"He was all the time shouting in Arabic, shouting threats, insulting this country for no reason." Was he a jihadi? This is the first public indication that I have seen that he harbored any destructive thoughts. The PC police will make sure that no one gets the idea that those destructive thoughts may have come from Islam's violent imperatives, but in reality, of course, they might have.
"Roommates and Neighbors Speak about Al-Zahrani," from WICZ.com, December 7 (thanks to Joel):
Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani has been charged with the second-degree murder of Binghamton University Professor--Richard Antoun.Broome County's District Attorney says Al-Zahrani stabbed Antoun to death in the Science 1 building Friday.
The two knew each other through the anthropology graduate program.
Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani lived in a three bedroom apartment in downtown Binghamton.
His roommate says police searched his room for two to three hours.
"The police, they came, and when they were allowed to enter into his room, they took all his stuff," said Jules Sakho, Al-Zahrani's roomate.
His roommates say police also found a knife in a dumpster near the apartment.
But police do not have a motive at this time.
Al-Zahrani's roommates say he was dealing with a lot of problems. He expressed being worried about finishing his dissertation on time. He was also no longer on scholarship and didn't have a job.
"I would think it was because of the whole dissertation being rejected. But I cannot confirm it, he had issues with his financials. I don't know what he had against that professor," said Luis Pena, a graduate student.
His roommates and neighbors also say his behavior was strange.
"He was all the time shouting in Arabic, shouting threats, insulting this country for no reason," said Sakho.
"He used to make a lot of noise, always at Dunkin Donuts next door to our apartment, and he used to shout a lot," said Kalpak Bahlearo, Al-Zahrani's neighbor.
"He told me there were students, who were spies for the government of Jordan that were harassing him," said Pena.
"Sometimes, for no reason, asking if I am afraid of death or not, " said Sakho.
"He says a comment like, 'I feel like just waking up and destroying the world'," said Pena.Al-Zahrani was a Saudi Arabia national and Sakho says he was Muslim.
No kidding, a Saudi who was a Muslim? Wow.
But the D.A. believes the stabbing was not religiously motivated. Sakho says he thinks Al-Zahrani had psychological problems as well....
He was all the time shouting in Arabic, shouting threats, insulting this country for no reason.
Sounds like old Mo himself back in the day on Main Street Mecca.
*** 33:21 ***
I feel like just waking up and destroying the world.
Every Momslem comes equipped with an on-off switch embedded into his back, ready to activate at a moment's notice. Happens all the time.
For irony, the murdered professor, Richard Antoun, of Lebanese/Syrian Christian extraction, was a past president of MESA (1983), according to his c.v which I found at Binghamton University website.
According to a NY Times article, the perpetrator complained about being persecuted because he was a muslim, and repeatedly talked about death with his apartment-mate, Sakho.
The death absorption and paranoia are both inculcated by islam. Al-Zahrani was mentally troubled and ill. His islamic mindset pushed him in the direction of murder.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/nyregion/07binghamton.html?_r=1&em
"He was all the time shouting in Arabic, shouting threats, insulting this country for no reason." And no one dared say anything for fear of being perceived as islamophobic.
"But police do not have a motive at this time."
How about "Sudden Jihad Syndrome"
But But But I thought Islam is a religion of peace....???
Time to start watching these scumbags. Deport the Jihad Johnie Imams and jail or deport their followers.
"But police do not have a motive at this time."
Er, are the police ever going to wake up that the motive is ingrained into them by their religious teachings?
This article fails to note the fact that the professor whom the Muslim stabbed repeatedly to death was a Jew. This may be additionally significant, amplifying further the Islam of the murderer:
"I have killed my Jew " : the ritual murders of Ariel Sellouk in Houston and Sebastien Selam in Paris --
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/353
From the article "Al-Zahrani's roommates say he was dealing with a lot of problems. He expressed being worried about finishing his dissertation on time. He was also no longer on scholarship and didn't have a job."
Yes, many graduate students have this problem and immediately run out to kill a professor in order to get them out of this dilemma.
If you are going to lie, at lease make it plausible. The "he was under a lot of pressure" excuse was used for the last jihadi attack at Ft. Hood. Time for new taquiyya.
Hesperado,
No. Professor Antoun was raised a Methodist but not particularly religiously. As an adult he was a Unitarian Universalist. He was apparently married (not 1st marriage) to a Jewish woman. Read the preface to his 2008 book, Understanding Fundamentalism:
http://books.google.com/books?id=2488ZsvZ77oC&pg=PR10&lpg=PR10&dq=more+recently+i+have+been+introduced+to+judaism,+particularly+the+reform+tradition,+through+my+wife+in+a+small+city+in+upstate+new+york&source=bl&ots=DFstpZMYMX&sig=D6yuPLHkSwasPh7vdH4Ls6RSVXQ&hl=en&ei=HzwbS5GaKY20tgff6ZHaAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=more%20recently%20i%20have%20been%20introduced%20to%20judaism%2C%20particularly%20the%20reform%20tradition%2C%20through%20my%20wife%20in%20a%20small%20city%20in%20upstate%20new%20york&f=false
(from Roger Kimball at Pajamas Media courtesy of NER)
Heperado's post fails to note the fact that the professor whom the Muslim stabbed repeatedly to death and whom he eagerly rushed to proclaim his circumcision was apparently not a Jew after all. This may be additionally significant, amplifying further the nonsensical, tendentious, thread-bare, third-rate, absurd, scholar-less, distored nature of his discourse.
"Al-Zahrani's roommates say he was dealing with a lot of problems. He expressed being worried about finishing his dissertation on time. He was also no longer on scholarship and didn't have a job.
"I would think it was because of the whole dissertation being rejected. But I cannot confirm it, he had issues with his financials. I don't know what he had against that professor," said Luis Pena, a graduate student." -- from the article
Not knowing the full details of the situation, it's hard to say what specific thing set Al-Zahrani off. The article didn't say what relationship he had with the professor, but my guess is that the professor might have been on Al-Zhouri's academic advisory committee, and as such sat on his dissertation committee, and therefore in a position to be critical of, and have a vote on, whether the dissertation met acceptable standards of rigorous academic scholarship. I have sat on numerous dissertation committees and watched the emotional turmoil of students whose dreams are shattered and lives upended when their dissertations are rejected or their financial support discontinued, and have even been the object of vague threats of retaliation, usually in the form of some kind of law suit alleging gender discrimination or administrative incompetence. But invariably the threats do not materialize, and the student eventually makes the necessary adjustments to his/her life and gets on with things.
But such threats don't usually involve violence, the single exception in my experience being, interestingly enough, an American Anglo convert to Islam by virtue of being married to a wife from the Nation of Islam. A student steeped in a religion, especially from childhood, where violence is considered an acceptable response to insults real or imagined would seem to possess an unacceptably low threshold for violence when under stress, and this appears to be the case here. It's interesting to compare how students of other cultures respond to similar crises. We never have to worry about violence with Chinese and Japanese and Indian students, who arguably have equally as difficult, if not even more difficult, a time when under duress like this. The Europeans and Slavs and Latins never present problems.
In the article it wasn't suggested that an Islamic mindset might be a predispositive factor in this case, but we have come to expect a lack of critical thinking about this from the MSM and PC police (and CAIR). But a dead body is pretty hard to ignore. The motives of the murderer are a legitimate subject for consideration, especially if they reflect a deep seated religious bias that sanctions violence as an acceptable response to what seems to be a very long list of "insults."
Further proof that Islam makes you crazy!
A grotesquely acute irony, from the slaughtered professor's curriculum vitae:
1993 "Themes and Symbols in the Religious Lesson: A Jordanian Case Study", The International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 607-624.
1997 Institutionalized deconfrontation: A case study of conflict resolution among tribal peasants in Jordan. In Conflict Resolution in The Arab World, ed. by P. Salem. American University of Beirut, Beirut.
1999 Jordanian Migrants in Texas and Ohio: The Quest for Education and Work in a Global Society, in Michael Suleiman, editor, Arabs in America: Building a New Future, Temple University Press, Philadelphia.
2000 Civil Society, Tribal Process and Change in Jordan, International Journal of Middle East Studies," Vol. 32, no. 4, November.
2001 Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Muslim and Jewish Movements, Alta Mira Press, New York.
2003 "The Case of the Lost Tooth" in How People Negotiate: Resolving Disputes in Different Cultures, edited by Guy Oliver Faure, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
2005 Documenting Transnational Migration: Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia and North America, Berghahn Press, New York and London
2006 "Fundamentalism, Bureaucratization, and the State's Co-optation of Religion: A Jordanian Case Study", The International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3, August 2006.
2006 Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Muslim and Jewish Movements, Alta Mira Press, New York (revised, second edition).
http://anthro.binghamton.edu/AntounR.html
These titles from this curriculum vitae arouse thoughts similar to those expressed recently by Hugh Fitzgerald when he recounted some of the curriculum vitae of another naively starry-eyed and anxiously tolerant Westerner, Father Rene Camilleri, who was shocked at the avidity for gruesome Sharia punishments expressed by a Muslim friend and colleague. Camilleri's CV as recounted by Hugh was perhaps even more flagrantly PC MC than Prof. Antoun's, but the latter reveals similar traits of groping anxiously after "understanding" among the "three Abrahamic" religions" -- particularly his 2001 work, Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Muslim and Jewish Movements.
We notice from his curriculum vitae that this work, first written in 2001 (no doubt researched and drafted pre-911), was revised and re-issued in 2006. In all his years of myopic groping after "understanding" and tolerance with his sincerely good, haplessly clueless heart, he never came to "understand" the one fundamentalism, Islam, that is unlike all other fundamentalisms -- until in a few terrifying moments the other day when a Muslim stabbed him repeatedly to death: Time for another revision: the horrifying truth of Islamic fundamentalism (i.e., Islam), December of 2009, to add to Prof. Antoun's curriculum mortis.
"He dedicated his life to trying to understand the people of the Middle East," said the professor's sister Linda Miller, of Holden, Mass.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/nyregion/06binghamton.html
Note to grieving sister: Your brother failed miserably, tragically, and I must be cruel because his life's work contributed, however modestly and circumspectly, to the larger PC MC myopia of our Western culture that is serving to endanger my life and the lives of my loved ones.
Making way for the "crazy" defense.
We can just say Islam makes you nuts.
Outlaw it.
fairuzfan thinks he scored a significant point by the fact that I was incorrect about one datum -- that the slaughtered professor was Jewish -- in the story (thanks to del above). Unfortunately, Muslims have a wonderfully diverse palette of reasons to butcher people -- and their hatred of Jews is only one of them.
This killing reminds me of the unfortunate Hitoshi Igarashi, the Tsukuba University Professor who had his throat cut for no apparent reason other than he happened to be the Japanese translator of Rushdie's Satanic Verses.
The producer of a movie whose name escapes me at the moment staring Anthony Quinn glorifying Jihad resistance against the Italian fascists (which when it was made was to have explicit comparison to the Zionists) also died in a real live suicide bombing a few years ago.
Sad story.
"...the nonsensical, tendentious, thread-bare, third-rate, absurd, scholar-less, distored nature of his discourse."
Wow! A Mohammedan talking about the koran in this way! Right on, Mohammedan fairuzfan! You are right! Mo is all of the above in his writing of the fictitious koran!
"Cruelty of disposition; malice and ill-nature; that most anti-social and odious of all passions, envy; dissimulations, and insincerity; irascibilty on insufficent cause, and resentment disproportioned to the provocation; love of domineering advantages; the pride which derives gratification from the abasement of others; the egoism which thinks itself, and its concerns more important than everything else, and decides all doubtfull questions in his own favor - these are moral vices, and constitute a bad, and odious moral character."
"On Liberty" -- John Stuart Mill
Hesperado is part of the nucleus of commentors at the JW forum; Fairfusan is bearly an electron.
Al-Zahrani's roommates say he was dealing with a lot of problems. He expressed being worried about finishing his dissertation on time. He was also no longer on scholarship and didn't have a job.
'I would think it was because of the whole dissertation being rejected. But I cannot confirm it, he had issues with his financials. I don't know what he had against that professor,"'said Luis Pena, a graduate student."
And this is the point. It was personal problems -- his financial proplems, problems with his thesis -- that led him to blame the Nearest Infidel.
I have written about this many times, and here, for example, is an excerpt from in an article posted two years ago:
"Fitzgerald: Anything To Do With Terrorism?"
There has been much discussion lately of whether or not this or that case has anything to do with "terrorism." The Salt Lake mall shooter and the Nashville would-be murderer by taxicab spring immediately to mind. The word "terrorism" may not quite fit if the FBI takes it to mean some kind of organized conspiracy, something done by a group. What should be made clear is that Islam supplies a pre-fabricated mental grid or, to vary the metaphor, a prism through which to view the universe. And on that grid, or through that prism, there is always an Identifiable Enemy, and that Enemy is Always the Infidel.
Feeling bad? Feeling blue? Feeling things aren't going right for you? It happens to all of us. We blame our parents, our siblings, our children, The System, Amerika with a "k," Capitalism, fate, the stars, our serotonin level, our cholesterol level. Even, at times, we may blame ourselves. That's if you are an ordinary Infidel.
What if you are a Muslim? You don't have to blame your parents, your siblings, or anyone or anything else except: the Infidel. And you don't need to be part of Al-Qaeda, or Islamic Jihad, or Jaish-e-Muhammad. You don't even have to have been a faithful attender of a mosque. You can be Intel engineer "Mike" (Muhammad) Hawash, married to an American, with Little-League-attending children, earning $360,000 a year. And when the banality and boredom of life assails you, you can return to that Old-Time Religion, that is to Islam, and start reading, and re-reading, with the effects we all know, the Qur'an. Then you can light out for the territories, in this case those territories being Western China, and thence, you hope, to Afghanistan, in order to kill Americans. Yes, you are technically an "American" yourself, but the categories and the loyalties of the Infidel nation-state mean nothing to you: you are a Muslim, and that is the only Category that counts, Muslim as opposed to Infidel.
"Yeah, I just stabbed him" Abdulsalam(servant of peace) Al-Zahrani
Binghamton University Muslim Students Association website has a Du`aa’ for dealing with Anxiety - "Oh Allah, I seek refuge in You from worry and grief, from helplessness and laziness, from cowardice and stinginess, and from overpowering of debt and from oppression of men."
It's all 'Bridges tv' until the swords come out.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
Some jihaddis are paranoid nut jobs.
Others aren't.
Who cares?
They all subscribe to a common ideology.
And just a wee little tiny attention to what they say about themselves make it pretty obvious what that ideology is and where they get it.
Hint ... it's not a product of America or Europe or India or East Asia.
Who are the people who are irrational? Surely it is the infidels who believe that muslime are followers of a religion of peace and persons capable of civilized behavior.
Isn't Islam itself a psychological problem that leads to rampant jihad as the Muslim learns more and more about Islam?
{o.o}
It's too bad the prof wasn't packing. It would have been easier to alleviate this world of one more "crazy" and end his chances of producing offspring. What a waste.
'"I feel like just waking up and destroying the world"
HMMMM, apparently a lot of Muslims feel this way...especially after Friday prayers...
Something that Dorothy L Sayers said, after having translated Dante's Inferno into English, is eerily a propos here:
"The Joy of Misery.
"Love for anything is not news (to journalists) except in Heaven
- and that is why [Dante's] Inferno is so full of people angrily beating and biting one another -
they *like* that sort of thing.
"They *want* to be cross and miserable.
"They *enjoy* chewing things to pieces, the little nasties!
"It must be part of the frustration of Hell that there is nothing good there to chew up -
the good is beyond their reach; they can only chew one another".
[from the anthology 'Dorothy L Sayers - A Careless Rage For Life'].
Dr. Antoun was scheduled to go on a speaking tour in the next few weeks throughout the Worcester, Massachusetts area as well introducing course offerings on Islamic misogynism. That is his hometown and also the location of the troubling East Mountain Street mosque.
This is what is written here in your site about the murderer:
" Al-Zahrani's roommates say he was dealing with a lot of problems. He expressed being worried about finishing his dissertation on time. He was also no longer on scholarship and didn't have a job."
A lot of people ( Muslims, Christians and Jewish )kill for similar reasons. Islam and muslims have nothing to do with this. Unless you turn Psychology into religious. Please, be reasonable and put things into its context.
ayman,
al-Zahrani's apartment-mates stated that al-Zahrani felt that his (al-Zahrani's) situation had much to do with islam:
"On Sunday, Mr. Zahrani’s roommates — who had lived with him for about three weeks in a three-bedroom apartment in downtown Binghamton — recounted how the suspect, who spoke of financial problems, often mentioned death and said he was being persecuted because he was Muslim."
That is from the NY Times article "Binghamton Student Says He Warned Officials", linked above.
Also, you wrote, "A lot of people...kill for similar reasons."
Since when do many people kill others because they are having dissertation problems or lose their scholarship or don't have a job? What country do you live in? You would know more muslims than I do, so I'll have to take your word that that is common among muslims. However, it is not common among Christians nor Jews, nor Hindus nor Sikhs, in my experience.