Are you talking about this? I'm not a Muslim, but as a Jew, I relate to what the average, everyday, peaceful Muslim is going through. I abhor the Muslim Hate that is becoming more and more of a problem here and elsewhere because of the acts of the few, sick, radical extremists among their Religion. No surprise when you mix a gun nut, with hate, drummed up by the media, social media, etc., bad things happen. Of course the mainstream media that fosters this hatred is now scrambling to cover their asses(let people know this was a simple parking dispute), that it's nothing about Muslims at all. Sure.
U.S. gunman kills three young Muslims; motive disputed
5:47pm EST
By Colleen Jenkins
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (Reuters) - A gunman who had posted anti-religious messages on Facebook and quarreled with neighbors was charged with killing three young Muslims in what police said on Wednesday was a dispute over parking and possibly a hate crime.
Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, a full-time paralegal student from Chapel Hill, was charged with first-degree murder in Tuesday's shootings around 5 p.m. two miles (three km) from the University of North Carolina campus.
The victims were newlyweds Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, a University of North Carolina dental student, and his wife Yusor Mohammad, 21, and Yusor's sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19.
All were involved in humanitarian aid programs.
Students at UNC, where Yusor Mohammad was going to join her husband as a student later this year, were gathering on Wednesday for an evening vigil and prayer service.
The suspect, in handcuffs and orange jail garb, appeared briefly on Wednesday before a Durham County judge who ordered him held without bail pending a March 4 probable cause hearing.
Police said a preliminary investigation showed the motive to be a parking dispute. They said Hicks, who has no criminal history in Chapel Hill, turned himself in and was cooperating.
The killings drew international condemnation. The shooting sparked the hashtag #MuslimLivesMatter on social media with many posters assailing what they called a lack of news coverage.
"I guess that Muslims are only newsworthy when behind the gun, not in front," tweeted a poster who goes by the handle @biebersrivals.
Muslim activists demanded authorities investigate a possible motive of religious hatred.
"We understand the concerns about the possibility that this was hate-motivated and we will exhaust every lead to determine if that is the case," Chapel Hill Police Chief Chris Blue said in a statement.
'EXECUTION-STYLE MURDERS'
The killings occurred in a condominium complex in a wooded area filled with two-story buildings. Neighbors said parking spaces were often a point of contention.
"I have seen and heard (Hicks) be very unfriendly to a lot of people in this community," said Samantha Maness, 25, a community college student. But she said she had never seen him show animosity along religious lines.
On Facebook, Hicks' profile picture reads "Atheists for Equality" and he frequently posted quotes critical of religion. On Jan. 20 he posted a photo of a .38-caliber revolver that he said was loaded and belonged to him.
Hicks's wife Karen Hicks told reporters at a news conference that her husband had been locked in a longstanding dispute over parking and the killings had nothing to do with religion. She said Hicks was not hateful and believed "everyone is equal."
Barakat's family urged the shooting be investigated as a hate crime and said the three were killed with shots to the head.
"Today, we are crying tears of unimaginable pain over the execution-style murders," Barakat's older sister Suzanne told reporters. She said her brother was light-hearted and loved basketball.
The incident appeared to be isolated and not part of a targeted campaign against North Carolina Muslims, Ripley Rand, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, told a news conference with local police officials.
Imam Abdullah Antepli, Chief Representative of Muslim Affairs at Duke University, told the news conference it may or may not have been a hate crime and called for an easing of tensions.
A TURNING POINT?
Groups including the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the local Raleigh-based Muslims for Social Justice called for a federal investigation into possible hate crimes.
"I hope this terrible tragedy will be a turning point that brings the reality home that if we keep demonizing Muslims and equating their religion to terrorism, it will lead to more attacks," said Manzoor Cheema, co-founder of Muslims for Social Justice.
Barakat, an American citizen of Syrian origin, wrote in his last Facebook post about providing free dental supplies and food to homeless people in downtown Durham. He was raising funds for a trip to Turkey with 10 other dentists to provide free fillings, root canals and oral hygiene instruction to Syrian refugee children.
His sister-in-law, Abu-Salha, a sophomore at nearby North Carolina State University, was involved in making multimedia art to spread positive messages about being Muslim American.
Students at UNC said the three friends came from two of the most prominent Muslim families in the Raleigh area.
"Deah was a very proud Muslim American. He was proud of all his identities," said Sofia Dard, a 21-year-old senior psychology major. She said Muslims were used to occasional harassment in post 9/11 America, but the shooting "adds a whole level of seriousness."
(Additional reporting by Marti Anne Maguire in Raleigh, Laila Kearney, Franklin Paul and Curtis Skinner; Writing by Fiona Ortiz in Chicago; Editing by Howard Goller)
U.S. gunman kills three young Muslims; motive disputed
5:47pm EST
By Colleen Jenkins
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (Reuters) - A gunman who had posted anti-religious messages on Facebook and quarreled with neighbors was charged with killing three young Muslims in what police said on Wednesday was a dispute over parking and possibly a hate crime.
Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, a full-time paralegal student from Chapel Hill, was charged with first-degree murder in Tuesday's shootings around 5 p.m. two miles (three km) from the University of North Carolina campus.
The victims were newlyweds Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, a University of North Carolina dental student, and his wife Yusor Mohammad, 21, and Yusor's sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19.
All were involved in humanitarian aid programs.
Students at UNC, where Yusor Mohammad was going to join her husband as a student later this year, were gathering on Wednesday for an evening vigil and prayer service.
The suspect, in handcuffs and orange jail garb, appeared briefly on Wednesday before a Durham County judge who ordered him held without bail pending a March 4 probable cause hearing.
Police said a preliminary investigation showed the motive to be a parking dispute. They said Hicks, who has no criminal history in Chapel Hill, turned himself in and was cooperating.
The killings drew international condemnation. The shooting sparked the hashtag #MuslimLivesMatter on social media with many posters assailing what they called a lack of news coverage.
"I guess that Muslims are only newsworthy when behind the gun, not in front," tweeted a poster who goes by the handle @biebersrivals.
Muslim activists demanded authorities investigate a possible motive of religious hatred.
"We understand the concerns about the possibility that this was hate-motivated and we will exhaust every lead to determine if that is the case," Chapel Hill Police Chief Chris Blue said in a statement.
'EXECUTION-STYLE MURDERS'
The killings occurred in a condominium complex in a wooded area filled with two-story buildings. Neighbors said parking spaces were often a point of contention.
"I have seen and heard (Hicks) be very unfriendly to a lot of people in this community," said Samantha Maness, 25, a community college student. But she said she had never seen him show animosity along religious lines.
On Facebook, Hicks' profile picture reads "Atheists for Equality" and he frequently posted quotes critical of religion. On Jan. 20 he posted a photo of a .38-caliber revolver that he said was loaded and belonged to him.
Hicks's wife Karen Hicks told reporters at a news conference that her husband had been locked in a longstanding dispute over parking and the killings had nothing to do with religion. She said Hicks was not hateful and believed "everyone is equal."
Barakat's family urged the shooting be investigated as a hate crime and said the three were killed with shots to the head.
"Today, we are crying tears of unimaginable pain over the execution-style murders," Barakat's older sister Suzanne told reporters. She said her brother was light-hearted and loved basketball.
The incident appeared to be isolated and not part of a targeted campaign against North Carolina Muslims, Ripley Rand, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, told a news conference with local police officials.
Imam Abdullah Antepli, Chief Representative of Muslim Affairs at Duke University, told the news conference it may or may not have been a hate crime and called for an easing of tensions.
A TURNING POINT?
Groups including the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the local Raleigh-based Muslims for Social Justice called for a federal investigation into possible hate crimes.
"I hope this terrible tragedy will be a turning point that brings the reality home that if we keep demonizing Muslims and equating their religion to terrorism, it will lead to more attacks," said Manzoor Cheema, co-founder of Muslims for Social Justice.
Barakat, an American citizen of Syrian origin, wrote in his last Facebook post about providing free dental supplies and food to homeless people in downtown Durham. He was raising funds for a trip to Turkey with 10 other dentists to provide free fillings, root canals and oral hygiene instruction to Syrian refugee children.
His sister-in-law, Abu-Salha, a sophomore at nearby North Carolina State University, was involved in making multimedia art to spread positive messages about being Muslim American.
Students at UNC said the three friends came from two of the most prominent Muslim families in the Raleigh area.
"Deah was a very proud Muslim American. He was proud of all his identities," said Sofia Dard, a 21-year-old senior psychology major. She said Muslims were used to occasional harassment in post 9/11 America, but the shooting "adds a whole level of seriousness."
(Additional reporting by Marti Anne Maguire in Raleigh, Laila Kearney, Franklin Paul and Curtis Skinner; Writing by Fiona Ortiz in Chicago; Editing by Howard Goller)
Sorry, I was referring to this.
[h=1]Muslim teenager planned to behead soldiers in London, court hears[/h] Brusthom Ziamani, who idolised killers of Lee Rigby, was arrested with a knife and a hammer in a rucksack
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A Muslim teenager who idolised the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby was arrested on his way to behead a British soldier, a court has heard.
Brusthom Ziamani, 19, was arrested in east London in August last year carrying a 12in knife and a hammer in a rucksack. He had researched the location of army cadet bases in the south-east of the capital, the Old Bailey in London was told.
Ziamani had reverted to Islam early in 2014, and his arrest came after he showed his ex-girlfriend the weapons, described Rigby’s killer Michael Adebolajo as a legend and told her he would kill soldiers, prosecutor Annabel Darlow said.
The jury heard he also used the name Mujahid Karim to put posts on Facebook supporting Sharia law and stating he was “willing to die in the cause of Allah”.
Darlow said: “He didn’t say anything when he was arrested on that particular occasion, but he was remanded and told a security officer that he had been on his way to kill a British soldier at an army barracks when he had been arrested.
“He said that he was going to behead the soldier and hold that soldier’s head up in the air so that a friend could take a photograph with the severed head of the soldier.
“You may think that his aim was to emulate the dubious feats of his hero Michael Adebolajo, who had murdered a British soldier close to the Woolwich barracks where he worked.”
Ziamani, of Camberwell, London, denies a charge of preparing an act of terrorism on or before 20 August last year.
Ziamani had previously been arrested in June 2014, the court heard, after allegedly Googling “Camberwell army cadets” and looking at the website of the London Irish Rifles Association. He had also allegedly sought out cadets in Lewisham, looking at details of the Army Cadet Force in Blackheath.
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Darlow said: “These were all military targets, which would reflect the defendant’s stated intention to wage war on the British government and to further his ambition of carrying out attacks like those on Lee Rigby in Woolwich.”
After his June arrest, police found a letter in Ziamani’s jeans addressed to his “beloved parents”, saying he was a changed person. He wrote of being martyred and going to paradise, and referenced people being raped, tortured and killed in Iraq and Syria. He said he had a duty to help them.
In the message, he wrote: “Because I have no means ov gettin there I will wage war against the british government on this soil the british government will have a taste of there own medicine they will be humiliated this is ISIB Islamic State of Ireland and Britain [sic].”
He added: “Now we will take a thousand ov yours then ten thousand and send you all to the hell-fire you want war you got it British soldiers heads will be removed and burned u cannot defeat the Muslims we love to die the way you love to live my fellow muslim brothers these people want war lets kill them slaughter them and implement sharia in our lands and UK [sic].
“Lee Rigby is burnin in hell im dying good for him this is what you get for voting Cameron and democracy [sic].”
He told police he looked up to radical preachers including Abu Hamza and Anjem Choudary, but denied he was planning an attack. He was later released on bail and anti-radicalisation officers spoke to him in July.
The court heard that Ziamani was unresponsive and said he “did not need help with his religion” and had left the home of his Christian family.
Ziamani continued to post extremist material on Facebook, including a photo of six severed heads, the court head. He also wrote about waging war on the “kuffar” and “it is a shame Hitler never finished his job”.
He also wrote: “You can sit at home and play Call of Duty or you can come out here and respond to the real call of duty - the choice is yours.”
The court heard he also researched the murder of Lee Rigby, reading news articles about the attack and Adebolajo.
Darlow added: “The prosecution say that the defendant saw Michael Adebolajo as a hero and role model whose crimes he aspired to copy.
Ziamani identified with the Woolwich killer, she added, as he was also a convert from a Christian family and took direct action against the armed forces.
Ziamani got back in touch with his ex-girlfriend, on 16 August. The court heard he sent her messages and made several visits over the next few days, telling her: “If I leave this world I don’t want any hatred to be left between us.”
On 19 August he arrived at his ex-girlfriend’s home with the hammer and knife wrapped in a black Islamic flag in his bag, she told the court.
She told how he sent her several text message before turning up several times at her home in the days before his August arrest. On the last occasion on the day of his arrest he came into the house at 7am with a rucksack, she told the jury from behind a screen.
“He opened his bag and he produced two items,” she said. “One was a hammer and one was a metallic object.
“They were wrapped in an Islamic flag, a black flag.
“I asked why he had these and he said: ‘Me and the brothers are planning a terrorist attack’. I said what, like a bomb or something and he said: ‘No, a soldier or a member of government.”’
She added that the metallic object was a screwdriver or a knife and after showing them to her he showed YouTube videos of people being killed in Syria.
She told how Ziamani, who she knew as “Bruce”, had initially been interested in Islam but continued to dress in a western style, jeans and tracksuits. But when she came back from a short holiday she found he had converted to Islam, including wearing Islamic clothing, saying things that she didn’t like. Their relationship later ended.
“He referred to people who were not Muslim as ‘kuffar’,” she said. “He said things like when the Lee Rigby murder happened, he respected the people that had done it.”
She also said Ziamani tried to convince her to convert, and once told her: “I will wipe you out” during a row, which was one of the reasons he came to her house in August, to apologise.
Naeem Mian, defending Ziamani, asked her whether, when the defendant came to her home, they had been discussing “going back to how it used to be”, showing her that Ziamani had visited websites listing Muslim names for children while there.
She denied it. But she agreed with Mian’s suggestion that Ziamani was someone who sometimes “made things up”.
Mian asked her why she did not call the police after he left her house, and she replied: “I thought that if I went to the police and told them he had been saying these things it would just be my word against his. If it hadn’t worked he could easily have done something to me.”
She added that she had been planning to record Ziamani repeating what he had said during a phone call. But he did not answer when she called him, as arranged, at 6pm, she said.
Shortly afterwards police arrived at her home and told her he had been arrested and she told them what he had said.
The trial, which is due to last around two weeks, continues.
[h=1]Muslim teenager planned to behead soldiers in London, court hears[/h] Brusthom Ziamani, who idolised killers of Lee Rigby, was arrested with a knife and a hammer in a rucksack
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A Muslim teenager who idolised the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby was arrested on his way to behead a British soldier, a court has heard.
Brusthom Ziamani, 19, was arrested in east London in August last year carrying a 12in knife and a hammer in a rucksack. He had researched the location of army cadet bases in the south-east of the capital, the Old Bailey in London was told.
Ziamani had reverted to Islam early in 2014, and his arrest came after he showed his ex-girlfriend the weapons, described Rigby’s killer Michael Adebolajo as a legend and told her he would kill soldiers, prosecutor Annabel Darlow said.
The jury heard he also used the name Mujahid Karim to put posts on Facebook supporting Sharia law and stating he was “willing to die in the cause of Allah”.
Darlow said: “He didn’t say anything when he was arrested on that particular occasion, but he was remanded and told a security officer that he had been on his way to kill a British soldier at an army barracks when he had been arrested.
“He said that he was going to behead the soldier and hold that soldier’s head up in the air so that a friend could take a photograph with the severed head of the soldier.
“You may think that his aim was to emulate the dubious feats of his hero Michael Adebolajo, who had murdered a British soldier close to the Woolwich barracks where he worked.”
Ziamani, of Camberwell, London, denies a charge of preparing an act of terrorism on or before 20 August last year.
Ziamani had previously been arrested in June 2014, the court heard, after allegedly Googling “Camberwell army cadets” and looking at the website of the London Irish Rifles Association. He had also allegedly sought out cadets in Lewisham, looking at details of the Army Cadet Force in Blackheath.
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Darlow said: “These were all military targets, which would reflect the defendant’s stated intention to wage war on the British government and to further his ambition of carrying out attacks like those on Lee Rigby in Woolwich.”
After his June arrest, police found a letter in Ziamani’s jeans addressed to his “beloved parents”, saying he was a changed person. He wrote of being martyred and going to paradise, and referenced people being raped, tortured and killed in Iraq and Syria. He said he had a duty to help them.
In the message, he wrote: “Because I have no means ov gettin there I will wage war against the british government on this soil the british government will have a taste of there own medicine they will be humiliated this is ISIB Islamic State of Ireland and Britain [sic].”
He added: “Now we will take a thousand ov yours then ten thousand and send you all to the hell-fire you want war you got it British soldiers heads will be removed and burned u cannot defeat the Muslims we love to die the way you love to live my fellow muslim brothers these people want war lets kill them slaughter them and implement sharia in our lands and UK [sic].
“Lee Rigby is burnin in hell im dying good for him this is what you get for voting Cameron and democracy [sic].”
He told police he looked up to radical preachers including Abu Hamza and Anjem Choudary, but denied he was planning an attack. He was later released on bail and anti-radicalisation officers spoke to him in July.
The court heard that Ziamani was unresponsive and said he “did not need help with his religion” and had left the home of his Christian family.
Ziamani continued to post extremist material on Facebook, including a photo of six severed heads, the court head. He also wrote about waging war on the “kuffar” and “it is a shame Hitler never finished his job”.
He also wrote: “You can sit at home and play Call of Duty or you can come out here and respond to the real call of duty - the choice is yours.”
The court heard he also researched the murder of Lee Rigby, reading news articles about the attack and Adebolajo.
Darlow added: “The prosecution say that the defendant saw Michael Adebolajo as a hero and role model whose crimes he aspired to copy.
Ziamani identified with the Woolwich killer, she added, as he was also a convert from a Christian family and took direct action against the armed forces.
Ziamani got back in touch with his ex-girlfriend, on 16 August. The court heard he sent her messages and made several visits over the next few days, telling her: “If I leave this world I don’t want any hatred to be left between us.”
On 19 August he arrived at his ex-girlfriend’s home with the hammer and knife wrapped in a black Islamic flag in his bag, she told the court.
She told how he sent her several text message before turning up several times at her home in the days before his August arrest. On the last occasion on the day of his arrest he came into the house at 7am with a rucksack, she told the jury from behind a screen.
“He opened his bag and he produced two items,” she said. “One was a hammer and one was a metallic object.
“They were wrapped in an Islamic flag, a black flag.
“I asked why he had these and he said: ‘Me and the brothers are planning a terrorist attack’. I said what, like a bomb or something and he said: ‘No, a soldier or a member of government.”’
She added that the metallic object was a screwdriver or a knife and after showing them to her he showed YouTube videos of people being killed in Syria.
She told how Ziamani, who she knew as “Bruce”, had initially been interested in Islam but continued to dress in a western style, jeans and tracksuits. But when she came back from a short holiday she found he had converted to Islam, including wearing Islamic clothing, saying things that she didn’t like. Their relationship later ended.
“He referred to people who were not Muslim as ‘kuffar’,” she said. “He said things like when the Lee Rigby murder happened, he respected the people that had done it.”
She also said Ziamani tried to convince her to convert, and once told her: “I will wipe you out” during a row, which was one of the reasons he came to her house in August, to apologise.
Naeem Mian, defending Ziamani, asked her whether, when the defendant came to her home, they had been discussing “going back to how it used to be”, showing her that Ziamani had visited websites listing Muslim names for children while there.
She denied it. But she agreed with Mian’s suggestion that Ziamani was someone who sometimes “made things up”.
Mian asked her why she did not call the police after he left her house, and she replied: “I thought that if I went to the police and told them he had been saying these things it would just be my word against his. If it hadn’t worked he could easily have done something to me.”
She added that she had been planning to record Ziamani repeating what he had said during a phone call. But he did not answer when she called him, as arranged, at 6pm, she said.
Shortly afterwards police arrived at her home and told her he had been arrested and she told them what he had said.
The trial, which is due to last around two weeks, continues.
+100,000,000 that you will find a muslim at a gambling forum.
Are you talking about this? I'm not a Muslim, but as a Jew, I relate to what the average, everyday, peaceful Muslim is going through. I abhor the Muslim Hate that is becoming more and more of a problem here and elsewhere because of the acts of the few, sick, radical extremists among their Religion. No surprise when you mix a gun nut, with hate, drummed up by the media, social media, etc., bad things happen. Of course the mainstream media that fosters this hatred is now scrambling to cover their asses(let people know this was a simple parking dispute), that it's nothing about Muslims at all. Sure.
U.S. gunman kills three young Muslims; motive disputed
5:47pm EST
By Colleen Jenkins
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (Reuters) - A gunman who had posted anti-religious messages on Facebook and quarreled with neighbors was charged with killing three young Muslims in what police said on Wednesday was a dispute over parking and possibly a hate crime.
Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, a full-time paralegal student from Chapel Hill, was charged with first-degree murder in Tuesday's shootings around 5 p.m. two miles (three km) from the University of North Carolina campus.
The victims were newlyweds Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, a University of North Carolina dental student, and his wife Yusor Mohammad, 21, and Yusor's sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19.
All were involved in humanitarian aid programs.
Students at UNC, where Yusor Mohammad was going to join her husband as a student later this year, were gathering on Wednesday for an evening vigil and prayer service.
The suspect, in handcuffs and orange jail garb, appeared briefly on Wednesday before a Durham County judge who ordered him held without bail pending a March 4 probable cause hearing.
Police said a preliminary investigation showed the motive to be a parking dispute. They said Hicks, who has no criminal history in Chapel Hill, turned himself in and was cooperating.
The killings drew international condemnation. The shooting sparked the hashtag #MuslimLivesMatter on social media with many posters assailing what they called a lack of news coverage.
"I guess that Muslims are only newsworthy when behind the gun, not in front," tweeted a poster who goes by the handle @biebersrivals.
Muslim activists demanded authorities investigate a possible motive of religious hatred.
"We understand the concerns about the possibility that this was hate-motivated and we will exhaust every lead to determine if that is the case," Chapel Hill Police Chief Chris Blue said in a statement.
'EXECUTION-STYLE MURDERS'
The killings occurred in a condominium complex in a wooded area filled with two-story buildings. Neighbors said parking spaces were often a point of contention.
"I have seen and heard (Hicks) be very unfriendly to a lot of people in this community," said Samantha Maness, 25, a community college student. But she said she had never seen him show animosity along religious lines.
On Facebook, Hicks' profile picture reads "Atheists for Equality" and he frequently posted quotes critical of religion. On Jan. 20 he posted a photo of a .38-caliber revolver that he said was loaded and belonged to him.
Hicks's wife Karen Hicks told reporters at a news conference that her husband had been locked in a longstanding dispute over parking and the killings had nothing to do with religion. She said Hicks was not hateful and believed "everyone is equal."
Barakat's family urged the shooting be investigated as a hate crime and said the three were killed with shots to the head.
"Today, we are crying tears of unimaginable pain over the execution-style murders," Barakat's older sister Suzanne told reporters. She said her brother was light-hearted and loved basketball.
The incident appeared to be isolated and not part of a targeted campaign against North Carolina Muslims, Ripley Rand, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, told a news conference with local police officials.
Imam Abdullah Antepli, Chief Representative of Muslim Affairs at Duke University, told the news conference it may or may not have been a hate crime and called for an easing of tensions.
A TURNING POINT?
Groups including the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the local Raleigh-based Muslims for Social Justice called for a federal investigation into possible hate crimes.
"I hope this terrible tragedy will be a turning point that brings the reality home that if we keep demonizing Muslims and equating their religion to terrorism, it will lead to more attacks," said Manzoor Cheema, co-founder of Muslims for Social Justice.
Barakat, an American citizen of Syrian origin, wrote in his last Facebook post about providing free dental supplies and food to homeless people in downtown Durham. He was raising funds for a trip to Turkey with 10 other dentists to provide free fillings, root canals and oral hygiene instruction to Syrian refugee children.
His sister-in-law, Abu-Salha, a sophomore at nearby North Carolina State University, was involved in making multimedia art to spread positive messages about being Muslim American.
Students at UNC said the three friends came from two of the most prominent Muslim families in the Raleigh area.
"Deah was a very proud Muslim American. He was proud of all his identities," said Sofia Dard, a 21-year-old senior psychology major. She said Muslims were used to occasional harassment in post 9/11 America, but the shooting "adds a whole level of seriousness."
(Additional reporting by Marti Anne Maguire in Raleigh, Laila Kearney, Franklin Paul and Curtis Skinner; Writing by Fiona Ortiz in Chicago; Editing by Howard Goller)
You are a Moron and part of the problem.
Update, 11:44 a.m.: According to a statement released by Chapel Hill police, a "preliminary investigation indicates that the crime was motivated by an ongoing neighbor dispute over parking." Police, however, are continuing to investigate whether the shooting was a hate crime and say that Hicks is cooperating.
Yeah sure, it was just a parking dispute. The fact that the women were 2 easy identifiable Muslims, and that they were killed execution style by this sicko is totally a coincidence:>(. You are a gullible fool, who blindly accepts what the media tells you. I'm sure if the killer was Muslim, and the victims were not, you'd have an entirely different view, and the media would be trumpeting this as More Muslim Killers, instead of basically burying this story as they are doing.
The justice Department is going to push to try to get this labeled a "hate crime".
I just don't think it meets the elements. If this person didn't know these people yet targeted them based on how they were dressed then I could see it. They all knew and disliked each other.
I just don't think it meets the elements. If this person didn't know these people yet targeted them based on how they were dressed then I could see it. They all knew and disliked each other.
Translation: you don't believe facts that don't fit your comically ignorant world view.
Why must you continue posting these dipshit articles nobody is going to read in full text? Why can't you just post a link you fucking idiot?
Anyway, you are a goofy liar and an idiot. Go on believing they were targeted because they were Muslim
Chapel Hill neighbors describe suspect as confrontational, obsessed with parking
CHAPEL HILL — Neighbors say Craig Stephen Hicks was a confrontational man who regularly harangued them about parking their cars in the wrong place and noise at the condominium complex where they lived.
But the neighbors and Hicks’ wife say his angry and loud behavior did not include references of religious intolerance or racial hatred that some people say may be behind a fatal shooting in the complex Tuesday. The three victims were Muslim and of Middle Eastern descent; Hicks is white and a self-described atheist.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2015/02/11/4548732_chapel-hill-neighbors-describe.html?rh=1
Now go and dispute the people who lived near the guy because the "media" said so.
Moron.
"He didn't like them because they were Muslim"
I didn't know that had been established yet. Did he confess this?
It isn't possible that this is just an ongoing dispute over a parking place and loud music that simply boiled over?
Just because they are of a different religion it has to be a hate crime?
This is getting out of hand, and its stupid.
Muslim kills soldiers on a military base yelling "Allah Akbar!!" - Labeled as "Workplace Violence"
Black kills a white person - Labeled a murder
White kills a black person - Its murder and a hate-crime
Muslim beheads someone while at work in the US - Its workplace violence
White kills Muslim neighbors - Murder and a hate crime
WTF????? Why cant white people ever be the victim of a hate crime? Isnt that racism? Saying that someone cant do something cause of the color of their skin?
Muslim kills soldiers on a military base yelling "Allah Akbar!!" - Labeled as "Workplace Violence"
Black kills a white person - Labeled a murder
White kills a black person - Its murder and a hate-crime
Muslim beheads someone while at work in the US - Its workplace violence
White kills Muslim neighbors - Murder and a hate crime
WTF????? Why cant white people ever be the victim of a hate crime? Isnt that racism? Saying that someone cant do something cause of the color of their skin?
Are you talking about this? I'm not a Muslim, but as a Jew, I relate to what the average, everyday, peaceful Muslim is going through. I abhor the Muslim Hate that is becoming more and more of a problem here and elsewhere because of the acts of the few, sick, radical extremists among their Religion. No surprise when you mix a gun nut, with hate, drummed up by the media, social media, etc., bad things happen. Of course the mainstream media that fosters this hatred is now scrambling to cover their asses(let people know this was a simple parking dispute), that it's nothing about Muslims at all. Sure.
U.S. gunman kills three young Muslims; motive disputed
5:47pm EST
By Colleen Jenkins
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (Reuters) - A gunman who had posted anti-religious messages on Facebook and quarreled with neighbors was charged with killing three young Muslims in what police said on Wednesday was a dispute over parking and possibly a hate crime.
Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, a full-time paralegal student from Chapel Hill, was charged with first-degree murder in Tuesday's shootings around 5 p.m. two miles (three km) from the University of North Carolina campus.
The victims were newlyweds Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, a University of North Carolina dental student, and his wife Yusor Mohammad, 21, and Yusor's sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19.
All were involved in humanitarian aid programs.
Students at UNC, where Yusor Mohammad was going to join her husband as a student later this year, were gathering on Wednesday for an evening vigil and prayer service.
The suspect, in handcuffs and orange jail garb, appeared briefly on Wednesday before a Durham County judge who ordered him held without bail pending a March 4 probable cause hearing.
Police said a preliminary investigation showed the motive to be a parking dispute. They said Hicks, who has no criminal history in Chapel Hill, turned himself in and was cooperating.
The killings drew international condemnation. The shooting sparked the hashtag #MuslimLivesMatter on social media with many posters assailing what they called a lack of news coverage.
"I guess that Muslims are only newsworthy when behind the gun, not in front," tweeted a poster who goes by the handle @biebersrivals.
Muslim activists demanded authorities investigate a possible motive of religious hatred.
"We understand the concerns about the possibility that this was hate-motivated and we will exhaust every lead to determine if that is the case," Chapel Hill Police Chief Chris Blue said in a statement.
'EXECUTION-STYLE MURDERS'
The killings occurred in a condominium complex in a wooded area filled with two-story buildings. Neighbors said parking spaces were often a point of contention.
"I have seen and heard (Hicks) be very unfriendly to a lot of people in this community," said Samantha Maness, 25, a community college student. But she said she had never seen him show animosity along religious lines.
On Facebook, Hicks' profile picture reads "Atheists for Equality" and he frequently posted quotes critical of religion. On Jan. 20 he posted a photo of a .38-caliber revolver that he said was loaded and belonged to him.
Hicks's wife Karen Hicks told reporters at a news conference that her husband had been locked in a longstanding dispute over parking and the killings had nothing to do with religion. She said Hicks was not hateful and believed "everyone is equal."
Barakat's family urged the shooting be investigated as a hate crime and said the three were killed with shots to the head.
"Today, we are crying tears of unimaginable pain over the execution-style murders," Barakat's older sister Suzanne told reporters. She said her brother was light-hearted and loved basketball.
The incident appeared to be isolated and not part of a targeted campaign against North Carolina Muslims, Ripley Rand, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, told a news conference with local police officials.
Imam Abdullah Antepli, Chief Representative of Muslim Affairs at Duke University, told the news conference it may or may not have been a hate crime and called for an easing of tensions.
A TURNING POINT?
Groups including the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the local Raleigh-based Muslims for Social Justice called for a federal investigation into possible hate crimes.
"I hope this terrible tragedy will be a turning point that brings the reality home that if we keep demonizing Muslims and equating their religion to terrorism, it will lead to more attacks," said Manzoor Cheema, co-founder of Muslims for Social Justice.
Barakat, an American citizen of Syrian origin, wrote in his last Facebook post about providing free dental supplies and food to homeless people in downtown Durham. He was raising funds for a trip to Turkey with 10 other dentists to provide free fillings, root canals and oral hygiene instruction to Syrian refugee children.
His sister-in-law, Abu-Salha, a sophomore at nearby North Carolina State University, was involved in making multimedia art to spread positive messages about being Muslim American.
Students at UNC said the three friends came from two of the most prominent Muslim families in the Raleigh area.
"Deah was a very proud Muslim American. He was proud of all his identities," said Sofia Dard, a 21-year-old senior psychology major. She said Muslims were used to occasional harassment in post 9/11 America, but the shooting "adds a whole level of seriousness."
(Additional reporting by Marti Anne Maguire in Raleigh, Laila Kearney, Franklin Paul and Curtis Skinner; Writing by Fiona Ortiz in Chicago; Editing by Howard Goller)
Guesser makes reference to the "average, peaceful, everyday" Muslim.
ROFL.
Pew Research shows that MOST Muslims in the world want Sharia law instituted. Shall we go into how Sharia law treats women?
Then we have he millions upon millions of Muslims who think it's cool to cut the hands off of thieves:
The ignorant poster Guesser says that there are only a "few" extremists in the Muslim religion. Not sure you can define a "few" as somewhere between 500 million and 800 million people.
Liberalism is a fucking mental disorder.
