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| jose el fontanero... |
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Jihad at Fort Hood – by Robert Spencer
Posted By Robert Spencer On November 6, 2009 at (no spam) 2:23 am
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, murdered twelve
people and wounded twenty-one inside Fort Hood in Texas yesterday,
while, according to eyewitnesses, “shouting something in Arabic while
he was shooting.” Investigators are scratching their heads and
expressing puzzlement about why he did it. According to NPR [1], “the
motive behind the shootings was not immediately clear, officials
said.” The Washington Post [2] agreed: “The motive remains unclear,
although some sources reported the suspect is opposed to U.S.
involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq and upset about an imminent
deployment.” The Huffington Post spun faster, asserting that “there is
no concrete reporting as to whether Nidal Malik Hasan was in fact a
Muslim or an Arab.”
Yet there was, and what’s more, Major Hasan’s motive was perfectly
clear — but it was one that the forces of political correctness and
the Islamic advocacy groups in the United States have been working for
years to obscure. So it is that now that another major jihad terror
attack has taken place on American soil, authorities and the
mainstream media are at a loss to explain why it happened – and the
abundant evidence that it was a jihad attack is ignored.
Nidal Malik Hasan was born in Virginia but didn’t think of himself as
an American: on a form he filled out at the Muslim Community Center in
Silver Spring, Maryland, he gave his nationality not as “American” but
as “Palestinian.” A mosque official found that curious, saying: “I
don’t know why he listed Palestinian. He was not born in Palestine.”
Center. He is a graduate of Virginia Tech and has a doctorate in
psychiatry from the Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences. While there, NPR reports, Hasan was “put on probation early
in his postgraduate work” and was “disciplined for proselytizing about
his Muslim faith with patients and colleagues.”
He was a staff psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for six
years before transferring to Fort Hood earlier this year. While at
Walter Reed, he was a “very devout” member of and daily visitor to the
Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring. Faizul Khan, a former imam
at the Center, expressed puzzlement over Hasan’s murders: “To know
something like this happened, I don’t know what got into his mind.
There was nothing extremist in his questions. He never showed any
frustration….He never showed any remorse or wish for vengeance on
anybody.”
So he identified himself as Palestinian and was a devout Muslim – so
what? These things, of course, have no significance if one assumes
that Islam is a Religion of Peace and that when a devout Muslim reads
the Koran’s many injunctions to wage war against unbelievers, he knows
that they have no force or applicability for today’s world.
Unfortunately, all too many Muslims around the world demonstrate in
both their words and their deeds that they take such injunctions quite
seriously. And Nidal Hasan gave some indications that he may have been
among them.
On May 20, 2009, a man giving his name as “NidalHasan” posted this
defense of suicide bombing [3] (all spelling and grammar as it is in
the original):
There was a grenade thrown amongs a group of American soldiers. One of
the soldiers, feeling that it was to late for everyone to flee jumped
on the grave with the intention of saving his comrades. Indeed he
saved them. He inentionally took his life (suicide) for a noble cause
i.e. saving the lives of his soldier. To say that this soldier
committed suicide is inappropriate. Its more appropriate to say he is
a brave hero that sacrificed his life for a more noble cause. Scholars
have paralled this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing
their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers. If one
suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught
off guard that would be considered a strategic victory. Their
intention is not to die because of some despair. The same can be said
for the Kamikazees in Japan. They died (via crashing their planes into
ships) to kill the enemies for the homeland. You can call them crazy i
you want but their act was not one of suicide that is despised by
Islam. So the scholars main point is that “IT SEEMS AS THOUGH YOUR
INTENTION IS THE MAIN ISSUE” and Allah (SWT) knows best.
Of course, it may not be the same Nidal Hasan. But there is more. One
of his former colleagues, Col. Terry Lee, recalled Hasan saying
statements to the effect of “Muslims have the right to rise up against
the U.S. military”; “Muslims have a right to stand up against the
aggressors”; and even speaking favorably about people who “strap bombs
on themselves and go into Times Square.”
Maybe he just snapped, perhaps under the pressure of his imminent
deployment to Iraq. But it’s noteworthy that if he did, he snapped in
exactly the same way that several other Muslims in the U.S. military
have snapped in the past. In April 2005, a Muslim serving in the U.S.
Army, Hasan Akbar, was convicted of murder for killing two American
soldiers and wounding fourteen in a grenade attack in Kuwait. AP
reported: “Prosecutors say Akbar told investigators he launched the
attack because he was concerned U.S. troops would kill fellow Muslims
in Iraq. They said he coolly carried out the attack to achieve
‘maximum carnage’ on his comrades in the 101st Airborne Division.”
And Hasan’s murderous rampage resembles one that five Muslim men in
New Jersey tried to carry out at Fort Dix in New Jersey in 2007, when
they plotted to enter the U.S. Army base and murder as many soldiers
as they could.
That was a jihad plot. One of the plotters, Serdar Tatar, told an FBI
informant late in 2006: “I’m gonna do it….It doesn’t matter to me,
whether I get locked up, arrested, or get taken away, it doesn’t
matter. Or I die, doesn’t matter, I’m doing it in the name of Allah.”
Another plotter, Mohamad Shnewer, was caught on tape saying, “They are
the ones, we are going to put bullets in their heads, Allah willing.”
Nidal Hasan’s statements about Muslims rising up against the U.S.
military aren’t too far from that, albeit less graphic. The effect of
ignoring or downplaying the role that Islamic beliefs and assumptions
may have played in his murders only ensures that – once again –
nothing will be done to prevent the eventual advent of the next Nidal
Hasan. |
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