Tech industry robbed of the life I have worked 3 jobs since H.S. to build

 because of discriminations toward women engineers, particularly by those from 3rd world Asia where they were 90+% of the engineering dept of the companies I've worked for.

In elementary school, the bilingual Hispanic teachers fought real hard to try to take away me and my siblings' free breakfast and lunch, one Chinese teacher of the 2 in the whole school and the Principle of the school kept our free lunch.  My parents wouldn't know what to do otherwise.  So we never had breakfast when we were in elementary school.  I was often shunned by Asian school kids back then because we were so poor.

Since I started working in High School, I was often setup to be fired or simply fired because of discriminations toward me as Asian and a woman, particularly by Hispanics.  I knew then I must not work in places where I do not have a fighting chance, also look to work where there are the least racists.  That begun my quest since.

In college, I tried different majors to see if I have a passion for the topic, and most importantly, I wanted to ensure there will be few racists in the field, Engineering and Computer science were the answer, despite I had at least 2 professors told me women are not wired to think technically, but I was well received by most classmates and professors

1,000 women die in ‘honor killings’ annually. Why is this happening?

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In PakistanIn Pakistan, 1,000 women die in ‘honor killings’ annually. Why is this happening?

By Terrence McCoy Updated: May 28 at 4:02 am

On Tuesday, a pregnant 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by her family for marrying a man she loved.
The stoning took place in the middle of the day, outside a courthouse, beside a busy thoroughfare. The woman and her husband had been “in love,” her husband said, and they’d gone to a courthouse to sign the paperwork. Outside, the woman’s father, brothers and extended family waited. When the couple emerged, the family reportedly tried to snatch her, then murdered her.
“I killed my daughter as she had insulted all of our family by marrying a man without our consent, and I have no regret over it,” her father told police, adding that it had been an “honor killing.”
The anecdote is horrifying. But even more horrifying is the regularity with which honor killings and stonings occur in Pakistan. Despite creeping modernity, secular condemnation and the fact there’s no reference to stoning in the Koran, honor killings claim the lives of more than 1,000 Pakistani women every year, according to a Pakistani rights group.
They have widespread appeal. Eighty-three percent of Pakistanis support stonings for adultery according to a Pew survey, and only 8 percent oppose it. Even those who chose modernity over Islamic fundamentalism overwhelmingly favor stonings, according to Pew research.
It’s the year 2014. Why is this still happening?
Some Islamic fundamentalists think that only through the murder of an offending family member can honor be restored to the rest of the family. Honor killings predominantly affect women — 943 women were killed under such circumstances in 2011 and another 869 in 2013, though not all of them were stoned. Some were just gunned down in cold blood.
One man in Punjab province suspected his teenage nieces of having “inappropriate relations” with two boys. So on Jan. 11, he killed both girls, confessed and said he did it for “honor.”
Another teenage girl, living in Sukkur, was allegedly shot dead by her brother while she was doing homework because her brother thought she was sleeping with a man.
One mom and dad allegedly killed their 15-year-old daughter with acid because they said she looked at a boy and they ”feared dishonor.”
“There was a boy who came by on a motorcycle,” her father told BBC. My daughter “turned to look at him twice. I told her before not to do that; it’s wrong. People talk about us.”
The mother added: “She said ‘I didn’t do it on purpose. I won’t look again.’ By then I had already thrown the acid. It was her destiny to die this way.”
Those who are stoned in an honor killing are oftentimes accused of committing adultery. Both genders face stonings in Pakistan and across 14 Muslim countries, but women are more frequently the targets.
The reason is rooted in sexual inequality in such countries, where the punishment has survived through some interpretations of sharia, or Islamic law, that say adultery is punishable by stoning. In countries such as Iran, where stonings are legal and widespread, men often have significantly more agency than women. If accused of adultery, they may have the means to either hire lawyers or flee. But those options are frequently closed to women.
One 13-year-old girl named Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow faced such a fate. The Somali child claimed she had been raped by three men and told the authorities what had happened. But her report did not spur an investigation into her allegations. Instead, the girl was accused of adultery, buried up to her neck inside a stadium and stoned to death before 1,000 people.
Can anything stop the stonings?
It’s unclear. A petition circulated last year that netted 12,000 signatures called on the United Nations to enact international laws against stonings. But regardless of international pressure, rights activists say the number of stonings and honor killings have continued to climb in Pakistan.
“Stoning is a cruel and hideous punishment,” a spokesman for Women Living Under Muslim Laws told the Independent. “It is a form of torturing someone to death. It is one of the most brutal forms of violence perpetrated against women in order to control and punish their sexuality and basic freedoms.”

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Weiguang Li beheaded and ate the heart of a 22 white male

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Vince Weiguang LI     Classification: Murderer Characteristics: Cannibalism - Beheading Number of victims: 1 Date of murder: July 30, 2008 Date of arrest: Next day Date of birth: April 30, 1968 Victim profile: Tim McLean, 22 Method of murder: Stabbing with knife Location: Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada Status: Li was found to be not criminally responsible for the murder and was remanded to a high-security mental health facility on March 5, 2009         photo gallery       Province of Manitoba - Canada Review Board   disposition and reasons         The murder of Tim McLean (October 3, 1985 – July 30, 2008) occurred on the evening of July 30, 2008. McLean, a 22-year-old Canadian man, was stabbed, beheaded and cannibalized while riding a Greyhound Canada bus about 18 miles (29 km) west of Portage La Prairie, Manitoba traveling the Trans Canada Highway. On March 5, 2009, McLean's killer, 40-year-old Vince Weiguang Li (simplified Chinese: 李伟光; traditional Chinese: 李偉光; pinyin: Lǐ Wěiguāng) (born April 30, 1968), was found to be not criminally responsible for the murder and was remanded to a high-security mental health facility where he remains to this day. Incident The incident took place near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, during a trip from Edmonton to McLean's hometown of Winnipeg. At 12:01 a.m. on July 30, 2008, Tim McLean, a carnival worker, was returning home to Manitoba after working at a fair in Alberta. He departed Edmonton on board Greyhound bus 1170 to Winnipeg, via the Yellowhead Highway through Saskatchewan. He sat at the rear, one row ahead of the washroom. At 6:55 p.m., the bus departed from a stop in Erickson, Manitoba with a new passenger, Vince Weiguang Li. Li, described as a tall man in his 40s, with a shaved head and sunglasses, originally sat near the front of the bus, but moved to sit next to McLean following a scheduled rest stop. McLean "barely acknowledged" Li, then fell asleep against the window pane, headphones covering his ears. According to witnesses, McLean was sleeping with his headphones on when the man sitting next to him suddenly produced a large knife and began stabbing McLean in the neck and chest. The attacker then decapitated McLean and displayed his severed head to other passengers outside who had fled the bus in horror. The driver and two other men attempted to rescue McLean but were chased away by Li, who slashed wildly at them from behind the locked bus doors. Li then went back to the body and began severing other body parts and consuming some of McLean's flesh. At 8:30 p.m., the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba received a report of a stabbing on a Greyhound bus west of the city. They arrived to find the suspect still on board the bus, being prevented from escaping by another passenger, the bus driver, and a truck driver who had provided a crowbar and a hammer as weapons. The other passengers were huddled at the roadside, some of them crying and vomiting. As the suspect had earlier attempted to escape by driving the bus away, the driver had engaged the emergency immobilizer system, rendering the vehicle inoperable. Witnesses had observed the suspect stabbing and cutting McLean's body, and carrying McLean's severed head. By 9:00 p.m., police were in a standoff with the suspect and had summoned special negotiators and a heavily-armed tactical unit. The suspect taunted police, alternately pacing the length of the bus and cutting and defiling the corpse. Police officers then observed Li eating parts of the body. Meanwhile, the stranded passengers were transported from the scene to be interviewed at the Brandon RCMP detachment. RCMP officers reportedly heard Li say, "I have to stay on the bus forever." On July 31, 2008, at 1:30 a.m., the suspect attempted to escape from the bus by breaking through a window. The RCMP arrested Li soon afterward. He was tasered twice, handcuffed and placed in the back of a police cruiser. Parts of the victim's body, placed in plastic bags, were retrieved from the bus, while his ear, nose and tongue were found in Li's pockets. The victim's eyes and a part of his heart were never recovered and are presumed to have been eaten by the accused. At 10:00 a.m., Greyhound representatives took the other passengers to a local store to replace their clothes, which remained on the bus. They arrived in Winnipeg at 3:30 p.m. that day, to be reunited with family members and friends. Witness acounts Garnet Caton, a 26-year-old seismic driller who sat one row ahead of McLean, described hearing "a blood-curdling scream," saying, "I turned around and the guy sitting right [behind] me was standing up and stabbing another guy with a big Rambo knife.... Right in the throat. Repeatedly." Caton added: "I got sick after I saw the head thing. Some people were puking, some people were crying, some people were shocked. [The attacker] just looked at us and dropped the head on the ground, totally calm." A police officer who was at the scene said the attacker also cut off parts of the victim's body and ate them. Another passenger, Stephen Allison, stated that McLean fought his attacker, providing other passengers with the opportunity to get off the bus. Vince Weiguang Li Background Vince Weiguang Li was born in Dandong, China on April 30, 1968. In 1992, Li graduated from University of Wuhan Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Computers. From 1994-1998, Li worked in Beijing as a computer software engineer. Li immigrated to Canada from China on June 11, 2001 (although some newspapers erroneously reported 2004) becoming a Canadian citizen on November 7, 2006. He worked in Winnipeg at menial jobs at Grant Memorial Church for six months to support his wife, Anna. Pastor Tom Castor, who employed Li, said he seemed happy to have a job and was committed to doing it well, despite a language barrier with other congregation members. "I think he would occasionally feel frustrated with not being able to communicate or understand," Castor told CTV Winnipeg. "But we have a very patient staff and he seemed to respond well." Castor also said Li did not show any signs of anger issues or any other trouble before he quit in the spring of 2005. He worked as a forklift operator in Winnipeg while his wife worked as a waitress. Li first moved to Edmonton in 2006, abruptly leaving his wife alone in Winnipeg until she joined him later. His jobs included service at a Wal-Mart, at a fast-food restaurant, and newspaper delivery. His delivery boss, Vincent Augert, described Li as reliable, hard-working and not showing any signs of trouble. Four weeks before the murder, he was fired from Wal-Mart following a "disagreement" with other employees. Shortly before the incident, Li asked for time off from his delivery job to go to Winnipeg for a job interview. July 29, 2008 At midnight July 28 In Edmonton, Li boarded a Greyhound bus bound for Winnipeg. On July 29, around 6 p.m., Li got off the bus in Erickson, Manitoba, with at least three pieces of luggage, and stayed the night on a bench next to a grocery store. According to one witness, he was seen at 3 a.m. sitting bolt upright with eyes wide open. On the morning of July 30, still at the bench, he sold his new laptop computer to a 15-year-old boy, Darren Beatty, for $60. The laptop was seized by the RCMP as evidence; the boy was subsequently given a new laptop for his honesty by an anonymous businessman. Shortly before 6 p.m. Li boarded the bus heading to Winnipeg, which was carrying Tim McLean and 35 other passengers. Witness Garnet Caton said the attacker seemed oblivious to others when the stabbing occurred, adding he was struck by how calm the man was. "There was no rage or anything. He was like a robot, stabbing the guy," he said. When he appeared in a Portage La Prairie courthouse on charges of second-degree murder, the only words Li reportedly uttered were pleas for someone to kill him. Trial Li's trial commenced on March 3, 2009, with Li pleading not criminally responsible. This means that he accepted that the offence occurred but he claimed that he was unable to form the necessary mental element or mens rea. Despite Li having no documented history of mental illness before the killing, a testifying psychiatrist diagnosed Li as having schizophrenia. The psychiatrist said that Li performed the attack because God's voice told him McLean was a force of evil and was about to execute him. The presiding judge accepted the diagnosis, and ruled that Li was not criminally responsible for the murder. Li was remanded to the Selkirk Mental Health Centre. Though he had not fully emerged from the psychotic phase, the psychiatrist said that Li was beginning to realize what he had done, though he cannot accept that he cannibalized McLean. Aftermath The week following the attack, Greyhound Canada announced it was pulling a series of nationwide ads which included the line, "There's a reason you've never heard of bus rage." The incident has led to numerous calls and petitions demanding increased security on intercity buses. After the incident, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) sent an advertisement to the Portage Daily Graphic comparing the murder of Tim McLean to the killing of animals for food. The ad was rejected by the paper. PETA was harshly criticized for attempting to exploit the incident in such a manner, but refused to apologize. The family of Tim McLean have brought a lawsuit of $150,000 against Greyhound, the Attorney General of Canada and Weiguang Li. On June 3, 2010, Li was granted supervised outdoor walks within his mental health facility as voted by the provincial review board. On February 16, 2011, two passengers, Debra Tucker, of Port Colborne, Ont., and Kayli Shaw, of London, Ont., filed a lawsuit against Vince Li, Greyhound, the RCMP and the Government of Canada for being exposed to the horrific beheading. They are each seeking $3 million in damages. Wikipedia.org Man pleads not guilty in bus beheading By Chinta Puxley - TheStar.com March 3, 2009 WINNIPEG – WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: A psychiatrist says a man who stabbed and beheaded a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus believed the voice of God was telling him to do it. The voice told Vince Li to get on the bus and sit next to Tim McLean, Dr. Stanley Yaren told Li's second-degree murder trial Tuesday. "A voice from God told him Mr. McLean was a force of evil and was about to execute him," Yaren, a witness for the Crown, told the judge hearing the case. Li, 40, believed he had to act quickly to protect himself, Yaren said. "In response to that, in a state of panic and fearful for his life, he carried out the acts that he did." But that wasn't enough. Li , whom Yaren diagnosed as schizophrenic, believed the 22-year-old McLean was still capable of coming back to life, so he continued to mutilate the body and scattered the parts around the bus, the psychiatrist testified. Although he admitted his guilt to officers that night last July, Li pleaded not guilty on Tuesday. His lawyers are arguing he is not criminally responsible because he is mentally ill. Yaren concurred. "Mr. Li did not understand he was killing an innocent bystander. He did not understand his actions were wrong." An agreed statement of facts read out in a Winnipeg courtroom said Li, blood still smeared on his face from the attack, politely apologized to police when he was arrested and pleaded with officers to take his life. "I'm sorry. I'm guilty. Please kill me." Yaren said Li is still psychotic and believes it's just a matter of time before God kills him. He continues to have hallucinations and hear voices, but is on strong anti-psychotic medication. Li is as much a victim as McLean, Yaren suggested. "It would be in some sense easier if Mr. Li was an anti-social psychopath with a history of malicious behaviour, but he isn't that. He is, as I've come to know him, a decent person. He is as much a victim of this horrendous illness ... as Mr. McLean was a victim." The statement said Li attacked McLean "for no apparent reason" and ignored other horrified passengers as he repeatedly stabbed the young man, who unsuccessfully fought for his life. "Tim McLean struggled and tried to escape," Crown prosecutor Joyce Dalmyn said. But McLean couldn't get away because Li was blocking the aisle. When the bus pulled over near Portage la Prairie, Man., Li was engrossed with stabbing and mutilating McLean's body. Passengers fled the bus and stood outside. It was then that Li tried numerous times to leave the bus. But he was locked inside and, according to the statement, returned to McLean's body and methodically carved it up further. Police arriving on scene asked him to drop the knife and he said he "had to stay on this bus forever." But he eventually tried to escape out a window and was taken into custody. Police said McLean's body parts were found throughout the bus in plastic bags, although part of his heart and both eyes were never found and were presumed eaten by Li. He has denied that, but "there is no other possible location for those items," said Dalmyn. The victim's ear, nose and tongue were found in Li's pocket. McLean, a carnival worker, had been returning home to Manitoba after working at a fair in Alberta. Passengers have said he was sleeping near the back of the bus and listening to music on his earphones when he was attacked. No one who witnessed the horror was expected to testify. McLean's family and friends, many wearing T-shirts with his picture on them, wept as the grisly details were read out in court. His mother, Carol deDelley, has said she wants the law changed so anyone found not criminally responsible for a crime still serves time behind bars. But legal experts say the defence is rarely used and doesn't mean the criminal walks away scot-free. The agreed facts also presented some of Li's background. He was born in China in 1968 and came to Canada in 2001. He became a citizen in 2005. He graduated from a business college, but never got a job in his field. He didn't have many friends and was divorced in 2006. Li had "mental problems," according to those who knew him, but they had not known him to be violent Yaren said Li was briefly hospitalized in 2003 or 2004 after he was picked up by Ontario Provincial Police, who found him walking along a highway "following the sun" as ordered to by God. Li's former wife said he used to be gone for long periods of time, took unexplained bus trips and sometimes rambled. He was hospitalized briefly but never sought medical attention. The statement outlines how Li got off the bus in Erickson, Man., where he spent the night on a park bench before boarding another bus July 30. It was as that bus neared Portage la Prairie that he moved to the back where McLean was sitting. Before he left on his trip, court heard how he left his wife a note. "I'm gone. Don't look for me. I wish you were happy." Suspect in bus killing delivered newspapers, worked at McDonald's: employer CBC.ca August 1, 2008 The man accused of stabbing a young Winnipeg man aboard a Greyhound bus delivered newspapers for several Edmonton publications and had worked at McDonald's, according to one of his employers. Vince Weiguang Li, 40, worked for a contractor delivering the Edmonton Journal, the National Post and the Edmonton Sun, his boss Vincent Augert told CBC News Friday. "I'm still kind of shocked and surprised, to be honest with you. He just never came across as the type of person that could do something like that. He was a nice guy," Augert said. "He was there every day, he did a good job, was friendly and really, we had no problems with this individual at all." Li worked for the distribution company for about 13 months, but left in April for a short period before returning to the job in June. The Edmonton man also worked at a McDonald's restaurant, according to Augert. RCMP announced Friday morning that they had charged Li with second-degree murder. Police said he has no previous criminal record. Police have not confirmed the identity of the man stabbed to death, and then beheaded according to witnesses, aboard a bus late Wednesday, but court documents name him as Timothy McLean. Friends have also confirmed 22-year-old McLean was the victim, describing him as bubbly and well-loved. Augert said last he heard from Li three weeks ago, when the man said he needed a couple of days off to attend a job interview in Winnipeg at the end of July. When Augert called Li's cellphone on Tuesday to ask why he hadn't showed up for work, Augert spoke to a woman he said he believed was Li's wife. "[She] mentioned that he'd had an emergency, he had to go out of town, and that she wasn't sure where he went and wasn't sure if he'd be back the following morning to deliver his newspapers," Augert told CBC News. Li appeared for a hearing Friday at the Manitoba provincial court in Portage la Prairie around 10 a.m. CT without a lawyer and refused to speak to anyone. He shuffled into the courthouse under the weight of heavy leg shackles, with his eyes focused on the floor. His right hand was heavily bandaged and there was visible bruising on his face. The judge asked him twice whether he had a lawyer, but the accused just stared at the ground. When the judge asked whether Li was exercising his right to remain silent, he nodded his head. The Crown asked for a psychiatric assessment, but the judge said the accused must see legal aid about getting a lawyer before proceeding further. Li was remanded into custody until his next appearance on Tuesday. "It's early and I think the judge just wants to respect his rights to … speak to counsel, and he's giving him that opportunity," Crown prosecutor Larry Hodgson said outside court. "I don't think it will be very long that they'll allow him to do that." Hodgson said if Li doesn't get his own lawyer, the court could appoint one or the case could proceed anyway. Second-degree murder, under the Criminal Code, is generally unpremeditated murder. First-degree murder refers to a killing that is planned and deliberate, but also when death is caused by sexual assault, kidnapping, forcible confinement or hijacking an airplane. McLean 'missed dearly' In an e-mail to CBC News, friend Jossie Kehler wrote that McLean was loved by everyone, had a bubbly personality and was a ladies' man. "He has a lot of friends and they all are very upset he's gone, and they would like to say they miss him and he will always be in their hearts," she wrote. "People say no one's perfect, but Tim, he was," she wrote. "He did nothing bad to anyone." Thousands of Facebook users flocked Friday to a tribute group titled 'RIP Tim McLean' set up overnight to send their condolences to family and friends as well as express their shock at the grisly story that made international headlines. "You are loved and you will be missed dearly!" the site description read. Friends say McLean had taken a job with the Red River Exhibition and then went to work in Edmonton, but had decided to return home. On McLean's MySpace page, under the name JoKAwiLd, he describes himself as five-foot-five, weighing about 125 pounds. Witnesses initially described the attacker as a hulking man over six feet tall who appeared to weigh more than 200 pounds — but in court on Friday, Li appeared to be about five-foot-eight or -nine, with a stocky build. Father trying to reach wife McLean's father, Tim McLean Sr., told CBC News on Thursday night that he was in the process of trying to get confirmation from the police that his son was, in fact, the victim. He said he was also trying to reach his wife, who is on an Alaskan cruise until next week. The father said his son had sent him a text message around 7:30 p.m. as the bus was leaving Brandon, the last leg of its journey, to ask whether he could come home for the night. McLean Sr. told his son that of course he could come home. That was the last contact they had. The RCMP would not confirm reports the victim was beheaded, saying only that a stabbing took place around 8:30 p.m. CT on an eastbound Greyhound bus on the Trans-Canada Highway about 20 kilometres west of Portage la Prairie. An autopsy was scheduled for Friday at the Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre, and police were waiting for the results before deciding, with input from the family, whether to make the victim's name public. "The RCMP are mindful of the range of emotions being experienced by the family of the deceased over the loss of their loved one in such a horrific incident. Our thoughts are with them," the RCMP said in a statement. Victim sleeping when attack began Witnesses said the victim got on the bus in Edmonton, while his attacker came aboard in Brandon and sat away from the victim toward the front of the bus, they said. After a short cigarette break, however, the attacker moved his belongings and chose a seat beside the young man. Garnet Caton, who was sitting in the seat in front of the victim, said the young man was sleeping with his headphones on when he was attacked. Caton said he heard a "blood-curdling scream" and turned around to see the attacker holding a large hunting knife and repeatedly stabbing the victim. "He must have stabbed him 50 times or 60 times," said Caton, who jumped out of his seat when he realized what was happening and began ushering passengers to the front of the bus. Caton, the driver and a trucker who had stopped at the scene later boarded the vehicle to see whether the victim was still alive. At that point, Caton said, the suspect was beheading the victim. The attacker ran at them, Caton said, and they ran out of the bus, holding the door shut as he tried to slash at the trio. When the attacker tried to drive the bus away, the driver disabled the vehicle, Caton said. RCMP crisis negotiators communicated with the suspect for several hours while he was on the bus. Around 1:30 a.m., he attempted to jump from a bus window and was subdued and arrested, RCMP said.

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PhD student from China decapitated a woman student

Former Virginia Tech Grad Student Who Decapitated Classmate Gets Life In Prison

MICHAEL FELBERBAUM   04/19/10 04:21 PM ET   Associated Press

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RICHMOND, Va. — A former Virginia Tech graduate student who prosecutors said decapitated a classmate in a campus cafe because she rejected his romantic advances was sentenced to life in prison on Monday.
Montgomery County Circuit Judge Robert Turk sentenced Haiyang Zhu to life without parole, said Commonwealth's Attorney Brad Finch. Zhu pleaded guilty in December to first-degree murder in the death of fellow Chinese student Xin Yang. He admitted decapitating the 22-year-old Yang as the pair had coffee at a campus eatery in January 2009.
Zhu's plea did not qualify for the death penalty under Virginia law.
Finch said he was pleased that the judge imposed the maximum punishment for the "extremely brutal murder."
Zhu's attorney, Stephanie Cox, did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment. But Zhu apologized at the hearing to the victim's family and the community, Finch said.
The killing stunned a campus that still had vivid memories of the mass slayings in April 2007, when a student gunman killed 32 people and then took his own life. The stabbing was the first slaying on campus since then.
Prosecutors had described in detail a heartbroken Zhu who had had fallen in love with Yang, only to be rebuffed when she told him she had a boyfriend she planned to marry.
At a December plea hearing, Finch cited a letter Zhu wrote while in jail, which said Yang's rejection "forced him to kill her" because "he loved her too much."
Finch also described the attack in detail, noting that Yang suffered numerous defensive wounds to her hands and arms as she tried to fend off Zhu. She eventually fell and he severed her head. He was holding it when police arrived.
About seven other people who were in the shop at the time told police the two hadn't been arguing before the attack.
Corey Cox, a cafe worker in Tech's Graduate Life Center who witnessed the attack, testified at a preliminary hearing last May that Zhu lunged at Yang and began cutting off her head with a knife. Cox said Zhu did not appear to be angry, but stared at Yang with "just a really blank, determined look."
It appeared Yang, who was from Beijing, had only recently met Zhu of Ningbo, China. Zhu, a doctoral student in agricultural and applied economics, had been helping her adjust to life at Tech.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/19/former-virginia-tech-grad_n_543350.html?view=print&comm_ref=false

MALE CHINESE STUDENT DECAPITATES FEMALE CHINESE STUDENT IN VIRGINIA TECH COFFEE SHOP

MALE CHINESE STUDENT DECAPITATES FEMALE CHINESE STUDENT IN VIRGINIA TECH COFFEE SHOP 

Read carefully the first paragraph of the article, which is by the Associated Press. Note the low-key, matter of fact way the reporter lets us know that the decapitation took place in a campus cafe, meaning that it happened in a public place in front of other students. Then observe that in the rest of the article, there is no description of the actual murder and decapitation, even though we’re told that there were seven witnesses.The more shocking and horrifying a crime is, especially when it’s by a nonwhite or someone who may be Muslim, the more it is routinized and suppressed, as we saw in the case of the decapitation of Patrick McGee last December in Manchester, England.

BLACKSBURG, Virginia (AP)—A graduate student from China was decapitated with a kitchen knife in a campus cafe at Virginia Tech by another graduate student who knew her, police said Thursday.Xin Yang, 22, was killed Wednesday night after arriving at the campus from Beijing on Jan. 8 to begin studying accounting, Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said.
Her accused attacker, 25-year-old Haiyang Zhu of Ningbo, China, knew the victim but no motive for the slaying has been determined, Flinchum said. School records showed that Haiyang was listed as one of Xin’s emergency contacts.
Haiyang was charged with first-degree murder and was being held without bond at the Montgomery County Jail. His attorney, Stephanie Cox, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Haiyang and Xin had been having coffee in a cafe in the Graduate Life Center, where Xin was living. About seven other people who were in the coffee shop told police that the two hadn’t been arguing before the attack. [LA comments: That’s the closest the article gets to the actual murder. All we hear is that they weren’t arguing before the attack. Then, in the next paragraph, the story cuts to AFTER the attack with the police receiving the 911 call.]
Police received two 911 calls shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday, Flinchum said, and were on the scene in a little more than a minute to take Haiyang into custody.
Flinchum said Haiyang was not known to the campus police or to the university team that deals with mentally disturbed students.
University officials said Haiyang arrived on campus last fall and was a Ph.D. student in agricultural and applied economics.
The stabbing was the first killing on campus since a mass killing on campus in 2007, when a student gunman shot 32 people and then took his own life. [LA adds: And of course, the mass killer of Virginia Tech was a Korean, Cho Seung-Hu.]
“An act of violence like this brings back memories of April 16,” university President Charles Steger said. “I have no doubt that many of us feel especially distraught.”
University spokesman Larry Hincker said a campus alert system put in place after the mass shootings by Seung-Hui Cho in 2007 sent out messages to 30,000 subscribers by e-mail, text messages and telephone voice mails Wednesday night.
Because a suspect was in custody, the messages were sent out as notifications rather than as emergency alerts, he said.
Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine offered condolences to the campus.
“My thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family of Xin Yang today—and with the broader Virginia Tech community,” he said in a statement. “The tragic attack on campus this week has no doubt revived terrible memories for countless members of the Hokie family.”

The accused killer, Haiyang Zhu, comes from Ningbo, China. There is a famous, 1,000 year old mosque in Ningbo, so at least some Muslims live there, but I don’t know if it is a predominantly Muslim area.
This is from a page on Ningbo Vacation Tour FAQ:

In Ningbo, one of the alleys contains the Qingzhen Mosque, which has served as the center of Ningbo’s community of Muslim traders for almost a thousand years. Originally constructed in 1003 AD, the current structure dates from 1699, and renovations in 1987 fixed as much as possible of extensive damage from the Cultural Revolution.

Now back to the news account. I looked for more articles, hoping to find information on the killing itself. I found another AParticle, posted at 9 P.M Thursday, January 22. It gives more details on the victim and the killer and their relationship. They had met recently, since her arrival on campus January 8, and he was helping orient her to the campus. So there was some acquaintance. But when it comes to the murder itself, this more recent AP story performs the same trick as the first one:

What led to the attack is also a mystery: About seven other people who were in the coffee shop told police that the two hadn’t been arguing before the attack. Beisecker said there hadn’t been previous signs of trouble between them.Police received two 911 calls shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday, and were on the scene in a little more than a minute to take Zhu into custody, Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said.

Notice that break in the narrative? The young woman, Yang, and the young man, Zhu, are seen sitting together in the cafe, not arguing. Then the story jumps to the police getting the 9/11 call. What happened between the moment when the two were sitting there not arguing, and the 9/11 call? That period of time is lost. That event is gone. It doesn’t exist. The actual attack and murder, the decapitation of a young woman in a student union coffee shop in front of seven students, has been erased. The Orwellian thought control managers, excuse me, the journalists, have become very skilled at this. They simply skip over the actual crime, even though seven people saw it happen. It’s very much like the Daily Mail’s account of the murder of Patrick McGee, which doesn’t tell what happened to him other than the bare fact that he was beheaded. It doesn’t even tell what kind of weapon was used. The murder becomes a cipher, an abstractoin.
Meanwhile, the case of Vince Weiguang Li, the Greyhound decapitator of Manitoba, is moving toward trial in March. But only issues pertaining to Li’s state of mind are going to be discussed. The court will not hear any testimony from the witnesses on the bus. The decapitation of Tim McLean has become a medical event, without moral meaning.
From the story by The Canadian Press:

This coming March, Vince Li will go on trial in Winnipeg for second-degree murder before a judge alone. The only issue during the three-day trial will be Li’s state of mind….None of those who witnessed the horror that night will be expected to relive the experience at Li’s trial. An agreed statement of facts will take care of the details of the attack.
Instead, the witnesses are expected to consist mainly of forensic psychiatrists who can speak about Li’s mental health.
“The defence or Crown can raise evidence that the person didn’t have the requisite mental intent, he didn’t have any malice,” Libman said. “In this type of situation, it would be that the person didn’t know that killing that person was wrong, either morally or legally … There was no attempt to conceal it, no attempt to run away.”
If Li is found not criminally responsible, he could be immediately discharged by the judge or hospitalized indefinitely depending on the seriousness of the crime. If he is ordered to undergo treatment, he would be reassessed regularly by a mental health review board.
“We don’t punish people if they didn’t intend to do something or if they honestly believed what they were doing was right because of an illness,” Libman said. “We don’t punish people who are not at fault. He would just be treated and get medical help.”
But for Carol deDelley, McLean’s mother, the prospect that the man charged in her son’s death might eventually be released is too much to bear. She, along with others, are already pushing for tougher laws to ensure that doesn’t happen.
“My son Timothy lost his life and our lives will never be the same without him being a part of it,” she said at a recent vigil to press for changes to legislation. “Myself and my family are seeking justice for Timothy (and) mercy for ourselves.”

So, since last July:

• Tim McLean of Manitoba, Canada, on July 30 was decapitated on a Greyhound bus by Vince Weiguang Li, who probably belongs to the Hui ethnic group, which is a Muslim ethnic group, and who is possibly from China’s Xinjaing Uyghur Autonomous Region, which is largely Muslim. But the mainstream English language media don’t report anything about Li’s background or religion. The public is left to guess whether he is a Muslim or not, and whether he was attending a mosque in the heavily Muslim city of Edmonton during the period prior to the murder.
• Patrick McGee of Manchester, England, on December 15 was beheaded in his front yard or in his living room by an unnamed man who according to an initial story in the Mail police thought was from the Philippines, but in the Mail’srevised article the mention of the suspect’s being Filipino is dropped and he’s described as mentally ill. The Philippines has a Muslim minority and a large Catholic majority. McGee is treated in the media as a cipher, an “elderly pensioner” (he was 63), who was a “nice” man, and beyond that his death is given no meaning. The details of the murder are never given. All that the police say about the suspect is that he is being checked for mental illness and therefore his name can’t be given. There is essentially one real newspaper article on the murder,and then the story disappears. (All VFR entries on this are here.)
• And now Xin Yang at Virginia Tech, Virginia, on January 21, 2009 is beheaded in a graduate student coffee shop by Haiyang Zhu of Ningbo, China which has a famous mosque. Beyond the bare abstract fact that the suspect beheaded the victim, both AP stories deliberately avoid telling what he actually did to her, how he cut her head off, and so on, The experience and reactions of the seven witnesses to the decapitation are not recounted.

And why are the beheadings bowdlerized out of the story, as they were in the Manchester and now in the Virginia murders? As I’ve said before about the Patrick McGee coverage, even if the killer was not a Muslim, a beheading reminds people of the fact that Muslims are commanded by their religion to behead non-Muslims and frequently actually do so. Further, leaving aside the Muslim issue, these beheadings were performed by nonwhites, in the Manchester case, by a Filipino, in the Virginia case, by a Chinese. The media are operating under Auster’s First Law of Majority-Minority Relations in Liberal Society, which states that the worse the behavior of minorities and non-Westerners, the more the behavior must be covered up or excused, and the more racist a white is for noticing it and thinking about it.

- end of initial entry - Charles T. writes:

In the Canadian and the Virginian case, both men who decapitated their victims were still at the scene when the police arrived.Both men are Chinese.
It would be interesting to know if they were from the same area in China.
Their religious faith—or lack of it—is paramount information.
It would also be interesting to know the results of blood tests—if they were ordered at all—on both men.
In the Manchester case and the Canadian case, the victims were white males. In the Virginia case, the victim is a Chinese female. In all three news stories, the tone is detached—even relaxed; with major facts about the case missing or downplayed. Regardless of who the victim is, decapitation stories are going to be immensely sanitized for tone and facts before presentation to the public.
These incidents fill me with loathing and horror. I find none of this present in the press stories. I do not even find it in Libman’s comments in the Canadian Press story. Perhaps Libman expressed it and it was not recorded in the story? Doubtful. We are living in dangerous times. The lives of innocent people are being sacrificed to the liberal doctrines of political correctness. Indeed, they have been sacrificed to the idols of today’s modern political age.

Karen writes from England:

Governments are afraid that the combination of economic depression (to give the current economic conditions their real name) and Third World immigrant barbarity will cause civil unrest among the native population. Therefore all is hushed up to a greater extent than even before. America’s transition to black rule will probably encourage more Third World aggression and even more cover ups.

Howard Sutherland writes:

Truly a sickening story. The crime itself is the most sickening and vicious. But also sickening is our Platonic Guardians of the Press’s determination to throw a blanket over anything that might actually explain it. Especially anything that might get the dulled natives asking why we accept these murderous misfits (Vince Li; Chai Vang, the Hmurdering Hmong; Cho Seung-hui, the Korean Killer of Va. Tech; and now this Oriental gentleman) in our midst.The article is phrased so that some very basic questions should not even come to mind, much less be answered: Was the unfortunate woman killed before being beheaded? (If this had to happen at all, I hope so.) Did anyone attempt to intervene? I can’t imagine one can decapitate an adult human being with a kitchen knife very quickly—it doesn’t sound like we’re talking about a scimitar or samurai sword.
[LA replies: The question, was poor Yang Xin killed before the beheading or by it, is of tremendous human concern and interest. But liberals, for all their protestations about caring for humanity, don’t care about what happens to human beings, even minority human beings, if caring about them interferes with the Higher Liberal Directive that whites must never have any negative thoughts about minorities. Thus a murdered and beheaded minority individual has to be made into a non-person in order to protect minorities as a collective.
To put it another way, white liberals hate whites more than they love nonwhites.]
Disgusting to think about, and sad to reflect that, absent America’s insane immigration policies, these two Chinese would probably never have met.
Charles T. asks if these two Chinese choppers are from the same area of China. No. Haiyang Zhu (should be the other way round, I suspect) is from Ningpo, a port in Fukien on the southeastern China Coast. So Zhu is probably Fukien Chinese (who make up a disproportionate share of Chinese illegal aliens in the West, maybe because of their proximity to shipping). Weiguang Li (again, probably should be the other way round) is from Sinkiang. Sinkiang is historically not ethnically Chinese, although China has ruled it for centuries. I think you have speculated that Li may be a Hui, and likely a Moslem.

Laura W. writes:

Judging from the news stories, people are soothed by the idea that only unpredictable mental illness is involved, illness that calls for better health programs and occasional vigilance. I don’t think they want to know more. The student newspaper at Virginia Tech amazingly also has not interviewed any of the students who witnessed the beheading. There is much discussion on their site about why no one intervened in the attack. This is certainly one of the most stunning details of the story, suggesting a level of anomie and disengagement in modern society as horrifying as the crime itself.One student comments on the site:

Posted by: Observant reader at Jan 22In case you haven’t noticed, not many people are very remorseful around campus. Parties, attitudes, facebook statuses, etc. show that people really just don’t care. It’s truly sad, but apparently society can write off something when it is “isolated.” As for the weapons debate, its been going on for 6-7 years on this campus and will continue. Times like this remind us that self-defense is essential, and sometimes even defense of other innocent people. If you look back, that’s how the conversation on weapons got started here. But also, 7 people witnessed this horrible act but no one did anything. No one should blame them, but it’s likely that none of them had any training that would have helped. We’ve become “cozy” Americans and don’t think violence can affect us.. well, this is reality folks. Prepare for the worst, be ready for anything, and live a life devoid of fear.

Mark A. writes:

Don’t be silly. Don’t you know that this is a result of Virginia Tech’s lack of a culture of inclusion? This young man was acting out. It was a cry for help.

Paul Nachman writes:
This sentence from the Associated Press article you posted …

The stabbing was the first killing on campus since a mass killing on campus in 2007, when a student gunman shot 32 people and then took his own life.

… strikes me as intrinsically weird. The sentence is written as if murders on the campus are routine—it could be read as having an air of surprise that there’s been no murder on campus since 2007 until, finally, now.
Howard Sutherland writes:

I stand corrected! I just happened to see a map of China (we do a lot of China business here), and I noticed that Ningpo is not in Fukien, as I thought I remembered. It is in Chekiang, the next province up the coast north from Fukien. Close, but no cigah! Chekiang is the province that surrounds Shanghai. My apologies for misleading VFR’s readers.For what it’s worth, Ningpo is also the home town of Chiang Kai-shek and Yo Yo Ma.

January 29
LA writes:

See two followup to this entry:

The media’s Orwellian downplaying and suppression of the Virginia Tech decapitation continues

The liberal media’s Orwellian method of non-coverage coverage

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/012381.html

Being an asexual, it free us from

from all the urges/constraints of being a breeder.

Having fibroid may be the reason why I am an asexual.  My fibroid may be the resulted of the chemicals used in the semiconductor industry, which I used in my lab as an engineer working in the High Tech industry.  Many women worked for Samsung had died because of the chemicals used in semiconductor manufacturing, and those still alive are suing Samsung.

The High Tech industry had also ruined everything that took my whole life to build (include working 3 jobs every summer since High School) for discrimination against women, particularly by people from the 3rd world Asia who are now the majority in the Silicon Valley, and may even be the Tech industry.  People from 3rd world Asia and ghetto Asians were instrumental in my termination from the Patent and Trademark Office, the ruined of my reputation as well the slit of my throat that was meant to kill me.

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

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Book Review: ‘Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China’ by Evan Osnos

By John Pomfret, Friday, May 16, 2:38 PM

John Pomfret, the author of “Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China,” is working on a book about the United States and China.

In the late 1990s, a joke circulated in Beijing depicting the difference between a go-go China and the all-too-staid United States. In Palo Alto, a young woman goes out to dinner with a Chinese entrepreneur. Driving her home, he accelerates through an intersection as the light changes to red. When they arrive at her house, she won’t invite him in. He obviously isn’t dependable, she says. He risked her life back there at the crossing. In Beijing, the entrepreneur lands another date and, taking that woman home, slows down at a yellow light. At her doorstep, she, too, snubs him. Why did he stop? Clearly he doesn’t know how to grab opportunities when he sees them.

To say that China has transformed itself over the past several decades is an understatement. The erstwhile “sick man of Asia” now boasts the world’s second-biggest economy and has more trade with more countries than any other nation . Twenty-five years ago, in 1989 — when millions of Chinese marched for more freedom and less corruption in demonstrations that ended with a crackdown around Tiananmen Square — China’s per-capita gross domestic product, a measure of its economic output, was a paltry $403 a year. This year it will top $7,000. When my college classmates in China graduated in 1982, their salaries averaged $100 a month; now they all own at least one apartment and boast flat-screen TVs bigger than my family’s minivan.

But this voyage from Third World basket case to global powerhouse has not been without its challenges. China produces more carbon dioxide than any other country; its air, soil and water are laced with heavy metals and other toxins. The gap between rich and poor is bigger than America’s. And while economic reforms have raced ahead, people are still thrown in jail for speaking their minds.

In the pages of the New Yorker, Evan Osnos has portrayed, explained and poked fun at this new China better than any other writer from the West or the East. In “Age of Ambition,” Osnos takes his reporting a step further, illuminating what he calls China’s Gilded Age, its appetites, challenges and dilemmas, in a way few have done.

Two themes drive this compelling and accessible investigation of the modern Middle Kingdom. The first is hunger. China is living through “a ravenous era,” Osnos declares early in the book. And it’s a hunger not just for meat — the consumption of which has increased sixfold since the 1970s. After 40 years of dead-end Maoism, Chinese are combing the globe for commodities, wealth, experiences and respect. The second theme is the chase. “All over China people were embarking on journeys, joining the largest migration in human history,” Osnos writes, and he doesn’t mean that just in physical terms. He peppers the book with tales of characters making spiritual, economic, emotional and philosophical expeditions that have transformed their lives and the world as we know it.

And it all has happened so fast. As Osnos notes, the 1980 edition of China’s authoritative dictionary, “The Sea of Words,” described individualism as “the heart of the Bourgeois worldview, behavior that benefits oneself at the expense of others.” But today Chinese have embraced the idea that they can be the agents of their own fate with an alacrity that perhaps only an American observer can really understand.

Dividing the book into three sections, Osnos depicts the pursuit of wealth, freedom and something to believe in. Along the way the reader is treated to a series of finely wrought portraits of Chinese searchers. We meet Lin Yifu, who as a young officer in the army on Taiwan makes the remarkable decision to swim to China in 1979, then earn a doctorate in economics at the University of Chicago and, as the World Bank’s chief economist, become one of the principal cheerleaders of China’s hybrid economic model of unfettered capitalism and state control.

There’s Gong Hainan, a peasant who founded a dating Web site in a typical rags-to-riches story that has become central to China’s sense of itself. Tang Jie is a philosophy student at a leading university in Shanghai whose problems with the Western media’s portrayal of China’s treatment of Tibet give Osnos a way to explore the critically important world of Chinese nationalism and its fixation that the West is out to get China. The prominent dissidents Ai Weiwei and Liu Xiaobo also receive deeply insightful treatment. In all, Osnos ranges omnivorously between rich and poor, Christians and Buddhists, the patriotic and the oppressed, moguls and Mafiosi, democrats, dissidents and dogged supporters of the regime.

Osnos’s book brings to mind “Chinese Characteristics,” written by the American missionary Arthur H. Smith in 1894; it was the most widely read book on China well into the 1920s. “Chinese Characteristics” is riddled with the patronizing racism of the time, but it’s also deeply insightful. Smith’s description of the Chinese concept of “face” inspired China’s best-known writer, Lu Xun, to compose his most famous short story, “The True Story of Ah Q.”

Osnos’s examination of Chinese ambition is equally ambitious in revealing the national traits of modern Chinese. While Chinese describe themselves as more cautious than Americans, Osnos notes at one point, psychological research has shown that they take consistently higher risks with their investments than Americans of comparable wealth. In most developing countries, the educational level of parents is a decisive factor in determining how much a child will earn in adulthood; but in China, Osnos writes in another section, “parental connections” — not education — are the key, making urban China one of the least socially mobile places in the world.

And finally, amid all of China’s frenetic energy and miraculous economic growth, Osnos observes that its Gilded Age is an era without any “central melody”; there’s a huge spiritual hole in the middle of the Chinese soul, and, he argues, it makes that great country’s future uncertain and a bit scary for them and for us — an insight Smith would understand.

A few weeks ago, the director Oliver Stone did something leading dignitaries rarely do when they go to China: He spoke his mind. Addressing the Beijing International Film Festival, Stone lambasted China’s movie industry for its censorship and silly offers of joint production with American directors and production teams. “It’s all platitudes,” he said. “We are not talking about making tourist pictures, photo postcards about girls in villages, this is not interesting to us. We need to see the history . . . for Christ’s sake.”

Stone’s comments caused the predictable quotient of defensive harrumphing from the wardens of China’s system. A middling director rushed to China’s defense. But Stone has a point. China’s censorship is clearly holding back its culture and its understanding of itself. The best work exploring China is being done outside the country, mostly in English. The new novel “Kinder Than Solitude,” by Yiyun Li; the stories of the writer Ha Jin; the recent histories by Odd Arne Westad and Rana Mitter; even DreamWorks’ “Kung Fu Panda”are all examples. Now add to those Osnos’s masterful portrait of China’s Gilded Age.
But as with Westad’s book, it doesn’t look as if there will be a mainland Chinese edition of “Age of Ambition.” Writing in the New York Times on May 2, Osnos noted that a Chinese publisher wanted to airbrush several key characters out of his picture of China to pass muster at Party Central.

As far back as Edgar Snow, the Chinese Communist Party has used American writers to sing its praises, wagering correctly on the enormous wellspring of respect for the United States among the Chinese. That Osnos understood this dynamic and declined to play this game makes him doubly unique. “As a writer,” he said, “my side of the bargain is to give the truest story I can.” That’s what we get with “Age of Ambition.”

AGE OF AMBITION Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China By Evan Osnos Farrar Straus Giroux. 403 pp. $2
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