On Thursday, November 5, 2009, Nidal Malik Hassan, a U.S Army psychiatrist, opened fire at his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas. He is an American born Muslim of Palastinian origin. He has been trained in U.S Army and was supposed to be deployed to Afghanistan on November 28. Some reporters talk of his saying "Allaho Akbar", Arabic for "God is great", while shooting.
The news is totally shocking. The first question that comes up after hearing the news is that, why he did so? As repoted, he was a man of good behaviour and breading, nobody heard anything on mistreatment or misconduct of him. He had never hurt anybody or done something wrong. so why he opened fire on Fort Hood soldiers and killed his comrads?
Afetr the news the word that is mostly heard is "Islam". Every where the words "Muslim and Islam" can be heard along with the news about Nidal Malik Hassan. What does that mean? Doesn't it bring some sort of negative connotation to the listeners' minds?
What a troublesome period Muslims are going to experience again. It seems that all those efforts to make known the true nature of Islam throughout the world were dampened again. What will non-believers think of Islam again? Aren't they going to say that they were right not to believe Islam? We will face a much tougher situation to introduce and propogate Islam from now on. It made us to start from the beginning again.
I think Nidal Malik Hassan had an unresolved question. As I learned from Dr. Hosseini's class, Nidal Hassan couldn't come up with an anwer to his questions. America had spent a lot of energy to assimilate Hassan to American culture, but it seems that it was not successful. Because Hassan ranked his religion and ethnicity above his nationality and Americanness, and put Americans into a lot of trouble. But why the assimilation process was not successful ?
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