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| 2007-02-17 |
| So far, there's no way to tell for certain what made Sulejman Talovic start shooting up a mall in Salt Lake City this past Monday. Talovic, 18, killed five people and injured nine before he was shot dead by police.FBI agent Patrick Kiernan said there was no known reason to think Talovic, a Muslim immigrant from Bosnia, was motivated by religious extremism, i.e., was committing a terrorist act. But whatever his motives were, what Talovic committed was in fact an act of terrorism. He shot innocent civilians with the obvious intent of inspiring terror. The question of why he did it may never be answered satisfactorily, since Talovic is dead. His family claims to be totally dumfounded. "We're Muslims but we are not terrorists," his aunt said. Neighbors described him as a loner who typically dressed in black. The police say there's nothing to tie Talovic to terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda. But it sure looks like another case of what Daniel Pipes, founder and director of the Middle East Forum, calls "Sudden Jihad Syndrome." In an article published March 14, 2006 on www.frontpagemag.com, Pipes cited an incident in which Iranian immigrant Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar drove an SUV into a crowd of people, injuring nine of them. Taheri-azar had just graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was his high school student council president. An acquaintance said he was "kind and gentle, rather than aggressive and violent," though the university chancellor said Taheri-azar was "a loner." After his arrest, Taheri-azar told the courts that he was "thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah." He said he had acted to "punish the government of the United States for their actions around the world," and "to avenge the deaths of Muslims around the world." He'd been planning his jihad for more than two years. Pipes says that Taheri-azar "represents the ultimate Islamist nightmare: a seemingly well-adjusted Muslim whose religion inspires him, out of the blue, to murder non-Muslims." There have been several similar incidents. A couple examples: Last August an Afghani Muslim killed one person and injured 14 more as he drove through San Francisco, deliberating hitting pedestrians on sidewalks and in crosswalks. He said he was a terrorist. Last July a Muslim entered the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, announced that he was a Muslim American and "I'm angry at Israel," and opened fire, killing a woman and injuring five others. The police often don't tag such incidents as acts of terrorism because there's no discernible association with al-Qaeda. But that connection is not really necessary. There is plenty of encouragement for jihad being preached in many mosques, as well as on the Internet. It doesn't take an organization to plot the sort of personal jihads being carried out by these individuals, though it's possible that Talovic (if he really was one of them) had assistance. He somehow came up with an illegal handgun. If Pipes is correct, and "sudden jihad" is a syndrome, we can expect to see more of these attacks. Nobody wants to suspect his Muslim neighbor or fellow student or co-worker of plotting terrorism, and of course most of the time it's not the case. But it remains a fact that jihad is being preached and taught to Muslims the world over. All it takes is a disaffected young man looking for a mission, and it can happen. Until Muslims as a whole decide to reject violent jihad and adopt peaceful ways of spreading their beliefs, it will continue to happen. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #7 RESULTS ON LAST WORDS BY GUNMAN AT TROLLY STATION |
| Posted by: Slatle Whavitch3291 2007-02-17 20:37 |
| #6 Well, lookie here: This is his cousin, via DS in March 2002, Amir Omerovic was convicted of mailing the jihadist death threat to Rowland. From the March 5, 2002 New York Times account: A man pleaded guilty yesterday to mailing letters falsely threatening to infect their recipients with anthrax. The defendant, Amir Omerovic, a 28-year-old naturalized citizen from Bosnia now living in Derby, admitted in Federal District Court that in late October he sent such letters to the offices of Gov. John G. Rowland, the United States Coast Guard and Marines in Connecticut, and the Judicial Review Council in Hartford. John A. Danaher III, the United States attorney, said that Mr. Omerovic, who faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, is to be sentenced on May 17. Prosecutors said the letters contained a note that read: 09.11.01. Anthrax is deadly. You breathe and die. This is only the beginning. Americans will die. Death to America and Israel. |
| Posted by: IS THIS THING ON ? 2007-02-17 18:30 |
| #5 With the local police and FBI's refusal to inspect this terrorist's computer, we will never know. Shades of Mussuie (sp). What we do know is that the mullah of his mosque was convicted of beating his wife. Something that muhammad instructs husbands to do. We also know he murdered his victims execution style, shot in the back of the head. They were in the gift shop buying Valentines. Something forbidden under Sharia law. Pipes is correct, we will see many more of these kind of islamic murders here in the USA. 80% of the mosques in the United States are Saudi funded, with Bush planning on bringing in 10,000 so called "students" from Arabia. The only thing we can do is try and make this information public. Anyone remember the "student" Hinrich in the Midwest, converted to islam and tried to blow himself up in a football stadium? They found additional explosives in his room and yet the FBI blew smoke up our collective asses calling his death a suicide. Not a chance. The muslim was trying to mass murder just as he was taught in his mosque. All I can say is fuck the FBI and the muslims it protects. Hell their translation department is so full of islamics that this department is called the mole hole. I'm afraid it is going to take a nuke in this country before we throw these people out. Oh and the next time someone calls someone a "moderate" muslim ask them this. What is moderate about following a cult personality founded by a terrorist who was a pedophile and demands our forced conversion, enslavement or murder. More often than not the response will be, "islam is peaceful". Then look them in the face and ask them if they even know what century muhammad was spawned in. I can pretty much guarantee they won't know. Regardless I'm fucking glad Talovic is death. The kind of sentence out courts have refused to hand out to one single muslim terrorist animal. But right now the FBI is shitting on his victims graves. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-02-17 15:55 |
| #4 Didn't Zawahiri recently call for just this particular type of action? The Jihadi intifada. |
| Posted by: Gladys 2007-02-17 15:53 |
| #3 He's not a terrorist---and neither are hundreds, if not thousands, of Muslim rapists throught the West. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-02-17 14:58 |
| #2 From what I've read, we may be jumping the gun here. He seems to have had a criminal and Juvie record, and none of those acts were Jihad related. We need more evidence to prove that this was religiously motivated (rather than Teen-age Wasteland related). Al |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2007-02-17 12:03 |
| #1 He'd been planning his jihad for more than two years. Pipes says that Taheri-azar "represents the ultimate Islamist nightmare: a seemingly well-adjusted Muslim whose religion inspires him, out of the blue, to murder non-Muslims." But it wasn't a sudden decision if he'd been planning it for two years while he completed his university studies. It merely was a sudden execution by an individual jihadi, as compared to the organization men belonging to one of the many Al Qaeda affiliates. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-02-17 10:40 |