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For now, it is believed Hasan acted alone, despite his communications with Anwar al-Awlaki, an imam released from a Yemeni jail last year who has used his own web site to inspire Muslims to kill U.S. troops in Iraq.
Obama as said that we Americans are responsible for much of the terrorist acts and that we should attempt to engage the Muslim nations.
Perhaps we can remind ourselves what jihad is by reading Daniel Pipes..... "holy war" Or, more precisely: It means the legal, compulsory, communal effort to expand the territories ruled by Muslims at the expense of territories ruled by non-Muslims.
"The purpose of jihad, in other words, is not directly to spread the Islamic faith but to extend sovereign Muslim power (faith, of course, often follows the flag). Jihad is thus unabashedly offensive in nature, with the eventual goal of achieving Muslim dominion over the entire globe."
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