Via the London Telegraph: Fort Hood gunman had told US military colleagues that infidels should have their throats cut:
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America’s Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats.
He also told colleagues at America’s top military hospital that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire. The outburst came during an hour-long talk Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gave on the Koran in front of dozens of other doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington DC, where he worked for six years before arriving at Fort Hood in July.
Colleagues had expected a discussion on a medical issue but were instead given an extremist interpretation of the Koran, which Hasan appeared to believe.
If this is true, it is rather shocking that Hasan was allowed to remain on duty. The main reason I have doubts upon reading this is that it seems rather odd to the point of incredulity given that this would have been ignored given that the whole country was pretty sensitive in 2003 to this kind of talk (even moreso than now)—and at a military facility no less. However, one would expect further reporting will be done on this story.
The following is less shocking, actually:
Fellow doctors have recounted how they were repeatedly harangued by Hasan about religion and that he openly claimed to be a "Muslim first and American second."
Quite frankly a substantial number of evangelical Christians would use a similar formulation.
And, for that matter, most evangelicals would also assert that non-believers are damned to eternal punishment, which might include fire and brimstone (depending on interpretation).
The head cutting off and boiling oil, however, never comes up at church.
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