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August 29, 2006Muslim kills Jews? Road Rage? -UPDATED:::UPDATE II::: A reader graciously sent me a link to this map which really lays out the path of the perp. Clearly the neighborhood was not “Jewish,” and although I did qualify my remarks (saying it “appeared to be a somewhat Jewish neighborhood” on the basis of the first input of readers), on further examination, one cannot conclude that the perp was “targeting Jews.” Whether this can rightly be called “terrorism” at this point is debatable. I don’t mind saying it when I am wrong, and I feel this time that I was too quick to “write while angry.” This fellow sounds like he is over-controlled by his parents and it made him nuts. Those of you who have read about my birth family know I can sympathize! :::UPDATE::: (SCROLL DOWN FOR ORIGINAL POST) I want to reiterate this: for every act of violence in the west, there are ten in the Muslim world. The ideology of Violence must be defeated, because it will never surrender - but that need not mean that Muslims must be outcast, or that being Muslim is at all incompatible within being humane and just. What we should do is speak and live reason, even if we have to carry a gun to do this. I must, in the end, have a radical addiction to freedom, because I would rather live in an armed society than in one which carried out pograms against innocent Muslims. Our society doesn’t fail to criticize and examine the violent Christian teachings which occasionally arise, and I think we now must confront openly the violent Muslim teachings without fear or favor. Unless we do this, it will end in pograms. H/T Sigmund Carl and Alfred. That’s the crux of all of this. When I read about these sorts of events, be they the synagogue shooting, the LAX incident, the Tarheel SUV attack or this new one, and see how quickly there is movement to make excuses for that behavior, I get an image in my head of an American, looking around at all of it, and feeling like it’s all happening under water, in ripples of distortion. If the American does not feel like he or she can get a clear sense of what is going on, the frustration is going to ratchet up. Not good. This is becoming an appalling habit in the press and by politicians. An Islamic fundamentalist shoots Jews in a Synagogue, and it’s some sort of random incident. An Islamic fundamentalist uses his SUVto kill people partly in front of a Synagogue, and in what would appear to be a somewhat “Jewish neighborhood” and the press takes a hours to cover the story (probably looking for the appropriate “frame,”) and until someone in authority can be found to sing out, “ROAD RAGE”! Yeah, that’s the ticket! Road rage! Mayor Newsom sees no problem, here…a “relatively young” person, obviously confused! Yes, that’s the ticket! Omeed Aziz Popal, the poor confused youngster, is 29 years old. Can you imagine, if someone had (God forbid!) driven a car into 14 gay people, how quickly the press would have managed to cover the story? Can you imagine that Mayor Newsom would call it “road rage” and suggest that there really probably wasn’t a “hate crime” attached to the action? What the hell is wrong with the press, what the hell is wrong with the leadership? Why are they so incapable of calling anti-semitism what it is, of calling a terrorist action what it is? Newsflash, folks, when someone decides to drive his car into people as they’re crossing the street, it’s the same as tossing a molotov cocktail at them, it’s the same as tossing a grenade. It is destructive, it kills people and terrifies communities, that is called t-e-r-r-o-r-i-s-m! Hey, guess what, fellas, we don’t need no stinking anthrax to kill and terrify…we can use our cars. I swear, these people are tempting me to some vile language. I know this is rather an intemperate post for me, and I’ll probably regret some of these words, later…but I’m getting weary of watching the press and the people “in charge” go out of their way to downplay it anytime someone with an “Islamic” sort of name drives a car into people on a city street, or on a campus, or starts shooting people in a synagogue, or raises cain at an El Al counter at LAX. I know that somewhere in the minds of these movers and shakers they think they are protecting Muslims-in-general from reactionary prejudice, distrust and bias from us unruly, racist, mouth-breathing Americans (because we went nuts and burned down mosques after 9/11, right? We took to the streets and rampaged and lynched anyone named Abdul back then, right?) but the truth is, by their incessant downplaying, their knee-jerk move to protect-and-explain perps like this, they’re just making some people very resentful, and in the end, I think that’s going to do more to foment prejudice and bias, distrust and hate toward decent Muslim persons than would simply acknowledging the fact that when these Fundamentalists DO this crap, it is what it is - an act of aggression, hate and terror - and not some “mistake” that can be cooed away. Gateway Pundit shows a map of the rampage, and lots of photos and updates. He says three people have been taken in for questioning. LGF had the breaking story and lots of updates in the comments thread. Apparently he perp “made comments” to arresting officers. I wonder if they were anything like Mel Gibson’s comments? We’d hear about them, then, certainly, wouldn’t we? UPDATE: LGF has video with a reporter saying the perp referred to himself as a terrorist. I’ll take it with a grain of salt, only because a year ago reporters were telling us babies were being raped in the Superdome…they’re not really good with breaking news anymore, so who knows what is known? One of Michelle Malkin’s sources writes: “The 3500 California St hit was a 1/2 mile from the main Jewish temple, Temple Emanu-El and 41 miles from his starting point in Fremont.” It will be very interesting to see how the reports go. More coverage here: http://theanchoressonline.com/2006/08/29/muslim-kills-jews-road-rage/trackback/ 28 Responses to “Muslim kills Jews? Road Rage? -UPDATED” |
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August 29th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
Horror on San Francisco streets
It’s okay. Everyone can stop worrying. The killer was, in fact, a kind and gentle man who was simply suffering from a bad case of wedding jitters. You doubt me? No, really, that’s what the latest report about him says:
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August 29th, 2006 at 11:46 pm
i swear - i don’t know what’s wrong with the media - a muslim guys just returns from afghanistan and mows down 15 people - including a few in front of the jewish center - and they are still treating this as a road rage or random incident! i am watching the local news right now on KRON4 and they are giving this guy a character certificate - interviewing his cousin.
While the police officers still wait outside this perp’s house in Fremont for the search warrant to come from SF, the family must have surely removed all evidence by now - stuff on his computer, things from afghanistan, address books, etc. wtf is the use of all these laws if we can’t get an f’ing search warrant for 8 hours?
August 30th, 2006 at 12:05 am
[...] The Anchoress adds: “Can you imagine, if someone had (God forbid!) driven a car into 14 gay people, how quickly the press would have managed to cover the story? [...]
August 30th, 2006 at 1:15 am
Well, at least He can cop an Insanity Plea
Omeed Aziz Popal, a normal, everyday, flag-waving American went nuts today and began randomly running down people in what is largely recognized to be a Jewish community. Popal, a regular guy from Afghanistan, was likely upset because he’d had to…
August 30th, 2006 at 1:50 am
Dude drove from Fremont, which means more than half an hour on the highway and the bridge and then he had to get *through* most of the city, ignoring target-rich environments like the Financial District, Market Street, Chinatown, Japantown, and the Haight, and mysteriously ended *eastbound* (going back the way he came) on California — something made him u-turn, but I’m sure it wasn’t the Star of David on the JCC door.
Must have been road-rage.
August 30th, 2006 at 4:58 am
Hit and Run Jihad in San Fran?
A.M. UPDATE: Michelle is all over this with new details including this fun fact:
The SUV struck two people in front of the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco on California Street, a few blocks from where the rampage ended.
Was it cold feet ove
August 30th, 2006 at 8:56 am
Terrorism In San Francisco?
Hugh Hewitt considers the very real possibility that the in…
August 30th, 2006 at 8:59 am
Any lawyers out there? If you happened to have a handgun on you, would you catch hell for shooting that a**hole like a mad dog? If govt can’t or won’t protect the people, what’s a body to do?
August 30th, 2006 at 9:13 am
[...] The Anchores is livid: Can you imagine, if someone had (God forbid!) driven a car into 14 gay people, how quickly the press would have managed to cover the story? Can you imagine that Mayor Newsom would call it “road rage” and suggest that there really probably wasn’t a “hate crime” attached to the action? [...]
August 30th, 2006 at 9:36 am
[...] The Anchoress is on a roll with this one today and I agree with every word she writes. Can you imagine, if someone had (God forbid!) driven a car into 14 gay people, how quickly the press would have managed to cover the story? Can you imagine that Mayor Newsom would call it “road rage” and suggest that there really probably wasn’t a “hate crime” attached to the action? [...]
August 30th, 2006 at 9:45 am
Terrorism in the homeland — link roundup
Hugh talk on his show last night about the SF car-terrorist and blogged about it:When a man named Ohmeed Aziz Popal runs over 14 people over an hour or two, the best thing to do is think terrorism. Hugh updated with the SF Chronicle article:The SUV…
August 30th, 2006 at 10:17 am
Driving While Muslim
Turns out the madman who ran down 14 people in and around San Francisco is an Afganistan native. And although his family claims mental illness, police investigators aren’t buying it: But those involved in the investigation — speaking on condition
August 30th, 2006 at 10:25 am
[...] The Anchoress notes Can you imagine, if someone had (God forbid!) driven a car into 14 gay people, how quickly the press would have managed to cover the story? Can you imagine that Mayor Newsom would call it “road rage” and suggest that there really probably wasn’t a “hate crime” attached to the action? [...]
August 30th, 2006 at 10:47 am
Apparently he perp “made comments” to arresting officers. I wonder if they were anything like Mel Gibson’s comments? We’d hear about them, then, certainly, wouldn’t we?
I wouldn’t hold my breath, Ma’am. Gibson is a Christian and therefore fair game for the attacks against him following his ugly comments. Popal is a Muslim and therefore not responsible for anything he does to anyone while in the USA.
I wonder what Abe Foxman at the ADL will have to say. He’s usually johnny-on-the-spot when it comes to anguished screams of anger.
August 30th, 2006 at 11:30 am
Media Shies Away from M Word Again
Little Green Footballs
The media is shying away from the subject of whether Omeed Aziz Popal is a Muslim as if it were radioactive. Here’s a story at Mercury News that floats the thoroughly predictable excuse that he was normally kind and pious,…
August 30th, 2006 at 11:30 am
Most Concerning…
Anyone remember when the MSM profiled the Washington Sniper?
‘What Happened to The Angry White Male?
The media’s “racial profile” of the sniper turned out to be dead wrong.’
August 30th, 2006 at 11:31 am
[...] I won’t outline any more of it here, ‘cause it’s being handled superbly over at Michelle Malkin’s blog. I will be interesting to see how this shapes up, once Mr. Popal, or his attorneys, release a statement. Lot’s of blogger outrage over how this has been handled so far. From the Anchoress: I know this is rather an intemperate post for me, but I’m getting weary of watching the press and the people “in charge” go out of their way to downplay it anytime someone with an “Islamic” sort of name drives a car into people on a city street, or on a campus, or starts shooting people in a synagogue, or raises cain at an El Al counter at LAX. I know that somewhere in the minds of these movers and shakers they think they are protecting Muslims-in-general from reactionary prejudice, distrust and bias from us unruly, racist, mouth-breathing Americans (because we went nuts and burned down mosques after 9/11, right? We took to the streets and rampaged and lynched anyone named Abdul back then, right?) but the truth is, by their incessant downplaying, their knee-jerk move to protect-and-explain perps like this, they’re just making some people very resentful, and in the end, I think that’s going to do more to foment prejudice and bias, distrust and hate toward decent Muslim persons than would simply acknowledging the fact that when these Fundamentalists DO this crap, it is what it is - an act of aggression, hate and terror - and not some “mistake” that can be cooed away. [...]
August 30th, 2006 at 11:37 am
HIT AND RUN SUV
CLogging is catching on (Comments-Logging, such as this site does). Michelle Malkin has a story about a driver in San Francisco who ran amuck driving around hitting people and finally ending in front of the Jewish Community Center.
August 30th, 2006 at 11:41 am
He married a drag queen, look at the picture of his wife. He found out she was a he, and he went coocoo for coco puffs. Why else would he make sure that he wouldn’t have to see her once she got her visa?
August 30th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
Muslim auto-jihadist rampages in SanFrancisco
Still another Muslim, this one an Afghani, goes the jihad route with a car, this time in SanFrancisco, injuring 14 people and murdering one. From the San Francisco Chronicle (via Michelle Malkin):
August 30th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
[...] The Anchoress is fed up with this willful blindness. This is becoming an appalling habit in the press and by politicians. An Islamic fundamentalist shoots Jews in a Synagogue, and it’s some sort of random incident. An Islamic fundamentalist uses his car to kill people in front of a Synagogue, and in what would appear to be a somewhat “Jewish neighborhood” and the press takes a while to cover the story (probably looking for the appropriate “frame,”) until someone in authority can be found to sing out, “ROAD RAGE”! Yeah, that’s the ticket! Road rage! Mayor Newsom sees no problem, here…a “relatively young” person, obviously confused! Yes, that’s the ticket! [...]
August 30th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
The great Mark Levin read from your post on his radio show this evening. . .I was in the car on my long drive home from the college where I teach, and was delighted to hear it!
August 30th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
SF Jihadist killings is just
The Anchoress too has a right to be upset. After all SOMEONE ought to be; Our “journalists” (and I use that term loosely) sure as hell don’t seem to be too concerned about our well-being; they’d rather have a couple of years of even more divisive p…
August 31st, 2006 at 6:33 am
Why do we keep seeing random outbursts of terrorism? It is simply because the perpetrators get ahold of teaching that reveal the “one true faith” or jihadis show up and start teaching people that material. This has happened again, and again, and again. It would be sheer lunacy to think that every Muslim IS NOT a popgun waiting to go off.
I am convinced that moderate Muslims are sock puppets used by true Islamists to give them political coverage. Look at the people who have been touted as moderate Muslims and you’ll find out just how “moderate” they are.
No more bending over backwards trying to find or appease these “moderates”. Because we do not have the resources to watch them all, we should shut down immigration and forbid any new Muslim immigrants.
How many more incidents like this do y’all want to see? I don’t want to see another single one in my country.
August 31st, 2006 at 9:24 am
San Francisco Terrorist?
Excellent round-up from Michelle Malkin.
And, The Anchoress cuts through it all. . . .
September 1st, 2006 at 12:09 am
By NYC standards SF’s Laurel Heights is hardly “Jewish”, but by SF standards it is. See my comments under Ms. Malkin’s original post on the rampage (”from Jeremiah”) on that. Besides, “Jewish” to an antisemite takes on worlds of meanings that it doesn’t to a Jew or to friends of Jews. Laurel Heights’ affluence, its general prettiness and cleanliness - along with its temples and the Jewish Community Center - would aggravate anyone with a predisposition to hate the West - Muslim, white nationalist, anarchist, or whatever. My latest comments on the subject are here.
September 4th, 2006 at 3:49 am
[...] Second, the issue is of trust. You should consider stepping out of your blog-circuit and seeing the wide world of immigrant Muslims bustling everywhere. You’ll find students at Penn Law whose lives are changed by trips to Namibia. Hijabi girls wondering whether they should tell their parents about the guy they are dating. And random software engineers whose wives cook good food. Your friends Anchoress and Maxed Out Mama understand my point clearly (now if only they would stop with the Bush loving). You should then try and meet people like this in real life. As to the remote possibility that among some of these people someone may or may not be somehow or some way connected to a potential terrorist, you should a) lay off watching suspense flicks and b) do the same thing that the rest of us do with a society full of sexual predators, armed roberers, car-jackers, potential rapists, and murderers — keep an eye out, report problems to the authorities, and if nothing seems awry, stop and smell the roses. [...]
September 28th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
[...] This is a debate that the rightosphere needed to have. It’s obvious which side I stand on. What’s notable is that this divide is something that the right itself will have to resolve, even as it simultaneously reveals that the ‘right’ is not just one monolithic entity. Dean should be aware that he is not alone in holding his position and when Malkin dismisses him for “dhimmitude” she is also attacking other reputable right bloggers like The Anchoress when she said: that the press and powers-that-be are - by their reactions - fomenting distrust and prejudice toward moderate and peaceful Muslims much moreso than are these violent acts by Islamic Fundies. [...]