Posted on 07/05/2002 6:29:54 PM PDT by veronica
Ya'akov Aminov, a religious Jew from North Hollywood, was struck by three bullets. (Photo: Reuters)
Victoria (Vicky) Chen, 25, from Los Angeles was working at the time of the shooting. (Photo: AP)
Victoria (Vicky) Chen, 25, from Los Angeles was working at the time of the shooting Thursday at the Los Angeles International Airport at the El Al ticker counter. She was hit in the chest by two bullets and died instantly.
Ya'akov Aminov, a jewelry merchant in his forties from North Hollywood came to the terminal to escort a friend - and was hit by three bullets.
The death of Aminov, a religious Jew, shocked the Jewish community in North Hollywood, and hundreds of people, most of them Israelis, visited his home to pay condolences to his family.
His brother-in-law said Friday that Aminov "did many things for the community, but stayed away from politics," and that he would be buried in Israel.
Victoria Chen was born in Rishon Letzion and raised in Be'er Sheva. Her parents, Avinoam and Rachel emigrated to Los Angeles 12 years ago. Chen also leaves behind two younger brothers.
"She was daddy's girl," her uncle said Friday. "The first time her father wasn't next to her, she caught two bullets in the chest."
Chen's family believes beyond doubt that the shooting was a politically motivated act of terror. "They will attack us any place. In Argentina, in Los Angeles, in Israel," a relative said Friday.
Would you mind giving a link to this startling information?
Take your time.
But they sure as hell are profiling US.
"Let the skeptics look to Islam's own rich history, with its centuries of learning, and tolerance and progress." - President George W. Bush, January 29th, 2002 - State of the Union Speech
You were saying?
God rest their souls.
I thought it was his ninth.
Ever read about Moses and his little scuffle on the way to the promised land? Ever hear of the Crusades? The Spanish Inquisition? The Roundheads? The good people of Salem? Waco?
President Bush was simply trying to calm down irrational people such as yourself and the rest of the JDL.
If you want to take a shot at the Moslems, whack their secular leadership after you kick the mullahs. While you are at that, someone else will be smacking the hell out of some religious jew.
One doesn't. But he follows a long line of sick killers who were spawned out of faith in Islam.
As for your other points I'll readily concede that Christianity did some brutual things during its two thousand year tenure provided YOU'LL admit that Islam, unlike other monotheistic religions, has bred backward, cruel and psychotic civilizations to say nothing of coming anywhere close to Western levels of the rule of law, protection of rights and capitalism.
Hence why Bush is wrong when he says Islam is "good."
Working and stuff. Thanks for asking. :)
Sorry, no quid pro quo. Different cultures have a terrible attraction to difference. I think Pol Pot was raised a Buddhist? Should that culture suffer because he was a monster?
You simply cannot link every killing of a Jew as a hate crime or terrorism...even if they are. Most of the Jews killed in Brooklyn just happen to be on the wrong side of the Mafia. Let's wait for the investigation and see what the trouble was. Do we even know whether the limo driver was Muslim? Could have been a Coptic. Hell's bells, he could have been a Baptist.
By the way, Arabic art and culture are quite stunning...start out in Turkey and work your way to Mecca.
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