We need more Muslim leaders convincing more Muslims of this:

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Salam Al-Marayati writes that Maj. Nidal Hasan – the Fort Hood terrorist – has violated the Quran:

Maj. Hasan must take responsibility for committing two major sins in Islam—the murder of his fellow citizens and the violation of two oaths he took.

Maj. Hasan took an oath as a member of the U.S. military to defend our country. He also took a Hippocratic oath to protect his patients. The violation of these oaths is a violation of the Quranic principle which states that making a pledge to anyone is tantamount to making a pledge to God.

…He ignores the Quranic mandates, for example, to stand for justice even if it is against your own interest, and to avoid transgression in the pursuit of justice.

…the admonition by the Prophet Muhammad never to harm the innocent and never to target noncombatants.

Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, says the goal of Islam is “peacemaking.” I know virtually nothing about Islam, but I’ll tell you: if that’s Islam’s goal, we sure aren’t hearing it. It’s being drowned out by all the Imams calling for suicide bombings.

One more thing: Al-Marayati closes his piece with:

So what should the U.S. government do? Consider allowing Muslim-American religious leaders to meet with Nidal Hasan. Muslim leaders could encourage him to repent. And they could engage Maj. Hasan on his deeply flawed understanding of Islam, explaining that the Quran is an instrument to take people from darkness to light, not the opposite.

Kinda depends on which Muslim leaders he talks to, doesn’t it?

Hat tip to The Linkiest