Thread: The Gratitude Of Muslims

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by Brooks Mick
The Gratitude of Muslims
February 14, 2007 01:00 PM EST



In 1981, John D. MacDonald published "The Green Ripper," a tale of a domestic terrorist group which was practicing to stage a mass shooting in malls. In 2003, Tom Clancy published "The Teeth of the Tiger," a novel that detailed an Islamic terrorist's plan to shoot dozens of people in a mall in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Now fiction has become truth. We have news report of a teenager who killed five people and wounded others at a mall in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The young man was NOT a Mormon.

In fact, he was a Bosnian Muslim, and the mall was not far from a mosque.

This was clearly the first overt Muslim terrorist act since 9/11 on American soil, and just because it isn't on the same scale as 9/11 it shouldn't be ignored.

But the mainstream media is, for the most part, ignoring it. I do not recall any mention on the news that the young man was a Muslim. The police, in full politically correct don't-want-to-offend-anybody mode have said "there's nothing in the case that points to a motive." They claim it is just one of those unexplained random acts.

I don't think so. I think we can expect to see more such if the hate-filled Wahhabi strain of Islam continues to preach holy war against the infidels from the pulpits in mosques across the country. Maybe the next time it won't be one kid with a pistol and shotgun, but a homemade explosive vest perhaps. I don't think this is an organized attack in the sense of plotting by several people. But if the hatred is preached, the occasional susceptible mind will act on it.

I think that, after the strong response to 9/11, the Islamic fanatics are too shrewd to launch more organized attacks here, as they do not wish to provoke a president who has shown a willingness to make strong decisions.

Lastly, it demonstrates an egregious ingratitude toward America for a Bosnian Muslim to stage an attack in an American mall after we went to war in Bosnia to save Muslims from persecution and genocide. No good deed goes unpunished when dealing with irrational fanatics.

More information on shooter


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17156121/?GT1=9033


Cousin: Mall gunman survived Bosnian siege
Utah assailant said to have lived through massacre of 8,000 Muslims in ’95

Talovic family photo via AP file Sulejman Talovic, 18, is shown in a January 2007 photo supplied by the family.
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CERSKA, Bosnia - The 18-year-old gunman who shot dead five people in a Salt Lake City shopping mall was a survivor of the siege that ended in the Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, a cousin said on Wednesday.

Sulejman Talovic, who was killed by police after Monday’s shooting spree in which he also wounded four people, fled his village with his family during the Bosnia war to Srebrenica, a U.N.-protected enclave, Redzo Talovic said.

They spent two years in the town, during which Bosnian Serb forces besieged the enclave and Sulejman’s grandfather was killed by shellfire, Redzo said.

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When the Bosnian Serbs overran the town in 1995, taking away and massacring some 8,000 Muslim men and boys, Sulejman and his mother were evacuated by the United Nations and later reunited with his father, Redzo said.

“They were a good, quiet family and I remember that he was a nice kid when he was four or five, maybe a little bit playful,” he said, standing in front of the burnt-out shell of Sulejman’s family home in the village of Talovici, eastern Bosnia.

“No one could have supposed that he was going to do such a thing,” Redzo said. “Who knows what made him do that?” He could not say what marks Sulejman’s childhood memories of wartime Bosnia had left on him.

Redzo said he was in shock when he heard the news.

“I couldn’t believe it. I heard that his parents are dumbfounded, they can’t believe he did that,” said Redzo, one of the few villagers to have returned to Talovici.

Sulejman and his family never visited Bosnia or kept in touch after moving to the United States as refugees in 2000, Redzo said.

Police said Sulejman and his mother had lived in Salt Lake City for a few years, during which he had four minor incidents with police as a juvenile.

The teenager, dressed in a trench coat and carrying a shotgun, a .38 caliber pistol and what police said was a “backpack full of ammunition,” opened fire at random on Monday evening, sending terrified shoppers running for cover.

Salt Lake City police chief Chris Burbank said the gunman seemed determined to “shoot as many people as he possibly could.”


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“They were a good, quiet family and I remember that he was a nice kid when he was four or five, maybe a little bit playful,” he said, standing in front of the burnt-out shell of Sulejman’s family home in the village of Talovici, eastern Bosnia.

“No one could have supposed that he was going to do such a thing,” Redzo said. “Who knows what made him do that?” He could not say what marks Sulejman’s childhood memories of wartime Bosnia had left on him.

Isn't it funny how the media can always find some idiot to make that obligatory comment?

I agree GhostCrocket.

He was mad at someone. If your torn by memories I would think you would jump off a bridge not open fire on innocent people walking in a mall.

I'm not buying the tale of "He was such a nice person excuse" Somebody filled this guy with hate and I think we can all guess who. JUST MY OPINION.