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nvestor's Business Daily ^ | August 30, 2006 | Editorial

Posted on 08/30/2006 6:16:54 PM PDT by quidnunc

What would possess a Muslim motorist to drive around San Francisco Bay Area streets in his SUV and deliberately run over pedestrians, including kids? Insanity, shrugs the mainstream media.

Omeed Aziz Popal was taken into custody Tuesday after a hit-and-run spree that terrorized pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists for a full hour, killing one and injuring 14. The news treated the bloody rampage like a random act of violence.

Those in the media who didn't brush it off as an "inexplicable tragedy" before moving on to the next story focused on the alleged mental illness and not the religion of suspect Popal, a native of Afghanistan. His lawyer claims he'd been treated for a nervous breakdown. A cousin offered that Popal, who'd returned two weeks earlier from Afghanistan, might have been stressed over an arranged marriage.

But police, who say victims were hit intentionally and methodically in a dozen different locations throughout the area, aren't buying it.

The clean-cut 29-year-old seemed calm, coherent and unrepentant when they pulled him from his black Honda SUV. It was as he was being arrested that a woman heard Popal say "I'm a terrorist," a statement that, as of Wednesday afternoon, only KTVU in San Francisco was reporting.

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It's significant because last month a Muslim immigrant from Pakistan went on a shooting rampage at a Seattle Jewish center. After coldly and deliberately shooting six women there, suspect Naveed Haq announced, "I'm a Muslim-American; I'm angry at Israel."

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TOPICS: Editorial; War on Terror
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The San Francisco attack is also reminiscent of the hit-and-run rampage last spring at the University of North Carolina in which another angry Muslim lashed out at infidels by hitting nine people with a big SUV he'd rented for the occasion.

Same with other freelance terrorists. The Beltway snipers were Muslim converts who admired the 9-11 hijackers. They said their goal was to "terrorize" Washington. One wrote in his diary: "Islam. We will resist. We will conquer." Some news outlets couldn't bring themselves to say the leader's legally changed Muslim name, John Muhammad, using instead his previous name John Allen Williams.

1 posted on 08/30/2006 6:16:54 PM PDT by quidnunc
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To: quidnunc

bump


2 posted on 08/30/2006 6:19:29 PM PDT by tje (Cold hearted orb, that rules the night....)
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To: quidnunc
A cousin offered that Popal, who'd returned two weeks earlier from Afghanistan, might have been stressed over an arranged marriage.

He found out that the wife to be had picked out a perfectly ugly flatware pattern.

3 posted on 08/30/2006 6:20:44 PM PDT by beyond the sea (TWO PENCIL-NECKED DWEEBS NEED A PUBLIC HANGING— DAVID CORN, PARTICK FITZGERALD)
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To: quidnunc

I'll admit I've been busy, but I have not heard a peep about this until now.


4 posted on 08/30/2006 6:22:30 PM PDT by VA40
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To: quidnunc
What would possess a Muslim motorist to drive around San Francisco Bay Area streets in his SUV and deliberately run over pedestrians, including kids?

The Koran.

5 posted on 08/30/2006 6:23:12 PM PDT by mosquewatch.com
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To: quidnunc
When I first read the story, I thought "muslim."

But of course, that isn't PC.
6 posted on 08/30/2006 6:23:20 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: VA40

Same here. I wonder if anyone else is covering it.


7 posted on 08/30/2006 6:24:03 PM PDT by kellynch ("Our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves." -- Bernard Baruch)
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To: quidnunc
Somebody really needs to do the research on all of these "non terrorists" incidents.

They have everything planed out soooo neatly, the statements, the press, the cops, the "insanity plea", the gaggle of friends and relatives claiming mental disturbances in the recent past, the asymmetric attacks.

I'ts just to well orchestrated in each and every case.

8 posted on 08/30/2006 6:26:45 PM PDT by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: quidnunc
I'm going to tell you a FACT from today's SF Chronicle:

They listed the perp's name and religion in paragraph 55!

It took them 55 paragraphs to get around to it...!

Counted it up in the gym this morning, in disgust.

9 posted on 08/30/2006 6:27:08 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: bill1952

I'm seriously thinking about changing my tag line to "Not PC and proud of it!"


10 posted on 08/30/2006 6:27:15 PM PDT by proudofthesouth (Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
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To: quidnunc

So now, before you cross the street, look left, look right, look left again and look out for muslims...


11 posted on 08/30/2006 6:27:58 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (ENEMY + MEDIA = ENEMEDIA)
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To: mosquewatch.com
how about his or a mullah
12 posted on 08/30/2006 6:28:39 PM PDT by camas
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To: quidnunc

Sudden Jihad Syndrome.


13 posted on 08/30/2006 6:28:42 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: mosquewatch.com

bump!


14 posted on 08/30/2006 6:28:42 PM PDT by visualops (artlife.us)
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To: Fred Nerks

What's next?
A "Turban headed traveling hobo sniping from an open freight car crossing Kansas?"


15 posted on 08/30/2006 6:31:25 PM PDT by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: bill1952
But of course, that isn't PC.

PC should go back to the definition that describes the machine I am typing on, ONLY. We don't need no d#mn political "correctness". We need TRUTH. The first, second, third.....7687th...thing I think of is muslim. No PC here 'ceptin' this here 'puter.

16 posted on 08/30/2006 6:32:08 PM PDT by Frwy (Eternity without Jesus is a hell-of-a long time.)
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To: quidnunc

What would possess a Muslim motorist to drive around San Francisco Bay Area streets in his SUV and deliberately run over pedestrians, including kids?

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His religion of pieces?


17 posted on 08/30/2006 6:33:17 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (ENEMY + MEDIA = ENEMEDIA)
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To: FreedomPoster
"S.J.S."
Sudden Jihad Syndrome
18 posted on 08/30/2006 6:35:00 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: quidnunc

There are many similar incidents. See:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692825/posts


19 posted on 08/30/2006 6:37:17 PM PDT by mdefranc
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To: FreedomPoster

Sudden Jihad Syndrome

That is rather clever.


20 posted on 08/30/2006 6:39:51 PM PDT by Excellence (Vote Dhimmocrat; you'll look in a burqa!)
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To: Excellence

I don't claim it, but I don't mind using it.

Might have been coined by the little green footballs people.


21 posted on 08/30/2006 6:40:48 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: FreedomPoster
FreedomPoster wrote: I don't claim it, but I don't mind using it. Might have been coined by the little green footballs people.

Daniel Pipes came up with that phrase or something essentially similar.

22 posted on 08/30/2006 6:47:01 PM PDT by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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To: quidnunc

He couldn't get his mitts on a plane, so he just had to make do with what was at hand. He's a terrorist who would have killed more if he had been able.


23 posted on 08/30/2006 6:47:08 PM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: quidnunc; Lorianne
I was talking with mrs dd last night after reading about this terrorist and suggested that contrary to voices of the administration stating that the US has not sustained another attack since 9-11, these random hit-and-run rampages are orchestated by ROP imans in their mosques. No proof, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it not being true.

For an interesting read posted the other day on FR, check out this thread posted by FReeper Lorianne...

Muslim Jihad Comes To Small Town USA

24 posted on 08/30/2006 6:49:31 PM PDT by Diver Dave
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To: quidnunc

Bingo, that's it. It was Pipes.

Sudden Jihad Syndrome (in North Carolina)
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3450


25 posted on 08/30/2006 6:50:14 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: quidnunc

It seems that Freepers want to make funnies out all of this. I believe that we are going to be hit again and we are just laughing about it all. Get out of the house and try your best to support any Republican candidate.
The President made it very clear that this war would be a long hard slog.


26 posted on 08/30/2006 6:54:09 PM PDT by mojo114
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To: quidnunc

It is terrorism of course. Surely the entire world knows this by now, even if our media seems not to.


27 posted on 08/30/2006 6:55:54 PM PDT by ladyinred (Leftists, the enemy within.)
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To: quidnunc
What would possess a Muslim motorist to drive around San Francisco Bay Area streets in his SUV and deliberately run over pedestrians, including kids?

islam......

28 posted on 08/30/2006 6:56:12 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: FreedomPoster

Daniel Pipes recently coined the term, but many (no doubt some here) commented on the then-unlabeled syndrome back with the July 2002 LA Airport shooting.


29 posted on 08/30/2006 6:59:24 PM PDT by mdefranc
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To: quidnunc

From the letters: a detailed Qur'anic justification for killing in Allah's name

Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, the Tarheel jihadist, has written six letters to the Daily Tar Heel, student newspaper of the University of North Carolina (thanks to Joseph), where he tried to kill students for Allah by running them over in an SUV.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/011397.php

30 posted on 08/30/2006 7:02:58 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (ENEMY + MEDIA = ENEMEDIA)
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To: mdefranc

Omeed, or whateverthehell it is, is just one of hundreds of spelling variations of..............mmmm, could it be.....MOHAMMED


31 posted on 08/30/2006 7:05:05 PM PDT by linton59
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To: quidnunc
What would possess a Muslim motorist to drive around San Francisco Bay Area streets in his SUV and deliberately run over pedestrians, including kids? Insanity, shrugs the mainstream media.

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth"

--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998
32 posted on 08/30/2006 7:07:36 PM PDT by Vision (God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, love and self-discipline 2Timothy1)
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To: VA40
"I'll admit I've been busy, but I have not heard a peep about this until now."

Not surprising.

33 posted on 08/30/2006 7:11:47 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Diver Dave
"I was talking with mrs dd last night after reading about this terrorist and suggested that contrary to voices of the administration stating that the US has not sustained another attack since 9-11"

This is something I wish the President would stop saying. Because if we are hit bigtime, the Dems will use it against us.

34 posted on 08/30/2006 7:15:52 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: mdefranc

No doubt, I remember, there were many comments here. Pretty much everyone here saw it as an act of terrorism, despite official pronouncements of "isolated incident, lone nutcase, not terrorism, nothing to see here, move along."


35 posted on 08/30/2006 7:21:16 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: quidnunc
"What would possess aMuslim motorist to drive around San Francisco Bay Area streets in his SUV and deliberately run over pedestrians, including kids? Insanity, shrugs the mainstream media. "

You have to ask? The answer is right in front of your nose!

36 posted on 08/30/2006 7:54:09 PM PDT by patriot_wes (Infant baptism - the foundation of an unbelieving and unsaved church.....with lots of money))
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To: FreedomPoster

Time to start deportation of any muslim with a Visa.
Then start shutting down mosques, as they are organized crime meeting centers.

I am dead serious.


37 posted on 08/30/2006 8:06:29 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: PA-RIVER
"...I am dead serious..."

You are dead right!.........FRegards

38 posted on 08/30/2006 9:02:44 PM PDT by gonzo (.........Good grief!...I'm as confused as a baby in a topless club!.........)
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To: mosquewatch.com
BINGO!
39 posted on 08/30/2006 9:16:17 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: quidnunc

Multiple Choice Test

1. In 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles by
(a) Superman,
(b) Jay Leno,
(c) Tiger Woods,
(d) a man from Palestine between 17 and 40 years old.

2. In 1972, 11 Israeli athletes were kidnapped and killed at the Munich Olympics by
(a) the kid who cuts your grass,
(b) Sitting Bull,
(c) Arnold Schwarzenegger,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

3. In 1979, the US Embassy in Tehran was over-ran & 52 Americans were held for 444 days by
(a) Bruce Lee,
(b) Elvis Presley's deceased twin brother,
(c) a tour group of Minnesota grandmothers,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

4. During the 1980s, several Americans were kidnapped in Beirut by
(a) O J Simpson,
(b) the king of Sweden,
(c) the pope and a gang of Cardinals,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

5. In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon was blown up, killing 220 Marines, by
(a) a Domino's Pizza delivery man,
(b) the president of the Southern Baptist Convention,
(c) Catherine Zeta-Jones,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

6. In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70-year-old American passenger thrown overboard in his wheelchair by
(a) Sugar Ray Leonard,
(b) your next door neighbor,
(c) the Little Mermaid,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

7. In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens and a U.S. Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by
(a) Captain Kangaroo,
(b)Walt Disney,
(c) Mother Teresa,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

8. In 1988, Pan American Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb in midair by
(a) Butch Cassidy,
(b) the Sundance Kid,
(c) the Tooth Fairy,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

9. The World Trade Center was bombed the first time in 1993 by
(a) Stonewall Jackson,
(b) Michael Jordan,
(c) Winston Churchill,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

10. In 1998, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by
(a) Santa Claus,
(b) your sister's cat's grandmother's first owner's son's basketball coach's ex-wife,
(c) the World Wrestling Federation,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

11. On September 11, 2001, airliners were hijacked to crash into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by
(a) Bugs Bunny,
(b) Bob the Tomato,
(c) Ricky Martin,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

12. In 2002, Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street Journal was kidnapped and beheaded by
(a) Bonnie and Clyde,
(b) the Michelin man,
(c) Barney Fife,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.

13. In July of 2005, several targets were attacked in central London, killing 52 persons, by
(a) the Orkin Man,
(b) Margaret Thatcher,
(c) Mr. Goodwrench,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.


40 posted on 08/30/2006 9:38:32 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: PA-RIVER

It's going to take 9/11 X10 or 100 to wake the sheeple.

I wish I weren't posting this, but I believe it to be true.

:-(


41 posted on 08/30/2006 10:11:36 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: mosquewatch.com

Well, that's one thing. Another is knowing the population has been disarmed.

It might not work so well in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, etc.


42 posted on 08/30/2006 10:13:57 PM PDT by 308MBR (Dar el Harb feels one 1,400 year long "Jihad" is enough for one planet. Bye, goat pokers.)
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To: mojo114

We may as well laugh, and keep our pistols clean.


43 posted on 08/30/2006 10:16:34 PM PDT by 308MBR (Dar el Harb feels one 1,400 year long "Jihad" is enough for one planet. Bye, goat pokers.)
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To: FreedomPoster

The sheeple will never tear themselves away from E! and Bravo networks long enough to get that far.

This has been going on for 14 centuries and people still refuse to see it. What's one more attack going to do except give the pinkos another chance to grab our guns?


44 posted on 08/30/2006 10:19:47 PM PDT by 308MBR (Dar el Harb feels one 1,400 year long "Jihad" is enough for one planet. Bye, goat pokers.)
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To: quidnunc
What would possess a Muslim motorist to drive around San Francisco Bay Area streets in his SUV and deliberately run over pedestrians, including kids?

A little off topic perhaps, but what would possess parents to take their kids to a place like San Fransicko?

45 posted on 08/30/2006 10:23:54 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: quidnunc

global jihad bump


46 posted on 08/30/2006 11:38:29 PM PDT by Dajjal
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To: quidnunc

DWI - Driving While Islamofascist.


47 posted on 08/31/2006 4:05:07 AM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: 6SJ7

tubular, dude


48 posted on 08/31/2006 4:07:07 AM PDT by The Red Zone
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