{"id":12580,"date":"2009-11-06T06:16:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T14:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12580"},"modified":"2009-11-06T06:17:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T14:17:54","slug":"fort-hood-murderer-was-a-muslim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12580","title":{"rendered":"Fort Hood Murderer Was A Muslim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/06\/us\/06suspect.html?_r=1&amp;hp=&amp;pagewanted=print\">The New York Times reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON &mdash; Born and reared in Virginia, the son of immigrant parents from a small <a title=\"More articles about Palestinians.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/p\/palestinians\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">Palestinian<\/a> town near Jerusalem, he joined the <a title=\"More articles about the U.S. Army.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/a\/us_army\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Army<\/a> right out of high school, against his parents&rsquo; wishes. The Army, in turn, put him through college and then medical school, where he trained to be a psychiatrist.<\/p>\n<p>But Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the 39-year-old man accused of Thursday&rsquo;s mass shooting at <a title=\"More articles about Fort Hood Army base.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/f\/fort_hood_texas\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">Fort Hood<\/a>, Tex., began having second thoughts about a military career a few years ago after other soldiers harassed him for being a Muslim, he told relatives in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The former imam at a Silver Spring, Md., mosque where Major Hasan worshiped for about 10 years described him as proud of his work in the Army and &ldquo;very serious about his religion.&rdquo; The former imam, Faizul Khan, said that Major Hasan had wanted to marry an equally religious woman but that his efforts to find one had failed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He wanted a woman who prayed five times a day and wears a <a title=\"More articles about Muslim veiling.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/m\/muslim_veiling\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">hijab<\/a>, and maybe the women he met were not complying with those things,&rdquo; the former imam said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports: WASHINGTON &mdash; Born and reared in Virginia, the son of immigrant parents from a small Palestinian town near Jerusalem, he joined the Army right out of high school, against his parents&rsquo; wishes. The Army, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12580\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[19792,19797,19799,19798,19800,19796,3135],"class_list":["post-12580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-fort-hood","tag-immigrant-parents","tag-nidal","tag-palestinian-town","tag-silver-spring-md","tag-town-near-jerusalem","tag-york-times-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12582,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580\/revisions\/12582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}