White male atheist murders three Muslim students

[donnashuggy]

Incredibly sad

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/02/chapel-hill-shooting-white-male-atheist-murders-three-m...

As hours went by with mainstream US news outlets failing to cover the attack, social media users expressed outrage at the media's refusal to recognise the murder of three innocent Muslims by a white man as a terrorist attack.

[debra9275]

yes, i read about it Donna, there is quite a lot of commentary about the lack of media coverage on it... yet.. if it was the other way around, everybody would know about it

[daydream**believer]

very very sad, but, this guy was openly against all religions and was clearly crazy.

He murdered his religious neighbours and may of done the same thing had his religious neghbours been Christain instead of Muslim so i dont believe it to be an attack on Muslims.

Regarding the medias lack of reporting on this story. Not good at all. This should be reported the same as any other story

[vicr3000]

I think you are right.

He would have killed whoever they were.

Doesn't surprise me re the lack of reporting.

[raptor_rebooted]

In the afternoon, Ripley Rand, the United States attorney for the region, said the shooting appeared to have been “an isolated incident” and “not part of a targeted campaign against Muslims.”

A friend of Yusor said she knew that Mr. Hicks had complained to the couple before about making noise and the use of parking spaces by their visitors, and that he once came to their door carrying a rifle.

Mr. Hicks appeared to have a deep dislike of all religion. On his Facebook page, nearly all of his posts expressed support for atheism, criticism of Christian conservatives or both.

Last month, he posted a photograph that said, “Praying is pointless, useless, narcissistic, arrogant, and lazy; just like the imaginary god you pray to.”

Mr. Hicks’s wife, Karen, insisted at a news conference that her husband was not a bigot. “I can say with absolute belief that this incident had nothing to do with religion or the victims’ faith, but it was related to a longstanding parking dispute that my husband had with the neighbors,” she said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/us/muslim-student-shootings-north-carolina.html?_r=0

a terrorist attack?  

doesnt look like it.

[daydream**believer]

"a terrorist attack?  

doesnt look like it."

I agree. Just another American with a gun

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

Or as the gun fondlers would claim, "He was exercising his 2nd Amendment rights".........

[k0llectable5]

Mr. Hicks’s wife, Karen, insisted at a news conference that her husband was not a bigot. “I can say with absolute belief that this incident had nothing to do with religion or the victims’ faith, but it was related to a longstanding parking dispute that my husband had with the neighbors,” she said.

It's interesting she was quoted as saying that.  Thats the first thing I thought reading the OP.  It's a neighbourly dispute that has gone majorly pear shaped 😞 Every time someone loses the plot and kills someone, out of rage, doesn't instantly make them a terrorist or the act a terrorist act.  

[lionrose.7]

I watched a program last night where a man killed his wife of 3 days, her sister and 3 tiny children.

Also shot another child which survived.

When the police found him he shot him self.

Bloody guns!!

[vicr3000]

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@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:

Or as the gun fondlers would claim, "He was exercising his 2nd Amendment rights".........

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And so he should be !