December 16th, 2009
Yesterday, a large audience gathered at Buxton’s monthly luncheon to join Imam Johari Abdul Malik from the Dar al-Hijrah mosque and Mike Gerson, a Washington Post columnist, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Global Engagement, and President Bush’s former speechwriter to discuss the context and impact of the tragedy at Ft. Hood.
Eight years after 9-11 came an attack at the Ft. Hood military post in Texas, where US Major Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 people and wounded over 30. Reactions to the tragedy connected Maj. Hasan’s actions to Islam and religious radicalism; more specifically, it was uncovered that he and his family were once congregants at Dar al-Hijrah, a mosque in Falls Church, VA, where Imam Johari Abdul Malik serves as the Director of Outreach. (more…)
