Austin Strip Clubs: A jihadi walks into a stripper bar…
Did you read that Nidal Hasan was known to frequent a strip bar near Fort Hood in these past months? Excerpt:
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You may be thinking: how does this square with his being a devout Muslim? Keep in mind that the 9/11 hijackers reportedly did the same thing. A source of mine who does counterterrorism analysis says that we in the West might see this behavior as undermining the case for Hasan’s piety, but in fact it doesn’t. My source says that within Islamic law, the only believers guaranteed the forgiveness of all their sins and entry into Paradise are shahids — that is, martyrs. In that sense, an otherwise highly devout Muslim who suddenly starts going to bars or strip clubs could be seen as in the final stages of preparing to martyr himself — the idea being that he can sin with impunity, because he knows he’s about to undertake an act that will cleanse his sin and grant him paradise.