'Question Mark' Killer Quietly Seethed With Rage

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[lightman]

Sounds as though he is the expert on Sudden Jihad Syndrome.

[MHGinTN]

Agreement bump

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Here is another clue that Cho was MUSLIM.
From the violent “play” written by Cho, “Richard McBeef”:

Others have focused on the brandishing of a chainsaw during a fight and the killing of the child character at the end.

But I found something more subtle on page 6
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0417071vtech6.html

“(She peeks at John. She approaches Richard and slaps Richard in the head multiple times. TAKING OFF HER SHOES, SHE HITS HIM HARD.)” [emphasis mine]

Striking with the shoe is a Muslim sign of disdain represented by the dirt on the bottom of the shoes. Scenes filmed in Iraq have frequently shown people striking such things as toppled statues of Saddam and killed captives with the soles of shoes.

[Types_with_Fist]

This guy calls the Muslim angle "bunk" and has declared he is "de-bunking" the theory. Perhaps some here should re-bunk the theory.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Striking with the shoe is a Muslim sign of disdain represented by the dirt on the bottom of the shoes."

It's also a hard and fast rule when entering a Korean household.

[Steely Tom]

Lou Chang
Her brother he's burning with rage
Lou Chang
Her brother he's burning with rage
I'd like to know what's on his mind
He says hey buddy you're not my kind

[Joe 6-pack]

(taking off the shoes, that is).

[Jack Black]

Islamic account of the Biblical sacrifice of Abraham or the Jewish or the Christian version, are there different versions? I thought Abraham was the common thread for all three?No. Where as the Old Testament and Torah are essentially the same, the Koran takes the same figures but places them in different stories, with different meanings and outcomes. There are two explanations for the discrepencies: the Islamic one is that the Angel Gabriel dictated to Koran directly to Mohammad to remove the "errors" that had crept into other revealed scriptures.

The other is that Mohammad stole the basic characters and themes from the Torah shamelessly while altering the narrative to put him and his followers above the 'chosen people'.

[Xenalyte]

I would note that the excerpt only says she takes off her shoes and hits Richard - NOT that she hit him WITH the shoe.

I can take off my shoes and hit whoever comes near me, and I don’t have to use shoes to do it.

[tobyhill]

It’s interesting but I don’t know if he was fully Islamitized. I think he may have tinkered with certain aspects of Islam because he felt comforted by those aspects in relations to his thoughts.

[Centurion2000]

Let's see what some real journalists can do with this minor detail. Did the shooter become a Muslim before his spree?

If they find out it, this whole story will be BURIED.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Can you hit someone WHILE taking off your shoes without hitting them with a shoe in your hand? And then you leave the question of WHY she takes off the shoes unanswered.

[tobyhill]

Islam teaches riches outside sharing are a sign of evil and he uses very Islamic rhetoric,”rich kids, debauchery and deceitful charlatans”. Islam is very extrovert about passing judgment on others. My guess is that certain Islamic writings comforted him because it justified his thoughts even though he wasn’t fully Islam. I wouldn’t doubt if he had visited a mosque to seek some sort of answers for his warped mind.

[shrinkermd]

Anger, paranoia, withdrawal, bizarre mentation are the hallmarks of schizophrenia. This disorder begins in adolescence or early adulthood and its first symptoms are often believed as a new reality and accompanied by strong emotion and acting on aggressive impulses.

One would think a college as big as this would have in-house training for the dorm counselors and others who would then alert Administration. IMHO the problem is colleges have given up their parental responsibilities under the guise of being open and fair.

Being open and liberal minded hurts no one unless you have a catastrophic situation as this case illustrates.

Some lawyer is going to make money and a name for himself pursing this school’s failure to protect.

[keats5]

He may also well have learned aout Islam in college.

[GOP_1900AD]

Someone who is mad at a woman, especially if she is dating someone new, or, was never monogamous to begin with (do make note of the hook up culture prevalent among many of today’s youth) would indeed be attracted to aspects of Islam, especially the Islamist bastardization of it.

Certain pan Asian sites (example: http://www.asiawind.com ) are also anti Bush, anti war and Islamist symp.

[pa mom]

Well, I don’t buy that entirely. Tech is a relatively conservative place. I’m sure they have their share of nutjob professors, but the student body is not particularly radical.

Now Wesleyan is another story!

[GOP_1900AD]

The role played by Communist groups on campuses back in the day, is now also played by Islamist groups (of course the Commies are still there too, often as partners in crime).

[GOP_1900AD]

Did you happen to see the convocation?

[pa mom]

This guy is not a jihadi. Even IF he was influenced by some radical islamist writings or fancied himself a jihadi, he was mentally ill and would have killed even if Islam never existed.