This stands to reason: according to the Obama Administration, Nidal Hasan’s Fort Hood jihad massacre had nothing to do with Islam, and (also according to the Obama camp) neither does the Islamic State. So Hasan and the caliph Ibrahim could get together, pop open a couple of sasparillas, and misunderstand Islam together.
In any case, the significance of this request is that Nidal Hasan understands that he is a combatant in a war, and that his enemy is the United States, and that the nation to which he owes allegiance is the Islamic State. He shares this view — that the Islamic State is at war with the U.S. and that any Muslim can give his allegiance to the Islamic State and become a warrior for it — with the leaders of the Islamic State. The only people who are refusing to consider this line of thinking and its implications are the leaders, diplomats, and foreign policy analysts of the United States.
“Fort Hood shooter says he wants to become ‘citizen’ of Islamic State caliphate,” by Catherine Herridge, FOX News, August 28, 2014 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
The convicted shooter in the Fort Hood massacre has written a letter to the leader of the Islamic State saying he wants to become a “citizen” of the caliphate, in the latest example of the terror group’s reach inside the U.S.
The letter from Nidal Hasan, obtained by Fox News, comes after two Americans reportedly died fighting for ISIS in Syria. Sources late Wednesday identified the second as Abdirahmaan Muhumed, of Minneapolis. Fox affiliate KMSP-TV in Minneapolis reported that Muhumed was killed in the same battle as Douglas McArthur McCain, who grew up outside Minneapolis in the town of New Hope and most recently lived in San Diego.
The State Department said Thursday it could not confirm Muhumed’s death and efforts to reach his family were unsuccessful.
.In the undated letter, Hasan — who fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 at Fort Hood in 2009 in what the Defense Department called “workplace violence”– tells ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that he wants to join the caliphate.
“I formally and humbly request to be made a citizen of the Islamic State,”Hasan says in the handwritten document addressed to “Ameer, Mujahid Dr. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.”
“It would be an honor for any believer to be an obedient citizen soldier to a people and its leader who don’t compromise the religion of All-Mighty Allah to get along with the disbelievers.”
The two-page letter includes Hasan’s signature and the abbreviation SoA for Soldier of Allah.
Hasan’s attorney, John Galligan, said the letter “underscores how much of his life, actions and mental thought process are driven by religious zeal. And it also reinforces my belief that the military judge committed reversible error by prohibiting Major Hasan from both testifying and arguing…how his religious beliefs” motivated his actions during the shooting.
In the last year, the Department of Justice has brought at least five prosecutions against Americans — in Florida, California, Virginia and North Carolina – for trying to help terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
Omar Jamal, who is well known in Minneapolis’ Somali community, said at least 10 young men from there have been recruited to travel to Syria for ISIS.
“Douglas McCain wasn’t the first one and unfortunately he won’t be the last,”Jamal told KMSP-TV.
The former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee that investigated radicalization in a series of congressional hearings said there is a pattern.
“It was clear and convincing evidence then, that there was a pipeline from Minneapolis to Islamic jihad overseas,” said Peter King, R-N.Y. “And that people in the community knew about it and that people in the community were covering it up.”
wolfgang says
This man should have been given the electric chair[ not an honourible way of dying I would think according to Islam ], he even looks like a nasty piece of work in the prison garb, how come he even got to the rank of Major in the US Army ? some of our American friends on here can answer that ?, is the US Army so PC that this is allowed ?, why didn’t any US base personnel just shoot the bastard dead when he put his hands up to surrender ?, I would have said any cop or soldier who shot this scum dead would be a patriot !
Perhaps this creature could be given a plane ticket to go fight with ISIS [ then have his passport revoked and all ability to return to the USA forbidden ]
Did this piece of trash not get the death penalty ? [ better yet be locked in a small windowless room with the family of those he killed ]
rappini says
I heard my Father say that word a few times, along with many others.
pongidae rex says
Hang him.
Hanging was good enough for George Washington. It was good enough for Abraham Lincoln. Even people who commit suicide select hanging as an appropriate way to die. What is wrong with hanging these perps? If the lawyers have their way, you will have to launch someone into orbit to execute them.
Champ says
Meanwhile we continue to provide food & shelter for this evil perp and now Fox is showcasing his letter. Great. Well, I don’t care a thing about him, do you? I bet the families of those he murdered are p’od that Fox is covering this story at all and giving this POS the time of day! And he received the death penalty, so why isn’t he dead yet? Justice needs to be carried out more swiftly here, and it must pain the families who are expected to wait.
EYESOPEN says
Agree wholeheartedly Champ. This jihadi POS should have been taken out and hung for his crimes of multiple murder and mayhem. I’m irritated as well that he still lives – on the taxpayers’ money.
john spielman says
this proves that he is a enemy combatant and his victims should receive the PURPLE HEART as this was NOT “work place violence”
Bezelel says
I can’t believe that hasn’t happened yet. There should never have been any question about it. obaMUD has dishonored himself so many times but this isn’t going away. Thanks for bringing it back up.
Beagle says
The victims of Hasan are still not receiving the benefits due to casualties of war due to Obama’s deceit and political calculations.
http://www.gopusa.com/freshink/2013/09/23/government-turned-its-back-on-nidal-hasans-casualties/
Quote:
Soldiers wounded in war, and the families of those killed, are entitled to benefits, cash aimed at rewarding service and helping offset the loss of income. College scholarships are available to the survivors, and they get first crack at government jobs.
Those left in the wake of Hasan’s shooting spree have gotten little to nothing. Again, it’s been four years.
No such reward is available to Hasan’s victims or their families because the government doesn’t consider the massacre to be war-related. These service members again are being victimized, this time by the very government that’s supposed to represent them.
Manning tells us his injuries cost him $2,000 a month in civilian pay for three years. One survivor recently committed suicide, and Hasan robbed several families of their primary breadwinners.
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Texas did the right thing:
http://www.woai.com/articles/woai-local-news-119078/texas-rules-ft-hood-dead-wounded-11598414/
Also, no Purple Hearts:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/08/15/hasan-vs-victims-obama-white-house-betrays-ft-hood-heroes/
Rob says
Why hasn’t this clown contradicted Obama and said categorically that his murderous rampage at Ft Hood was jihad?
He gets the benefit of being treated as a workplace bully who went a bit far, yet is able to garner Islamic brownie points showboating to the biggest Islamic threat seen since the 1400s.
He’s laughing at you POTUS!
nacazo says
Does the ISLAM-ic state have anything to do with ISLAM?
I ask anywhere I can on social media.
cliffface says
How can this filth be given food and shelter while people who have committed no crime are homeless and hungry.
Steve says
Great. Now that he has put this out there, his release will be the next negotiation request by ISIS to spare the life of a kidnapped US citizen. And he knows this. He thinks it’s his “get out of jail free” card.
Always On Watch says
Take Hasan over there. Drop him from an airplane. No parachute.
Daniel Triplett says
Good thinking.
Or better yet, let him ride a B61 nuke bomb air dropped to the ISIS HQ like Slim Pickens in “Dr. Strangelove.”
tpellow says
The Obama Administration, and much of the MSM, have been, and still are in denial on the Islamic nature of Hasan’s commitment to jihad violence.
‘Jihadwatch’ and ‘Atlas Shrugs’ have been correct on this all along.
duh_swami says
I had no idea that Abu Bakr B was receiving mail from the US.
If we could get his address, we could redirect all our junk mail to him…I wonder how FOX got this letter…did they send it on to Abu after they reported on it?
Always On Watch says
If we could get his address, we could redirect all our junk mail to him.
Then he could have all those ads for Honey Baked Ham and the spare ribs restaurants .
epistemology says
I’d love to send him a special letter that will show him the way to his 72 virgins or 72 grapes, depends on the translation.
pumbar says
And give Baghdadi’s phone number out to Indian telemarketers.
ApolloSpeaks says
WILL ISIS GRANT THE WORK PLACE JIHADIST HIS WISH
and make him a honorary citizen of the Islamic State? How can they resist? Nidal Hasan brought honor to Islam by killing the infidel soldiers of an unbelieving enemy state with troops fighting and killing believers in holy Moslem lands. Nidal Hasan killed because of those wars and is a soldier of Allah and Islam-a great jihadi hero of the Koran. If I were Abu al-Baghdadi I’d promote Hasan from US Army Major to honorary General of the caliphate. I’d also order parades throughout the State celebrating Hasan and his glorious deed (naming airports, buildings and bridges after him) with mobs of fanatical jihadis carrying his picture through the streets to the sound of gun fire and deafening cries of Alahu Akbar. To inspire other Hasans at US military bases that’s what I’d do if I were Abu.
http://www.apollospeaks.com
James Shearer says
Encourage him to become a citizen of ISIS and denounce his USA citizenship then remove all his benefits and execute him as a foreign national terrorist.
epistemology says
Anyway, he knows where he belongs. Scum to scum, rubbish to rubbish. The likes of him make me puke. As I said here before, you should feed him pork every day and nothing else to eat and cheap bad beer to drink.
I can’t understand that the victims’ families are still not receiving the benefits due to casualties of war and that Obama calls this act of terrorism “workplace violence”, sounds a bit like “workplace accident”. The victims’ families must feel lampooned. It’s disgusting.
rappini says
Send this Haji to meet his 72 Virgins.
duh_swami says
Justice is better served by denying him any virgins, or ‘boys pure as pearls’…His life is miserable and it should stay that way.
Richie says
or 72 rasins
Richie says
So liberals think his killing spree had nothing to do with Islam, and was just an act of workplace violence. Im sure leftists see him as a victim.
Gee, now he wants to join the homicidal Islamic State – isnt that evidence enough that this piece of excrement was motivated by Islam?
Bezelel says
Is he still drawing pay? I heard he was promoted since the episode. Can we at least acknowledge that he’s a traitor ?
Walter Sieruk says
It fits that this heinous and murderous fiend Hasan would take a strong liking to ISIS. As himself for Hasan it should be reiterated that this by his own actions by the shooting that he committed at Fort Hood that he has proven that he is one of those villains who according the Bible in Second Timothy 3:3,4. are “despisers of those who are good, traitors…” [K.J.V] Furthermore according the [N.K.J.V.] translation of the Bible “Brutal, despisers of good, traitors…” What an evil man he is.
Larry Jones says
Let’s accomodate him. Put him on a military flight and drop him out of the door 15,000 feet over Iraq.
Appalled By The World says
ALL jihadists, including this pig, should be immediately executed in a manner most offensive to them if found guilty. Why they are ever allowed to live defies reason and logic and is inexcusable.
pumbar says
The best thing about that photo is that he’s got the “confused face” on from the film “Four Lions” (if you haven’t seen it you should).
hammar says
One sad thing is that if you criticize or defame the phony prophet moham , the
child raper and murderer that he was, oblama the phony president will have you
subject to arrest or maybe even decapitated.