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Originally Posted by Torplexed
On a form filled out by those seeking spouses through a program at his former mosque in Silver Spring, Maryland, Hasan listed his birthplace as Arlington, Va., but his nationality as Palestinian, according to the imam at his mosque, Faizul Khan.
"I don't know why he listed Palestinian," Khan said, "He was not born in Palestine."
RIP for those who fell.
A fast recovery for the wounded.
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desired feeling of identity diconnected from real identity in profane reality.
Beyond the above banal context of maybe confused-by-history national identity, IMO a general theme in Islam in special (supremacist demands to be seen as the superior culture and standard), and religion in general (the shift of life's focus from the present (life) to the future (afterlife). Regarding the rejection of history and present, in Egypt I met Palestinians who really got into emotionally excited, heated arguments when showing old keys to houses in their grandparent'S Palestine - houses that probably since decades did no more exist. Still they said they would one day return into "their houses", swinging their keys. It seems to be a ritual, this key-swinging, I'm not sure, but I read in two different books by different people that they also were confronted with key-swinging Palestinians.