Posts Tagged ‘Irving’

A Bucket of Texas News

Tuesday, January 17th, 2017

No theme linking all this stories, but crime, police and jihad all figure predominately:

  • The Islamic State has singled out the First Baptist Church in Dallas as a target for arson. If memory serves, the last time jihadis tried to carry out an attack in the DFW area, it didn’t work out too well for them.
  • FBI capture Top 10 fugitive Terry A.D. Strickland, wanted for a double homicide, in El Paso.
  • For the record, here’s the FBI’s current top ten list. Note that four of the top 10 (Alexis Flores, Yaser Abdel Said, Robert Francis Van Wisse and Eduardo Ravelo) are foreign born, while two (Said, wanted for honor killing his own daughters in Irving, and Van Wisse, wanted for murdering a woman in Austin in 1983) have ties to Texas.
  • Speaking of honor killings, there has been some news on the Montgomery County honor killings from 2014. Namely Nadia Irsan, the daughter of main defendant Ali Mohmood Awad Irsan (the still living one, not the one he (allegedly) murdered), is now out on bond, but his son, Nile Irsan, was “arrested for having a prohibited substance in a correctional facility.”
  • A Wendy’s employee refused service to a uniformed Fort Worth Police Officer. Sent a tweet asking for followup information on whether the employee was fired or not.
  • The Brownsville City Council rescinds a $1 plastic bag fee after attorney general Ken Paxton pointed out to them that it was illegal under Texas law.
  • This Week in Jihad

    Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

    Though I’m going to be concentrating heavily on election coverage the next three weeks, the rest of the world doesn’t stop just because the U.S. is having an election. Here’s a roundup of this week’s problems with Jihad, Islamists, Sharia, Islam, and the Middle East in general. (You might also have noticed that I’ve added a Foreign Policy/Jihad links section.)

    So here’s a week’s worth of (mostly depressing) developments: