Comments on: Thoughts on the Virginia Tech Tragedy – 1 Muslim confirmed killed out of the 32 dead

By: Juman

Juman — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:14:24 +0000

Innalillah it was soo terrible! :O!! I know I’m late with this comment, I heard the news b4 anyway…May allah forgive them all of their sins and give them jannah,ameen.

By: aysha

aysha — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:06:43 +0000

Inna Lilahi Wa Inna Ilayhi Rajioon

By: Ayoub

Ayoub — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:54:42 +0000

Can you beleive that there are people out there that are attributing this tragedy to Islam? The name written on Cho’s arm is “Ismail Ax.” and some bloggers have given “theories” that it is attributed to ismail of the Qur’an.

By: isaac

isaac — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:34:21 +0000

1. “Inna li’llah wa inna ilayhi raji’un” is not just for when a Muslim dies; it is for when any trial or tragedy befalls one; and that is loss of life, Muslim and non-Muslim.

2. The people here surely meant well, and didn’t mean their hearts didn’t ache for the non-Muslims who passed away. However, those same people posting should have noticed that their language seemed tribal. I was waiting for someone to post what the girl did above.

3. All that aside: the young lady who was killed had a brother named Omar, who spoke to some media. Are you sure she wasn’t a Muslim?

May this be a reminder to us all of the transient nature of this world, and a chance to pray to God that he grant all those afflicted patience, and rewards His slaves with his mercy in this world and the next.

By: Sohnii

Sohnii — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:03:27 +0000

Salaam,

the shooting on Virginia Tech really made me sad and mad at the same time, it’s a very das situation.

I noticed as I looked trought all the comments that you guys are ONLY mentioning the muslims and very much energy is putted down on making us aware of tht Reema sis was a libanese christian… why?

sure a muslim feels more pain when he/she hears tht there was muslim aswell there who lost their life’s

but it just made me feel weird that none of the commenters have spended a single second on expressing their sadness for all the other who died, afterall they also have parents who are suffering, family and friends …

Allahu- Alam

All I can do is to pray to Allah that he gives the families of the one’s who lost their life sabr and help them to deal with this.
muslim as non-muslim,

Allah Hafiz
Wa’Salaam

By: Amad

Amad — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:40:41 +0000

Seems my previous comment is still in moderation… Anyhow, we have a post up as a tribute to Br. Waleed on MuslimMatters.org. I hope Br. Omar H, you can drop by and share your feelings with our readers.

wasalam

By: Intellijunkt Commentary

Intellijunkt Commentary — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:10:03 +0000

Samar on April 18, 2007 at 9:59 am said:

Who cares who was Muslim or Christian? What difference does it make? You people are pathetic. Is Reema’s life worth any less because she was Christian? Get a life you fanatic freaks.

This isnt really about whose life is more ‘worth it’. Its just that, when an incident like this occurs, ppl have a tendency to ask if those who are closer to them, have been affected by that incident. For example, after the VT Shootings, the first thing that came up on the local news in Australia was: Were there any Australian casualities. Now obviously, the newsreporters are not saying that Australian life is worth more than an American’s, or New Zealander’s or Paki’s. Its just that, as Australians, our foremost interest is in finding out if a tragedy affected another Australian citizen.

No fanaticism here. Honest!

By: Amad

Amad — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:08:17 +0000

Samar, the point is not that anyone’s life is less worth than the other. But humans in general respond this way, they feel and sympathize more to the people they are closer to… so, for instance, if your family member had died or my family member had died, Allah forbid both, then we would have different feelings to this family member than the other strangers. Similarly, people have different sentiments to their countrymen, to their class-mates, to their co-religionists, etc. It is completely natural and it is how we as humans thrive. So, you have Indians at sepiamutiny talking about Indians, Arabs at another website talking about the Lebanese, etc.

When it becomes wrong though is when we state or infer that one life is not worth as much as the other.

Hope that clarifies.

By: Samar

Samar — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:59:27 +0000

Who cares who was Muslim or Christian? What difference does it make? You people are pathetic. Is Reema’s life worth any less because she was Christian? Get a life you fanatic freaks.

By: Amad

Amad — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:23:31 +0000

Mr, please remove the first comment, and remove the first line from the second one… wasalam