Hasan Called War on Terror ‘War Against Islam,’ Classmate Says

From Bloomberg:

Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people and wounding 30 others at the Fort Hood Army Base in Texas, regularly described the war on terror as “a war against Islam,” according to a doctor who was in a graduate program with him.

While studying for a masters degree in public health in 2007, Hasan used a presentation for an environmental health class to argue that Muslims were being targeted by the U.S. anti-terror campaign, said Val Finnell, a classmate.

“He was very vocal about the war, very upfront about being a Muslim first and an American second,” said Finnell, 41, a preventive medicine doctor in Los Angeles, in an interview today. “He was always concerned that Muslims in the military were being persecuted.”

Hasan, 39, opened fire on fellow soldiers with two handguns at the Fort Hood Army Base yesterday before he was shot several times, Lieutenant General Robert Cone, the base commander, told reporters. Military officials and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are probing what triggered the attack by the physician at a crowded medical processing center on the base.

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Texas Republican, said she was told by Fort Hood authorities the suspect was about to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan and had been “very upset and angry” in the past few days.

Licensed Physician

The Virginia Board of Medicine lists Hasan as a licensed physician. He received his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2003. He completed a residency in psychiatry at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington in 2007 and a fellowship in disaster and preventive psychiatry in 2009.

Hasan was getting his masters degree in public health in 2007 and 2008 at the Uniformed Services University as part of his fellowship, said Bill Bester, vice president for external affairs at the school. Bester said he was unaware of comments Hasan may have made during the program.

Finnell said he remembered Hasan “vividly” and said of the shooting: “I’m not surprised, based on the things he said in the past. I’m shocked that it happened, but not surprised.”

In conversations, students challenged Hasan on his statements and he would become “visibly upset, sweaty, nervous,” Finnell said.

Toward the end of the program, in 2008, Hasan gave a presentation that was billed as a survey of the climate for Muslims who serve in the U.S. military, Finnell said.

“It wasn’t really very objective,” Finnell said. “It was like he was trying to prove a point.”

Somali Adulterer Stoned to Death

From BBC:

Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth.

Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka.

An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed after she has had her baby.

Islamist groups run much of southern Somalia, while the UN-backed government only control parts of the capital.

This is the third time Islamists have stoned a person to death for adultery in the past year.

Al-Shabab official Sheikh Suldan Aala Mohamed said Mr Abdirahman had confessed to adultery before an Islamic court.


"He was screaming and blood was pouring from his head during the stoning. After seven minutes he stopped moving," an eyewitness told the BBC.

The BBC's Mohammed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu says that if the woman is also killed, her baby would be given to relatives to look after.

Meanwhile, President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has accused al-Shabab of spoiling the image of Islam by killing people and harassing women.

"Their actions have nothing to do with Islam," said the moderate Islamist during a ceremony at which he nominated a new administration for the capital, Mogadishu.

"They are forcing women to wear very heavy clothes, saying they want them to properly cover their bodies but we know they have economic interests behind - they sell these kinds of clothes and want to force people to buy them."

Last month, two men were stoned to death in the same town after being accused of spying.

A 13-year-old girl was stoned to death for adultery in the southern town of Kismayo last year.

Human rights groups said she had been raped.

Another man has also been punished in this way in the Lower Shabelle region.

Mr Sharif, a former rebel leader, was sworn in as president after UN-brokered peace talks in January.

Although he says he also wants to implement Sharia, al-Shabab says his version of Islamic law would be too lenient.

The country has not had a functioning national government for 18 years.

Kenyan Imams Oppose Recognizing Gays

From Daily Nation:

The government should not use taxpayers money to count gay people in the country as this amounts to recognising their existence, says the Council of Imams and preachers of Kenya.

Nominated MP Mohamed Dor said the plan to spend Sh40 million was wrong and as gayness is contrary to the constitution order.

The CIPK secretary general criticised non-governmental organisations using the HIV/Aids pandemic to propagate the gay issue in the country.

Muslim Fanatic at Fort Hood Stopped by Female Police Officer

The police officer who put a stop to Nidal Hasan's massacre at Fort Hood is a woman. Today, this woman is being hailed a hero. From the Guardian:

The civilian police officer who shot and "subdued" the gunman responsible for the Fort Hood killings was today hailed as a hero.

Sergeant Kimberly Munley was praised for her "amazing and aggressive performance" by the top commander at Fort Hood, Lieutenant General Bob Cone, who credited her with stopping the shooting rampage that killed 13 people at the Texas post. Munley shot the gunman four times despite being wounded herself.

Cone said Munley and her partner responded within three minutes of reported gunfireyesterday afternoon. Munley had been directing traffic moments before she confronted the gunman, the New York Daily News reported.

Munley, who had been trained in active-response tactics, rushed into the building and confronted the shooter as he was turning a corner, Cone said.

"It was an amazing and an aggressive performance by this police officer," Cone said.

Munley was only a few feet from army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan when she opened fire.

Munley was reported to be in a stable condition at a local hospital.

She was well enough to spend last night phoning fellow officers to find out about casualties in the attack, the New York Daily News reported.

Cone said Munley's aggressive response training taught her that "if you act aggressively to take out a shooter you will have less fatalities".

"She walked up and engaged him," he said. He praised her as "one of our most impressive young police officers".

Fort Hood Shooter Shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ Before Shooting

The shooter at Fort Hood shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he massacred his fellow soldiers. Statements from colleagues of Mr. Malik Nidal Hasan suggest that he was very sympathetic to jihadists.

From Thaindian:

Fort Hood shooter who infamously shot 13 people and injured dozens apparently shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ before starting his shooting spree.

‘The thirty-nine year old devout Muslim gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, shouted the phrase ‘Allahu Akbar” which is Arabic for “God is great!” just before he began his shooting spree at Fort Hood military installation yesterday’, according to the base commander, Lieutenant General Robert Cone.

Contrary to initial reports, the heartless shooter is alive but has not yet been investigated yet by the police and army officers, as he is on a ventilator. “He is in a stable condition,” an army medical spokesman said.

However the same can’t be said about his victims. Some of the victims were shot multiple times, and out of the 10 injured victims, 6 were in critical state and were taken straight to the ICU for treatment and monitoring.

Internal shooting at a place that the soldiers call ‘home’ has shaken many. “I’m pretty shocked and bewildered,” Spc. Eric Blohm said, “Going to war and experiencing combat overseas and then … to have your sense of security shattered, that’s just kind of unreal.” “I thought I was more worried about my daughter going over to Iraq than here, just doing training in Texas. She just got there yesterday,” said McCarty, mother of a solider.

Court Rules Hijab Optional for MPs

While Islamists expect women to wear the hijab, a Kuwaiti court ruled that the garb is optional for MPs.

From the National:

Kuwait’s female MPs will not be forced to wear a hijab or have their parliamentary membership invalidated after the Constitutional Court, the country’s highest legal authority, rejected a case by a Kuwaiti man who said they broke rules relating to Islamic dress.

The man, identified as Hamad al Nashi, urged the court to cancel the membership of the two female MPs – Aseel al Awadhi and Rola Dashti – who did not wear the hijab, thereby violating an article of the election law that states: “A condition for women to vote and be elected is to abide by the rules and terms of Sharia law”.

Islamists say the Sharia clearly states that women must wear the hijab.

In its ruling, the court said the article of the election law was not specific and therefore could be interpreted in different ways. It said Sharia could apply to many things, including beliefs, morals and actions, and comes from many sources such as the Quran, the Sunna, and other traditions and customs.

If the court had ruled that the women were in violation of the election law when they were elected, their membership in parliament could have been cancelled, legal experts said. “I’m very happy it’s been rejected,” Ms al Awadhi, one of Kuwait’s four female MPs, said after receiving the news of the court’s decision. “So we’re not going to wear the hijab in the Majlis,” Ms al Awadhi said, using the first word of Majlis al Umma, the Arabic name for Kuwait’s national assembly.

Speaking in her office in the national assembly, the MP said if the court had ruled that the women had to cover their heads, she would have considered resigning. “I doubted the court would say I have to wear it because it’s unconstitutional,” Ms al Awadhi added.

The other MP, Ms Dashti, had said that the controversial sentence regarding women should be removed from the law. In a statement to the press, she said the article “was formulated in such broad terms that it could be interpreted in various ways and … it goes against the core principles in the constitution, mainly individual freedom”.

However, not all of Kuwait’s politicians were happy with the court’s decision or agree that the article is unconstitutional.

Ali al Omair, the acting secretary general of the Islamic Salafi Alliance, an Islamic political group, said Islamists would not be happy to withdraw the request for women to comply with Sharia because “the constitution itself states that Sharia should be the source of all laws”....

Read it all here.

Muslim Ex-Commander Arrested for War Crimes

From AKI:

A former Bosnian Muslim army deputy commander, Nihad Bojadzic, was arrested in Sarajevo on Wednesday on suspicion of having killed over 20 Croat civilians and prisoners of war during the 1993 Muslim-Croat war, the state prosecutor's office said. Bojadzic was due to be handed over to Bosnia's state war crimes court.

Bojadzic, 47, is suspected of committing the mass killings while serving as deputy commander of the Bosnian Muslim-led army special platoon ’Zulfikar’ when it overran the village of Trusina near the southern town of Konjic in April 1993.

Prosecution spokesman Boris Grubesic told media that 19 of the victims were Croat civilians, three were Croatian soldiers who had surrendered themselves, while four people, including two children, were wounded.

Four more Muslims were arrested on the same charges in September and are in detention pending trial.

The Bosnian state war crimes court was set up in 2005 to try thousands of mid- and low-ranking war crimes suspects from the 1992-95 war whose cases were passed to it by the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

Colleague Terry Lee on Fort Hood Shooter Malik Nadal Hasan

From the video description:

Very damning allegations about Fort Hood primary shooter Major Malik Nadal Hasan from former colleague Terry Lee.

Apparently, Hasan said things such as "maybe the Muslims could stand up and fight against the aggressor" or thereabouts. This was in reference to Muslims overseas fighting against Americans, apparently.