Was the Virginia Tech shooting an instance of terror under Bush's watch? Why does Fox want to classify these things differently for Fort Hood?

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• What does "Allah Ackbar" mean? Something about God? I'm not being snotty, I'm just curious.

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  by RubyDoobyDoo on November 25th, 2009

• Never mind- I looked it up- found this on Wikipedia: Islamist usage
  See also: Islamism
  
  After 9/11, the FBI released a handwritten hijackers' letter found in three separate copies at Dulles, the Pennsylvania crash site, and in Mohamed Atta's suitcase. It included a practical checklist of final reminders for the 9/11 hijackers. One notable excerpt: "When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, 'Allahu Akbar,' because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers."[2][3]
  
  When in 2003, Imam Samudra became the second Bali bomber from a violent Islamist group to be sentenced to death for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people, Samudra greeted the sentence with chants of "Allahu Akbar".[2][3]
  
  In 2004, in an execution video of Nick Berg being beheaded in Iraq, one man sawed off Berg's head while the other captors shouted: "Allahu Akbar!".[4]
  
  In the 2007 Fort Dix attack plot, a group of radical Islamist[5] men were convicted of plotting to stage an attack on the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey. A group of them[6] had recorded video footage of themselves shooting weapons and shouting Allahu Akbar.[7]
  
  During the Fort Hood shooting on November 5, 2009, soldiers who witnessed the shooting reported that gunman Major Nidal Malik Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar" before opening fire in Fort Hood, killing 13 people and wounding 30 others.[8]

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  by RubyDoobyDoo on November 25th, 2009

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• That's probably a more straight forward comparison. At the same time, does religious motivation necessarily factor in to the determination whether a violent act is terrorism?

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  by The Gay Expositor Avenges His Lordship on November 14th, 2009

• I don't know.

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  by Moongrim on November 14th, 2009

• They weren't help to the same standard because the Fort Hood guy attended a Mosque headed by the same mullah who taught 3 of the 9/11 bombers and had to leave the country because of it, He sent over 20 Emails to Islamic terrorists, he gave lectures at the base on not what was going to happen if Islamic soldiers were forced into the fighting, his business card has Islamic jihad sayings on it, and He screamed "Allah Akbar" while doing the shootings. Those are clear signs of religiously motivated killings
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  The Tiller killer is nothing like that. The only group he belonged to was the Sovereign Citizen Movement which is an anti-government group not religious at all. He wasn't a member of any church ( at least not in anything I have read) the only connection he had to God was he wrote a few articles a publication called Army of God in the 1990's.
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  Fort Hood was done by a man who's religious leaders taught him to kill everyone who was not his religion.
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  Tiller was killed by a member of a militant ant-igoverment group who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was angry because he couldn't see his children or pay his bills.

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  by Randoley on November 25th, 2009

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