This story is headlined to be about ‘tensions over Muslims in the military,’ but more than half of it is about the Muslim Community Center in Silver Springs, MD. There is also a short video report about the center, which has become the target of media efforts to get a ‘Muslim’ response to the Fort Hood shooting.
News reporters deluged the Silver Spring, Md., mosque where the Fort Hood shooting suspect once worshipped, demanding to know what the Quran, Islam’s holy book, has to say about such events. One even asked if the suspect, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who was born in Virginia and lived his whole life in the U.S., spoke with an “accent.”
