Nasan gave a fifty-point slide show, "The Koranic World View As It Relates To Muslims in the U.S. Military," (online at the Washington Post) in which he explains the necessity for Jihad, the duties of a Muslim, the concept of defensive Jihad, and also gives citations from the Koran to support his views. None [...]
What does this terror and tragedy mean, and what does it not mean?
(Note: This is a second look at this delicate but important topic)
The shooting rampage at Fort Hood was an act of terror, but we should not feel terrorized or lash out against Muslims. We should also not [...]
You want to exclude America-hating jihadists, for example, from your Army and from your country too, I should think. I also don't understand why we can't acknowledge that there is something going on within the Muslim religion world wide that motivates some Muslims to become terrorists. If there were a [...]
Maybe some of our readers can help me out on this. You see, I’m a little confused about the actions of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Islamist radical who murdered thirteen Americans at Ft. Hood earlier this week.
We read that he feared deployment to Afghanistan because he didn’t want to [...]
Apparently, I fit the profile of someone who has these answers: I am a Muslim Palestinian American: I must know what one out of the 1.5 billion Muslims around the globe is thinking at any given time.
“Hey, Jamal…sorry to disturb you so early. But you know the Hasan story [...]
Major Hasan reportedly handed out copies of the Koran in the months preceding the massacre. He was also known for opposing US intervention in Iraq and for urging Muslims to fight against the US. During the shooting, he apparently was shouting in Arabic. Want to guess what he shouted?
Meanwhile, [...]
I was in the Midwest yesterday, speaking to a college group about tensions between Muslims and the West, and I argued that Muslims in the U.S. tend to assimilate much more fully than in Europe. A short while later I heard about Nidal Malik Hasan at Ft. Hood. I felt [...]
