...So it would seem to be obvious that Major Malik Hasan acted on his deepest beliefs. That they are not our beliefs. What we who are not Muslim think of the ideas of Islam that prompt what we call "suicide bombers" or "suicide killers" (and what Muslims call "shahid" or "martyrs") is irrelevant.
Yet we, or many of us, still refuse to perform the most obvious of pressing tasks - to learn what Islam contains, instead of continuing to blandly content ourselves with airy references to the "three abrahamic faiths" or to rely on such notions as "all religions are essentially the same" or even to lazily agree that Islam is accurately described merely as a "religion" when, in fact, it is a Total Belief-System unlike any "religion" or any other "religion" on earth.
It is a Total Belief-System in the claims it makes on its adherents, on its clear politics and geopolitics - that is, its organization of all power, within a society or state, and its claim to rightfully dominate the entire world. It views this as a rightful claim which only the obstinacy or malevolence of Infidels refuses to accept, as they refuse to accept a faith that is suffused with violence, that teaches the uses of violence, that describes the fruits of those successful in the practice of violence, that offers a worldview in which violence in the end decides (along with the practice of what Muhammad himself defined as the essence of War -deception) who will be Victor and who will be Vanquished.
We know all this about Major Malik Hasan. This is not speculation.
Posted by Hugh on November 9, 2009 6:52 AM | 5 Comments
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/11/fi...lik-hasan.html