US | hate mail Muslim Groups Condemn Hasan, Rush to Judgment Groups preach tolerance as hate mail pours in By Kevin Spak Posted Nov 6, 2009 12:28 PM CST Copied This photograph taken on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 in Killeen, Texas, shows the Quaran and business card that Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan gave to his neighbor a yesterday. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett) With hate mail already pouring in, Muslim American groups rushed to condemn the Fort Hood shooter today as a criminal who doesn’t represent Islam. “You wouldn't take a Christian or a Jewish soldier who did something like this and look at other Christians and Jews and say, 'Can we trust them?'” the executive director of the Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council said of the reaction to Nidal Malik Hasan. “It’s ludicrous.” An imam from a large Northern Virginia mosque announced that he’d be collecting donations for the shooting victims, and decried religious violence in general. “You do this, you go to hell,” he said. “You don’t go paradise.” Groups around the country have been reporting a backlash since the shooting; the Michigan branch of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee got an e-mail reading, “We know where you are, you have nowhere to hide.” Read These Next The Bezos-Sanchez wedding: guest list, cost, the dress, and more. Hall of Famer Dave Parker dies Cops nab 9th fugitive in New Orleans, with 'one more to go.' Hatshepsut's statues weren't smashed due to sexism after all Report an error