A Soldier of Allah … Nidal Hasan

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[My answer to Hurria in a discussion of my diary: Fort Hood Shooting A Palestinian Issue?. To be clear, see timeline in my statement putting up this diary: Fri Nov 6th, 2009 at 02:42:20 AM PST.]

From your own bias you continue to make accusations of prejudice. The teachings mentioned above are from the website of Shaikh Anwar al-Awlaki. From your personal beliefs you cannot accept there are Muslims who become extremists based on their focus on fundamentalist teaching of Islam. Madrassas in Pakistan and Indonesia are schools of thought educating children and teenagers on Islam and violence against infidels. From your knowledge of the regions on the Arab peninsula, you could confirm the presence of extremism and terror (al-Qaeda) in Yemen and parts of Saudi Arabia. Anwar al-Awlaki is seen as an extremist/terrorist by both nations. Someone like Nidal Hasan could very well have indulged himself into fundamentalist thought of Islam along these lines. Just like the murder of Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam five years ago, the anger and violence was brutal and extreme. The murderer Mohammed Bouyeri was a well liked social worker amongst youth in the burroughs. Of course any willful murder has a form of insanity, the same can be said of a war of choice or any violent conflict. I am searching for an answer … WHY? However, harassment and so-called ‘disgrunteld employee’ will not suffice to explain the brutality and violence. BTW I do not put blame on religion for this personal act of violence. Similar extreme violence is present in Christianity, Hindu, by agnosts and Judaism.