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‘But this much we do know: no faith justifies these murderous and craven acts.
‘No just and loving God looks upon them with favour. And for what he has done, we know that the killer will be met with justice, in this world, and the next.’ Obama built his address around the terrible irony that the victims could not ‘escape the horrors of war’ even though they died at home, not on the battlefields where many of them had served. He said Thursday’s rampage, which also wounded 42 people, came at a trying time for
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Intrigue over the injured suspect, Major Nidal Hasan, mounted after the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed he had contacts with a firebrand Islamic cleric in Yemen and it emerged he had voiced doubts over the role of US Muslim soldiers.
Defence and law enforcement officials meanwhile said Hasan would likely face a court martial for murder in a military court. The FBI said Hasan, a devout Muslim, came to its attention in 2008 after he communicated with the target of a counter-terrorism investigation. ‘The joint terrorism task force concluded that Major Hasan was not involved in terrorist activities or terrorist planning,’ the FBI said, adding that ‘the investigation to date indicates that the alleged gunman acted alone and was not part of a broader terrorist plot. The Washington Post Post said Hasan had shocked fellow army medics more than a year ago by saying Muslim soldiers should be allowed release as conscientious objectors rather than being ordered to go to war against fellow Muslims.
We are deeply shocked at tis most tragic event.Innocent lives have been lost in the hand of a doctor.Muslim scholars and leadership around the world have condemned this sad incident .In the US and some other places some quarters have linked the Muslim identity with his crime. This is just preposterous. As President Obama has said, no religion teaches such heinous activities. Even the most conservative Muslim jurist has not condoned such killing of the innocents in their juristic writings.They have differed on some other issues but not on this killing of innocents.As Muslims are a small minority in the US , the questions will be more, such accusation or such liking the religious identity of the offender is not normally made against the members of the majority. It is a trying time for the US, US army and the Muslims there .US government may consider one thing, exempting conscientious objectors from military services in some particular countries.
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