[ April 25, 2024 ]
I think it's important to note that all of the headlines in the news reports in Portuguese call the murderer an Islamic suicide bomber and report that his letter refers to Islam, while none of the English outlets are reporting this critical clue.
"In recent months, she said, he appeared to have got closer to Islam."
At least 11 people, mostly children, died Thursday and more that 15 were wounded when an armed man attacked a school in Realengo in the poor suburbs of Rio de Janeiro.
Story continues below advertisementAccording to a preliminary police report, the attacker – a 24- year-old former student at the school – was among the dead after shooting himself in the head. He attacked Tasso da Silveira school, where some 400 students ages 9-14 were in classes. […]
Beltrami described the letter as 'the words of a person who no longer believes in anything, full of sentences that made no sense and references to Islamic fundamentalism.'
Huh? He no longer believes in anything but made references to Islam?
Beltrami said the attacker was friendly as he went into the school, chatting with administrators and teachers and asking for permission to address the children. When he reached the third floor of the building, the suspect entered one of the classrooms and started to shoot at students, killing nine girls and one boy.
The attacker apparently committed suicide upon being chased by a police officer who had been called in by a student who managed to escape the building
Roselane de Oliveira, a sister of the attacker, told Rio de Janeiro radio station Band News that the young man 'was very strange.'
'He had no friends, and he spent all his time on the Internet,' she said.
In recent months, she said, he appeared to have got closer to Islam.
Police stressed, however, that there was no concrete evidence that the attack had either a religious or a political motive.
(more here.)
Irmã de atirador diz que ele era ligado ao Islamismo e não saía muito de casa; ele deixou carta suicida UOP Noticias (hat tip Paulo)
Rio school shooting: official says 13 children dead Guardian
Witnesses tell how gunman opened fire on pupils at Tasso da Silveira primary school in Rio de Janeiro
As many as 20 pupils are feared dead after a gunman opened fire in a primary school in western Rio de Janeiro.
The vice-mayor of western Rio said 13 people had died in the shooting at Tasso da Silveira primary school, although it was not clear if that figure was accurate or included the attacker. Edmar Teixeira said the gunman was a 24-year-old former student who pretended to be giving a speech to students before opening fire with two handguns. When police appeared at the scene the gunman shot himself dead, Teixeira said. He left behind a letter outlining his motives.
One witness told the Guardian he had seen between 15 and 20 children dead or seriously wounded.
"It is a massacre, a true massacre," said Roni de Macedo, a fireman who arrived on the scene shortly after the shooting began and dragged eight seriously injured children from the school.
"There is blood on the walls, blood on the chairs. There are 15 to 20 dead I think," said De Macedo, who was covered in blood. "I've never seen anything like this. It's like something in the United States."
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67 Comments
13 years ago
Is Islam sociopathic, or are sociopaths attracted to Islam?
13 years ago
I think to be a moslem one has to be a sociopath by definition
13 years ago
What a brave young Moosleem. LIke that story earlier today about Mohammedans blowing up a schoolbus full of children.
Moosleems are so damn brave! Who else has the guts to butcher little children, like the Moosleems do! I think I’ll go revert right now in awe of the army of Mohammed’s great valor!
13 years ago
In math we have a statement called If and only if. It’s how we define things, and it seems You’re islamic if and only if you’re a sociopath.
13 years ago
The hits keep coming. There was a pipebomb that exploded outsie a Chabad house in Los Angeles. It exploded at 6:45 a.m. (services are at 7:00 a.m.). So far they say there were no casualties. I won’t say my suspicions as to what group — if any– pulled off this terrorist attack for now. Maybe more information will come out later.
Incidentally these Chabad are the coolest, friendliest people around. Here they are at the Kotel helping me put on tefellin: HERE
13 years ago
I heard no reference to Islam while watching the news either. Maybe they’ll report about it later…haha, I doubt it too.
13 years ago
Those in Brazil show their bias and contempt for the US when it’s said, “it’s like something in the United States”. Uh, hello, it’s something like from the Middle East. We don’t go around shooting our school children (at least not in the last 10 years since Columbine was the last. College are adults so I didn’t include VT). They do all over the ME so don’t even, Brazil, compare us to them. . . yet.
13 years ago
“Its like something in the United States” WOW… Like something EVERYWHERE!! Like something you constantly see where the word Islam is involved. Reprehensible! Our “Genius in the White House” just said today “No religion supports the slaughter or beheading of innocent people”…. Ahh yes, Taqiyya my dear people. I have read the Islamic Trilogy and YES IT DOES! These innocent children were just that, innocents. He had no beliefs? He sure made references to Islamic Fundamentals though. When are people going to realize that these extremist clerics are evil? What they teach is radical? There aim to kill all non-Muslims and for that matter Progressive Muslims(they are seen as hypocrites to Islam)? So lets keep pushing for embracing Islam, keep up the integration and wipe out society!!
13 years ago
The news was just reporting a pipe bomb went off at a Jewish Temple in L.A.
13 years ago
im not going to sit here and point fingers and play the blame game. my thought and prayers go to the family and friends of the victims and the school. i also wish that that man finally found peace so he cant hurt another soul
13 years ago
Sorry, must have just put up the other blog about the pipe bomb and I didn’t see it.
13 years ago
What a lie the Today Show is! They report on the existence of his letter but dont tell the viewers
its contents.
13 years ago
The sister of the attacker said that he was using a “very long beard” the last time she saw him.
Well, it´s an explosive combination here: The poor and hopeless people and islam.
Paulo
Rio – Brazil
13 years ago
No, we definitely don’t want to blame anyone. Might hurt someone’s feelings. Dhimmi.
13 years ago
I wish Brazil or ANY country had the Huevos to outlaw islam and expel all muslims from their country. There is some kind of world wide unwillingness to face the truth about islam. World leaders and the media instead cowtow to the muslims and try to “understand” it while telling us to “respect” it. It’s like a PETA activist trying to “reason” wilh a rabid dog. Historically the only thing muslims ever “respect” is more force and violence than they show the rest of the world. He killed 15 kids? I’m burning 15 korans. Fuck islam, fuck mohammed and fuck the camel he rode in on. God damned bunch of inbred paedophiles and baby killers, the whole lot.
13 years ago
“Huh? He no longer believes in anything but made references to Islam?”-Pamela
Actually, in a funky way “not believing anything” (especially anything rational) is a perfect description of the nihilism at the core of Islam.
All of the other human religions: main-stream Judaism, Christianity etc., have strong traditions of seeing faith (revelation from holy books) as no replacement for reason, for open questioning of dogmas, for skepticism, and see that “faith” and the use of Gd’s gift of reason are all compatible with a compassionate Gd.
In Islam, openly questioning dogmas and Islamic practices (as in female genital mutilation, honor killings, Jew-hating suras etc.) can get a believer killed.
(Islam is a kind of slavery dogma for the mind-which is why I think no new creative thought comes from Islamic dominated societies. Tiny Israel (e.g.) produces more wealth (especially high-tech) than all the Muslim countries combined. That’s because the Jewish Faith does not ask a person to check their ability to reason, to critically analyse, at the door.)
Islam is nihilistic at its core. It denies human reason in the name of “faith.”
13 years ago
I’d like to see a full transcript of the letter. The excerpts I saw were in Portuguese and didn’t mention Islam, although it did mention about apologizing to God and Jesus. Most of it was about how to handle his body after death, not to let anyone “impure” touch it and so on. His sister claimed he was getting closer to Islam and she should know.
13 years ago
Sounds to me he sould be sealed in a stainless steel container full of pig guts and sh!t and have it hermetically sealed and dumped in the deepest part of the ocean around Brasil on national TV!
13 years ago
“In recent months, she said, he appeared to have got closer to Islam.”
Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas…
13 years ago
Moloch has some more HUMAN sacrifices. Aported BABIES are NOT enough!
13 years ago
Dear Pamela…At last, we have Jihad in Rio. I’ve been reading, researching and sharing all the information about Islam for the last five or six years, but I could never ever think it would come this close. As it happens in the U.S., it seems our major newspapers and tv’s have already started to hide this information from the public opinion. God save us all.
13 years ago
Here is the AP article, via Drudge Report.
Absolutely no mention of the Islam motivation. None whatsoever.
Amazing.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374484/Rio-Janeiro-school-shooting-Eleven-killed-gunman-opens-turning-weapon-himself.html?ITO=1490
13 years ago
Not AP, my bad. UK Daily Mail. UK: where mentioning Islam is verboten…even moreso than within the ranks of the Associated Press. You know, the UK? Ummah Kingdom.
13 years ago
Note that comments at this Daily Mail article are disabled. Keeps people from telling the whole truth.
Bastiches. All of ’em.
13 years ago
What the hell are you on about? I read the Daily Mail every day. It constantly mentions Islam. You are insane.
13 years ago
Because of him, parents dropped their children at school, never to see them alive again. So pardon the hell out of me if I don’t care about him finding peace while I point a blaming finger in his direction.
13 years ago
I read and speak Portuguese and no, the man was not Muslim. He had mental problems. He had a loose screw. At first, people were thinking he was Muslim, or that he studied about the Islam on the Internet. But the letter clearly doesn’t have any reference about Islam. Actually, he talks a lot about Jesus and people who were not pure. It’s a very weird and confusing letter. I have a good Brazilian friend who lives in Rio and she said that this is the first time an event like this happened here. It’s all very sad. Here’s the man’s farewell letter in Portuguese (feel free to translate it into English and you will see there’s no reference to Islam whatsoever):
“Primeiramente, deverão saber que os impuros não poderão me tocar sem luvas, somente os castos ou os que perderam suas castidades após o casamento e não se envolveram em adultério poderão me tocar sem usar luvas, ou seja, nenhum fornicador ou adúltero poderá ter um contato direto comigo, nem nada que seja impuro poderá tocar em meu sangue, nenhum impuro pode ter contato direto com um virgem sem sua permissão, os que cuidarem de meu sepultamento deverão retirar toda a minha vestimenta, me banhar, me secar e me envolver totalmente despido em um lençol branco que está neste prédio, em uma bolsa que deixei na primeira sala do primeiro andar, após me envolverem neste lençol poderão me colocar em meu caixão.
Se possível, quero ser sepultado ao lado da sepultura onde minha mãe dorme. Minha mãe se chama Dicéa Menezes de Oliveira e está sepultada no cemitério Murundu. Preciso de visita de um fiel seguidor de Deus em minha sepultura pelo menos uma vez, preciso que ele ore diante de minha sepultura pedindo o perdão de Deus pelo o que eu fiz rogando para que na sua vinda Jesus me desperte do sono da morte para a vida eterna.
Eu deixei uma casa em Sepetiba da qual nenhum familiar precisa, existem instituições pobres, financiadas por pessoas generosas que cuidam de animais abandonados, eu quero que esse espaço onde eu passei meus últimos meses seja doado a uma dessas instituições, pois os animais são seres muito desprezados e precisam muito mais de proteção e carinho do que os seres humanos que possuem a vantagem de poder se comunicar, trabalhar para se alimentarem, por isso, os que se apropriarem de minha casa, eu peço por favor que tenham bom senso e cumpram o meu pedido, por cumprindo o meu pedido, automaticamente estarão cumprindo a vontade dos pais que desejavam passar esse imóvel para meu nome e todos sabem disso, senão cumprirem meu pedido, automaticamente estarão desrespeitando a vontade dos pais, o que prova que vocês não tem nenhuma consideração pelos nossos pais que já dormem, eu acredito que todos vocês tenham alguma consideração pelos nossos pais, provem isso fazendo o que eu pedi.”
http://zerohora.clicrbs.com.br/zerohora/jsp/default.jsp?uf=1&local=1§ion=Geral&newsID=a3266620.xml
13 years ago
Early hiperbole in the media asserted that the attacker had HIV. This has since been found to be a rumor. This is a horrible tragedy, but it is a disservice to the situation to rush to snap judgements.I think this was a troubled young man with a religious bent which includes strong Christian elements. There is no mention of islam in his suicide note whatsoever. Nor is the headline of every brasilian newspaper calling him an islamic suicide bomber.
” I need the visit of a faithful follower of the lord at least once at my grave, I need him to pray before my grave asking God’s forgiveness for what I have done and that Jesus awake me from the slumber of death and lead me to eternal life.”
Here is the full text of the suicide note in Portuguese:
http://www.paraiba.com.br/2011/04/07/40283-em-carta-atirador-fala-em-perdao-de-deus-veja-video-de-estudantes-ensaguentados
13 years ago
His sister said that he got closer to Islam in recent months – and spent his whole time on the internet…
And yes, Muslims believe in God, and believe in Jesus – and even start Jihad to bring Jesus’ second coming. Like the Mahdi in 1880s Sudan…
13 years ago
About his suicide note –
“unclean” people not touching body – Muslims pay particular attention to being clean (wahing before prayers etc)
Ditto obsession with virgins and non-adultery.
And demanding the dead body to be bathed, then wrapped in a simple cloth – in other words, a typical Muslim funeral…
13 years ago
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/04/07/article-1374484-0B862EBD00000578-773_634x445.jpg
from the dailymail link… Where’s Walid?
13 years ago
While the murderer may not be an ‘official’ Muslim, and regardless of whether he mentions Islam on his farewell letter or not, there is NO DOUBT he was getting “closer to Islam” and drew much inspiration from its teachings. His own sister said that, and some of the radio stations here (I’m a Southern Brazilian from countryside SP) were mentioning other evidences of his Islamic connections — his “long beard”, for instance, didn’t seem to be inspired by Merlin the Magician.
Yes, this monster was gunpowder by himself. But I very much doubt whether, say, Buddhism, would have ignited him.
13 years ago
Yes.
13 years ago
Angela, you are wrong. The guy was surely crazy, but nothing better than a madman to assimilate the primitive, barbarian and cruel ideology of Islam.
13 years ago
This is precisely what we dont need in Brasil. This racist, ideological, culture war which has taken over the airwaves in America. We will not turn back the clock to the times of the Inquisition and colonization when Christians put Moslems, Jews, Africans and Indians to death or forced conversion. Today’s Brasil is much smarter and stronger than that.
13 years ago
Stefano – what are you? some sort of a shrink? A letter can be interpreted many ways. If you read my note clearly, I said that the man had mental problems and had a loose screw, which is tantamount to your statement.
13 years ago
1571_My_Favorite_year
The islamic oil baron theocratic kleptocrats may be sending oil rich Brazil a jhihadist message . Brazil is soon to become an oil exporter due to billions of barrels discovered off it’s coast. Pray for those children and their families.
13 years ago
Paulista,
If you are not careful, your mindset will bring disaster to your homeland and to your culture. Educate yourself before you and those you love are victimized. The following is taken from http://www.politicalislam.com/tears/pages/tears-of-jihad/
Tears of Jihad
These figures are a rough estimate of the death of non-Muslims by the political act of jihad.
Africa
Thomas Sowell [Thomas Sowell, Race and Culture, BasicBooks, 1994, p. 188] estimates that 11 million slaves were shipped across the Atlantic and 14 million were sent to the Islamic nations of North Africa and the Middle East. For every slave captured many others died. Estimates of this collateral damage vary. The renowned missionary David Livingstone estimated that for every slave who reached a plantation, five others were killed in the initial raid or died of illness and privation on the forced march.[Woman’s Presbyterian Board of Missions, David Livingstone, p. 62, 1888] Those who were left behind were the very young, the weak, the sick and the old. These soon died since the main providers had been killed or enslaved. So, for 25 million slaves delivered to the market, we have an estimated death of about 120 million people. Islam ran the wholesale slave trade in Africa.
120 Million Africans
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Christians
The number of Christians martyred by Islam is 9 million [David B. Barrett, Todd M. Johnson, World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200, William Carey Library, 2001, p. 230, table 4-10] . A rough estimate by Raphael Moore in History of Asia Minor is that another 50 million died in wars by jihad. So counting the million African Christians killed in the 20th century we have:
60 million Christians
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Hindus
Koenard Elst in Negationism in India gives an estimate of 80 million Hindus killed in the total jihad against India. [Koenard Elst, Negationism in India, Voice of India, New Delhi, 2002, pg. 34.] The country of India today is only half the size of ancient India, due to jihad. The mountains near India are called the Hindu Kush, meaning the “funeral pyre of the Hindus.”
80 million Hindus
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Buddhists
Buddhists do not keep up with the history of war. Keep in mind that in jihad only Christians and Jews were allowed to survive as dhimmis (servants to Islam); everyone else had to convert or die. Jihad killed the Buddhists in Turkey, Afghanistan, along the Silk Route, and in India. The total is roughly 10 million. [David B. Barrett, Todd M. Johnson, World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200, William Carey Library, 2001, p. 230, table 4-1.]
10 million Buddhists
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270 Million; think about it.This list doesn’t include the role that the Mufti played with the Nazi camps. See Pamela’s story for that info: http://b1ff5939f6.nxcli.net/us-confirms-role-of-mufti-as-nazi-leader-september-17-1945
13 years ago
Bj,
I am very well educated and travelled. I am waiting to see what the Policia Federal has to say once they finish their inquiry. Let let the dust settle and the facts come to light. I am not going to pull at straws and go into conspiracy theory. We know very little about the situation at present. I could sit here and post translated newsflashes but until we have hard facts its hard to find the wheat from the chaff.
You should read up on the history of Brasil and Latin America. A large scale religious war was fought in Europe and then in Latin America. It went from victory to villany all too quickly. By Sword or by Word millions fell. Religious Zealotry comes in many forms but it is all evil. I grew up under a military dictatorship which controlled the media through censorship and used fear as an instrument to manipulate the masses. That gave me a healthy skepticism about media which will stick with me for the rest of my life. When I watch American News I see soo much of it as being propaganda engineered to divide rather than inform.
13 years ago
Angela, no one must be a shrink to understand a fanatic islamist; obviously he was a very sick man, wich fits, by the way, a perfect assimilation to such a primitive and barbaric ideology.
13 years ago
I forgot to mention that his sister and cousin told he was studying “these muslim things” in the last 3 years; they are very simple and poor people who doesn’t even realize what islam (or anything) is, no chance for an “islamophobic conspiracy”.
13 years ago
Oh, the irony…
13 years ago
The Koran is all about Killing. Paradise by murder. No grace for them. You kill or burn.
13 years ago
well, Paulista, the culture war is coming, like it or not… It’s coming, because of people who desire to come to Brazil saying “Brazil needs to know about Islam”. (although, truth be told, I believe Foz do Iguacu has been a nice melting-pot of Al Q’aida & Hezbollah supporters for quite some time. Visited by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and, according to some, OBL himself).
Shame – I agree. Brazil is a very nice place without the “conflict” plaguing America and Europe. Because it’s been hardly-influenced by the Religion of Peace?? But even some of my Brazilian friends who went to Canada are surprised and ask – “why do they allow in so many Muslims?”.
And here’s the key – if you want to avoid the worst of the culture war (France-style car burnings, Britain-style teenage girl “grooming”, Australian-style gang-rapes or America-style terrorist compounds), sort out your immigration policy early, make Brazilian visas for citizens of Muslim countries really hard to get, don’t agree to refugee relocations… now is the time to act!!
13 years ago
Allen West should run for president. He’s not afraid to call Islam for what it is. If you haven’t heard o him, he’s a 1st year Fla. Congressman, a retired Army Colonel and he has some outstanding youtube videos on the Islam problem.
13 years ago
The Brazilian blog De Olho na Jihad, “Eye on Jihad”, has coverage (I used Google translation which is good enough to get the gist). There’s a jpeg image of the note with the signature of Wellington Menezes de Oliveira. There’s chilling security camera footage from “TV O Dia” of the school corridor showing the gunman preparing his weapon as he enters the classroom, the fleeing children, and his flight under police fire. This footage editing is not the same as the AP supplied footage embedded in the Daily Mail article mentioned in previous comments: the DM footage begins with the fleeing children. The last part is different too. The TV O Dia footage finished with someone fleeing under fire: I’m not sure if this is a victim or the killer (there’s a puff of powder from a bullet strike on the drywall).
13 years ago
There are several threads on “Eye on Jihad”. The one I’ve described is this one:
http://olhonajihad.blogspot.com/2011/04/rio-de-janeiro-noticias-brasil-policia.html
13 years ago
No mention of Islam or wanting an Islamic style burial being in the gunman’s letter over on Fox! Those at Fox don’t want the American people to get the “wrong” idea about this outrage.
13 years ago
Great video. Thanks and may G-D bless.
13 years ago
A classic case of Inferiority producing Jealousy. Jealousy and Envy produce Hatred.
Hatred produces Death.
That is the moon-god-religion: Mo’s man-made dung.
They have no paradigm definition of human nature.
No one is smarter than their criteria.
