Jihad Comes to Oakland

While watching the news last night I saw some amazingly disturbing video footage of a well-dressed gang of black men entering and destroying a liquor store. My immediate reaction to seeing a guy in a suit with a bow tie smashing refrigerator units and their contents with a lead pipe was "that guy is dressed like a Nation of Islam member". I don't think I was far off:

Clad in dark suits and bow ties, a gang of vandals strolled into two Oakland corner liquor stores late Wednesday night and then unleashed a violent attack, terrorizing the clerks, smashing displays and coolers with iron pipes.

The brazen attacks were captured on videotape and thieves seemed not to care that their pictures were being recorded as they looked right into the cameras.
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The men strolled into the stores, walked around a while and then turned on the clerks telling them to -- "stop poisoning our neighborhoods." Then the violence turned to the liquor bottles and cans stocked both on shelves and in the coolers.

The article doesn't mention the Nation of Islam, but if you saw the pictures, you couldn't help but notice the resemblance. Most people don't walk around in suits with bow ties these days, but that's standard dress for Louie Farrakhan's boys.

Could this be the start of some sort of ghetto purification jihad, or just the overzealous actions of a few weirdos? We'll see.