March 07, 2006
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 6 -- A University of North Carolina graduate from Iran, accused of running down nine people on campus to avenge the treatment of Muslims, said at a hearing Monday that he was "thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah."Okay, this guy rents an SUV for the express purpose of attacking UNC students to make a statement about the treatment of Muslims. He deliberately drives onto a campus area open only to foot traffic and hits nine of them, and only random chance prevents death or serious injury to anyone. Attacking innocent people to generate fear. This is the very definition of terrorism. Pretty straight forward case here, it would seem, unless you read this LA Times story:
SUV Attack Prompts Debate Over 'Terrorism' and IslamThis is what we get for allowing creatures like Ward Churchill and Jay Bennish to educate our youth.So Mann, a member of the College Republicans, attended a rally organized by that group and student members of two others Monday morning at the scene of the SUV incident. He and a few dozen students handed out American flags and made off-the-cuff pleas for UNC students to stand united.
But because they also denounced the act as terrorism, the rally emerged as the latest controversy on this multicultural campus over the way language and image are deployed in conversations about Islam.
Mann's group was met at lunchtime by a boisterous, impromptu group of counter-demonstrators who argued that the rally wasn't helping to heal wounds. Especially insensitive, they said, was the insistence on calling the incident terrorism.
Michelle Malkin asks, "Can we call it terrorism yet?"
Captain Ed says yes:
Terrorism...is the use of violence or the threat of violence against civilian populations in order to advance a political or religious philosophy.Also posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto and Vince Aut Morire.
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Posted by: goesh at March 07, 2006 01:30 PM (vX0fY)
Anyway - now the real fun starts - lawyers can now sue the car rental agency and vehicle manufactor for damages and negligence. They can sue the university - but its a state institution and it takes forever to collect.
Posted by: hondo at March 07, 2006 01:59 PM (fyKFC)
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Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at March 07, 2006 02:32 PM (8e/V4)
He is going to have a hard lesson at the end of the trial when he finds out that it is the court that will be spreading the will of Allah. Then Allah will use Bubba as his tool for delivering his message to this terrorist.
Posted by: Fred Fry at March 07, 2006 02:37 PM (JXdhy)
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Posted by: Kerry at March 07, 2006 03:40 PM (AOFPD)
soon they wanted the EXTREMISTS;
then they culled the ACTIVISTS;
after awhile it was the PROGRESSIVES;
and LIBERALS . . . . DEMOCRATS . . . . MODERATES. . . .
You'll need some very large domestic detention camps to house hate that deep.
Posted by: Steve Cone at March 07, 2006 04:56 PM (JIHfi)
Are you saying we should hold hands, and sing songs with the terrorists? I do not think most American men will want to do that.
I think what you are trying to write goes something like this: First, they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew. Then they came for the etc...
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