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Here is a longer version of the article that appears in FrontPage today by Joe Kaufman on the Chapel Hill jihad:
Saturday night, the University of North Carolina (UNC) was abuzz with joy, as its Tar Heels men’s basketball team defeated its arch-rival and number one-ranked Duke. But this huge win only temporarily masked the pain of an event that happened just a day earlier. On Friday, Iranian-born Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, a 22 year-old UNC graduate, tore through a lunchtime crowd at one of the university’s popular gathering spots with a Jeep Grand Cherokee, hitting nine people, of whom six were hospitalized with injuries.Taheri-azar was arrested and charged with nine counts each of attempted first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon. According to Derek Poarch, the chief of the university police department, the attacker told investigators that he wanted to “avenge the deaths or murders of Muslims around the world.” A paperback copy of the Quran was found in Taheri-azar’s room, along with a book calling for the United States to “confront state sponsors of terrorism.” He was shown, on news video footage, handcuffed and being led into a car sporting a giant grin.
At the court hearing on Monday, that same smile was ingrained on his face. Like Zacarias Moussaoui, whose trial coincided with Taheri-azar’s hearing, Taheri-azar stated that he wanted to represent himself. And like Moussaoui, who proudly proclaimed, “I’m Al-Qaeda,” Taheri-azar used the courtroom forum to voice his Islamist ideology. Clad in orange jumpsuit and leg shackles, he stated, “I am thankful you are going to hear this trial to learn more about the will of Allah, the creator.” And in response to a reporter’s question, he confirmed that, “Yes,” it was his intention to murder those he hit with the SUV he had just rented. In the 9-1-1 call he had made after the attack, he told the operator that he did this “to punish the government of the United States.”
Some have raised the question of whether or not he was acting alone. Eyes have focused on the university’s Muslim Students Association (MSA), which was recently involved in a protest of the UNC campus newspaper’s publishing of a Mohammed cartoon. After the incident, the MSA quickly issued a press release distancing itself from Taheri-azar and condemning what it called a “hit and run incident.” Later, MSA’s President, Uzma Khan, declined to comment.In the release, the MSA admitted that Taheri-azar had made a “few appearances” with its group but said that he was not a member. As such, the MSA likened him to “one disturbed individual from the beliefs of the Muslim community as a whole.” However, present affiliations and recent events held by the MSA lead one to think otherwise: that Taheri-azar may have been influenced by what he learned at the MSA more than they would like to admit. Whatever the case, the group has much to answer for itself!
According to the MSA press release, the appearances Taheri-azar made with the group were done in an on-campus “prayer room,” reserved by the MSA. Yet the group's website contradicts this information. Under the heading ‘Quick Facts [FAQ],’ there is contained a link to the question, “Where is the prayer room located?” The link doesn’t lead one to information about an on-campus entity, but instead, it takes one to the homepage of the Islamic Center of Raleigh, also known as the Islamic Association of Raleigh or IAR.
The IAR was established in 1985 by members of the MSA and the Islamic Association of North Carolina (IANC), with seed money from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. That same year, upon invitation by the MSA of N.C. State (where Sami Al-Arian was at the time), Mohammed Bajanonie, a Syrian-born teacher, became the IAR’s “full time” imam, as he still is today.
Numerous speeches made by Bajanonie can be found on IAR’s website. Included in these are his views about Jews, Christians, and jihad:
• “From the transgression, the oppression, and the corruption of the Jews was hindering many from Allah’s Way and dealing with riba (usury/interest) while it is forbidden.” (from ‘Dealing with Riba is one of the Major Sins’)
• “This meaning is emphasized by the saying of the prophet (S.A.W.) when he said, ‘By whom my soul is in His hand, if one, Jew or Christian, heard of me, then died and he/she did not believe in that which I was sent with, then they are from the dwellers of Hell fire.’” (from ‘Definition of the Word Deen & the Word Islam’)
• “Imam Muslim reported that the prophet (S.A.W.) said: ‘The first person, whose case will be adjudicated on the Day of Judgment, will be a martyr… He will say: I carried on Jihad (fighting) in the cause till I was martyred…’” (from ‘How the Judgment is Established in the Day of Judgment’)
• “And also as Allah (S.W.T.) says… ‘You who believe, take not the Jews and the Christians as Auliya’ (friends), they are but Auliya’ to each other. And he amongst you takes them as Auliya’ then surely he is one of them. Verily Allah guides not a people unjust.’” (from ‘Iman is the Tie in the Muslim Society’)
• “And it is not allowed at all for any Muslim to say to them (the Jews and the Christians) that you have the truthful Deen, and you are like us; both of us belong to Ibrahim (Abrahamic religions), because in doing this, he will be rejecting the words of Allah to them (‘You have nothing’), and he will be rejecting Allah.” (from ‘The Truth Has to Be Conveyed Completely’)While the North Carolina MSA’s association with IAR is troubling, the problem with the group goes much further.
On October 12, 2005, the MSA brought Radwan Masmoudi, the founder and President of the Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID), to the UNC campus. The event was entitled ‘The Future of Democracy in the Muslim World.’ The CSID was created by leaders from the American Muslim Council (AMC), a group that publicly pledged its support for Hamas and Hezbollah. It was under Masmoudi’s leadership that Kamran Bokhari, the U.S. representative for Al-Muhajaroun, was made a fellow at CSID.
Towards the end of last month, on February 23 and 24, the MSA held its ‘Special Friday Youth Session’ and ‘Saturday Marriage Session.’ These events featured two of the most radical Islamic speakers in the United States.
Featured in the first event was Mohamed Rida Beshir. Beshir is an advisor for Islam Online, a website that showcases live interviews with leaders of Hamas. He has held various positions with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Muslim American Society (MAS), two groups connected to the violent Muslim Brotherhood. He is a member of the editorial board and a contributing writer for MAS’s magazine, The American Muslim, which has, in the past, called suicide bombings against Israelis “justifiable.”
Beshir has also written for ISNA’s bi-monthly publication, Islamic Horizons. In a piece he co-wrote for Horizons entitled ‘Shielding Young Minds,’ he elaborates on “Prophet” Mohammed’s statement about how “children are born pure (Muslim) and that their parents make them Jews, Christians, or Magians (fire worshippers).” Beshir has also authored articles for The Message International, a publication put out by the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a group that has ties to Pakistan’s version of the Muslim Brotherhood, Jamaat-e-Islami.
Featured in the second event was Amir Abdul Malik Ali. The following are quotes attributed to him, (compiled by Discover the Network):
• “We must implement Islam as a totality,” in which “Allah controls every place – the home, the classroom, the science lab, the halls of Congress.”
• “The enemies of Islam know that when we come back to power we're gonna check 'em.”
• “Stay conscious and ask Allah to raise the Muslims and give us victory over the disbeliever.”
• “When it's all over, the only one standing is gonna be us.”
• “Neo-cons are all Zionist Jews.”
• “You [Jews] are walking into all the traps we want you to walk into. You hijacked American foreign policy.”
• “Sooner or later, today's Muslim students will be the parents of Muslim children. And they should be militants.”
• Zionism is a mixture of “chosen people-ness and white supremacy.”
• “[T]he Israelis were ‘in-control’ of 9-11,” which “was staged to give an excuse to wage war against Muslims around the world.”
• Israelis ought to return “to Germany, to Poland, to Russia. The Germans should hook y'all up. You [Israelis] should go back to Germany.”On February 16, the MSA, in coordination with UNC faculty and Campus Y, a left wing group that features anti-Israel speakers, hosted a vigil and educational dialogue event on university grounds. According to the MSA, the affair was held to shed light on Islam’s “Prophet” Mohammed and the controversy surrounding the Danish cartoons depicting him.
Did this event drive Taheri-azar to act as he did? Law enforcement officials should be investigating that possibility. And if so, the MSA deserves to shoulder some of the blame for the outcome. Indeed, a number of the group’s activities could easily put any would-be Jihadi over the top. But instead of acknowledging some wrongdoing, the MSA chose to take the coward’s way out and dissociate itself from the attacker and, in the process, suggest he was a lunatic.
The vigil and dialogue event put on by the MSA was entitled ‘Extinguishing Ignorance with Knowledge.’ How appropriate that the MSA pled “ignorance,” while their fellow Tar Heel, Taheri-azar, intended to “extinguish” the lives of others...all in the name of Islam.
Posted by Robert at March 7, 2006 4:06 PM
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You imagine if a western person rammed into a crowd of muslims you would never hear the end of it,where are all the left wing liberals now.?
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at March 7, 2006 5:29 PM
Someone knew of his plans and did nothing. SOP should always be: check the papers on all friends, relatives and buddies at the local mosque, bet a few would go home. If they knew thier actions would cause us to take a closer look as to legal status, bet they would behave more.
Posted by: Ronin at March 7, 2006 6:10 PM
Why are we still letting these people imagrate here? Im sorry the middle east sucks, doesnt mean you should come over here an screw up out country anymore then it already is. DE-POR-TA-TION. Taxs dollors well spent right there.
Posted by: jawknee at March 7, 2006 6:18 PM
...on-campus “prayer room"...I.e, masjid, a.k.a., mosque. I'm sure that the public funds for this university are also being used for an on-campus church, synagogue, Buddhist meditation room and Hindu temple. If not, perhaps the on-campus "prayer room" can be used by all. They could start by hanging, or better yet, painting, 12 roman numerals along the walls for the Roman Catholic stations of the cross ritual. The Hindus could set up an icon of Ganesh that others could just obscure with a dignified cloth of some sort when the Hindus aren't using the room.
That's how these things start, a demand for a "prayer room" on the premises of the institution or employer. There is even one at the headquarters building of American Airlines (I've been it it). Whenever I encounter these "prayer rooms" it is like discovering a deadly disease in its most advanced stage in a patient that doesn't even know that they are ill. The body politic of the West has been invaded by a deadly pathogen and while the body's immune system is beginning to show signs that it is fighting back, the prognosis is very grim indeed. It will be a long and painful recovery.
Posted by: Hulegu Khan at March 7, 2006 6:56 PM
"Prayer room"...
And at a state university, to boot.
Hopefully this is the sort of thing like at my undergrad school, where it was merely a "multipurpose room" that happened to be used for Friday prayers (by which time the campus would be largely empty of any Infidel with academic business, anyway), rather than a room set aside for all time.
But, if that is the case-- that there is a designated "Muslim prayer room" on any public university campus-- it's grossly unfair to the other religious groups active on campus that either keep up their own meager facilities, such as a small house or building near campus, or, as student groups, share facilities with the other student orgs... whether those might be the Anime Club, or Hillel.
Posted by: Shinoliite at March 7, 2006 7:37 PM
"I am al Qaida!"
"I am Spartacus!"
I'm a major Muslim farticus.
I wonder: was he drawn somehow by the smell of tar?
at March 7, 2006 7:59 PM
The fact that this incident and the developing story/facts surrounding it are not front page news every day is a sure sign of just how dhimmifide the United States is becoming.
Imagine, if you will, if a white student had run a van through a group of black students -- and he stated that he did it as a testimony to White Supremacy -- we'd be hearing about this non-stop for weeks and it would be deemed a hate crime.
This attack, however, barely gets the attention it requires, despite the fact that a Muslim tries to murder around 15 people (and thankfully failed) and then proclaims he did it for Allah and the Muslim world and to protest the crimes of the United States.
THIS is the kind of act that we need to be aware of -- this will certainly not be the last of its kind. Indeed, this is just the beginning, imho.
Take note, America. When do we start talking about Islam and the danger it poses? When do we start dealing with the reality and stop living the fantasy?
Posted by: Foehammer at March 7, 2006 9:07 PM
I want to know what the "other book" mentioned in the story is, who wrote it and who published it.
"...A paperback copy of the Quran was found in Taheri-azar’s room, along with a book calling for the United States to “confront state sponsors of terrorism.”
at March 7, 2006 10:00 PM
This is not being reported period.
A conspiracy of silence has been imposed.
When the simple truth is that there are thousands of loose cannons in our midst.
D. Ox
http://thomistic.blogspot.com
at March 8, 2006 12:35 AM
I think the word "internment" or "deporatation" should be the word of the week when it comes to the Islamic members of our society. This particular group in NC has been around for 21 years and we can only imagine how many Jihadi's are in training because of them. ALL Islamic groups and mosques should be searched including members and computer records, this is just getting ridiculous, we here voices from both sides of the face of american Muslims. We are patriotic americans, kill infidel americans. If they don't start to clean their own house than the maids of the FBI and CIA and NSA may just start doing it for them.
Posted by: disciple at March 8, 2006 12:48 AM
Like I said this is a big joke. The Feds refuse to step up to the plate and add to the nine attempted murder charges with hate crime or terrorism enhancements. Time for the feds to grow a pair.
Meanwhile the defendant gets a stage, will serve maybe 3 or 4 years (half time for good behavior)and will return to the middle east to a good job, since he was a stand up Muslim.
Maybe this is the start of the indiscrimate daily violence that that Israel suffers and is coming to a street corner in your town.
at March 8, 2006 1:31 AM
Despite my attempts over the years, i doubt that i have persuaded many people of the danger of islam.
Fortunately, in that bizarre way of the world, muslims are persuading even the softest of brains, that islam is dangerous.
This stupidity with the suv should bring the reality of islam home to a few more people.
I'd be happier if enough people were already persuaded and we could get on with some sane preventative measures before we lose any more good people to these as-ho-es; stop muslim immigration, cull through muslims in America/Canada and toss out those who do not have the right to be here, delegitimise islam as a religion so no more 'islamic schools', encourage, through cash payments, muslims to go settle in an islamic country, and more.
This suv attempted murder of a dozen people or more, just underlines the reality; islam is such poison that no muslim can be trusted, even those apparently 'reasonable' muslims.
at March 8, 2006 2:51 AM
When are we going to call a spade a spade??
If this isn't an act of terrorism,,what is?
Everywhere you look muslims are never to blame for anything. This incident is disgusting and although I am not a US citizen,,,I feel it badly!
For goodness sake - DO SOMETHING - guys in the States!!
Now no one is safe anywhere because of these loonies.
Posted by: Gramfan at March 8, 2006 3:47 AM
Why isn't this attack more widely reported? In Europe at least we can blame the 'Euro-Arab Dialogue when such stories are routine ignored. It seems that US media dhimmitude is 'unprovoked'
If Eurabia explains EU dhimmitude what explains US dhimmitude?
Posted by: Sebastien at March 8, 2006 4:14 AM
Sebastian: "Why isn't this attack more widely reported?"
Maybe someone made a phone call:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47771
at March 8, 2006 6:17 AM
The New Duranty Times puts this story as unobtrusively as it possibly can deep inside, on the very bottom right, and leaves the most important aspect -- that it was all being done for "Allah" -- to the very last sentence.
On the other hand, a two-page spread yesterday, and the day before, and the day before, on just how Muslims are getting along in the United States, being introduced by matchmakers (who have "I LOVE NY" stickers on their walls) and who, but for the (unwarranted) climate of suspicion and xenophobia exhibited by non-Muslims, would be fitting right in, just like all those people who got off the boat to be processed at Ellis Island, from Galway, or Palermo, or Odessa, a century ago. Not the slightest difference -- each immigrant group has its problems, its vicissitudes, its uncomprehending new neighbors. But Islam poses no particular problems. Muslims do not bear anything of note in their mental baggage.
You can read and read and read the past four years or more of The New Duranty Times, but you will not find a single article devoted to the passages in the Qur'an, the stories in the Hadith, the details in the life of Muhammad, that Model for all Mankind -- not one, not a single story -- that would help you understand what motivated the man with the SUV in Chapel Hill, or Bouyeri on the streets of Amsterdam, or those who, though they had been raised in England, happily set off bombs in the London Underground for the greater glory of Islam, or those who did so at Atocha Station in Madrid, or those who a decade ago set off bombs in the Paris metro, or those who planned to bomb the Strasbourg Christmas Market, or poison the water supply in Milan, or set off a bomb in honor of the (Infidel) millennium or any of the hundreds and thousands of attacks on non-Muslims in the southern Sudan (or did Arab Muslims do this with no reference to Islam?), or on Christians in the Moluccas, or within Pakistan (leading Bishop John Joseph to commit suicide in protest) or against Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh and in repeated attacks, almost all of them never reported in the West, against Hindus in India itself, or...
You won't be able to make sense of it by reading The New Duranty Times. No one on that paper appears to be able to bring himself to thoroughl inform himself about the tenets of Islam, and to write about those tenets, with specific passages adduced in evidence, or to assign others, or at least permit others (who knows what potential setories have been prevented from being written?) to do so themselves.
The New Duranty Times failed once, when it allowed the eponymous Duranty to report so misleadingly, for so long, on the "non-famine" in the Ukraine and on the wonderfulness of Soviet Russia in the 1930s. It failed again when it neglected to fully inform readers, including many in New York who, if properly alarmed, might have done more to rescue their relatives, about the Nazi attacks on Jews, beginning promptly in 1933.(See the book by the Northeastern University Professor, Laurel Leff).
Now, to win the Trifecta that no newspaper should wish to win, The New Duranty Times is failiing badly to communicate the nature, the contents, the history of Islam. It can report on this or that matchmaker, or on the observation of Ramadan, or on the way in which mosques are ethnically segregated -- or not. Oh, that kind of thing takes nothing at all, disturbs no one, offends no one.
But an article on Sura 9? On the 115 Jihad-passages of The Qur'an? On the Treaty of al-Hudaibiyya and what that implies for any Israeli (or other Infidel) "agreement" with Muslims? On the role of taqiiya or kitman, as evidenced by those phony Muslim Outreach sessions, and the usual selective quotation -- 2.256 and 5.332 (the latter quoted by both Bush and, tellingly, by Boubakeur, the imam of the main Paris mosque).
There is none of this in The New Duranty Times.
Surely the most important duty of any newspaper today is to properly inform its readers about what Islam teaches its adherents about Infidels. Yet how many of the readers of The New Duranty Times have never heard the word "dhimmi," and have no idea of what was required of a "dhimmi" under Muslim rule? How many have ever heard the word "taqiyya," know its origins in Shi'a Islam or how it spread to Sunni Islam? How many understand the new category slyly assigned by the Muslim propagandist Tariq Ramadan to Europoe, so as to justify Muslims "temporarily" adhering to its laws (as they would not do were it defined strictly as dar al-Harb) but now, carefully seen as a matter of "l'entrisme" -- the point of entry, and infiltration, by Muslism practicing conquest through Da'wa and demography?
And would one not expect The New Duranty Times to tell us just a bit about what Muslims define as the instruments of Jihad? shouldn't they be quoted on the subject, for they have hardly remained silent. Just becuase the Bush Amdinistraiton keeps focussing only on military means -- or rather, even more narrowly and even more misleadingly, on "terror" so that we are repeatedly told that we in the Infidel world are engaged in a "war on terror" (an idiotic formulation), would one not expect The New Duranty Times to take the opportunity to mock this mistake by the Bush Adminstration, to expose its folly?
Not, apparently, if in exposing that folly, it were forced to explain to readers why the Jihad has many instruments, and that these include economic warfare, propaganda, Da'wa (the Call to Islam) which is carefully targetted at the psychically and economically marginal so as to exploit their alienation, by offering Islam as a vehicle to express that alienation, and by demographc conquest (not an imaginary weapon, but one disguised endlessly by Muslims themselves).
The New Duranty Times will not come out of this last failure intact. It is shrinking, for other reasons, including the loss of advertising to the Internet. But its shameful performance on the subject of the Jihad and of Islam, allows us to imagine what it must have been like in the 1930s, if one had been, say, a Russian emigre and read with horror the acocunts of Walter Duranty, or had been one of those academic refugges from Nazi Germany who had arrived in, say , 1933, and had been forced to endure the casual, once-over-lightly coverage of the systematic, and murderous antisemitism of the hysterical new German regime, for to do so would be to cause some slight discomfort to the Sulzberger family, the owners of the Times, who would not wish to draw too much attention to their own Harmonie-club Jewishness by seeming to engage in special pleading for Jews, which is what they thought attention to the nature of the Nazi regime would do. How many readers of The New Duranty Times did not become alarmed in time, and rescue relatives -- how much actual blood is on the hands of those who ran, and edited, and wrote for The New Duranty Times in the 1930s -- cannot be calculated. But it must have been flowing in rivers.
And now, when the entire country is full of people who do not know quite what to make of Islam, The New Duranty Times gives us not the truth about what is in Qur'an, Hadith, and Sira, and not even falsehood. No, it does worse. It gives us absolutely nothing at all, as if what Islam teaches, what Muslims are taught to believe, is absolutely irrelevant, to Iraq, to the Sudan, to the Moluccas, to the bombs in Madrid and London, or the SUV careening into a crowd at the student "pit" in Chapel Hill. And the confusion of its readers will continue, world without end.
And once again The New Duranty Times will have failed. Collossally. And all of us will pay for its failure. But this time, with the Internet, there will be other sources of information, and its failure will be, and should be, the end of the line, for The New Duranty Times.
Ubi sunt is not merely for people, but for publications. Where are all those famous newspapers and magazines that seemed to go on forever, but now are no more? They ended. They closed. They lost respect, they lost readers. They turned out not to be immortal.
And that is what will happen, if it does not begin to tell the truth about the most important subject of the age -- Islam -- to The New Duranty Times.
Requiescat, New Duranty Times, but not in peace. You haven't earned that peace. Any peace for those responsible for the current pieces published, and those not published, in The New Duranty Times, would be a peace that passeth understanding.
Posted by: Hugh at March 8, 2006 8:32 AM
I wonder if his copy of the Qur'an was an Arabic version, or an English translation. That seems to matter a great deal, to devout Muslims.
Maybe he could use that to advantage in his defense. "Your Honor, I was led astray by the fact that my Qur'an was an English translation."
Posted by: Abscedere at March 8, 2006 10:25 AM
Thats it!!!!!
We need to use the same legal strategy that Vincent Bugliosi used in the Charles Manson prosecution. If you remember, Manson was not present at any of the murders, he used mind control and drugs to convince a bunch of disaffected kids to strike the first blow to start a race war between blacks and whites.
Imams and other islamic radicals teach their charges that violence and killing is the direct route to hot and cold running virgins in heaven. Why couldnt you use the Vincent Bugliosi strategy to hold a radical Imam criminally responsible for a violent act they have set into action. Alternatively, the RICO act has been applied to criminal enterprises. Why can Imams use their positions to preach violence and then claim the shield of religion to escape responsiblity for what they have wrought.
Posted by: GrimReaperxxx at March 8, 2006 11:53 AM
"for to do so would be to cause some slight discomfort to the Sulzberger family, the owners of the Times, who would not wish to draw too much attention to their own Harmonie-club Jewishness by seeming to engage in special pleading for Jews, which is what they thought attention to the nature of the Nazi regime would do."
Do you have a reference to cite for this conclusion? I would like to read it.
Posted by: jsla at March 8, 2006 12:53 PM
Is the FBI in OKC compromised by the enemy? So many obvious shenanigans going on there and yet the stuff is buried right away. Why haven't we heard about the OU terrorist attack? What happened to Joel's roommates. Why should we believe the head of a Muslim Student Organization when he says that Joel was not a Muslim?
WHAT IS GOING ON IN OKC and NATIONWIDE!!!!?
Posted by: Jim at March 8, 2006 8:41 PM
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