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General News 3 Muslim Students shot dead in N.C

Discussion in 'Current Events, World News, & LGBT News' started by SomeLeviathan, Feb 11, 2015.

  1. SomeLeviathan

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    My thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their family, and their friends. Hopefully this domestic terrorist will be brought to justice.

    the reporting that this was over a parking dispute is suspect at best and demonstrates a failure of the mainstream media in reporting. Chapel Hill shooting and western media bigotry - Al Jazeera English
     
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    This is really sad and disturbing.
     
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    at least he was arrested, some places I'm seeing are reporting he turned himself in, which is definitely better than turning his weapon on himself.
     
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    Horrible... :frowning2:
     
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    This is scary, especially since I may attend Chapel Hill next year. Prayers go out to the victims.
     
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    Fucking Gerald.
     
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    Making the point-blank execution of three college students into a conflict over a parking spot displays a degree of stupidity or voluntary ignorance that is worthy of a spot in the record books.

    We turn a blind eye to the constant threatening of Muslim and Middle Eastern people in the western world every single day. When this hate finally manifests in violence, it is somehow no longer relevant. It is suddenly nonexistent. It's a coincidence. It's mental illness. It's bullshit and we all know it.

    Taking the time to ask the family of the murder whether this was a hate crime? Priceless.
     
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    Sad but not unexpected unfortunately.

    Like Gen said there is constant hate/mistrust towards Middle Eastern and Muslims even in here, a forum where it people supposed to show understanding to each others differences.

    :frowning2:
     
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    Very sad. I have a cousin who goes to that school. This sounds like terrorism, and from how his wife was quick to put a press conference and he turned himself in, I suspect they know he's almost dug his grave. Throw the book at him!
     
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    How could a person think that shooting people at point blank range is a way of resolving argument...
     
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    I would rather murderers like him did society a favor and off themselves.
     
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    when a Muslim shoots someone, the entire religion is to blame and all the moderates have to apologize and condemn the actions.

    when a white person shoots someone, it's obviously becuase he was mentally unstable or because of a parking dispute

    twitter logic.
     
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    When I first saw this thread I thought it said 3 million students shot dead in N.C and I'm like WHAT?! Anyway this is still very sad and I feel sympathy for all those students and I hope there at peace now.
     
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    For those of you who think we can educate our way out of human cruelty, how's that going for you???
     
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    I'm glad you brought this up. It's just confirmation that there are nutjobs out there, with or without religion, race, sexuality, and anything controversial, there will continue to be an issue.

    ---------- Post added 13th Feb 2015 at 07:09 PM ----------

    I do think you are confusing race and beliefs. I fail to see how you can lump these together.
     
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    There is no confusion. When we speak of the prejudice faced by Jewish people, we are referring to both ethnic and practicing Jews.

    The same is true with Middle Eastern natives and the Muslim people. Those social groups are absolutely not the same; however, considering the fact that the collective mind within society places all of those members into the same group, referencing them as one when referring to the prejudice they face is valid.

    Long story short, when we speak of the Muslim people we are speaking of both the followers of Islam and the members of the ethnicity/race/culture that it is widely attributed too.
     
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    the point isn't that Islam is a race, the point is that Muslims are treated as if they are a race. See people who advocate profiling who talk about Muslims, then when asked "what does a Muslim look like" they will give a stereotypical mid 20s Middle Eastern male.
     
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    Ugh dont even get me started with that guy :dry:
     
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    Oh for fuck's sake.
     
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    There are many people who openly identify as Jewish, yet are just as openly non-believers. There probably are some people who openly identify as Muslims without belonging to the Muslim religion, but I haven't heard of any such individuals.

    While I'm sure that what is said about the followers of Islam tends to affect members of the ethnicity/race/culture that Islam tends to be associated with, I think weather or not one is also speaking about non-followers of Islam depends on the intentions of the particular speaker.


    On the issue of moderates getting flack for what extremists do, moderate Muslims in western countries do unjustly get a lot of flack for what extremist Muslims do. However, I think a major problem with most religions is that moderates often believe things that provide cover for fundamentalists, even if they themselves are upstanding moral people who condemn the fundamentalists.
     
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