Posted on 07/30/2006 2:57:52 PM PDT by wideminded
RICHLAND -- Those who knew Naveed Haq said Saturday that to them he was an enigma, a puzzle that they wish they could have solved before his deadly rampage in a Seattle Jewish center.
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He held a degree in electrical engineering and was the son of a successful engineer, yet he couldn't keep a regular job. He was smart, creative and skilled as a writer. He recently won an essay contest for a U.S. Institute of Peace scholarship.
Yet Haq was frustrated at his lack of friends and female companionship.He told friends he felt alienated from his own family, in part because his career had disappointed his father and also because he had disavowed Islam last year, converting to Christianity.
Haq had begun studying the Bible, attending weekly men's spiritual group meetings, only to stop coming a few months after his baptism.
He had told the group's leader that he seen too much anger in Islam and that he wanted to find a new beginning in Christianity.
Yet in the midst of his shooting spree in Seattle Friday, he declared himself an angry Muslim.
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"Naveed had the profile of the guy who just couldn't get things together," said Erik Neilsen ...
Last winter, Haq began attending a weekly men's group meeting led by a member of the Word of Faith Church in Kennewick.
The group's leader, Albert Montelongo, said Haq started studying the Bible and in December he underwent a water baptism at the non-denominational church, performed by Montelongo. He said Haq accepted his new faith, though he knew that he would also be offending his own family and its deeply rooted culture. His father, Mian Haq, was among the founders of the Islamic Center of the Tri-Cities in Richland.
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I think that is where a lot of the fanaticism comes from. If one man has four wives, that means somewhere there are three men with none, and no hope of getting one. They turn that sexual frustration into religious rage. Sure would be nice if they could just go out and rent a hooker.
-ccm
Literally it wasn't there, but they're moving in that direction. When they arrested the Miami Muslim 7 a few months ago, the liberal/leftist media tried initially to pawn them off on an unsuspecting public as militia members.
I'm just waiting for that shoe to fall.
No doubt he learned that from Jim McGreevy...
spin,spin,spin
I think you're right
I can never keep track of what is supposed to be excerpted. I just assumed this was. Maybe there is a list somewhere.
I wonder if any of the students understand that we live in a republic, or if they know what a republic is.
He's a muslim, which is synonomous with "lunatic" in any sane western person's Thesaurus.
If he had actually been baptized (yeah, I'm talking immersion), someone failed to hold him down the required three days.
it does not matter WHAT he is or WHAT he believes, he is a murderer....that is all we need to know. WHY he murdered is not really important; just in what he did.
I still maintain that whoever baptized him didn't hold him under for a sufficient period of time.
Who cares? Muslims must no longer be admitted to the USA as a practical matter of internal security.
They are a heck of a lot more dangerous than all the pot smokers in the USA, regardless of the dope smokers' driving records and how many nuns leading orphans up the side of the road who have been killed. If five lousy percent of the man hours spent "keeping drunks from behind the wheel" were directed at monitoring mooselimbs and mosques, we would be far safer. Of course, making SF look like a Blooming Onion from the air using a suitcase nuke would turn California to a Red (conservative voting) state and do much to aerate the infection in Congress.........
There is. I keep a bookmark to this.
Terrorism is a symptom.....LIBERALISM is the disease!!!
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