This past weekend, NBC sportscaster Bob Costas blamed the presence of a gun for the murder / suicide committed by NFL player Jovan Belcher. The implication is clear. People who kill other people are not responsible; something else is.
Walid Shoebat Foundation — Based on the standard set by Mr. Costas, we would like some clarity relative to a case involving the death of a 7 year old boy.
Via Fox News:
A British mother who beat her 7-year-old son to death after he failed to memorize excerpts from the Koran was found guilty of murder.Costas also referred to a ‘gun culture’ being to blame for the murder / suicide. What we have not heard from him is the number of murders and suicides that are pervasive within the Islamic culture.
Sara Ege, 33, was convicted of beating her son Yaseen to death with a stick at their home in Wales, then burning his body to hide evidence. Police originally thought Yaseen died in a house fire.
Ege initially claimed her husband, Yousef, was responsible for the 2010 death and only confessed to the crime for fear he would kill her, too. Yousef was acquitted of causing his son’s death by failing to protect him, the International Business Times reports.
Ege reportedly confessed to police that she beat her son because he had not learned the Koran.
“I was getting all this bad stuff in my head, like I couldn’t concentrate,” Ege reportedly told authorities. “I was getting very wild and I hit Yaseen with a stick on his back like a dog.”
While endorsing and quoting sportswriter Jason Whitlock, Costas said the following about the murder / suicide committed by Belcher against his girlfriend and then himself:
What I believe is, if he (Belcher) didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.
Now then, if the mother of the aforementioned 7 year-old boy beat him to death with a stick for not memorizing the Quran, what’s responsible, the Quran, the stick, or the culture?
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Biography of Walid Shoebat
Former Muslim Brotherhood Member Now Peace Activist
For the record, my name is Walid Shoebat. I used to be a radicalized Muslim willing to die for the cause of Jihad until I converted to Christianity in 1994. As a member of the PLO I was involved in terror activity, and was imprisoned in Jerusalem for three weeks. In prison, I was recruited to plant a bomb in Bethlehem as a result of which, thank God, no one was injured. My mother was an American and my father a Palestinian Arab. My parents sent me in 1978 to the United States to study at Loop College in Chicago Illinois. There I was recruited at a hotel “Terror Conference” by Jamal Said, a founder of the IAP (Islamic Association of Palestine) and Imam at one of the largest mosques in Chicago. The IAP was a forerunner to today’s Hamas terror organization and also to the terror front group CAIR (Council for American Islamic relations). This was in the early 1980s when I was being trained for Jihad activities in the USA along with many other young foreigners as well as US citizens. The Imams were the prime recruiters for terrorism then as they are still today and terror conferences are held all over the USA to this day. » Read More