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Fort Hood jihadist's business card: "Soldier of Allah (SWT)"

At the risk of overestimating myself, I wonder what standard of evidence you require in order to prove the truth of the matter asserted? The criminal standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt? The lesser standard of clear and convincing evidence? Or the general civil standard of proof by a preponderence of the evidence?

I think you will need DNA evidence linking Hasan to bin Laden to convince Lexrst.
 
Still waiting on someone, maybe you, to prove this was actually a "terrorist attack" and not simply a deranged Muslim committing mass murder. That religion was a more dominant factor than his mental state.

And I would ask that you provide evidence supporting the notion that he was a crazed person.
 
And I'm still waiting for you to prve that this cat is just your garden variety nutjob. The evidence suggests something totally different.
Lerxst won't show you anything, he wants to believe this guy was just nuts and that his religion wasn't a factor.
 
Still waiting on someone, maybe you, to prove this was actually a "terrorist attack" and not simply a deranged Muslim committing mass murder. That religion was a more dominant factor than his mental state.

I’ll see what I can do. Though partially its going to come down to the notion that it seems the only way you’d buy religion being at least equally, if not more, motivating of a factor for this then simply his mental state is if they do some kind of tests on him. However you’re leaping to the mental state conclusion just as rashly as those jumping to the “definitely religion dominant” conclusion are.

Here you go, the argument that his extremist religious views at least were equally, if not more dominant, then any potential mental state ….

First and foremost, whatever mental state he was in seems to be in part created due to the effect his religion had on him. The reason given for the “bullying” (not the right term but close enough) he sustained was that it was generally based around his religion (towel head, etc). It seems many close to the situation are pointing to his nearing deployment as the trigger for setting him over the edge. Why does it appear that the deployment bothered him so and put him in such a position to go over the edge? Because he felt that we were fighting against his brothers in Islam over there and that they were actually the ones fighting the just cause and was morally and spiritually opposed to it. This was a man whose routinely stated, from reports, his support or admirations for suicide bombers and others like them attacking the troops to send a message; and this support was based upon his extremist religious views.

To me it seems pretty clear that you had a guy predisposed to being a loner, to likely needing some kind of all encompassing ideology to make sense of his life, had a persecution process, was likely frightened to go to war in general mixed with falling into an extremist sect of a religion that happens to be encompass many of the forces that he is supposed to be fighting against, joining together to culminate and give us what happened.

I think if we were fighting, lets say Russia or China, that this guy would not have done this as some of the triggers (going to fight against what he views as his ideological brothers, being a greater target for ribbing by companions) would not be as prevalent. Similarly, if he had not fallen into this extreme sect of Islam I don’t believe he would’ve done this as again, the triggers wouldn’t have been as big. Likewise though, if he didn’t have the mental state and predisposition to the types of responses he had to various external hardships, this likely wouldn’t have happened, because the triggers wouldn’t be present.

It was a mix in my mind of his mental state, his extremist views, and our current military situation combined that likely came together to cause him to act as he did imho. Take any one of those away, or weaken them substantially and I don’t think this happens. And as such I don’t think one can truly say that the mental part of it is so much more dominant, for the mental part of it likely wouldn’t have been triggered and spurred as great as it was if not for his extremist religious views. They go hand in hand in this imho.
 
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This is an actual copy of Mjor Hasan's business card. Notice under his name it says SoA (SWT). SoA stands for soldier of allah and the SWT stands for Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala or "Glory to Him, the Exalted." Muslims use these or similar words to glorify God when mentioning His name.

This is Jihadist Hasan's busniess card which he gave to infidels along with a copy of the Qur'an.

Major Muslim's Calling Card: "SoA", "Soldier of Allah" - Atlas Shrugs

Fort Hood jihadist's business card: "Soldier of Allah (SWT)" - Jihad Watch

Am gonna make a business card for a pander and write SoA(SWT) and am sure it will be translated to something else, until he kills someone . Like when people make this stuff .:doh
 
At the risk of overestimating myself, I wonder what standard of evidence you require in order to prove the truth of the matter asserted? The criminal standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt? The lesser standard of clear and convincing evidence? Or the general civil standard of proof by a preponderence of the evidence?

He would probably have to admit it on camera, in front of 50 of his peers, while hooked up to a lie detector, with his hand on the Bible, Koran, and the Rig Veda, sign the confession in triplicate.... and you will still find people that have doubts.
 
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