Posted on 07/28/2006 6:53:35 PM PDT by Pyro7480
One dead, at least five injured in shooting at Jewish Federation in Seattle
SEATTLE – One person has been killed and at least five others have been injured in a shooting at the Jewish Federation at 2031 Third Ave. in downtown Seattle. One suspect has been taken into custody....
Sources told KING 5 the suspect is a 31-year-old Pakistani man with a criminal background. He is from the Pasco but his citizenship status or how long he has lived in the United States is unknown. Also unknown is what sort of criminal record he has. Officials are on the way to the Pasco to interview his family....
According to the Seattle Times, a man got through security at the Jewish Federation and told staff members, "I'm a Muslim American; I'm angry at Israel," then began shooting, according to Amy Wasser-Simpson, the vice president for planning and community services for the Jewish Federation.
A Harborview Medical Center spokesperson said five women were brought in, and three of them are in critical condition. They have not yet been identified. Their ages are 23, 27, 29, 19 and 43. The 43-year-old woman was reportedly shot in the abdomen. Two vicitms were in satisfactory condition: a woman, who's 17 weeks pregnant whowas shot in the arm and another victim with a knee injury....
...It's not yet known if the incident is politically motivated. The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle says on its Web site that its mission is to "ensure Jewish survival and enhance the quality of Jewish life locally, in Israel and worldwide."
...Iantha Sidell, past chairperson of the Jewish Federation Center, said: "We believe in life and it's hard to believe there will ever be peace when you're dealing with people who don't value life."
(Excerpt) Read more at king5.com ...
This was in Pasco? The report downtown Seattle.
Only if we can send the video to Al Jazeera.
Stupid Seattle liberals. OK, let's look at it this way...if a Jew walked into a mosque, said they were angry at Hezbollah and shot a bunch of people you just KNOW that it'd be called a "politically motivated" crime. Now what part of this guy saying he was angry at Israel don't they grasp?
Oh Im sure he was an unstable person and not a militant islamist, like the man who opened fire in the LA Airport. Im sure its all another cultural misunderstanding on our part.
The paki punk was from Pasco. Eastern Washington. High Desert. Pasco's a airline deadhead, and a freight interchange nexus. A couple of big rail yards -- BN, UP. A lot of truck traffic.
According to the article, the shooter's residence was in Pasco.
Yes the shooting was in Seattle.
Ah, I see. Now who's dense? ;-)
Find out what beehive mosque he was a part of..do an "investigation" a brief one, and then EXTRACT EVERY undocumented illegal religion of hate/ on the public dole person that you can.
Pakistani man shoots 6 Jews and this is stated in the news report?
For sure, they will never have enough information to conclude this is a dreaded hate crime, will they? I think in this case they're not just anti-American, they're anti-Jew and anti-Israel.
What is it going to take to convince Americans that Islam simply isn't compatible with America?
I have puzzled this for quite some time, until the obvious (SO obvious I missed it) answer came to me not long ago. This will indeed sound loony to some, but I don't care.
I recently had a nasty little discussion with a nasty little teacher who whined about No Child Left Behind. (We'll leave aside my not wanting the federal gov't involved in education for the moment.) I slowly detected that what was REALLY bothering this guy was the focus on the basics. It seemed to me like he was truly OFFENDED that the NCLB law emphasized reading, writing, history...
BOOM! That was when it hit me.
History.
See, teachers like this guy want these "soft" classes because that is where you get to mold not how a child thinks but WHAT he thinks. All these "health" classes and such are merely mind-shaping classes.
My point, finally, is that if an American is properly schooled in what this country was established to be, and how that has been perverted since Wilson and especially FDR, one will become alarmed at the rise of Islam in this country just as one would be by a rise in Fascism.
But we've taught our citizens to soften their standards, not to judge, because other points of view aren't bad, they're just different.
In many instance yes it's true, something isn't bad, it's just different from what you know. But how can anyone who knows anything about Islam think "OK, I'm just not getting it, so the fault is with my perception"?
Americans are so freakin scared of being accused of being judgmental i.e. "old fashioned" that they can't see a cancer taking root in our culture.
I don't like talking this way. But the difference between me and these libs is that I'm willing to risk being called names by idiots who don't know their country's history, so they are ignorant of the risks to it's well-being.
How many examples do people need to see to realize we are at war with, not militant Islam, but Islam?
It begins.....
I'm so furious right now....
Just damn...
This is why people aren't buying the MSM's product.
Political correctness run amok..
Learn about him and you'll learn about what's going on in the schools.
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Sounds like a disproportionate response.
And the Hanford Nuclear Laboratory. I think we had better be checking up on his friends.
"Well, to those who always cry "Arab!" this is proof that this is an Islam issue, not an issue with the Arab ethnicity."
How do you figure that since islamics are supposed to be against all westerners and those of any other faith ?
This guy specifically targeted Jews and didn't seem to have any problem considering himself an American.
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