Muslim says Quran justified attack in N.C

Chicago Sun Times ^ | March 22, 2006

[Lorianne]

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The man who hit nine people with a sport utility vehicle on the University of North Carolina's Chapel Hill campus wrote a letter to a television reporter saying he read the Quran's 114 chapters 15 times and found that the Muslim holy book justified the attack.

''I did not act out of hatred for Americans, but out of love for Allah instead,'' Mohammed Taheri-azar, 22, wrote in a letter to Amber Rupinta dated March 10 posted on WTVD's Web site.

Police say that just before lunchtime March 3, Taheri-azar drove a rented 2006 Jeep Cherokee through the Pit, a popular gathering place at the school from which he graduated. The SUV hit nine people, but none was injured seriously. He then drove off and calmly called 911 to surrender.

Taheri-azar faces one charge of attempted first-degree murder and a felony assault count for each of the nine people hit. He is being held in lieu of $5.5 million bail.

In the letter, Taheri-azar reiterated what he has told law officers and a 911 dispatcher, that the attack ''was in retaliation for similar attacks orchestrated by the U.S. government on my fellow followers of Allah in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, and other Islamic territories.''

Taheri-azar wrote that he began his readings of the Quran in June 2003. He called the book ''a scientific and mathematical miracle, so there can be no doubt that it is from a supernatural source.''

[claudiustg]

---In the Qur’an, Allah states that the believing men and women have permission to murder anyone responsible for the killing of other believing men and women. I know that the Qur’an is a legitimate and authoritative holy scripture since it is completely validated by modern science and also mathematically encoded with the number 19 beyond human ability. ---

Well, there you go. If the number 19 is encoded beyond human ability, we'll have to set him free and possibly give him a grant and a tenure someplace.

[A. Pole]

Muslim says Quran justified attack in N.C

I guess it did justify.

[PoParma]

Thanks. So that's how it works? Like 1 idiot hits 9 innocents, -- scientifically makes 1+9 = 19

I see the light !

[jimfree]

The quran doesn't justify anything and nothing justifies the quran.

[PeteB570]

So you drink Foster's in the "oil cans"?

:-)

[cf_river_rat]

He called the book ''a scientific and mathematical miracle, so there can be no doubt that it is from a supernatural source.''

[Tom D.]

Help Mohammad hump the goats. If you can't read Dutch, you use the arrow keys on your keyboard to propel Mohammad towards the objects of his lust.

http://www.geitenneuker.nl/