Since the Virginia Tech Shooting on 16 April 2007, many bloggers were posting articles and news about this very unfortunate incident. I was thinking of not going to write anything about this case because it is a sad news which repeatedly happened again and again throughout the American history knowing that the Gun Law should be changed rather than to keep on mourning and grieving for the deaths after each tragedy. For nearly 2 decades, have YOU not learnt? As President Bush said, the school should be a sanctuary, I would really ask him to apply this to all over the world, PLEASE make the whole world a sanctuary for all human race, then who would bother to carry a gun to protect themselves? If the Gun Law is for self-protection, why none of the student or lecturer in the Norris Building retaliated with their own weapon, if they should carry one to protect themselves? The law just doesn't make sense to me.
Anyway, the reason for me to blog on this issue is because of a Muslim hero who sacrificed himself to help the other but never get the publicity from the media. We have heard how a Jew Professor, a survival of Holocaust, bravely saved his students, but have you heard about the story of this Muslim brother in the same building? Below is an account of the survival who praised the heroic act of this brother:
"The student mentions that Waleed saved his life and wants to convey this to Waleed's family. Apparently, the murderer came into Norris 206 and shot Dr. Loganathan and a number of students injuring Waleed. Waleed was sitting in the front row where he always sat. Everyone jumped to the floor after hearing the gun shots including the person narrating the story. The murderer then left Norris 206 to go to another classroom. The student that narrates the story was not shot but pretended to be dead and lay on the ground beside Waleed who at that time was only injured. The murderer then re-entered the classroom and was checking for alive victims. He had approached the person narrating the story who mentions that his heart was pounding out of fear. Waleed at that instant made a movement to distract the murderer's attention and was shot for the second time. At that time Waleed died and the murderer left the narrator to search for other victims."More about this news here. Brother Waleed left his wife and a 1-year-old son. If you want to help this family from Egypt, please click here. I pray that his heroic act of saving a life will guaranteed him a place in the Paradise as a martyr in Islam.- by Asad Saqib, MSA National East Zone Rep USA, '06-'07
"If anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people."~ The Holy Qur'an: Surah an-Nisa' (Chapter 5, The Women): Verse 32
Wassalam.
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