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.'
I want Muslims to love and sacrifice for their fellow human beings. I want them to be civilized and herioic. I want to be able to trust them.
However, so far, the vast evidence is that to trust them is to carry a scorpion on your back as you swim across a river. Each night, I pray for peace. Many nights I pray that Muslims will stop being so violent toward others and themselves. Hopefully, this man did deliberatly distract the murderous Cho. If so, he is a hero. God knows.
So you hate all Muslims? Even the ones we're fighting to protect in Iraq? Even the ones in Iraq who voted for the first time because our soldiers fought to give them that right? Our troops are fighting and dying so Muslims in Iraq can have freedom. Our troops don't hate all Muslims. But you do?
Some freepers seem to hate all Muslims? I don’t quite get that, because we’re fighting to protect Muslims in Iraq. Muslims who voted for the first time because our soldiers fought - and many have died - to give them that right. Our troops are fighting and dying so Muslims in Iraq can have freedom. Our troops don’t hate all Muslims. But many freepers do - even while they say that our mission to liberate Muslims in Iraq is just. The freepers who take these these two contradictory positions: their heads ought to be spinning — because they’re not making sense and they’re not agreeing with themselves.
I don’t hate all Muslims. Some are bad. But if they’re all bad, then why did American troops fight and die to liberate Muslims in Iraq from the tyranny of Saddam. Those mass graves that we weep over are graves of MUSLIMS. You can’t have it both ways - you can’t say, on the one hand, we need to liberate Iraqis from a dictator, while saying, on the other hand, that all Muslims are scum - because Iraqis are Muslims too. There’s a lot of bigotry and hypocrisy flying around, that’s for sure.
Because it draws attention away from Lubresca and any other real heroes with this sham.
How do you know it's a sham? What evidence do you have?
Since we don’t know who the story
came from and thus cannot be verified,
one can come to any conclusion.
That is what the press says. There were others, but we get the diet of Muslims Are Great. How bout the trade center. Has any American done that in another country.
Ok, let me get this straight - the surviving unwounded student didn’t move and didn’t get shot, and the wounded one DID move, and got shot.
How that equates to “He saved my life, by giving his own” is beyond me.
But, maybe there is more to this story that has been left out? because based on this article, I’m not exactly seeing the heroism part.
There are also the many Iraqi muslims who are not seriously devote Muslims. The trouble seems to start, when Muslims take the Koran as "gospel". The Koran is an extremly violent book. Someone needs to add a new chapter to it that says, all the stuff before this chapter was needed when the profet was here, but starting from this day forward, peace to all, love and help your fellow man (and women and children).
I bet Brandi Freeman knows the anonymous source.
This story should never have been printed because it
reveals that (certain) Muslims may not understand what
real heroism is. It is saying, “Look over here. Look
at us, we can be brave too.”
The truth is, the culture teaches and only recognizes
as brave those who sacrifice their lives to kill infidels.
Maybe, but since I and you (I assume) haven't lived in Iraq and don't know Iraqis personally, I have to conclude you're speculating from a distance.
My point is, there is a head-spinning contadicting among many freepers and other conservatives: on the one hand, they say we needed to oust Saddam because he was tyrannizing his people (who are mostly Muslims) - that imnplies we do and should have sympathy with Muslims and that Muslims can and should live under freedom; but then, many of these same conservatives turn around and talk as if they hate all Muslims. Can't have it both ways. Can't say Saddam was evil because he tyrannized Muslims, and then turn around and advocate a Saddam-like hatred (and even killing policy) toward people who are Muslims.
Mohammedans don’t have a stellar track record of humanitarianism, so I have a very healthy skepticism where mohammedanism and selflessness are alleged. The two are almost mutually exclusive.
Believe what you will where this story is concerned, there are those who believe in the tooth fairy as well.
[...You are so filled with hate and prejudice...]
What I am filled with is discernment based on facts and evidence.
Which is more than an anonymous “story teller” has provided in this
invented article.
One in a thousand if true. The other 999 still want to kill us.
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