@DrewDad,
DrewDad wrote:
Sounds like a classic nutjob, to me.
He didn't kill folks out of conviction, he killed folks because he was disaffected. Part of that disaffection may have been due to religious persecution, which you are attempting to perpetuate here.
Don't like Muslims? Fine. Go not like Muslims and hang out with the folks who don't like Muslims, or blacks, or Mexicans, or Catholics.
But don't try to make this about Islam, 'cause it just won't fly.
I imagine the guy had two hands, two feet, and a penis. Maybe we need to lock up everyone who matches that description. Then you'll be the only "guy" walking around free....
Well, of course he is a nut job just as the young woman who straps dynamite around her waist and wades into an Iraqi bazzare.
Do you draw a psychological distinction between the two?
Do you buy what might have been the Major's argument that the suicide bomber is somehow a hero akin to the marine who dives on a grenade?
You know he killed people out of disaffection rather than conviction?
That's interesting.
Your confreres cautioned me and everyone like me to not jump to any conclusion, but you, apparently, get a free pass.
I don't have the evidence , at this early stage, to validate anything I might argue, but you do.
Hhmmmnn.
Interesting.
Can there be a more idiotic charge than yours which asserts I am attempting to perpetuate religious persecution?
How so? Plain and simple DrewDad, how so?
I'm sure this idiotic charge scored big points with your fellow travellers, but do you have the intellectual integrity to substantiate your argument?
Likewise your childish charge that I don't "like" Muslims and should hang out with all the other bigots who you imagine or see.
It won't "fly" that this is about Islam? Why not? Because the great and powerful DrewDad says so?
And your sophomoric last line: I guess I am supposed to retire to the shadows because you assert I don't have a penis (nor, strangley, two hands and two feet!)
I'm sure your bombast gives you a personal thrill and it, apparently, elevates you in the regard of your fellow fools, but if you have half the intelligence you lay claim to, you should be able to review your spew and recognize it for what it is worth.
Let's see:
1) He is alleged to have cried "God is Great" before he opened fire.
2) Despite the fact that he was an American citizen born in Virginia and who joined the American military, he found it important to dress in Arabic garb the morning before he launched his personal jihad.
3) He was under investigation because of possible connections to extremist internet posts
4) He argued with his his fellow serviceman that the US had no right to be engaged in Iraq or Afghanistan
5) Although his family was Jordanian he contended he was from Palestine in miltary paper he completed.
With the exception of #3, none of these points prove that the Major was anything but a red blooded American soldier, but when you combine them it would be idiotic to assert they are meaningless.
But then you must be right because this was the only instance where violence was perpetrated by someone embracing his or her identity as a Muslim
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette post reported Abdul Hakim Muhammad was “on a mission to 'kill as many people in the Army as he could,' police said” and targeted the “soldiers 'because of what they had done to Muslims in the past.'”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/us/02recruit.html
In March 2006, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born American citizen, confessed to intentionally hitting people with a sport utility vehicle on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to "avenge the deaths of Muslims worldwide" and to "punish" the United States government. While no one was killed in the attack, nine people were injured (none seriously).
Shortly after the attack, he turned himself in and was arrested. He pled guilty to nine counts of attempted first-degree murder, and in 2008 was sentenced to 33 years in prison.
In one letter, Taheri-azar wrote, "I was aiming to follow in the footsteps of one of my role models, Mohamed Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers, who obtained a doctorate degree."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Reza_Taheri-azar_SUV_attack
One US soldier was killed and 15 were wounded today when a Muslim American serviceman apparently angered by the war against Iraq rolled hand-grenades into their tents.
These are but three incidents, but they mean nothing.
If even one "nut job" killed even one person while shouting "Jesus Christ is the One!" I'm sure you and your friends would find it as meaningless.
Yeah right.
