Three young Muslims have been shot in the head and killed on Tuesday evening in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Newly wed couple Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, Yusor Mohammad, 21, and Yusor’s sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, were pronounced dead at the scene after being shot ‘execution style’ by 46-year-old Craig Stephen Hicks, reported WRAL.
The shooting, which occurred at a condominium complex in Chapel Hill, has shocked the Muslim community, with authorities stating there is no motive that has been established for the shooting.
Shortly after they were shot dead, Hicks, who on his Facebook profile identifies as an Atheist and as ‘anti-religious’, handed himself over to local authorities and is currently being held in a county jail.
According to family friends, Deah and Yusor were married just four weeks ago. Deah, the Independent reported, was a dental student at the University of North Carolina and had volunteered with a charity that provides emergency dental care to children in Palestine.
Razan, Yusor’s younger sister, ran a blog showcasing art and photography. The 19-year-old had started her university education at North Carolina State University in August 2014.
A Facebook page was set up in memory of the three young victims shortly after the killings.
“Please rely on each other and remember these beautiful souls in your happy thoughts. Their faith meant a lot to them, and it is in fact what helps us all feel at peace with the tragedy of their murder,” said a statement.
Comments (46)
The wanton killer has neither this world nor the hereafter and on him is God’s curse and anger and hell is his eternal prison. The killed ones are martyrs and for them is a happy abode of Paradise where
they will live for ever.
Sympathies to the killed and their families. Clearly this psycho cracked after seeing all the atrocities going on around the world due to your fucked up faith.
Islam is being attacked from all sides including the ill-advised so called Muslims. The Prophet of Islam has been wished by the keepers of the conscience of the people of the West (Bernard Shaw, Michael H Hart, P Kennedy, Thomas Carlyle, Denison and many others) to come as the DICTATOR OF THE WHOLE WORLD as he will give the world peace and happiness.
Abdul, you’re putting your opinion of what Islam must be against that of the imams in ISIS. If its eventually opinion vs. opinion, and you insist that your opinion/interpretation is superior to theirs without any real backing of it, you’re no different than they. After all, they can spout as much Koran (or more) than you.
It doesn’t matter if Mohammed was good guy or not. He isn’t here to tell you and ISIS whose interpretation is right.
Behaving like decent human beings shouldnt depend on being a “real muslim”. That’s just stupid.
Gentleman, I have indicated the example of our Prophet (SAWS) and not my own opinion. If he is welcome by European intellectuals as the dictator of the whole world who would give them peace and happiness and rank him the greatest man of history, then let the ISIS work according to the examples of the Prophet so that they are also welcome as the harbingers of peace and happiness. After all our dear Prophet has been called in Quran as the mercy for the worlds.
Yeah, that may be, but in the US we don’t welcome European intellectuals or their silly notions and I sincerely doubt ISIS can be reasonably considered “harbingers of peace and happiness” by anyone who is not clinically insane or completely blinded by their own religious bigotry.
2 wrongs doesn’t make a right asilad 🙁
God may perhaps forgive him, but if he is convicted of the crimes he is accused of, 10-15 years of prison then death by lethal injection is the most likely conviction.
You should be ashamed of yourself. These poor innocent victims were killed for no reason and their families are suffering. Instead of putting out an accurate story,you are relying on facebook for your information. Really really shameful that you would take advantage of this tragedy and the fears that people have to create some sort of publicity for this media outlet of yours.
There is barely any information out there because not enough is reported. I have read other articles about this and they also got some information from facebook.
There isn’t much more reporting this website can do all the way from Egypt.
More info available here. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/us/shooting-deaths-university-of-north-carolina-murder-charges.html?_r=0