Students To Protest UNC's Reluctance To Label Pit Incident Terrorism

WRAL.com ^ | 3/6/06

[mathprof]

Protests are planned for Monday in the same area of campus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where, authorities said, a former student plowed a sport utility vehicle into nine people Friday afternoon.

The College Republicans, Americans for an Informed Democracy and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies are sponsoring the event, scheduled for 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Monday in "The Pit," a central area of the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. The event is open to the public and free of charge.

Police said Mohammad Taheri-azar, a 2005 UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, admits he acted to "avenge the death of Muslims around the world." UNC police and local authorities, however, say they have not taken a stance on that interpretation, but are simply repeating what the suspect has told them.

UNC-Chapel Hill student leaders said that Monday's protest is aimed at the reluctance of the university to label Friday's incident as an act of terrorism.

"This is innocent people being attacked by an SUV, driven by a man who was doing it for retaliation for treatment of Muslims around the world," said Jillian Bandes, with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. "To me, that spells terrorism."

Taheri-azar, who is currently in Raleigh's Central Prison under a $5.5 million bond, is charged with nine counts of attempted first-degree murder and nine counts of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury with intent to kill.

Because of what Taheri-azar admitted to local authorities, the FBI is also participating in the investigation. FBI spokesman Ken Lucas said Sunday, however, that a federal investigation is still ongoing.

[mathprof]

A practitioner of the religion of peace:

[.cnI redruM]

as the administrators at UNC urge us all to remain calm and accept our dhimmitude.

[MattinNJ]

I have an idea. Let him work at our ports. Oh wait, that's right. He's Iranian and not from the UAE who are our friends.

[Pride in the USA]

My first clue that this might well be an act of terrorism was when Rush said that it was a WHITE SUV that the perp drove into the students.

[Coop]

I have an idea. Let him work at our ports.

LOL! I admire you. Most of the port critics have faded quietly into the background as their weak arguments have been picked apart again and again. But not you! You go charging right into an unrelated thread to proudly show off your flag!

[Full Court]

I noticed they kept id'ing him as a UNC grad rather than a Muslim.

[MattinNJ]

Thanks. I was proud of that post on several levels and am glad someone noticed my determination and the hijacking of a thread.

[G.Mason]

You should enjoy this.

Mash here

"Trying to make some sense of it all,
But I can see that it makes no sense at all,
Is it cool to go to sleep on the floor,
'Cause I don't think that I can take anymore
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you."

[GBA]

This should force UNC to re-evaluate their misguided world view about Islamic terrorism. It is UNC's very own 9/11 event and probably would be viewed as such if people had been killed instead of "just" seriously injured. As it is, I await the liberal cries that the SUV should be arrested and the Iranian terrorist is really just a freedom fighter/political prisoner of GWB.

[yldstrk]

It is DEFINITLY terrorism!!!!!!!!

[RightWingAtheist]

He looks like the lead singer for Linkin Park.

[texasmountainman]

He wanted to "avenge the death of Muslims around the world", huh?

Then he should go after Saddam, Bin Laden, Zarqawi, etc. They have killed many more Muslims than anyone else.

[Doc Savage]

I feel sad for the students hurt. Luckily they weren't killed. But I would have laughed my ass off if this mutant had killed several students only to find out they were Muslims! If all the students had been Black, the a-hole police department would have immediately labeled this a "Hate Crime!"

If he had hit a bunch of homosexuals planning their next juvenile seduction or bath house orgy the Keystone Kops would have immediately called Hollyweird and sold the movie rights!

But Christians and Jews? Mere infidels who should not regarded as human. So you kill a couple of white kids for Allah,..so what!

[Logic n' Reason]

Indeed; agree completely.

[MattinNJ]

LOL

[Flavius Josephus]

I have an idea. Let him work at our ports. Oh wait, that's right. He's Iranian and not from the UAE who are our friends.

You BIGOT! Just because he's Iranian doesn't mean he's a bad person. He should be trusted with anything he demands.

[devolve]

[Flavius Josephus]

I too keep thinking that the way to stop this kind of thing is to outlaw SUVs.

[Jaded]

"This is innocent people being attacked by an SUV, driven by a man who was doing it for retaliation for treatment of Muslims around the world," said Jillian Bandes,

I'm sure the SUV forced him. /so

[ricks_place]

"This is innocent people being attacked by an SUV...

Ban SUVs. SUVs are evil. Save the whales. Hug a tree.