On Wednesday, there was a knife attack at University of California at Merced in which four people were injured and the knifeman was shot dead by the police. Now we have learned more details, and the crime has interesting diversity aspects. The slasher was a Muslim (described as smiling as he attacked), Faisal Mohammed (pictured), yet the authorities are still investigating his motivation . ISIS approved of the attack

The Merced sheriff said he could find no terror connections, but the Islamic default behavior for stress reduction is often violence against the infidel. Hopefully we will find out before too long.

I learned something in this case that I didn’t know before. UC Merced was designated in 2010 as a “Hispanic-serving institution” and one of the requirements for that classification is that the school “certifies an enrollment of at least 25 percent Hispanic students.” Is that kind of race quota legal after Prop 209?

It turns out that UC Merced has a student body where 40 percent identify as Hispanic so there is no shortage.

Anyway, back to the diverse crime. The Daily Mail reports that Mohammad had a backpack filled with odd items for a college student:

‘He had far greater intentions to do damage’, Daily Mail, November 5, 2015 A reclusive student shot dead by police after stabbing four people in a California university campus attack ‘had far greater intentions to do damage’, Merced County Sheriff said Wednesday. Faisal Mohammad, a freshman who majored in computer science and engineering at the University of California was carrying highly flammable petroleum jelly, ziptie handcuffs, night vision goggles, duct tape and a hammer in his backpack when he was shot in the back by cops. In reference to the petroleum jelly, Sheriff Vern Warnke said: ‘He had poor man’s C4? – C4 being the dense, putty-like explosive used widely by the military and demolition teams.

Here’s the Fox News report: