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  • johnpi 10:37 pm on February 8, 2010 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    An experienced military trainer who taught US Army soldiers about his Muslim faith has been suspended from working on military bases pending a continuing criminal inquiry, according to a report in the Dallas Morning News.

    The [Louay] Safi affair reveals the deep divisions within the U.S. government over how to combat terrorism and over what constitutes moderate Islam.

    Some believe insight into Islamist thinking can be gained only by engaging a wide range of people in North America’s close-knit Muslim community, where leaders may well have ties to extremists – ties that do not necessarily signal alliances or support. Others argue that engagement should be limited or shunned to avoid legitimizing radicals or embarrassing the government.

    Safi is a senior official of the Islamic Society of North America, the country’s largest Muslim organization. ISNA has been consulted for years by Washington and is described as a partner in the fight against terrorism. In addition to serving as ISNA’s communications director, Safi runs its program certifying Muslim chaplains for work in the U.S. military and prison system. He publicly denounces terrorism and advocates peace.
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    “You have a schizophrenic government and a schizophrenic institution,” Zelikow said, referring to ISNA. “The schizophrenia cuts right into how the government views the whole Fort Hood affair. We don’t know whether to treat him [Hasan] as part of an international conspiracy or as a lone wolf who happened to have gotten solace from a radical imam.”

     

  • johnpi 8:34 am on January 22, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    The US army’s report on the Fort Hood shooting is being used as fodder for the right-wing’s attack on ‘political correctness’ because it does not mention Nidal Hasan or Islam by name.

    “The report demonstrates that we are unwilling to identify and confront the real enemy of political Islam,” says a former military colleague of Hasan, speaking privately because he was ordered not to talk about the case. “Political correctness has brainwashed us to the point that we no longer understand our heritage and cannot admit who, or what, the enemy stands for.”

    The authors have defended the report, saying that the focus of their investigation was ‘actions and consequences not motivations.’

    Mark Lynch wrote about the broader right-wing response earlier:

    A lot of people — some well-meaning, some clowns or worse — evidently want the American response to the Ft. Hood shootings to revive the post-9/11 “war of ideas” and “clash of civilizations” anti-Islamic discourse. It’s a jihad, they shout, demanding careful scrutiny of the loyalty of American Muslims. That’s what they seem to mean by the demand to throw away “political correctness” and confront the ideological menace. The overall effect of their recommendations, however, would be to revive the flagging al-Qaeda brand and to greatly strengthen the appeal of its narrative. And that’s exactly what we should not want.

     

  • johnpi 9:42 pm on December 12, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Fort Hood ups challenge to recruit Muslim, Arab troops.

    Army recruiter Sgt. Chris McGarity is on the front lines of the military’s effort to add troops who speak Arabic and understand Middle Eastern culture — a battle that grew more challenging after the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas.
    McGarity says he recently signed up an Arab-American high school student who lacked only her parents’ approval to enlist. Then came the Nov. 5 rampage at Fort Hood. The Army has charged Maj. Nidal Hasan, 39, a Muslim and Arab American, with killing 13 people and wounding 32.

    The high school student’s mother “made her withdraw her application,” McGarity says.

    Such experiences illustrate heightened fears of discrimination and harassment aimed at Arab-American and Muslim troops since the Fort Hood shooting, says Mikey Weinstein, a former Air Force lawyer who founded the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which advocates for separation between church and state in the military.

    Muslims in the military experience “horrible” discrimination, he says.

    Before the shooting at Fort Hood, the foundation had 80 Muslim clients who had reported instances of discrimination and harassment, Weinstein says. Complaints jumped 20% to 103 in the weeks after the shooting. “We had people almost immediately … being told ‘you people’ should not be in the military,” he says.

     

  • buzz 4:48 pm on November 21, 2009 | 4 Permalink | Reply
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    Well written and thoughtful OpEd piece in the NY Times.

    …It’s true that Major Hasan was unbalanced and alienated — and, by my lights, crazy. But what kind of people did conservatives think were susceptible to the terrorism meme? Like all viruses, terrorism infects people with low resistance. And surely Major Hasan isn’t the only American Muslim who, for reasons of personal history, has become unbalanced and thus vulnerable. Any religious or ethnic group includes people like that, and the post-9/11 environment hasn’t made it easier for American Muslims to keep their balance. That’s why the hawkish war-on-terrorism strategy — a global anti-jihad that creates nonstop imagery of Americans killing Muslims — is so dubious…

    Full article.

     

  • plimfix 4:27 am on November 20, 2009 | 19 Permalink | Reply
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    Omar Sacirbey poses the question, “Did the alleged Fort Hood shooter lose control, at least in part, because he was sexually frustrated?” My question is, what has mass murder got to do with self control? No, no, no, I can’t hold it in any longer, I’ve got to – shoot 13 people dead..? Omar collates a range of opinion. –”All these men are so sexually deprived so much so that the sperm has gone to their brain, and they implode,” wrote Ani Zonneveld, a female Muslim activist– echoing Bin-Bazian teachings on masturbation. –”I’m skeptical,” said Kecia Ali, a religion professor at Boston University. People have tried to link Islamic extremism and sexual frustration for years, she said, but a causal relationship “was a bit of a stretch.”– It’s an absurd notion, Kecia. A more interesting interrogative would be this: why is the original question taken seriously? Brainstorming – confusing issue with relationship between extremist violence and hypermasculinity, the trend for psychological explanation, the relationship between racism and sexuality exemplified by phalloplethysmography…

     

  • buzz 4:36 am on November 18, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    CAIR: Va. Gov-Elect Asked to Repudiate Anti-Islam Donor’s Remarks

    One of McDonnell’s top contributors says Muslims should be treated like communists, fascists

    WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today called on Virginia’s Governor-elect Robert F. McDonnell to publicly repudiate anti-Islam remarks by Pat Robertson, the televangelist and gubernatorial campaign contributor who recently said Islam is “not a religion” and that American Muslims should be treated like members of a communist or fascist party.

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  • willow 3:18 pm on November 16, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    Asra Nomani was recently interviewed on NPR’s Talk of the Nation about Fort Hood. Her suggestion to prevent further violence? Monitor guys who wear their pants above the ankle. This police-state tactic has been en vogue in places like Egypt, Tunisia and Syria for many years. I’m sure the Mubaraks, the Ben Alis and the Assads could give her some great tips.

     

  • johnpi 9:09 pm on November 14, 2009 | 5 Permalink | Reply
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    I’m going to be traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday in the US and not blogging at all (not taking my computer), inshallah.

    For Muslim converts who observe Thanksgiving with non-Muslim relatives, I’m wondering if anybody is anticipating that the recent Fort Hood attack will be, conversationally speaking, the 800 lb. gorilla in the room. Will you be put “on the spot” and expected to declaim about Maj. Hasan? Will you feel pressure to ‘represent’ for the Muslim team with big bold exclamations? Do you have relatives that still get their back up about your conversion or who are uneasy about it and who will feel licensed by Fort Hood to dump it on you again?

    Might be a good year to volunteer at the food pantry instead.

     

  • aziz 5:52 pm on November 14, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    this muslim diarist at @dailykos says what we all wanted to say. but without restraint. (via @eteraz)

     

  • buzz 2:53 pm on November 13, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Muslims need not be apologetic
    By Linda S. Heard

    Muslims make up roughly one quarter of the world’s population. Just because one out of almost 1.5 billion ran amok, leaving 13 dead and 23 wounded, does not mean the entire Muslim nation is responsible. When Sergeant John M. Russell opened fire on his comrades at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, last May, killing five, the media did not even mention his religion. Instead, papers reported that the young man, who “had been broken by the army” was suicidal and in debt.

    When National Guard soldier Joshua Cartwright shot and killed two Florida deputies in April he was characterized as “severely disturbed”. No one investigated his spiritual beliefs. The media, likewise, took a soft approach, last year, when Dustin Thorson, an Air Force sergeant, shot his wife and son at Tinker Airbase and, in 1995, when Sergeant William Kreutzer killed one and injured 18 at Fort Bragg. But when an American-born major with the name Nidal Malek Hassan commits a similar crime he is judged in the court of public opinion based on his ethnicity and religion.

    Bill O’Reilly of Fair and Balanced on Fox News has already decided that Hassan is either a “Muslim terrorist” or “crazy”. Fox’s Brian Kilmeade has made up his mind too. He asked a guest: “Do you think it is time for the military to have special debriefings of Muslim Army Officers …?” or “anyone enlisted”?

    Teheran Times

     

  • johnpi 7:33 am on November 13, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Time magazine: Nidal Hasan marks ‘a whole new terrorism war.’

    Weekly news magazines like Time and Newsweek, which each have a circulation of between 3 and 4 million, can’t ‘break’ news stories because they are weekly, so their coverage tends to be more like what is called ’second-day coverage’ where they are offering analysis, predictions, repercussions, the ‘bigger picture,’ etc. Both Time and Newsweek have become much more conservative in orientation through the 1980s and 1990s.

    For eight years, Americans have waged a Global War on Terrorism even as they argued about what that meant. The massacre at Fort Hood was, depending on whom you believed, yet another horrific workplace shooting by a nutcase who suddenly snapped, or it was an intimate act of war, a plot that can’t be foiled because it is hatched inside a fanatic’s head and leaves no trail until it is left in blood. In their first response, officials betrayed an eagerness to assume it was the first; the more we learn, the more we have cause to fear it was the second, a new battlefield where our old weapons don’t work very well and our values make us vulnerable: freedom, privacy, tolerance and the stubborn American certainty that people born and raised here will not reject the gifts we share.

    Even as the President weighs how to fight the wars he inherited, he and the entire U.S. security apparatus will have to figure out how you fight a war against an enemy you can’t recognize, much less understand. In that sense, the war on terrorism has left the battlefield and moved to the realm of the mind.

    This an excerpt to the main story in what appears to be “package coverage” with a number of sidebars and smaller stories linked off of it.

     

  • johnpi 12:03 am on November 13, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Austin Muslim leader details backlash community faces (video).

    Imam Islam Mossaad, who leads the North Austin Muslim Community Center, discusses the reaction he has received after the Fort Hood shootings. No reports of physical attacks in Austin.

     

  • johnpi 7:50 am on November 11, 2009 | 4 Permalink | Reply
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    Both Glenn Greenwald and Jonah Goldberg ask a great question: Can an attack on a military base really be called ‘terrorism’?

    Whatever you call it, it’s bad, but terrorism is really not the accurate word to describe it.

     

  • johnpi 7:17 am on November 11, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    Fort Hood backlash: Marine reservist chases, assaults Greek Orthodox priest whom he mistook for an Arab terrorist.

    Alexios Marakis, a Greek Orthodox priest visiting the U.S., got lost in Tampa and tried to stop and ask directions from Marine reservist Jasen D. Bruce. But instead of offering help, “Bruce struck the priest on the head with a tire iron.” The reservist believed Marakis, who spoke limited English, was an Arab terrorist. Bruce chased the priest for three blocks, “and even called 911 to say that an Arabic man tried to rob him.”

    Police arrested Bruce for “aggravated battery with a deadly weapon” and are investigating whether he committed a hate crime.

     

  • johnpi 6:46 am on November 11, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Mark Lynch takes on the right-wing response to Fort Hood that has especially focused its attacks on ‘political correctness.’

    A lot of people — some well-meaning, some clowns or worse — evidently want the American response to the Ft. Hood shootings to revive the post-9/11 “war of ideas” and “clash of civilizations” anti-Islamic discourse. It’s a jihad, they shout, demanding careful scrutiny of the loyalty of American Muslims. That’s what they seem to mean by the demand to throw away “political correctness” and confront the ideological menace. The overall effect of their recommendations, however, would be to revive the flagging al-Qaeda brand and to greatly strengthen the appeal of its narrative. And that’s exactly what we should not want.

    I don’t think it’s going to happen. President Obama and his national security team clearly rejects such strategic misconceptions. They understand the importance of combining effective police work and international cooperation with a carefully calibrated rhetoric and strategic communications campaign. Americans have learned a lot since 9/11. And if the careful police work and investigation uncovers real ties to al-Qaeda, then I expect they will pursue those leads and carry out the appropriate response quietly and efficiently — but without inflaming public hostilities, scoring cheap political points, or fueling the al-Qaeda narrative.

     

  • buzz 3:05 pm on November 10, 2009 | 0 Permalink
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    Are you a JAFI? (Just Another F*cking Islamophobe)

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    Your opinions are treasured. Thank you!

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  • johnpi 7:15 am on November 10, 2009 | 18 Permalink | Reply
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    A Hindu writer at Forbes magazine has coined a new term he hopes catches on: ‘Going Muslim’ a play on a term that has existed in American popular culture for awhile, ‘Going postal.’

    “Going postal” is a piquant American phrase that describes the phenomenon of violent rage in which a worker–archetypically a postal worker–”snaps” and guns down his colleagues.

    As the enormity of the actions of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sinks in, we must ask whether we are confronting a new phenomenon of violent rage, one we might dub–disconcertingly–”Going Muslim.” This phrase would describe the turn of events where a seemingly integrated Muslim-American–a friendly donut vendor in New York, say, or an officer in the U.S. Army at Fort Hood–discards his apparent integration into American society and elects to vindicate his religion in an act of messianic violence against his fellow Americans. This would appear to be what happened in the case of Maj. Hasan.

    The difference between “going postal,” in the conventional sense, and “going Muslim,” in the sense that I suggest, is that there would not necessarily be a psychological “snapping” point in the case of the imminently violent Muslim; instead, there could be a calculated discarding of camouflage–the camouflage of integration–in an act of revelatory catharsis.

    The writer, Tunku Varadarajan, goes on to complain about ‘political correctness,’ as so many other articles of this ilk have.

     

  • johnpi 11:26 pm on November 9, 2009 | 8 Permalink | Reply
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    Asra Nomani has discovered a man who attends the Silver Springs, MD Muslim Community Center who said he had many, many conversations with Nidal Malik Hasan about religious topics.

    …a closer look behind the doors of the mosque and inside the conversations between the engineer and the doctor reveal a more complex picture of a young first-generation American Muslim man living a life of dissonance between his identity as an American and his ideology as a Muslim who had accepted a literal, rigid interpretation of Islam, akin to the puritanical Wahhabi and Salafi interpretations of Islam that define the theology of militancy inside the Muslim world today, according to community members who knew Hasan.

    Along the way of reporting and describing the two men’s conversations, Nomani has a critique of the common use of the word “ummah” among some in the Muslim world today.

    It’s critical that we ditch the concept of the “ummah” with a capital “U” and recognize that we are an “ummah” with a small “u,” meaning our religious identity doesn’t have to supersede other loyalties and identities. This attempt to push an “Ummah” is the politics of ideologues of puritanical Islam who want to mollify dissent. Sadly, too many moderates have bought into it. We aren’t monolithic, and we shouldn’t try to be. Look at al Qaeda, the Taliban and Pakistani militant groups: They don’t have a problem with killing Muslims, slaying Muslims in attacks from Amman, Jordan, to Islamabad, Pakistan.

     

  • johnpi 9:35 pm on November 9, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    Cops investigate possible hate crime against Muslim family on Long Island.

    I think there must be more to the story than was reported because the head of the hate crimes unit spent the morning at the condominium where it happened, as did the head of a local Muslim advocacy group.

    The woman who lives in the condo on Overlook Drive says she went out for a walk this morning and when she returned the house was ransacked and $200 was taken, 1010 WINS’ Mona Rivera reports.

    Police would not say if the couple had been targeted due to their religious beliefs, however head of the Hate Crimes Unit was on the scene. Police would not say, at this point, if they believe it was a hate crime.

    The head of the Long Island Muslim Alliance was also on the scene and said he was concerned this incident could be backlash from the Fort Hood shooting rampage.

    A second story that also said ‘a hate crime was being investigated’ says there was graffiti. I infer that there was something about the graffiti that indicated the elderly couple was targeted because they were Muslims and/or in relation to the Fort Hood attack.

     

  • aziz 7:51 pm on November 9, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    How the Ft. Hood Shooter Brings Radical Clerics and Right-Wing Nuts Together

    What Goldberg, Ross (or his sources), Leiberman, et. al. are trying to do is establish an equivalence between “Muslim person who kills people” and “global conspiracy of Muslims who kill people,” so that they can advance a political agenda that involves deploying U.S. resources in a particular way to defeat a particular threat.

    The funny thing is, the terrorists agree with them. Hasan’s radical former imam, Anwar al Awlaki, wrote on his web site that “Nidal Hasan is a hero” who performed “an Islamic duty.” It’s precisely the same ideological jump: Hasan didn’t act alone, he is part of a broader struggle by religious fanatics. And it’s made for the same reason: to advance a political agenda. The neocons want to keep pressure on the idea that there is a vast army of scary Muslims always on the verge of killing us. And so do the terrorists.

     

  • johnpi 4:37 pm on November 9, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Muslim Mafia author explicitly calls for “a professional and legal backlash against the Muslim community and their leaders.”

    In assigning collective blame for the Fort Hood killings, Gaubatz said:

    Politicians, Muslims, and law enforcement are concerned about a ‘backlash’ against Muslims. Now is the time for a professional and legal backlash against the Muslim community and their leaders. Muslims know what materials are being taught in their mosques and they know many of the materials instruct young Muslims to kill innocent people who do not adhere to Sharia law. If Muslims do not want a backlash, then I would recommend a “house cleaning.” Stack every Saudi, al Qaeda, Pakistani, Taliban, Hamas, and Muslim Brotherhood piece of material from their mosque and have a bonfire. Tell the American, Jewish, and Muslim community this hatred will no longer be allowed in their mosques.

    As TPM notes, all of this might be dismissed as the ranting of a fringe lunatic, but for the fact that Gaubatz’s work has been circulated and endorsed by prominent Republican lawmakers.

     

  • johnpi 3:54 pm on November 9, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    The spokesman for the American Family Association, a right-wing group, has issued a statement calling for the purging of Muslim soldiers from US military ranks.

    From the statement:

    “Of course, most U.S. Muslims don’t shoot up their fellow soldiers. Fine. As soon as Muslims give us a foolproof way to identify their jihadis from their moderates, we’ll go back to allowing them to serve. You tell us who the ones are that we have to worry about, prove you’re right, and Muslims can once again serve. Until that day comes, we simply cannot afford the risk. You invent a jihadi-detector that works every time it’s used, and we’ll welcome you back with open arms.”

    “This is not Islamophobia, it is Islamo-realism.”

    Meanwhile, the relatives of one of the victims has spoken out against the collective scapegoating of Muslims.

    “You can’t blanket a whole group of people. There’s extremists in every religion, and there’s extremists all over the world,” said Cahill’s daughter, Kerry. “And I don’t think that we can blanket a whole group of people when this man obviously was ill, I think.”

    Cahill’s other daughter, Keely Vanacker, expanded: “The death of our father, or any of these victims, shouldn’t be an excuse or reason to begin to hate an entire group of people.”

     

  • johnpi 1:27 pm on November 9, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    ABC is also reporting that Nidal Malik Hasan tried to contact al Qaida.

    ABC News is reporting that U.S. agencies were aware months ago that Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sought to contact people associated with al Qaida, according two American officials familiar with the case. “It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that one of its officers was seeking to connect with suspected al Qaeda figures, the officials said,” ABC writes.

     

  • Admin 1:26 pm on November 9, 2009 | 0 Permalink
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    Support the victims of the Fort Hood attacks by donating to the Islamic Society of North America’s “Fort Hood Family Fund” either online or via mail to ISNA at P. O. Box 808, Plainfield, Indiana 46168.

     

  • johnpi 1:13 pm on November 9, 2009 | 5 Permalink | Reply
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    I haven’t been to his website, but ABC News is reporting that Anwar al-Awlaki has called all American Muslims who condemned the Fort Hood attack “hypocrites who have committed treason against their religion.”

     

  • johnpi 12:01 pm on November 9, 2009 | 5 Permalink | Reply
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    Fort Hood victim and family relief fund.

    Press release

    The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) today announced the launch of a special fund for the benefit of the families of the victims of the senseless Ft. Hood attacks that killed 13 soldiers and injured over 30 others. Recognizing the important sacrifices made by our soldiers and their families, we feel it is imperative for all Americans to join hands in supporting those affected by this tragic incident.

    ISNA is collaborating with various national Muslim and interfaith organizations on this humanitarian initiative and mosques throughout the country are expected to join fellow Americans in contributing to help the families of the victims.

    Donations may be made to “Fort Hood Family Fund” and sent to ISNA headquarters (P. O. Box 808, Plainfield, Indiana 46168), or donate online.

    (Via)

     

  • johnpi 11:23 am on November 9, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    A convert who was being advised through his conversion in the ways of the deen by Hasan refused to denounce Fort Hood attack.

    It’s been my experience that new converts often get approached by the ‘most hardcore of Muslims.’ This shows further the wisdom of the local imam who refused to recommend Hasan for a lay Muslim leadership position at Fort Hood.

    The convert’s name is Duane Reasoner.

    “He said he should quit the Army,” Reasoner said. “In the Koran, you’re not supposed to have alliances with Jews or Christian or others, and if you are killed in the military fighting against Muslims, you will go to hell.”

    But when he was interviewed by Gavin Lee of the BBC, he went further.

    Even if the Muslims involved are engaged in acts of indiscriminate violence against you and other Muslims?

    Update: I’ve changed my earlier wording from “the most strident among us” to a phrase Asra Nomani used.

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  • johnpi 10:52 am on November 9, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    The abbreviations on Hasan’s business card, according to Pamela Geller, stand for “Soldier of Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala.”

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  • aziz 9:58 am on November 9, 2009 | 8 Permalink | Reply
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    via @cnnbrk, Major Hasan is conscious and talking.

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/09/fort.hood.shootings/index.html

     

  • johnpi 8:11 am on November 9, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    A reporter who covered the Columbine high school massacre responds to the question of whether there are similarities with the Fort Hood attack.

    The Ft. Hood perpetrator appears pretty transparent. The “obvious” factors include:

    His religion
    His ethnicity
    The ridicule he endured for each
    His profession as a soldier
    His profession as a psychiatrist
    His exposure to guns
    Relentless exposure to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in his patients
    Opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
    Imminent deployment there

    We have heard a lot of facts related to each of those factors already. I expect that most will turn to be true. Historically, we get the what right pretty fast. But we have a terrible record on why. An oddsmaker could reasonably predict that some of those items will prove relevant and others true but unrelated to the crime. The problem is predicting which is which.

    If we guess now, the myths will be us forever. Ten years after Columbine, most of the public still believes it was about jocks, Goths and the Trench Coat Mafia. No, no and no.

     

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