YEMEN-based Anwar al-Awlaki, who once served as an imam in America (he was born in New Mexico) has come out in full support of Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan.
Anwar al-Awlaki
Writing on his blog yesterday, the loopy Muslim extremist said:
Nidal Hassan (sic) 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. This is a contradiction that many Muslims brush aside and just pretend that it doesn’t exist. Any decent Muslim cannot live, understanding properly his duties towards his Creator and his fellow Muslims, and yet serve as a US soldier.
The US is leading the war against terrorism which in reality is a war against Islam. Its army is directly invading two Muslim countries and indirectly occupying the rest through its stooges.
The heroic act of brother Nidal also shows the dilemma of the Muslim American community. Increasingly they are being cornered into taking stances that would either make them betray Islam or betray their nation. Many amongst them are choosing the former. The Muslim organizations in America came out in a pitiful chorus condemning Nidal’s operation.
The inconsistency of being a Muslim today and living in America and the West in general reveals the wisdom behind the opinions that call for migration from the West. It is becoming more and more difficult to hold on to Islam in an environment that is becoming more hostile towards Muslims.
May Allah grant our brother Nidal patience, perseverance and steadfastness and we ask Allah to accept from him his great heroic act. Ameen
According to The Times, al-Awlaki holds a degree in civil engineering from Colorado State University and a master’s degree in educational leadership from San Diego State University.
He was interviewed by the FBI after the September 11, 2001, attacks when he was accused of serving as “spiritual adviser” to two of the attackers at his mosque in Falls Church. He was detained by Yemeni authorities in August 2006 and held for more than a year as part of a secret investigation.
In January this year he delivered a lecture by video link to the East London mosque. In August he was banned by the local council from addressing a British fundraising event by video link at the Kensington town hall.
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November 10th, 2009 at 11:09 am
I think Americans should know him better than me , ’cause he properly knows them better.
He lived quite a long time there.
From “wikipedia.org”
Born New Mexico United States
He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University, an M.A. in Education Leadership from San Diego State University, and was working on a Doctorate degree in Human Resource Development at George Washington University.
So he is one American who supports another US army American who opened fire on his fellow Americans.
Pardon me ! but it is a family AMERICAN issue,
Let’s keep it this way.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:55 am
…reveals the wisdom behind the opinions that call for migration from the West.
Please let us all give this man our support and help muslims emigrate away from the west.
If he agrees to take those from our beloved England with him on his journey back to his umma.
I for one would even be willing to help pay their fares!
It cannot be more expensive than supporting parasites with 4 wives, 17 children and no saleable skills.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
So if I disagree with the practices of my employer my only option is to shoot and kill a number of work colleagues.
I couldn’t just quit, no?
Oh, sorry wait, my bad. I didn’t read the title properly, I didn’t see the word ‘Muslim’. Of course, if you’re part of a death cult, killing people has to be your first and only option for dispute resolution.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
David,
Just for clarity , I believe the guy tried to buy his way out of service i.e. repay the money the US Army had given to him to enable him to do his medical training – but was not allowed.
Taking the army dollar in exchange for service evidently leaves no get out / repayment clause.
Personally I’d have hoped that the moment he requested to buy out his service based on religious grounds this would have been a massive red flag which would instigate an investigation.
Top brass (IMO) have definitely dropped the ball somewhere along the line.
November 10th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
“It is becoming more and more difficult to hold on to Islam in an environment that is becoming more hostile towards Muslims”
Wheras yelling “Allah is great” and killing members of your own army will improve community relations with Muslims no end. What an idiot!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
@gsw p!ss off back to the BNP.
November 10th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Bring on the emigration! Jeez! #Imagine how much more public funds would be available to us all!
November 10th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
@neil
In no way do I condone racism, however a look at the national statistics website seems to show that a disproportionate number of Muslims are not working, with Muslim women being the most likely to fall into this category when analysed by sex&religion, although it does not automatically follow that this group represents a higher burden on the public purse than others.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=979
I would suggest that there may be a disenfranchisement with ‘western society’ amongst some Muslims within the UK, but the answer to this must be a greater level of integration rather than emigration. One of the steps to achieving this would be to remove state funding from all religious schools, forcing them to adopt a secular education system. This would go some way to removing the socio-economic disadvantages that a child brought up in an insular religious environment faces in this country.
November 10th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
OpenMind,
This from the Wall Street Journal:
The stupidity of such a policy apart, it appears that Nidal did have options that he chose not to exercise. Nor did he go AWOL or choose to commit suicide in the privacy of his room.
Slice this whichever way, the “religion of peace” cannot escape culpability in this!
November 10th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
It’s Fort Hood, not Fort Worth.
November 10th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Correction made, Mark. Thanks.
November 10th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
What is it about religion that it makes a small but significant minority of its adherents incapable of living in peace with their fellow humans.
For fucks sake Nidal, Anwar, we have one planet and we have to share it and however much it irks you the rest of us have just as much right to live on it as you and your fellow Muslims do. Anwar you say that the west is becoming more hostile toward Muslims, any thoughts on why that might be? Nidal you have stated that you think that every non Muslim should be slaughtered, has it ever occured to you that if non Muslims felt the same about you and your fellow religionists we now actually have the power to make it happen. Fortunately for you we don’t feel that way because we are better than you and we acknowledge that you have as much right to share this world as we do.
It is a real tragedy that from reading this article it seems that Anwar is a very intelligent man, but because of his sick and poisonous religion he is reduced to the level of a deluded idiot.
November 10th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
It goes to show this is a religion of the devil. You need to come to that realization. Peace and good will as nothing to do with.
November 10th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
@dan
Religion of the devil?!?? confused much? do you believe in the devil?
November 10th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Aw, it’s so hard to be a Muslim in America. It’s so hard to be a Muslim in the Army. I’m crying a river (not). Why did he join the damn Army in the first place if he was so against it? Why are all the Muslims staying in America if they hate it so damn much? Put em all on the damn plane, I say.
November 10th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
This is getting funny. The Religious leader, awaki, the ft hood nutter called was detained by the CIA in saudi owned Yemen several years ago and let go, ie he has been cooperating. He was from the falls church (langley cia) mosque funded by the saudis (who hate Muslims more than Israel). another rad. muslim yousef al khatab applauding now turns out to be an israeli jew after all. What a joke.
November 11th, 2009 at 12:12 am
Yes yes, migration from the West is the best solution. I don’t understand why Muslims would want to live in the lands of the infidels when there are such wonderful Muslim countries as Saudi Arabia and Iran to live in. Why join the armies of those who don’t believe the revalations of Allah? “Lo! those who disbelieve the revelations of Allah, theirs will be a heavy doom.”
CNN headline: “Fort Hood killings ‘incomprehensible,’ Obama says “. I think it’s ominous that Obama said this and that CNN picked it out and made a headline out of it.
Well, I hope ‘incomprehensible’ is not where the matter ends although this is where it started right after the shootings.
November 11th, 2009 at 1:14 am
If they go, can they take the RRRW Xians with them?
November 11th, 2009 at 7:15 am
Re: my previous posting “help muslims emigrate away”
Let that be a lesson to us all – not to post when we are angry!
Of course, I meant: help Islamists emigrate away.
Differentiating between a private – if irrational – belief system and the ideology of political islam and shariah.
My abject apologies to all those muslims who actually believe in the religion of peace, and who are willing to obey our laws and contribute to our society.
November 11th, 2009 at 11:36 am
@The Rational Fool
“Army officials at the Pentagon said that Muslim soldiers who felt their religion prevented them from fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan could claim conscientious objector status and seek noncombat assignments in the U.S. But they weren’t aware of any Muslim soldiers who had done so.”
It was reported in UK press that this loon had tried to buy his way out but had not been allowed.
Simply ststing you have the right to “claim” such a status and “seek” noncom assignments doesn not guarantee that such a claim will be recognised or indeed such an assignment give.
Far be it from me to suggest there’s potentially a political motive for claiming no knowledge of any such request.
Furthermore , the function of the army paying for a degree education is to effectively lock highly qualified personnel into problem positions for a known period of time. Its not designed to be a cheap loan so I could understand a possible military reluctance to allow people to buy themselves out easily.
I know of one chap in UK who was funded through his medical degree by the air force who was able to buy himself out BEFORE commencing his post.
I remain openminded about the “triggers” for this guy’s actions. In no way do I seek to minimise the effect of his religion in underpinning his state of mind, however I do question the following
#1 Did such a request to buy himself out exist?
#2 What was the stated reason for a requested buy out of service if it actually existed?
#3 What was the official response?
#4 What risk assessment was taken in regards to potential affect on state of mind and possible consequences?
A glib one liner from the pentagon stating “they were’nt aware” is insufficient in my view.
I stand by my original posting.
November 11th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Oh, He slays Occidentals en masse ane WE’RE hostile? Talk of chutzpah!
November 11th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
OpenMind,
1. Maj. Hasan was not a peacenik who objected to all wars, but only to wars against Muslims. As I mentioned in my earlier comment, were there to be a policy of granting a conscientious objector status to anyone solely on the basis of their religion, it’d be a dumb policy indeed. I am not even sure if it’d be constitutional.
2. Maj. Hasan declared no religious preferences at the time of his recruitment. From the Wall Street Journal:
3. And, today from the Washington Post:
None of this excuses the U.S. Army and the FBI from failing to read the alarm signals early on, I agree, but knowing how government bureaucracies work, I am not surprised. And, I am even less surprised that this should happen in an army under pressure to recruit and retain Muslims, for political and not so political reasons. Nonetheless, I still believe that conflating the Army’s omissions with the “triggers” for Maj. Hasan’s killing spree is a stretch.
A chilling question, however, is: was this guy ever involved in any psychiatric evaluation of the recruits for highly sensitive American military installations?
November 12th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
I agree with gsw and Neil. I’d welcome a mass emigration back to the barbaric shitholes these people belong in. All of them in my opinion. Just for the record Rog, I’m not a member of the BNP and I’m not a racist. I do object however to a bunch or retards coming to my country and demanding their own little way of life separate from the indigenous population with it’s own laws and ’schools’ and preaching hatred of us in these schools and mosques.
Being a financial burden on western countries is also regarded as jihad. I think they should listen to this guy and leave and the sooner the better before we have war in our lands too.
November 12th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Chaps, I might have jumped the gun on the BNP slur, sorry gsw.
The fact is though there are over two million Muslims in this country and I sincerely doubt that they are going to move out any time soon, nor should they be made to feel like they must.
There is a difference between a run of the mill muslim, who on the whole do not cause trouble and the jihadist/islamist types – they are as bad as & deluded as the BNP if they think they are going to get their way in this country.
I’m a secularist, I have a problem with our head of state also being head of the church…Should I move out because I don’t agree with all of the ways in which out country is run? there are many people that I would just love to emigrate, but that is not going to happen either…
Honestly, I love & defend freedom of speech, but I have to say what should be good for me must be ok for other people too – but just because a person is free to say something does not meant that their opinion does not deserve to be derided [he says setting himself up for a fall]
November 19th, 2009 at 11:29 am
hey hypocrites you hate stealing yet you took from the widows might, to be a proud Muslim means staying away from defilement. a word is enough for the wise stay clear so your conciseness may be right on judgment day. the world belongs to nobody, but please stay where you can practice you religion of peace without shedding of blood please.