Posted on 11/06/2009 3:09:45 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (AFP) – Islam is "not responsible" for the bloodbath at an army base in Texas where Muslim-American army Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly gunned down 13 people, the prayer leader at the mosque where the officer regularly worshipped said Friday.
"We offer our condolences and prayers to the families that have a person who died," said Imam Mohammed Abdullahi over loud-speakers that carried the weekly Muslim prayer to several hundred worshippers gathered at the mosque.
"Islam is not responsible," he stressed.
Many of the worshippers who had come to the mosque in this suburb of Washington knew Hasan or had seen him at Friday prayer, which he attended regularly when he lived in the Washington area.
To them, the news that he had allegedly opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon and a handgun in a crowded troop processing center on the sprawling Fort Hood base in Texas, mowing down 13 people and wounding 30 others, came as a shock.
"Islam doesn't command anybody to do something like that," said Shaikh Khamis, who has prayed at the Silver Spring Muslim Community Center mosque for 11 years.
"It's very sad, a big tragedy for everybody," said another worshipper, Ibrahim Gayi.
"We pray for everybody, all Americans, not only Muslims," he said.
Asif Qadri, head of the medical clinic at the Muslim Community Center, described Hasan, an army major, as "very gentlemanly.
"He was sociable, likeable. We had regular, casual conversation -- he didn't manifest any particular view either way," Qadri said.
"When I saw him on television, I couldn't believe my eyes," he added.
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Well that’s credible, NOT.
ALLAH AKBAR !!!
Nonsense. Islam is responsible. The Democrats are now the Islamist Party. They support and protect them and vote them into office.
Not just the Religion Of Peace, also the Religion Of Coincidence.
ALLAHU FUBAR!!
Surely not. In fact, isn't it a hate crime even to suggest the possibility???
He seemed so normal.
Attended honor killings and beheadings regularly.
Some might say he was a little extreme. I don’t know.
God help us all if he is mainstream.
“Islam is not responsible,”
It never is, is it?
A Muslim girl prays at the MCC mosque during the Muslim's holy fasting month of Ramadan in Silver Spring, Maryland in September 2009. Islam is "not responsible" for the bloodbath at an army base in Texas where Muslim-American army Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly gunned down 13 people, the prayer leader at the mosque where the officer regularly worshipped said Friday. (AFP/File/Jewel Samad)
> Not just the Religion Of Peace, also the Religion Of
> Coincidence.
The religion of perpetual anger.
The religion of perpetual death and destruction.
The religion of perpetual bloody outrages.
The religion of perpetual denial.
Well, I didn’t do it and I don’t think my Amish friends did it either...so who?
As far as I am concerned, Islam is responsible. Now if they had done anything resembling trying to prevent these type attacks then I might believe them.
Of COURSE not! It was George Bush’s fault again!
Ugh.. this is getting SOOOOOO old!
Who’d a thunk a muslim would go and do something like this? Not me - no sirree.
“We pray for everybody, all Americans, not only Muslims,” he said.
I CAN HEAR THE PRAYERS NOW,
“ DEAR god (I REFUSE TO PRAY TO a moon god EVEN sarcasticly) ) PLEASE PROTECT US INNOCENT MOSLEMS WHILE WE PROCEED IN KILLING EVERY INFIDEL IN THE WORLD” thank you.
-PJ
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