I'm of Irish descent and a Catholic - does that make me a terrorist because of the actions of some Irish Catholics in Northern Ireland?
I'm of Irish descent (4th gen) and a Catholic as well.
My family is from Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, N. Ireland. If you are a terrorist, I am too.
That said, we both have to admit that there ARE Irish Catholic terrorists in Northern Ireland--and even right here in the USA--they belong to the Irish Republican Army/Real Irish Republican Army.
The IRA has tried for decades to attain their political goals (self-government vs. being governed by the English Crown) by bombing and killing the English to make their point. That makes them TERRORISTS.
Now, of course, *not* all Irish Catholics are terrorists. Not *every single* IRA member has carried out terrorist acts, but the fact remains that there ARE Irish Catholic terrorists.
The same is true of Moslems. Some of them *ARE* terrorists. That's a fact that must be acknowledged.
No. The same is true of Muslims.
Wow.
You're gonna make a blanket statement to the effect that Moslems are peaceful and not terrorists? There are NO Moslem terrorists? Really?
That's a buncha bunk.
Hassan is a terrorist. Plain and simple.
He shouted Moslem slogans as he shot his victims. He was motivated to kill American soldiers on American soil BY HIS RELIGION.
He tried to make his point (getting US troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq) with VIOLENCE....that is the *very definiition* of terrorism.
He didn't like the war in Afghanistan and Iraq because MOSLEMS were being killed *by Americans*, and so he killed American soldiers as retribution, and perhaps to convince Obama to get us out of A-stan and Iraq NOW.
Killing to making a point---that's what the IRA does. That's what Al-Q does. That's what the Taliban does.
That's what Hassan did.
That's what makes him a Terrorist.