Tag: Washinton Post

What one is supposed to say?-that muslims are good citizens,they place Nation before Faith,they will sing a song dedicated to mother land ,(this is happening in India-Fatwa issued against singing of Vande Mataram),Islamic countries allow other Faith to survive,terrorists happen to be Muslims,they issue fatwas for the welfare of the world,they grant equal rights to women!
Story:
There’s a difference between sensitivity and stupidity. If there were indeed signs that Maj. Nidal Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood mass murderer, was becoming radicalized in his opposition to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army had a duty to act — before he did.

Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff, said Sunday that he was concerned “this increased speculation” about Hasan’s evolving political and religious views “could cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers.” Casey is right to worry about the lunatics and bigots who now will think of all Muslims in the military as potential enemies. But it only feeds such paranoia to ignore alarm bells that an unstable individual, Muslim or not, is about to blow.
Army officials surely were aware that Muslims in the service have complained of taunts and harassment from their fellow soldiers. For moral and practical reasons, the Army must eliminate such discrimination. I’ve had issues with the way former president George W. Bush did his job, to say the least, but one good thing he did was emphasize that his “war on terrorism” was not a war against Islam, one of the world’s great faiths. That disclaimer rings hollow if Muslims serving in the armed forces are blamed for the crimes of Islamic terrorists and treated as potential traitors to the American cause.

But fairness is one thing, foolishness another. Any soldier who seemed as if he might be falling apart — and it seems that Hasan gave a lot of people that impression — should have been given more scrutiny. In Hasan’s case, a closer look would have revealed his growing religiosity and his feeling that his faith was under assault. That Hasan had worshiped at a Virginia mosque whose spiritual leader was a radical named Anwar al-Aulaqi might also have come to light. The Post reported Monday that Aulaqi, who now lives in Yemen, has posted a message on his Web site calling Hasan a “hero” for what he allegedly did at Fort Hood.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/09/AR2009110902601.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter