Saturday, November 7, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Asra Q. Nomani: Nidal Malik Hasan had revealed a hard-line Islamist streak to acquaintances in the Muslim Community Center that he made his mosque - '..."So many time I talked with him," said Akhter, a community leader who is sort of like a mosque gadfly, challenging congregants to reject literal, rigid interpretations of Islam. "I was trying to modernize him. I tried my best. He used to hate America as a whole. He was more anti-American than American." Despite all the conversations, Akther said, "I couldn't get through to him. He was a typical fundamentalist Muslim."...'
