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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
OH my goodness. what a bunch of BS.
The act was what it was......a terrorist attack on our soil by a muslim. By a muslim that betrayed his country for his faith.
Why is no one addressing THIS?
No, we're going to wring our hands, and pitifully cry "'why? Lets find out why this person did this then we can prevent future happenings."
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Lots of people betray their country for their faith. If you follow the newspapers, you will see that it's not all that unusual for people to sell or give important secrets to Israel, for example. I have a feeling you weren't posting angry messages about those newspaper stories. Were you?
This particular terrorist is unusual. Judging from the stories I read, he was not an a..hole in his everyday life. This crime may have been a true crime of conscience. In a way it's scarier, because it points out that a person can calmly (and wrongly) do terrible things with the feeling that he is doing his duty to God. To me, it is not so important that he was a Muslim; I think that the issue is actually bigger than that. Maybe there is no solution.
I myself could say that he was basically a believer in God; how would you feel about that? Or maybe he's a Republican? Just because a person can be identified with something you are opposed to does not make that the ultimate explanation of his behavior.