This photograph taken on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 in Killeen, Texas, shows a business card that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan gave to his neighbor a day before going on a shooting spree at the Fort Hood Army Base. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)
The man accused in the Fort Hood shooting spree that killed 13 people kept business cards with the initials, SoA, the abbreviation for "Soldier of Allah,"ABC News reports.
SoA is commonly used on jihadist Web sites as the acronym for Soldier of Allah, according to the network.
Hasan obtained the cards over the Internet, according to ABC. The cards use the word "health" twice but misspell it "heatlh" in the first reference. The cards make no mention of Hasan's military affiliation.
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Comments
Let me get this straight. Militant muslims would use SoA Soldier of Allah as a sign of militancy? Why would they use English? Arabic is the common language that all Muslims know some of.
By the by actual words use to refer to being a warrior for God by muslims are ghazi or Mujahaddin .
I think you made this up.
I don't think he made it up at all, it's on the website link above (in blue) and in any case if the major had his business card in Arabic, a great many English-speaking people would not have understood it. Therefore it sounds like he had a card printed up in English so he could declare to the English speaking world who he was (and no doubt he had Arabic cards too to say the same thing to the Arabic world). It's a good story and one worth telling. Thanks for that information Mr. Walsh.
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