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Posted By gbudavid 2 weeks ago in NewsThere are many unknowns about Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the man authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base. As of this morning 13 people are dead and 30 wounded following his alleged shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas.
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gbudavid2 weeks ago
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Tasine1 week, 6 days ago
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"He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patient".
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And that's when he should have been dumped from the medical program AND from the military, NOBODY wants a crazy doctor or a terrorist doctor. Wonder exactly how many sleeper cells reside within our country - and how many reside within our military? Political correctness has run amok and it's high time we put a stop to it. -
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Inactive2 weeks ago
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So, if he fought orders to deploy to Iraq, that is disobeying a lawful order. A court martial would have been warranted. Joining the military comes with the possibility of being deployed. Why was this muslim terrorist even on active duty and not in the brig?
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truthiness2 weeks ago
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How did he get to be a major? he must have been good at his job at some point. he probabaly came out of army med school as an LT., so that is quite a number of promotions and recommendations from his superiors, isn't it? (i;ve never served but one would think)
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none of us are born with this kind of hate in us. yet every culture and group has members who do commit this kind of evil. so what turns a child into a villain? where do we learn to hate?
don't tell me it is in some madrasa, this guy is American born and raised, schooled and promoted by the US military. something happens along the way to guys like this major and the guy from oklahoma, the guy who shot up the amish school....
we (humans) are failing our children somewhere that even though peace is the highest moral value in every culture, every culture still turns out these types of villains.-
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vettenut1 week, 6 days ago
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Interesting post.
However, in the realm of reason, one states a hypothesis, or a known truth, and then proceeds to "prove" it by a series of experiments or precise, supportive information.
In your case, you seem to state that evil (within "villains") is there because the culture created it, and somehow they (the "villains") captured and internalized it.
However, in your three listed examples, it is very clear that Major Hasan, Timothy McVeigh (I think that's what you mean by "the guy from Oklahoma," although he was from upstate NY) and Charles Carl Roberts, are obvious anomalies, not even remotely resembling the society that "turned (them) out." There are no obvious connections or links between these individuals themselves, Hasan (Army officer who shouted "Allah Akbar" as he shot his victims), McVeigh (loner who distrusted the US Government) and Roberts (tormented by flashbacks of his molestations of children years earlier), or between these individuals and American Society.
There is a more believable and prove-able hypothesis, and Hasan is simply the latest example of it: Hasan was not a simple product of American society, but was the product of a radical, extreme variant of Muslim religious fervor. Namely, a variant that cultivates hatred and destruction of those it deems its "enemies." This extreme fervor "turns out" suicide bombers and terrorists from A MULTITUDE of countries, not just one or two.
Now, the vast majority of American Muslims are NOT suicide bombers or declared terrorists, BUT the vast majority of suicide bombers and declared terrorists around the world ARE Muslims.
That does NOT mean that America should persecute (or deport) all Muslims, the vast majority of whom are not a threat to American society or government. Not at all.
That DOES MEAN that America should focus on investigating RADICAL Muslims, so as to uncover and then minimize the threats to our society and way of life.
That DOES MEAN that we should not delude ourselves, or be in such a high degree of denial so as to allow "political correctness" to prevent us from focusing our terrorism-fighting efforts on the relatively few radical MUSLIMS who DO pose a very real threat to our society and way of life. -
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rimbaud1 week, 6 days ago
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I read somewhere that one of the soldiers he counseled committed suicide. It sounds like the horrors of war he heard from his patients were amplified in his mind. No reprimand from a superior would match his own self-evaluation of his situation.
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Tasine1 week, 6 days ago
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Mark, the major's life or death is at this point a moot point. False flag? I don't believe so because it was so open, so blatant, and so many people involved, I find it hard to believe it was orchestrated. Will some people exploit it? Probably. But do not blame people for connecting the famous dots President Bush was accused of not doing, and do not blame people who note the man is a practicing Muslim, he had had issues with the Iraq war, and he did indicate he did this for his god. We can "what if" all day long, but logic demands we have reason to suspect Hasan of being a terrorist, of the Muslim variety.
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