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Editor's Murder Shows Failure of Tolerance

Hitchens hits cops for abetting criminality in religious guise

By Heather McPherson,  Newser User

Posted Aug 7, 2007 2:47 PM CDT
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(Newser) – The notoriously irreligious Christopher Hitchens decries the Oakland police's tolerance of Your Black Muslim Bakery, one of whose employees has been arrested for the murder of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey. In an op-ed for Slate Hitchens writes that the bakery is in fact a front for jihadism and that Bay Area law enforcement is guilty of "official apathy— amounting to collusion."

Hitchens chides the police for reluctance to investigate an enterprise whose associates have been accused of rape and murder. And he charges that black leaders such as Oakland mayor Ron Dellums and Rep. Barbara Lee have validated black Muslim racism and criminality. Hitchens wonders just how much the police would countenance: "Should we wait until unveiled women are attacked on the street?"

Oakland Assistant Police Chief Howard Jordan, center, takes questions from the media during a news conference Friday, Aug. 3, 2007, in Oakland, Calif. Police said they recovered firearms linked to the slaying of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey during a series of early morning raids Friday targeting members of a Black...
Oakland Assistant Police Chief Howard Jordan, center, takes questions from the media during a news conference Friday, Aug. 3, 2007, in Oakland, Calif. Police said they recovered firearms linked to the...   (Associated Press)
Oakland (Calif.) police officers investigate the scene where Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was shot to death in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 2, 2007. Bailey, the outspoken new editor of the Oakland Post, who formerly worked for The Detroit News, was shot to death Thursday morning near a downtown...
Oakland (Calif.) police officers investigate the scene where Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was shot to death in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 2, 2007. Bailey, the outspoken new editor of the...   (Associated Press)
A memorial is set up Friday, Aug. 3, 2007, on the Oakland, Calif., sidewalk where journalist Chauncey Bailey was slain Thursday. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
A memorial is set up Friday, Aug. 3, 2007, on the Oakland, Calif., sidewalk where journalist Chauncey Bailey was slain Thursday. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)   (Associated Press)
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