The Nomad and the Olive Branch

Great. Just what I needed during my examination period at my university: news of a shooting at another university. And not just any university, but one of the top universities in the United States of America: Virginia Polytechnic, or Virginiatech for short. Kinda reminds me of the Columbine shootings, et al., but this one turned out to have a death toll of 33 students and professors, including the shooter. I know that this story is at least two weeks old, but the story behind the shooting is one that would be told should something like this happen again, to remind us of the deviants in society. Even when taking a look at the list of the deceased does one realize that the shooter did not discriminate between anyone as he murderously raged through the school and kill those who stood in his way. Not surprisingly, however, was the notion that the media spun a hype about the massacre being motivated by "Islam" ever since police identified the words "Ismail Ax" in red i...