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Posted By alanocu 2 weeks ago in Political OpinionOn Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting, "Allahu akbar!" ("God is great!") committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.
What cowards we are. Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans at Fort Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did. And the media treat it like a case of nondenominational shoplifting.
This was a terrorist act. When an extremist plans and executes a murderous plot against our unarmed soldiers to protest our efforts to counter Islamist fanatics, it's an act of terror. Period.
When the terrorist posts anti-American hate speech on the Web; apparently praises suicide bombers and uses his own name; loudly criticizes US policies; argues (as a psychiatrist, no less) with his military patients over the worth of their sacrifices; refuses, in the name of Islam, to be photographed with female colleagues; lists his nationality as "Palestinian" in a Muslim spouse-matching program and parades around central Texas in a fundamentalist playsuit -- well, it only seems fair to call this terrorist an "Islamist terrorist."
But the president won't. Despite his promise to get to all the facts. Because there's no such thing as "Islamist terrorism" in ObamaWorld.
And the Army won't. Because its senior leaders are so sick with political correctness that pandering to America haters is safer than calling terrorism "terrorism."
And the media won't. Because they have more interest in the shooter than in our troops -- despite their crocodile tears.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan planned this terrorist attack and executed it in cold blood. The resulting massacre was the first tragedy. The second was that he wasn't killed on the spot.
Hasan survived. Now the rest of us will have to foot his massive medical bills. Activist lawyers will get involved, claiming "harassment" drove him temporarily insane. There'll be no end of trial delays. At best, taxpayer dollars will fund his prison lifestyle for decades to come, since our politically correct Army leadership wouldn't dare pursue or carry out the death penalty.
Maj. Hasan will be a hero to Islamist terrorists abroad and their sympathizers here. While US Muslim organizations decry his acts publicly, Hasan will be praised privately. And he'll have the last laugh.
But Hasan isn't the sole guilty party. The US Army's unforgivable political correctness is also to blame for the casualties at Fort Hood.
Given the myriad warning signs, it's appalling that no action was taken against a man apparently known to praise suicide bombers and openly damn US policy. But no officer in his chain of command, either at Walter Reed Army Medical Center or at Fort Hood, had the guts to take meaningful action against a dysfunctional soldier and an incompetent doctor.
Had Hasan been a Lutheran or a Methodist, he would've been gone with the simoom. But officers fear charges of discrimination when faced with misconduct among protected minorities.
Now 12 soldiers and a security guard lie dead. At least 38 people were wounded, 28 of them seriously. If heads don't roll in this maggot's chain of command, the Army will have shamed itself beyond moral redemption.
There's another important issue, too. How could the Army allow an obviously incompetent and dysfunctional psychiatrist to treat our troubled soldiers returning from war? An Islamist wacko is counseled for arguing with veterans who've been assigned to his care? And he's not removed from duty? What planet does the Army live on?
For the first time since I joined the Army in 1976, I'm ashamed of its dereliction of duty. The chain of command protected a budding terrorist who was waving one red flag after another. Because it was safer for careers than doing something about him.
Get ready for the apologias. We've already heard from the terrorist's family that "he's a good American." In their world, maybe he is.
But when do we, the American public, knock off the PC nonsense?
A disgruntled Muslim soldier murdered his officers way back in 2003, in Kuwait, on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Recently? An American mullah shoots it out with the feds in Detroit. A Muslim fanatic attacks an Arkansas recruiting station. A Muslim media owner, after playing the peace card, beheads his wife. A Muslim father runs over his daughter because she's becoming too Westernized.
Muslim terrorist wannabes are busted again and again. And we're assured that "Islam's a religion of peace."
I guarantee you that the Obama administration's nonresponse to the Fort Hood attack will mock the memory of our dead.
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Ratskii2 weeks ago
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Endoscopy2 weeks ago
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So you think that this man and the others are just poor misunderstood men. What kind of koolaid are you drinking. This is typical of terrorist Muslims all over the world. We fought these Muslim terrorists way back in 1805. The Barbary Pirates. They spouted the same reasons back then. Killing infidels is a great thing to do and if they die doing it then they go to paradise.
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Your ignorance abounds.
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truthiness2 weeks ago
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A disgruntled Muslim soldier murdered his officers way back in 2003, in Kuwait, on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Recently? An American mullah shoots it out with the feds in Detroit. A Muslim fanatic attacks an Arkansas recruiting station. A Muslim media owner, after playing the peace card, beheads his wife. A Muslim father runs over his daughter because she's becoming too Westernized.
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A forensic investigation should be done to see if there is any connection between these individuals beyond having the same religion. Because it appears the war is in our streets.
if, on the other hand, it is totally random people going crazy and killing, which seems to happen everywhere more and more, then perhaps we should ask why that is.
I worked at a psych ward (as a tech, I am not an expert) and many of the most hostile patients
had genetic abnormalities (e.g. an extra Y chromosome) but not all.
I agree with the Times that the Army should call this terrorism and deal with that way, but I think the rest of us may want to think about it some more.-
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wtagg2 weeks ago
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Feel free to add the nice men from Cleveland and Orlando to your list, though they are not muslim.
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You need to included all violent deaths to reach any type of conclusion. Yes, we may have a war in the streets, but it doesn't have anything to do with a particular religion.
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chuck-the-canuck2 weeks ago
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Here stick this:
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http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3...
in a suppository and drive it home to your cerebral cortex. All religious fanatics are dangerous. Bible addled, or Koran addled, it makes no difference. They are all deeply delusional, believe that their particular delusion is the correct one, and they are all willing to kill you to make their point.
If you speak to god, you are a profoundly devout, highly spiritual, if somewhat delusional person. If god speaks to you, you are in all likelihood a deeply disturbed individual and should seek competent psychiatric help as soon as possible.
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avoth2 weeks ago
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"And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam. What cowards we are. "
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Let's take a straw poll. How many Conservatives are afraid to call this an act of terror or associate it with Islam?
I'm not saying to hate Muslims or hate Islam....hatred is a waste of emotion, more often destroying the individual who hates more than those the hatred is directed against. But, let's not be afraid to call a spade a spade. This WAS an act of terrorism and it WAS associated with Islam, at least in the mind of the terrorist and those who support him.
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truthiness2 weeks ago
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4. Howard Unruh
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Unruh achieved a grim place in history — the first “lone gunman” to go on a spectacular shooting spree in which he targeted total strangers. On Sept. 6, 1949, the 28-year-old war veteran walked up and down his street in Camden, N.J., shooting to death 13 people. Among the victims were a small boy sitting in a barber’s chair. Unruh’s perverse justification for his insane deed was that he had so many enemies in his mind, he needed to shoot everyone in order to make sure the right people died. -
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markoller2 weeks ago
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I tried dowloading two URLs.
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Call it what it really is, Zionist false flag terrorism. The gigantic anti-Muslim propaganda campaign associated with the killings proves it, and if the fall guy were guilty, and he did not have an Arab name, it would have been dismissed as a random shooting spree. For proof, download "Questions about an early AP Ft. Hood shooting article." http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread517407/p... -
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markoller2 weeks ago
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For further evidence, download "Fort Hood Islamic terrorism charade." I quote:
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Curiouser and Curiouser: -Video surfaces of alleged shooter, Major Nidal Hasan, attending Homeland Security Task Force conference --Major Hasan's name appears on page 29 of The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute's 'Thinking Anew—Security Priorities for the Next Administration' --Proceedings Report of the HSPI Presidential Transition Task Force - April 2008 - January 2009. The report is dated 19 May 2009.
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NoWayMan2 weeks ago
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total bullsh*t.
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when it comes to terrorism, its less about islam or christianity per se and more about conservatism.
lets face it. in our world today, terrorism is an action perpetrated mostly by conservatives.
hamas, al qaeda, the neocons, the taliban...all conservative.
and maj. hasan fell into that category: conservative.
in fact, very conservative.
time to wake up.
most of the probelms in this world aren't because of this religion or that religion, but because of the conservative factions that lie within each religion. those are the people that want to blow sh*t up, those are the people who want to invade nations based on religion and skin color and wealth, those are the people who fly planes into buildings, those are the people who shoot innocent victims on a miltary base in a failed attempt to make us afraid.
islam ain't the problem.
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canadianrancher572 weeks ago
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I am a person who doesn't support terrorist actions by any group that uses religion as a basis for their aggression against others, so by this statement what percentage of the world population have I included, likely a very large part of it. It always makes me question any validity of religion when we see such a large part of the worlds population willing to judge others because of what they believe is Gods word.
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cloud151 week, 6 days ago
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I see it more as a man who was in the US army, didn't want to be deployed, got his hopes high when Obama became President, got the news he was going to be deployed, and snapped. Why should that be considered a religiously motivated act of terror?
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rimbaud1 week, 6 days ago
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Only in America can a person intelligent enough to become a doctor turn into a postal worker just because he is experiencing some psychic discomfort. At lest he didn't use weapons given to him by the military, but got his own at his local gun shop.
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epiphannyy1 week, 6 days ago
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Shouldn't this be "alleged Islamist[sic] terror" based on that Washington Post hit piece against Obama's lack of the word "alleged" when referring to this man? I mean, Tasine posted it and believes Obama "poisoned the jury pool" by forgetting that phrase.
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http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/11/08/did-obam...
So, if the President cannot get away without using the word "alleged" when referring to the man who did this, why would anyone support it being called "Islamist[sic] terror" without that all important word too?
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rimbaud1 week, 6 days ago
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"And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam." Terror does not even require killing. Terror is the threat of harm: a reasonable fear that you are exposed to harm. Legally, threats such as those by an estranged husband that he is coming over to kill his ex-wife qualify as terrorist (unless the perpetrator is prone to making "idle" threats, so that his threats cause no terror in anyone). Islamist terrorists score a win whenever any act of violence:
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1. raises the fear of harm in a population, and
2. can be "credited" or "attributed" to them.
Wouldn't AlQaeda love to claim responsibility for the shootings at Fort Hood, and to claim the shooter as only one of their infiltrators into the very Defense forces of the USA! Now that is scary! (random mass killings: not as much). -
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MeanMrMustard1 week, 6 days ago
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Just today a conservative poster submitted a story linking the shooter at Ft Hood to the 911 terrorists.If this is true it is yet another example of Bush/Cheney dropping the ball and not keeping us safe.They had 8 years to make the connection but wasted their time on such treasonous things as trying to change the constitution to take away rights of people who want to marry who they choose.Way to go Dick,dithering when it comes to the safety of US soldiers.
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