Excerpt From Blog Post:Just a little murder. This quote comes from Nidal Malik Hasan's cousin in an article that, like many news reports, comes perilously close to offering any alienation or mistreatment Hasan may have perceived as an excuse for his rampage. Broken moral compasses and outrageous claims of moral equivalence abound.
The headline here seemed promising for a moment, but it's not what CNN meant. "Fort Hood suspect's religion was an issue, family says," from CNN, November 6:
FORT HOOD, Texas (CNN) -- The bumper sticker reading "Allah is Love" was torn off and the car was keyed.
Dawah, alluding to 1 John 4:8. But while one of the 99 names of Allah is "al-wadud," "the loving," one cannot attempt to equate the relative importance of love in the two religions' narratives without being disingenuous.