The Cartoon Jihad Comes To America
I figured that Thomas would pick up on this topic yesterday. I guess I was mistaken. (He has been a bit under the weather.) But, yes, the Cartoon Jihad has arrived in America.
The driver of an SUV that plowed into a group of pedestrians at UNC-Chapel Hill on Friday told police it was retribution for the treatment of Muslims around the world, according to ABC News.
It happened around noon Friday in front of Lenoir Hall on the campus, in a common area known as the Pit. Paramedics took six people to UNC Hospitals. Five had been released by Friday evening and the sixth was not expected to be admitted.
Officials say none of the people were seriously injured. Three refused treatment at the scene.
Chapel Hill police say they arrested the suspect, Mohammed Reza Taheriazar, 23, of Chapel Hill, shortly after the incident. Several witnesses were able to give police the rented Jeep Cherokee's license plate number.
Police said they would charge Taheriazar, a psychology major who graduated from UNC last semester, with several counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.
...Sources say Taheriazar told police he was seeking retribution for the treatment of Muslims around the world, according to ABC News justice correspondent Pierre Thomas. Taheriazar apparently told police he tried to rent the biggest SUV he could find to use in the attack.
By Friday afternoon, a police SWAT team had surrounded a Carrboro apartment complex where Taheriazar reportedly lived.
I am interested to know of what improper treatment Mr. Taheriazar is referring to. For the most part, the world has treated Muslims, in general, with kid gloves. Society has done it's best not to offend them. If this is in regard to the Mohammed Cartoons published by the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, I am sorry but the world has already apologized for those. So have the Danes. Enough of this already.
His intent is quite clear by what has come out from sources within the police department in North Carolina. He intended to injure or kill innocent people. This is not simply a crime; in my opinion, it is an act of domestic terrorism, and should be treated as such.
This is the thanks the United States gets. We are in a war against the radical elements of Islam. We have never included the moderates among those we are fighting. We have taken politically-correct steps not to offend them. We have given them the benefit of the doubt, and not mistreated them in any way. Yet, this is how we are repaid. Out of every nation on earth, America is one of the most open and tolerant nations. We have shown this time and again. Yet, we are consistently painted as the bad guy.
Is this how we are to be repaid for our troubles of making sure the nation--the world--does not turn against this religion, as a whole? We have tried to make sure people do not confuse the moderates with the radicals. Indeed, even a number of well-known moderates created a manifesto against the actions of the radicals throwing a fit over the cartoons. Well over one hundred people have been killed, and countless others injured, in the violence surrounding these cartoons. To the moderates, enough is enough; they are no longer staying silent.
It is disheartening that this sort of behavior occurs. Mr. Taheriazar was educated here in America, and reaped the benfits of a free nation. That is a far cry from the nation he originated from, according to the Raleigh News & Observer. Mr. Taheriazar came from Iran; an extremely repressive regime. That is a far cry from America, and one would think living in the states, the man might have softened his heart a little. Obviously he did not, and his actions could have hurt more than just the few that ended up going to the hospital. But this should serve as a wake-up call for the country as much as 9/11 did.
There are people here in this nation with intent to do us harm, and it may take something as simple as a cartoon to set them off. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." Wise words from Thomas Jefferson, and words we should remember.
The Bunny ;)
I figured that Thomas would pick up on this topic yesterday. I guess I was mistaken. (He has been a bit under the weather.) But, yes, the Cartoon Jihad has arrived in America.
The driver of an SUV that plowed into a group of pedestrians at UNC-Chapel Hill on Friday told police it was retribution for the treatment of Muslims around the world, according to ABC News.
It happened around noon Friday in front of Lenoir Hall on the campus, in a common area known as the Pit. Paramedics took six people to UNC Hospitals. Five had been released by Friday evening and the sixth was not expected to be admitted.
Officials say none of the people were seriously injured. Three refused treatment at the scene.
Chapel Hill police say they arrested the suspect, Mohammed Reza Taheriazar, 23, of Chapel Hill, shortly after the incident. Several witnesses were able to give police the rented Jeep Cherokee's license plate number.
Police said they would charge Taheriazar, a psychology major who graduated from UNC last semester, with several counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.
...Sources say Taheriazar told police he was seeking retribution for the treatment of Muslims around the world, according to ABC News justice correspondent Pierre Thomas. Taheriazar apparently told police he tried to rent the biggest SUV he could find to use in the attack.
By Friday afternoon, a police SWAT team had surrounded a Carrboro apartment complex where Taheriazar reportedly lived.
I am interested to know of what improper treatment Mr. Taheriazar is referring to. For the most part, the world has treated Muslims, in general, with kid gloves. Society has done it's best not to offend them. If this is in regard to the Mohammed Cartoons published by the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, I am sorry but the world has already apologized for those. So have the Danes. Enough of this already.
His intent is quite clear by what has come out from sources within the police department in North Carolina. He intended to injure or kill innocent people. This is not simply a crime; in my opinion, it is an act of domestic terrorism, and should be treated as such.
This is the thanks the United States gets. We are in a war against the radical elements of Islam. We have never included the moderates among those we are fighting. We have taken politically-correct steps not to offend them. We have given them the benefit of the doubt, and not mistreated them in any way. Yet, this is how we are repaid. Out of every nation on earth, America is one of the most open and tolerant nations. We have shown this time and again. Yet, we are consistently painted as the bad guy.
Is this how we are to be repaid for our troubles of making sure the nation--the world--does not turn against this religion, as a whole? We have tried to make sure people do not confuse the moderates with the radicals. Indeed, even a number of well-known moderates created a manifesto against the actions of the radicals throwing a fit over the cartoons. Well over one hundred people have been killed, and countless others injured, in the violence surrounding these cartoons. To the moderates, enough is enough; they are no longer staying silent.
It is disheartening that this sort of behavior occurs. Mr. Taheriazar was educated here in America, and reaped the benfits of a free nation. That is a far cry from the nation he originated from, according to the Raleigh News & Observer. Mr. Taheriazar came from Iran; an extremely repressive regime. That is a far cry from America, and one would think living in the states, the man might have softened his heart a little. Obviously he did not, and his actions could have hurt more than just the few that ended up going to the hospital. But this should serve as a wake-up call for the country as much as 9/11 did.
There are people here in this nation with intent to do us harm, and it may take something as simple as a cartoon to set them off. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." Wise words from Thomas Jefferson, and words we should remember.
The Bunny ;)
posted by Syd And Vaughn | 7:45 PM
1 Comments:
You and this blog entry epitomise why the international community has a low view of Americans.
First you have a couple of factual errors. No one has appologised for the publication of the cartoons. I don't personally think it is necessary to do so, but none the less it has not happened. The number dead is actually around 44 to date, not in the hundreds.
But what I dislike about this blog is the sickening self congratulatory way you idealise the way you imagine your country conducts its international policy.
I know it must be hard when you have a propaganda machine in your media which makes China's look moderate. But could you for one second think about how you sound. You imply that "moderate Muslims" should be in some way grateful for the attack you have made in Iraq and Afghanistan. You say you are waging war on the extremists, but in fact you are beating and torturing the innocent occupiers of a foreign country. I know this because I am Brittish and I feel the guilt of what my countrymen are doing over there.
And unless you are extremely dense you must now have realised that the war you are waging was about oil, everyone in the UK has realised that now. Yes everyone.
And you go on to say that this person should have some kind of eternal debt of gratitude for being allowed the "freedoms" of America. Hmmm. I wonder how free the black community feels. How long ago was it now you had them in separate sections of the bus? Could it be the unbelieveable repression your country imposes on others made this man react the way he did. Not that I am condoning his actions mind, it is a bizzare form of protest for sure.
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