Islam has millions of followers world-wide. It is also the fastest growing religion. If all Muslims believed the way you claim: “Death to Israel, America is Great Satan, etc”, wouldn’t the world be in mass hysteria as Muslims world-wide tried to kill off all Christians and Jews? Yes, there is violence in the world, but I would argue that “radical Islam” is a small fringe of the national religion.

* This man had been vocal for some time, yet PC kept him in the Army AND in the command structure. Now good soldiers are dead with their families dealing w/ the actions of this gunman. Perhaps it’s the same PC that Icarus espouses. (hope that’s not true but that’s what it looks like to me)
* Icarus made the Methodist reference because he is Methodist. I don’t know of any Methodists who are talking about terrorist actions against America or our military. If they were talking about it, then they should come under surveillance. (bad comparison by Icarus in my judgement)
* Many Muslims do believe that the US is the great Satan, that Israel should be destroyed, that all who do not bend the knee to Allah should die, that conversion to Islam can come by subjucation, ETC. If more Muslims would renounce these things then everybody would be safer. (If you claim to be a Muslim, I hope you don’t believe these things…not all who profess to be Muslims believe this stuff.)

I hope this clears up things for you.

Of course, this also means that some of the countries need to stop sucking on the oil teet and using that to hold power in the hands of a very few.

($5,000,000,000,000 if you know the precise movie line that comes next)

If the government was doing surveillance because this guy was a Muslim, then they did a poor job. If they were even doing it because of his statements & associations, then they did a poor job.

It would be a big stretch & you should be surprised if the gov’t begins surveillance on Methodists. As far as I know, the Methodists of your persuasion are not calling for the destruction of Israel, killing of infidels, etc.

I like your story, but your conclusions are all wrong.

It’s too bad, really. I liked it quite a bit better when there were more Democrats who posted on the front page. It gave the place more balance.

Thanks for posting and writing this–well worth the read!

We cannot give in and start thinking that all Moslems are bad people. As for the ones who claim that there is a jihad against the west and openly call for the destruction of Israel and the United States, as far as I am concerned, we are at war with them. The wars that we are engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq are seen as isolated wars. For those who see them that way, I am telling you that you are wrong. Those wars are part of a global war on terror. The minute we think it’s over without those calling the shots for radical terrorists calling for an end of using violence and terror as political tools, we are in trouble.

I like to watch MMA or for the old people on here, that’s boxing with a little more thrown in. In MMA or boxing, you can get knocked out when you let your guard down.

As far as Fort Hood goes, Hasan blew a fuse. Something went wrong in his head. He knew he was going to die and he was out to take as many people as possible with him. Crackpot, yes. Terrorist, I think he meets the definition. I think he wanted to make political change using terror. He tried to contact Al-Qaeda. He should have been booted out of the Army just for that. People should loose their jobs over this attack. People lost their lives.

Icarus’ friend Mohammed sounds like he was a nice guy. The world would be a better place with more people like him than Hasan.