Posted on 03/14/2006 1:43:39 PM PST by quidnunc
"Individual Islamists may appear law-abiding and reasonable, but they are part of a totalitarian movement, and as such, all must be considered potential killers." I wrote those words days after September 11, 2001, and have been criticized for them ever since. But an incident on March 3 at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill suggests I did not go far enough. That was when a just-graduated student named Mohammed Reza Taheriazar, 22, and an Iranian immigrant, drove a sport utility vehicle into a crowded pedestrian zone. He struck nine people but, fortunately, none were severely injured.
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This is what I have dubbed the Sudden Jihad Syndrome, whereby normal appearing Muslims abruptly become violent. It has the awful but legitimate consequence of casting suspicion on all Muslims. Who knows whence the next jihadi? How can one be confident a law-abiding Muslim will not suddenly erupt in a homicidal rage? Yes, of course, their numbers are very small, but they are disproportionately much higher than among non-Muslims.
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(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Only luck and lack of training kept Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar from committing a deadly act in the name of Allah, three terrorism experts said Monday.
Even so, the former high school honor student, who drove a rented sport utility vehicle into a crowded campus gathering spot at UNC-Chapel Hill on March 3, matches the modern profile of the unaffiliated, lone-wolf terrorist.
Such hard-to-track suspects present a burgeoning security challenge to law enforcement and counterterrorism agents, said Solomon Bradman, chief executive officer of Security Solutions International, a Miami company that will present a one-day suicide terror prevention course for local law enforcement officials today at Wake Technical Community College.
"Well, he's a terrorist," Bradman said of Taheri-azar. "In this world of global terrorism, you don't have ties back to any particular group. In this new world, terror comes from incitement — it doesn't come from an organization. The only thing that makes this not look like a terrorist act is that he did a lousy job of it."
Taheri-azar's open-court statement that he plowed a Jeep Cherokee through The Pit, injuring nine people, to avenge the killing of Muslims by the U.S. government echoes the motivations of Middle East suicide bombers and the suicide hijackers of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said Bradman, whose lead lecturer will be Omer Cohen, a former officer with the Israeli internal security and counterintelligence agency Shin Bet.
So far, Taheri-azar, 22, faces only state charges of first-degree attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill for each of the nine people he struck with the rented vehicle. He is being held at Raleigh's Central Prison in lieu of $5.5 million bail.
But Taheri-azar shows the characteristics of a terrorist with religious and cultural motivations, Bradford said. The UNC graduate has said he intended to kill those he struck, will defend himself in court with the aid of Allah and sees a future trial as a forum for instructing people about the will of Allah.
"The person who is willing to do this is the perfect recruit for terrorists," said Bradman. "The guy made a decision and he went through with it. We got lucky he wasn't better trained."
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(Jim Nesbitt in the Raleigh [NC] News & Observer, March 14, 2006)
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I wonder if any of the anti-American professors (which he must have had) had a role in this... for which they can be held liable.
Oh good. Then, during his appeals, he can learn all about the will of Bubba, his horny cellmate.
One case doesn't make a Syndrome. Are there so many other normal, well-behaved people going berserk in the name of jihad? The author should have a list ready.
If our elected representatives were worth a damn they would bar further Muslim immigration and throw out any one of them who gave any indication of this kind of behavior. When are we going to get serious about these people? They mean to kill us all.
The brain washers who brainwashed these zombie fools must be held accountable.
People who knew the 7/7 London Underground bombers made a point of how normal, well-spoken and British-acting the bombers appeared.
You raise a good point but if one looks at this guy's actions as something akin to those of a serial killer (comparing the call of jihad to the urges of a psychopath), we don't need a volume of cases to identify a cause and effect relationship.
What is a reasonable person like you doing in a place like this? LOL ;)
It is an actual category of Terrorism. Law enforcement agencies such as the FBI have identified a pattern of lone-wolf terrorist acts carried out by individuals who appear not to be acting as part of a conventional group, although they may function with the tacit approval of a group, and protect it by operating alone.
Terrorists cited as lone wolves include the Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski (1978-1995), Austrian letter-bomber Franz Fuchs (1993-1997), Cave of the Patriarchs gunman Baruch Goldstein (1994), Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh (1995), Centennial Olympic park bomber Eric Robert Rudolph (1996), "London Nailbomber" David Copeland (1999), and gunman Buford O. Furrow, Jr. (1999).
Examples are:
The Christian Identity adherent, Eric Robert Rudolph, who between 1996 and 1998 launched a series of attacks against civilians in the American south, resulting in the deaths of three people and injuries to at least 150 others.
Timothy McVeigh, an American domestic terrorist convicted and executed for the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people and injured hundreds with a bomb-laden truck.
Baruch Goldstein, previously associated with Kach, who on February 24, 1994 opened fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, killing 29 people and injuring at least 100.
The neo-Nazi David Copeland, who became known as the "London nailbomber" after a 12-day bombing campaign in April 1999 aimed at London's black, Asian, and gay communities, killing three and injuring 129.
Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the "Unabomber", who attempted to fight against what he perceived as the evils of technological progress by engaging in an almost eighteen-year-long campaign of sending mail bombs to various people, killing three and wounding 29.
Buford O. Furrow, Jr., a member of the white-supremacist group Aryan Nations, who on August 10 1999 attacked a Jewish daycare in Los Angeles, injuring five, and subsequently shot dead a Filipino American US Postal Service carrier.
On August 4, 2005, Eden Natan-Zada, 19, an armed Israeli soldier who had been AWOL for weeks, shot dead four Israeli Arabs on a bus and wounded 12. An Arab crowd then lynched him. Natan-Zada had recently turned to religious extremism and had deserted his unit after he refused to remove settlers from the Gaza Strip. He was believed to have involvement with the illegal Kach group. Prime minister Ariel Sharon described the incident as "a reprehensible act by a bloodthirsty Jewish terrorist who sought to attack innocent Israeli citizens." [1] However, under Israeli law, only attacks by "enemies of Israel" are considered terrorism, and so Natan-Zada has not been legally recognised as a terrorist nor the people he killed as victims of terrorism (leading to calls for a change in Israeli law) [2].
On Wednesday, August 17, 2005, in an attempt to disrupt Israel's planned disengagement from the Gaza Strip, Asher Weisgan, a 40-year old Israeli bus-driver, shot and killed four Palestinians and injured two others in the West Bank settlement of Shiloh. The Palestinians worked in the settlement's aluminum factory and two of them had been driven there by Weisgan. He had snatched the rifle used in the slayings from a settlement guard, after threatening him with a knife. The Haaretz newspaper quoted Weisgan as saying before entering a courthouse outside of Tel Aviv, "I'm not sorry for what I did." Ariel Sharon said of the attack, "I view this act of Jewish terror, which was aimed at innocent Palestinians with the twisted thinking that it would stop the disengagement plan, very gravely."
On November 4, 1995, Yigal Amir, a follower of Meir Kahane, assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and injured a security guard at a rally held in support of the Oslo Accords in Tel Aviv, and was sentenced to life plus 14 years in prison. Amir was a law student at Bar-Ilan University and a right-wing activist who had strenuously opposed Rabin's signing of the Accords.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/27/terror.alert/
So, no problem, this is what I do as the general public is not aware of what terrorist actions, types, capabilities are...........the answer I gave was cut and pasted, from other sources to save time. The other types are what you know as terrorist cells which could include a sleeper cell etc..........Those are very bad. They were sent here years ago, to integrate into a society and gave the trust of the indigneous people. When activated, they start killing. It could be anyone of any nationality for whatever cause.
He is not even close to a serial killer. Completely different profile. They are like night and day......he was motivated by the passion he had for Islam. They are not all Islamic by no stretch of the imagination. I just gave example of several that nothing to do with Islam.
Obviously, the solution is to ethnically cleanse all traces of islam from the western hemisphere at least and the entire civilized world preferably.
A little on the slow side, ain't he?
I do believe I could put together such an attack a good deal more quickly, should I choose to do so.
LOL
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/04/AR2005060400147.html
Just more background on a long wolf terrorist.
Cheese and crackers, man. Can you read?
Different profile???
I didn't say this perpetrator was a serial killer. I suggested using a different paradigm for looking at the case.
Like that fellow in the (LA?) airport who shot Jewish counter clerks. My wife and I have ceased going to Mohammedan doctors. There are several who are probably the best ones hereabouts but I don't want to be in one's office when he feels that call from allah.
It is an open question as to whether McVeigh had anything to do with Islamics. His movements and associations indicate, not adherence to the religion but cooperating with Iraqis to further his own vision.
There is a complete difference between serial killers and mass murderers. A basic difference is that a mass murderer whacks out a bunch of folks at one time in one place. An example would be the fellow that murdered several folks at a McDonalds in San Diego 20 years ago. A serial killer kills more than one person at different times, and places. Their motives are entirely different. Mass murderers are usually highly pissed off, and serial killers are thrill/sexual murderers.
Okay......good.
Yes.....there are rumors that he was linked; some that he acted as the White supremist or alone and not linked with Islamist. He is still characterized as a lone wolf terrorist due to no clear terrorist cell link.
Victory in WWII was achievable. We fought known sovereign entities whose soldiers wore uniforms and fought together as functional armed units. One had only to invade, kill, suppress, and claim victory upon surrender.
That paradigm is no longer functional.
The enemy this time is a ghost. It doesn't expose itself by wearing uniforms, or staking out the high ground. It operates across porous international borders and receives support and funding from a host of terrorist nations, all bent upon the destruction of Christianity, Israel, and the United States of America.
You cannot ambush them, you cannot draw them out, you cannot stop them from killing. These are religious fanatics following a 12th century religion based on evil and murder.
The new paradigm is that we should not entertain the notion of victory, merely that we believe we have and are making progress toward a defined goal. Victory, as such, is clearly non-attainable in this war.
This war and its terrorist acts will continue next month, next year, and for as long a single muslim walks the face of this earth.
America, as an open and free society hypnotized by the political correctness of liberalism, socialism and communism lacks the ability to address global terrorism and its sponsors; namely, the total eradication of murderous muslim states now before the United States and Israel are subjected to horrendous civilian slaughter.
Unable to act now, we are destined to suffer unimaginable misery and death in future years as we allow the muslim threat to our lives and our nation to grow exponentially.
The new paradigm insists we act now or suffer the inevitable consequences of our inaction.
Exactly.......you are right. The student in question was neither. He is characterized as a lone wolf terrorist.
Basically serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of individuals usually unknown to them beforehand. The terms "serial killer" and "mass murderer" are used synonymously on many occasions, however, experts do distinguish between the two. The following distinctions are commonly made:
The Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a serial killing as: the killing of several victims in three or more separate events." The definition is especially close to that of a spree killer, and the main difference between the two, maybe; is that a serial killer tends to "lure" victims to their death, whereas a spree killer tends to go "hunting."
Serial killers are often acting on extreme sadistic urges and are often classified as sociopathic or psychotic and lacking any ability to empathize with the suffering of others. In many cases, a serial killer will plead not guilty by reason of insanity. In the United States this defense is almost universally unsuccessful.
Their crimes are committed as a result of some compulsion, maybe a dysfunctional youth, in many but not all cases, has roots in the killer's motives. Interestingly enough, many times this compulsion is linked to the individual's sexual drive.
The term allows authorities distinguish those who kill several people over a long period of time from those who kill several people during a single event (mass murderers).
A third type of multiple killer is the spree killer.
The following are brief definitions of these three types:
• A serial killer is someone who commits three or more murders over an extended period of time with cooling-off periods in between. In between their crimes, they appear to be quite normal, a state which Hervey Cleckley and Robert Hare call the "mask of sanity." There is frequently—but not always—a sexual element to the murders.
• A mass murderer, on the other hand, is an individual who kills three or more people in a single event and in one location. The perpetrators sometimes commit suicide, meaning knowledge of their state of mind and what triggers their actions is often left to more speculation than fact. Mass murderers who are caught sometimes claim they cannot clearly remember the event.
• A spree killer commits multiple murders in different locations over a period of time that may vary from a few hours to several days. Unlike serial killers, however, they do not revert to their normal behavior in between slayings. A spree killer kills in a series of closely connected events.
All of the above types of crimes are usually carried out by solitary individuals. There have been examples in all three categories in which two or more perpetrators have acted together.
There are other types of multiple killings as well, although they often involve larger organizations than two or three perpetrators: genocide and terrorist attacks.
My only real point was that this student in N.C. can be considered as a classic example of a lone wolf terrorist.
BTW, your perspective that this act at UNC fits the profile of known lone wolf terrorists is quite interesting. The pull of nazism is an interesting parallel for the pull of islam.
Nazism and islam are very similar and might have a similar effect on a loner under their respective influences.
As you probably know, Nazism and islam are both supremicist doctrines. A somewhat ordinary predator/prey concept is part and parcel of each of them.
Still goes to motive (or in this case motivating dogma/doctrine/religion).
Absolutely.....it is not limited to Islam by no means.
I would like to know however, what really caused him to pick the day and the method. If he was a member of a terrorist group, he would have succeeded by either suicide bomb, simple pipebomb, handgun, etc in the studend union, cafeteria, or even the library at its busiest times. Even a sports event. I heard he planned for two years? So, he certianly fits the category of a lone wolf because of his failure.
Was it a professor, relative, emails, some things he read, other students on campus, at the mosque.....something keyed him on.....
Religion for sure.......as he said this himself. The drive for this is strong, evidenced by the suicide bombers and the maticulous planning that goes into it to the dedicated run. Islam promotes this.......
http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=838wmv&ak=null
http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=807wmv&ak=null
http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=607wmv&ak=null
I actually feel a little sorry for some muslim "followers". They are stuck by family, thousands of years of brainwashing, Clerics and Imams that spread fear, that they are bound to Islam, even under the fear of death if they leave the Islamic faith. We will still deal with them harshly, but I find it sad.
Now, the Koran forbids suicide on paper....but, just like the Japanese lied to the Kamakazi..that suicide was part of the culture of warriors. It was not part of the Samurai tradition to commit suicide in order to defeat the enemy. The truth is suicide was only accepted if they lost face or lost a battle.
The Imams say that suicide is not in the Koran, but,.....it's okay to kill yourself if you are killing an enemy. Wrong!, no matter how you look at it, it's suicide...........The Koran is written in a way to manipulate a lost soul to do the bidding of the Imams and promote Islamic expansion by murdering innocent people.
As a friend wrote and said to me.....
"these men (and women and children) aren't committing Suicide, they are making themselves martyrs or Shahids, because they are voluntarily dying in "the struggle for Allah" (Jihad).
And Islamic scriptures tell Shaheeds (martyrs') that if they die in the struggle for Allah,, they get an immediate passport to the 7th Level of Jennah (Paradise) and no accounting of sins in the Kitab (Book) that Allah already wrote and which others must pass.
That also explains why they go out drink, and commit sins before they are purified (shaved, aboluted, and annointed) before they go and become martyrs.
Now the Muslims will of course argue and obfuscate those facts, but these are facts, that these "martyrs', Shaheeds, suicide bombers are recognized as that in Palestine (and Iraq) they are memoralized and the death of a "martyr"(suicide bomber) is treated as the Great Wedding, and the families of these Shaheeds receive a bonus (last I read) it was $25,000 from the Saudis, and the family enjoys high status and privileges for providing the cause with Shaheeds.
The argument is semantics, and the kaffiri, ignorant of Arabic and Islam is easily confused, misled and obfuscated.. It is also easier to say "suicide bomber" than a "martyr for allah", and calling a suicide bomber is politically disadvantageous, to call him or her a Martyr is to somehow elevate their status and cause in a world in which "The Persecution Game" is operative and pays so many dividends.
Maya Angelou wrote in her autobiography: "Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the state of victimization." Once you have acquired this status, you can do no wrong, or the wrong that you do can always be excused because you are, after all, one of the oppressed."
Read the article, he lists multiple examples. I'm all out of patience with Islam.
I'm afraid some of that horrendous civilian slaughter is going to have to happen, in this country, before the majority see the sense of the rest of your post.
The enemy is not so much men, but an idea. As long as we have wealthy Saudis financing radical mosques and madrassas all over the world, the problem will persist.
The first step is to deal with the money men who make up the Golden Chain
What a waste of time post!
The Quiet-Spoken Muslims Americans Who Turn to Terror
Now...
That's news!
The Islamic interpretation is that killing yourself (but ONLY yourself) is suicide and that kind of suicide is bad. But dying while killing infidels is martyrdom, and that is good. Islam teaches that the ONLY way to be sure of heaven is to die while fighting the enemies of Islam. This makes what we call "suicide bombing" a highly desirable form of martyrdom
Why suicide bombing? It guarantees to the bomber an instantaneous (and thus painless) death. If you show up with a gun and lots of ammo, you may kill more people, but you run the risk of being wounded and captured instead of killed. And if wounded, you may be in pain for a while. Muslims fear pain and suffering as much as anybody else. The suicide bombers and 9/11 hijackers were aiming for pain-free martyrdom
Beautifully said...I agree.
I got this email a little while ago. Not sure who started it, but it raises some good points. Can't say I agree with all of them, some I'm not sure are even accurate. But several of them are key points.
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Can Muslims be Good Americans?
Can a devout Muslim be an American patriot and a loyal citizen?
Consider this:
Theologically, no. Because his allegiance is to Allah, the moon god of Arabia.
Scripturally, no. Because his allegiance is to the five pillars of Islam and the Quran (Koran).
Geographically, no. Because his allegiance is to Mecca, to which he turns in prayer five times a day.
Socially, no. Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews.
Politically, no. Because he must submit to the mullah (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and destruction of America, the great Satan.
Domestically, no, because he is instructed to marry four women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him. (Quran 4:34).
Religiously, no. Because no other religion is accepted by his Allah except Islam. (Quran, 2:256)
Intellectually, no, because he cannot accept the American Constitution since it is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be corrupt.
Philosophically, no, because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran do not allow freedom of religion and expression. Democracy and Islam cannot coexist.
Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic.
Spiritually, no, because when we declare "one nation under God," the Christian's God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to as our heavenly father, nor is he ever called love in the Quran's 99 excellent names.
Therefore after much study and deliberation....perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. They obviously cannot be both good Muslims and good Americans. Call it what you wish...it's still
the truth. If you find yourself intellectually in agreement with the above, perhaps you will share this with your friends.
The more who understand this, the better it will be for our country. Pass it on. This war is bigger than we know!!
Thanks......good answer and clear.
A keeper.....copied and pasted....thanks
A beautifully and brutally truthful illustration!
A.A.C.
Good to know that you are there!
I think you pretty much nailed it Doc. The country needs statesmen in positions of leadership, not these "islam is the religion of love" grabasses.
A picture can so easily convey 1000 words.
No wonder they don't like depictions of their demon possessed "prophet." It's information they can't control unless they prohibit all depictions entirely.
Just saw on FOX NEWS, that this little terroist has been sending letters and/or emails to newspapers, stating that he pretty much was justified in doing his dirty work because anyone who defends the United States government, is not worthy to live. Who let this nut case into the states, anyway? Feed these terrorists to the sharks in San Francisco Bay...
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