Illinois Schoolkid Killer Loved Hamas, Studied Terror

Not surprising. The lone jihadi, something I think we'll be seeing a good deal more of. In legitimizing Islamic jihad, society has sanctioned it. And why was this boy  allowed to make Hamas his school project? What academic end did that serve. Something nuanced I'm sure.

School shooter studied Hamas, says friend
'He would especially enjoy practicing his Arabic on me' hat tip Newman

A former Northern Illinois University newspaper reporter says the killer who gunned down five innocent students in an apparently unprovoked attack liked to study Arabic and the terror group Hamas.

"'Assalamo alikum,' he [Steve Kazmierczak] would say to me, which means 'peace be with you' in Arabic," wrote Rasmieyh Abdelnabi in an essay published in the Chicago Sun-Times.

"He would proceed to ask me how I was doing and what I was up to, all in Arabic with a thick accent and a huge, excited smile," she continued.

She said the two met in class at the university, took several classes together over the years, and periodically kept in touch when they didn't share classes.

"Our topics of choice: foreign policy and the Middle East. He would especially enjoy practicing his Arabic on me. In 2004, NIU decided to offer a year's worth of Arabic classes. Steve took both classes without hesitation, excited as could be," she wrote.

Just over a week ago, Kazmierczak burst into a lecture hall and shot and killed five students and then himself. The New York Times reports he was taking an anti-anxiety drug and a sleeping aid in addition to the antidepressant Prozac.

But authorities have yet to announce what they believe could have been a motive for his attack, which left Daniel Parmenter, 20, of Westchester, Ill.; Catalina Garcia, 20, of Cicero, Ill.; Ryanne Mace, 19, of Carpentersville, Ill.; Julianna Gehant, 32, of Mendota, Ill.; and Gayle Dubowski, 20, of Carol Stream, Ill., dead.

On Thursday, a week after the attack, the university observed five minutes of silence, one minute for each of the victims.

Abdelnabi wrote that she initially could not believe Kazmierczak was the killer.

On a a blog called Muslim Watcher, writer Bruce Keegan noted Abdelnabi was the women's representative in the Muslim Student Association at NIU.

She said she acted as his "walking dictionary" occasionally. "'What does this word mean in English?' or 'What is this word in Arabic?'" she reported he would ask.

"Once we took a course called 'The Politics of the Middle East.' At the beginning of the course, our instructor informed us a research paper would be due by the end of the semester. Steve decided on Hamas, which is known mainly to the world as being a Palestinian terrorist group, which was the first thing that interested Steve about the group. But he also heard Hamas funded many social services, which also interested him. How could one group be put into two completely different categories, Steve would ask," she wrote.

"Unlike most of us, Steve started his research from day one, reading every book he could find on Hamas. He'd give me a status report when we saw each other in class. Steve said that his perception of Hamas changed with all the research he did," she said.

Authorities also have reported that Kazmierczak took several precautions that would impede investigators, including removing a memory card from his cell phone and removing the hard drive from his computer.

Comments

[Josef K]

Aaah, another Ismael Ax.

Geese, I thought this all along. If this is true, here we go again. Perhaps if you say the a-word and certainly one of the h-words, you shouldn't get a gun. Ever.

[Tracy]

"And why was this boy allowed to make Hamas his school project? What academic end did that serve."

Are you really this obtuse? The course was called 'The Politics of the Middle East,' for cryin' out loud.

A mentally ill (in retrospect) college student wants to learn Arabic, and takes a course on Mideast politics, and that makes him "a lone jihadi."

You'd be hilarious if you weren't so deranged.

[Lawrence]

Schools (colleges and universities) are safe? Hardly.

Read This Article:

Summation:
(Hat tip to Hot Air blog).

The campus rape movement highlights the current condition of radical feminism, from its self-indulgent bathos to its embrace of ever more vulnerable female victimhood. But the movement is an even more important barometer of academia itself. In a delicious historical irony, the baby boomers who dismantled the university’s intellectual architecture in favor of unbridled sex and protest have now bureaucratized both. While women’s studies professors bang pots and blow whistles at antirape rallies, in the dorm next door, freshman counselors and deans pass out tips for better orgasms and the use of sex toys. The academic bureaucracy is roomy enough to sponsor both the dour antimale feminism of the college rape movement and the promiscuous hookup culture of student life. The only thing that doesn’t fit into the university’s new commitments is serious scholarly purpose.

My point?

Now that feminism has made women into perpetual victims, we can turn our focus on our men.

Anything goes on campus. Making people into victims is now the objective, whether one is a victim of sex crimes, or assault, or murder, etc.

The ideology of victimization has overcome our common sense to respect each other and defend each other. Instead we are teaching our next generation how to prey on each other like animals. But then we are also being taught that we are animals, rather than the adult humans we should be.

The study of Islam teaches that we are victims of evil Western Culture and that Allah demands we kill Western Culture and replace it with Islam and Sharia Law to restore good order. Sharia Law which demands ultimate loyalty, or death.

So, A mentally ill (in retrospect) college student wants to learn Arabic, and takes a course on Mideast Politics,...
... teaching him that he is a victim of his own culture, that he should hate his own culture, and he should wage war (jihad) on his peers, which he did.

Yeah, we need to worry about this. This is not something to be laughed at.

[sheik yer'mami]

This is not the first and not the last of these lunatics gets brainwashed by these cunning Wahabi snakes and goes nuts. Does anyone remember the case of the one single student who lived with a bunch of Arabs and blew himself up on a park-bench outside a stadium?

Remember, Pamela? You have a good case here?

[Schweggie]

Wow...This one had prozac written all over it...never thought about jihad. Wearing all black as he was...just didn't see it. Lesson learned.

[RISE_UP]

There is a pattern with People who suffer from schizophrenia becoming obsessed with the bible. Now,they have the Koran,Hammas or equally violent cults to be obsessed with.Unfortunately,these cults are already mentally ill themselves. What can you expect then from someone who wants to act them out?