It was apparently no surprise that homegrown muslim terrorist Major Nidal Malik Hasan, US Army, was a strong supporter of homicide bombings. Aces of Spades posts this from the Austin Statesman:
The postings appeared to have been made by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who was killed during the shootings at the Army post incident that left least 11 others dead and 31 wounded. The officials say they are still trying to confirm that he was the author. They say an official investigation was not opened. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.One of the Web postings that authorities reviewed is a blog that equates suicide bombers with a soldier throwing himself on a grenade to save the lives of his comrades.
“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,” said the Internet posting. “Scholars have paralled (sic) this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers.“
In a war against militant islam we need to be careful not to turn citizens who happen to be muslims into muslims who happen to be citizens. Still, this was decidedly a terrorist attack by a home grown terrorist, or at least a wannabe terrorist.
From Power Line (by way of Maggie’s Farm):
The Headline of the Day, from the BBC:
Shooting Raises Fears For Muslims In US Army
Really? Right now the body count stands at:
Non-Muslims 13
Muslims 0
Let’s stop calling this a tragedy and call it what it is – a terrorist attack.
November 7th, 2009 13:36 pm
My heart and prayers go out to all the victims family and friends.
From all the news reports it appears this Major is a career military man and that in his current position for less than a year and was not going well. He did not want to be deployed and in fact wanted out of the Army, so he paid back his military student loans and hired an attorney.
The reason may have been that he was being harassed and called names like “camel jockey ”. I guess all that sensitivity training for those with bigotry tendencies are all for not. (Can training real change the way you were brought up?)
Another reason is called PTSD by proxy, the stress of treating PTSD in other soldiers make you go a little crazy yourself. Its even more stressful because most of the higher ranks don’t even believe in such thing as PTSD. Their denial prompts them to tell suffering soldiers to “drink it off.” Some civilians in the defense dept feel the same way no doubt IMO, it’s why hardly anything is mentioned of PTSD until one of these violent episodes occurs. These people see PTSD as a cop-out or an excuse. First we need to have an understanding that PTSD actually is real before we can ever hope to help treat it (does anyone believe that being shot at or killing your fellow man is not going to affect you in some way either then or in the future?). I guess with the high soldier suicide rate before and after deployment kinda takes care of the complaints from coming in (so those who said he should have just killed himself, well that’s already happening ). What real ticked me off when I heard that the military was trying to say that some soldiers coming back from this war with PTSD or other psychological disorders had “Pre-Existing Conditions” and that the military would not pay to treat them, I think it has been corrected but what a bunch of asses they break you and don’t want to pay.
The final issue is why does the military want to keep people in their ranks that no longer want to be there is it just sheer number? I mean is it ten percent, twenty percent. Is it that it is the only contract in the US that you can’t get out of unless to kill yourself or kill your fellow soldiers? It does not make any sense to me.
I guess the Major could just be another wacko like Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nicholas, of course McVeigh was executed and apparently because Nicholas became a Christian he received a life sentenced. I real think if he gets that far the Major will get the former and not in a million years the latter.
This is so messed up, hopefully they will make some changes that make sense.
November 7th, 2009 14:13 pm
@Montana:
most of the higher ranks don’t even believe in such thing as PTSD
Yeah, gotta get that class warfare nonsense in there.
why does the military want to keep people in their ranks that no longer want to be there is it just sheer number? the only contract in the US that you can’t get out of unless to kill yourself or kill your fellow soldiers?
Are you serious? We have an all volunteer force. Even when there was a draft, officers were volunteers. No one forced Hasan to serve, or to continue to serve. The military has issues, as does any bureaucracy, and yes, someone might have treated Hasan disrespectfully based on his religion. That gives him reason to assassinate 11 people and destroy the lives and families of dozens of others? The issue is not whether he was treated meanly, but why we allow terrorists to continue to serve in our military. But how do you screen for terrorist sympathies? We need to get it right or we’ll face more of the same, or worse.
November 10th, 2009 13:51 pm
Montana is obviously pasting his his essay in comboxes all over the blogosphere. Terrorism it is.
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