A weird coda to the recent shooting at the Jewish center in Seattle. The shooter, Naveed Haq, though raised a Muslim, had converted last year to Christianity. He told the pastor who baptised him in December that he had “seen too much anger in Islam and that he wanted to find a new beginning in Christianity.” Behind that the familiar story of personal and professional failure, manic depression, an arrest earlier this year for “lewd conduct” at a local mall.
A weird coda to
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August 2, 2006 8:09 a.m.
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