Posted on 01/26/2010 12:54:59 AM PST by American Dream 246
A Bellville, Texas man went on a killing spree and murdered 5 family members this past weekend. His fury was so intense that he decapitated his 2-year-old niece with a machete.
Maron Thomas, 20, of Bellville, Texas, shot five family members at their home in rural Austin County, Texas. (Miami Herald)
A family member told police she believed that anger and Thomas’ conversion to the Muslim religion influenced his actions. Chron.com reported:
A family dispute pushed Maron Thomas to go on a rampage marked by a fury so intense that he decapitated his 2-year-old niece with a machete after killing her and four other family members, Austin County investigators said Wednesday.
Thomas, 20, was charged Wednesday with capital murder in the shooting deaths of his mother, stepfather, sister, brother and his niece. He remains in the Austin County Jail with bail set at $1 million.
“This is one of the most horrific crimes we’ve had in Austin County,” District Attorney Travis Koehn said. “Austin County is a safe place to live, but unfortunately, we are not immune to the same kinds of crimes that occur in other locations.”
The massacre happened between midnight Saturday and 3 a.m. Sunday at the family’s home 7 miles outside the Bellville city limits, on FM 1456 between Buckhorn and Cochran.
Thomas then allegedly burglarized a car and was arrested around 3 a.m. after being caught trying to break into a house a mile and a half away while he was naked, investigators said. A neighbor held him at gunpoint until deputies arrived and arrested him on burglary charges. When deputies arrived, he had put on a pair of exercise shorts…
Thomas’ sister, Ka’Tara Price, 24, of Houston, said she believes anger and Thomas’ conversion to the Muslim religion influenced his actions. She said she is not aware of him suffering from any mental illness.
Funny how few mentally ill people step in front of buses, get in fights in serious biker/off duty LEO bars. It’s almost as if they rationally pick and choose.
Funny how those getting federal/state wacky checks are so hip to every single free cheese benefit, right, key phrase words, how to manipulate.
Of course we have a huge, tax supported mental health industry. And it grows itself, more staff, more products, more demands for state support.
Anyways, what evidence that this pos was mentally ill, as opposed to say a selfish asswipe his young loser life?
I work with a lot of them and see the praying every day.
Pray for me.
WTH??? Only psychos convert to Islam.
My thoughts too.
This guy believed it. Marinaded himself in it. Islam is quite capable of creating monsters.
He went to Islam: it told him that God was arbitrary and that killing non-Muslims was an act of holiness.
Yes, you have to be a pyschopath to believe that stuff, but Islam is designed to create pyschopaths. Islam is a damnation machine.
Yep.
You must have skimmed this thread and my comments. I'll repeat what I wrote above:
"the Koran and Sharia are abominations"
I agree with Walter Brandmüller, president of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, who wrote:
. . .the use of force occupies a central place in Islamic tradition, as witnessed by the frequent use of the word “jihad” in many texts. Although some scholars, especially Western ones, maintain that jihad does not necessarily mean war, but instead a spiritual struggle and interior effort, Samir Khalil Samir again clarifies that the use of this term in Islamic tradition – including its usage today – is essentially uniform, indicating warfare in the name of God to defend Islam, which is an obligation for all adult Muslim males.Chiesa: "From Lepanto to Baghdad, there's a road which leads through RomeThose who maintain that understanding jihad as a holy war constitutes a sort of deviation from the true Islamic tradition are therefore not telling the truth, and history sadly demonstrates that that violence has characterized Islam since its origin . . .
. . . the biggest difference between Christianity and Islam concerns the crucial issue of understanding the human person.
This is shown by the fact that many Islamic countries have not accepted the declaration of human rights promulgated by the United Nations in 1948, or have done so with the reservation of excluding the norms that conflict with Qur’anic law – which means practically all of them.
From an historical point of view, therefore, it must be recognized that the declaration of the rights of man is a cultural fruit of the Christian world, even though these are “universal” norms, in that they are valid for all.
In Islamic tradition, in fact, the concept of the equality of all human beings does not exist, nor does, in consequence, the concept of the dignity of every human life. Sharia is founded upon a threefold inequality: between man and woman, between Muslim and non-Muslim, and between freeman and slave. In essence, the male human being is considered a full titleholder of rights and duties only through his belonging to the Islamic community: those who convert to another religion or become atheists are considered traitors, subject to the death penalty, or at least to the loss of all their rights . . .
My point is this: Be careful assigning everything to Islam. Mental cases exist. This guy could have converted to an intense Christian denomination, run amok, and the left would have been out screaming Christianity caused it. As Brandmüller wrote in Chiesa, there are plenty of reasons to find Islam abhorrent. Using these murders to make that point, in my opinion, is counterproductive.
I believe the guy was just whacked out.
As to "why" I read the Koran...is that a serious question? You really don't know why anyone would check out what Muslims believe?
Given the brutality and horror of the crime, why is he eligible for bail?
I had to read the Koran in chronological order in Grad school. Scariest damn book I ever read.
lol....You summed it up better than I. Its like deciding after the murders to join the Manson family. Charlie didn't make you crazy. You were crazy.
He beheaded a niece: Where did that concept originate?
“…A family member told police she believed that anger and Thomas’ conversion to the Muslim religion influenced his actions…sister, Ka’Tara Price, 24, of Houston, said she believes anger and Thomas’ conversion to the Muslim religion influenced his actions.” Imagine that, how is such possible!
Okay, and why not? Islam makes this all possible, has it built right into its precepts, practices and dogma, and is condoned by all who actively participate. However, while he could have done this under any construct, he did it under the same ol same ol stuff that does this worldwide. I suppose you also believe that major Airliners just drop out of the sky… because someone says they do.
I call it a draw for Best Post of the Thread,,,
I’ve never bought this “Lone Nut” foolishness,,,
mOOHamHead was nothing but a demon-possessed-goat-humpin'-child-
molester > . <,,,(rot in hell),,,
We’ll have to fight every damned one of these basturds
before the gunsmoke clears...
Looks as though he’s looking out at a large chamber filled with Congressmen and Senators.
Problem there is you’d have to be mental to convert to Islam.
!ROGER DAT!...
No need for that. It demeans you, not me.
If you want, go ahead... believe this was a normal guy..believe he was walking down the street, not an evil thought in his mind, a loving guy who cherished his family. Then he picked up a Koran, converted to Islam and that is what caused him to kill his family.
I don't buy it but if you do...fine.
Now had he been soaked in Wahhabism for years, yeah...might have been. But even they don't go after their own families like this. They go after people like you and me.
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