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Inside the Gunman's Mosque - The Daily BeastNot long ago, inside the quiet library of the Muslim Community Center here in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., Golam Akhter, a local Bangladeshi-American civil engineer, 67, got into a fierce debate with a young Muslim doctor over how to interpret the concept of "jihad" within Islam. Akhter argued, "Jihad means an inner struggle, fighting against corruption and injustice."
The young doctor responded. "That's not a correct interpretation. Jihad means holy war. When your religion isn't safe, you have to fight for it. If someone attacks you, you must fight them. That is jihad. You can kill someone who is harming you."
The conversation would be just another theological debate, interesting but irrelevant, except that the doctor was Maj. Nidal Hasan, 39, the gunman in the tragic Fort Hood rampage. After being posted to Walter Reed Hospital as a psychiatrist, Hasan called the Muslim Community Center his local mosque. It's just a short drive away from Walter Reed....
Despite all the conversations, Akther said, "I couldn't get through to him. He was a typical fundamentalist Muslim."
It wasn't a label assigned lightly. Rather, it emerged after many one-on-one conservations between the engineer and the doctor in quiet spots from the library to the lobby to the prayer hall, discussing issues of interpretation like jihad, polygamy, assimilation, foreign policy, and the cutting of hands for theft. Other members of the community confirm this portrait of Hasan.
You've given no evidence whatsoever to support your assertions. Well, except for where you say that you don't think that you have a screw loose. For once, I agree. I don't think that you have 'a' screw loose, either...
JL
Here is something for Butters, since the terrorist angle is a red herring.
Liberals and their delusions.
What really worries me is how out in the open this guy was with his radical religious beliefs. He was not secret about his dislike of America.
What the hell is wrong with us. The FBI was supposed to be getting their stuff together after Sept.11 but it seems that they haven't. Heads need to roll over this. Napalitano needs to be fired for sure.
How did an openly anti-American muslim who attended a pro jihadist mosque, and had low fitness reports make major in the US military while we are at war against radical Islam???
Affirmative action??
There needs to be a congressional investigation on how these attacks on us should be stopped. I'm afraid that this is not an isolated incident nor will it be the last terrorist attack against us.
Deadly denialAs President Obama belatedly appears at Fort Hood today, will he dare to speak the word "terror?"
He won't use the word "Islamist." If he mentions Islam at all, it'll be to sing its praises yet again.
We've already learned that Islamist terrorist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan attended the Northern Virginia mosque of Imam Anwar al-Aulaqi, a fiery al Qaeda supporter who later fled the United States. We know that Hasan's peers, subordinates and patients repeatedly raised red flags that his superiors suppressed. We know he was a player on Islamist-extremist Web sites. The FBI's uncovering one extremist link after another.
Politically correct: Gen. George Casey won't call attack "terrorism."
But to call this an act of terrorism, the White House would need an autographed photo of Osama bin Laden helping Hasan buy weapons in downtown Killeen, Texas. Even that might not suffice.
Islamist terrorists don't all have al Qaeda union cards in their wallets. Terrorism's increasingly the domain of entrepreneurs and independent contractors. Under Muslim jurisprudence, jihad's an individual responsibility. Hasan was a self-appointed jihadi.
Yet we're told he was just having a bad day.
Read more: Deadly denial
Stop the political correctness! PC got those good people killed!