Comments on: The Legacy of Major Nidal Malik Hasan

By: Nevile

Nevile — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:34:10 +0000

To me, the evidence for this is pretty clear. Why is this so hard to accept.?

Islam and atheism have become politicized. The one has always been politicized. Islam’s rapid rise to influence during the Dark Ages was due to the very same militancy we now see demonstrated in our modern era. The other has risen from the crank fringes of academia in the western world to be embraced by our present day political establishment.

Both are finding common cause in persecuting their intended target: people who profess the Christian faith and embrace its values and implications.

The one targets its victims with guns, explosives and violence, the other with the aggressive use of the laws of tolerance and freedom that founded this country and that they have now perverted to silence and blind their opposition to prevent them from taking meaningful action.

By: dclamage

dclamage — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:24:45 +0000

In the wake of Hasan’s planned murder spree, I should hope that every base’s Commanding Officer issue standing orders requiring at least most personnel to be carrying sidearms or rifles around base, as a necessary precaution against further assaults on our troops. It may be shutting the barn doors after the horses have all run out; but given how this incident will probably encourage further attacks on our military personnel, I think a logical precaution.

Except I would exempt all Muslim military personnel. This isn’t racial profiling or racism or religious intolerance; it’s recognizing the obvious — that some of these SOB’s cannot be trusted. Perhaps they should be granted a discharge, if they want one. We need to know where their first loyalties lie.

Political Correctness got those soldiers killed. Several officers knew of Hasan’s belligerent behavior, yet they said nothing because they were afraid of appearing to be inappropriately biased against a Muslim who was becoming more and more outspoken in his anti-American beliefs.

By: dclamage

dclamage — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:14:07 +0000

I heard on the Quinn & Rose radio show this morning that Major Hasan and two other domestic Islamic terrorists had all attended the same mosque in TX. Perhaps a quick search of that mosque is in order. Or at least infiltrate it to find out what the Imams are really saying. If Major Hasan was driven to personal Jihad against the infidels in the form of committing mass murder, then the mosque should be shut down and the Imams charged as co-conspirators.

By: dudette

dudette — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:36:06 +0000

say it isnt so—how can they emirate here? We don’t need any more people – they are leaking all over the borders. And my hardworking Irish plumber who is not a citizen is always going back to Ireland in time to fulfill his visa requirements or whatever so he can come back and be in the country legally. I do not even know where we start to fix immigration. I am not that old, but I do remember times when immigration was enforced, when illegals were tracked down and returned….i also remember a time when there was a loyalty all kids felt to this country and we were proud of it–it united us against our many differences be they religion or race–whatever. I wonder where we begin to go back?

By: mrbobl7388

mrbobl7388 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:20:46 +0000

with preemptive strike NOW on Iran. With our intelligence network I believe we could surgically remove the entire Iranian leadership without major collateral damage. Ethnic and religious profiling is really defining the enemy. We know who they are. We are fighting them on several fronts right now.
The Islamic Nation tried before but have been semi-dormant for about 400 years. Wake up Americans and read some world history. This Islamic gang has been stopped before and it is time to stop them now. We need leadership that will stop them cold in their own back yard. Some of them are now in our front yard and they need to be sent HOME, now… This WILL NOT happen with the Washington gang that has hijacked our country.

TERM LIMITS NOW — DON’T REELECT ANYBODY

By: merryj1

merryj1 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:05:54 +0000

… he probably couldn’t have gotten away with saying “the military acted stupidly” on this one.

By: merryj1

merryj1 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:03:02 +0000

Didn’t the Vienna defeat of a Muslim advance occur on September 11 in the 17th (or 16th) century? I believe that’s what Osama bin Ladin alluded to in one of his post-9/11 lip-diddling tapes.

By: The_Rebel

The_Rebel — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:18:48 +0000

I’m not one that likes to quote Wikipedia, but their definition of “root cause” is as follows:

“Commonly, root cause is used to describe the depth in the causal chain where an intervention could reasonably be implemented to change performance and prevent an undesirable outcome.”

Had the chain of command responded properly to all the warning signs, this could have been prevented at Fort Hood. Maybe he would have struck elsewhere, but Fort Hood would have been spared this massacre.

By: aesthete

aesthete — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:06:08 +0000

I qualified my statement with, “absent all other knowledge”, and I would take reasonable steps to insure that I have more information than someone’s religion before I make a decision, if at all possible. Your statement, OTOH, had no qualifications whatsoever, no “all else being equal”, and was a blanket statement tarring countless Muslims who have no great predilection for violence as being stained with the blood of their compatriots. I have no problem with calling a spade a spade (or a terrorist an Islamic fanatic), but your broad generalization was unfair to the extreme. I’m a Christian, and I have to deal with that sort of generalization from atheists quite often (ie, Christians are dumb, uneducated hicks). I don’t like it when people tar and feather me based on other members of my religion, and it’s not much better when it’s done to other members of another religion.

By: Tbone

Tbone — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:48:31 +0000

Well, your answer verified my statement. You said, in effect, absent any additional information, you too would make the presumption that your Muslim neighbors were more dangerous than your Mormon neigbors.

How much of this do you need?

You are at the gate in an airport ready to board your flight to London. There are 5 Muslim young men and 5 Buddhist monks and 5 standby seats. Who do you want to clear the standby list?

Yep, I’m right again.

You hear on the radio a flash about a bus being blown up in London. The guy next to you says “I heard the guys name earlier. You want to bet 5-1 that the guys name was Omar or John? How do you bet?

Unless you are an idiot, you bet John because no one would offer you 5-1 unless it was John. lol.

A magic genie give you the choice between two wishes to achieve World Peace . First choice, he’ll destroy all nuclear weapons. Second choice, he’ll convert all Muslims to Baptists. What’s your choice?

Yep, there you go generalizing again.

Again, you should leave Martin out of this but I guess you wouldn’t be dragging him in if he was a Hindu, would you?

By: Castor

Castor — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:43:25 +0000

We don´t have the luxury of waiting until Iran steals our secrets.They are close enough already without it. Iran is the 500 pound gorilla in the nuclear room.If Hasan could kill 13 of our finest at Fort Hood, Iran will kill 13,000,000 Americans if we wait until those fanatics obtain the capability to do so.
Obama is dithering not only about Afghanistan, but about Iran, too.
What a pity that the probability of a preemptive strike against the nest of Islamic vipers that is Iran is left to tiny Israel.
PREEMPTIVE STRIKE NOW!!!
Take the Jihadists of Achmadinejad & Khamenei out before it´s too late.

By: mom2oneson

mom2oneson — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:56:24 +0000

By: samdallas

samdallas — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:47:47 +0000

This is not rocket science. If there is a pattern follow it. We have seen this before with people being afraid to watch Jews in our government (remember the stolen a-bomb and countless other spying scandals where Israel was involved?). Let’s not wait until Iran steals our bomb using the same fifth column techniques Israel has used so effectively.

By: hickorystick

hickorystick — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:45:20 +0000

there is about seven miles separating silver springs, MD where Hasan worshipped and the Dar-alHijrah Mosque where American born Imam Anwar al-Aulaqi preached at. Al-Aulaqi is suspected of abetting three 9-11 hijackers. Add the DC sniper to the mix and Washington DC is beginning to look like a petri dish for terrorists.

By: aesthete

aesthete — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:20:56 +0000

I hope that this incident brings about better systems for prevention (fat chance under Obama’s tenure), but saying that the cause of the incident at Ft. Hood was PCness disgustingly shifts the blame from the [insert swear word of your choice describing killer here] holding the gun to institutions that, though complicit, were far from responsible.

By: tankertodd

tankertodd — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:14:45 +0000

Political correctness may have been a factor, but make no mistake, the guy aiming a non-issue pistol at innocent people and pulling the trigger was the root cause.

Blaming PCness for the crime is no different than gun control activists blaming the Second Amendment for the same kind of crime, or lack of registration, etc. If you’re right, then so are they.

By: aesthete

aesthete — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:06:33 +0000

If you ask whether, in the absence of all other knowledge, I’d rather have Mormon neighbors than Muslim ones, I’d probably choose the Mormons, for several reasons, including the documented problems of Muslim extremism. However, I would vastly prefer meeting said neighbors and evaluating them as individuals with their own merits to making a value judgement with only that knowledge. That wasn’t a cheap question, nor was my question. You clearly implied that you believe all Muslims to be dangerous. That is a very different statement from, say, “Islam mandates jihad against the unbeliever as the responsibility of all believers.” The first is unverifiable, and unfairly characterizes all of those who consider themselves Muslim as bloodthirsty savages, while the second is a verifiable and can be objectively examined. If I mischaracterized your statement, let me know, but assuming that my characterization was accurate, I return to my original question: given what you know about Martin, do you believe him to be a dangerous potential jihadi? Because if you don’t, you have to re-evaluate your original statement’s veracity.

By: Tbone

Tbone — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:04:42 +0000

I seem to have extra. Pat, can I buy some “Es”

See what happens after a long day working in the private sector.

By: throwback59

throwback59 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:03:38 +0000

Islam is simply not compatible with Western/democratic societies. In addition to the father running over his daughter for being “westernized” there was the recent case of the head of a Muslim TV station who beheaded his wife. Locally I’ve read last week of a wife who stabbed her husband because he made her wear “revealing” clothes. All these incidents occuring in the US.
This is the legacy of multi-culturalism. Before MC immigrants were expected to assimilate. Now they are told that they can keep their culture, since all cultures are equal.
Diversity isn’t our strenght, it’s our Achilles’ heel.

By: Richard Mullins

Richard Mullins — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:01:27 +0000

but seems to take quite time. I seriously think that Major Hasan was really “One Fry short of a Happy Meal” and this crap he went on proves it. It’s seems crazy think that we can go PC when nutballs are in our midst and want to kill when the time is right.

BTW, if I’ve heard right Major Hasan got moved to the New BAMC(I have to distinguish the New BAMC for the Old BAMC{Is it still Southern Command is it Northern Command now?]).