The big Muslim news on Friday was the beheading murder in Oklahoma of a worker in a food processing plant by a recent Muslim convert, Alton Nolen. He attacked a second woman with a knife, but was fortunately stopped by man with a gun, Mark Vaughan, a reserve sheriff’s deputy and the company’s chief operating officer.

Nolen (pictured) was not killed from being shot and is expected to survive. He was recently fired from his job at the Vaughan Foods plant where the murder occurred, and where he also pestered coworkers to convert to Islam. He has a long rap sheet, heavy on drugs and including an assault on a police officer.

Here are a few thoughts: Nolen was already a violent man, but becoming a Muslim would give license to murder infidels. He offered Islam as instructed by the Koran to his coworkers but they refused, so they got the knife — the old “Convert or Die” routine, discussed at length in Islamic scriptures.

It’s also common for Muslims to attack women and children in typical Religion of Bullies fashion. They never start a fair fight and prefer to gang up on healthy male opponents, for example when an American college student was beaten up by several Muslims in London for drinking beer.

Nolen is a born-here American citizen, but he converted to Islam when he was in prison. Islamic religious outreach does well in American prisons with a captive audience and the Muslim message of approved violence. Prisons welcome religious workers of all sorts, so jihad-inclined immigrants and other Muslims can make efficient use of the system to recruit new choppers.