But never fear, the mainstream media will keep looking for a motive! "Fort Hood shooting: Texas army killer linked to September 11 terrorists," by Philip Sherwell and Alex Spillius for the Telegraph, November 7 (thanks to all who sent this in):
Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a "spiritual adviser" to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001.Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother's funeral was held there in May that year.
The preacher at the time was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni scholar who was banned from addressing a meeting in London by video link in August because he is accused of supporting attacks on British troops and backing terrorist organisations.
Hasan's eyes "lit up" when he mentioned his deep respect for al-Awlaki's teachings, according to a fellow Muslim officer at the Fort Hood base in Texas, the scene of Thursday's horrific shooting spree.
As investigators look at Hasan's motives and mindset, his attendance at the mosque could be an important piece of the jigsaw. Al-Awlaki moved to Dar al-Hijrah as imam in January, 2001, from the west coast, and three months later the September 11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hamzi and Hani Hanjour began attending his services. A third hijacker attended his services in California.
Hasan was praying at Dar al-Hijrah at about the same time, and the FBI will now want to investigate whether he met the two terrorists.
Charles Allen, a former under-secretary for intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security, has described al-Awlaki, who now lives in Yemen, as an "al-Qaeda supporter, and former spiritual leader to three of the September 11 hijackers... who targets US Muslims with radical online lectures encouraging terrorist attacks from his new home in Yemen"....
I admire your long chain of reasoned argument about the sexual orientation of Major Hasan.
I disagree with your conclusion that Major Hasan was homosexual of any type based solely upon available news reports, although he does fit certain "profiles," being a psychiatrist in a tight-fitting uniform with a decided sashay in his chubby buns.
On the other hand, I think any party boys would run screaming from "Ol Bullethead."
Major Hasan's Imam probably knew him better than any other except for the barrista at 7-11 and was probably right when he summed up the Major's unsuccessful search for a willing female by the opinion that he was just too particular. The Imam had helped him through the unfamiliar territory of Muslim dating by helping him to write profiles of pleasant-sounding lies about what a great catch the Major was. He wanted a women who religiously prayed to Mecca five times daily with never any excuses (even for her monthly visitor). He wanted a woman willing to snuggle up next to his fat puffy potbelly and accept his god-given seminal essence, not once but as many times as it took to pop out a brood of tiny boot-licking majorettes. The Imam didn't say if any woman had ever "consummated a date" with the Major, but my guess is that one look at his photograph might have been enough to make any woman clutch her burkha tightly around her body in self-defense.
And then of course, there was his age. 39 years old and never been kissed except for tongue-lashings from young boys and cleanly-shaven teenage "pearls." Obviously lacking in any charm attractive to a woman unless she is a professional thief, guttersnipe, or has eight kids from five husbands, all dead from martyrious circumstances.
I think it much more likely that the social tightness of Army life just left him behind. Everyone knew he was a devout Muslim and that any conversation with him would lead inevitably to being hit on to read that boring book he always carried around. He never played poker at the Officer's Club with the rest of the guys, speaking out on the evils of alcohol even more loudly than the guys from A.A. as they waved their Bibles and small bottles of Antabuse. When the weekends came, he got no invitations to backyard BBQ's, even those serving nothing but beef, because he eschewed chewing haram food and most of his fellow officers' wives simply did not want such a dorky looking guy in the house or even the back yard.
As for scoring with the female officers he worked with...let's just say that women have an instinct not to get involved with quiet guys with a shaved head carrying a copy of the Koran everywhere.
As for hitting on his fellow male officers...Don't Ask, Don't Tell...please don't ask again, I might puke.
And so, cut off from all possible "normal" relationships, the Major stewed in his own ample juices growing closer to Allah with each passing blonde, brunette, redhead, and army chrome-dome complaining that her boots were just right but still a bit stiff from the leavings of that last celebration in the BOQ's communal shower.
The Major studied his pig-eared personal copy of the Koran that he had received as a high-school graduation gift from his favorite cousin, and saw a way to achieve his goal of more pussy than he could handle.
Jihad!!
There it was! right in the Holy Koran! No matter how many times he had sinned, how many people he had killed or victimized, no matter how many of his young male cousins he had raped, no matter how much crap he'd had to take from the Alla-damned US Army, no matter how many orders he'd taken from infidel Colonels, no matter how many women sneered at his porky beergut and wrinkled their noses at his halitosis...why he could even deny Allah and get away with it just by getting killed while making an honest effort to kill as many Kufr as he could get his hands on while believing that he was doing it all for Allah according to his beloved Koran.
It takes a very intelligent psychiatrist to discover this basic truth, or unremmiting diligence in reading the most confusing and boring scripture ever written.
Being the type that never takes precipitate action, the Major soberly reflected upon his intended course. Finally a light went off under his shiny pate. He realized that even if somehow he failed entrance to Jannah by somehow surviving his Jihad moment, he would still be set for life and never would have any worries about the common exegiencies so vexing to the rest of us, like rent, getting to work on time, and having to wear clothes when in public.
He saw that surviving his Mujahedeen Moment would only land him in the perpetual care of the US Military Justice system, protected from all outrageous circumstances by constitutionally-guaranteed rights from the najis infidels. He might have to spend a few days or weeks in a hospital because he took a solemn vow to Allah not to stop killing until he himself was killed or wounded, but that was really nothing more than a furlough on his back tended by sweet efficient hospital houris clad in nothing but freshly laundered crisp white uniforms making arousing rustling sounds against their fulsome bodies as they would move about his sumptiously-appointed hospital suite guarded by a three-man SWAT Team to prevent his premature assassination by revengeful white American bigots sent to kill him by the nefarious Neocons.
"Yes!" he fantasied, as he fondled his weapons, an FN 5.7, an heirloom Smith & Wesson .357, and his favorite, Mr Happy.
Yes! If I survive the ordeal, I will be set for life. At the Court Martial, I shall simply plead insanity brought on by the stress of being called "goat-fucker" by that terrible neighbor downstairs who "keyed" the side of my brand-new Geo Metro, Sgt Whatsisname, (funny, I'm usually so good at remembering trivia). I will show him I am not one to be dismissed as an abuser of fine young animals. It will be so easy to convince the Court Tribunal that I am insane. No doubt already, they believe that Muslims are blood-thirsty goons ready to strap on a suicide bombing belt at the drop of a durka. After all, I am also a state-certified psychiatrist. Who better to run rings around their specious legal accusations.
Even better, I am a Muslim Psychiatrist. Not only as Allah says, "Muslims are the best of people" but a psychiatrist familiar with all the twisted thinkings of the human mind and able to fake any and all symptoms of mental disease. I shall astound the generals of the Court Martial, with my lucid legal reasonings, confound them with broadsides of psychiatric symptoms, and reduce their military pride to dust with recountings of the shining victories of Muhammed during his pacification of the infidels and other polytheists.
The Major caught himself for a moment, "What if one of the tribunal judges is a Joo?" Simple, I shall run amok in the courtroom and make my way to Jannah. If the filthy infidels don't kill me then, such an outburst must surely convince them that I am insane and therefore not legally responsible for my actions.
Then I shall be found to have a 100% service-connected disability and can then retire with full benefits at my present pay rate with full military medical benefits. Of course, they shall probably incarcerate me for the rest of my life, but when Islam takes over the US, I will receive a full pardon from President Hussein, and be reinstated in the US Army at the rank of Brigadier General and credited with the pay differential back to the date of my politically-inspired conviction.
It may take several years before I am rescued by my Muslim brothers from the ignominious imprisonment of the Infidel, but every day along the way, I shall continue and join in the Jihad by sending my entire military pension check to that nice Imam who helped me so much in my search for a devout Muslimah to marry.
It's too bad that didn't work out, but Jihad and taking as many of the infidel with me as possible is perhaps the best way, surely the only way to Jannah.
©2009 The foregoing is not meant to be taken seriously except as humorous satire and commentary on current events. It is protected as free speech under the guarantees given to the people of the United States of America by the Constitution, a contract between the people and the government limiting the powers of government and defining the rights the people reserve for and to themselves.
Shut that mosque down.
Better yet shut down every dam mosque!
Jakaira, I think your extended comment must have been in reference to another story or commenter's post. Interesting and amusing as it is, it has nothing whatsoever to do with present story.
With regard to the subject at hand, it's interesting that it took a British paper to bring this information to light. As usual, our asleep-at-the-switch MSM doesn't seem interested in anything that might link the poor, picked-on Major Hasan with anything having to do with Islam. Oh, wait, I know! it's just like President Obama's attending Reverend Wright's church all those years and not being influenced in any way whatsoever by all those "G*d damn AmeriKKKa" sermons. /sarc
The MSM should explore if there was any UFO activity over Ft. Hood that day and if Maj. Hasan was wearing his tinfoil hat. Could really break this story wide open!!!
Controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque? All mosques in America should be treated as controversial and, more important, as symbols inimical to Western liberty. Mosques in the West should stand as architectual momuments to an ideology that would destroy Western freedoms if only it were given the chance to do so. Mosques everywhere should be seen as metaphors for anti-civilization, John Esposito and Karen Armstrong type assertions to the contrary notwithstanding (useful idiots, after all, are often an additional obstruction to civilization prevailing).
For me, personally, every mosque in America, and throughout the West, is an edifice laying the ground work for the destruction of Western liberty. When I see a mosque, I see the antithesis in physical form of Jeffersonian liberty. The fact that more people can't see this is ipso facto evidence of how far we have yet to travel before Islam is properly viewed as the great menace which it is.
But, 9/11 POTUS told America: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gwbush911islamispeace.htm
Ofcourse, 9/11 POTUS also told America that Iraq had WMDs, not that Hasam's ass should not be fried.
" ... left behind ..."
i don't think the PC/MC argument that this condemned soul was suffering from PTSD will hold water much longer. and that's why people speculate that he didn't have a normal life for a time, as per the Larry King show.
he would've self prescribed meds for himself. but, he wouldn't have sought assistance from a peer. that would be admitting a problem that he couldn't solve. hurts pride; destroys the mystique of the invincible jihaddi.
no one has noted that he was off his meds. he was surrounded by folks who would've put him in a straightjacket at the first instance of imbalance.
i've been acquainted with soldiers with PTSD, including a vet of the 1st WW suffering from mustard gas. those of WWII seemed to have fallen silent or endured heavy doses of morphine. Korean vets i've known seemed to have fallen silent or self medicated with booze. a couple Nam vets i've know committed suicide or walk the streets found, other drugs; the same for a Gulf War vet i know.
i'm convinced that no one is fulfilled adhearing to the Koran. i'm convinced that those who worship Muhammad, have a serious spiritual problem, not a mental one.
Sharia is no Savior. Muhammad is not Lord. Hasan will find out that is truth, one way or another.
the very people keeping him alive are those to whom he meant to bring death.
bokai ngombu : ...the very people keeping him alive are those to whom he meant to bring death.
That's precisely why we are better than they are.
Eastview,
I am sooo sorry about having interrupted your tryst with the truth. I had thought that the subject of this particular forum was "As investigators look at Hasan's motives and mindset..." This is a direct quote from the fifth paragraph of the abovementioned "Telegraph" article.
Nothing important here...move along unless you want to take a second to laugh.
Respectfully, I admit this short story was meant for another JW forum, but it seemed so appropriate here that I could not resist its inclusion.
Here! I am holding out my hand to you. Please slap it with the ruler.
Siempre, su Amigo.
Jockaria, that was great. However, “No doubt already, they believe that Muslims are blood-thirsty goons ready to strap on a suicide bombing belt at the drop of a durka.” I believe the proper military term is now, “dinner coat” or “smoking jacket.”
Yeesh.
Whenever anyone mentions Armstrong, I vomit a little bit in my mouth.
*spits*
Jochaira, Sorry to have seemed critical. I read partway through your post and from the initial discussion about Hasan's possible homosexual tendencies thought I recognized it as being appropriate to a comment from an earlier thread, and that you might have inadvertently posted it here. (I've done this before. And with TypePad there's no way to delete and edit after it's posted, unlike IntenseDebate - which I really miss.) I went back and reread you comment. It really is funny.
Tomorrows Headline Today:
Fears Over Backlash Drives Muslims to Commit Mass-Killings
http://sheikyermami.com/2009/11/08/spin-spin-spin-hasan-the-killer-shrink-was-twisting-and-hijacking-the-koran/
Thanks to antimullah.com, here’s a video of a young muslim on the streets of NYC justifying the Fort Hood shooting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAGZBOtKK68&feature=player_embedded#
I’m sure he’s just misunderstood and is in no way promoting the islamophobic sterotype of the vitriolic 5th columnist muslim organizations say do not represent the majority of muslim in the US. Except, where are all the peaceful proud American muslims to drown him out and denounce him?
Mehdi Hasan has figured you out, Mr Spencer:
... some commentators on the US right and far-right have gone further in providing definitive, conclusive and politically convenient motives for the attack, based on little more than speculation and prejudice. Take Robert Spencer. The best-selling conservative author, self-proclaimed "scholar of Islamic history" and notorious Muslim-baiter has a piece on the attack on the Front Page magazine website, entitled "Jihad at Fort Hood" (!) in which he opines, under a massive mugshot of Maj Hasan:
Major Hasan's motive was perfectly clear -- but it was one that the forces of political correctness and the Islamic advocacy groups in the United States have been working for years to obscure. So it is that now that another major jihad terror attack has taken place on American soil...
"Clear"? Spencer must be a mind-reader because Hasan has not said why he carried out the attack, nor have the authorities provided a motive - yet. Perhaps he was a terrorist, and carried out the attack out of "Islamist" or "jihadist" hatred for US foreign policy in Iraq and Afghanistan. Perhaps he was mentally unbalanced and simply "snapped". The BBC is reporting "that he had been increasingly unhappy in the military" and his cousin has told US media that the idea of overseas deployment had been Major Hasan's "worst nightmare" and that he had been battling racial harassment because of his "Middle Eastern ethnicity". Then there are the internet postings that discuss suicide bombings and other threats which officials say he may or may not have made.
The point is that, at this stage, we simply don't know. So why speculate, let alone conclude? Back to the BBC report:
Asked whether the shootings were a terrorist act, Lt Gen Cone [the base commander] said: "I couldn't rule that out but I'm telling you that right now, the evidence does not suggest that."
People like Robert Spencer are nasty, divisive and Islamophobic bigots who take whatever opportunity, whatever tragedy, they can to stir up hatred against Muslims and Islam in the west.
I wonder what it must be like to be a patriotic American Muslim serving in the United States armed forces right now - there are up to 10,000 American Muslims serving their country who will now, I assume, be treated with suspicion and considered, by Robert Spencer and others of his ilk, as potential fifth-columnists or Al Qaeda infiltrators.
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2009/11/muslim-soldiers-attack-major
Isn't it remarkable that when a mosque is known to turn out terrorists it is discovered that it continues to turn out terrorists...
I wonder how many yet to be activated terrorists will come from this one mosque?....
No wonder Muslims object to Mosque surveillance....
Thanks Sheik Yer’Mami!
“Terrorist or a Crazy Person. That’s it. (one or the other)”
I love this latest bit by Bernie Goldberg on Fox’s the O’Reilly Factor, renaming the MSM to the “Lame Stream Media.” Hah! Love it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeVTtQKXNVs&feature=player_embedded#
People like Robert Spencer are nasty, divisive and Islamophobic bigots who take whatever opportunity, whatever tragedy, they can to stir up hatred against Muslims and Islam in the west.
I'll interpret that PC apologist statement into 'clearspeak':
People like Robert Spencer are well informed, honest and fair and take whatever opportunity, whatever tragedy, they can to show why hatred exhibited by Muslims and Islam in the west should not be overlooked.
This doesn't fit in with our agenda and so Robert and his ilk must be called 'racist', 'bigot' and 'liar' at every and all opportunities.
There, that was easy.
It doesn't take much effort to check what the media is feeding you.
How many other sleepers are out there? I have an idea: Let’s take him off the respirator and waterboard him.
I'm old enough to remember a Free Press. A big story like this and the bloodhounds ruthlessly on the trail of ANYTHING the other papers didn't have a SCOOP (such as the above). Any NEW piece of the puzzle and to get it out FIRST. Newsboys on the city streets shouting "Fort Hood shooter tied to 9/11!!! Get yr papuh! Read all about it!!!" Where did freedom go? It was glorious while it lasted...
No apparent motive my chapped bunions!
This was a politically correct massacre!!
http://hereticscrusade.blogspot.com/2009/11/ft-hood-massacre-no-fault-treason-pc.html
Jockaira,
That was a superb rant. One of the best I've read. Thank you.
Hasan's martyrdom video has yet to be seen. I'll bet the doctor, a WH panel participant ranting about Obama and the war against Islam might not make the nightly news for a while.
Quite well done, Jockaira. Damn humorous.
If they keep it up, they will have to be deported back to Mecca. The US military never should have allowed Muslims into their ranks following 9-11.
Geraldo Rivera on Fox is the biggest shiite in news. He buys all the 'snapped' and 'cracked' and 'was called a camel jockey' BS, he was "a devout Moslem" and just can't understand what made this army psycho do it.....
"The US military never should have allowed Muslims into their ranks following 9-11."
You are joking right?
Here, try this:
http://thelastcrusade.org/2009/11/06/why-was-malik-nadal-hasan-in-the-u-s-military/
OK, I've had to take a break and Laugh at Islam. Bumped into this site; maybe it's known to folks already, but wasn't to me.
http://www.prophetmo.com/muslimguide.html
(It's billed as Mo's "official site"!)
Be sure to check out the "Infidels Only" page for some good, hearty laughs.
"I'm going to do good work for God' said Hasan to his neighbour, to whom he'd given a Handbook of Jihad (THe Noble????!!!!Qur'an)reports the Washington Post.
There's only one 'god' who receives offerings of mass murder as 'good work' -- the desert demon Allah.
I wish that Mo, Larry, and Shemp were prophets.
Vee - "prophetmo.com" is HILARIOUS and so refreshingly honest. I will be sending lots of Infidels the link!
"Geraldo Rivera sux. I wrote him and told him." - shiek yer mami
Good. I hope you included a few Jihad verses from the KKKoran, 9:5 in particular.
Jockaira, that was hilarious. Thanks for posting it.
The self-pity shown by Moslems in this article is really too much: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33751407/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/
This quote is especially egregious: “When a white guy shoots up a post office, they call that going postal,” said Victor Benjamin II, 30, a former member of the Army. “But when a Muslim does it, they call it jihad......"
I will repeat myself and please excuse me for doing so, but this bastard is a murderer. There is not going to be a place in whatevr he hoped was "heaven". He gave away all rights to that when he pulled the trigger on the weapons he had. I personally knew several of the soldiers he killed and wounded. I wish / hope / and pray that he dies in the hospital so we don't have to support his murdering ass for the rest of his life when the jury fails to give him the death sentence he richly deserves. Allah ain't no kind and loving anything just words on a pieces of paper that someone thinks they remember someone else saying.
Jockaira, an unusually entertaining post.
Dear Sir/Ma'am:
I'm truly very sorry to hear about your losses. Rest assured Sir/Ma'am, there are millions of people worldwide praying for you and others.
Jew Lover
bokai ngombu : ...the very people keeping him alive are those to whom he meant to bring death.
That's precisely why we are better than they are.
There's better, and then there's ridiculous.
Yes, Worry01, the stupefying idiocy never seems to stop. Aside from the fact that when Muslims kill in the name of their religion and the first thing Muslims en masse (and useful idiots like Geraldo Rivera) then do is worry what will happen to them, going "postal" to my knowledge has never been done in the name of Jesus, Yahwah, etc. These secular tragedies are not motivated by religious sentiments as are killings done by Muslims in the name of Islam. It's apples and oranges here.
As I've told many, when the day comes that Presbyterians, Lutherans, Buddhists, Jews or just about any group of believers but Muslims start committing heinous crimes in the name of their religion, I'll rethink things. Till then, I see only one religion out there that causes people to kill in the name of it. You know which one. I know which one. Even many of the PC folks out there know which one but won't even admit it to themselves. Stupid world.
Great comment Wellington ~~~
The adherents of Islam are eager to kill and die for their religion like no other.
Why is that ??
Muslims will always and forever blame the sorry state of their long, long, standing backwardness and barbarity on anything other than the root cause of their problems: I S L A M
It's interesting that most of the comments following the New Statesman article that contained these smears about Robert (esp. a certain 'Charles Martel') would have none of this nonsense. Most of them shot back with exactly the same arguments as one would find here. There were a few obviously Muslim or Leftists apologists, but the great majority could easily have been students of Robert (and of you, too, sheik).
From the official Army website:
Here are the oath of enlistment and the oath for commissioned officers. Hasan had to have taken both of these oaths. Notice that it is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE for a devout Muslim to genuinely mean either of these solemn affirmations:
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).
"I, _____ (SSAN), having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God." (DA Form 71, 1 August 1959, for officers.)
I've been wracking my brain about where I have seen Major Hasan before, and then it hit me. He's an alien from Planet Remulak (the Conehead Planet) - Beldar's evil cousin, or something like that. Someone should investigate.
Actually, the mosque is in Falls Church, Virginia, not in Great Falls, Virginie.
Falls Church is some 12 miles closer to D.C. than Great Falls.
Great, fun satirical piece, Jockaira! Really a funny portrait of a VERY UN-funny loser, but what's comedy if not slipping hard on a banana peel? The description of his seeking female companionship is probably spot-on - and, of course, totally pathetic. I love, too, the brief - but perfectly succinct - description of his THREE (3) weapons, including the two firearms and (what else?) "Mr. Happy!" BTW, if he is a closet gay (or even if he's more turned on by the boys than the girls - except for a good set of bazooms), officially the strict world of Shar'ia would frown on - if not totally forbid to the point of death! - his dalliance with same-sex partners. Poor Hasan - there's no winning for losing!
Sheik,
Screw terrorist-supporter timid Heraldo!
Hear, hear, Col. Ralph Peters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCY1lsJg8zs
Sheik yermami;
Sorry. No good. Unfortunately the lack of evidence surrounding whether or not this dude was performing Jihad is suddenly drowned bye all the Allah worshipers across the nation singing songs of praise to this son of Allah for killing so many U.S. soldiers and enemies of Islam. Seems we have traitors on our hands. Talkin' is done. We're pissed and we want answer and solutions NOW.
Then, of course, we could always draw a cartoon of MO and watch the Muslims flock to the streets like turkey vultures on a carcass, but for innocent civilian lives protecting your freedoms? Nah, not a peep but "Praise Allah!"
Ever heard of the term treason? Pssst. Treason has serious consequences.
the word "mosque" in Arabic is "mehrab" and the meaning of the word is "place of battle." Remember, the next time muhammadens apply for a building permit to build a mosque in your town they will be applying for a place of battle.
Let us engage in a thought experiment:
A young man goes on a rampage and shoots over 100 rounds into a crowded reception center on a military base, killing over a dozen and wounding many more. Afterwards it is learned that the shooter was a soldier himself, a fairly high ranking officer in fact. It is also discovered that he has long held Nazi sympathies, and has posted on Neo-Nazi websites. Journalists uncover evidence that he had been distributing Nazi leaflets and copies of "Mein Kampf" the very morning of the of the attack. When the press finally gets around to interviewing survivors of the incident, they confrim that the shooter shouted "Heil Hitler" as he opened fire.
Would there be any question about whether or not his actions were ideologically driven?
Would the reporting weave a narrative of his supposed victimization, or would it raise alarms at the presence of avowed Neo-Nazis in our miltary ranks?
Would we be warned not to jump to conclusions by our political leaders, or would we be told to fear the threat of an oncoming wave of similar attackers spawned by right-wing radio?
Would his neighbors and superiors have been more likely to report his rantings to the authorities?
More than the attack of one lone jihadi, it is the answers to the above that truly scare me...
the word "mosque" in Arabic is "mehrab" and the meaning of the word is "place of battle." Remember, the next time muhammadens apply for a building permit to build a mosque in your town they will be applying for a place of battle.
This goes hand in glove with Wellington's above:
For me, personally, every mosque in America, and throughout the West, is an edifice laying the ground work for the destruction of Western liberty. When I see a mosque, I see the antithesis in physical form of Jeffersonian liberty. The fact that more people can't see this is ipso facto evidence of how far we have yet to travel before Islam is properly viewed as the great menace which it is.
This is the scary truth, that mosques, mehrabs, mahjids, whatever, are battle stations for jihad on our soil. Jefferson must be turning over in his grave...
In a cultural-equivalence multiworld, watch the Swiss vote on minarets.
Excellent thought experiment, JO3. Islam still hides behind its religious veil and still fools or silences too many people. Time for this to end. I look forward to the day when the Koran will regularly be equated with Mein Kampf. At least I hope that day will come. It had better.
I believe the word for mosque is masjid, not mehrab, which is either an arch in the mosque and/or a niche where the imam stands to lead the prayer.
I don't care if a mosque is a place of battle or an arch or an niche. All I care about is getting everyone of them closed down.
I agree that Mosques in the west should be closed down.
They are nothing more than training centres for sedition and terrorist activity.
Spirit
if a dog in Texas is running around biting everybody it should be shot because it is most likely rabid.
same for skunks, boars, coons ...
animals don't have souls.
the Major, whom i believe is a jihaddi, practicing literal Islam, does have humanoid DNA, is part of the Creation, so is not descended from apes, and thus deserves the best of human compassion for the sake of The Creator - to whom he and we must answer. i think that part of the "battle" with socalled moderate adherants in encourageing them to denounce jihad and parts of the Koran and Sunna which encourage it, rests upon that fact.
believe it or not, some adherants do respect that. though they may not appear to agree, they sometimes act as though they do.
by the way, Spirit, should you ever encounter a rabid animal, be very careful, the disease drives it to bite and infect.
showing compassion and kindness to these brutal, cruel insensitive warriors makes a strong statement, occasionaly to them, but more frequently to others about.
for this US MILITARY officer, he deserves to be Courts Martialed and punished to the full extent of the law (MCJ). he is also a traitor, in my mind. he should be held accountable for his actions, for he knew what he was reading and inhaling 5 times a day.
There have been many terrorist attacks where terrorists attended mosques whose inside clerks have been filmed and taped giving venomous sermons urging its followers to follow the teachings of the Qur'an....religiously and without question....
It is interesting this point has suddenly appeared on a few blogs. Remember the Harvard professor incident? Obama, and all of the news outlets were so quick to judge the cops as racist, then it comes out that one of the cops was black, then we all had a beer and made nice? Obama, and the media were so quick to assign blame with flimsy evidence, but with a virtual mountain of evidence that Fort Hood was a jihad attack, the press is reluctant to make the claim.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2009/10/gates-sgt-crowley-hold-another-beer-summit/1
http://www.examiner.com/x-16260-Windham-County-Republican-Examiner~y2009m11d8-Lessons-learned-from-Obama-Part-2-authority