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Hasan’s Spiritual Mentor

Today the WaPo has an interview with the once-American spiritual mentor to Hasan, al-Awlaki (screw it, I'm sticking with my former spelling) in which he claims in effect that he didn't incite the violence. There's a lot about what he wrote on his website while he was in communication with Hasan. His self-defense is about what you might expect.

More interesting, perhaps, is the reaction of another preacher on the subject. We are told:

Sheik Salman al-Awdah, a Saudi religious leader, gave an interview last week calling the massacre at Fort Hood "unjustified," "irrational" and "inadvisable" because it will cause a backlash against Muslims in America and Europe.

Unjustified is good. Irrational is good. But unadvisable "because it will cause a backlash against Muslims in America and Europe"? All questions of right and wrong seem to circle back to this issue, and that is, quite frankly, a sickening failure of compassion for humanity in general.

Speaking of tribal-ism:

(via Enoch)

And, you know . . . let the Catholics hang. They're Satanists, after all. It won't affect me.

Yet more, court-enforced, tribalism.

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