Muslim Group Calls on Government to Label IRS Building Plane Attack an Act of Terrorism

Tuesday, February 23, 2010
IRS Office plane crash in Austin (AP Photo/Trey Jones)

Had the person who crashed a small plane into the IRS office in Austin, Texas, been a Muslim, the incident would have been labeled a terrorist act, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. As such, the organization’s executive director, Nihad Awad, is calling on the federal government to declare the crash, which killed pilot Andrew Joseph Stack III and one government employee, and injured thirteen, an act of terror. Stack reportedly left behind a series of messages expressing his anger at the IRS and said “violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer.”

 
Awad told the media: “Terrorism is terrorism, regardless of the faith, race or ethnicity of the perpetrator or the victims,” adding “if a Muslim had carried out the IRS attack, it would have surely been labeled an act of terrorism.”
 
Police in Austin have deferred to the FBI on how to categorize Stack’s deliberate effort to crash his plane into the federal building. But neither the FBI nor the Obama administration has been willing to declare the crash a terrorist event.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
 

Comments

Montana 14 years ago
Joseph Stack was nothing but a coward, to his family, to god, to our country. Boo, hoo, hoo, I have money problems and its not my fault, it the big bad government. Talk about a domestic terrorist who happens to be white trailer trash.

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