(CNN) -- Colleen Hufford, 54, was beheaded by Alton Nolen during a surprise attack at a Vaughan Foods plant in Oklahoma last week, according to police. Thankfully, before the terrorist -- yes, terrorist -- could behead another victim, Traci Johnson, he was shot by the company's CEO, Mark Vaughan, who is also a deputy sheriff. The terrorist survived. Hufford, a wife, mother, and grandmother, did not. Her husband of 25 years was outside Vaughan Foods that afternoon, waiting to pick her up as he did every day, when he learned she was the victim of a terrorist attack. It was a terrorist attack, and everyone knows it. Why won't the government say so? The Washington Post reports that the FBI found "no indication that Alton Alexander Nolen was copying the beheadings of journalists in Syria by the Islamic State ... adding that they are treating this as an incident of workplace violence."
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Mel Robbins: Woman beheaded in Oklahoma is victim of terrorist attack
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She says FBI calls it workplace violence, but there's evidence of Alton Nolen's focus on ISIS
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She says denying this avoids new realities in war on terror: It's online, can affect us at home
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We risk tarnishing Muslim-Americans, overwhelmingly peace-loving, she says
I don't know if he watched this @placeholder recruitment video, but apparently Nolen did watch beheading videos online.