No sooner had RBO posted from the UK’s Melanie Phillips article on Marxism than the Marxist Media provides a prime example of something she wrote:
- This Through The Looking Glass mindset rests on the belief that the world is divided into the powerful (who are responsible for all bad things) and the oppressed (who are responsible for none of them).
Nidal Malik Hasan, “Muslim jihadist traitor army officer” who went on a shooting spree this week at Fort Hood, is one of the “oppressed,” you see.
Don’t think so? Well, TIME Magazine does. Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit reports, according to TIME, “Secondary Trauma” made Hasan do it. Tim McGirk writes:
- … it is not uncommon for therapists treating soldiers with Post Trumatic Stress Disorder (P.T.S.D.) to be swept up in a patient’s displays of war-related paranoia, helplessness and fury.
Yes. But how many of them have shot down dozens of fellow soldiers? Only one? What a theory!
As Hoft writes: “The state-run media thinks we’re all stupid.”
Now compare that to this: Nick Allen, of the UK’s The Telegraph, who is actually at Fort Hood and asking real questions from real people, reports: “Fort Hood gunman had told US military colleagues that infidels should have their throats cut.”
- Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America’s Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats.
He also told colleagues at America’s top military hospital that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire. The outburst came during an hour-long talk Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gave on the Koran in front of dozens of other doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington DC, where he worked for six years before arriving at Fort Hood in July.
Colleagues had expected a discussion on a medical issue but were instead given an extremist interpretation of the Koran, which Hasan appeared to believe. [...]
Fellow doctors have recounted how they were repeatedly harangued by Hasan about religion and that he openly claimed to be a “Muslim first and American second.”
One Army doctor who knew him said a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim soldier had stopped fellow officers from filing formal complaints.
Ok. So, Hasan was “oppressed”?
Would it surprise you to know that as long ago as 2007 a fellow doctor who was taking a class with Hasan complained about Hasan’s “anti-American rants”?
What happened? **crickets**
You’ll certainly feel better to learn that this was one of those “teachable moments” we’ve heard so much about:
- Senator Joe Lieberman, who chairs the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security, said there had been “strong warning signs” that Hasan was an “Islamist extremist”.
The committee would ask “whether the Army missed warning signs that should have led them to essentially discharge him, he said. He added: “The US Army has to have zero tolerance. He should have been gone.”
But General George Casey, the Army’s Chief of Staff, said it was “speculation” that military authorities failed to pick up on warning signs. “I don’t want to say that we missed it,” he said.
Asked if military authorities had missed warning signs Gen Casey, the Army’s Chief of Staff, added: “We have to go back and look at ourselves, and ask ourselves the hard questions. Are we doing the right things? We will learn from this.
“It’s too early to draw conclusions but we will ask ourselves the hard questions about what we are doing and the changes we should make as a result of this.”
With the Victim-in-Chief (It’s Bush’s Fault) leading the way, what can we expect?
Saddening beyond belief. This guy had no place anywhere near the military. Had he been discharged, however, I think there would have been no less carnage. Either he would have taught others his military skills – indirectly causing suffering and deaths – and/or he would have murdered off base, perhaps killing even more. He seems to have been full of murderous intent.
You are so right.
Agree, I hate to sound PC but the truth is, he is an unhappy man and they work hard for an excuse to spread the misery. That said, Hasan is the perfect tool to be bent to a philosophy of hatred, whether he acted on his own or in a plan.
Our problem is that if there are peaceful Muslims, as some claim to be, we can’t tell, we can only say they haven’t attacked yet. Obviously, we can’t tell that they are on our side just because they appear to be fighting with us. PC comes out of good intentions; some clever person better think of a good test for bad intentions that will override the default reaction.
Hasan seems clearly to have started his fight against us some time ago, and it’s shameful that his officers and co-workers in psych didn’t do something–I have to add, it looks like that there is not only PC at work but a tendency for one doctor to shield another.
if there are peaceful Muslims…
There are. One muslim scholar spreading peaceful Islamic values is Hamza Yusef, ironically, an American convert. He speaks fluent Arabic and has traveled and studied in several muslim countries.
Youtube search results Hamza Yusef
At Gateway Pundit–article…’his iman praised the massacre.’ This guy is no wacko. He is a terrorist.
The government knew Hasan was trying to link up with al-Qaeda. He is a terrorist. HOME GROWN if anyone asks.
This is what happens when you try to be politically correct all the time. It cannot work. We have coddled these people far too long. We simply cannot continue to give these people a “pass.” I am not asking everyone to become an “animal.” Just become tougher, that means Washington, the military, and Obama and his pathetic White House.
All true Americans must realize and face up to it, that there are other people and groups that want America destroyed. And they will do what they have to in order to accomplish this goal. Think of it this way – be soft , and you’ll be dead!
having been in the military although long ago i find it hard to be leave that his fellow solders did not say, and do more, if i had been around some body that had obvious issues with my country i would have made sure someone of rank was aware
of it. when you are standing with a group of people and everyone has weapons you must have faith that you are all fighting the same enemy, you must have trust in the people watching your back. sorry i don’t mean to ramble on this is just a very sad day.
I can’t imagine an Jihadi spouting Palastinian-American Muslim would have gone over very well among Iraqis or in Afghanistan. Muslims fighting radical Islam would show far less PCness than Americans do. If Maj Hasan deployed, and kept preaching as he seems to have done, then he would have needed a security detail to protect him from our Muslim allies. No PC over there.
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The Third Jihad
According to John Brennan, head of the White House’s homeland security office, the war on terrorism is over. From now on, the administration will never use terms like “jihadists” and “global war” because doing so, as Mr. Brennan said, “risks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek but in no way deserve.” He insisted that the U.S. is at “war with al Qaeda” (“U.S. no longer at war with ‘terrorism’ ,” Page 1, Friday).
Could we be more blind? Acts of terror are rooted in the aspirations of Islamists to create an Islamic state and impose their version of Shariah law.
As a devout Muslim who, like many others across the world, is dedicated to fighting Islamism and its radical offshoots, I believe there is nothing more dangerous to our security in the long term than the leader of the free world remaining in categorical denial about the essence of this ever-so-real contest of ideas.
Al Qaeda had nothing to do with the string of radical Islamists arrested across the country — from North Carolina to New York, Oregon and New Jersey (to name but a few) — in the last year alone. The only thing these radicals have in common is their belief in a militant version of political Islam.
I certainly can understand the concern of making this a clash of religions, but that should not lead to outright misinformation. There is a civil war happening within the Muslim consciousness — between those who advocate for the Islamic state (Islamists) and those who believe in secular liberal democracies.
It certainly is not the role of any administration to determine who are “good” and “bad” jihadists. Not calling them exactly what they call themselves makes the White House the arbiter of who is and who is not a Muslim. This avoidance behavior allows American Islamists, like the Muslim Brotherhood’s front groups in Washington, to continue to deny their responsibility to lead the Islamic reform effort against Islamism and its role in radicalization — the real existential threat to the West.
The last administration used a term far too vague, labeling the tactic of terror as the enemy rather than the ideology of militant Islamism. Now we have swung the other way, targeting a single group that is but one manifestation of a global movement. The movement radicalizes Muslims and remains an ever-present danger to our citizenry and it should be identified as such.
M. ZUHDI JASSER
President
American Islamic Forum for Democracy
Phoenix
“no” “no” “no” G-D America!!
“I am not a Muslim” ~ B Hussein O
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