One thing that was never mentioned in any of the messages in this thread is the fact that this shooter has been suffering from Bi-polar disorder and had been in medication for well around 10 years. In fact even before going on a shooting spree, this guy had allegedly checked himself into some mental clinic and then walked away! This guy had randomly picked this building perhaps knowing that this is the same organization that is funding and supporting Israel in their attacks on innocent civilians in Lebanon. I am not defending him or taking his side, but it has been a common phenomenon for mentally ill people to shoot randomly at people. In a country where young men with criminal background are trained and are allowed to legally go to some other country, rape young girls, abuse them and them kill their whole family, I am not surprised such things happen.
There have been many such incidents in USA from schools to churches. So perhaps there is a less-noticed reason that could take some blame as well. Some people have always had struggle to get into the "american" way of life and become loners. That part never gets in the news. What really gets in the news is what these people do out of frustration. Why not be pro-active than being reactive? Perhaps there are ways to make such people lead normal life.
One other post in this thread talked about how there is less attention given to killing of jews. Well newspapers and all jewish organizations have been issuing statements over and over about increased security.
Even though there is no reason to come against the actions of this guy (as it is TOTALLY against Islam and is committed by an apostate), muslims around the Seattle are having been reaching out to jews hoping things would get better.
This news had gained more attention than anything else (perhaps rightly so). I don't have a problem with it and I totally agree that innocent civilians cant be the target of any such attacks. But what the normal people miss out is things like this:
http://www.fromisraeltolebanon.com/ . There was another incident where a muslim woman in Texas was brutally murdered in broad daylight in some shopping complex and that never even made the headlines!
And since people used a "so-called" muslim to convey the message of hate. Let me share what "some" muslims do against hate as well :
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3164424,00.html ( I wonder how many american newspapers really bothered to carry such articles!).
Personally I feel there is no way to stop the hate. Things have been going terribly wrong in the past decades and crime would be the order of the day.