Before this goes much further -

[kyburg]

The family of the alleged Fort Hood military base shooter held his mother's funeral at the same mosque that two Sept. 11 hijackers attended in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there.

I think this says much more about the expectations of church attendence right now than anything of substance.

Like, you only attend with people of your own political leanings and all that, and don't question them.

And people who attend on a regular basis are nuts, anyway.

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I can count the number of mosques I know of on less than two hands, and I'm in Los Angeles.

I seriously doubt they are swimming in them in Virginia to the point where if you're devout, you have much choice about where you can participate and with who.

And I've said something about being poked with privilege sticks already.

Just, tuck it away. Food for thought, that kind of thing.

Comments

[trillsie.livejournal.com]

I think it is just people trying so hard to tie him to extremists that they are willing to grasp at any tiny detail to do so. It's the whole "he's Muslim so he must be an extremist and terrorist. I will prove it. See look, his mother's funeral was at the same mosque so he must have ties to them"

*headdesk*

[caitlin.livejournal.com]

I keep in mind the fact that when the OKC bombing happened, people's initial reaction is "Must have been an Arab Terrorist!"

Timothy McVeigh was far from Arab.

And Muslim does not automatically = Terrorist.

Because the Muslims of Pakistan and Afghanistan could probably say the same about the Israelis... or the Americans.

And not all the people who died on 9/11 were White, Christian, or Male.

[lordindra.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

If there is a link between him and Al-Quaeda, it needs a hell of a lot more to prove it. I think it is reasonable to look into the possibility, but the way the media is pushing this "evidence" is laughably bad.

The next "evidence" is likely to be someone remembering him being polite to one of the 9/11 hijackers as they passed each other in the hall. Never mind that the same could probably be said of whoever reports said "evidence".

The more that comes out it looks like the man just cracked. It might not be a sufficient break from reality to qualify for an insanity defense, but it does look like this is really the root cause of what happened.

Of course the right wing blogs are saying that it couldn't possibly be it, their reason for saying this? He hasn't been to combat. I cannot quite comprehend how they think combat is the only reason soliders ever break down under pressure. Anyone who has spent more than a couple days in uniform can tell you this is not true.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_darkvictory/]

Listen to a radical preacher=agree with radical preacher=terrorist: it truly scares me that people see no problem with this, or with the idea that everyone in a given house of worship thinks the same way. As someone who's seen feuds in various faiths and denominations across five decades, I ask, when has that ever happened, ever? How can anyone active in a congregation of any sort believe that? It just amazes me how people stretch their prejudices so far out beyond the borders of reason.