworkers—the folks who work on bourbon street and have to deal with the aftermath of this attack—I’m going to speak out too. If you feel it’s crass to “politicize” this, remember, the terrorists and the politicians already have, so why not hear from an actual musician who was actually working that night on bourbon street.

When the people in power impose their moral code on the populace using violence. Weather it’s the cops attacking random black men during traffic stops, or the military of an apartheid state bombing civilians, or the oligarchs in control of a private prison system filling their jails to capacity. It’s called state-violence, and it’s legal. When people who are not in power use violence against random civilians to impose their own morals it’s called terrorism.

The only things that differentiates a Jihadist attacking bourbon street, from a military drone bombing civilians or a policeman beating a handcuffed man to death is the flag they waive. Whether the flag has an isis insignia, a Star of David or a thin blue line makes no difference to the victims. To kill civilians at random is an act of terror. To collectively punish the people is a war crime. These people are all the same. The terrorist, the conservative senator and the billionaire all believe you should be forced to do as they say and if you resist you should be punished with violence.

That’s why the gauntlet of conservative politicians using this attack to their own ends makes my blood boil. The beliefs of an average Republican senator today are barely different from the Islamic fundamentalists commuting mass murder. The state government that bans pornography for religious reasons, that forces their own religious iconography in schools, that makes divorce illegal, that arrests women for the way they dress, that arrests women for having an abortion when the pregnancy will kill them, or when the mother is 12 years old—has more in common with ISIS than they do with you or me.

The conservative politician’s psychopathic need to force their particular interpretation of their particular religion on us is exactly the same need as Isis. Which sect of which religion they impose hardly maters. The only functional difference is that the conservative power brokers that run our country have the law and the police on their side.

So to Trump and Landry and the slew of right wing demagogs trying to profit from the death and suffering on New Years, I’m telling you from the bottom of my heart, you are the same as the terrorists. Your psychotic need to impose your beliefs, and your willingness to use violence on innocent people to do so, puts you squarely in the company of all the other terrorists. Your views on women’s rights and religious freedom are barely different than ISIS. Through the policies you’ve imposed you’re already responsible for more deaths than the shooter. You are bad people to the core not just for using these deaths to your own advantage but because your beliefs and desires are barely different than the terrorist that committed them.

New Orleans is the freeist city I’ve ever lived in, in the least free state. The Louisiana government is controlled by religious extremists imposing their religious doctrines by force. These people are not like us. Senator Mike Johnson has an app on his phone designed for evangelical fundamentalists that alerts him if his son masturbates. JD Vance is an avowed Christian Nationalist who’s stated goal of making America a Christian Nation means forcing the country’s laws to abide by HIS interpretation of HIS sect of HIS religion, which means everything from no drinking on Sunday to making porn illegal to re-criminalizing marijuanna to forcing doctors to let woman die rather than perform abortions.

The same reason the Isis inspired terrorist chose the French quarter of New Orleans as a target—the debauchery, the decadence, the partying and music and joie de vivre that the city is known for, is exactly what the conservative terrorists that control our legislature hate about the city. The only point of contention the Republican dominated government and the Isis inspired terrorist have with one another is which sect of which religion gets to impose its totalitarian ideals on the rest of us. Jihadism is already here, it’s just called Christian Nationalism. Sharia law is already here it’s just called Project 2025.

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Guy I went to high school with died in the terror attack on Bourbon Street this morning. Absolutely surreal. I hope the driver rots in hell forever. As if New Orleans hasn’t suffered enough already.

What a way to start 2025.

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At least 10 killed in New Orleans after driver intentionally rams into crowd on Bourbon Street

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All of the 14 victims killed in the New Orleans terrorist attack have been identified. We would like to take the time to remember these men and women.

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PRIMA PAGINA The Guardian di Oggi giovedì, 02 gennaio 2025

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A devastating terrorist attack on New Year’s Day in New Orleans has claimed the lives of three Louisiana men, including two from Baton Rouge and one from Lafayette, among more than a dozen victims. Read more

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At least 15 dead, dozens injured after New Orleans truck ramming attack,

At least 15 people were killed and dozens were injured after a truck ramming attack in New Orleans early Wednesday morning. Authorities say the suspected driver, identified as 42-year-old Shamsud-Bin Jabbar, intentionally rammed into a busy Bourbon Street crowd celebrating the New Year, and tried to run over as many people as possible before he allegedly opened fire on police, and was killed in a shootout. NBC News’ Tom Llamas reports from New Orleans.

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GoFundMe launches verified fundraisers for victims of New Orleans Bourbon Street terror attack

An investigation is underway after a deadly terror attack on New Year’s Day on Bourbon Street in New Orleans has killed 15 people, and injured dozens of others.

Eleven of the victims have been identified, and GoFundMe says the community can safely donate to the victim’s families and loved ones.

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the amount of mass killings committed by us military veterans with a history of domestic violence should be a huge red flag but still the government and pretty much every news outlet seems to gloss over those factors completely every time this happens. data shows that at a disproportionate number of mass killers served in the military.

the most recent New Orleans mass killer was motivated by religious extremism, but also served in the military and planned on murdering his entire family but instead decided to drive his truck into a crowd of people.

the maine bowling alley shooter was a veteran with a history of domestic violence and chose that location because his ex liked to hang out there. before the shooting law enforcement and the military was warned by multiple people multiple times that he was planning to do something like this and they did nothing. 18 killed.

the sutherland springs shooter was a veteran with a well documented history of domestic violence and spent only 12 months in prison for attacking his wife and son and pointing a loaded gun at them, and was constantly threatening to murder them. he was later investigated for rape, had a history of animal abuse and bragged about adopting pets so he could use them as target practice, posted online that he was going to do a shooting, and he chose that location because that was his ex’s church. he ended up murdering 26 people including his ex’s grandma.

there are more examples too, but my point is that it seems extremely obvious that domestic violence offenses aren’t taken nearly as seriously as they should be. and it also seems obvious that the complete and total lack of any accountability for military members who commit crimes against both civilians and other members (look at the rape statistics) ends up attracting young men who have a desire to commit violence and they come out of it even more mentally unstable and dangerous.

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PRIMA PAGINA The Times di Oggi giovedì, 02 gennaio 2025