{"id":1744,"date":"2009-11-15T21:02:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T10:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2009-11-21T19:34:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T08:34:52","slug":"major-hasans-islamic-dilemna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/11\/15\/major-hasans-islamic-dilemna\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Hasan’s Islamic dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Durie<\/a> gives an analysis of\u00a0accused Fort\u00a0Hood killer Major Nidal M. Hasan’s own powerpoint presentation on Islam. The presentation is itself worth a look, as is Mark Durie’s comment on its islamic teaching.\u00a0The slides are true to mainline (Sunni) Islam and Durie\u00a0comments on the slides\u00a0as demonstrating\u00a0the emphasis given by Major Hasan\u00a0to the enormous dilemma for a Muslim to kill another Muslim:<\/p>\n

What the US military has to accept is that some Muslims in the armed forces could be poor soldiers in wars against Muslims.\u00a0 In a sense what Major Hasan was arguing was that Muslim soldiers can only be relied upon to kill non-Muslims.<\/p>\n

Underlying this world view, fed by the streams of centuries of Islamic theology, is the distinction that a Muslim’s blood is sacrosanct, but an infidel’s blood is not.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The US military is between a rock and a hard place.\u00a0 It could\u00a0 a) choose to discriminate and refuse to recruit\u00a0 Muslims, b) not use Muslims against Muslim enemies, or\u00a0 c) obtain a rock-solid fatwa declaring that the Muslim enemies of the US are not true Muslims at all, so they can lawfully be killed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mark Durie’s full article on Major Nidal M. Hasan. <\/a>\u00a0Link to Major Hasan’s powerpoint presentation on ‘The Koranic World View as it Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military’<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mark Durie’s\u00a0 analysis is supported by Sheikh Awlaki the former\u00a0imam at a Virginia mosque that Hasan attended\u00a0who praised Hasan as a ‘hero’ and said:<\/p>\n

”He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people,” Sheikh Awlaki wrote. ”The only way a Muslim could be Islamically justified serving as a soldier in the US Army is if his intention is to follow the footsteps of men like Nidal.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See, Killer’s emails to cleric ignored<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Durie gives an analysis of\u00a0accused Fort\u00a0Hood killer Major Nidal M. Hasan’s own powerpoint presentation on Islam. The presentation is itself worth a look, as is Mark Durie’s comment on its islamic teaching.\u00a0The slides are true to mainline (Sunni) Islam … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}