If Steve Paddock is named Abdullahi


The Las vegas shooting has once again brought to the fore the duplicity approach towards fighting the menace of crimes in the society. Over 58 people were killed and more than 500 others injured at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas, after what the western media are now described as ‘shooter” Stephen Paddock, opened fire on the crowd through the windows of his 32nd-floor room at the Mandalay Bay hotel. Las Vegas killing innocents Americans
The man who is responsible for this mass murder is called Steve Paddock. An American citizen and a Christian. For the record, the Las Vegas shooting (not terrorist attack) is the worst attack in the history of America. It surpassed all the previous hyped attack labeled as ‘terrorist attack’
Washington post captured it vividly in its editorial when it wrote “Despite the scale of the attack and Paddock’s being armed with more than 10 rifles, Las Vegas Sheriff Joe Lombardo immediately dismissed any ties to terrorism, classifying Paddock, a white male from a rural town 80 miles from Las Vegas, as a “local individual” and a “lone wolf.”
We have yet to determine whether Paddock was motivated by anyone or anything, so many are tiptoeing around terms such as “terrorist.” But if Paddock were Muslim, his status as a local individual would be entirely irrelevant, and the motive of “Islamic terrorism” or “jihad” would likely be immediately assumed, even without any evidence.”
However, the selfish part of me is ashamed to admit that media are part of the problem. A case study of ‘Las vegas shooting’ as they called it will vindicate the above assertion. What is a name you might say but there a lot more to a name especially when you are a Muslim.
The details of the Gun man’ so far has not indicated any abnormality as being hurriedly sold to the public. Steve Paddock father has FBI’s cross hairs after escaping from federal prison. He had gambling in his blood and once hit a $40,000 jackpot on the slots. And he owned two planes and was a licensed pilot. Yes, a licensed pilot.
The world is living in pretentious mode hoping that our hypocritical deeds will melt away without consequences. As one newspaper aptly put: Why Won’t Anyone Call Las Vegas shooter a Terrorist? The answer to the question is obvious. His name is not Abdullahi or better still he has no link to Muslims whatsoever. The applicable meaning of terrorists actually varies. That is the self delusion that has belouded the sense of judgement of those who love to hate Muslims.
The world will never be a peaceful place for all of us unless we accept the reality that criminality has no link with religion. Wether he is Abdullahi or Samson, killing innocent souls is inhuman an act that displeases our creator.
The reaction of President Trump leaves no one in doubt that white supremacists is alive and active in America politics. In a live address from the White House, President Trump called the Vegas massacre an “act of pure evil.
How deluded we are to believe that terrorist are only those who bear the name of Muslim, ignoring the fact that evils men who committed day light murder are not representatives of any religion.
According to an analyst with cable news “It’s so much easier to believe that terrorists are foreign invaders than people walking beside us on the Vegas strip. That way, we don’t have to look inward and admit the dark, shameful truth to ourselves: That despite Trump’s fear-mongering, it isn’t ISIS footmen or undocumented Mexican gang members who are behind the most murderous mass shootings in our country’s history. The ones who are senselessly killing Americans and striking fear into their hearts at concerts and movie theaters and in kindergarten classes are most often white American men like Paddock, Dylann Roof, and Adam Lanza. Indeed, Vox notes today that “since Trump took office, more Americans have been killed by white American men with no connection to Islam than by Muslim terrorists or foreigners.”
They are playing ostrich because the shooter is not a Muslim.

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