Local, national Muslim leaders condemn Fort Hood violence
Gregg Krupa / The Detroit News
Dearborn -- Within minutes of the public identification of the alleged shooter in the Thursday massacre at Fort Hood, local and national Muslim and Arab-American civil rights groups and other organizations mobilized to denounce the violence and to assure the safety of their communities.

The Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, the largest mosque in the United States, issued a statement saying that it "condemns the atrocious attacks on Fort Hood military base in Texas. This inexcusable act of violence must not be tolerated, and the perpetrators should be held accountable for their crime.

"Islam in no way accepts such violence and terror," the statement continued. "Islam is a peaceful religion with great reverence for human life."

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The suspected shooter, who killed 13 people in the rampage, is believed to be Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. Hasan, 39, was among 30 people wounded in the shooting spree and remained hospitalized today on a ventilator.

Mary Rose Oakar, the former congresswoman and the president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) called Thursday's attack "absolutely deplorable."

"ADC has been consistent and on record in condemning any attacks aimed at innocents, no matter who the victims are or the perpetrator may be," Oakar said. "Such violence in morally reprehensible and has nothing to do with any religion, race, ethnicity or national origin.

"ADC also calls upon law enforcement agencies to provide immediate protection for all mosques, community centers, schools and any locations that may be identified or misidentify with being Arab, Muslim, South Asian or Sikh as a clear backlash already has started," Oakar said.

Other organizations issuing statement deploring the attacks and asking for understanding included the local Council on Arab American Organizations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council and the Council on American Islamic Relations.

"Our entire organization extends its heartfelt condolences to the families of those killed as well as to those wounded and their loved ones," said Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. "We stand in solidarity with law enforcement and the U.S. military to maintain the safety and security of all Americans."

This is second time in recent weeks local religious leaders have responded to dramatic events.

Luqman Ameen Abdullah, imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit, was killed by the FBI during a raid in which he was to be arrested on a raft of federal charges including conspiracy, receipt of stolen goods and firearms offenses

Court documents filed in that cased identified Abdullah -- also known as Christopher Thomas-- as "a highly placed leader of a nationwide radical fundamentalist Sunni group."

Area religious leaders took exception to the characterization and said the Sunni branch merely works to help the downtrodden and establish tight-knit neighborhoods of believers
At least they said something nice,May Allah Bless our Ummah

Again another Muslim involved and indirectly smearing Islam. Knowing that this world is full of fitnah  (lies, slander, deception, falsehood, dishonesty and the likes) as a sign of the end of the world, I have to take this story 50-50.




On the topic of wars it reminds me of the Protocol of Zion -

PROTOCOL No. 2
1. It is indispensable for our purpose that wars, so far as possible, should not result in territorial gains: war will thus be brought on to the economic ground, where the nations will not fail to perceive in the assistance we give the strength of our predominance, and this state of things will put both sides at the mercy of our international AGENTUR; which possesses millions of eyes ever on the watch and unhampered by any limitations whatsoever. Our international rights will then wipe out national rights, in the proper sense of right, and will rule the nations precisely as the civil law of States rules the relations of their subjects among themselves.

7:2. Throughout all Europe, and by means of relations with Europe, in other continents also, we must create ferments, discords and hostility. Therein we gain a double advantage. In the first place we keep in check all countries, for they will know that we have the power whenever we like to create disorders or to restore order. All these countries are accustomed to see in us an indispensable force of coercion. In the second place, by our intrigues we shall tangle up all the threads which we have stretched into the cabinets of all States by means of the political, by economic treaties, or loan obligations. In order to succeed in this we must use great cunning and penetration during negotiations and agreements, but, as regards what is called the "official language," we shall keep to the opposite tactics and assume the mask of honesty and complacency. In this way the peoples and governments of the GOYIM, whom we have taught to look only at the outside whatever we present to their notice, will still continue to accept us as the benefactors and saviours of the human race.

Protocol 7:3
We must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition by war with the neighbors of that country which dares to oppose us: but if these neighbors should also venture to stand collectively together against us, then we must offer resistance by a universal war.

One doesn't need to reference The Protocols... the picture is there anyone having some financial common sense can see it with stark clarity...Of course it is a puzzle for lots of people who may need to pick up the pieces and put them together to see something under some guidance...but then what good that would be?  Who wants to do the spoon feeding these days? 

Edited by Sign*Reader - 06 November 2009 at 8:24pm