Labeling Nidal Hasan a "Jihadist" Sidesteps Calling Him an American


	Labeling Nidal Hasan a "Jihadist" Sidesteps Calling Him an American

zizzy

11-11-2009 12:53 PM

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living in america, religion, domestic terrorism, violence, major nidal hasan, fort hood, tragedy

zizzy says:

This shooter wasn't some mysterious other or foreign power. He was, like Timothy McVeigh, like Seung-hui Cho, like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, a citizen of the United States—and he chose a particularly American methodology for his terror.

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11-11-2009 3:34 PM

Steve Savage

This shooter wasn't some mysterious other or foreign power. He was, like Timothy McVeigh, like Seung-hui Cho, like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, a citizen of the United States—and he chose a particularly American methodology for his terror.

This article from March 25, 2003, could very well have been written yesterday:

"Return Of 'Fragging' Echoes Earlier War"
by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Pacific News Service. Posted March 25, 2003.
http://www.alternet.org/world/15466/

11-11-2009 3:49 PM

zizzy

Most of the world's 1.57 billion Muslims know that the Holy Quran states quite clearly that, "Anyone who kills a human being ... it shall be as though he has killed all of mankind. ... If anyone saves a life, it shall be as though he has saved the lives of all of mankind." ... someone simply saying "Allahu Akbar" while committing an act of mass murder no more makes their criminal act "Islamic" than a Christian uttering the "Hail Mary" while murdering an abortion medical provider, or someone chanting "Onward, Christian Soldiers" while bombing a gay nightclub, would make their act "Christian" in nature. ...

Simply put; murder is murder and has no religion whatsoever.

Professor Juan C...

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