People who think rationally know who to blame and those people can be found in Muslim and non-Muslim communities. There are many people who still doubt 9/11 attacks and they have by no mean any affiliation with Muslims or anything close to it. The sad thing is with people (on both side of the aisle) who turn any to every sad tragedy into their own political motives and disregard what happened to the innocents.
So, its up to you who you listen and act in that same manner.
That is human nature for you. Isnt anything by a so called muslim becomes Islamic terrorism? You cant tell people to hold off their sentiments when they have felt victimized in other scenarios.
Personally I consider it a big tragedy, and feels a connection in the sense that I was in the middle of few shooting incidents at my university that left 4 dead in two incidents and several injured, people I knew and chatted with died in front of my eyes.
Cho Seung-Hui was a foreign student from South Korea, who was all alone in the U.S. Like most foreign students, he came here high on Hollywood movies showing a liberal America. Instead, the Americas he came across alienated him. Ridicule is not only common at American schools and dormitories, but also at work place. His interest in females was seen as stalking - I have seen foreign males fired from their jobs for approaching a white female worker even only 2 or 3 times. After graduation, he probably wouldn't have found a job anyway - most foreign graduates here are working in restaurants or selling used cars.
Above happens to and will happen to all minorities. They only thing that sets Cho apart is the way he reacted. That's all. While others may be strong enough to take it and continue or live on depression medication, he didn't. It's that simple.
While most cultures are driven by need and greed, in America, Sadism is an added motive here.
Cho Seung-Hui was a foreign student from South Korea, who was all alone in the U.S. Like most foreign students, he came here high on Hollywood movies showing a liberal America. Instead, the Americas he came across alienated him. Ridicule is not only common at American schools and dormitories, but also at work place. His interest in females was seen as stalking - I have seen foreign males fired from their jobs for approaching a white female worker even only 2 or 3 times. After graduation, he probably wouldn't have found a job anyway - most foreign graduates here are working in restaurants or selling used cars.
Above happens to and will happen to all minorities. They only thing that sets Cho apart is the way he reacted. That's all. While others may be strong enough to take it and continue or live on depression medication, he didn't. It's that simple.
While most cultures are driven by need and greed, in America, Sadism is an added motive here.
"Your Mercedes wasn't enough, you brats. Your golden necklaces weren't enough, you snobs. Your trust funds wasn't enough. Your vodka and cognac wasn't enough. All your debaucheries weren't enough. Those weren't enough to fulfill your hedonistic needs. You had everything."
Long before he snapped, Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui was picked on, pushed around and laughed at over his shyness and the strange way he talked when he was a schoolboy in the Washington suburbs.
Mahmoudy of "Not Without My Daughter", was an established medical doctor in the U.S., who apparently returned to Iran because he was picked on by his co-workers, who he described as: "Supposed to be an educated group of people."
Everywhere else, having an education means that you become more open-minded. In America, it's the opposite. Having education here means you become narrower minded.