Subscribe“He came to mosque one or two times to see if there were any suitable girls to marry,” Khan said. “I don't think he ever had a match, because he had too many conditions. He wanted a girl who was very religious, prays five times a day, which is all very good.”Seems like a common thread with these spree killers: an inability to find a girlfriend. This guy, The gym shooter. The Virginia Tech shooter, etc.
In search of a partner in marriage, Hasan wrote in an application filed with a local Muslim matching service that “I am quiet and reserved until more familiar with person. Funny, caring and personable.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation had earlier become aware of Internet postings by a man who called himself Nidal Hasan, a law enforcement official said. The postings discussed suicide bombing in a favorable light, but the investigators were not clear whether the writer was Major Hasan.I'm disturbed not by the fact that he was calling suicide bombers heroic (Didn't Bill Maher do the same thing after 911?) but that the FBI "became aware of" internet postings. There is soooooooo much crap posted on the internet, how can they possibly monitor it all? And are they also monitoring postings about how all women are bitches who should die, or postings about how all atheists should roast in hell, or all gays should be raped? There is a lot of hate speech out there and I'm wondering how much of it is considered important enough to be monitored.
"In Washington, a senior U.S. official said authorities at Fort Hood initially thought one of the victims who had been shot and killed was the shooter. The mistake resulted in a delay of several hours in identifying Hasan as the alleged assailant."*
More shootings:On the average day in the United States, there are something like 28 murders by shooting, 46 suicides by shooting, 64 non-fatal injuries by accidental shooting, and 144 non-fatal injuries by deliberate shooting.
At least eight people were injured in a mass shooting inside a downtown Orlando high-rise just before noon Friday, according to the Orlando Fire Department.
One thing is, that black and white picture of Hasan that you see everywhere has serious crazy eyes.He looks perfectly normal to me in that picture. I think you might be projecting the fact that you know he's crazy onto that picture.
"On the document-sharing Web site Scribd a heated discussion has been going on beneath a comment posted six months ago by someone using the screen name 'NidalHasan.' The comment was written in response to an essay uploaded to the site by another user headlined 'Martyrdom in Islam Versus Suicide Bombing.'
The name Nidal Hasan is not uncommon, and there is no way of knowing if this comment was in fact written by the Army psychiatrist who is the suspected gunman in Thursday’s rampage at Fort Hood, but the comment does seem to match a report from The Associated Press, that Major Hasan had 'attracted the attention of law enforcement authorities in recent months after an Internet posting under the screen name 'NidalHasan' compared Islamic suicide bombers to Japanese kamikaze pilots.
Here is the entire comment posted in May by the Scribd user NidalHasan:There was a grenade thrown amongs a group of American soldiers. One of the soldiers, feeling that it was to late for everyone to flee jumped on the grave with the intention of saving his comrades. Indeed he saved them. He inentionally took his life (suicide) for a noble cause i.e. saving the lives of his soldier. To say that this soldier committed suicide is inappropriate. Its more appropriate to say he is a brave hero that sacrificed his life for a more noble cause. Scholars have paralled this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers. If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory. Their intention is not to die because of some despair. The same can be said for the Kamikazees in Japan. They died (via crashing their planes into ships) to kill the enemies for the homeland. You can call them crazy i you want but their act was not one of suicide that is despised by Islam. So the scholars main point is that 'IT SEEMS AS THOUGH YOUR INTENTION IS THE MAIN ISSUE'and Allah (SWT) knows best."*
I don't mean to keep beating this horse, it's just that I'm uncomfortable with the logic that such a senseless act of violence must mean mental illness, because only a mentally ill person could do such a horrible thing. It's stretching the meaning of "mentally ill" away from clinically-diagnosable conditions that have to do with brain chemistry going awry and getting uncomfortably close to "mentally ill" = "evil acts I don't understand".I don't know; I tend to think that "shot dozens of random people who had done nothing to him" is a pretty good indicator for "mentally ill", regardless of "brain chemistry". I would go so far as to say that if a definition for "mentally ill" is based on "brain chemistry" and therefore (hypothetically) lists this man as not being mentally ill, it's a fundamentally flawed definition.
Flunkie, I guess I would ask what you do mean by mentally ill, then.I am not the one here who is attempting to give a definition. I merely gave an example that I believe would qualify under any decent definition.
According to the fair and balanced crew, it is 'the largest single terror attack in America since 9/11'.
"The second gun he had with him was a .357 S&W Magnum revolver, federal law enforcement officials tell ABC News. Ballistics are still being run to determine if he used the revolver in the shooting."
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It was the Army psychiatrist?
posted by dabitch at 1:56 AM on November 6