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In San Antonio, Muslims stand with the massacre victims
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As Muslims met for weekly prayers in mosques here and nationwide, they underscored their solidarity for the victims of Thursday's rampage at Fort Hood, allegedly by a man whose very name manifests his Muslim heritage.

Muslims have condemned the attack blamed on Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as cowardly and antithetical to core Islamic beliefs and practices, while also issuing warnings to the public and their own communities about the potential for backlash.

Several hundred Muslims gathered in the city's largest mosque, the Islamic Center of San Antonio, where they denounced the shooter's violence and distanced themselves from his version of Islam.

“Most Muslims that do join the Army are Americans first,” he said, “and they're there to protect their country first.”

“I just want to show myself in a positive way for the religion I represent,” he said. “I just hope people don't stereotype.”

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by thisnamecantbetaken on 11-7-2009 7:41 PM

I blame the idiot shooter, not an entire religion.

Is that why you made a clip calling for the bombing of Mecca, clip-on?

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by dl211 on 11-7-2009 10:04 PM

“Most Muslims that do join the Army are Americans first,” he said, “and they're there to protect their country first.”

I hope this is true, however I have my doubts. I spent a year around the Iraqi people - to them religion always comes first, over law or anything else. I simply do not trust a people who kill indiscriminately believing it to be sanctioned by their god. Even many of those transplanted here can not abandon their medieval religious based traditions that include the murder of their spouse or children on religious grounds.

by wiccantexan on 11-7-2009 10:27 PM

I spent a year around the Iraqi people - to them religion always comes first, over law or anything else.

Over there, perhaps. But American Muslims by and large have not been "transplanted here," but are born here and grow up in American culture.

by dl211 on 11-7-2009 11:08 PM

It really does not matter where they were born, it is how they are raised, what their Imams are teaching them in their mosques, what they really believe in. Was Major Hasan, who was born here, indoctrinated into radical Islam after he joined the Army, or before? It really makes little difference, what matters is that according to some witnesses this dirtbag hollered Allah Akbar before he started firing. This guy was a nut regardless of where he was born, his actions spoke his true beliefs, nothing but an Islamic terrorist - a home grown one at that.

by arifsali on 11-8-2009 12:27 AM

to them religion always comes first, over law or anything else.

I'm not sure how your comment should be taken negatively. Religion doesn't teaches anyone to kill or commit murder and it doesn't teaches anyone to go against the law.

by ellesrainbow on 11-8-2009 7:09 AM

Everyone interprets religion differently, its nice to hear something positive like this. ~

Like Yoda said: ~hate leads to anger, and anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering~

by dl211 on 11-8-2009 12:57 PM

Religion doesn't teaches anyone to kill or commit murder and it doesn't teaches anyone to go against the law.

'Religion doesn't teach anyone to kill or commit murder...' That statement is about the craziest I've seen concerning Islamic terrorists. Google Islamic terrorists, or Radical Imams, or terrorist acts in the name of Islam. Get real!

The Quranic term 'Jihad' means, "Holy
fighting in the Cause of Allah or any other kind of effort to make
Allah's Word (i.e. Islam) superior. Jihad is regarded as one of the
fundamentals of Islam."

by arifsali on 11-8-2009 5:48 PM

You have no clue. I wouldn't want to waste my time on this debate if your source of knowledge on Islam is Google!

by aperiozar on 11-8-2009 6:12 PM

dl211 : "I simply do not trust a people who kill indiscriminately believing it to be sanctioned by their god."

So this is your response to one guy who cracked and killed 12 people. What your response to George W Bush who heard voices (God he said) to go and kill Muslims, so he went and killed 100 000 innocent Iraqis?

There is very little difference between the American Religious Right with their concept of a "Just War" and that of the Taliban with their "Holy War" - except that the Americans are responsible for many more deaths than the Taliban.

by dl211 on 11-8-2009 7:28 PM

You have no clue. I wouldn't want to waste my time on this debate if your source of knowledge on Islam is Google!

Google is a search engine - you can find all sorts of things there, even some legitimate news articles.
However if Daily KOS and Media Matters probably suits your needs just fine.

by dl211 on 11-8-2009 7:30 PM

@ aperiozar - Your analogy is so slanted by your hatred of America and your loving of the terrorist scum, your views on anything are meaningless to me.

by aperiozar on 11-8-2009 7:32 PM

And here we have a list of American terror attacks against sovereign countries since WW2.

Make sure you have enough time - this is a long list
http://bit.ly/34rMUt