Whoa!  It turns out that Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez is a Muslim name.  Who’da thunk?  It gets worse.  The Chattanooga shooter was a diligent student of the Qur’an and the Hadith.  He’s described as becoming increasingly “devout” recently, going to mosque each Friday and poring over the teachings of the Prophet.  Shortly before he killed four Marines and a Navy sailor, Abdulazeez texted a friend a Hadith verse: “whoso ever shows enmity to a friend of mine, then I have declared war against him.”  On July 13 he set up a Wordpress blog and posted two entries.  The first one concludes: “We ask Allah to make us follow their [the companions of Mohammed’s] path. To give us a complete understanding of the message of Islam, and the strength to live by this knowledge, and to know what role we need to play to establish Islam in the world.” Apparently poor Abdulazeez was not acquainted with...(Read Full Post)