Fort Hood Shooting: American Muslims Express Fear, Frustration [Halt All Muslim Immigration]

LATimes ^ | November 06th, 2009

[Steelfish]

Fort Hood Shooting: American Muslims Express Fear, Frustration

The news that the suspect is one of their own brings up familiar feelings. Besides fears of retribution, they're tired of sensing pressure to apologize for someone else's 'maniacal brutality.'

By Duke Helfand and Richard Fausset November 7, 2009

Reporting from Los Angeles and Atlanta - The news made Nihad Awad sick to his stomach.

Like the rest of the nation, Awad, who heads the Council on American-Islamic Relations, learned this week that it was a Muslim who opened fire at a U.S. Army base in Texas, killing 13 people and injuring many more. According to witnesses, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan issued the great, exalting cry of his faith before opening fire:

"Allahu akbar!" God is great.

Hearing the story, Awad too would invoke his maker -- but with a weary lament that is echoing coast to coast among American Muslims.

"I said, 'Oh God, here we go again,' " Awad recalled. "We know what will come when a Muslim name flashes across the [television] screen. What will come is guilt by association."

In response to Thursday's shooting, mosques around the U.S. denounced the violence and implemented a range of overt and subtle security measures. In the Los Angeles area, Islamic groups contacted police and sheriffs, who stepped up patrols of mosques and Muslim community centers.

USC sophomore Janan Al-Henaid said that her mother called Friday, asking her to come home to Claremont and to be careful when going out. "And she's never done that before," Al-Henaid said.

Muslim groups participated in a conference call Friday with federal agencies -- including the Homeland Security and Justice departments -- to discuss Muslim Americans' safety.

[Brad’s Gramma]

In the Los Angeles area, Islamic groups contacted police and sheriffs, ...

Drama queens.

[LibFreeUSA]

-"We know what will come when a Muslim name flashes across the [television] screen. "

Well, I haven't heard of any Mormons shooting up people in military installations this year.

[Julia H.]

We don’t need any apologies from the innocent. Just get the guilty ones out of here.

[Travis McGee]

Radical Islam is an insane murder cult; moderate Islam is its Trojan Horse in the West.

[Infidel Heather]

Think the LA Times would care at all for the safety of conservative talk radio hosts?

[buccaneer81]

Besides fears of retribution, they're tired of sensing pressure to apologize for someone else's 'maniacal brutality.'

Perhaps they should leave.

[sig226]

Helping the F.B.I. figure out which mosques seem to have a large percentage of nitwits would go much farther than an apology.

[ETL]

"Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who allegedly killed 11 people before being shot and wounded by police at Fort Hood, had said Muslims should "rise up" and attack Americans in retaliation for the US war in Iraq, a former army colleague said."

"He said Muslims should stand up and fight the aggressor and that we should not be in the war in the first place." He said that Major Hasan said he was "happy" when a US soldier was killed in an attack on a military recruitment centre in Arkansas in June. An American convert to Islam was accused of the shootings.

Col Lee alleged that other officers had told him that Major Hasan had said "maybe people should strap bombs on themselves and go to Times Square" in New York."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6511591/Fort-Hood-shooting-Nidal-Malik-Hasan-said-Muslims-should-rise-up.html
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"Soldiers reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" — an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" — before opening fire, said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the base commander."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/alert/sns-ap-us-fort-hood-shooting,0,4218901.story?track=rss

[MamaDearest]

Islamic Terror Attacks on American Soil

For anyone wondering about the history of deadly Islamic terror on American soil in the last 35 years, here’s what we could find: (List on Link)

[Darkwolf377]

I'm starting to think the Muslims attack Americans so they have an excuse to whine about backlashes that never happen.

Victimhood junkies, the lot of them. If this is what being a Muslim is all about, they're not going to earn many converts.

[babyfreep]

Besides fears of retribution, they're tired of sensing pressure to apologize for someone else's 'maniacal brutality.'

Boo-Freakin-Hoo

[Freedom2specul8]

What are we suppose to say to this? A terrorist blasted away at our troops on our land from the inside! He denounced going to war against those who want us dead..and claimed it was based on his religion of peace!

[Infidel Heather]

Read the entire article, it will make your blood boil.

Especially at the end “what do you want me to do, stand on my head....” And they blame the ‘poor choice of words” from the reporter who called for their reaction. How peaceful and sensitive, but they don’t have to be that way to us “infidels”, do they?

[Blue Jays]

Yours is an excellent theory and one that I hadn't considered.
CAIR immediately and vocally starts complaining about backlash where none exists.
They say it so often, that perception among many is that Muslims must be getting attacked all across the fruited plain.

[bicyclerepair]

They all worship a pedophile. Enough reason to evict them.

[Interesting Times]

The enemedia wants to be sure we understand who the real victims are.

[PizzaDriver]

The subsets of Muslim faiths MUST be a diverse as those within Christianity.

Our Media REGULARLY identifies some Subset of Christianity; Catholic, Mormon, Branch Davidian, ETC. in covering a story.
Our Media will investigate, attack, or belittle at a subset of Christianity.

Why doesn’t it watch the Muslim subsets THAT WAY?
Why WON’T it educate us of SPOOKY muslim subsets?

[La.daddyrabbit]

Muslim groups participated in a conference call Friday with federal agencies — including the Homeland Security and Justice departments — to discuss Muslim Americans’ safety.

Must be nice to be nice to be a minority and command the power to summon DHS and DOJ.

[Bringbackthedraft]

During WW II, my dad was refused groceries at the corner grocery store because they thought he was German. So what else is new. I guess if they thought you were a German then, it mean’t you were a Nazi. So here we are 60+ years later and if you are a Muslim, it means you are a terrorist. It seems human nature doesn’t change. Yeah all the crazies so far were Muslim terrorists, and all the 5th columnists Nazi saboteurs were German. Therefore, all Muslims are terrorists and all Germans are saboteurs? Aaaagggggrrrrrhhhhh. Muslims have been here for ages with no problems. It seems that some of the ones coming in from the mid east after the 70’s may be the seeds of the problems. Stop the influx and deal with the problematic ones.