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| 5 reportedly dead in Illinois shooting; suspect reportedly caught after high-speed ... - Fox News Posted: 24 Apr 2013 08:27 AM PDT
Five people were reportedly killed in a shooting in Manchester, Ill., Wednesday morning prompting the closure of three area schools, Fox2Now.com reports. WLDS, a radio station in the area, reports that the suspect attempted to run from the scene, got into a high-speed chase with police and shots were fired while the suspect was taken into custody. One person was injured in the shooting, but the injuries remain unclear. The Chicago Tribune reports that a young girl survived and the victims may be family members. The suspect, the station reports, is in custody. Police told FoxNews.com that they do not believe another suspect is at large. The crime scene was described as a single-story apartment. The relationship between the suspect and the alleged victims was not immediately clear. Mayor Ronald Drake said he got the call around 4:45 a.m., indicating that there had been a shooting with multiple fatalities, Fox2Now.com reports. Drake did not say who the victims were or given any details about the suspect. He told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the victims "lived in federal housing and it's hard to keep up" with their identities because there is so much turnover of residents there. Illinois State Police spokeswoman Monique Bond says the victims were found early Wednesday morning in the southwestern Illinois community, 50 miles west of Springfield. She didn't have any details on the deaths or the circumstances surrounding the capture of the suspect. A school superintendent in the area says he was informed by sheriffs early Wednesday morning that the victims had been shot to death. Les Stevens of the North Greene School District says he canceled classes because authorities warned him at the time that the suspect was at large. The district has since been informed that the man was captured. Classes were canceled in three area school districts: Northgreene, Winchester and Jacksonville. Approximately 950 students are affected. Click for more from Fox2Now.com The Associated Press contributed to this report |
| Muslims have a problem. Uncle Ruslan may have the answer. - Washington Post Posted: 23 Apr 2013 05:18 AM PDT In Reef flip flops, blue jeans and a Calvin Klein polo shirt, Ruslan Tsarni, an uncle of the alleged Boston Marathon bombers, strode down the driveway of his Federalist-style home last week in Montgomery Village, Md., an upper middle-class Washington, D.C. suburb, past a ground cover of purple wisteria blooming in his front yard and pink tulips across the street. In the next few minutes, the uncle to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, the alleged Boston Marathon bombers, accomplished something that 11 years of post-9/11 press releases, news conferences and soundbites by too many American Muslim leaders has failed to do on the issue of radicalization and terrorism: with raw, unfettered emotion, he owned up to the problem within. Instead of being silenced by what they did, he openly said that his nephews had brought "shame" on the family with their actions. This is the same kind of "shame off," as one admirer later called it, that protesters to the gang rape in India have to win: Are we shamed into silence? Or do we confront the serious issues that shame us? Hands clasped tightly in front of him, Uncle Ruslan faced off against a pack of about 30 journalists, cameras pointing at him, microphones stuck in front of him, questions about his nephews thrown at him: "When was the last time you saw them?" He answered: December 2005. Another journalist asked: "What do you think provoked this?" "Umm, being losers! Hatred to those who were able to settle themselves!" he shouted. "These are the only reasons I can imagine. Anything else to do with religion, to do with Islam, is a fraud, is a fake." As an American Muslim who has watched the radicalization of Muslims from Louisville, Ky., to Chatanooga, Tenn., to Chechnya, the ancestral ethnicity of the alleged bombers, over the last three decades, I had one question on my mind. I asked softly: "Is your family Muslim?" The uncle didn't hear me well: "Huh?" I repeated my question: "Is your family Muslim?" The question was one other journalists later admitted to me that they wondered but didn't dare ask, the proverbial elephant in the room, only at that moment, on a cul-de-sac with manicured lawns, playground sets and helicopters and Canadian geese overhead. In Washington, D.C., leaders of national American Muslim organizations filled a room at the National Press Club and issued their flat, blanket rebuttals: Islam doesn't sanction violence, and it doesn't allow terrorism. When the New York Post made the mistake of writing that a Saudi witness was actually a suspect, bloggers and others took advantage of the opportunity to chortle over the mistake as just one more horrible example of stereotyping. While it is critical that we don't jump to conclusions by associating religious affiliation with militancy, there is no doubt that embracing an ideology of Islam that promotes extremism and violence has been a motivator for terrorism, from assassinated al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to Army Major Nidal Hasan. Did such an ideology influence the Tsarnaev brothers? Who or what compelled them to violence? What role does Muslim culture play in this type of radicalization? |
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