About the Fort Hood Shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan, his imam, Faizul Khan says,
“On a form filled out by those seeking spouses through a program at the mosque, Hasan listed his birthplace as Arlington, Va., but his nationality as Palestinian, Khan said.
“I don’t know why he listed Palestinian,” Khan said, “He was not born in Palestine.”
Nothing stood out about Hasan as radical or extremist, Khan said.”
Oh really?
Okay, say I’m the preacher at the local church, and one of my parish lists his nationality as Dixie, and runs around praising the KKK as heroes. If and probably when they do something insanely violent, when the media comes to me asking if he seemed like an extremist, what do you figure I’d say?
Yes. Yes I knew the guy was a nutbar, and that it was probably only a matter of time before something happened. I’m surprised that when he began his killing spree, he didn’t come to my office first, because I took him aside on numerous occasions and tried to explain to him the dark direction his beliefs were taking him in.
Imams, priests, preachers, study leaders, spiritual counselors, and nurturing laymen, we can do better than this. We must do better than this.
