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.'
Sorry to make it sound like I was scolding you. I am not. So, I’d like it clear that I meant no disparagement toward you at all.
Thanks
I just like to point out the fallacies in some of these arguments....
ROFL
There’s no plausibility to such an anonymous tale, coming out days after the stories of the Israeli professor, trying to counter-balance that with a story of “Muslim heroism”..... (1) why was the story not revealed immediately, as were other tales of heroism? (2) why does the person telling the tale hide behind anonymity? (3) think of the implausibility of a “movement” of momentary distraction of the killer — if a wounded person even thought that way, it would not be plausible to think that making the killer turn for a quick second to fire one more shot would be enough to save anyone else. It’s not like barring the door for as long as possible, a simple “distracting movement” followed by a fatal shot is not actually going to save anyone else.
No, absent any more convincing details this one does not pass the smell test.
Ditto. I also call posters out on factless statements that they make.
Sorry # 42 was for you...
I said...
Thanks
I just like to point out the fallacies in some of these arguments....
ROFL
BSF
I meant that #42 for sjb...
But I’m glad we agree...
It might have something to do with the fact that Muslims have been getting a bad rap ever since 9/11.
No harm, no foul.
This could be some sort of conspiracy thing, but probably isn't, even if the gesture/movement wasn't deliberately to save the other's life.
A general comment out there for some freepers: requesting that you look at ALL the words in the comments, and take into account the italicized words, before making angry criticisms (if you feel that there should be an angry criticism).
By considering "these people" to be the billion plus people who are nominally Muslim, discredits the many (not stating most) Muslims who are not a direct threat to this nation, and do not want war, but rather want peace.In Nigeria, nominal Christians indiscriminately attack nominal Muslims on occasions (and the other way around), and do so as "Christians" (which they could or could happen to not be). Would a Muslim therefore be justified in stating that "these people kill every day in the name of" God? No.
The levels are not the same--it is readily apparent that Muslims as a whole are more of a threat to the world than Christians as a whole, but the principle is the same.
Over a billion people cannot or should not be so thoroughly tarnished by the actions of a few of their members.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
I thought I had a patent on that line of thinking...
A classroom full of students watched Professor Librescu hold the door and they heard him yell at them to escape out the window. Many of them did escape and lived to be witnesses of his heroism. We knew of his sacrifice within minutes of the students reaching safety....
The anonymous student was not shot so he would have been able to approach the TV reporters, and broadcasted the news of the Moslem student’s “protective movement” which saved him, without undue difficulty.....
‘Nough said......
If Group A does not accept them, but Group B will, they are bound to be drawn to Group B.
it might be a case of affirmative action... can’t have a Holocaust survivor stealing the limelight
Islam pinglist ping?
CAIR and other groups would have jumped on this on Monday if it were true.....
After all they ARE the Religion of Peace (and Brotherhood and love etc etc)
You bring up great points about the hypocrisy of criticizing European attitudes toward Jews while holding similar views of Muslims here, though.
Just a little bit of counter-skepticism there, guess.
"Also, if the word 'Muslim' was changed to 'Jewish' or 'Israeli' in the title, the tune of ...... "
Ok...Too bad there weren’t Muslims like him on those planes that flew into the WTC, Pentagon and Pennsylvania....Or on the Buses in London...Or the train station in Madrid.
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