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Motive for Colorado shooting remains a mystery – but no one asks why James Holmes converted to Islam

July 19, 2013 · by Moderator · in Muslims WorldWide

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Colorado shooter and the child of the trigger happy and growing video-game culture, James Holmes, got converted to Islam in prison. He got converted real fast. Too fast to be comfortable or to be ignored.  It means Colorado’s prisons must have a large muslim population, and like in other parts of the world they struggle with muslim gangs who force inmates to convert to Islam. The main increase in muslim population and conversions rates comes from prisons. Muslims are using prisons as their recruitment centers, and there seem to be no plane or effort to stop this factory of home-grown lone jihadists who are later let out into society.

Becoming a muslim James Holmes has been convinced that his crimes were justified.

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Why did James Holmes do it? One year later, accused ‘Dark Knight’ killer remains a mystery

James Holmes is suspected of killing 12 and injuring 70 during a theater shooting in Aurora, Colo. But a year after the violence, clues about his personality and motive still don’t add up.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRIDAY, JULY 19, 2013  |  by  Bill Robles/AP
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DENVER — His face was hidden behind a gas mask, and he was costumed from head to toe in a police-style helmet, black cargo pants and black vest. He was such an improbable sight, standing at the front of a theater where a Batman movie was playing, that some in the audience thought he was part of the show.
Then he started shooting.
A year later, the pale and boyish face of James Eagan Holmes is in plain view each time he shuffles into court to face charges of planning and executing his onslaught. But whatever illness or evil might have seized the promising young neuroscientist and contorted him into a mass killer, as prosecutors allege, is still hidden — this time by a mask of a different sort.
Random and disjointed fragments of Holmes’ story have emerged, but they don’t add up to a coherent story line. They look more like a garbled and fleeting video, a quiet life that explodes in a choreographed nightmare of violence.
Holmes is accused of killing 12 people and injuring 70 in the suburban Denver theater on July 20, 2012. He has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, and his lawyers say he carried out the shootings “in the throes of a psychotic episode.” But they battle fiercely to keep the details of his mental state a secret, and they say nothing about how it might have set off the rampage.
What is known is deeply contradictory.

Holmes yawns during a hearing in court in Centennial, Colo. The suspect was studying to be a neuroscientist at the University of Colorado until he flunked a major exam and decided to drop out.

Holmes yawns during a hearing in court in Centennial, Colo. The suspect was studying to be a neuroscientist at the University of Colorado until he flunked a major exam and decided to drop out.
As a teen, Holmes was withdrawn and rarely started conversations, according to those who knew him. When he was arrested behind the Aurora theater minutes after the shootings, standing quietly with his hands resting atop his car, he was obedient and eerily limp, police said.
But during the shootings, he allegedly barked out orders and appeared to single individuals out, recalled Stephanie Davies, a witness. “He would shout, ‘What are you doing? I said stand up!’” Davies said.

Applying to graduate schools, Holmes strained to leave an impression of stability and maturity. “My life could have gone in a completely different direction had I not possessed the foresight to choose the path of knowledge,” he wrote in one application.
But photos exhibited in court show him preening before his smartphone camera like a self-absorbed adolescent on the night before the massacre.
In one, he wore black contact lenses and a black stocking cap, and two tufts of his dyed-orange hair curled out like delicate little horns on either side of his head. In another, he grinned at the camera, a pistol held below his face. A third showed some of his guns and gear laid out on a red sheet on his bed.
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Aurora, Colo., theater shooter James Holmes converts to Islam

By Jessica Chasmar
The Washington Times  |  Thursday, March 21, 2013
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The man who shot up an Aurora, Colo., movie theater during a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” last summer has reportedly converted to Islam and prays up to five times a day.
A prison source say the beard James Holmes sported in court last months represents his new-found faith. The source said Mr. Holmes has turned Muslim as a way of justifying his horrific crimes on July 20 which left 12 people dead and 58 people wounded, the Daily Mail reports.

“He has brainwashed himself into believing he was on his own personal jihad and that his victims were infidels,” the source told the National Enquirer.

Mr. Holmes now prays five times a day, sticks to a strict Muslim diet and spends hours each day studying the Koran, the source told the Enquirer.
But most Muslim inmates are not happy with the convict’s new religion.
“None of them condone forms of terrorism or extremism,” the source added. “And they don’t want their religion to be connected to that awful shooting.”
Mr. Holmes is charged with 166 counts, mostly for murder and attempted murder, the Mail reports. He could be executed or spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted. A Colorado judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf earlier this month.

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