Major Nidal Malik Hasan A National Hero.

If you look at the big picture is Humans killing humans.

Right Barry....which should not be done.

The Rev.

Though shalt not kill, revealed to Moses (Musa in Islam) ! We all believe in that one, Jewish, Christian and Muslim. The American state is making a lot of money out of this war, God should always come first, murder is wrong but the man cracked and Obama should get the troops out

Major Hassan is an American - he was born in Virginia - so whose national hero is he? You can only be a national hero to the country of your birth, I highly doubt any Americans would call him a hero

I am loath to leave a comment on such a post because the author uses cheap trick rhetoric to defend the indefensible and the arguments put forward in the post are simply provocative rather than perceptive.

Unfortunately, free speech advocates are ften put in the position of defending the most hideous stuff.

And Ms. Kells is correct the post is dangerously close to hate speech so I would like to explore that term

Professor Jeremy Waldron of the NYU Law Schools says

The publications we call hate speech are often intended to do two things: (1) to defame and attack the dignity, honour and social standing of minorities and their members; and (2) to undermine the assurance that any good society is trying to give to its most vulnerable citizens that they and their families can go about their lives with some basic security against humiliation, discrimination and violence.

Robert Post, Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, The Yale Law School says

One question is who is authorized to define such [hate] speech? Countries with strong, coherent elites, like Iran or Saudi Arabia, unilaterally define uncivil speech in terms of the ideology of these elites.... In societies like the United States, in which such elites are weak or fractured, authority to define uncivil speech is correspondingly reduced.

he's only a hero to the devil, and since he was also a doctor, didn't he take some kind of oath to protect life, and not take it? If he was being sent to Iraq or Afghanistan, a doctor wouldn't be placed in a combat role, would they? He's also an American, through and through just as you are too! You also claim to be a man of peace but your words incite hatred, even if you disagree with wars. Troopers don't make wars, politicians do! If he didn't want to go to Iraq or Afghanistan, he had many options to take other than killing people who trusted him as an officer. I think he brings shame to his own religion.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/

Why wasn't Hasan charged with terrorism?
TRMS: Jonathan Turley (10:39)
November 12, 2009

Why wasn't Hasan charged with terrorism?
Nov. 12: Accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan was formally charged today with 13 counts of murder but not terrorism. Rachel Maddow is joined by George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley to explain why.

Transcript link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32390646/ns/ms...about_msnbc_tv/

It Isn't Political Correctness, It's Shariah
Pamela Geller
Shariah law forbids criticism of Islam. And here we are. More

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/it_...orrectness.html

"We are witnessing an Islamized America. This is well beyond political correctness. We are enforcing Shariah law. We will not insult Islam. That is Shariah law. We self censor. That is Shariah law. We disrespect ourselves, our nation, so that we might respect Islam. This is dhimmitude. We should be raging. We should be outraged. We should be strategizing for this worldwide conflict. We should be debating about which leader will best handle Islam's war on the West. And yet we have not one leader who begins to understand the conflict -- that's how feared the subject matter is. Not one leader."

In a statement titled, "The Attack In Texas Is A Proof On The Disagreement Among American Soldiers Over The War", the Taliban celebrated the "fight and trance and enormous fears within the military and civil circles in America" caused by the incident. The Taliban noted, "the hero of the attack is the Muslim psychiatrist in the rank of Major in the American Army, from Palestinian origin... Some of the Western organizations and media sources say—regarding the factors that made the American soldier Nidal Hasan carry this attack—it might be caused by psychological illness and stress, which spread amongst the soldiers in the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq... But, other specialists, next to these factors, diagnosed another special factor; that the oppression and the monstrosity and prisoner torture and air raids and general killing, carried out by the American army in Iraq and Afghanistan, have led to a situation of widespread dissonance and exhaustion between the American soldiers, and the American military bases. Maybe this incident was a reaction to these injustices, and disowning them." The Taliban statement further warned that if the U.S. fails to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan "it will become normal for incidents and attacks similar to Texas’ to expand to the Pentagon and the rest of the American military bases, and it is inevitable that those with a spark of self-awareness to react with fundamentalist rebellion."

A complete English translation of the Taliban statement can be accessed on the NEFA Foundation website.
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/11/af...brate_massa.php

Oklahoma City, Columbine, Virginia Tech and Now Ft. Hood

by Shepherd Bliss / November 12th, 2009 (0)

Oklahoma City (1995–168 killed), Columbine High (1999–12 killed), Virginia Tech University (2007–32 killed), and now Ft. Hood (13 killed). What do these memorable places have in common?

They are each sites where Americans killed Americans in a culture whose violence extends from here to places like Iraq and Afghanistan. They are symptoms of a deep problem not likely to disappear without serious intervention.

Connections exist among the violence here at home and American violence in wars abroad, which indicate a pattern. These incidents are among growing signs that we should analyze carefully, now, before additional warnings happen and perhaps even worsen. The …
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http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/oklahoma...nd-now-ft-hood/

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan called himself a "soldier of Allah" on business cards found in his apartment after the shooting rampage
at Fort Hood in which he is accused of murdering 13 people.

Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, reportedly obtained the business cards over the Internet. In addition to listing his profession
and contact information, the cards contain a discrete reference to his religion: "SoA(SWT)."

Watchdogs say the first letters are shorthand among militant Muslims to "soldier of Allah." The last letters refer

to "Subhanahu Wa Ta'all," which means "glory to God."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,574546,00.html

I have recommended because I want it to stay at the top of the queue so that others can see a very flawed opinion.

The guy is no hero and lets have some thoughts about the love ones left behind such as these guys mothers fathers wives and friends. I for one would never side with fundamentalism and know the guys killed see soldiering as a job. They also thought they were serving and protecting fellow citizens from US aggressors.  

If you want to blame anyone for wars please point the finger in the correct direction the politicians and the elitist. In this violent world of ours we unfortunately need armies, and to obtain peace non corrupt politicians and leaders.   

The Question We've Yet to AskBy Jim Hoagland

The responsibility for Hasan's acts lies solely with himself and no one else. But initially, he was raising the right question. He was asking the national command to look at this war from the point of view of the Muslims who are both its chief protagonists and its chief victims. Until this happens, we will have a hard time figuring out why we are in Afghanistan and how we get out.

To "TheRev":  I know we don't want to let facts get in the way of your propaganda rant but,  the truth only took a 3 second Google search. Bin Laden has been on the FBI's 10 most wanted list for years.www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htmIt's  ironic that your organization is called "The International Institute of Nonviolence";  considering the divisive hate mongering nature of your rants.  Let your ignorance be your guide.  Peace.

He is not wanted in connection to 911. I shall not let ignorance be my guide, and I hope it shall not be your's as well.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13664.htm....

The Rev.

The Real Story Of The Terrorist "Mad Doctor Hasan"
When Army Major Nidal Hasan killed U.S. troops on the nation's largest military base, was this evidence of "militant Islam"? Or did this military psychiatrist snap under pressure while treating returning vets on a base averaging ten suicides a month? Is there an undisclosed agenda behind those seeking to portray this act as the work of "Islamo fascists"? Continued

Very possible to be a combination of both.

The Rev.

This is a terrible article.

Thanks for your comment...

I think the whole situation with the War in Iraq, Afghanistan is terrible. You think it is not terrible when the President pins Medals of Honor on returning servicemen for killing innocent people that no one mentions...because they are hiding behind the campaign to kill terrorists? Ah...I think that is terrible.

The Rev.