Kamangir reports that Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, one of the topmost Shia clerics in Iran, gave his analysis of the Virginia Tech massacre:”The incident in Virginia Tech is a sign of deviation from faith in God, logic, and human emotions. There is a lesson in this event for everyone in the world. …the shooting proves how much insecure the materialist world.” Another blogger,Haji Washington[Fa] says if this shooting had happened in Europe, a wave of hatred would have created a lot of problems for South Asian people.The blogger adds this reaction did not happen in USA.He asks but if the killer had been an Arab or Muslim,what would have been reactions?