RE: Nidal Malik Hasan. May you rot.
August 30, 2013 at 5:20 pm
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2013 at 5:29 pm by Mister Agenda.)
I'd rather he got life with no possibility of parole. It's cheaper than spending the next 30 years fighting his appeals, and I could hope that someday he might realize the magnitude of the evil that he did.
It doesn't compare to what was done to the people shot down and their friends and families, but one of the ripples of his murder spree was that I had a recently-immigrated Somali Bantu woman crying and afraid to leave her home because she thought a mob might form and kill her for being a Muslim. Her life experience had been that majorities do that to minorities when they get stirred up. I don't even want to know how many people she saw shot down or worse, I just know she's only in her thirties, doesn't have any living relatives, used to have a husband and children, and wandered into a refugee camp alone. All the Bantus I know have murdered relatives, but she's the only one I've met without any family. Usually even if she only had a tribal affiliation left, they would have informally adopted her and arranged a marriage for her...unless she's been shamed by having been raped. I love these people, but they aren't perfect. They don't have a death penalty for any reason I know of, but they do shun. And some things they don't talk about, so I'm left to wonder.
But if I believed people's bites were as bad as their barks, I'd have had to agree she was in danger. I can't think of a single American who has done more to inflame anti-Muslim rhetoric than Nidal Hasan.
It doesn't compare to what was done to the people shot down and their friends and families, but one of the ripples of his murder spree was that I had a recently-immigrated Somali Bantu woman crying and afraid to leave her home because she thought a mob might form and kill her for being a Muslim. Her life experience had been that majorities do that to minorities when they get stirred up. I don't even want to know how many people she saw shot down or worse, I just know she's only in her thirties, doesn't have any living relatives, used to have a husband and children, and wandered into a refugee camp alone. All the Bantus I know have murdered relatives, but she's the only one I've met without any family. Usually even if she only had a tribal affiliation left, they would have informally adopted her and arranged a marriage for her...unless she's been shamed by having been raped. I love these people, but they aren't perfect. They don't have a death penalty for any reason I know of, but they do shun. And some things they don't talk about, so I'm left to wonder.
But if I believed people's bites were as bad as their barks, I'd have had to agree she was in danger. I can't think of a single American who has done more to inflame anti-Muslim rhetoric than Nidal Hasan.
