“So many times I talked with him,” said Akhter, a community leader who is sort of like a mosque gadfly, challenging congregants to reject literal, rigid interpretations of Islam. “I was trying to modernize him. I tried my best. He used to hate America as a whole. He was more anti-American than American.”
Despite all the conversations, Akther said, “I couldn’t get through to him. He was a typical fundamentalist Muslim.”
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Good grief, what's with those Jihadis and strip clubs?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/09/national/main5587838.shtml
This is really unbelievable. And the Army allowed this guy to continue.
ReplyDeleteThe Army psychiatrist believed to have killed 13 people at Fort Hood warned a roomful of senior Army physicians a year and a half ago that to avoid "adverse events," the military should allow Muslim soldiers to be released as conscientious objectors instead of fighting in wars against other Muslims
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/09/AR2009110903618.html