GW, Falls Church mosque try to distance themselves from Ft. Hood shooter
11/10/09 12:02 PM EST
Major Nidal Hasan was a member of the Homeland Security Policy Institute's presidential transition task force last year, which was not officially affiliated with the White House. However, the independent think tank at George Washington University drafted homeland security policy recommendations for the incoming Obama administration.
Institute deputy director Daniel Kaniewski now says Hasan was not a member of the task force, even though he was listed in its May 2009 report as a representative of the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine. “We do recall him speaking at one of our events as an audience member,” Kaniewski said, “but none of us recall what he actually said.”
(http://gawker.com/5398253/nidal-hasan-ft-hood-shooter-participated-in-homeland-security-disaster-preparation)
The Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, where the Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people and wounding 30 more at Fort Hood was once a worshipper, is also furiously trying to distance itself from former imam Anwar Al Awlaki.
According to Jihad Watch (www.jihadwatch.org) Awlaki posted an article praising the alleged shooter (“Nidal Hassan Did the Right Thing") on his website from Yemen:
“Nidal Hassan is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people.... Nidal opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. How can there be any dispute about the virtue of what he has done? In fact the only way a Muslim could Islamically justify serving as a soldier in the US army is if his intention is to follow the footsteps of men like Nidal....”
Dar Al Hijrah’s (www.hijrah.org) then posted a statement condemning Al Awlaki’s praise of Hasan:
“We openly denounce the statement of Mr. Al-Awlaki as posted on his website. During Mr. Al-Awlaki's short employment at our center, his public speech was consistent with the values of tolerance and cooperation. After returning to Yemen, Mr. Awlaki now claims that the American Muslims who have condemned the violent acts of Major Hasan have committed treason against the Muslim Umaah [community] and have fallen into hypocrisy. With this reversal, Mr. Al-Awlaki has clearly set himself apart from Muslims in America.”
But in a Sept. 16, 2009 interview with the Infidel Bloggers Alliance (www.ibloga.blogspot.com) Mapping Sharia undercover investigator Dave Gaubatz - who visited over 200 Islamic centers throughout America, including Dar Al Hijrah, where he underwent a pseudo-conversion - said: “Over the last three years I have conducted extensive research at Dar Al Hijrah Mosque in Falls Church, Va. Islamic leaders and some of their worshippers provided me materials to understand 'Pure Islam'. One such manual is "The Hudud" (Mandatory Punishments for specific crimes).
“The Arabic word for Apostasy is 'Riddah'. Below are a few quotes from the manual recommended to me to study Islam and how to be a good and pure Muslim....
“From the Hudud:
[1] ‘Death for hudd punishment for riddah (apostasy).’
[2] ‘Whoever renounces his religion, kill him.’
[3] ‘The Muslim who converts his religion, kill him.’”
Not exactly my definition of "tolerance".
Hasan, a former member of Dar Al Hijrah, was disciplined for proselytizing at the Uniformed Service University (which would have gotten a Christian or Jew canned immediately). Internet postings by a “Nidal Hasan” praised suicide attacks, and colleagues say Hasan spoke approvingly of a U.S. sergeant who killed two fellow American soldiers with a grenade. Hasan, who did not renew his apartment lease and gave away his furniture shortly before the massacre, reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he mowed his victims down.
When asked why liberals and the media “reflexively deny and ignore” such clear signs of Islamic radicalism, Robert Spencer, author of the 2007 book “Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t,” replied:
“They reflexively deny and ignore these conclusions because they are completely sold out to the idea that Muslims, as non-white, non-Christian, non-Westerners, cannot possibly be anything but victims. The facts that there are white Muslims, and that the jihad doctrine and Islamic supremacism are not racial issues, but constitute an ideological and societal challenge, are completely lost on them. Likewise the non-white victims of the jihad matter nothing to them.”
So they just can't bring themselves to call it what it was: A home-grown act of terror by another radicalized Muslim.
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