What Does the Koran Say About Muslim Soldiers?

"In the wake of the Ft. Hood shootings by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an uncomfortable and unjust spotlight has been trained on Muslim-American soldiers serving in the armed forces. To be blunt, their loyalties are...

Fort Hood,Texas Shooting & Loneliness, Failed Immigration Ideals

     The events related to the shootings in Killeen, Texas this week are getting the usual and bleak news coverage that a story of this magnitude indeed tends to receive.  Such a major...

The Emergence of Gang Violence and Shootings in Metro-Vancouver

As we all know, there has been an on-going problem with gang violence and shootings in the lower mainland. This is a vast topic with many different issues to it, but I would like to discuss my opinions on this occurrence. Through the media, it appears that the police are...

Kenyan Police Brutally Attack Samburu Maasai Community

Since February 12, Kenyan government forces have launched a series of ongoing assaults on the indigenous Samburu people in the remote northern region of the country, using helicopter gunships and armed ground forces...

Violence in the Lower Mainland

Violence in the Lower Mainland has escalated over the month of March. While most of the violence is a continuation of the gang warfare, even innocent victims are being caught in the wave of violence.Earlier this week in the evening, a Simon Fraser University student was...

RCMP link B.C. gang violence to Mexican drug wars

Canadian police officials have said this week that increased gang-related shootings in the Vancouver area are directly linked to the competing Mexican drug cartels.  This week B.C. police were successful in making several arrests, including that of a leader of the UN...

2 killed, 1 hurt in Dallas-area road shootings

Police in Dallas are scouring the city today looking for a gunman in a pickup truck who killed people seemingly at random during rush hour yesterday. The crime is reminiscient of the DC-area sniper shootings a few...

"Last Man Standing" After Shootout Over Drug Turf Gets New Trial

The “last man standing” after a shootout over drug turf at the New Wings Hotel on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in 2005 has been granted a new trial by the BC Court of Appeals.  Three judges unanimously agreed that the lower court judge had erred in...

Shooting near Detroit high school kills student

In this fatal shootout latest report says that Three teens have been arrested in connection with a shooting outside Henry Ford High School Thursday that killed one student and wounded three others, Detroit Police...

Kauhajoki Police Called to Take Gun Away From Saari...But He Was Out

KAUHAJOKI police have today revealed that police visited Saari's home the day after questioning him on Friday to confiscate his handgun and firearms licence...but Saari was out and so they went away.  Matti...

Kauhajoki: Memorial Service held Attended by Finnish Prime Minister

A touching memorial service has been held in Kauhajoki in memory of the ten victims who died at gunman Matti Saari's hand.  In attendance at the service was Tarja Halonen,  Finnish Prime Minister...

Saari and Auvinen "Played Battlefield 2" Together: Internet Killer Network Fear

MATTI Saari and Pekka-Eric Auvinen knew each other, it has been revealed.  They played internet games of Battlefield 2 together, as authorities fear that there is a whole internet network of violent copycat...

Kauhajoki Killer Rang Friend: "I Have Just Killed 10 People!"

A MAN calling himself "Rauno" has claimed in an interview with a Finnish Magazine 7 päivää (7 Days) that he was a close friend of Matti Saari, 18, and that the deranged misfit had RUNG HIM ON HIS MOBILE CELL PHONE after the killings to say, "I have jsut killed ten people"...

Texas School Teachers will be Packing Pistols

Pencils, rulers, Text books, and a Glock handgun will be among the implements Texas teachers will be, "Packing" for the new school year beginning August 25th.  After much negotiation it was found that...

Woman says man held in Wisconsin shootings raped her

" MILWAUKEE - A woman said a man suspected of opening fire on a group of young adults, killing three, had raped her the night before in the same northern Wisconsin woods where the victims were slain.  The...

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