August 31, 2006
Crazy or terrorist? (An Alarming News Continuing Series)
Omeed Aziz Pop, drives SUV into crowd of pedestrians in California.
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Posted by Karol at August 31, 2006 08:06 AM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags: Crazy+or+Terrorist
Have you seen the bathrooms in Pakistan? She held it throughout her trip and let go once she was on the airplane.
Posted by: Jake at August 31, 2006 11:57 AMMSM thinks Omeed is a bad guy, not because he injured 12 Jewish people, but because he drove an SUV.
Posted by: Jake at August 31, 2006 12:00 PMI vote crazy on this one. I LOVE this game!
Posted by: Not Dawn Summers at August 31, 2006 01:11 PMI had some heated exchanges w/ bloggers of the Omeed case. I say it's low-grade jihad -- though still deadly -- cultural sense. (The way Adam Sandler or Barbra Streisand are Jews -- they are, but only by extraction.)
Nitty-gritty questions should come to the fore in understanding Popal: the freedom of dating in a secular society vs. arranged marriage, the misery of living with mental illness. The combination of these pushed him over the edge. How he expressed it, however -- comandeering a vehicle, rampaging through one of the most affluent and Jewish sections of SF -- that's Muslim, that's jihad, that's copycat terrorism in the image of Mohammed Atta and Naveed Haq.
Posted by: Jeremayakovka at August 31, 2006 01:49 PMI agree crazy!! and i agree it was jew hatred in the omeed case!
Posted by: sara at August 31, 2006 06:01 PMThis sooo should be a Jeopardy category. Going with crazy on this one.
Posted by: Shawn at August 31, 2006 10:35 PMI say terrorist who went crazy
Posted by: dan the Democrat at September 1, 2006 10:19 AMOne can be crazy, and still be guilty of homicide and attempted homicide. I wouldn't write him off as crazy and technically not culpable so quickly. I hope his bride in Pakistan can get an anullment.
Posted by: sam at September 1, 2006 11:22 AM
