Cahaya's Rants

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.”

Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar was accused of driving a sport utility vehicle through The Pit, a popular campus gathering spot, injuring nine people Friday. None of the victims was seriously hurt.

Police Chief Derek Poarch said Taheri-azar told investigators he intentionally hit people to “avenge the deaths of Muslims around the world.”

(Read the rest of the story at Yahoo News)

How does driving your car into a group of students avenge the deaths of Muslims around the world? Does this not typify the jihadist mentality? Kill all infidels .. they are the cause of Muslim deaths around the world! Yeah right.

More Muslims die at the hands of other Muslims than from all other groups combined. Four hundred people were killed in the February 22 bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samara and more have been killed in sectarian fighting since that bombing.

What would Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar do with this knowledge? Kill more infidels for they are the ones causing Muslims to kill other Muslims? I would not be surprised if such warped thinking existed in the minds of the likes of Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar. It is always easier to blame others to justify their own blood thirsty religion.

On Valentine’s Day, I attended a seminar conducted by the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, “Islam and The West: Which Way Now?” The speaker was a Dr Joshua Muravchik, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, who had come down to Malaysia to attend the “Who Speaks for Islam? Who Speaks for the West?” Conference that was held from the 10th to 11th February, 2006.

Dr. Muravchik’s curriculum vitae looked very impressive on the flyer that was given to the audience. Specialising in ‘… the studies of the United Nations, neoconservatism, the history of socialism and communism, the Arab-Israeli conflict…” he has also written books such as Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism, The Future of the United Nations and Covering The Intifada. What the flyer diplomatically ‘forgot’ to add was that the good doctor was a member of the advisory board of JINSA, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, a Washington-based think-tank since the year 2000.

(Quoted from I am Muslim by Dina Zaman as appeared in MalaysiaKini)

The question that comes to mind after reading that, is “So what?” So what if Dr. Muravchik sits on the advisory board of JINSA? Does that fact disqualify him from speaking on the subject being discussed at the conference?

Why didn’t  Dina Zaman say anything about how well or how badly the conference went? Was Dr. Muravchik very biased in any of his presentations?  Was he or was in not qualified to talk on the subject of Islam and the West?

It seems to me that Dina Zaman cannot get beyond her anti-semitic bias.  It appears that in Dina Zaman’s mind anyone or anything that has to do with  the Jews or anything Jewish does not deserve to speak at any function organized by a Malaysian institution of higher learning.

Is Dina Zaman a typical example of the mind set of Malay Muslim graduates from Malaysia?  If she is, then she is only a reflection of the policies of the Malaysian government towards Israel and the Jews.