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Issue of the day: Three Muslims killed in US shooting
Mourning: Namee Barakat and his wife, Layla Barakat, parents of shooting victim Deah Shaddy Barakat, react as a video is played during a vigil at the campus of the University of North Carolina on Wednesday
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span class="inline inline-center">Mourning: Namee Barakat and his wife, Layla Barakat, parents of shooting victim Deah Shaddy Barakat, react as a video is played during a vigil at the campus of the University of North Carolina on Wednesday. Gunman Stephen Hicks, who had posted antireligious massages on Facebook, was charged with killing three young Muslims on Wednesday. Reuters/Chris Keane
Feb. 11, Online/AFP
Police have arrested a gunman in the killing of three Muslim students ' including a husband and wife ' in the university town of Chapel Hill in North Carolina, US news reports said Wednesday.
The shooter, identified as Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, was being held in Durham County Jail on three counts of first-degree murder, the Chapel Hill News and News & Observer newspapers and other news outlets said.
The victims were identified as Chapel Hill residents Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister Razan Abu-Salha, 19, of Raleigh.
Hicks turned himself in after the shooting Tuesday in Chapel Hill, just outside the campus of the University of North Carolina.
Your comments:
Sadly America has many gun deaths every day.
In a nation with a certain percentage of Muslims, it is logical that a similar percentage of victims of gun violence will be Muslims.
Let's not jump to the conclusion that their status as victims of violent crime was because of their faith.
Deedee S
Radicalism is the problem; these innocent Muslims are victims of radicalism.
Islam has a lot of radical groups, but in the West radicalism is also on the rise; racist and radical groups like the German anti-Islamist organization PEGIDA gain a lot of support, Australia has an anti-halal campaign and atheist radicals claim they are the only group of people of sound mind.
And so on and so forth.
Radicalism everywhere is stupid; people who are unable to moderate their views and tolerate other people's differences are the problem. Islam is not the only one that needs to learn to be moderate.
Ateis KS
The real motive is they had an ongoing argument and the result is he shot three people.
Stop trying to build religion into it ' there is enough religious hatred without looking for it where it does not exist.
It was a crime guys ' crimes happen, sadly, and most have zero to do with religion. I would suggest stop looking for anti-Islamic sentiment, where there is none.
Duncan Tan
Motivated by a parking dispute? I think not. It's sparked by a parking dispute, sure.
Ketoprak
The key issue here is the right to bear arms. A gun provides an immediate response to anything that annoys a person.
Jagera
This is very sad. These people are innocent, and they are also very educated.
Wildau
The local police chief has promised to thoroughly scrutinize Mr. Hicks' motives, knowing the fact he has publicly declared he is a progun and antireligion kind of a guy.
Please read today's edition of the New York Times.
Not living in the vicinity where the savage crimes were committed, what we can do is to let the local police uncover the real motives.
Hicks has been known to be progun lobby and antireligion, according to the New York Times. The newspaper also stated that media in the US were mute for at least a day while the world, especially social media, went viral about it.
The New York Times also speculated that the media's reactions would have been totally different if those three innocent Muslims killed Hicks.
Uncovering the real motives of Hicks will give us a peace of mind. Otherwise people will be afraid to travel or live in the US.
Martina
This is nothing new; it's always been this way in the US.
Abdul Malik
This is the problem with abundant guns in America. Shooting is common and this time it was over a parking dispute, pathetic.
I hope this loser get what he deserves for killing these young successful people who were working for a bright future.
Shadaan
In America, guns don't kill people, people kill people! That has been the logic and tragedy for a long time. Nobody wants to tell them but the same thing happens in China (and elsewhere) except that in China, guns do kill people.
So, on Chinese campuses people use choppers, swords or simply clubs. With these weapons they usually succeed in killing one or two people before onlooking heroes descend on them and that's it!
American logic (and arrogance) costs a lot of lives. If that's what they want, good luck! The US has for years been at the forefront of scientific breakthroughs and innovation because that's where you go if you are bright, top of your class etc.
No more, if this and racist, anti-Islam sentiments rule, everybody will return to their own home countries after graduation!
Pauloh
