From the Washington Post:

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 6 -- A University of North Carolina graduate from Iran, accused of running down nine people on campus to avenge the treatment of Muslims, said at a hearing Monday that he was "thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah."

SUV Attack Prompts Debate Over 'Terrorism' and Islam

So Mann, a member of the College Republicans, attended a rally organized by that group and student members of two others Monday morning at the scene of the SUV incident. He and a few dozen students handed out American flags and made off-the-cuff pleas for UNC students to stand united.

But because they also denounced the act as terrorism, the rally emerged as the latest controversy on this multicultural campus over the way language and image are deployed in conversations about Islam.

Mann's group was met at lunchtime by a boisterous, impromptu group of counter-demonstrators who argued that the rally wasn't helping to heal wounds. Especially insensitive, they said, was the insistence on calling the incident terrorism.

Michelle Malkin asks, "Can we call it terrorism yet?"

Captain Ed says yes:

Terrorism...is the use of violence or the threat of violence against civilian populations in order to advance a political or religious philosophy.

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1 Next we will have some jihadi cutting loose with an AK in a crowded mall and that won't be terrorism either, unless he had at least one accomplice.....it sounds like bullshit to me, though I'm sure the good folks in NC regard him as a muslim terrorist

Posted by: goesh at March 07, 2006 01:30 PM (vX0fY)

2 Well one thing's for cetain - he wasn't a very good terrorist - allah must be disappointed. Anyway - now the real fun starts - lawyers can now sue the car rental agency and vehicle manufactor for damages and negligence. They can sue the university - but its a state institution and it takes forever to collect.

Posted by: hondo at March 07, 2006 01:59 PM (fyKFC)

3 Fuck Muslims and Fuck Allah!

Posted by: Andy at March 07, 2006 02:29 PM (tMU4W)

4 Admit it, Libs. You think he's a freedom fighter, a "minuteman."

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at March 07, 2006 02:32 PM (8e/V4)

5 "thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah." He is going to have a hard lesson at the end of the trial when he finds out that it is the court that will be spreading the will of Allah. Then Allah will use Bubba as his tool for delivering his message to this terrorist.

Posted by: Fred Fry at March 07, 2006 02:37 PM (JXdhy)

6 What Andy said is what I think millions of Americans are thinking. Does anyone know where the next anger rally is being held at for Muslims who hate everything? I really want to go to the next one.

Posted by: Leatherneck at March 07, 2006 03:27 PM (D2g/j)

7 Let's talk Gillette out of a LOT of single edge razor blades and present every muslim in the land with a "little gem dandy suicide/martyr kit".

Posted by: Kerry at March 07, 2006 03:40 PM (AOFPD)

8 First they came for the TERRORISTS; soon they wanted the EXTREMISTS; then they culled the ACTIVISTS; after awhile it was the PROGRESSIVES; and LIBERALS . . . . DEMOCRATS . . . . MODERATES. . . . You'll need some very large domestic detention camps to house hate that deep.

Posted by: Steve Cone at March 07, 2006 04:56 PM (JIHfi)

9 Steve Cone, Are you saying we should hold hands, and sing songs with the terrorists? I do not think most American men will want to do that. I think what you are trying to write goes something like this: First, they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew. Then they came for the etc...

Posted by: Leatherneck at March 07, 2006 05:57 PM (D2g/j)

10 Steve, that's the second stupidest thing I've heard today. Spare us your schlock.

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at March 07, 2006 06:00 PM (8e/V4)

11 JC What's the first? Steve was mine - n' he truly earned it.

Posted by: hondo at March 07, 2006 06:50 PM (fyKFC)

12 Count me in with Andy.. well said, succinct, and to the point.

Posted by: Richard at March 07, 2006 06:52 PM (7KF8r)

13 That was one of those posts - run away - n' do that Mickael Jackson giggle ... Hee Heee hhheeeee Ooooooooo!

Posted by: Hondo at March 07, 2006 06:53 PM (fyKFC)

14 No Leatherneck, Steve's right; he is simply illustrating the chain of accountability, and the order in which our enemies are to be dealt with. His reference to hate is correct too, because our enemies are the embodiment of it, and even though he meant to infer that we are the haters, and not them, he inadvertantly revealed his entire mindset in a nutshell, as as well as admitted that he supports terrorism, along with the rest of his treasonous kindred. As I often repeat, we will have to kill them all eventually, because they will never cease their war against us until they are all dead.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at March 07, 2006 07:33 PM (0yYS2)

15 What kind of excuse is his lawyers going to use? will it be anything like the rediclous TWINKIES DEFENSE? err too many PORKY PIG CARTOONS

Posted by: sandpiper at March 07, 2006 08:47 PM (XnXsx)

16 IM: You've outdone yourself this time, took the words right out of my mouth. If there aren't enough trees because you live in the cities, use the traffic posts and light poles, or build gallows in the stadiums. Pay per view it if you like. It doesn't really matter how you erase this blight before it erases you or yours. It only matters that get started on it. They're not that hard to find, they teach at your schools and colleges. The Islamic Fascists have come looking for the heads of your children and your women. How long must you ponder this?

Posted by: forest hunter at March 08, 2006 03:08 AM (Fq6zR)

17 Leatherneck Just remember, front sight/press.

Posted by: Jack's Smirking Revenge at March 08, 2006 04:29 AM (CtVG6)

18 You're preaching to the choir here forest, but I like it anyway!

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at March 08, 2006 05:04 AM (0yYS2)

19 By the way forest, you have mail.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at March 08, 2006 07:25 AM (0yYS2)

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