Comments on: Fort Hood Victims Speak out against Anti-Muslim Sentiment

By: al-suyuufi

al-suyuufi — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:28:11 +0000

then what was it?

By: nasiru

nasiru — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:27:05 +0000

that wasn’t my point.

By: Nadia

Nadia — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:11:36 +0000

Mashallah, may Allah bless them and give them ease in their time of difficulty.

MR: Thanks for posting this. I live not far from Fort Hood and to hear families of casualties acknowledging the need to step back and use sense before stereotyping a group of people is really encouraging for me. I’ll pass this on to other Muslims in central Texas like me who have been worrying about being stigmatized because of this. Jazakallah khayr.

By: al-suyuufi

al-suyuufi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:30:38 +0000

You found Islam cause Allah wanted you to. Plus it wasn’t wrong for you to join the military since you weren’t Muslim at the time.

if i meet some muslims while drinking at a bar, and later convert, that doesn’t make the bar an okay place to visit, does it?

By: nasriu

nasriu — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:41:46 +0000

@ al-suyuufi. i fail to see any humor about this. i joined the military in ‘98 and two months later took shahada after my interaction with two muslim somalis. would i have found islam had i not joined the military? i guess we’ll never know.

By: Faruq Ibn Khaldun

Faruq Ibn Khaldun — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:41:23 +0000

This is truly something remarkable and should be shared with others. May Allah guide them to the haqq. Ameen.

By: al-suyuufi

al-suyuufi — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:42:28 +0000

lol…you should all be leaving the army because i never knew it was okay to be in an army actively fighting muslims.

By: nasiru

nasiru — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:20:46 +0000

masha’Allah, i was happy to hear that. i lived in fort hood for 19 years, and that base is crazy. we’re a small ummah there with a lot of brothers in the army. i’m in the marines myself and i pray for those of us in the armed forces because it just got harder for us.

By: Rubies

Rubies — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:58:15 +0000

What good people. May God bless them.

By: Zookeeper

Zookeeper — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:54:11 +0000

That is very big of them. When you lose someone you love you’re more likely to act on pure emotion. So that fact that they have so much sabr is very extraordinary, some muslims could learn from that.