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Today marks the memorial service for the 13 people dead and 29 wounded shot at Fort Hood. The alledged shooter is now conscious and coherent.
There are many unknowns about Major Nidal Malik Hasan who is credited for the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base. In an effort to understand why he did it, investigators report they have conducted 170+ interviews. One account says he attended prayers regularly, often in his Army uniform. Faizul Khan, a former imam at a mosque Hasan attended in Silver Spring, Maryland, said Hasan was a lifelong Muslim and a “a committed soldier" and that he spoke with him often about his desire for a wife. Hasan’s birthplace was Arlington, Va., but he claimed his nationality was Palestinian. “Nothing stood out about Hasan as radical or extremist, Khan said.*
Almost every report says that Dr. Hasan was a psychiatrist and a devout Muslim, who was fighting deployment to Iraq, and that he argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. Snippets drawn of his earlier life disclose he required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients. In short, the wild killings came from a very disturbed soul who killed so that he would not be part of killing fellow Muslims. There were warning signs.
Mosrt recently we hear that US intelligence agencies, over the last two years, intercepted emails between Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, who now is in Yemen,. In January 2001 Al-Awlaki was an imam at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia where his services were attended by hijackers Nawaf al-Hamzi and Hani Hanjour, who is believed to have piloted the plane that hit the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
In the wake of the Fort Hood massacre, this former imman Al-Awlaki posted on his website, "Nidal Hasan Did The Right Thing"; he carried out a "heroic and virtuous" killing. Such action, the imman asserted is the only way a Muslim could justify serving in the US Army--"Nidal Hasan is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not bear the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people."*
All this extensive and intensive post-shooting investigation surfaces many factors that might have motivated horror at Fort Hood, evil is not easily unearthed. But worry not, those who have formed Islam and Christian doctrines have an explanation: the devil made him do it, just as does this fallen angel cause us all to do evil. For example, the Ecumenical Christian site for mature Christians and Scholars* in a lengthy scripture-based statement explains:
In the Apocrypha and New Testament, the term Satan refers to a preternatural entity, the evil, rebellious fallen angel formally known as Lucifer, henceforth known as a demon or devil. Satan is the enemy of God and mankind, and the central embodiment of evil, as the central embodiment of good, 'love', is Jesus. The Satan is also commonly known as the Devil, the "Prince of Darkness," Beelzebub, Belial, Lucifer, and Mephistopheles. . . Satan, who hates all humanity, will do anything to 'tempt' humankind from their purpose in Christian life.
There also is no shortage of those who can dredge up convoluted explanations of Islam that tell of evil angels that instigate wicked, wicked deeds.* Apparently founders of our religions took taken great pains to create the source of evil, just as they created a God who is supposed to allow it. Shouldn’t such religious explanation relieve the burden of why did he do it carried by the hundreds of investigators? If they would heed the scriptures, they would not have to do endless interviews creating time-lines leading up to that tragic day at Fort Hood.
But worry not about the devil, Senator Joe Lieberman, chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, sees '”strong warning signs” that Major Hasan, was an “Islamist extremist”, and his committee will investigate.*
· Associated Press writers Lara Jakes, Pam Hess, Lolita C. Baldor and Brett Zongker in Washington; Alicia Chang in Los Angeles; and Sue Lindsey in Roanoke, Va., contributed to this report.
· http://www.spiritrestoration.org/Church/Satan/Satan_Lucifer_Devil_Demon.htm
· http://www.answering-christianity.com/satan.htm
· http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6534584/Fort-Hood-shooting-Nidal-Malik-Hasan-had-contact-with-911-imam.html
· http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382034/posts
