Check out the top story in The Salt Lake Tribune today
http://origin.sltrib.com/ci_5230906
>>He fled a war with his family as a child and came to Utah as a
refugee. He floated from school to school before dropping out. A
Muslim, he sometimes attended a Salt Lake City mosque for Friday
prayers before landing a full-time job to help support his parents
and three sisters. Although he was a loner and withdrawn, Sulejman
Talovic seemed normal and "nice" to the few people who knew him.<<
Until on Monday after work he drove to the Trolley Square mall,
strapped on a bandoleer of shotgun shells and a backpack full of
handgun ammunition and killed five people before being shot dead by
police officers.
What does Utah do to people!? I believe that the story of young
Bosnian refugee shooting people at the shopping mall in Salt Lake
City on Monday has more roots in Columbine-like disconnection, than
in the Muslim fundamentalism or political terrorism. I think,
therefore, that we should pay more attention to the experiences young
Sulejman Talovic had during his past nine years of life as a teenage
refugee in Utah, then to the traumas he experienced in his war-torn
old homeland of Bosnia, to understand the roots of this tragic event.
Urgently, there is a need on part of the media to call against
possible backlash against Bosnian immigrants in Utah, feared because
of this crime, and, maybe, for the call for introspection and some
soul searching in Utah. Also, how about Congress start really taking
more seriously the availability of heavy firearms to everybody in the
U.S.? Here we have a guy who is not a citizen, not even legal to
drink beer, barely out of school, yet he can arm himself like some
kind of Rambo - is THIS freedom?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/15/us/15mall.html
Muslim Forum of Utah, in order to distance itself from the tragedy,
goes as far as to say that they are happy that police shot Sulejman,
a hermit and a fornicator, who, "some say" was really of a gypsy
background...
http://www.muslim-forum.org/
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