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Posted on 07/30/2006 2:57:52 PM PDT by wideminded
RICHLAND -- Those who knew Naveed Haq said Saturday that to them he was an enigma, a puzzle that they wish they could have solved before his deadly rampage in a Seattle Jewish center.
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He held a degree in electrical engineering and was the son of a successful engineer, yet he couldn't keep a regular job. He was smart, creative and skilled as a writer. He recently won an essay contest for a U.S. Institute of Peace scholarship.
Yet Haq was frustrated at his lack of friends and female companionship.He told friends he felt alienated from his own family, in part because his career had disappointed his father and also because he had disavowed Islam last year, converting to Christianity.
Haq had begun studying the Bible, attending weekly men's spiritual group meetings, only to stop coming a few months after his baptism.
He had told the group's leader that he seen too much anger in Islam and that he wanted to find a new beginning in Christianity.
Yet in the midst of his shooting spree in Seattle Friday, he declared himself an angry Muslim.
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"Naveed had the profile of the guy who just couldn't get things together," said Erik Neilsen ...
Last winter, Haq began attending a weekly men's group meeting led by a member of the Word of Faith Church in Kennewick.
The group's leader, Albert Montelongo, said Haq started studying the Bible and in December he underwent a water baptism at the non-denominational church, performed by Montelongo. He said Haq accepted his new faith, though he knew that he would also be offending his own family and its deeply rooted culture. His father, Mian Haq, was among the founders of the Islamic Center of the Tri-Cities in Richland.
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(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
I was wondering when they would get around to blaming Jerry Falwell and the Christian Right.
"He recently won an essay contest for a U.S. Institute of Peace scholarship."
It used to be that when we read something like this, we'd say "truth is stranger than fiction."
Now we just say "it figures."
The seed fell on some hard rocky ground, withered and died.
I didn't know the P-I had to be excerpted. Newspaper and broadcast station websites tend to be hell on dial-up users, for the tons of graphics they lard up on their sites.
"He said Haq accepted his new faith, though he knew that he would also be offending his own family and its deeply rooted culture."
Sounds like he was trying to show his family that he really had not changed all that much.
"Whether you got dunked or sprinkled, if you don't know Jesus, you just got wet."-Mark Lowry
He's a lunatic.
His defense is laying the groundwork for insanity.
Word for the day: Horsefeathers..
IIRC, the first thing he said was, "I'm an American muslim, and I'm angry at Israel."
Jews are not a Christian's enemy. Christians are not a Jew' enemy. He told us what he is. Why don't we believe him?
Because islam is the religion of peace./sarc
btw, he started his rampage with the words, "I am a Muslim-American..." He didn't say Pakistani-American or Christian-American.
He said MUSLIM-AMERICAN..
The only thing for sure is that he's a murderer. What he believes he is inside his head is anyone's guess
"He recently won an essay contest for a U.S. Institute of Peace scholarship."
http://www.usip.org/ed/npec/index.html
Actually he sounds just simply f'd up. No blaming Christianity. But you see that, huh?
Backslider.
Wonder if he planned it to commit suicide by cop since in Islam conversion to Christianity is a death sentence.
Maybe Mr. Imam let him know that the only way out of Islamic Hell and then guarantee an entry into Islamoheaven was to declare himself a muslim again and then kill some jews and maybe martyr himself in the process.
Yeah, and John Wayne Gacy liked children.
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