USA-IDAHO: ISLAM IS A CULTURE OF VIOLENCE AND OPPRESSION

Islam is a culture of violence and oppression
G.R. Rossis Guest Opinion

A recording of Assam, the American recently surfaced on a website that also contains footage of al-Zawahiri, said to be second-in-command of Al-Qaeda, where he calls on Americans to reject Christianity and other religions as well as the democracy we profess to emulate.

Assam called upon Americans to renounce their culture and convert to the enlightenment of Islam. His call to repentance was predicated upon a threat of violence and bloodshed comparable to the attack on Sept. 11. This is the face of Islam.

Just a few weeks ago, Omeed Aziz Popal went on a massive hit-and-run spree, during which 18 people were injured or killed, only to come to a stop supposedly in front of a synagogue in a predominantly Jewish section of San Fransisco. He called for Americans to submit as he ran over innocent bystanders throughout the city. City officials couldn't find a pattern in his attack - as his victims were not all of one color, race or ethnicity - because his target was the American people as a whole.

Earlier this summer, Naveed Haq shot six Jewish women in front of a Seattle synagogue, killing one. He claims that he did it because he was angry at Israel for its war in Lebanon and he wasn't particularly fond of Americans. He apparently wasn't able to see the difference between being Jewish and being Israeli.

In March, Mohammed Reza Taheri-Azar, a student attending the University of North Carolina, drove his jeep into a crowd of his fellow students. He was inspired by an Allah-induced hatred for America - the land in which he was being allowed to study.

The previous December, Ali R. Warrayat drove his car into a Home Depot in Arizona in an attempt to kill the store's patrons. He hoped to set the store ablaze, apparently inspired by markings in the Quran found in his trunk.

Other not-so-uncommon instances of Muslim violence in America include Dr. Wameeth Fadhli, a medical doctor in Texas, who engaged in a random drive-by shooting of a bicyclist, the shooting of a Jewish movie theater patron in Baltimore by Mujtaba Rabbani Jabbar and other insensible violence.

Muslim populations in Britain and Canada are pressing for the adoption of the law of Shariah - the radically oppressive law of Islam. If the law was adopted in those countries, it wouldn't be restricted simply to Muslims. Proponents of the Law of Shariah want it not only for themselves, but for all citizens of those countries. They have avowed to enact this law by force if necessary.

Islam was founded by violence.

They converted millions by the sword and imposed the law of Shariah upon their victims. Muslims are charged with a holy mission to impose this law upon the world.

How long will it be before they call for Shariah in this country?

Perhaps I am just reading into things. Perhaps I am just being pessimistic. I wish for nothing more than this premonition to be not true. As for Assam the Americans' call to repentance, I'm not buying today. Tomorrow doesn't look like a good day either.

G.R. Rossis a Political Science major at Boise State

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