http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-honestly-have-no-pity-for-them.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nrvhp#p0051bjj
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npAvM-VWwhc
“’I honestly have no pity for them’”
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November 07, 2009
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The BBC’s Gavin Lee interviews ‘Duane’ at the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen the day after the killings at Fort Hood.
Duane : I’m not going to condemn him for what he did. I don’t know why he did it. I will not, absolutely not, condemn him for what he had done though. If he had done it for selfish reasons I still will not condemn him. He’s my brother in the end. I will never condemn him.
Gavin Lee : There might be a lot of people shocked to hear you say that.
Duane: Well, that’s the way it is. I don’t speak for the community here but me personally I will not condemn him.
Gavin Lee : What are your thoughts towards those that were victims in this?
Duane : They were, in the end, they were troops who were going to Afghanistan and Iraq to kill Muslims. I honestly have no pity for them. It’s just like the majority of the people that will hear this, after five or six minutes they’ll be shocked, after that they’ll forget about them and go on their day.
Category: News & Politics
Tags: BBC Fort Hood Muslim Killeen Islam
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November 07, 2009
BBC: Ft Hood mosque member defends shootings: “they were troops who were going to Afghanistan and Iraq to kill Muslims. I honestly have no pity for them.”
Thanks to DB in the comment section who directs us to this post, which features a BBC interview by Gavin Lee with a member of the Killeen, Texas mosque outside Ft Hood, the Islamic Community Center of Greater Killeen, where Malik Nidal Hasan was currently attending.
In the interview (the whole interview can be heard here), mosque member “Duane” not only refuses to condemn Hasan, but justifies their murder because “they were troops who were going to Afghanistan and Iraq to kill Muslims”.
Here’s the relevant portion of the interview:
Note: Videos included.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/fort.hood.suspect.muslim/index.html
“Fort Hood suspect’s religion was an issue, family says”
November 7, 2009 8:19 a.m. EST
“Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is a U.S.-born citizen of Palestinian descent. He’s accused of killing 13 people.”
SNIPPET: “Hasan’s cousin said that despite the concerns over discrimination, a motive behind the shootings still was incomprehensible.
“If he had killed one or two, I could say that he was defending himself. I could say that there could have been a problem between two sides which led to the use of weapons. But for one to kill 13 people and injure more than 30, I personally don’t think that it was because someone was bothering him. There is a bigger reason that this happened and no ones knows it besides Nidal.”
Mohammad Hasan remembered his cousin’s trip to Jerusalem, 6 miles from Ramallah, 15 years ago to learn about his roots. “He acted normal.”
More recently, Nidal Hasan may have attended a lecture in January at George Washington University involving the Israeli ambassador to the United States and other officials discussing Israel’s offensive into Gaza last winter. Video from the lecture shows a person who appears to be Hasan dressed in military fatigues seated in the audience taking notes.”