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Hasan had disturbing history of Islamic extremist views
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by smkovalinsky | November 10, 2009 at 06:34 am
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Did a Politically Correct protocol toward Muslim identity preclude responsible action?
A disturbing portrait emerges, of a US Military Major who was veering ever more into a radical Islamic stance, while colleagues were afraid of appearing insensitive to Muslim political correctness protocol and did nothing:
An ABC News report made clear that it was known to CIA Intelligence officials that Hasan viewed himself and blatantly portrayed himself as a Muslim first, while his American identity was secondary. Even more disturbing, ABC reported that Hasan had tried to make contact with al Queda members, and that this fact was known to them.
This fact was apparently made know to Army officials, yet all continued as it had before.
In addition, informal observations by colleagues were often brushed aside, even by themselves:
Reportedly, an army doctor with a fear of appearing discriminatory regarding Muslim officers told others not to file formal complaints.
A fellow military doctor who took a course with Hasan at the Uniformed Services University in Maryland was alarmed at Hasan's rants and lack of loyalty, and did file a complaint , but nothing came of it.
An activist for an anti-war program for veterans said that Hasan was clearly disturbed, but those in authority had failed to notice, or to take any steps to help him.
General George Casey, the Army’s Chief of Staff, said it was “speculation” that military authorities failed to pick up on warning signs. “I don’t want to say that we missed it,” he said.Asked if military authorities had missed warning signs Gen Casey, the Army’s Chief of Staff, added: “We have to go back and look at ourselves ,and ask ourselves the hard questions. Are we doing the right things? We will learn from this.
“It’s too early to draw conclusions but we will ask ourselves the hard questions about what we are doing and the changes we should make as a result of this.”
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America's Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats.
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America’s Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats.He also told colleagues at America’s top military hospital that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire. The outburst came during an hour-long talk Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gave on the Koran in front of dozens of other doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington DC, where he worked for six years before arriving at Fort Hood in July.
Colleagues had expected a discussion on a medical issue but were instead given an extremist interpretation of the Koran, which Hasan appeared to believe.
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at 06:38 on November 10th, 2009
"Did a Politically Correct protocol toward Muslim identity preclude responsible action?"
YES.
at 07:07 on November 10th, 2009
"Politically correct protocol," what a concept? Let's expand this. I am writing.
at 07:53 on November 10th, 2009
Interesting I said four days ago, why didn't the army act on those allegations?
at 08:47 on November 10th, 2009
This is where reason and political agenda collide within a nightmare scenario.
at 08:59 on November 10th, 2009
lacking in sense, judgment, or discretion
that is the definition of "foolish".
Seems to fit the case most exactly.
These folks are paid to wage war, to defend the country, and the Constitution. Waging experiments in political correctness is hardly their area of expertise. To think otherwise is, well, foolish.
at 11:29 on November 10th, 2009
The problem is that Islam has not been through a series of advancements that would permit it to change, as historical Christianity changed.
Freedom of Religion is basically a way to get Protestant sects and the Catholic Church to live together in peace.
The Muslims still fight about who the successor to Mohammed was in the Shiite vs Sunni conflicts which continue to this day.
Who will bring about the needed changes in Islam? If anything that Mohammed said is now considered to be out-of-date, then what does it mean to his status as the Messenger?
This is the crux of the problem. As Islam is constructed, you either accept all or nothing. Even as a Catholic, I wasn't required to believe the whole Bible, only the Apostle's Creed, a short prayer, and the New Testament is a new covenant, a new take on man's relationship to God, not the same as the Old Testament of an "eye-for-an-eye". Hence, Jesus ends the stoning of an "adulteress".