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NidalHasan scribbled: There was a grenade thrown amongs a group of American soldiers. One of the soldiers, feeling that it was to late for everyone to flee jumped on the grave with the intention of saving his comrades. Indeed he saved them. He inentionally took his life (suicide) for a noble ...
Scribd: NidalHasan
scribd.com — There was a grenade thrown amongs a group of American soldiers. One of the soldiers, feeling that... it was to late for everyone to flee jumped on the grave with the intention of saving his comrades. Indeed he saved them. He inentionally took his life ... (more) Scribd: NidalHasan
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The Victims of Fort Hood
Pajamas Media — ... and other attacks, though they have not yet determined definitively if he was the author of those posts. One of those posts was a blog entry that deified suicide bombers as being similar to soldiers who throw themselves on hand grenades in order to save the lives of their fellow soldiers. Bob Owens blogs at ...

Investigation Continues Into Deadly Fort Hood Shootings
A Blog For All — ... " about a deployment overseas. He began having doubts about his military service beginning a few years ago. So he went and murdered 13 soldiers and wounded 31 others? If he was having doubts, why accept the promotion and not separate from service through an honorable discharge after completing the terms of his service? Then, there are several online postings attributed to him that suggest that he was going down the path of a jihadi: There was a grenade thrown amongs a group of American soldiers. One of the soldiers, feeling that it was to late for everyone to flee jumped on ...

Muslim group "outraged" at Ft Hood shooting justified Hezbollah suicide bombing that killed 241 Marines
The Jawa Report — ... that justified the Hezbollah suicide bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 US Marines, sailors and soldiers: "…this attack, for all the pain it caused, was not in a strict sense, a terrorist operation. It was a military operation, producing no civilian casualties -- exactly the kind of attack that Americans might have lauded had it been directed against Washington's enemies. " This is the very same ideology preached by Malik Nadal Hasan in defense of suicide bombings . No doubt Hasan considered yesterday's mass murder a "military operation". In June ...

Understanding Fort Hood: Nothing ‘Sudden’ About ‘Sudden Jihad Syndrome’
Pajamas Media — ... Sure, there may have been an event which set off the violence — in Hasan’s case, he was set for deployment to Afghanistan — but underlying this trigger is a deeper commitment to an ideology, to a total political program and a worldview which sees America as an aggressor and Muslims around the world as victims. For instance, reports in the press claim that Hasan had been under investigation for posting about suicide bombings on the internet. A person with a name matching Hasan’s wrote the following in refutation to moderate Muslims who condemned suicide bombing: Scholars have ...

Nidal Hasan and Fort Hood: A Study in Muslim Doctrine (Part 2)
Pajamas Media — ... of the reasons making the one-man jihad permissible is that it serves to “terrify the foe” (AQR, p. 155). And there it is: When all else failed, when Hasan’s forthcoming deployment into Muslim land forced him to expose where his true loyalty ( wala’ ) lies, pretense (taqiyya) gave way to full-blown struggle (jihad). Hasan, who sacrificed many years to become a psychiatrist and a U.S. Army major, in the clear words of the Koran “exchange[d] the life of this world for the Hereafter.” Evidence also indicates that he believed “martyrdom operations” were not only valid but ...

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