We can only speculate on the alleged Fort Hood, Texas, shooter's motive, and whether religion had anything to do with it.

  But authorities are scrutinizing Nidal Malik Hassan's Muslim faith.

  Just this summer a Muslim man killed one soldier and wounded another at an army recruiting office in Little Rock, Arkansas.

  He claimed he did it for religious reasons.

  Thursday's incident put more heat on practitioners of Islam.

  Anna Glover was not born Muslim; she chose to be.

  "What appealed to me about Islam is the fact it works with science. It also protects women's rights, children's rights, the rights of the family, human rights," Anna explains.

  In a post 9-11 America Anna knew converting may force her onto the frontlines of another war, against stigma.

  "There are going to be people who don't understand and don't know any better than what they see on T.V., and what you see on T.V. is not very nice." 

   Now Anna is fighting another battle in that war, even though preliminary reports "on T.V." seem to suggest Thursday's shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, had nothing to do with the alleged shooter's Islamic beliefs. 

  But earlier Friday at a Fort Leonard Wood press conference held to address mental health services for soldiers as a result of Fort Hood talk turned to religion.

  "Proportionately it's much less than half of 1% of our population here, so we're talking handfuls- 10, 20, 30."

 Muslim soldiers are significantly out-numbered at the post.

  They are, however, encouraged to practice their faith, something Chaplain John Bjarnason says can be a life-saver.
 

  "Some place between 20 and 30%," says Bjarnason.

 That's the number of military men and women in need of some kind of counseling- religious or secular- when they return from a deployment.

  Anna wishes people gave religion, particularly hers, more credit for that good, and less blame for the bad.

  "In the Koran, and the Koran is the basis for everything in Islam, it says that to save a life is to save all mankind but to take a life you have killed or destroyed all of mankind," Anna tells us.

 Anna, who is studying to be a teacher at Missouri State, says she generally feels safe in the Ozarks, but when incidents like the one Thursday happen she and her friends double-up when out in public in traditional Muslim dress.