But of course, the answer is obvious. "Muslim question persists in Army shooting," by Bill Gertz in the Washington Times, January 18 (thanks to Benedict):
Fear of offending Muslims or being insensitive to religion was likely a key factor to why Army supervisors missed signs that the suspect in the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage was a Muslim extremist, according to national security experts.Senior Pentagon officials last week sought to play down or sidestep questions about why Army supervisors and FBI counterterrorism officials missed warning signs or failed to take action against Army Maj. Nidal Hasan before the Nov. 5 attack, which killed 13 people -- all but one them soldiers.
Rep. Ike Skelton, Missouri Democrat and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said in a C-SPAN interview Sunday that committee hearings set for Wednesday will examine the two "disconnects" related to Army personnel reports: that Maj. Hasan was promoted despite signs that he had become radicalized, and that intelligence reports indicating the major had terrorism links apparently were ignored....
Former Army Secretary Togo D. West Jr., who co-led a Pentagon review of the shooting, dismissed concerns that Maj. Hasan's religion was a factor in performance reviews during his career as an Army medical counselor.
When asked whether the immediate problem at Fort Hood, Texas, was Islamist radicalization, Mr. West declined to single out Islamists. "Our concern is not with the religion," he told reporters at the Pentagon. "It is with the potential effect on our soldiers' ability to do their job."
Mr. West said "radicalization of any sort" is the issue and that "our concern is with actions and effects, not necessarily with motivations."
Adm. Vernon E. Clark, a former chief of naval operations and the investigation's other co-leader, declined to answer when asked whether political correctness led to the Army security failures. He suggested that the matter is addressed in a secret annex to the report that he and Mr. West helped produce.
A Pentagon spokesman declined to comment on whether political correctness contributed to the security lapse.
There is no excuse for what Hasan did, on Nov. 5th, 2009. None. He is a mass murderer. This is his legacy, and it is how he should be remembered
Mr. Spencer, even Privates know the answers to those questions.
When you want an honest opinion on a matter such as this, you need only ask a Private.
When is the West going to wake up, realise, and see them as they are? The "Enemy in the midst of us," "Wolves in sheep's clothing?" They immigrate to the West in pursuit of a better life, better education, better everything that is not provided to them in their own Muslim world, they prosper and intigrate in every day's life, they join the military of America and the West, but when push comes to shove, they are going to side with their fellow Muslims against the same country that adopted them and made them who they are.
Did Nidal ever dream of becoming a doctor in his own country? Heck no, he might not have even stood a chance to go to college at all, let alone become a doctor, and look what he did, after all that America gave him, and made him the "better" person he should have been, he did what he did, because he believed the infidels deserve to die, and he, as a Muslim deserves to live.
Wake up and stand up for yourselves, do not trust them becasue they are not to be trusted.
And was this sack of turd employed because he was a moslem??
And they thought he was "onside" a moderate, no beard or strange clothes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3713816.stm
When asked whether the immediate problem at Fort Hood, Texas, was Islamist radicalization, Mr. West declined to single out Islamists. "Our concern is not with the religion," he told reporters at the Pentagon. "It is with the potential effect on our soldiers' ability to do their job."
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Not only does Mr. West "decline" to single out Islam, he declines to single out "Islamists".
In addition, the bloodless and bureaucratic reference to "the potential effect on our soldiers' ability to do their job" brings to mind such issues as inefficiency, insufficient training or poor discipline—not going on a murderous rampage and mowing down fourteen of your fellow soldiers.
Was the Fort Hood jihadist not removed from his post for fear of offending muslims?
That question is purely rhetorical.
islam is a lie and
Truth is killing it.
One of the reasons these fools in the higher ranks can get away with this political correctness crap is because they are being allowed to squirm from answering the hard questions. Tell this crap to those loved ones left behind by the actions of Maj.Hassan, that Islamic ideology was not behind this. Like all other terrorism caused by jihadis it is Islamic. Maj. Hassan has committed high treason and needs to pay the ultimate price for his actions, he even had connections with other terrorists. Lets write our senators to get these higher military personnel directly responsible for failing to protect our troops and this country from the likes of Maj. Hassan and court martial them. Then maybe we will see a different tune being sung by those willing to make excuses and sympathize with these terrorist at the expense of our troops lives.
"Mr. West said "radicalization of any sort" is the issue and that "our concern is with actions and effects, not necessarily with motivations."
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How can any rational thinking person NOT consider the MOTIVATIONS that cause "radicalization"?
Are not motivations the motivating- hence force/energy behind actions and effects?
OMG what a blazing idiot.
"When asked whether the immediate problem at Fort Hood, Texas, was Islamist radicalization, Mr. West declined to single out Islamists. "Our concern is not with the religion," he told reporters at the Pentagon. "It is with the potential effect on our soldiers' ability to do their job."
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Here's a different way of looking at the "problem": Instead of saying "Islamist" say "Communist" or "Nazi".
Islam is a totalitarian political system with the end-goal of political domination.
Islam has just enough ritual to barely fit the definition of "religion" to call it a political ideology would be more accurate.
Islam needs to be identified for what it is in its totality. Until our leaders grow a pair, we all are endangered by their political correctness/willful idiocy.
Do not offend this Muslim! If you do then the Jihad boys will attack! The Koran says so. He must be free to murder and kill without offence. Or they will riot. At 7% they begin to be a problem. We must bend over and not offend the foolish delusional PC here. Like placating the Nazi party.
Remember a PC will be found in a gun shop after he is robbed. I will be refusing to fly if I see one getting on the plane. I will board last. I will be questioning all these people at the airport TSA. I will keep bacon bits in my pocket for the search to surprise them. Will they be willing to search any of us carrying pork? The women need to inform them they are heavy into their period. Like garlic and vampires. This way we can make them 100% ineffective, and worthless. Imagine one of them searching a Nunn!
Have you Jihad-ed today?
Do not offend this Muslim! If you do then the Jihad boys will attack! The Koran says so. He must be free to murder and kill without offence. Or they will riot. At 7% they begin to be a problem. We must bend over and not offend the foolish delusional PC here. Like placating the Nazi party.
Remember a PC will be found in a gun shop after he is robbed. I will be refusing to fly if I see one getting on the plane. I will board last. I will be questioning all these people at the airport TSA. I will keep bacon bits in my pocket for the search to surprise them. Will they be willing to search any of us carrying pork? The women need to inform them they are heavy into their period. Like garlic and vampires. This way we can make them 100% ineffective, and worthless. Imagine one of them searching a Nunn!
Have you Jihad-ed today?
Some time back one of my countrymen, Mr. V S Naipaul, went on a journey across Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has recorded his experiences in a book ‘Among the believers’. Is this book he mentions his interview with a man who studied in Iowa university and was staying as a houseguest with an American family who treated him (in his own words) with respect and care. Mr. Naipaul asks this ‘believer’ whether the people in Iowa had not been kind to him when in need. The Muslim in his reply has no words to say about the people in Iowa. Instead he says that the kindness was simply another tribute to his faith. Allah, he says, loved him very much.
Please Mr. Cristianarab. Understand this.
The Muslims do not believe this world to be real. Whatever the west gives them is seen not as a goodwill gesture from the Christians but as a gift from Allah.