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Stabbings at UC Merced

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by poindexter, Nov 5, 2015.

  1. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    If only we'd had stronger knife control laws, this could have been avoided.
     
  2. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    I can't believe that anyone would suggest that the Muslim guy, who invoked Allah in his murderous manifesto, was influenced at all by Islam when he planned his attack.

    Anger over being kicked out of a UC Merced study group drove an 18-year-old computer science student to make a precise plan to kill “a lot of people,” according to a two-page, hand-written manifesto found during his autopsy, authorities said Thursday.
    ...
    Wearing his signature cowboy hat, the sheriff told a crowd of reporters Thursday “there is nothing to indicate this was anything other than a teenage boy who got upset with fellow classmates.”

    Asked if the manifesto made any references to Allah, Warnke said there were, but dismissed any suggestion that Mohammad was motivated by religion.

    “His belief was through the Muslim faith, but there’s nothing to indicate anything other than that,” Warnke said. “It’d be like a Christian referring to the Lord Jesus.”

    “You’ve got to remember there are a lot of Muslim-faith (people) that are very kind, gentle, loving people and to have one person do this, you can’t group that whole section of folks into that. It’s just not right,” Warnke said.


    Attacker’s manifesto reveals plan to kill ‘a lot of people’
     
  3. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    Jeez, is that your standard quote? Sure there are bad people who are Muslims, but there are bad people in all subgroups and IMHO Muslims are no different from any other cross-section.
     
  4. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    Yeah, no different. Guess the media just isn't covering all the daily worldwide terrorists attacks by other like-minded extremist groups.
     
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