"I am ... obliged to pay taxes to the (U.S.) government," Mohammed Hamzah Khan wrote. "This in turn will be used automatically to kill my Muslim brothers and sisters. ... I simply cannot sit here and let my brothers and sisters get killed, with my own hard-earned money. ... I cannot live under a law in which I'm afraid to speak my beliefs. I want to be ruled by the Sharia (Islamic law). … Me living in comfort with my family while my other family are getting killed is plain selfish."