VA. Terrorist is he Gunman or Shooter

Israfil wrote:  According to reports the signs of this troubled man were there and the English teacher should have acted on it.

They did, or haven't you been paying attention.  The mental health system let him back on the street.  His teacher did refer him to the school mental health system.

Ummm, Patty, don't get me started on the ACLU.  They regularly sue for the right to protest on Temple grounds.  PRIVATE PROPERTY, doesn't matter if it is the center of the city.

Anyway,  If you haven't worked in the Mental Health field then you would understand what I'm talking about.  Patients dumped on the street, denied medications and treatment due to insurance.  I pay $20 bucks a week for 45 minutes with a therapist, if I didn't have insurance, its $120!  Some people are too disabled by their illness to be responsible for their own treatment.  They need forced (YES I SAID FORCED) to take their medications and undergo counselling. 

I'm sorry, public safety outweighs religious freedom or personal choice in cases of violent offenders.  Its time it stops being an excuse.  I know that when I go off my medication, I become depressed and I do not function rationally.  I'm mild, but if it weren't for family and friends keeping an eye on me.  I'd have died years ago by my own hand. 

How does it need reformed?

1.) More access for the uninsured/underinsured

2.) Better facilities with more highly trained staff

3.) Regular in home checkups on referred patients deemed a risk. (Just like Children's Services does with parents who are accused of neglect).

4.) If a patient refuses treatment and is a threat to themselves or others and checkup shows no attempts made to get treatment, institutionalization.

5.) More money spent on Health Care than on Wars in Foreign Countries with their own problems.

Perhaps people would disagree with me, but really, being somewhat crazy myself, I don't really care.

When this happened, I remember praying hard that it was not a muslim boy doing this.  I remembered the speculations about the boy from Salt Lake City and his religion.  These kind of attacks are not religion based.  They are reactions of disturbed minds to forces they feel are beyond their control.  I'm very glad that religious speculations are being kept out of the discussions by the professionals analyzing this incident.

Instead I pray for the families of the dead and the parents of the boy.  The dead have gone to there eternal rest and can't be hurt anymore.  We can pray for their souls in our own way.  Some died heroes, others left behind loved ones in disbelief. 

The boys intention was revenge, in his rants it was revenge.  Terrorism sadly, is meant as a tactic for a greater end.  Its to scare people into complying with a demand or goal of the perpetrators.  Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a race war and being the apocalypse.  OBL wants to create his own version of an Islamic State and crush those that pose opposition to his version.  These two men have no problems targeting their "own" people. 

Cho Sueng Hue wanted to avenge personal slights, but he really didn't have a goal.  His ramblings speak of abuse.  I think he shows many signs of abuse in his past.  I will not be suprised if its ever discovered he was molested as a child by a teacher or by a family friend.  No matter what, he was obviously very ill and this whole thing could have been avoided if we reformed the mental health care in this country.

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Bismillah and Salaams,

Good point, brother.

Brother Walid died and a Christian Lebanese woman named Reema Samaha.  Allah Yarhamhom.[/QUOTE]

salamu aliakum. I'm not sure if she was Chrisitan but if you are sure we can't say her Allah yarhamhaa. I was taught in islam Rahma in hereafter is for Muslims only. Or am I missing something here?

Meanwhile, I think media were never sensitive to muslims to begin with. Had they had any clue they will jump on it and label the terrorist Asian guy he was terrorist. But they were confused and to certain degree played wait and see game. 

For Patty, I totally agree with you that we sympathize families lost their love ones but I equally disagree with your characterization on him other than that he is coldblooded terrorist murderer. Thank God muslims is not jumping on Christianity by labelling it as terrorist religion. They know first hand that Chrisitianity was meant for Jewish tribes not global message and it was bound on region and timeline.

Abu Mujahid