A letter to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle from David Meir-Levi:
Jaxon Van Derbeken’s “Everyone needs to be killed” (SF Chron, 9.1.06, B-1), tells us how, on Tuesday evening (8/29/06), a 29-year-old Afghani, Omeed Aziz Popal, went on a rampage in his father’s SUV in San Francisco, killing one man and sending 14 other victims to the hospital, seven in critical condition.
But the article fails to connect some very important dots. Bloggers and on-line news sites report that Popal is a Moslem and called himself a terrorist. And this information connects Popal with a series of similar terror attacks.
Last month in Seattle, Naveed Afzal Haq, a Pakistani Moslem, shot six Jews, killing one, at a Jewish Community Federation office. He was specific as to his intentions and motivation: kill Jews as revenge against Israel.
On 3 March, 2006, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, a 22-year-old Iranian Moslem, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, went on a killing spree in a rented SUV to “punish the government of the United States” and “avenge the deaths of Muslims around the world.” When making his initial statement in court, Taheri-azar expressed gratitude “for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah.” He also stated that he purposely rented an SUV in order to inflict more damage with the large vehicle.
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