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3 Muslim students shot to death in apartment near UNC Chapel Hill
CNN ^ | February 11, 2015 | Saeed Ahmed

Posted on 02/11/2015 4:22:24 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

(CNN)—A 46-year-old man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of three Muslim students in an apartment near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus.

Police haven't said what may have compelled the accused, Craig Stephen Hicks, to allegedly carry out the attack Tuesday evening. He turned himself into police later in the night.

But given the victims' religion and comments the alleged shooter apparently left on a Facebook page, many social media users wondered what role, if any, the victims' faith played.

The victims were Muslims: Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23; Yusor Mohammad, 21; and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: chapelhill; craigstephenhicks; deahshaddybaraka; murder; muslim; muslimsmurdered; northcarolina; progressiveatheist; razanabusalha; shooting; yusormohammad
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Since I did not read the entire story, I assume Craig Stephen Hicks is a white man or CNN would not have identified his victims.
In my opinion, Hicks was just taking a pre-emptive defensive action and probably deserves a medal.


22 posted on 02/11/2015 4:39:03 AM PST by Tupelo (I feel more like Philip Nolan by the day)
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To: BykrBayb
Is this guy a nutcase?

Muslims who kill Americans here always get an "out" as being a lone random nutcase.                   When the truth is it is "sudden Jihad syndrome"....always as far as I am concerned

23 posted on 02/11/2015 4:39:57 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: WayneS
In Hicks’ Facebook, he refers to himself as a ‘militant atheist’ and posts related to atheism are the majority on his Facebook. His avatar is “Atheists for Equality”, and he has several posts dedicated to gay rights. He was recently married to his wife, but only a couple of posts are related to that. He liked “Forward Progressives’ as well as an anti-‘Teabaggers’ group. He was a fan of Richard Dawkins and Neil De Grasse Tyson.

3 Muslim Students Shot To Death In Chapel Hill Allegedly By Man Who Described Himself As ‘Militant Atheist’
24 posted on 02/11/2015 4:40:04 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

OMG...How terrible that something like this should happen to a student!


25 posted on 02/11/2015 4:40:40 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

workplace violence, folks shot at random.


26 posted on 02/11/2015 4:44:03 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: cripplecreek

Wow.

Bump to your post.


27 posted on 02/11/2015 4:44:20 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Too many questions, too early. Was the shooter a neighbor? What was the relationship? Was he out walking his dog and just came unhinged at the sight of them? Business deal gone wrong? Road rage and followed them home? He says he’s atheist but brings up their religion as a cause? Then why these three and not any other of the thousands of MEs wandering around between UNC and Duke?

I happen to have a close friend just a 1/4 mile away in Meadowmont. She’s a little unnerved to say the least.


28 posted on 02/11/2015 4:47:26 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The Council on White American Relations responded to notice of the shooting by warning that vengeful muslimes should not “indulge in any retaliatory acts” against peaceful whites, even though he feared a backlash when the news became public.


29 posted on 02/11/2015 4:47:42 AM PST by IronJack
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To: muir_redwoods

It was an OK start.


30 posted on 02/11/2015 4:48:21 AM PST by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: longfellow; cripplecreek
I might join Facebook just to friend this guy.

Read cripplecreek's post #24 for what appears to be the suspect's interesting self-description.

31 posted on 02/11/2015 4:54:27 AM PST by Lonely Bull
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
In Hicks’ Facebook, he refers to himself as a ‘militant atheist’ and posts related to atheism are the majority on his Facebook. His avatar is “Atheists for Equality”, and he has several posts dedicated to gay rights. He was recently married to his wife, but only a couple of posts are related to that. He liked “Forward Progressives’ as well as an anti-‘Teabaggers’ group. He was a fan of Richard Dawkins and Neil De Grasse Tyson.

Here are screen shots of his facebook likes:

You won't hear these details on CNN

32 posted on 02/11/2015 4:56:19 AM PST by tired&retired
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To: cripplecreek

Good link — I hope someone is saving screenshots of the Atheist’s Facebook postings, likes and links (I don’t have a Facebook account) before the ruling elite “disappears” them.


33 posted on 02/11/2015 4:58:09 AM PST by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Interesting, when the victims are muslim we get that in the headline, when the perp is muslim....


34 posted on 02/11/2015 5:00:13 AM PST by logic101.net (If libs believe in Darwin and natural selection why do they get hacked off when it happens?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

1. Were these ‘students’ American citizens?
2. Could these ‘students’ have been part of a ‘sleeper cell’?
3. The shooter declared, by inference, that mohammedanism is the spark of his actions.
4. Has the shooter ever been involved, since he is a declared militant atheist, with any other altercations with Jewish or Christian connections?

Should these ‘students’ be found to be alien, and not citizens, so what.


35 posted on 02/11/2015 5:01:53 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: bert

Not by the looks of the photos at the Dailymail online site. Looked like a nice, sweet couple and the young newly married woman’s sister.


36 posted on 02/11/2015 5:09:01 AM PST by nfldgirl
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To: bert

Not by the looks of the photos at the Dailymail online site. Looked like a nice, sweet, young newly married couple and the young married woman’s sister.


37 posted on 02/11/2015 5:09:37 AM PST by nfldgirl
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To: nfldgirl

The man who was killed looks like an American who converted to Islam and maybe his wife too. She looks like she could be American or a born Muslim


38 posted on 02/11/2015 5:15:44 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: cripplecreek
3 Muslim Students Shot To Death In Chapel Hill Allegedly By Man Who Described Himself As ‘Militant Atheist’

Popcorn time.

39 posted on 02/11/2015 5:18:52 AM PST by ScottinVA (Communism, liberalism and Islam: Kindred ideologies dedicated to America's destruction.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Ah yes, Muslims or Queers. Who to choose, who to choose?


40 posted on 02/11/2015 5:19:41 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus
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