Shooting Suspect Slams Religion While Defending Liberty
This article does a good job at collecting some of the contrary but objective evidence that got noticed in the first thread here the day of the shooting, I think it was Charles who first noted the shooter’s support for the New York mosque. I kind of disagree with the headline - the only “liberty” these self appointed gun toting monitors tend to support is their own personal liberties and beliefs above all others.
If his Facebook page is any indication, Craig Hicks doesn’t hate Muslims. An avowed atheist, his online posts instead depict a man who despises religion itself, but nevertheless seems to support an individual’s right to his own beliefs.
“I hate Islam just as much as christianity, but they have the right to worship in this country just as much as any others do,” the man now accused of killing three Muslim college students stated in one 2012 post over the proposed construction of a mosque near the World Trade Center site in New York.
Days after the shooting deaths of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23; his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21; and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, a nuanced and sometimes contradictory portrait is emerging of the man charged in their slayings.
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