In the post you linked the writer Hasan equates a soldier falling on a grenade to save his buddies with suicide bombers.... FAILING to make the distinction that the former is a RESPONSE to an attack and the latter IS AN ATTACK!
"NidalHasan scribbled: There was a grenade thrown amongs(t) 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 cause i.e. saving the lives of his soldier. To say that this soldier committed suicide is inappropriate. Its more appropriate to say he is a brave hero that sacrificed his life for a more noble cause. Scholars have paralled this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers. If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory. Their intention is not to die because of some despair. The same can be said for the Kamikazees in Japan. They died (via crashing their planes into ships) to kill the enemies for the homeland. You can call them crazy i you want but their act was not one of suicide that is despised by Islam. So the scholars main point is that "IT SEEMS AS THOUGH YOUR INTENTION IS THE MAIN ISSUE" and Allah (SWT) knows best."
I might add here Freepers, that the online doc this Hasan is referring to appears to be of a Wahabbist (Salafist) source, but needs more looking into.
This needs to be verified. One would also wonder why somebody like this would use their real name and not a handle (like the fellow who had posted the original thread used "Riz Khan 999" (a takeoff obviously on Al-Jazeera reporter Riz Khan)....