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Nov-07-2009Muslims decry killings, brace for backlash(topic overview)
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As military and law-enforcement investigators waited to interview Major Hasan, a contradictory portrait of him emerged. Neighbors described him as a man who dressed alternately in a military uniform and flowing white robes, and who gave a copy of the Koran to his next-door neighbor a day before the shooting. Reports from the shooting suggested that soldiers may have heard him shout something like "Allahu Akbar" -- Arabic for "God is great!" -- just before he fired two automatic handguns. He was shown on a security video tape from a local convenience store wearing white robes just hours before the shooting. Family members said that he had complained about being harassed expressly because he was a Muslim, and that he had expressed deep concerns about deploying. Acquaintances said Major Hasan was upset about his future deployment in a war zone, and heatedly opposed United States foreign policy in discussions with fellow soldiers. Earlier this year law-enforcement officers monitoring Islamic Web sites identified a man of the same name as a blogger who posted comments on suicide bombings in which he equated such acts to those by soldiers who use their own bodies to shield fellow soldiers from exploding shrapnel. What I want to know is this: What did the Army know about this man's views -- and why were they not on alert over him? Col. Terry Lee said on Fox last night that he had been told that the Army was investigating Hasan. We'll need to know more about this. How is it possible that all this was overlooked or excused? The entire country will be asking this, first in stunned, hushed voices, then, as the shock subsides, with rising fury. [1] A Muslim veteran affairs organization says it has not received reports of harassment from Islamic soldiers, contrary to claims by a relative of the man authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base. Abdul-Rashid Abdullah, deputy director of the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council, told FoxNews.com that the nonprofit group has not received a single report recently of a U.S. soldier being harassed "simply because he was Muslim." "That kind of report is inconsistent with what we've heard," Abdullah said prior to a press conference in Washington to denounce Thursday's shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, that left 13 dead and 38 wounded. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old Army psychiatrist who was reportedly due to be deployed later this month, is accused in the mass shooting. Abdullah said his organization, which condemned the "unspeakable" attack, serves "several thousand" Muslim soldiers.[2] "We need to seriously address the issue of radical ideology." Hough said he does not think the attack was religiously motivated. He points to reports that Hasan was a proud soldier and sometimes wore his military uniform to the mosque. The Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic Society of North America Office for Interfaith and Community Alliances and the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council released a joint statement to "denounce this barbaric act of violence." Following the prayer service at the Charlotte mosque, Inayat von Briesen, 40, said it's a "dark day" for Muslims. He said Islam does not allow the killing of innocent people. He said the government needs to look into Hasan's actions, but people also need to consider the actions of the U.S. government and its participation in what he called an "ambiguous" war. "If he killed a lot of people, he was wrong," the information technology specialist said.[3] Brave soldiers trained to hunt down and kill America's enemy abroad were killed in the safety and security of home by, in essence, the same enemy ' a man who believes in and supports everything the enemy does. He's a U.S. Army major. His superior officers and other authorities knew about his beliefs but seemed to think it was just a bit of harmless multicultural diversity ' as if believing that "the Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor" (i.e., his fellow American soldiers) and writing Internet paeans to the "noble" "heroism" of suicide bombers and, indeed, objectively supporting the other side in an active war is to be regarded as just some kind of alternative lifestyle that adds to the general vibrancy of the base. When it emerged early Thursday afternoon that the shooter was Nidal Malik Hasan, there appeared shortly thereafter on Twitter a flurry of posts with the striking formulation: "Please judge Maj. Malik Nadal by his actions and not by his name." Concerned tweeters can relax: There was never really any danger of that ' and not just in the sense that the New York Times' first report on Maj. Hasan never mentioned the words "Muslim" or "Islam," or that ABC's Martha Raddatz's only observation on his name was that "as for the suspect, Nadal Hasan, as one officer's wife told me, 'I wish his name was Smith.'"[4] Lots of people are "anti-war." Some of them are objectively on the other side ' that's to say, they encourage and support attacks on American troops and civilians. Not many of those in that latter category are U.S. Army majors. Or so one would hope. Why be surprised? Azad Ali, a man who approvingly quotes such observations as "If I saw an American or British man wearing a soldier's uniform inside Iraq I would kill him because that is my obligation" is an adviser to Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (the equivalent of U.S. attorneys). In Toronto this week, the brave ex-Muslim Nonie Darwish mentioned that, on flying from the U.S. to Canada, she was questioned at length about the purpose of her visit by an apparently Muslim border official. When she revealed that she was giving a speech about Islamic law, he rebuked her: "We are not to question Shariah." That's the guy manning the airport security desk. In the New York Times, Maria Newman touched on Hasan's faith only obliquely: "He was single, according to the records, and he listed no religious preference." Thank goodness for that, eh? A neighbor in Texas says the major had "Allah" and "another word" pinned up in Arabic on his door. "Akbar" maybe? On Thursday morning he is said to have passed out copies of the Quran to his neighbors. He shouted in Arabic as he fired.[4]
As the country begins to process what happened yesterday, there are still many questions that have yet to be answered. It is fortunate that the alleged gunman did survive, because, it is hoped we can find out why he did this. Had he died, the reasons would have been victim to unending speculation. Of course, those who believe nothing good about Islam and Muslims are painting this as "terrorism" and "jihad at Ft. Hood." I doubt those same people would call this shooting in Orlando today an act of terrorism. Perhaps, as much as I hate to even imagine such a thing, he did have some sort of twisted religious motivation for the shooting ( some claim he shouted "Allahu Akbar" during the shootings ). They were unarmed; they did not pose a threat to Major Hasan; they were his fellow soldiers. They were his fellow soldiers. It is truly an act that in unconscionable. When I reflect over the possible motivations of this shooting, it reminds me of a verse in the Quran; it is, perhaps, one of the most powerful verses in the entire scripture. The details about Major Hasan continue to come out: that he was harassed by some of his fellow soldiers for being Muslim; that being deployed to Iraq was his "worst nightmare"; that he tried very hard to get out of the Army but could not; that he argued with other fellow soldiers about the legitimacy of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.[5] Nothing links the attack to terrorist or Muslim extremist groups, although the possibility isn't being ruled out. Nor is the grim chance that Maj. Hasan's rampage was both solo and ideological. Maj. Hasan said he was "a Muslim first and an American second," said Dr. Val Finnell, who was a classmate in a master's program last year. He said the army psychiatrist was a "vociferous opponent" of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His boss, Colonel Kimberly Kesling, at Fort Hood's Darnall Army Medical Center, described him as "a quiet man who wouldn't seek the limelight" and "provided excellent care for his patients."[6] Mandel Ngan/Getty Images The motives behind the Fort Hood shootings are still hazy, but that hasn't stopped coverage of one very personal detail of Major Nidal Malik Hasan's very personal crime: He is Muslim. A 39-year-old Army psychiatrist, he appears to have not been motivated by his Muslim religion, his Palestinian heritage (he is American by nationality), or any related political causes. As Hasan spent 24 hours topping news broadcasts, his identity remained a thorny point of coverage. For the Washington Post and many others, his religion led the news. Others, especially Muslim-American groups, feared the Muslim-American shooter would inflame Islamophobic backlash. As we struggle to understand why Hasan killed 13 people and wounded 30, his religion may shed light on what led to his rampage or prove incidental. Until Hasan begins to speak, we won't know, but speculation on the role his religion played will continue.[7] Media coverage was bound to focus on the religion of Nidal Hasan, who on Thursday rampaged through Fort Hood military base in Texas. Hasan, an American Muslim of Palestinian heritage, would have still made headlines if he were white and Christian. There is no evidence that Hasan's religion played a role in his shooting.[8] Let me quote the so-called current convential wisdom, which is reinforced by the outpouring in the media by so-called reasonable "experts", that Islam is actually just another religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. This all may be true, but in light of the Muslim terrorist acts that we regularly witness - from Bali to New York, in the Northern Chinese provinces, from Mumbai to Madrid - the reference to the religion of peace becomes questionable. It clouds the issue and may make us feel optimistic while somehow diminishing the specter of the fanatics who rampage the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that, today, it is fanatics who rule Islam at this moment in history. Their impact on everyday people manifested itself openly with the celebrations, in July 2008, surrounding the release from an Israeli jail of the child murderer Kuntar. He gained immediate national hero status in the Muslim world, echoed equally in utterances by the allegedly peace-loving Abu Mazen, the president of the Palestinian Authority, an alleged peacemaker in the eyes of the West - the former Number 2 to Arafat for decades - and the author of a PhD thesis on Holocaust denial at Moscow University.[9]
Promising is an October report by a group of Muslim scholars and activists in the United Kingdom, "Contextualizing Islam in Britain: Exploratory Perspective." Its most significant points are: "Since Islam is a coherent and universal religion, the principle of religious freedom should apply across the world, and not just in Britain"; and "It is important to say quite simply that people have the freedom to enter the Islamic faith and the freedom to leave it." It is certainly not the place of non-Muslims to say what constitutes authentic Islam. If leading Muslim clerics are prepared to take on al-Qaeda's interpretation of Islam in this war of ideas, our leaders and our media should publicize their work and extol their courage.[10] There is an important issue that the investigating panel and some others have chose to ignore, or give the least attention to. the reason behind the desperate action of this officer. His aunt had attested that the man previously asked to leave the army and even offered to pay the army back for his education studies as psychologist. This should have raised the alarm among the army authorities that something was bothering the man. Most likely, his work as psychologist, treating the soldiers back from the wars only convinced him due to his deep religious belief, - a fact which did not escape his fellow soldiers, -that being a part of the army sending out forces to fight in Islamic countries, was not compatible to his faith. It would be too easy then to declare this case as another "terrorist act", but rather a personal reaction of a Muslim caught between his deep religious feelings, and his loyalty to the armed forces he was serving. Of course, this does not justify at all what he did, but at the end of the investigation, this issue should be taken in consideration and not just presented as the action of a crank running amok.[11] Immigration from Muslim countries should be halted immediately. There should be no Muslims in the military (would we have allowed Nazis during WWII or communists during the cold war?) and no Muslim clerics allowed in prisons where they have been recruiting and radicalizing the most violent members of our society for years. CAIR and other Muslim organizations should be investigated and prosecuted for their support of terrorism. Harsh measures for sure but do you think Americans are welcome in Muslim countries? Do they not persecute their Christian populations with much harsher measures? How many massacres, how many honor killings, how many terrorist acts do we have to endure? Do they not laugh at our weakness? Are they not just waiting for their numbers to grow as they have in Europe so they can impose their will on us? If they want to practice the Muslim faith, stay in a country where is to the norm, there are plenty of them. If we refuse to take the threat of Islam seriously, fifty years from now we will be where Europe is now, with open conflict with Muslims as they push for Sharia law and display open contempt for their ":host country".[12] The mosque's imam, a black American named Luqman Ameen Abdullah, was killed in a shoot-out with agents. Although the FBI was careful to say those arrested in Detroit were not mainstream Muslims, it has accused other black Muslims of similar crimes, most recently in May, when four men were charged with plotting to blow up New York synagogues and shoot down a military plane. The Muslim faith continues to convert many average black Americans, who say they are attracted by Islam's emphasis on equality, discipline and family. "The unique history African-Americans have faced, we're primed for accepting Islam," said Jackson, 31, who grew up in a secular home and converted to Islam when he was about 18. "When someone comes to you with a message that everyone is equal, that the only difference is the deeds that they do, of course people who have been oppressed will embrace that message," Jackson said. "It's a message of fairness." It was a message of black pride in the face of dehumanizing prejudice that launched Islam in America in the 1930s. Created by a mysterious man named Wallace Fard, the "Lost-Found Nation of Islam" strayed far from the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, but its mixture of self-reliance, black supremacy and white demonization resonated with many blacks. Some 30 years later, Malcolm X began the black movement toward traditional Islam when he left the Nation of Islam, went on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia and proclaimed that all whites were not evil.[13]
I say, "To hell with them" and I mean that literally. They aren't fit to be around good honest, God-loving people, and I mean the God that is good and loving Himself; not the one that tells his followers to go and KILL others so they can come to him in his heaven. There they will pay for their sins of killing innocent people just because those innocents didn't conform to their unholy and dastardly way of life. Perhaps we should start at the top; the place where our lying leader says he loves America. Yeah, he loves it alright; he'd love to see it in the hands of his murdering Muslim brothers and sisters. Obama once said that he had visited all 57 states and we all snickered a bit over this bit of what we thought was erroneous information. Guess what? He was probably right. The Islamic world does in fact consist of 57 states and Islam is what is on the mind of this usurper who holds hostage our most revered political office once populated by George Washington, a TRUE and devout leader. This is a quote from 'InfoPlease.com' "The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is an international organization grouping fifty seven states which have decided to pool their resources together, combine their efforts, and speak with one voice to safeguard the interests and secure the progress and well-being of their peoples and of all Muslims in the world." (Emphasis mine.) Yeah, I would bet that Obama has been to all 57 states; he didn't make a mistake, he was just not thinking about American states.[14] Hill's husband, Marc Manley, said that many blacks who have struggled with crime, drugs or alcohol are drawn to Islam's regimented lifestyle, which includes prayers five times a day. "Especially in the urban context, it provides a vehicle for African-Americans to deal with those ills," he said. "It provides a buffer or a barrier." At the Quba Institute in Philadelphia, a black Sunni mosque, the worshippers are a mix of blue-collar workers, young college graduates, professors, law enforcement officers, and "regular people who are just trying to worship God and live a decent life," said the imam, Anwar Muhaimin. Muhaimin was born into a Muslim family after his parents embraced Islam in the 1950s. He grew up in Saudi Arabia, "but was very clear from a young age that I was and am an American citizen." "America is my country, I love the United States," he said. "I don't agree with everything our politicians do in our name, but that doesn't mean I'm not a citizen of this country."[13] As Muslims we are reminded that to take one innocent life is as if one killed of all mankind. Muslims are also commanded to keep their oaths when given. That said as an American Muslim who like hundreds of thousands of other American's, including Muslims, is serving or has served in America's armed forces and kept their oaths to God, Country, and in my case Corps, condemn these actions and pray for the victims of this madman. May God give the families strength and be quick in His reckoning. If it turns out it was indeed this Major and the media in error claims he was a Muslim, know that no true believer in Islam considers him part of the fold. My prayers go out to the victims and their families, our nation, and our men and women in uniform.[15] ' Horribly Predictable Islamophobia' The Nation's John Nichols wishes he could be surprised by the Islamophobic reaction. "There was clearly something wrong with this imperfect follower of Islam. That does not mean that there is something wrong with Islam. Enlightened Americans -- at least those who trace their patriotism to Thomas Jefferson, a man fascinated by and respectful of Islam and whose library contained copies of the Koran -- should be unsettled by the rush to judgment regarding not just this one Muslim but all Muslims." A Muslim Marine's Condemnation Former Marine Robert Salaam of The American Muslim felt compelled to "condemn these actions and pray for the victims of this madman" immediately upon hearing the news. "I'm sad for those killed and wounded by a traitor to both God and our country, and I regret that I even feel that I have to write something on the subject.[7]
It surprises me because we say that we are a society that is better than "3rd world thinkers." We become hypocrits when we do to Muslims what these abberations of Islam do to Americans for just being Americans. To hold all Muslims responsible for this "sick" man is to be a hypocrit and no better than what we fight against. There are devout Muslims who are proud and happy to be in this country, why aren't we showcasing them. We will live to regret this the way we try to hide the ugly truth of how we held Japanese Americans in camps while we were in war with Japan.[16]
A devout Muslim, a proud American, an Arab who chose the U.S. Army as career, a soldier and a healer, Major Nidal Hasan had treated those suffering from the traumatic horrors of war, fought hard to avoid being sent to a combat zone and, then, shouting the devotional cries of a holy warrior, went on a homicidal rampage. The emerging, albeit incomplete, portrait is of a portly, balding, middle-aged, man under intense stress and torn by irreconcilable loyalties, musing on websites about the ethics of suicide bombers and, finally, waging his own personal jihad.[6] RAMALLAH, West Bank — A cousin of the man suspected of shooting fellow soldiers at a Texas military base says he had little contact with his Palestinian relatives in the West Bank but had told family there that he suffered discrimination in the U.S. Army because he is a Muslim. Mohammed Malik Hasan told the AP he had not heard from his cousin since a visit to the West Bank 15 years ago but that he heard from other relatives in the U.S. that he was distressed on learning he was to be deployed to Afghanistan. Hasan said his cousin had hired a lawyer to seek a military discharge. Speaking in Ramallah Friday, he described Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as "religious and not very social but. very normal."[17] Hasan had some "difficulties" that required counseling and extra supervision, said Dr. Thomas Grieger, who was the training director at the time. Grieger said privacy laws prevented him from going into details but noted that the problems had to do with Hasan's interactions with patients. "He was making outlandish comments condemning our foreign policy and claimed Muslims had the right to rise up and attack Americans," Col Lee told Fox News. "He said Muslims should stand up and fight the aggressor and that we should not be in the war in the first place." He said that Maj Hasan said he was "happy" when a U.S. soldier was killed in an attack on a military recruitment centre in Arkansas in June.[18] The fact that Maj. Hasan is a Muslim would not be reason enough to open an investigation. A Muslim in uniform openly discussing violence against the United States and posting his views on suicide attacks to jihadist forums should at least get a second look. Those who want to explain this away as the result of stress, workplace violence or the "stretched force" are willfully blind. Condemned Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad, scheduled for execution this week for his role in killing 10 people and wounding three in October 2002, petitioned for clemency on the basis that he suffers from severe mental illness and Gulf war syndrome. Surely someone who hunts down and murders strangers is not in his right mind, but the primary motive in both Muhammad's case and Maj. Hasan's was jihadism.[19] Terrorism is defined not by the number of people involved, but by the motivations and intentions of the attacker. If reports about him are true, Maj. Hasan clearly was a terrorist. He reportedly was upset about the activities of the United States in the Middle East and purportedly had made postings about suicide attacks on jihadist forums. He told an associate that "maybe the Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor"; he was videotaped on the morning of the attack wearing traditional white clothing in the manner of someone about to martyr himself. The same day, he divested himself of belongings and handed out Korans, and he shouted the battle cry of the jihadists, "Allahu Akbar!" before opening fire. If these reports are true, this was not just terrorism; it was Islamic jihadist terrorism. It is unclear whether Maj. Hasan acted alone or others were involved in this attack. It would not come as a surprise to learn more people were involved.[19]
Fragmentary reports indicate Maj. Hasan, although born in Virginia, had increasingly identified himself as a Palestinian and was seeking a devout spouse. A security-camera shot of the army psychiatrist in long, white, traditional Muslim robes buying sundries has been given huge media play as if his garb might indicate motive. President Barack Obama, whose father and stepfather were Muslims, warned the nation against "jumping to conclusions," but as Americans - especially those in uniform - struggled to cope with the horror of murderous betrayal by one of their own, that sort of conclusion jumping was rampant. According to multiple eye-witnesses, Maj. Hassan, wearing his military uniform, was shouting "Allahu Akbar" - God is Great - as he pulled the trigger dozens of times, killing 13 and wounding nearly 30.[6]
In comparison, on Thursday'''s CBS Evening News and NBC'''s Nightly News both programs failed to reveal the religious faith of Hasan. GMA, as well as CBS'''s Early Show and NBC'''s Today, did not shy away from politically incorrect details, such as the surveillance footage of Major Nidal Malik Hasan in full Muslim garb in the hours before the shooting. Correspondent Brian Ross dug up information and informed, " In this internet posting earlier this year, Nadal Hasan compared suicide bombers to G.I.''' s who saved their colleagues by throwing themselves on a grenade." The Early Show'''s''David Martin''explained, "He is an American citizen said to be of Jordanian decent and a life-long Muslim."'' He then''added, "However, there'''s a retired colonel who served with Hasan, has been quoted as saying that he heard Hasan react with glee to a news report that several American soldiers had been killed by a suicide bomber."[20] There are half a million Muslim medical doctors contributing to the safety and good health to the all-American community." Hathout said it's understandable that people would be upset over what happened to American soldiers. He also agreed that officials should investigate Hasan's background in order to find a motive in the shooting. The Muslim faith should be not be persecuted based on one act, he said.[21] The media have fabricated a number of asinine explanations for Hasan's behavior. What, they wail, could his motive possibly have been? The anti-American pundits are proposing the alternative hypotheses that Hasan was driven by viral PTSD, which he caught from the soldiers he counseled. Or, perhaps the poor sensitive soul was tormented by unkind remarks about his Muslim ideology. The American people are getting really good at seeing through liberal bamboozlement; they may not be so quick to buy into the liberal mythology about the Religion of Peace. The left has a lot invested in keeping their phantasms alive.[22]
SECOND UPDATE : Three good links from Instapundit here. He talked about how if you're a nonbeliever the Koran says you should have your head cut off, you should have oil poured down your throat, you should be set on fire. I said well couldn't this just be his educating you? And the psychiatrist said yes, but one of the Muslims in the audience, another psychiatrist, raised his hand and was quite disturbed and he said you know, a lot of us don't believe these things you're saying, and that there was no place where Hasan couched it as this is what the Koran teaches but you know I don't believe it. I believe it's political correctness that keeps people from reporting these things -- also, being so unacquainted with the actual barbarianism that is actual Islam, and finding it so unbelievable vis a vis western civilization and enlightenment values -- that they simply find the ultimate eventuality of actual Muslim values hard or impossible to believe. Remember that many Muslims in the U.S. don't practice actual Islam -- they're more like Christmas Christians.[23] Just count the leaps in logic. It should be obvious that Scarborough is only barely talking about Hasan. He's talking about Islam in general, since the basis for his wild-eyed speculations is Hasan's "worldview," by which the man means that Hasan is a "devout Muslim." This is the next stage of the slander. In Scarborough's view, Hasan isn't even part of a small cohort of psychopaths who hijack Islam as a pretext for their murderous tendencies. He's following the tenets of his religion a religion subscribed to by something like a billion and a half people on this planet. It's funny how you never see people like Scarborough referred to as what they are: radical clerics.[24]
By way of '''illuminating''' Hasan'''s actions, Blitzer interviewed a panel of ''' no, not experts on Islamic jihad, but psychiatrists.'' Blitzer endlessly repeated the mantra that Hasan had been '''taunted''' for being Muslim, had feared going to a war zone, and had ultimately gone '''berserk,''' and the docs echoed this line. '''He did not reach for help when he should have,''' lamented one panelist. Another opined: '''It sounded like it got to be too much for him.''' Another told us: '''All kind of people need help who aren'''t getting help. ''' He was feeling picked on by his colleagues. ''' He was strained. He was scared.'''[25] After the initial shooting, reports emerged that Hasan was a practicing Muslim and may have been linked to Internet posts about suicide bombings. Ahmad Sakr, who runs the Islamic Education Center in Walnut, said it's important not to judge the entire Islamic community based on Hasan's alleged actions. "Islam would not allow anyone to kill any other human being or any animal" unless they are protecting themselves, Sakr said. "If he is a crazy human being and did what he did, he is responsible, not his community."[21] A Muslim Army psychiatrist, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, a specialist in combat stress, was suspected of carrying out the shooting spree. He was under guard and in stable condition on a ventilator after being shot and seriously wounded in the attack, officials said. Witnesses apparently heard Hasan shout "Allahu Akbar!" (God is greatest) as he opened fire in a troop processing center on the base with a semi-automatic weapon and a handgun, the base commander said. Although "Allahu Akbar" is a Muslim prayer, it has come to be associated with Islamic militants as they carry out attacks or suicide bombings.[26] Here's a sweet little congratulatory note for the guy from a convert to Islam. It emerged today that Major Hasan, a Muslim who had argued with his comrades against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and had been trying to get out of the Army, shouted "Allahu akbar" - Arabic for "God is great" - as he launched the attack. Lieutenant-General Robert Cone, the base commander at Fort Hood, said that soldiers who witnessed the rampage heard him shout out the invocation as he opened fire. Regarding "god is great," of course, there's no evidence there's a god, but if your particular imaginary Big Guy In The Sky condones (and even commands, through your particular book of holy fables) the murder of anybody who doesn't believe as you do. well, then he's a petty little shithead.[23] Soldiers don't get to say "I'll fight War A but not War B". Most wars our nation has been in have been wars between mostly Christians in the USA against mostly Christians in other places, but you don't see Christian soldiers saying that they can't go to war against other Christians! And when you read the accounts of people who knew him, you discover that as a 39 yr old man, he hadn't met any woman, apparently, who had ever really appealed to him, despite trying some Muslim dating services a couple of years in a row. He hadn't gotten along with his co-workers. He had tried to get out of the Army, and they had denied his request, but he hadn't given up, even after he knew his efforts were futile. He wanted to commit suicide - he gave away all of his belongings before heading to Fort Hood Thursday morning. He was a sick puppy, and I doubt his muslim religion had a lot to do with it - I think it's the man, not the religion, and he used the religion to stoke the fires raging inside.[27] The story of the day is one of madness, for what other word can describe the actions of a man who guns down dozens of innocent people in a purposeless act of rebellion? Major Nidal Malik Hasan killed at least 12 of his fellow soldiers today at Fort Hood and no one really knows why. Perhaps he was, as reported, fearful and resentful about an upcoming deployment to Iraq. Apparently Hasan's loathing of the Army's mission in that country was so great that he hired an attorney to help him get out of the military.[18] '''was mortified by the idea of having to deploy,''' Mr. Hasan said. '''He had people telling him on a daily basis the horrors they saw over there.''' He had also more recently expressed deep concerns about being sent to Iraq or Afghanistan. Having counseled scores of returning soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder, first at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington and more recently at Fort Hood, he knew all too well the terrifying realities of war, said a cousin, Nader Hasan. Then, in order to avoid the terrifying realities of war, he unleashes the terrifying realities of war on a bunch of people.''[25]
Hasan was shot four times during the Thursday attack and remained unconscious early Friday. He reportedly had told relatives in Virginia that he began having second thoughts about his military career after fellow soldiers harassed him for being a Muslim. Hasan's aunt, Noel Hasan, of Falls Church, Va., told The Washington Post her nephew wanted out of the military following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks due to harassment about being a Muslim. "Some people can take it and some people cannot," she told the newspaper. "He had listened to all of that and he wanted out of the military." Nawar Shora, legal director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, expressed his sympathies to the victims and their relatives on Friday.[2] '''I can see how that many people were injured and killed." Rep. Mark Takai, a Hawaii National Guard major, is in the same unit as Gabbard Tamayo and was at the Soldier Readiness Center at the same time as his colleague. "I can just imagine what it was like when everything went awry,''' he said. Although the act of a military officer opening fire on his comrades deeply troubles Takai, he holds no resentment against those of the Muslim faith.[28]
Terror is a tactic, not an ideology like fascism or communism. As such, our leaders continue to mislead about the reality and complexity of the war in which we are engaged. While many so-called moderate Muslims oppose al-Qaeda's tactics, they nevertheless support global expansion of Islam. They embrace the imposition of Islamic sharia law on people of all faiths in Muslim countries - a law that requires such things as unequal treatment of the sexes and the killing of gays and apostates. Why do so many Muslims still hold these views in the 21st century, even in the West? Partly because prominent Islamic authorities have failed to chart a different course. That may be changing.[10] The attack on our country, our people, our way of life on September 11, 2001 was heinous, vicious, and barbaric. Those 3,000 innocent Americans (many of whom were Muslims themselves) did not deserve to die in such an horrific manner. It was a grave injustice done to our people. That cannot give us the right to "pre-emptively" invade any country we feel like in "revenge," where other innocent people will die as a result. As our country continues to wage its "Long War" against those who plan and plot to harm our innocent fellow citizens, let us always remember that we are better than our enemies.[5] Muslim civil rights groups say what the alleged shooter did was a brutal, personal act and could not have been committed in the name of Islam. "This is a sad day in our nation's history, and we reiterate the American Muslim community's condemnation of this cowardly attack," said Nihad Awad, who heads the Council on American Islamic Relations in Washington.[29] "Hasan's other victims are the millions of Muslim Americans who've fully embraced American life, and who feel a profound sense of dread whenever innocent people are murdered in the name of Islam," Salam writes.[8]
Journalist Reihan Salam knew that Hasan's shooting could release that tension. In the Daily Beast, Salam explains why we should all be worried about Hasan's "collateral damage" to Muslim-Americans: What Hasan has done, regardless of his motivation, is sow fear and anxiety among millions of Muslim Americans, who have served in the years since the 9/11 terror attacks as America's secret weapon against Islamic radicalism. The prosperity and religious freedom enjoyed by Muslims in America contrasts rather well against the grinding poverty and violent oppression faced by those living under Islamist rule.[8] Hasan Inflamed Anti-Muslim Hatred Reihan Salam worries that Hasan may have seriously harmed Muslim-Americans by inciting mistrust and fear. "What Hasan has done, regardless of his motivation, is sow fear and anxiety among millions of Muslim Americans, who have served in the years since the 9/11 terror attacks as America's secret weapon against Islamic radicalism. The prosperity and religious freedom enjoyed by Muslims in America contrasts rather well against the grinding poverty and violent oppression faced by those living under Islamist rule," he writes.[7]
"And that is a singular injustice to the American Islamic community. It forces relatives of Hasan to immediately proclaim their loyalty as Americans in the same paragraph as expressing sorrow for the victims. It sets off alarm bells in many of my Arab American friends -- who may or may not be Muslim -- as they prepare to go to work tomorrow, and many are already worried about how to deal with the inevitable water-cooler speculation about Hasan's religious beliefs and their role, if any, in the massacre."[7]
"Deflating the extremists through indirect action and a reorientation to common interests. instead of building up Al-Qaeda and its affiliated movements with an exaggerated focus against 'violent extremism,'" writes Lynch, will switch the conversation "to other things which ordinary Muslims and Arabs care for." Despite these tactics, the U.S. will not support the effort by the Organization of the Islamic Conference to ban religious defamation at the United Nations, fearing a conflict between religious protection and freedom of speech and worship, reports The Washington Times. "We are convinced that the best antidote to intolerance is not the defamation of religions' approach of banning and punishing offensive speech, but rather a combination of robust legal protections against discrimination and hate crimes, proactive government outreach to minority religious groups and the vigorous defense of both freedom of religion and expression," said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton while unveiling the State Department's annual report on international religious freedom.[30] Whether or not Major Hasan had any organized militant aspirations or ties to overseas Islamic terrorist groups will be learned in the coming days. From what we know already my suspicion is not, but based on his reported past statements was certainly sympathetic to a stereotypical fundamentalist Islamic view of U.S. foreign policy. In fact a coworker quoted him as saying "the Muslims could stand up and fight against the aggressor" in Iraq and Afghanistan. The CIA and FBI have both warned there are terrorists like Malik Nadal Hasan within our borders.[31] In countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan where terrorist groups that claim to be based in Islam operate, most of their operations are directed against their fellow citizens. The majority of people in those countries are Muslims.[12] "Indeed, the attempt to assign collective responsibility to Muslims worldwide for the murderous actions of a few is sadly predictable. Doing so is the first step in rationalizing the unthinkable and justifying the unjustifiable," he writes. "This is, quite frankly, the best reaction groups like al-Qaeda could hope for: The strength of their narrative of a war between Islam and the West ultimately rests on our own actions. We should not indulge them or those that share a similar worldview." His Name Doesn't Imply Terrorism Conservative blogger William A. Jacobson cautions against politically-charged speculation. "It turns out that the shooter has a Muslim name, but that proves nothing other than that he has a Muslim name.[7] At a later date, the Ottoman Turks were defeated at the gates of Vienna on two occasions, the last defeat being final in 1683, when Emperor Leopold I of Austria imported a French general by the name of Prince Eugene of Savoy who defeated with finality the Muslim Turks led by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. At the height of its power, the Ottoman Empire spanned three continents, controlled much of South Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. It stretched from the Straights of Gibraltar, including the Atlantic Coast of Morocco in the West to the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf in the East, and from the edge of Austria, including Hungary and parts of the Ukraine in the North, to Sudan and as far as Yemen in the South. It came to an end progressively through a series of wars against various European/Christian powers, and the Ottoman Empire dissolved into modern-day Turkey as its remnant after World War I. Therefore, repeated conquests stretching over a millennium are the antecedents to the rebirth of the compelling struggle on the part of Islam to control parts of the world, with Jihad, or its modern manifestation - international terrorism - as its tool to achieve a Muslim world and convert all infidels, meaning all non-Muslim.[9]
I say isolated because we are a country of 100's of millions, 4 news stories about a Muslim doing something derogatory in the name of Islam may be an abberation, not the status quo. I am sure news exist about some hokey pokey going on in the Name of Jesus, but we don't report it because it is not time to point our fingers at hypocrits in Christianity, its time to sell bigotry about Muslims. When a Pastor's financial reveals that he has been scamming his congregation, what do we do? Say that all pastors are that way, and we know that ALL pastors DO NOT scam their congregations.[16] Tonight, Imad Damaj, who runs the Virginia Muslim Coalition for Public Affairs said no political or religious ideology could ever justify what happened there. He tells CBS 6 the shootings had nothing to do with Islam, and more to do with mental illness. I asked Damaj what went through his mind when he heard about the shootings? "Shock, pain.Why Would a man turn against his brothers and sisters in arms? And, when I heard the name I said "Oh, my God.[32] The fact of the matter is the emphasis on the Muslim description. Its upsetting that they have to make that an important part of the analysis when it seems that this man simply snapped because of mounting stresses. This is a crime that has been committed by individuals who run the gamut of the religious spectrum, and I don't understand why its so important. I'm waiting to see when Fox News will make the connections to him and some terror plot, simply because he has an Arabic sounding name.[27]
The American Prospect's Adam Serwer beseeched: "Please, America, remember what kind of country you are right now." Josh Marshall, who writes for the TalkingPointsMemo blog, predicted: "This is going to get very dark" upon the identification of the perpetrator's name. "The fact that the primary assailant has an Arabic name and is presumably, though we don't know this yet, of Muslim extraction, if not a practising Muslim, is going to be the focus of attention," Marshall wrote.[33] I am blessed to be an American Muslim; I am blessed to be a Muslim in a country where I can truly live out my faith without - for the most part - fear of being persecuted, attacked, maimed, and killed. There are incidents - and they are growing - of Islamophobia right here in America.[5] As a devout Muslim, I condemn theses heinous acts against innocent civilians. Plain and simple this guy had some mental issues and should not of been in the position he was in. I was born and raised here in the United States and love being here and this is my home and my country and that being said, this individual is not a person of our faith. He is an evil criminal that just happened to be a U.S. Solider who has caused corruption and is an embarrassment to us American Muslims. From my take on it, he wanted a free ride for his education and medical practice but did not want to pay his due for tour of duty. We American Muslim Arab Americans condemn theses acts. Those who kill an innocent human being is as if they have killed all of humanity. He deserves what is coming to him and in TEXAS is death penalty.[34]
The United States is engaged in a global struggle with violent adherents to an extremist Islamic creed. It does not besmirch the Muslim faith - or the vast majority of American Muslims - to admit that fact.[19] Myrick wrote the foreword for a new book, "Muslim Mafia," warning of a Muslim conspiracy to support Islamic terrorism in the United States. "The American people need to wake up and realize this is not going to stop," she said.[3] After the sickening news of yesterday when a Muslim American soldier's clothing brazenly opened fire into a crowd of other American soldiers and citizens, killing at least 13 and wounding nearly 30 very innocent non-Muslim American citizens I'm ready for some GOOD CHANGE. This has got to stop. We have to start cleaning house of this vermin that call themselves "peaceful Muslims." We know now that THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PEACEFUL MUSLIM. Even this Army Officer was probably thought to have been a "peaceful Muslim" proved to us that they don't exist. They are filled with hate and violence toward all of what they, in their minds, call decent peace loving people, 'infidels.' If we are infidels, they are 'hatefidels' and we should take aim on them for a change.[14] Reporting from Los Angeles and Atlanta - The news made Nihad Awad sick to his stomach. Like the rest of the nation, Awad, who heads the Council on American-Islamic Relations, learned this week that it was a Muslim who opened fire at a U.S. Army base in Texas, killing 13 people and injuring many more.[35]
The refreshing candor of someone like Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, the shooter in the June attack on the Army recruiting station in Little Rock, Ark., is rare. Reportedly, he said he was a practicing Muslim angry with the U.S. military for its crimes against Muslims and would have shot more than the two soldiers he killed if more had been available. This incident also was called "not terrorism."[19] WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army said Friday it is committed to treating all its soldiers with respect without regard to their religious identity, amid concern about a possible backlash after a Muslim officer was said to have opened fire at a military base.[26] "We always have a deep and enduring concern that everybody be treated with dignity and respect," army spokesman General Kevin Bergner told reporters. "We spend a lot of time on that specific issue, whether it's ethnic, religious, racial (identity)," he said. "That is an enduring and sustained part of our commitment for our soldiers, civilians and our families." He said he did not have any details yet about how the military would seek to promote tolerance and contain possible tensions in the wake of Thursday's rampage at Fort Hood in Texas, which left 13 dead and 30 others wounded. Bergner also he did not know if the army planned any security measures to protect Muslim members of the armed services.[26] Newsbusters' Brent Baker was incensed that some news outlets, just hours after yesterday's hand gun massacre, failed to emphasize that the shooter was Muslim. Neither the CBS Evening News nor NBC Nightly News, in their East coast feeds Thursday night, noted the Muslim religious beliefs of the mass killer at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, but ABC anchor Charles Gibson wasn't cowed by political correctness as he teased World News, " Fort Hood tragedy: An Army officer, a Muslim conve rt, is the suspect in a shooting spree[27]
Local Muslims are bracing themselves for possible reprisals following the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Texas. Worshippers attending Friday's afternoon prayer service at the Islamic Center of Charlotte condemned the killings and said their faith is one of peace. Yassir Alkahlout, 40, said local Muslims feel their religion is being wrongly targeted.[3] The time has come for an Islamic Reformation to fight for the souls of the Ummah (people of the Faith). If Islam is a religion of peace, then its followers must demand their Imams cease promoting hatred and violence. If Islam respects the rights of women, then its followers must demand that women stop being treated like chattel or worse. Theocracies that practice violence against their own people have no right to demand their obscene practices be protected under the guise of religion.[34] MB, tell us again how islam is peaceful and only supports violence in self defense. Being a muslim I have not see this word in Quran. and Quran said if a person is taking a soul of other then that man has done a sin of as if He killed entire humanity. this is what quran teaches and Islam is peace if a man is depressed and lost his control and killed people you cannot related that with religion islam.[34] The programs focus on strengthening social networking, technology initiatives and positively emphasizing Muslim identity in the arts and culture areas. Efforts to engage with Mulim communities hinge on being able to communicate with "people who have influence whether they're religious leaders, scholars, academics, teachers, businesspeople," said Pandith, who also stressed the role of Muslim youth. Each region has "different nuances" which require different policies "based upon the needs on the ground and. the issues," she continued. This policy outreach occurs throughout other Western nations as well. Pandith notes that European Muslims are working to build a "balance between being Muslim and Western, not Muslim or Western, and to talk about the fact that Islam and democracy are compatible and to talk about the fact that you can be both modern and Muslim."[30]
If he acted like''a sterotypical muslim terroist, of course people are going to say something about his religion. If he had been a redneck Baptist from WV they would be calling him a radical, right wing, religious nut.'' From all accounts, he hated the U.S., he hated the military and he hated the war.[20] Just as religiously intolerant? For some contrast and a dose of reality, spend some time living in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, or the United Arab Emirites, four of the wealthier and modern Muslim countries and see what religious intolerance is over there. Speaking of the Enlightenment, it was Christian Europeans like Wilhelm Gottfried Leibniz (founder of infintessimal Calculus among other things) who tried studying thoroughly about other peoples, their religions, their philosophy, their arts, and their inventions.[10]
All of the other stuff you wrote is pure speculation. If he blogged about this so much, where are his blogs? Where are the links to his blogs? He was definitely mentally deranged for certain. Was he a Muslim also? Yes, he was. Everytime someone commits a crime that is a Christian, funny how we don't mention that they were a Christian Murderer now do we? Settle down Francis. This is a tragic and isolated incident. I think based upon what we know now, we can say that these attacks were based upon his deranged views that revolved around religion. His belief was that he shouldn't have to fight against Muslims if the war was a war on Islam. He believed that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were wars on Islam.[27] The Detroit mosque raided last week was part of the Ummah, the FBI said. "The vast majority of African-American Muslims are using the religion to strengthen their spirituality," said Mamiya, who has interviewed many black Muslim leaders and congregants. He said the number of black Muslims is growing, but not as fast as before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Few white Americans convert to Islam "because the tendency is to view Islam as foreign," he said. "For African-Americans, it's part of their African heritage.[13] Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, mainstream Islam remains a subject of suspicion to some Americans -- a perception fueled by prejudice and fear, but also by recent allegations of foiled terrorist plots hatched by homegrown Muslim radicals.[35]
Not a war with Islamic Fascists or Muslim Terrorists but with Islam as a whole. They are at war with us, there is no question. They have been attacking the "West" for centuries and petro dollars have made them powerful in the last fifty years.[12]
"You do not blame all Christians when one kills another person." Jibril Hough, the Islamic Center's spokesman, said the center had not received any threatening calls or e-mails, but was concerned about what he characterized as anti-Muslim sentiment on conservative radio. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said they have not received any information regarding threats against Muslims in the community. They are increasing their presence around local mosques as a precaution. U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick, a Charlotte Republican, said she is concerned about terrorists infiltrating the military. Myrick said "Allahu Akbar," or Allah is Great is a common phrase shouted by jihadist before they blow themselves up in a suicide bombing or prior to an attack.[3] We know that Dr. Hasan is a devout Muslim who once told a fellow officer that "Muslims have a right to stand up against the U.S. military."[24] The major, who remains in intensive care, could be executed, if convicted on murder charges under either the military or civilian justice systems What was evident is that Maj. Hasan was fighting deployment to Afghanistan. He had even asked a military lawyer to help him get out of the army. He also claimed he was being harassed for being a Muslim.[6] Maj. Hasan worked with soldiers suffering from combat stress. Last summer he was transferred from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center to Fort Hood. About the same time he apparently began posting to websites. At least someone with the same name began publicly musing about whether suicide bombers were the same as those soldiers who flung themselves on grenades to save their comrades in arms. At least one Islamic extremist website was already claiming him as a holy warrior. It said the psychiatrist "did Jihad in that base and killed no less than 13 Crusader foreigners," sowing "terror and chaos in the ranks of the enemy."[6] Don't worry: As the FBI spokesman assured us in nothing flat, there's no terrorism angle. That's true, in a very narrow sense: Maj. Hasan is not a card-carrying member of the Texas branch of al-Qaida reporting to a control officer in Yemen or Waziristan. If he were, things would be a lot easier. The same pathologies that drive al-Qaida beat within Maj. Hasan, too, and in the end his Islamic impulses trumped his expensive Western education, his psychiatric training, his military discipline ' his entire American identity. What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best-trained, best-equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. That's the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy ' in Afghanistan and in Texas.[4]
Somewhere in that woozy blur the pathologies of a Nidal Malik Hasan incubate. An Army psychiatrist, Maj. Hasan is an American, born and raised, who graduated from Virginia Tech and then received his doctorate from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. But he opposed America's actions in the Middle East and Afghanistan and made approving remarks about jihadists on U.S. soil. "You need to lock it up, Major," said his superior officer, Col. Terry Lee. He didn't really need to "lock it up" at all. He could pretty much say anything he liked, and if any "red flags" were raised they were quickly mothballed.[4]
An American convert to Islam was accused of the shootings. Col Lee alleged that other officers had told him that Maj Hasan had said "maybe people should strap bombs on themselves and go to Time Square" in New York.[18] Army psychiatrist Malik Nadal Hasan slaughtered 13 people and wounded over thirty others. This was no random shooting spree, Hasan chose his time, place and victims. The left ishysterically trying tospin the Islam out of this attack, insisting that Hasan suffered from PTSD, despite the fact that he has never been in combat.[22]
Everybody wants to believe the lone crazed gunman theory -- and stay way-clear of Islam. If you're wondering why the guy was able to gun down so many soldiers: I heard from an army spokesman (a major, I think it was) speaking to CNN that they aren't allowed to carry guns on base. That's right -- you're trained to go shoot people in wars, but you drop your Second Amendment right at the base entrance. As in so many of these shootings, like the Virginia Tech massacre, this never would've gotten to the point it did if soldiers were allowed to carry around more than their good looks. Koran 9:5: "Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. If they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free.[23] I know what it is be a victim of a crime and to deal with terror and fear. To have the press as I see it use such a serious issue in this way when this guy experienced nothing like that himself; he sat in an air conditioned office and simply listened to people who had genuinely suffered eh, hard to describe but suffice to say it is infuriating. If they're doing it cynically, I can't overstate how despicable I find it. If they are just that much in denial about radical Islam, then I really do weep for the future. My son in law starts his Iraq deployment in January. At 21, he is more of a man than this bastard ever will be.[25]
In a world run by the mainstream press, Islam is a class worthy of the highest possible protection against unpleasantness. It's not like he tried to put up a Christmas tree or something. What we have learned about Hasan is that he got a lousy performance review. He has been disciplined for pressuring others into becoming Muslim. He admired home grown jihadis, including the Arkansas recruiter killer. He handed out Korans before his rampage. His neighbor told FNC that he had "Allah" written on his front door in Arabic. He shouted "Allahu Akbar", the traditional pre-massacre jihadi shout out. He identified himself as Palestinian. It seems plausible that he expected to die, given that he was surrounded by military and civilian personnel who know how to shoot. [22] News anchor Chris Cuomo reported live from Killeen, Texas and added that Hasan had been "disciplined for preaching to patients and colleagues about." MEREDITH VIEIRA: There were also reports, General, that Hasan had told family members that he had been harassed by members of the military, because of his Muslim faith.[20] We know now that Major Malik Nadal Hasan was a Muslim domestic terrorist who wreaked havok on Fort Hood, Texas. Discuss your feelings on this topic, and more broadly our President's attention to domestic terrorism as we view a video report of the carnage.[31] When I first heard about the mass shooting at Fort Hood yesterday, the first thought that came to mind was "I bet it was a Muslim." An hour later,they released his name. It wasn't John Smith, Paul Kaslowski or even Jose Rodriguez. It was Nidal Malik Hasan.[12] As the story was unfolding I surfed CNN,MSNBC and FOX. I have to say that I was very impressed with Fox's Shepard Smith (who else?). He was hands down the best of the three. I also noted that while the other two channels had released the Muslim sounding name of the shooter, Shepard Smith refused to do so, hinting that he did not want to release a Muslim name without comfirmation from Ft Hood officials. I thought he was showing some sensitivity in refusing to get that inflammatory detail wrong. He got the interview with Hasan's cousin and his questioning was thorough, illiciting important details that minimized initial over-reactions and typical speculations one would expect about the the Muslim connection.[27]
What a strange reaction. I suppose what she means is that, if his name were Smith, we could all retreat back into the same comforting illusions that allowed the bureaucracy to advance Nidal Malik Hasan to major and into the heart of Fort Hood while ignoring everything that mattered about the essence of this man. Since 9/11, we have, as the Twitterers, recommend, judged people by their actions ' flying planes into skyscrapers, blowing themselves up in Bali nightclubs or London Tube trains, planting IEDs by the roadside in Baghdad or Tikrit.[4] "Jihad at Fort Hood? Shooter: Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan," was the headline of a post on the Jihad Watch blog just moments after Hasan was identified as the perpetrator of a mass shooting at the Texas military base that killed 12 people, himself included, and wounded 31 others.[33]
Thanks for the post, of all the articles I have read on Nidal Hasan, I can say he is a staunch believer of Muslim religion. The act is very saddening and 13 innocent people lost their lives.[1] Well ahead of other commentators, Salam faces Hasan's religion head on and argues that Hasan made victims out of Muslim-Americans. He shows that Muslim Americans have equal reason to detest or disown Hasan as non-Muslims.[8] The convenience store owner where Hasan bought his morning coffee said Hasan expressed concern about killing fellow muslims should he be deployed. He had no concern, whatsoever, about killing 13 of his fellow Americans? Soldiers? Show me an American soldier who set out to kill 13 civilian muslims here in the U.S.ofA. much less 13 muslim soldiers who serve alongside them.[16] Hasan told colleagues the U.S. should not be in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Lee, and he expressed happiness about the shooting of two soldiers by a Muslim convert outside an Arkansas recruiting center in June.[31]
As Marshall says, things may get very dark indeed with regard to Hasan's true motives if Lee's assertions about Hasan's Muslim sympathies prove true. Previous cases indicate that this is a line of questioning that should be scrupulously followed up on. For if Hasan's fear of being deployed to a war zone is, as I believe, insufficient to explain his cowardly, murderous actions, his motivations must have come from a deeply rooted personal sense of vengeance. While it is premature to conclude that Hasan's religious and social beliefs caused him to commit mass murder, it's nevertheless obvious that this should be a primary line of inquiry, wherever it leads on the path to the heart of darkness.[18] Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, the grand sheikh of al-Azhar, a prominent university in Cairo, Egypt, seems recently to have endorsed a more liberal attitude toward apostasy. According to Tantawi, a Muslim who renounces his faith should be left alone as long as he does not threaten or belittle Islam. Giving up the faith alone should not trigger actions against an apostate in this view; only acting as an enemy of Islam should prompt reprisals. It's not American religious freedom, but it's a start.[10] NO, there isn't. Americans have been bending over backwards to take care of Muslims since 9/11, and still we get this BS that Muslims "will pay the price" or that Americans will start thinking about Muslims as a tintype with monochromatic tones. It's ridiculous, and it is grossly unfair. What would help is if Muslims, instead of writing these whining predictions of what has NEVER happened ' thereby SMEARING THE REST OF U.S., DAMMIT ' would hit the streets en masse to protest violence in the name of Islam. Scream so loud that the leaders of the eight madhabs get scared they will lose their jobs if they don't stop praising it in mosques all over the world.[11] Robert Salaam, are you really a Muslim or a Mohammedan?, because the fact of the matter is there is no real Islam anymore, as the sectarians (they are the Muslims, and cannot say which "muslims" they are without appending this with the name of their sect) are a pale shadow, if even a glimmer of one of what true Islam is (as defined in the Quran). These traditionalists (whom I suspect you accepted to follow), rely solely on medieval traditions to explain away their modus operandi, and this what they teach their young (and anyone who converts to that now fake faith).[11]
Muslims regard Mohammed as the restorer of the original monotheist faith of Abraham, Moses and Jesus. Islamic tradition holds that Jews and Christians distorted the revelations G'''d gave to those prophets by either altering the texts, introducing a false interpretation, or both. Here are certain thoughts presented by the great Middle Eastern scholar, Prof. Bernard Lewis, that should help us shed light on the conflict which we witness in the Middle East today but which really had its antecedents with the birth of Islam in the 7th century of the Common Era.[9] Prof. Huntington also drew a map of the world which can be described as "The West and The Rest". He recognized other less challenging civilizations - Hindu, African, Buddhist and others - but to him in the post cold war world, only the Islamic civilization would re-emerge as the nemesis to the West. He demonstrated that "Each has been the other's Other" from the time of the first Muslim invasion of Europe in the eight century of the Common Era, followed by repeated attempts to conquer the Christian lands in both West and Central Europe, and in the East with campaigns against Christian Czarist Russia. Not to be outdone, Christian powers mounted vast plundering crusades in their attempts to re-conquer their Holy sites in the East, while entertaining themselves on off days with plunder and pogroms in the Jewish parts of European cities which they crossed on the road to Jerusalem.[9]
Muslims in the United States needs to more than just claim that they fear retribution. During World War II, Americans of Japanese ancestry volunteered to serve this nation and did so with distinction. It is time to expect more from this community.[34]
There are some who are tarnishing your good image and now it is time to stop the radicals before more damage to your good reputation is done. Stop saying that this man is not one of you - because he is. He is a practicing muslim who shouted god is great when he was killing people. It's not your turn to do something about it.[11] Islam teaches good people how to be evil, Christianity teaches evil people how to do good. Look at the history, Muslim minorities anywhere cause lots of violence till they take control.[12] WASHINGTON - The global Muslim population stands at 1.57 billion - meaning that nearly 1 in 4 people in the world practice Islam, according to a report last month billed as the most comprehensive of its kind.[36] Television is being harnessed as a medium for promoting tolerance and understanding in the United States, reports Tim Goodman for the San Francisco Chronicle. "Who Speaks for Islam?," a series on LinkTV, will focus on the portrayal of Muslims on television programs such as 24 and Little Mosque on the Prairie.[30]
Most black Muslims are orthodox Sunnis who worship in about 300 mosques across the country, Mamiya said. The second-largest group follows Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, which has about 100 mosques in America, abroad and U.S. prisons, Mamiya said. He said the third-largest group is the Ummah, founded by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the black activist formerly known as H. Rap Brown.[13] Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles, said that the Ft. Hood massacre would be exploited "by groups like Al Qaeda that will use it as a card to justify more religious extremism and violence, and by Muslim-haters who will use it to divide our country and foment fear and hatred." Al-Marayati said he first prayed for the victims. Then he offered another prayer. "We prayed," he said, "that it was not a Muslim."[35] The organization, an advocacy group for American Muslims, said it condemned the shooting "in the strongest terms possible." "No political or religious ideology could ever excuse such wanton and indiscriminate violence," CAIR said in a statement.[16] Organizations such as Muslim Student Association, Muslim Youth of North America, Muslim American Society Youth and local youth groups can harbor excellent social environments for teens to interact with others they can identify with in a positive way.[37] Khan and Anwar agree that perhaps the best support system for Muslim teens in America is, in fact, Muslim teens themselves; being amongst other youth who are positive role models, whom they can identify with and can share experiences with is perhaps an ideal way to promote confidence, develop optimistic behaviors, and improve self-esteem.[37]
What on earth would possess someone to join a religion whose followers started the Crusades, conducted anti-semitic pogroms in Europe culminating in genocide, who colonized the Americas and slaughtered indigenous people, who kidnapped and enslaved Africans (using their Bible to justify it, I might add), who think women's main purpose in life is to produce babies and who persecute homosexuals? The actions of these Christians means the jesus christers have forfeited the right not to be suspected of being colonialists, warmongers, racist murderers, enslavers and bigots. We can't tolerate these christers, I tell you. They supposedly worship a man of peace yet they're responsible for more war and suffering than any other religion in the history of humankind.[11] '''In the seventh century of the Christian era a wandering Arab, of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combing the powers of transcendent genius with the preternatural energy of a fanatic and the fraudulent spirit of an imposter, proclaimed himself as a messenger from heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth." "Adopting, from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God, he connected indissolubly with it the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion." "He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war as part of his religion against all the rest of mankind. The essence of his doctrine was violence and lust; to exalt the brutal over the spiritual part of human nature." "Between these two religions, thus contrasted in the characters, a war of more than twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extincture of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man.[16]
As a non-Muslim American, let me categorically state that we don't want you to go; I don't want you to go; you are an American. In your statement above you and I are almost aligned I believe: this man's religion did not make a difference in his actions. So he allegedly shouted "God is great" before he opened fire. It seems to me he was praying, not calling out like a fanatical jihadist.[11] You know you don't really want to condem an entire religion over one mans actions. These story's seem to come up way to often regarding Muslims.[16]
The contemporary advocacy of such "martyrdom" operations by Islam's most esteemed mainstream clerics is what ultimately gives legitimacy to the mass murderous actions of pious Muslims such as Nidal Malik Hassan. This is the unspoken, but irrefragable truth our craven "elites" in the military, government, and media must be forced to acknowledge, and confront.[38] '''Any religion other than Islam is not acceptable.''' '''The Jews and the Christians are perverts; fight them.''' '''The infidels are unclean; do not let them into a mosque.''' '''Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water; melt their skin and bellies.''' '''Do not hanker for peace with the infidels; behead them when you catch them.''' '''The unbelievers are stupid; urge the Muslims to fight them.'''[34] A 2007 Pew survey estimated 2.35 million, of whom 35 percent were black. Lawrence Mamiya, a Vassar College professor of religion and Africana studies and an expert on American Islam, said Muslim organizations count about 6 million members, a third of them black.[13] In a reflection on President Barack Obama's statement that "Islam is not the problem," Mark Lynch writes for Foreign Policy that the central focus of the Obama administration's outreach to Muslims involves grassroots engagement, initiatives for the common good, a defense of freedom of religion and expression, and addressing local needs instead of an emphasis on curtailing violent extremism.[30] • About 317 million Muslims - or one-fifth of the world's Muslim population - live in countries where Islam is not the majority religion.[36]
There are also unconfirmed reports Hasan may have shouted something in Arabic before opening fire with a semi-automatic handgun. '''It's neither terrorism nor religion,''' said Hakim Ouansafi, president of the Muslim Association of Hawaii. '''It's just insanity and plain simple evil.'''[28] Here we go again. Some people continuously want to frame it in the religious term, and it's not about his religion". Damaj says he's well aware of reports that Hasan praised suicide bombers, and a day before the shooting gave his neighbor a copy of the Koran. Damaj says "it's destructive to any faith because if it's Hasan, John or Mary or whatever ideology - when it's taken out of context, misunderstood it leads to very negative consequences". Soon after the shooting, Damaj expressed his sadness on the coalition's website. "These are citizens, these are people", says Damaj.[32] When you look around you see men and women of all faiths and colors in command positions. Both GMA and Early Show also discussed this possible angle, as well as whether Hasan somehow had post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), despite having never gone to Iraq. DR. MICHAEL WELNER: A person who is treating people with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is in an environment where they verbalize, so he'''s dealing with victims who may have verbalized a tremendous amount of resentment and anger for people he identified with. We know about mass shooters, that they are alienated and it is their alienation that enables mass shooting.[20]
President Obama remained firmly on the Politically Correct bandwagon as he '''cautioned''' everyone not to jump to conclusions; meaning never mind the fact that the shooter Nadal Malik Hasan is a radical Muslim extremist who never should have been in the position he was in. Forget that witnesses say he shouted '''Allahu Akbar''' before gunning down dozens of people.[39] Soon after Thursday'''s massacre, which left 13 people dead and 30 others wounded, it was learned the alleged gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is a devout Muslim.[28] The alleged shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was an Army psychiatrist and a practicing Muslim. He reportedly yelled "God is great" in Arabic before opening fire Thursday.[3] The official line seems to be that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is a "victim." The troops know this guy is a traitor and mass murderer and that he is a Muslim. This matters.[34] The phrase, used by Muslim in many situations, doesn't mean Maj. Hasan had morphed into a jihadist.[6] Instead of focusing on Maj. Hasan'''s religion, Ouansafi says Americans should focus on Maj. Hasan the man.[28] How did the layers on internal security fail to prevent the worst attack on American soil since Sept 11, 2001, especially when so many warnings were so evident - at least in retrospect. Investigators have carted off Maj. Hasan's computer, took away trash and begun extensive interviews with those who knew him.[6]
Even worse - at least from the U.S. military point of view - than a single deranged gunman was the still-live possibility that Maj. Hasan didn't act alone.[6] The increased security comes a day after Army psychiatrist Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan allegedly killed 13 people and wounded 30 more in the worst case of violence on a military base in U.S. history.[21] They aren't going to find him tied to terrorist cells overseas the current recruiting campaign for the U.S. military is quantity over quality. crazy and stupid people are getting into our army at an alarming rate. Major Hasan is just one such example, the only reason he wasn't chaptered out before he went murderous is that he was a mental health worker, meaning he knew the people evaluating his own mental health destroying the objective point of view necessary to do it right.[31]
Military officials told the Associated Press that Hasan was a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington for six years before being transferred to Fort Hood in July. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because military records are confidential, said he received a poor performance evaluation at Walter Reed. Hasan, born in Virginia and in his late 30s, was single with no children. The Austin American-Statesman reported his parents were originally from Jordan.[33] BRIAN ROSS: Good morning, Diane. Well, as we learn more about Major Hasan, it's clear that he was about to be deployed to Iraq. He was suffering from some of the same stress that he was trained as an army psychiatrist to treat. His family says he complained about being called a camel jockey by others in the military.[20]
Hasan attended the Muslim center for about six years and seemed like a good person, Chughtai said.[18] Officials of all levels did not act on many red flags. In the Obama era of political correctness nobody wanted to spy on an American Muslim - no matter how crazy his behavior. People are afraid if they act on leads like that Sharpton and Jackson will be on their door in their yard screaming and yelling.[31] "I've learned that Muslim youth are no different than the general public youth. They are prone to make the same mistakes other people do," said Munir Iqtish of the Muslim American Society Bay Area Chapter. "Just being a Muslim doesn't make someone immune to their surroundings. Sometimes people may say, 'Oh how can you have a girlfriend, you are a Muslim,' or 'Why does he drink, he is a Muslim.' People don't realize that sometimes, that's just the nature of things or our society."[37]
Yet already our military loyalties, our honour, and our integrity are being questioned. Most American Muslims today are going to get up, get ready for work, send their kids off to school, and pray that nothing stupid happens because of their faith.[11] Jihadic literature raves about Muslims being attacked (not by other Muslims which is often the case) but by Jews, Americans, Zionists, Crusaders, infidels.[23]
"And though there are pockets of distrust, far more Americans worry that Muslims face discrimination than hold negative views of Muslims. The danger is that Hasan's despicable crime will subtly and slowly change these perceptions for the worse.[7] The Left Wing Media says he was not a Terrorist. This Muslim Maggot kept yelling "Allah akbar" Alah Akbar(god is great), as he shot and mutilated REAL American Christian and Judeo soldiers.[31] Where is the honour in honour killings, the public hanging of homosexuals and the stoning of adulterers. We are trying to move forward in the 21C, but the islamists want to take as back one thousand years, just read these comments on this site. The fact remains most terrorists are muslim and we have a right called self-preservation to suspect and check muslims based on this rationale and none other.[11] I had to defend myself. It was an act of pure self-defense. This is precisely what Zein Isa, another Palestinian, and a member of the Abu Nidal terrorist gang, said about killing his 16 year old daughter, Palestina ("Tina") Isa in 1989 in St Louis, Missouri. Male Muslim jihadic rage? That is equivalent to 4000 pounds--the weight of the car that Faleh AlMaleki drove over his daughter Noor who died of her profound injuries in Arizona. Ironically, AlMaleki has just been placed on a suicide watch in Arizona--and his compatriot in crime, Muzammil Hassan in Buffalo, is trying to plead temporary insanity ("extreme emotional disturbance") to explain why he finally beheaded his wife Aasiya, whom he had continually battered.[23]
"I guess he should have said thank you jesus then it would have been okay, what religion was tim mcveigh or the va tech shooter or the white guy who shot the health club up a few months ago. what religion was the kid in south ga who killed his whole family in the trailer prk. I sure I couldn't possibly be the first one to point this out, but there is a glaring difference. The Muslims do this IN THE NAME OF THEIR RELIGION! The trailer trash kid's religion was totally irrelevant to his act. He didn't give a rat's a$$about doing it for Jesus.[16] Muslim groups around the nation are condemning the attack, Diane. SAWYER: Yes, we heard Martha Raddatz say last night that the wife of a soldier said "I wish his name had been Smith," so no one would have a reflexive question about that. They are sure that he never traveled overseas. They traced everything they can trace to see if there were any connection. ROSS: He had a brother that lived in the occupied territories outside of Israel, in Palestine and Ramallah. He had never been deployed overseas.[20]
Lt. Col. Lee Packet, an Army spokesman, called that assertion "total speculation." Muslim leader Maher Hathout addressed such fears head-on in a raw, emotional sermon at the Friday afternoon prayer service at the Islamic Center of Southern California. Speaking to 2,000 quiet worshipers, Hathout told of a call he had received after the shooting. "This is the question on the minds of your co-workers, on the minds of your neighbors -- this is the trust, and we have to do something about it," Hathout said. He implored his fellow Muslims not to hide in the aftermath of the shooting, but to speak with their neighbors about any lingering misperceptions. Muslim groups that say they represent the mainstream rushed to denounce the Texas shooting in the most forceful terms -- much as they did after Sept. 11 and after the breakup of other foiled terror plots.[35] When news broke out that the shooter behind a deadly rampage at an Army base in Texas was Muslim, Maher Hathout said he couldn't help but be concerned. Hathout, an Arcadia resident and spokesman for the Islamic Center of Southern California, said he hasn't experienced any backlash - yet.[21]
" Introducing his first story, Gibson referred to how Major Nidal Malik Hasan "an army officer, a Muslim, opened fire with handguns[27] " (With a range of frequency, during late afternoon/early evening coverage, CNN, FNC and MSNBC all identified Hasan as a Muslim.) Slightly ironic, no? The fact that Gibson got the story wrong (Hasan, according to his cousin, is not "a Muslim convert") didn't bother media critic Baker.[27]
Having been provided with a free medical education funded by the U.S. taxpayers, Hasan was reportedly upset about being picked on for being Muslim.[22] One of the truly amusing themes being advanced to excuse Major Hasan's culpability is that he was persecuted for being Muslim or for his ethnic background. Some in the Left have found this abuse-excuse to be convenient and his cousin is relentlessly pushing the theme in the MSM. However anyone who has served (I have) has to be amused.[34]
As if all that weren't bad enough, Hasan, according to published reports, is a devout Muslim. That slice of biography ''will certainly permeate reporting and commentary and influence broader perceptions of the mass murder at Ft. Hood.[16] Here's Col. Terry Lee on troubling statements Hasan made about how "Muslims should stand up and fight the aggressor," and how we shouldn't be at war (in the Middle East).[23] These invasions started off as conquest for control energy resources and regions. They now look like its ending up as worldwide religious war between Muslims and Christians.[11] "Not a bad religion?" How many have to die before we wise up to the fact that politically correct statements like that belong to the naive whose head is in the clouds and who refuse to acknowledge the obvious. They want us dead, Cynthia. they have stated as much in their religious proclamations, their religions services, their public actions and their killings of innocent people.[16] People like you that try to be politically correct are as dangerous to America as any terrorist because you are to stupid to see the real world around you. Islam is at fault,it is a violent hate-filled false religion that deceives people like you into a false sense of security,then they kill you.[16] The issue here is a muslim officer deliberately murdered 13 people and maimed 31 others, would you openly trust people from a religion that is infested with terrorist fanatics.[11] You are truly the fool if you believe your own words and it is very sad to see there are people with a mind such as yours, as a Muslim I can tell you you are absolutely wrong about what I am an how I feel, it truely pains me that you feel you have the right to tell other people what I feel or think, you really need to do some soul searching and get rid of your biggoted bias, we are the fastest growing religion in the world, not because of the extremists but in spite of them.[12]
I read the blogs and messageboards, and I understand people are upset - but the reaction is disheartening: calls for the expulsions of Muslims from the armed forces, or for a vetting process, or in a few cases for an all-out ban on Islam.[11] When a korean shot 33 people at University verigina nobody said koreans are radicals and when a aisans shot 7 people at NYC noone said asians are radicals but when Major shot all are taking about Islam. that Major was not representing billions of muslims around the world and he was not obeying the rules of Islam and islam stands for peace.[34]
Mohammed didn't have Jesus' patience. When people were not persuaded by whatever eloquence he may have possessed, he got a group of followers together and declared war. His followers swept across Africa and Asia, killing all those who would not convert. Their goal has been and always will be world domination under the Caliphate and Sharia law. Unlike Christianity, whose goal is also to persuade the world of the correctness of their understanding of God, Islam believes holy war is the way to go because that is how it began. It is not going to change because there is no peace loving distant past or textural interpretation of the Koran to support moderation.[12] ABC News reported that Hasan, a psychiatrist who once practised in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., was reportedly an Islam convert despondent about being deployed to Iraq and upset about the war.[33] Media's Emphasis on Religion The San Francisco Chronicle's Michael Yaki deplores the media's role in putting Hasan's religion up front. "It is how that chapter is currentely being written by the media that has immense implications for who and what we are as a nation. Once the name of the protagonist was established, the blogs lit up and the talking heads immediately turned to the 'terrorist' word," he writes.[7] You then declare everyone practicing the old religions damned and everyone else a a pagan or heathen. The Jews did this taking the legal system and cosmology myths created by others in Mesopotamia and changing it to make it about them, then taking the monotheism and food taboos of Egypt, used it to take the land from the Cannanites and others like the Edomites (from who they took the name of their god "El" and then explained that 'El commanded them to commit genocide agaisnt the Edomites), next taking Zoroastrian elements, and finally heavily layering Greek philisophy on top during the development of rabbinic (modern) Judaism - ironically while reviling the Greeks under whom the Jews flourished due to the Greeks tolerant polytheistic polis system. The Christains did it too and like the Jews vilifyined the preceeding religion and people, and like the Jews used this concpet to kill people from the preceeder religon.[11] People should understand Monothiesm for what it is, a step backwards in human progress, and inherently an expression of prejudice and debasement of others. Believers in the "light" versions of these religions are relatively benign. Serious and fundamental believers of all three of these religions literally believe all outsiders are damned. Fundamentalist Jews believe it is an excuse to take others land and kill Palestinians at 100 to 1, fundamentalist Moslems literally believe it is their duty to make war on the Dar al-Harb, and Christians with the most benign sacred text have lkilled even more than both the others in the name of their religion. What were the Macabbees really up to? They were the same as the Taliban.[11]
Major Nidal Malik Hasan - his name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars.[6]
Like toddlers, liberals tend to take the absurd to the extreme. When they inevitably start blaming our soldiers for Hasan's jihad, don't expect the American people to put up with it.[22] As for not being able to determine for certain whether Hasan authored the posting, I'm reminded of how the cops in Los Angeles don't have access to Facebook or Myspace. A cop friend used to call me when she needed access from the station, and I'd look stuff up for her. As for what took so fucking long, I've tracked down rude anonymous commenters to their cell phone number or their number at their government job in 20 minutes. According to Hasan's cousin, he had been "picked on," harassed by other soldiers because he was of "Middle Eastern origin." Let's assume it's true: I know many people, including soldiers, including female soldiers, who have been brutally harassed. They do not shoot 44 people down in cold blood.[23]
Los Angeles' interim police chief said local officers are on the lookout for any attacks against Muslims. The executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, Salam Al-Marayati, said he's thankful for the support but that police alone can't protect Muslims. "We need to remain vigilant, but at the same time, we don't want people to change their lives completely," he said. "We want them to go on with their regular lives ''' but at the same time, we live in very extraordinary times."[29] "The attack was particularly heinous in that it targeted the all-volunteer army that protects our nation. American Muslims stand with our fellow citizens in offering both prayers for the victims and sincere condolences to the families of those killed or injured."[33] You know, the association of American Muslim Veterans has there have be NO incidents of anybody getting even mad at them about this. there have been NO incidents of threats. What is disgusting is that the minute we get another one of these jihad attacks inside the country, Muslims start WHINING that they will be profiled.[11]
Muslims across the country are condemning Thursday's shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, and offering prayers for the victims.[29] I count myself among the fortunate. I wouldn't want to imagine what it's like for Muslims serving now - especially those at Fort Hood.[11]
Terrorism, like submarines were a tactic, is not the enemy. The enemy, Prof. Lewis has said, is Islamism, which he placed as the third in a sequence of ideological deformations that have taken place in his lifetime, the first two being Bolshevism and Nazism. Prof. Lewis suggests that one way to deal with Islamism is to mobilize Muslims themselves - or is this wishful thinking when our own hesitation is clearly interpreted as our weakness.[9] Lt. Col. Les Melnyck, a Defense Department spokesman, said that as of August, 3,557 active duty troops of roughly 1.4 million identified themselves as being Muslim. According to the self-reported figures, the largest religious preference identified was Roman Catholic (284,000), followed by "no preference," he said. "It's self-reported so you don't have to fill in that box," Melnyck said, adding that 1,710 Muslims are currently serving in the Army, by far the most of any service branch.[2] Let us bear in mind that it is fanatics from the Muslim world who daily slaughter children and non-Arab Muslim tribal groups in Darfur, and are progressively taking over segments of Africa, be it Nigeria or the Somali lands. It is Islamic fanatics who bomb, behead, murder or honor kill. It is the fanatics who stone rape victims and homosexuals. It is the Muslim fanatics who teach in the schools the value of being a shahid - a martyr - when becoming suicide bombers.[9] A yes vote "could make Switzerland a target for Islamic terrorism," said Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey. Swiss diplomats are working to reassure their counterparts in Muslim countries that Bern opposes the initiative. A working group is also monitoring the media in those countries for signs of backlash.[40] In the Los Angeles area, Islamic groups contacted police and sheriffs, who stepped up patrols of mosques and Muslim community centers. USC sophomore Janan Al-Henaid said that her mother called Friday, asking her to come home to Claremont and to be careful when going out. "And she's never done that before," Al-Henaid said.[35]
"You're going to be judged." Jackson's struggle may have gotten harder when the FBI raided a Detroit mosque last week, saying its leader preached hate against the government, trafficked in stolen goods and belonged to a radical group that wants to establish a Muslim state in America.[13] Business and political interests are especially worried about a possible backlash from the Muslim world. Swiss watchmaker Swatch Group Ltd. is worried that its relations with Muslim countries -- an important destination for its goods -- will be imperiled if the initiative passes. "The brand 'Swiss' must continue to represent values such as openness, pluralism and freedom of religion," said Hanspeter Rentsch, member of the executive group management board at Swatch.[40]
Muslim groups participated in a conference call Friday with federal agencies -- including the Homeland Security and Justice departments -- to discuss Muslim Americans' safety.[35] With America waging two wars in Muslim nations, while boasting a large and prosperous population of Muslim Americans at home, a certain tension lurks beneath the surface.[8] JDM, I agree it is a glitch in the personnel evaluation in the army - it is called political correctness. They gave an extra chance to this crazy son of bitch - just because they did not want to be accused of profiling an American Muslim as a homegrown terrorist - which he became.[31] Words cannot express my emotions and the instant headache I received when notified by my dear sister Sheila Musaji over at The American Muslim (TAM) concerning the alleged culprit. They have not yet released further details such as the motive but I will state for the record that no true Muslim could ever commit such a crime against humanity.[15] Despite founding the first modern democracy here in the United States, American Christians feel it. I suspect that Muslims feel it more keenly yet what with the demanding, legalistic nature of their path to salvation.[18]
The Department of State's Special Representative to Muslim communities, Farah Pandith, told the Council on Foreign Relations that US-Muslim engagement programs include work in local communities but are not engaging a "particular kind of religious leader or type of Islam."[30] The report estimates that Shi'ites represent between 10% and 13% of the Muslim population, of which about 80% live in four countries: Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq. The report provides further evidence that while the heart of Islam might beat in the Middle East, its greatest numbers lie in Asia, home to more than 60% of the world's Muslims.[36] I see the root evil in wahabbism, a spin off of sunnism, and which has several times been used as agent provocateur towards shia muslim sectarians, working towards creating strife between the various sects, and other communities (within and without). If clerics, scholars are not willing to reform themselves, then the rest of us must force them to reform. These medieval traditions in Islam are based on Hadith (traditions) collected by Imams Bukhari, Muslim and others (mostly Persians). This has got to stop. The hadiths have to be burnt, the clerics must be banned and gagged, using the Quran as an ideological tool.[11] The Romans/Byzantines did manage to conquer the Ctesiphon 5 times but always returned it. When the Muslims conquered Ctesiphon in 637 AD in the spirit of Jihad (just 5 years after Muhammed's death and 10 years after the last Byzantine siege), they laid waste to the enormous metropolis and turned it into a ghost city. The Zoroastrian priests referred to the Muslims as "demons of wrath" and stated that Babylon and Persia had never had such horrific conquerors in the past 1000 years.[10] The Great Explorations of the Era of Enlightenment were all led with the purpose of attaining better trade routes for the European hunger for Asian spices and Asian goods (silk, Chinese Porcelain, Chinese Tea, Japanese lacquerware, Japanese art prints, etc.). From Versailles to Vienna, European Absolutists adorned their baroque and rococco palaces with fine Chinese vases and cabinets and even made Chinese pagodas and Japanese pavilions in private and public gardens. just as their forefathers had adorned their castles and medieval churches with Turkish and Persian rugs. It was the Europeans who started Egyptology (while the Arabs and Turks sat on the pyramids doing nothing for 1400 years). What of the Muslims? I do not always agree with his analysis, but Professor Bernard Lewis, the imminent Middle Eastern scholar of Princeton University (featured repeatedly by the NY Times) is correct when he says that the Arabs and Turks turned a blind eye to advances around them for well over 1000 years because they believed nothing could be learned from infidels, whether in Asia, Europe, or Africa. It wasn't until the British, Dutch, French circumnavigated Africa (thus, the heavily taxed trade through the Middle East died) and repeatedly defeated them and started appearing right before their noses in India and the Middle East that Muslims began to quietly envy the West for its prosperity, culture, and education.[10] "In America, there is sort of a double standard, which is why so many kids get confused about what they need to do, what is right, and where they belong," said Sara's mother, Lubna. "I raised my children with a balance of both worlds; going to any one extreme is not healthy, in my opinion, for a proper upbringing in this time period. Of course, I don't like her skinny jeans or the fact that she listens to her rock music for long periods of time, but even though I may tell her to stop once in a while, I don't want to pressure her because I see her doing good things as well, like performing her salah (daily prayers), going to halaqas, getting good grades, and being respectful to her peers. I feel like over time, she will come to be the best Muslimah on her own."[37]
Terrorist leaders talk about Muslim Holy lands being "occupied" by the invader. They therefore fly two planes into the World Trade Center and another into the Pentagon because Muslims are fed up with taking all that abuse lying down. (And that's before America invaded Afghanistan and Iraq).[23] No matter what injustice is committed against Muslims across the world - and there is much of that - there is no justification for the harming of innocent people in "revenge." We in America should learn this principle as well.[5] Sophocles, Ovid, Herodotus would not be uttered largely except in Greek among the Greeks enslaved or inservitude by the Muslims. and Classical ideas therefore could not filter to the masses of Muslim peoples. What a stark contrast, then, in Italy when more Greek and Roman works were embraced and elevated during the Renaissance, evident to this day through art and architecture and the growth of Humanism. Despite the explosive spread of the printing press throughout Europe and Asia, the Islamic world didn't establish its first one until the 1700s in Istanbul. and then a second printing press in Egypt by an Albanian in 1822.[10] More than 100 mosques and Muslim religious centers open their doors to the public this Saturday. Organizers hope that the event will be an occasion for Swiss people to get to know their Muslim neighbors first-hand.[41] ''A guy kills a dozen people and wounds 30 more, and a military wife's first concern is about Muslim profiling.[20] Many American Muslim military personnel have honourable discharges; some others gave the ultimate sacrifice, and are buried at Arlington Cemetry. I want to say to Christians: this murderer is no more one of us than the paedophile priest, the abortion doctor killer, or the millions of prisoners behind bars are part of you.[11] It exposes the radical Muslims for what they are - insane. Even if he'd been named something more or less American, say like "Barry", he is still a radical Muslim. and insane. She and all the other 'journalists' are a bunch of cowards and have proven it over and over by kicking and slamming anyone who wouldn't fight back in any threatening manner but kissing the butts of anyone dangerous.[20] Killing anyone is bad because the killer tries to play God. Playing God is evil whether Israelis play it or American war-mongers play it or those darn stupid dumb idiot Muslims play it.[34] " Allahu akbar !" God is great. Hearing the story, Awad too would invoke his maker -- but with a weary lament that is echoing coast to coast among American Muslims.[35]
The three D's -- dating, drinking, and drugs -- are not uncommon phenomena and are becoming more prevalent as we embark upon a new era in the American Muslim experience.[37] Despite eight years of post-9/11 education campaigns, the suspicion and the scrutiny remain a source of deep frustration for Muslim American leaders.[35] The freedoms, humanity, and opportunity in The West are a stark contrast from Muslim countries, however "Christian" it is or once was. For over 1000 years, non-Muslims in most Muslim countries have been considered as 2nd or 3rd class citizens if they weren't enslaved, and they've been forced to pay a tax for being non-Muslim. To this day, evolution and many other modern ideas are outlawed (on pain of death in some places). just as are modern/westernized clothing, music, magazines, etc.[10] Tucker will never shut up about what white people (and some black people) did 300 years ago, but doesn't care what a muslim did yesterday.[16] The actions of this madman cost us, the many Muslims have served this country honourably over the years, so much.[11] Let's get all of the socialistic liberals out of our Congress next November and then when normal Americans are in place we can start impeachment proceedings to rid us of the head of the beast. Or as an alternate so we won't have to contend with the empty-headedness of Joe Biden, just let Obama stay on but with no powers for two years while our new Congress draws up new legislation abolishing all the harmful actions the current Congress and Administration have wreaked on our fair country. Then we can also take on the anti-American MainStream Media (MSM); those head up their 'you-know-whats' that have aided and abetted the sorry bunch of socio/communistic that have been trying to lead us into the corrupt embraces of the United Nations.[14]
Let's not get carried away by that news. There are many devout Muslims in the U.S. Armed Forces who have served their country bravely, some offering the highest sacrifice ''' giving their lives in battle.[16] I, like them, make no secret of my love of my faith as well as my country and my Corps. Like everyone else, young Muslims want to serve even over the objection of their parents: they want to be part of something, they want to be their bit.[11] I'm against the hijacking of my faith and my country. That's why I do my best to work against people like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, who spin and skew early American history for their own profit.[34]
One of the women quickly said no. She insisted that she was free to leave Islam if she wanted to, and that she knew other people who had done so without a problem - in the United States. I said I wasn't talking about her and others' freedom of religion in this country.[10] Moderation is only a result of minority status in a particular country. It is a situation that is to be remedied as soon as possible. How does this apply to this situation and the United State's interaction with Muslims? As I stated in "Memoirs of a Former American", we have, up to this point, refused to take the war with Islam seriously.[12]
Islam, on the other hand, has merged religion and state authority wherein the two are interwoven, and state power and authority are at the service of Allah, helping to bring Allah's word to all the infidels - Jews, Christians, Buddhists, and other non-Islamic faiths.[9] Islam is predisposed toward violence. This cannot be denied. While Christians have certainly done despicable things in the name of God this cannot be said of Jesus or his early followers. Nor of Moses or Abraham for that matter. Muhammed on the other hand, spread his "faith" by the sword form the very beginning and encouraged his followers to do the same.[34]
To Rev Al, The loosers you named did not kill in the name of religion, the fellow from Ft Hood did. One thing in common with all of these attacks, they were all done in the name of Islam.[16] Some viewers are fearful of a possible backlash since the alleged gunman in the Fort Hood attack practiced Islam.[32]
The MSM is in full cover up mode trying their hardest not to invoke Hasan'''s Islamic faith as the motive behind the massacre at Fort Hood.[39] ROSS: Overnight, federal agents carried out search warrants at Hasan's apartment outside Fort Hood. A neighbor told ABC News earlier this week that Hasan had been giving away his furniture, and copies of the Koran, as he apparently planned to dispose of all his belongings. In a statement, members of Hasan's family said, they sent their victims heartfelt sympathies.[20]
When you have a murderer like Hasan, some low-grade morons don't want to put him on trial and make him take responsibility for his crimes. They need to show that it is the right of all idiots like Dan, think-about-it, Boris Kane, and george, to spout off some drivel about they should get to discriminate against some religion. These losers are like children who believe they are supposed to get all A's for the year if someone commits a heinous crime in school. [34] A humble guy. I find him very interested in learning more about his religion. ROSS: Hasan worked as a psychiatrist at the Walter Reed Military Hospital in Washington for six years until this July.[20]
For members of the military the alleged actions of Maj. Hasan are difficult to comprehend.[28] Or, as some experts suggest, a man who simply broke under mounting stress rather than motivated by ideology. Shot four times, Maj. Hasan, survived the mayhem he created.[6] Investigators were trying to determine "if there is something more than just one deranged person," said Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. If others conspired with or aided Maj. Hasan - helping him get the two non-military but deadly semi-automatic handguns - the nightmare scenario of an Islamic cell will re-emerge.[6] Troubling questions are emerging. What diverted authorities from doing a more thorough job of investigating Maj. Hasan six months ago, when he was suspected of jihadist tendencies? Why was he allowed to remain on active duty in the Army, live amongst the troops and prepare for deployment to a combat zone? Those who claim that such an investigation would be some form of discriminatory profiling are simply wrong. It is not profiling to investigate someone based on probable cause.[19] Apparently, the claim was based largely on the fact that Maj. Hasan appears to have been a lone gunman.[19] Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was declared "not a terrorist" before the facts were out - even before officials were sure whether the attacker was alive or dead.[19] Why are we able to so easily label Malik Nadal Hasan a terrorist? The fact speaks for itself. He is just as much a domestic terrorist as Timothy McVeigh was labeled so for his heinous act in Oklahoma City. While McVeigh perpetuated his act from afar in silence, Malik Nadal Hasan shouted anti-American political views at his victims as he mowed them down with automatic weapons.[31]
The fact that muslims have figured in virtually every act of terrorism against the West'' in the last twenty years is only a coincidence.[20] The MSM does everything it can to downplay the fact that the guy is a muslim and that he was motivated by his religion.[31] Most muslim countries do not have democracy, which is enslavement of whole populations, that muslim countries are not tolerant of other religions just ask the Jews, Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists you do not even have to reference the Christians, and women are treated as second class citizens.[11] I don;t think he was tied to a terrorist cell but i do think his religion and sympathy to muslim jihad was the major factor.[31] The victims of the terrorist attacks are Muslims. The enemies of the terrorists in those countries are Muslims too.[12]
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strongbut that is the way to bet it. Common sense says take the Muslims out of the military, keep watch on them. If they are devout, they are all for wiping out Christianity, even if it means all the Christians have to go.[16] If you guys feel Muslims should be excluded from the U.S. military get your congressman to introduce a bill to do just that.[16] America combined. • Of about 4.6 million Muslims in the Americas, more than half live in the United States, although they only make up 0.8% of the U.S. population.[36] "We Muslims in America, our number is 12 million," he said. "Very scary right? What did we do wrong, and what did we do right? NASA has 100 Muslims working for them.[21] As Michael points out, much of the media seems to think ignoring Muslim extremism resolves the problem. Whitewashing the acts of extremists thinking they may just leave us alone if we stick our heads in the sand, won'''t work. What does the media lose by sudden jihad syndrome?'' They've cocooned themselves into a world where America really was responsible for 9/11.'' I don't mean they necessarily buy into the conspiracy nonsense but their core beliefs.'' We brought their hate on ourselves, they believe, by our aggressive tendencies.''[25] I'd rather hear the comments concerning the Ft Hood murders from a "devout Muslim". Surely they can justify this latest incident of purifying America.[16] I should know. My mother was born and raised in an Asian Muslim country, and my father was, too, until his family moved to South America.[10] Alejandro Beutel, government liaison for the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said the Muslim-American community is "appalled" by the incident. "We unequivocally denounce this heinous act against our brave men and women serving in the military to protect our country," Beutel said.[2] We should begin purging our federal government of ALL known Muslims and any others who associate themselves with any thing remotely Islamic. They are not fit to be our neighbors or even be in the same country with us. Their initial intent is to make us bow to THEIR will in OUR country.[14] "Dating, I think, is probably one of the most prevalent issues when it comes to Muslim teens," says Imam Tahir Anwar, director of Religious Services at the South Bay Islamic Association in San Jose, Calif. "Drugs are the next biggest issue and alcohol after that.[37] Tantawi is no liberal. He is a traditional Islamic supremacist and thoroughgoing anti-Semite. The Moslem scholars in Britain are telling us infidels what they think we want to hear. Moslem religious authorities cannot go against the requirements of Allah in the Koran, or against Muhammad in the Hadith, both of which require jihad (both violent and non-violent) against non-Moslems until Islam reigns supreme in the world. None of these Moslems should be taken seriously about being liberal until they openly renounce the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam which ALL 57 Moslem countries, with the approval of the highest Islamic religious authorities of those countries, have subscribed to and which makes ALL human rights subject to the Sharia.[10] Santorum may be right about Islam, but he's a hypocrite, a religious fundamental extremist himself. Remember when you tried to insert the amendment requiring the teaching of intelligent design (i.e., your religious dogma) into the No Child Left Behind Act, Ricky? You're just as religiously intolerant as those you attack.[10]
The believer is held to a higher standard. She in enjoined to restrain the basest desires and hearken to the better angels of her nature. That is "closest to being God-conscious"; that is closest to being Godly; that is closest to being like our Noble Messenger who, when he conquered Mecca, forgave the very people who swore never to stop until his blood was shed by their hands. This verse serves as the foundation upon which Islam condemns (and I condemn) each and every act of violence against the innocent.[5] Islam is not a religion of peace, never has been, never will be. Unlike the other major religions of the world that seek to persuade people through words and example, Islam was born of the idea that persuasion on pain of death was not only acceptable but expected as they spread across the globe and conquered the world.[12] Islam is a monotheist religion originating in the teachings of the Islamic prophet Mohammed, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure.[9] I was very gratified to see all the local Islamic clerics in todays AJC condemning the shootings at Ft.Hood. Imagine that right there on the front page what a news story to assure the infidels that they are a peaceful religion. Oops I guess I was dreaming, this is Atlanta.[16] Christian awareness of the new competing Islamic faith began almost immediately after its advent with the triumphant emergence of the new religion from its Arabian homeland and its spread Eastward to the borders of India and China, and Westward across North Africa and the Mediterranean Islands into Europe.[9]
Islam also islamized parts of Russia during the various Czarist wars against Islamist Ottoman Turks, wherein an ongoing struggle between a Christian power and Islam existed. It should be emphasized that there is still an ongoing conflict between Russia and its Chechen Islamic province which continues unresolved to this day.[9] Huntington expresses - says Professor Fouad Adjami, the renowned Islamic Scholar at Johns Hopkins University - an anxiety about the will and the coherence of the West. The West neither monitors nor defends the ramparts of its free society. Islam will be and remain Islam, Huntington warned, while he was equally dubious that the West would remain true to itself and its mission of freedom, the rule of law and human rights.[9]
We have on November 2, '09: Noor Almaleki is Dead. Run over by her Muslim father for being too "westernized", she lingered for days. Where else do we have this? We must be watchful, not hateful, yes, you are right. [16] That was wrong then and this is wrong now. This guy in addition to being a Muslim might have been a UGA fan but that doesn't inmplicate Georgia unless he hollered "Go Dawgs" before he started shooting. He did shout "God is Great" in Arabic. Be reasonable here and think this through.[16] Being Muslim does not protect one from the ills of society, and discrimination is not the only problem Muslim teens in the U.S. are facing.[37] "I'm disturbed that the reports keep saying he was a devout Muslim.'' There is no link between being a devout Muslim and committing such hideous acts."[20] As a white male I am constantly judged by others regarding being racist against blacks. Because of mistakes by my forefathers enslaving others, I am judged to this day for these actions. We took it upon ourselves to abolish slavery and punish those who continued. My suggestion to Muslims is to do the same and start controlling their own.[11] Unfortunately the actions of the Islamists means muslims have forefeited the right not to be suspected ahead of the rest of us.[11] The debate comes in a country that has prided itself on integrating its large immigrant population and that largely avoided the clashes over the rights of Muslim minorities seen elsewhere in Europe.[40] Peer support is a fundamental necessity for every Muslim teen. It is easy to become part of a crowd so one can be accepted; taking a stand, on the other hand, requires individuality and stamina, which can be bolstered by the right group of friends.[37] Worshipper Mohammed Shamim Hussein said many stayed to pray for the victims in Texas. "It's really hard ''' I can think about their parents, their brothers and sisters. It really is shocking news for everyone," he said. Shamim said when he found out the shooter was Muslim, he couldn't help but worry about backlash. Groups from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee to the Muslim Public Affairs Council issued statements urging calm and cautioning members in their communities to take precautions. Several organizations said they had already received hate e-mails, and a death threat had been sent to a mosque in Irving, Texas, outside Dallas.[29] There isn't a word to describe the heartache, pain, and sheer disgust that I felt when I woke up yesterday morning. A Muslim serviceman can always expect to face questions about his loyalty. When I was in uniform, for instance - a converted black sergeant from New Jersey - a converted black sergeant from New York, Hassan Akbar, turned on his fellow soldiers and murdered two of them.[11]
Was there a SINGLE news outlet that DIDN'T report that the shooter was SOME MANNER of muslim? The very first story I heard had that info in it. The reason for the stress on whether this guy was a convert might be significan.[27]
With deep sadness and regret I hate to report that early reports suggest that the alleged gunmen was Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan. I'm sad for those killed and wounded by a traitor to both God and our country, and I regret that I even feel that I have to write something on the subject.[15] Hasan's comments were reported to Army command, Lee said, but the report fell "on deaf ears."[31]
The Einsteins at MSNBC are reporting that Hasan caught PTSD by working with returning combat soldiers. The reasoning is stupefying, even for liberals: Hasan was distraught over the possibility of having to go to a war zone and decided to work through his trauma by creating a bloodbath on an Army base.[22] The man identified as the shooter, Nidal M. Hasan, is an Army psychiatrist, specifically charged with offering therapy to other soldiers overwhelmed by the stresses of combat and family dislocation. When soldiers return from the battlefield ''' more or less in one piece ''' they should be able to expect that home territory is a refuge, a place of calm, order and safety. That's the least they deserve.[16]
The staunchly pro-terrorist criminal enterprise known as CAIR showed disturbing alacrity in condemning Hasan's jihad. Bending to the demands of political correctness is not only dangerous, it's stupid. How many times do we have to go through this to figure out that no matter how daft the lengths to which we go, liberals will never think it's enough. The Obama controlled media will try to attack this man-caused disaster from every angle but the conspicuous truth. No doubt congress will soon take up the question of whether soldiers should be allowed access to firearms, just as soon as they are done trying to wreck health care.[22] "The attack was particularly heinous in that it targeted the all-volunteer army that protects our nation." If there is a "teachable moment" from this horror ''' and there probably isn't much of one ''' it has less to do with Islam than the fact that the Army needs to look more carefully not just at its stress-plagued soldiers but also at the psychiatrists who treat them. They can be nuts, too.[16]
All three morning shows on Friday identified the man who killed 12 at an Army base in Texas as a Muslim.[20] Christy, Do all Muslim think and feel like you do? You can't be oblivious to the fact that there are Muslim who hate us.[12] Overall, I am much more able to be a Muslim here in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world, even more than many parts of the "Muslim world." I thank God for this, and it is because of His blessing of this great nation.[5]
In 2004, the demand of a cashier at Swiss supermarket chain Migros to be permitted to wear a headscarf at work sparked debate, but when Migros and a rival, Coop, set a policy banning headscarves for employees who deal with the public, the controversy faded. Lately, however, conservative Muslims have pushed for greater recognition of their faith. One group has successfully appealed to Swiss courts to allow parents to dress their children in full-body swimming suits during co-ed lessons.[40] The only way to solve the problem is to give all women equal rights in the Western world and to hell with Muslims having the monopoly on women.[11] The guy yelled "Allahu Akbar" right before he began killing innocent people. This is a very dangerous "religion". Their goal is to kill all non-muslims.[16] Are all the bigots on here from ATL? You're all retarded. If someone states that they are killing in the name of something, does that mean that entity is automatically to blame? You don't think those abortion murderers don't claim to killing in the name of Jesus? Should I hold Jesus or Christianity responsible? I can't believe how stupid people in this country are.[16] Good points, but not relevant. If 50 Baptist(any denomination will do) lead protests at the funerals of service people, we would denounce and condemn them. If 50 or 1 person commits a terrible crime in the name of their faith and no one from the faith speaks out against it, then we have reason to wonder. We hear about "honor" killings, we have a TV station owner cutting the head off his wife another honor killing only to have CAIR defend it as there is no such thing as honor killings.[16]
There is a good case to be made that the media (and to a lessor extent the entire left side of the isle in general) suffer from a form of Stockholm Syndrome. They have perceived the threat to their survival and they know that their "captors" (terrorist extremists) are willing to act on that threat. Their perception of small kindnesses from those "captors" within the overarching context of terror inflicted by the terrorists. (releasing a captured journalist alive for a ransom payment of course). Their self enforced isolation from any perspectives other than that which offers apologia of the terrorist extremist "captors". (the off-the-record online meeting space called JournoList is but one example of the self-enforced isolated media echo-chamber mentality). Their perceived inability to escape. (One world, nowhere to run). Another name for Stockholm Syndrome is cognitive dissonance.[25] Good Morning America'''s Diane Sawyer repeated a concern from Thursday'''s World News: ". We heard Martha Raddatz say last night that the wife of a soldier said '''I wish his name had been Smith,''' so no one would have a reflexive question about[20] Here is the text of Santorum's NCLB amendment. Real religious fundamentalist stuff that passed 91-8 in the Senate with Barbara Boxer as a cosponor. (1) good science education should prepare students to distinguish the data or testable theories of science from philosophical or religious claims that are made in the name of science; and (2) where biological evolution is taught, the curriculum should help students to understand why this subject generates so much continuing controversy, and should prepare the students to be informed participants in public discussions regarding the subject.[10]
The Swiss People's Party gathered twice the required signatures needed to call a vote. Its campaign used posters depicting a woman in a burqa in front of a row of minarets shaped like missiles. Some cities, such as Basel, have banned the posters, while Zurich and others have allowed them in the name of free speech.[40] The PC crowd starts their bitchin' in oh so subtle ways as if we can't see thru them and they wonder why people find the msm talking heads despicable. they are a major cause of things like this happening in this country and out of this country. they are the enemy as far as I am concerned.[20] Switzerland is still bruised from a spat with Libya that led that country to cut off oil exports to Switzerland for a time. "The possible economic impact must not be used as a way to kill this debate," said Martin Baltisser, general secretary of the Swiss People's Party.[40]
Must be because the particular way of Islam. What is the one phrase people hear in connection with those murders? Allahu Akbar.[11] The students, one man and two women, wore Western-style clothes and spoke English with little or no accent. They disputed my description of Islam as it's practiced in the Middle East, maintaining that al-Qaeda's version of Islam in no way reflects the Islam that is practiced around the world.[10] According to Islam, you have no right to even express your opinion. You're only a woman, who should belong totally to your father or brother, until he decides to either give you (or sell you) to another man.[16]
Robert Spencer, the director of the Jihad Watch blog and the author of nine books on Islam and jihad, chastised the media for failing to point to jihad as a possible explanation for Hasan's crime.[33] Hasan wasn't afraid to go to war.'' He just didn't want to do so for America.'' It's getting to the point that I think the media collectively suffers from a far worse mental illness than they claim Hasan may have.[25] For the purposes of argument, let's assume that Hasan really did suffer from vicarious traumatization.'' A man in his job would surely recognize it, and a man in his job would surely know that there are resources to deal with it.'' He evidently did nothing.'' Nor does the vicarious trauma theory account for his internet cheerleading for the enemy.'' Just because someone is horrified by the reality of war a perfectly normal reaction it does not follow that they suddenly begin rooting for the other side.''[25] Mr Shuh says that the "official" line is that Hasan was a "victim". This is in reference to the fact that the media (as well as our ne'er-do-well president) all want to say this poor man was "picked on" after September 11. Mr Shuh goes on to say that Hasan is a mass murderer and a traiter and therein is the crux of his letter.[34] Not as simple, but a start, my advice for someone who wishes to converts to Islam is to read and understand the true meaning of Islam as explained in the Quran, and not what explanations given by Imams, Scholars, Mullahs, etc of so many hues. As a good Arabic reader, who de-brainwashed and decoupled myself from these noxious teachings, the Message is very different from what say the Taleban and other sectarians are doing. It has nothing to do with a hostile media, it is just a plain fact, the Hadith teachings are nasty, and the scholars have been very clever hiding that, but now more and more clerics are reading those "nasty" nefarious Hadiths and applying them giving fatwas to Jihadists and others to create mayhem.[11] As Christianity comes in many forms (I'm a member in good standing of the Christian left), so does Islam.[16]
Prof. Lewis states that Islam is a religiously defined civilization, comparable with Christendom. They both proselytize and the two have challenged each other for centuries. Both Islam and Christendom share the same roots in the Judaic and Hellenistic traditions. They contain components of Hellenistic philosophy dealing with justice and morality as well as science. In Islam and Christianity, the firm belief exists and is maintained by followers of both religions, that they are the exclusive possessors of G'''d's final truth which it is their obligation to bring to all humanity.[9] Oh yesthe oh so holy religion of islam, that wants to have everyone except themselves made to worship or be killed is as Ms Tucker states "not a bad religion". Cynthia, perhaps you might lecture President Hussein on that subject and also give him some pointers regarding economics as unemployment is now at 10.2%.[16]
There's a long tradition (in Africa). It moves them away from the Christianity they saw as a slave religion, as the religion that legitimized their slavery." Margari Hill was a California teenager seeking an antidote for nihilism and widespread disrespect of black women when she found Islam in 1993. A few years ago, she began covering her hair with a hijab, or head scarf.[13]
Was reportedly being treated himself for problems with alcohol. Although Hasan had just been promoted to major in May, his family and a congressman briefed on the case, say he had hired a lawyer, to help him get out of the Army. REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL (R-TX): Apparently he became very disgruntled in the mission in Afghanistan, voiced that to a lot of his colleagues. ROSS: In this internet posting earlier this year, Nadal Hasan compared suicide bombers to G.I.''' s who saved their colleagues by throwing themselves on a grenade.[20] The state of health of Australian men has been ignored and neglected for many decades by successive governments, while at the same time, the cultural landscape for men, has in recent times come under severe attack from many sources, causing a further deterioration in the well being of the nations' men and boys. We are dedicating the whole of this weeks' program to the opening day at this year's National Men's Health Gathering, which starts the week with the 5th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Male Health Convention.[23] "We were all attacked yesterday. Let's remember that this was an attack on all Americans and it's a time for all Americans to come together in unity and in faith."[2]
The military -- which may be the most egalitarian of American employers -- has long been total death on ethnic comments and discrimination. Hasan was a Major, i.e. a commissioned FIELD GRADE OFFICER. In other words, all enlisted men and all company grade officers who would offer any kind of offense would do so only at extreme peril to their disciplinary record. [34] The right-wing news site WorldNetDaily said that according to an "explosive new book," Hasan was "just the tip of a jihadist Fifth Column operating within the ranks of the U.S. military."[35] Frankly that explanation doesn't pass muster. Anyone who works, in any line of business, has to do things that he or she doesn't want to do, often for months at a time and under difficult circumstances. Although the stresses of most of our daily 8-to-5s can't compare to those experienced by our deployed military personnel, the comparison is still a useful tool. Considering it's unlikely that a trained psychologist like Hasan would be put into a front-line situation, it seems that he would have had relatively little to fear in terms of his personal safety had he been sent overseas.[18] I think we needed to start treating radical islam like the Nazis - not something to be tolerated and certainly not something to overlook. It's about time we begin realizing "Hannibal Ad Portas", Hannibal is at the gates.[34]
Lynch refers to an article that Andrew Higgins wrote for The Washington Post, which found that overt American efforts to promote "liberal Islam" routinely backfire. He notes that the Obama administration's "more nuanced and disaggregated approach defined by'''mutual interests and mutual respect" will reap greater dividends than the Bush-era's extensive intrusion into religious matters during its attempt to combat "Islamo-fascism."[30] You see, Cynthia, the consequences of American newsmedia. Long as social change causes insecurity in more conservative americans, they'll seek a source of negative information about a people they want to compare themselves favorably to. In an age of encroaching atheism, evidence of their religious superiority is necessary, spawning thousands of books and videos for mass consumption.[16]
Fox News is interviewing a soldier who knew the shooter, and who is attributing anti-U.S., religious comments to the shooter, but we'll see what an investigation proves. It may be that this has a religious or political motive, or it may be that the person was just crazy, or some combination of the two. If the evidence is that this was a political and religious shooting, we should not hesitate to say so. [7] At least six months ago, Hasan came to the attention of law enforcement officials because of Internet postings about suicide bombings and other threats, including posts that equated suicide bombers to soldiers who throw themselves on a grenade to save the lives of their comrades. They had not determined for certain whether Hasan is the author of the posting, and a formal investigation had not been opened before the shooting, said law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the case.[23]
13 are dead and 30 are injured. It defies comprehension. I was mowing the grass this afternoon and stopped to talk to one of my neighbors. Her soldier son worked with Hasan on the base back East. She said he described Hasan as unfriendly, a loner. She said, "He told me there's no way Hasan is crazy. He knew what he was doing."[1] Hasan, a Virginia-born psychiatrist, was in many ways a product of the American mainstream.[35]
All three morning shows highlighted reports that the killer allegedly yelled "Allahu Akbar" ("God is''great" in Arabic")''prior to the shooting. Ross noted that a neighbor claimed Hasan had previously given away copies of the Koran and attempted to get rid of his property.[20] I've already heard talk on the radio about how Hasan may have suffered from PTSD. There's a new one on me! Someone who never saw combat suffering from PTSD. I will be sure and watch for the report touting the dangers of "Second Hand Post Traumatic Stress Disorder" coming soon from an MSM spin merchant near me.[20]
Do not expect the president to label Malik Nadal Hasan a terrorist himself. He has purged the meaningful term "war on terror" from the White House lexicon.[31] Smith eatablished early on that Hasan was native born and had several personal issues that would lead subsequent reporting away from terrorist connections as a motive for the attacks.[27] Failing to honestly name a terrorist attack despite the evidence is as destructive and dishonest as leaping to call an attack terrorism without the facts to support that.[19]
On October 25, twin car bombs targeted two Iraqi government buildings, killing at least 160 people and wounding more than 500 in central Baghdad. It was the deadliest attack in Iraq since 2005.[31] When it happens in Texas, in the heart of the biggest military base in the nation, at a processing center for soldiers either returning from or deploying to combat overseas, it is not merely a "tragedy" (as too many people called it) but a glimpse of a potentially fatal flaw at the heart of what we have called, since 9/11, the "war on terror."[4] God didn't invent religion. somebody did, I'm not sure who, but that's another story. In a nutshell, the merging of religion, the military and illegal wars is the match that lit this fuse.[11] The labels of religion keep us all separate, all in bondage to tyranny that respects neither man nor God, but only the profit of war.[11]
To Hell as part of a Chritian crusadw no doubt one macho theistic bunch opressing another. The sooner religions and gods forgotton and humanity nurtured the sooner such animalistic violence will be seen as an anachronistic example of stunted development.Ordinary decent americans don't go around slaughtering each other.[11]
We have moved from being racists to being prejudice against people because of religion. [16] That is exactly my point. News in this country has been partial in picking out these relgious people and reporting thier isolated actions.[16] As Mark Twain said: "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." We do not monitor each and every posting, but we reserve the right to delete comments that violate these rules.[3] In EchoesoftheEnlightenment belief system there can be no tolerance of a Christian fundmentalist's viewpoint. Now he'll probably tell me that fundies can hold to any religious belief that they desire, but they have no right to dictate law based on their bible. am I right Echoes? To that I say that I don't see them as dictating law based on their bibles. I see them fighting for laws to be passed (or repealed) based on their own particualr worldview. That is the essence of democracy. A person's worldview is formed by the effect of the entirety of his life's experiences, his genetic makeup, etc. Included in this formation is his stance on theological issues and how they affect the culture in which we live. We have no right to tell him to disregard this facet of his personhood, as it is integral to the totality of his being. He has every right to use his entire worldview, regardless of its origin, in fighting for (or against) any particular issue to be decided in legislature or courtroom.[10] The events at Ft.Hood scream one thing: get the hell out of the war business. The pain is becoming unmanageable for most of these returning veterans, and this guy has obviously sucked alot of it up like a sponge. His actions are a reflection of the pain, not his religious or political affiliations.[11] Islam now=jihad=hate propaganda=9/11=the tragedy at Ft Hood. That means Islam now, and its followers of all colors and ethnicities, is at war with the entire world, is dreaming of a Caliphate to be achieved through violence.[23] State and faith. Professor Huntington has warned us that it is indeed not his fault that we did not heed his darker vision of the world which confronts us today. Permit me to review the historical onslaught of Islam, from its foundation in the 7th century and its attempts to dominate the world.[9]
Even as I make extra prayers and give Dua, I know that my fellow non-Muslim Americans would love to see me leave my country. I wonder where they would like me to go. [11] Monotheism works one way, you take aspects of various religions and change it and form a new religion.[11] Antiochus could have cared less. What happened was most Jews were becoming synchrtists, enjoying religious freedom and adapting different aspects of different cultures they were interacting with under a freedom of religion regime. This enraged the fundamentalists who began killing. The Maccabees types were killing all the Jews who were not Jewish enough or as they used the term for worldly Jews: "Greeks."[11]
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20. ABC'''s Diane Sawyer Repeats Concern of Wishing Muslim Shooter'''s '''Name was Smith'''; All Three Networks ID Hasans Faith | NewsBusters.org
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25. The Greenroom » Forum Archive » Hasan with PTSD? Or media with Factitious Disorder By Proxy?
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