Fort Hood's 9/11

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting "Allahu Akbar!" committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.

What cowards we are. Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans at Ft. Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did. And the media treat it like a case of non-denominational shoplifting.

This was a terrorist act. When an extremist plans and executes a murderous plot against our unarmed soldiers to protest our efforts to counter Islamist fanatics, it’s an act of terror. Period.

When the terrorist posts anti-American hate-speech on the Web; apparently praises suicide bombers and uses his own name; loudly criticizes US policies; argues (as a psychiatrist, no less) with his military patients over the worth of their sacrifices; refuses, in the name of Islam, to be photographed with female colleagues; lists his nationality as "Palestinian" in a Muslim spouse-matching program, and parades around central Texas in a fundamentalist playsuit — well, it only seems fair to call this terrorist an "Islamist terrorist."

But the president won’t. Despite his promise to get to all the facts. Because there’s no such thing as "Islamist terrorism" in ObamaWorld.

And the Army won’t. Because its senior leaders are so sick with political correctness that pandering to America-haters is safer than calling terrorism "terrorism."

And the media won’t. Because they have more interest in the shooter than in our troops — despite their crocodile tears.

Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan planned this terrorist attack and executed it in cold blood. The resulting massacre was the first tragedy. The second was that he wasn’t killed on the spot.

Hasan survived. Now the rest of us will have to foot his massive medical bills. Activist lawyers will get involved, claiming "harassment" drove him temporarily insane. There’ll be no end of trial delays. At best, taxpayer dollars will fund his prison lifestyle for decades to come, since our politically correct Army leadership wouldn’t dare pursue or carry out the death penalty.

Maj. Hasan will be a hero to Islamist terrorists abroad and their sympathizers here. While US Muslim organizations decry his acts publicly, Hasan will be praised privately. And he’ll have the last laugh.

But Hasan isn’t the sole guilty party. The US Army’s unforgivable political correctness is also to blame for the casualties at Ft. Hood.

Given the myriad warning signs, it’s appalling that no action was taken against a man apparently known to praise suicide bombers and openly damn US policy. But no officer in his chain of command, either at Walter Reed Army Medical Center or at Ft. Hood, had the guts to take meaningful action against a dysfunctional soldier and an incompetent doctor.

Had Hasan been a Lutheran or a Methodist, he would’ve been gone with the simoon. But officers fear charges of discrimination when faced with misconduct among protected minorities.

Now 12 soldiers and a security guard lie dead. 31 soldiers were wounded, 28 of them seriously. If heads don’t roll in this maggot’s chain of command, the Army will have shamed itself beyond moral redemption.

There’s another important issue, too. How could the Army allow an obviously incompetent and dysfunctional psychiatrist to treat our troubled soldiers returning from war? An Islamist whacko is counseled for arguing with veterans who’ve been assigned to his care? And he’s not removed from duty? What planet does the Army live on?

For the first time since I joined the Army in 1976, I’m ashamed of its dereliction of duty. The chain of command protected a budding terrorist who was waving one red flag after another. Because it was safer for careers than doing something about him.

Get ready for the apologias. We’ve already heard from the terrorist’s family that "he’s a good American." In their world, maybe he is.

But when do we, the American public, knock off the PC nonsense?

A disgruntled Muslim soldier murdered his officers way back in 2003, in Kuwait, on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Recently? An American mullah shoots it out with the feds in Detroit. A Muslim fanatic attacks an Arkansas recruiting station. A Muslim media owner, after playing the peace card, beheads his wife. A Muslim father runs over his daughter because she’s becoming too Westernized.

Muslim terrorist wannabes are busted again and again. And we’re assured that "Islam’s a religion of peace."

I guarantee you that the Obama administration’s non-response to the Ft. Hood attack will mock the memory of our dead.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedc...J#ixzz0WOIVaXPk

[Peikko 1,575]

Interesting? Crock of ###### is what it is.

You need to start with facts not a premise that is not proven in order to draw all these conclusions.

I guarantee you that this was written by someone who hates Obama.

I can see why you find this interesting though, we already know that for you all muslims are tainted by extremists.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

There's always some a$$hole blogger columnist with some spurious bollocks about how this extreme and unpredictable crime can be laid at the feet of political correctness.

No shortage of morons who believe it too.

[nowhereman 1]

The only part of this article that makes any sense is the part about not taking corrective action concerning what appears to be a sub-standard officer who apparently didn't adhere to the Army values (and whether or not an officer follows the Army values is part of his/her OER, or Officer Evaluation Report).

The other part of the article smacks of McCarthyism (i.e. the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence). To assume that the actions of one individual (i.e. Major Hasan), however disgusting the actions are, represent the views of an entire group (i.e. Muslims) is founded in fear, ignorance & bigotry. Our great nation was founded on three other words: freedom, justice & equality.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

The only part of this article that makes any sense is the part about not taking corrective action concerning what appears to be a sub-standard officer who apparently didn't adhere to the Army values (and whether or not an officer follows the Army values is part of his/her OER, or Officer Evaluation Report).

The other part of the article smacks of McCarthyism (i.e. the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence). To assume that the actions of one individual (i.e. Major Hasan), however disgusting the actions are, represent the views of an entire group (i.e. Muslims) is founded in fear, ignorance & bigotry. Our great nation was founded on three other words: freedom, justice & equality.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting "Allahu Akbar!" committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.

Weren't you just yesterday trying to convince us that you know the difference between Islam and radicalism?

[NickD 203]

This seems more factual:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/articl...3w7Y3gD9BS65780

"Hospital: Ft. Hood shooting suspect awake, talking By ANGELA K. BROWN and PAMELA HESS (AP) – 56 minutes ago

FORT HOOD, Texas — The man accused of killing 13 people and wounding 29 at Fort Hood is able to talk, a hospital spokesman said Monday, but it's unknown when investigators might take advantage of his improving health to press forward with their probe into the shooting spree.

Authorities say Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan fired off more than 100 rounds Thursday at a soldier processing center before civilian police shot him in the torso. He was taken into custody and eventually moved to an Army hospital in San Antonio, where he was in stable condition and able to talk, said Dewey Mitchell, a Brooke Army Medical Center spokesman.

Authorities continue to refer to Hasan, 39, as the only suspect in the shootings, but they won't say when charges would be filed and have said they have not determined a motive. A spokesman for Army investigators did not immediately respond to calls and e-mails seeking comment Monday.

Sixteen victims remained hospitalized with gunshot wounds, and seven were in intensive care.

The personal Web site for a radical American imam living in Yemen who had contact with two 9/11 hijackers praised Hasan as a hero.

The posting Monday on the Web site for Anwar al Awlaki, who was a spiritual leader at two mosques where three 9/11 hijackers worshipped, said American Muslims who condemned the Fort Hood attack are hypocrites who have committed treason against their religion.

Awlaki said the only way a Muslim can justify serving in the U.S. military is if he intends to "follow in the footsteps of men like Nidal."

"Nidal Hassan (sic) is a hero," Awlaki said. "He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people."

Two U.S. intelligence officials told The Associated Press the Web site was Awlaki's. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence collection. Awlaki did not immediately respond to an attempt to contact him through the Web site.

Hasan's family attended the Dar al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., where Awlaki was preaching in 2001. Hasan's mother's funeral was held at the mosque on May 31, 2001, according to her obituary in the Roanoke Times newspaper, around the same time two 9/11 hijackers worshipped at the mosque and while Awlaki was preaching.

Awlaki is a native-born U.S. citizen who left the United States in 2002, eventually traveling to Yemen. He was released from a Yemeni jail last year and has since gone missing. He is on Yemen's most wanted militant list, according to three Yemeni security officials.

The officials say Awlaki was arrested in 2006 with a small group of suspected al-Qaida militants in the capital San'a. They say he was released more than a year later after signing a pledge he will not break the law or leave the country. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

The Falls Church mosque is one of the largest on the East Coast, and thousands of worshippers attend prayers and services there every week.

Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, outreach director at Dar al Hijrah, said he did not know whether Hasan ever attended the mosque but confirmed that the Hasan family participated in services there. Abdul-Malik said the Hasans were not leaders at the mosque and their attendance was normal.

The London Telegraph first reported the potential link between Hasan and the mosque.

Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday he wants Congress to determine whether the shootings constitute a terrorist attack and whether warning signs that Hasan was embracing an increasingly extremist view of Islamic ideology were missed.

Classmates who participated in a 2007-2008 master's program at a military college told The Associated Press that they complained to faculty during the program about what they considered to be Hasan's anti-American views, which included his giving a presentation that justified suicide bombing and telling classmates that Islamic law trumped the U.S. Constitution.

"If Hasan was showing signs, saying to people that he had become an Islamist extremist, the U.S. Army has to have zero tolerance," Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, said on "Fox News Sunday." "He should have been gone."

Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey said Sunday it's important for the country not to get caught up in speculation about Hasan's Muslim faith, and he has instructed his commanders to be on the lookout for anti-Muslim reaction to the killings at the Texas post.

Casey, who appeared on ABC's "This Week" and CNN's "State of the Union," said evidence to this point shows that Hasan acted alone.

President Barack Obama is scheduled to attend a memorial service Tuesday honoring victims of the attack. Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the post commander, said the service will include a roll call of names of the dead and a 21-gun salute.

Fort Hood officials said the country's largest military installation was moving forward with the business of soldiering. The building where Hasan allegedly opened fire remains a crime scene, but a processing center is scheduled to reopen Thursday in a new, temporary location.

Command Sgt. Maj. Arthur L. Coleman Jr. told The Associated Press on Monday that reopening the center is an important step in returning the Army post to normal.

Sgt. 1st Class Frank Minnie was in the processing center last week getting some health tests and immunizations in preparation for his deployment. Minnie said that even after the shootings, Fort Hood soldiers have the attitude that "the mission still goes on."

"Everybody's going to grieve a little bit. It hurts a lot because it's one of your battle buddies, and someone lost a mom, dad, brother or sister," said Minnie, 37, who served in Iraq in 2006. "But it doesn't change my perspective of going to war. I've got a job to do."

Associated Press writers Allen Breed and Jeff Carlton at Fort Hood, Eileen Sulivan and Devlin Barrett in Washington, Ben Nuckols in Baltimore, Matthew Barakat in McLean, Va., and Ahmed al-Haj in San-a, Yamen, contributed to this report.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved."

Good to get the facts before making judgments.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Good to get the facts before making judgments.

Sadly, to some his being a Muslim is all the facts they need to make their judgment.

[nowhereman 1]

I saw the author (retired Lieutenant Colonel Peters) on O'Reilly the other night & he struck me as a bigot. Some of his points were valid (like the failure of the chain of command to handle a malcontent) but otherwise he seemed to have a deep-seeded resentment of Muslims as a whole.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

I saw the author (retired Lieutenant Colonel Peters) on O'Reilly the other night & he struck me as a bigot. Some of his points were valid (like the failure of the chain of command to handle a malcontent) but otherwise he seemed to have a deep-seeded resentment of Muslims as a whole.

Peters has definitely changed his point of view in just the last couple of years, which surprises me. The last time he got this much attention was due to criticism he directed at conservative pundits for painting Islam and Muslim with a broad and negative brush, as he seems to be doing now himself

The posting Monday on the Web site for Anwar al Awlaki, who was a spiritual leader at two mosques where three 9/11 hijackers worshipped, said American Muslims who condemned the Fort Hood attack are hypocrites who have committed treason against their religion.

Muslims who adhere to the true teachings of the Quran are hypocrites and called out for takfir (excommunication), as if this guy has any standing to do so.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I saw the author (retired Lieutenant Colonel Peters) on O'Reilly the other night & he struck me as a bigot. Some of his points were valid (like the failure of the chain of command to handle a malcontent) but otherwise he seemed to have a deep-seeded resentment of Muslims as a whole.

I didn't see the name when I read the article - but I know exactly who you mean. I've watched the guy on O'Reilly too - isn't he some sort of Tom Clancy wannabe who writes bad thrillers featuring muslim extremists?

[nowhereman 1]

I saw the author (retired Lieutenant Colonel Peters) on O'Reilly the other night & he struck me as a bigot. Some of his points were valid (like the failure of the chain of command to handle a malcontent) but otherwise he seemed to have a deep-seeded resentment of Muslims as a whole.

I didn't see the name when I read the article - but I know exactly who you mean. I've watched the guy on O'Reilly too - isn't he some sort of Tom Clancy wannabe who writes bad thrillers featuring muslim extremists?

I have no idea, but my first impression of the guy was negative (for the reasons I already mentioned).

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yeah he's an a$$. I don't know why those guys get onto Fox - they don't seem to have anything useful or intelligent to bring to the table.

####### Morris is a bit like that too.

[sara..... 371]

I try really hard not to lose patience with this garbage.....what about the fact that this was a MAN that lost his freaken mind.....killed a lot of innocent people and didnt stop to think of what his actions would do to the families of the people or himself .....is he a terrorist? Yes he sure is but not for the reason that people would like to say he is....not Christian not Muslim but a MAN........

I also disagree when I hear people say dont go postal.......the people that killed others that happened to be postal workers didnt do it because they are working for the postal service but because their freaken nuts.........

ok im done ranting

sara

Edited November 9, 2009 by estadia

[alienlovechild 75]

The other part of the article smacks of McCarthyism (i.e. the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence). To assume that the actions of one individual (i.e. Major Hasan), however disgusting the actions are, represent the views of an entire group (i.e. Muslims) is founded in fear, ignorance & bigotry. Our great nation was founded on three other words: freedom, justice & equality.

Give him a bad OER and make sure he's not on the promotion list- wow, you're harsh. The Army is little short of on qualified majors in wartime so Hasan wouldn't have gotten the boot out and reports say he wanted to be discharged anyway.

There should be an investigation when an soldier (regardless of religion, race or politics) makes repeated public comments that sound more like the enemy than a soldier who took an oath when sworn in. Investigating all Muslims in them military would be stupid and counterproductive but American Muslims have largely sat these wars out despite a real desire by DOD to recruit them. I want more of them in the military, not less, but they already made their choice over the last eight years.