UNC Jihad

The dis-oriented author is confused. I don't get it, an Islamic terrorist attacks students at an American university and the press refuses to call it an act of terrorism. On March 4th, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar an Iranian graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill drove his SUV into a crowd of students.

Taheri-azar said that he carried out the attack to:

avenge the treatment of Muslims ... thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah.

Sounds like terrorism to me.

Part of the problem is that while the United States is not at war with Islam — Muslim rhetoric says otherwise. Taheri-azar apparently believed himself to be a soldier in that war. When I first heard of this incident, I did a double-take. UNC? Chapel Hill?

I thought I remembered that shortly after 9/11 UNC required incoming freshmen to read the Koran. I looked it up and according to CNN, incoming freshmen and transfer students were required to read Approaching the Qur'an: The Early  Revelations a book which contains numerous Koran passages. These students would then write a one page paper on the book and could expect professors to discuss it in many of their first-year classes.

Of course, this was controversial in the summer after 9/11. Less than a year after 9/11 the forces of political correctness were hard at work making UNC a more enlightened campus. Many students, Christian and Jewish groups protested. The UNC program however survived all of the court challenges. Fast forward four years.

Apparently the program didn't work too well. Perhaps if students had read the entire Koran and converted to Islam then Taheri-azar would have attacked students on another campus.

Here we have an Islamic foreign national performing a terrorist act against civilians on US soil. Why can't the press call a spade a spade.