Debbie Schlussel: Muslim Jeep Attack on UNC Students Not a First
Considerable media attention has focused on Mohammed Reza Taheri-Azar's "drive-through" attempted mass-murder of students at the University of North Carolina.
But it's hardly the first such attack by a Muslim college student (Taheri-Azar is a recent grad of UNC and an Iranian native) in America, this year. Flashback to Ali R. Warrayat, Arizona State student and Palestinian native of Jordan, and his drive-through attack at Home Depot in mid-December. Like Taheri-Azar, Warrayat was also in his early twenties.
Images on Warrayat's "computer depicted men lighting Molotov cocktails and a cartoon of two bloodied and dead children with a Middle Eastern flag in the background." He said he attacked because he was mad at the U.S. for proposing (but never implementing) the idea to put a wall on our border with Mexico.
Taheri-Azar said his attack was fomented to "avenge the deaths or murders of Muslims around the world."
In both instances, authorities refused to call it what it is: Islamic terrorism.
While Taheri-Azar used his perceived "war on Muslims" and--reportedly the Mohammed cartoons--as his excuse, Warrayat--who had the Koran with him--used the lack of open borders (who is he kidding about that?) as his excuse. Borders in December, war and cartoons in March. There's never a shortage of excuses--but never a legitimate reason--for extremist Muslims to attack innocent Americans.
Question: Did they hijack their religion . . . or did it hijack them?
Posted by Debbie on March 6, 2006 10:07 AM to Debbie Schlussel