from the West Bank town of Ramallah, a hotbed ofPalestinian terrorism. The possibility exists that he wasnamed after Abu Nidal, a notorious terrorist. Hasan attendedArlington's Wakefield High School for a year in
1986
1988
. There, instead of dating,
Hasan
was videotaped tellinga profanity-laced tale in Arabic to his Arabic classmates about a young manwho commits incest in the process of selling a chicken to earn money formarriage.
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In 1987, his family bought the Capitol Restaurant, a blue-collarbeer hall where alcohol was sold to Muslims
, despite Qu‘ranic prohibition to
do so. In a 1995 interview with
The Roanoke Times
, Malik
Hasan
, Nidal'sfather, acknowledged that it was a sleazy dump. In order to transcend thisand live the American dream
Hasan
joined the Army circa
1988
. Hestudied at Barstow Community College in California satellite campus at FortIrwin from the spring semester of
1989
to the spring semester of
1990
.College records also show that
Hasan
was an enlisted soldier at an E-3rank (private first class) or below while attending Barstow CommunityCollege.
Hasan
‘s residential a
ddress zip code indicated that he was livingon post. He went on to Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke,where he earned an associate degree in science in
1992
.
Hasan
firstenrolled at Virginia Tech for Summer Session II in
1992
. He completedcoursework in Spring Semester
1995
and received a Bachelor of Sciencedegree with honors in biochemistry with a minor in biology and chemistryfrom the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
IMMERSION IN THE VIOLENT CULTURE OF ISLAM
Even at this early stage the milieu
Hasan
existed within was clearlythat of Imam jihadi terrorist support groups. While not performing jihadthemselves, these
Imam‘s preach a brand of Islam that gives terroristviolence a religious imprimatur as the ―neglected duty.‖
The seeds wereplanted in
Hasan’s
feeble brain by radical clerics who all played down
Hasan‘s fanatical
beliefs after the event.
Imam Sheik Shaker El-Sayed
of the
in FallsChurch, Virginia, where
Hasan
prayed claimed that
Hasan
‘s
greatestinterest seemed to be in finding a wife, not in Islamism.
Like most