"WHY?" -- Al Zahrani
In the interest of truth otherwise untold, I have written out “Why?” as clearly as I can see and state the answer..
1. Saudi national origin is not a major factor in what happened, unless something happened in the 30 minutes between seeing Price and stabbing Antoun (such as a third person). He may be presumed to have brought the knife with the purpose of using it if his transfer request was rejected. (Unlikely that he got it on campus)
2. The fact that Al-Zahrani turned on Antoun after gaining no relief from his personal situation from PIC indicates he (Antoun) represented the antithesis to Al-Zahrani’s work he was stuck with. The ‘sticking points’ would likely turn on Antoun’s interfaith peace activism, scheduled for a Sunday meeting;, conjoining Muslim, Jewish, Christian discussion of public holy day observances; and on Antoun’s role as thesis advisor, critic of its content. Non-academic people don’t understand how much the Ph.D. thesis intellectually defines its author, specifically titled in order to do so.
3. Al Zahrani’s thesis (reportedly) is “Sacred Voice, Profane Sight: The Senses, Cosmology, and Epistemology in Early Arabic Cculture.” The title alone lends it profound importance. Roughly translated, it suggests the concept that human voice sound, as in ullulation, singing, prayer, cursing, ordinary talk etc. shapes the mentality of nomads in the vast, mostly empty Saudi desert as sacred way of knowing. Sounds from outside reach tiny fetal eardrums in utero, retained by amygdalan memory it is now known, blending with hearth-earth sound after birth. Research into Arabiana, from the DNA to Mecca. By contrast, “profane sight” brings body appearance, narcissism, TV culture. Al Zahrani rage could be understood as directed against the profane for the sake of the sacred, as in the movie Taxi Driver when DeNiro's character gets sick of the street trash and starts shooting it up.
4. The cognitive dissonance of sacred sound suffusing profane sight bombarded planetary human consciousness through the contradiction of Obama accepting Norway’s Nobel Peace prize making a war speech. He delivered a double-reverse conjunction: the drone war + 30,000 fresh troops is neither a “just war” – will any Catholic say? -- nor an “imperative of peace” – will any Zionist say? Obama, speaking as from a black hole radiating blue spiral light, ‘double blacks’ these old world, pre-enlightened religious world views against the Muslim. Sound of blackness resonating in Al Zahrani piercing the bone matter where red blood cells form around nuclei, discarded after they enter the flow.
1. Saudi national origin is not a major factor in what happened, unless something happened in the 30 minutes between seeing Price and stabbing Antoun (such as a third person). He may be presumed to have brought the knife with the purpose of using it if his transfer request was rejected. (Unlikely that he got it on campus)
2. The fact that Al-Zahrani turned on Antoun after gaining no relief from his personal situation from PIC indicates he (Antoun) represented the antithesis to Al-Zahrani’s work he was stuck with. The ‘sticking points’ would likely turn on Antoun’s interfaith peace activism, scheduled for a Sunday meeting;, conjoining Muslim, Jewish, Christian discussion of public holy day observances; and on Antoun’s role as thesis advisor, critic of its content. Non-academic people don’t understand how much the Ph.D. thesis intellectually defines its author, specifically titled in order to do so.
3. Al Zahrani’s thesis (reportedly) is “Sacred Voice, Profane Sight: The Senses, Cosmology, and Epistemology in Early Arabic Cculture.” The title alone lends it profound importance. Roughly translated, it suggests the concept that human voice sound, as in ullulation, singing, prayer, cursing, ordinary talk etc. shapes the mentality of nomads in the vast, mostly empty Saudi desert as sacred way of knowing. Sounds from outside reach tiny fetal eardrums in utero, retained by amygdalan memory it is now known, blending with hearth-earth sound after birth. Research into Arabiana, from the DNA to Mecca. By contrast, “profane sight” brings body appearance, narcissism, TV culture. Al Zahrani rage could be understood as directed against the profane for the sake of the sacred, as in the movie Taxi Driver when DeNiro's character gets sick of the street trash and starts shooting it up.
4. The cognitive dissonance of sacred sound suffusing profane sight bombarded planetary human consciousness through the contradiction of Obama accepting Norway’s Nobel Peace prize making a war speech. He delivered a double-reverse conjunction: the drone war + 30,000 fresh troops is neither a “just war” – will any Catholic say? -- nor an “imperative of peace” – will any Zionist say? Obama, speaking as from a black hole radiating blue spiral light, ‘double blacks’ these old world, pre-enlightened religious world views against the Muslim. Sound of blackness resonating in Al Zahrani piercing the bone matter where red blood cells form around nuclei, discarded after they enter the flow.
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