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06Nov2009

Fort Hood Shooting Tragedy - 4 videos

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Major Hasan’s Hidden Militancy | Daily Beast

The alleged Fort Hood gunman had revealed a hard-line Islamist streak to acquaintances in the Muslim Community Center that he made his mosque. The Daily Beast’s Asra Q. Nomani reports.

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“So many time 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.”

It wasn’t a label assigned lightly. Rather, it emerged after many one-on-one conservations between the engineer and the doctor in quiet spots from the library to the lobby to the prayer hall, discussing issues of interpretation like jihad, polygamy, assimilation, foreign policy, and the cutting of hands for theft. Other members of the community confirm this portrait of Hasan…

While I dread the coming fallout from the tragedy, Asra Nomani’s report gives me some comfort. The Muslim community did its part here, engaging with Hasan at the mosque. It remains to be seen whether further lines of communication should be opened, so that a “fundamentalist Muslim” serving in the military warrants a tip-off to his commanding officer.

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See also: Fort Hood Shooting: The Aftermath | Daily Beast

See also: Murder and Mayhem at Fort Hood | Psychology Today

6 - 12 dead, dozens wounded at Fort Hood - Watch more Politics Videos at Vodpod.

Local TV report on the Fort Hood shooting rampage. My heart goes out to the victims’ families.

A few hateful, racist and politically extreme Americans are exercising their right to free speech by commenting on a YouTube video. Ironically, this right includes equating Islam and Muslims with terrorism, insulting President Obama, betraying a lack of basic respect for government and the citizens, and attempting to use a horrible tragedy to score whatever sick political points their puny minds can imagine.

Rachel Maddow: Waiting for details in Fort Hood tragedy - Watch more Politics Videos at Vodpod.

More information on the Fort Hood shooting tragedy is being revealed.

Rachel Maddow: Right jumps to terrorist conclusion - Watch more Videos at Vodpod.

WorldNet Daily claims Hasan was an advisor to the Obama transition team.

Apparently the WorldNet Daily is not even fit to be used as emergency toilet paper.

Tattooed Under Fire - Trailer for unreleased doc about Fort Hood - airs this month on PBS - Watch more Politics Videos at Vodpod.

Tattooed Under Fire Site - Unreleased documentary about Fort Hood soldiers

“This is Fort Hood, and it goes on for miles and miles and miles.” Director Nancy Schiesari’s riveting documentary, “Tattooed Under Fire,” about the River City parlor in Killeen, Texas, and the soldiers who patronize it, was already being hailed as one of the great unreleased films of the year when it finally got picked up to air this month on PBS. But in a grim piece of poetic timing, suddenly the world is looking to understand how the largest military base in the country could become the site of one its worst mass murders, an attack that left 13 dead and 30 injured.

Much will be written in the days to come of the mind-set of the alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a psychiatrist who counseled military personnel and was reportedly distressed over his own imminent deployment. Though Schiesari’s film predates the horrifying violence at the fort yesterday, it reveals a military culture rarely seen. By following both returning and deployment-bound young soldiers and the stories told on their bodies, she gets under their skin.”