Posted on 04/20/2007 11:58:21 PM PDT by the scotsman
A survivor of the Virginia Tech massacre has been describing how a colleague died to protect others. Although badly injured, graduate student Waleed Shalaan distracted gunman Cho Seung-Hui to save another person from his bullets.
Waleed saved another student's life.The surviving student, who wishes to remain anonymous, told of Waleed's heroics through an email to his supervisor.
He describes how he was left uninjured after Cho's initial round of shots.
Meanwhile, Waleed had been wounded but was still alive.
However, when Cho later returned to the classroom to inspect for signs of life among his victims, the surviving student struggled to remain calm.
He believes he would have been shot dead were it not for Waleed's "protective movement" that distracted the gunman.
Cho turned and shot Waleed for a second time, killing him, before leaving the classroom.
Randy Dymond, a civil engineering professor, has said the student asked to him to tell the tale "so that the family of Waleed understands the sacrifice."
Shaalan's mother broke down when she heard Mr Dymond's account.
"He was trying to save someone else," she said repeatedly.
Dymond said Shaalan's body was taken to a Blacksburg mosque so classmates, teachers and friends could say goodbye before he was sent to Egypt for burial.'
Their ills are institutional, not just owing to isolated individuals. Their ideological and theological tenets are a root cause of their inability to co-exist with others in peace. They require sharia and submission, jihad and dhimmitude.
So no. There is nothing wrong, and everything right with condemning Muslims, the millions of muslims who adhere to and intolerant, violent Islamist faith.
If you were Muslim, no doubt you would have a long list of wrongs justifing hatred of Americans.
Muslims lie as a matter of their so called
“religion” -— a duty to advance their cause.
Non muslims lie in violation of theirs.
More Muslims should take note of this.
Good out. Congrats. Your own words aren’t worth defending, even by you.
As far as freepers here, what posts here said no muslim in any instance could commit a selfless act of heroism? I missed them. Point one out.
You put exactly in to words my feelings when I read the story. It doesn't pass the smell test.
Sui
If so, I would be deluded, as far too many of them are.
But now we come to it—America is no better than these Middle East potentates, these promulgators of Islam. Is that right? It all depends on who’s doing the looking?
First, I’m happy to hear that you are ok and that a follower of Jesus helped.
Next: ah, but Christians are (rightly) despised for their diseased world view, whereas Muslims, especially those who seek to kill Americans, are misunderstood victims of western imperialism.
(Do I really need to close my tag?)
Believe it or not, there are many of us who have no wish to be in the spotlight. Or, perhaps the person has no wish to be dragged over and over again into recalling a nightmarish event.
me too
Horse hockey!
I COMPLETELY agree with you!
I know from personal experience of a family member that the media will LIE completely to create a story!
They are desperate right now to make Muslims look good, especially with the web abuzz with the whole “Ismail Ax” story, which by the way, I first heard about here on FR within hours of the shooting but DAYS LATER by the media.
There is an article today in the Associated Press about it and they try to say this guy was a CHRISTIAN!
I seem to recall the MSM’s rush to DISPROVE the story about the female victim in the Columbine shooting who was asked if she was a CHristian and shot when she replied, “yes.”
I believe that the muslim student was probably moaning in pain and moving enough to catch Cho’s attention to shoot him again....and that was it.
Yes, we know the MSM would NEVER fabricate a story or stretch the truth....EVER.
My thought exactly.
I agree with you. You would have to believe the muslim kid reasoned that the killer came back to finish off the wounded, and that he was only going to shoot one person - the one who distracted him - and let any others live. But there is no reason at all to think that the killer wouldn't have shot him, then turned and shot someone else. If the act lead to an escape, I might think "intent," but there just isn't a way to make the logic work in my mind, and I am a lot calmer and more logical now than someone laying wounded on a classroom floor.
This doesn't take away from the sadness of his death, or the deaths of any of the innocents.
I smell useful idiots.
“(2) why does the person telling the tale hide behind anonymity?”
“It might have something to do with the fact that Muslims have been getting a bad rap ever since 9/11.”
... Or could it have something to do with the fact that if anyone happens to say something in support of any Muslim for whatever reason there are plenty of so-called Americans who will attack them on that basis alone, facts be damned ?
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