The creation of Major Hasan
This op-ed piece by Robert Wright poses that Fort Hood could be evidence that the war on terror can create terrorists while it seeks to dispel them.
Major Hasan
Hasan scheduled for weekend hearing, details about suspicious emails emerge
Major Hasan, now paralyzed, will have his first court hearing from his hospital room this weekend. It will determine whether to place him in jail or leave him in the hospital pre-trial. A democratic senator also claims there may be additional emails between Hasan and radical imam Anwar Al-Awlaki that were intercepted by the government….
Local Houston Muslim speaks about seizure of the Islamic Education Center
In this piece by Houston Chronicle web producer Samira Rizvi, the interests, activities and worshipers of Houston’s Islamic Education Center are discussed. The article paints a picture of the organization and the Muslims that are part of it from the perspective of one of its own members. The question of whether Muslims should apologize for…
Fort Hood presents challenges to Obama’s bridge-building efforts
This article questions whether President Obama’s efforts of friendship and peace-building with the Muslim world will be criticized because of the Fort Hood incident. Given rising casulities in Afghanistan, the recent string of foiled US terror plots and Major Hasan’s act, author Jacob Weisberg asks, is Obama’s strategy achieving what he claims it can achieve:…