Posted on 11/07/2009 3:45:46 PM PST by TaxPayer2000
FORT HOOD, Texas -- There was the classroom presentation that justified suicide bombings. Comments to colleagues about a climate of persecution faced by Muslims in the military. Conversations with a mosque leader that became incoherent.
As a student, some who knew Nidal Malik Hasan said they saw clear signs the young Army psychiatrist - who authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood that left 13 dead and 29 others wounded - had no place in the military. After arriving at Fort Hood, he was conflicted about what to tell fellow Muslim soldiers about the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, alarming an Islamic community leader from whom he sought counsel.
"I told him, `There's something wrong with you,'" Osman Danquah, co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen, told The Associated Press on Saturday. "I didn't get the feeling he was talking for himself, but something just didn't seem right."
Danquah assumed the military's chain of command knew about Hasan's doubts, which had been known for more than a year to classmates in a graduate military medical program. His fellow students complained to the faculty about Hasan's "anti-American propaganda," but said a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim student kept officers from filing a formal written complaint.
"The system is not doing what it's supposed to do," said Dr. Val Finnell, who studied with Hasan from 2007-2008 in the master's program in public health at the military's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. "He at least should have been confronted about these beliefs, told to cease and desist, and to shape up or ship out."
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
But Finnell said no one filed a formal, written complaint about Hasan's comments out of fear of appearing discriminatory.
"In retrospect, I'm not surprised he did it," Finnell said. "I had real questions about what his priorities were, what his beliefs were."
PC has a lot to answer for in this story.
... I wonder who will claim to be his commanding officer?
Bump
Kill PC before PC kills America.
You SEE...people WERE picking on him! Meanies!
NO ONE was picking on the major! His subordinates wouldn't have dared and his superiors wouldn't either thanks to this PC garbage.
And on another note: Why was a major, a doctor, making over $100,000 a year, living in a dumpy $350/month apartment???
Retroactive concern is without value. The time to stop Hasan was Wednesday morning.
Muslim Veterans Group Says No Reports of Harassment of Islamic Soldiers
This is EXACTLY what I said yesterday ... we have been terrorized into inaction.
Imagine a military trained to identify and kill the enemy, unable to kill him because of fear of reprisal !!
Is that anything like the Jewish Community of Greater Tehran?
This is shaping up as a disaster for the multicultural left and their leader Hussein Obama.
I don’t see how he can vote “present” on this.
I’ll bet there are some who are sweating in the White House as this unfolds.
The best outcome they can hope for (from their point of view) will energize the right to an incandescent fury, and attract countless newcomers who currently think of themselves as non-political (i.e. moderates).
PC kills.
I also asked that question - when he got transferred to TX was he already planning this, so his living quarters didn’t matter much? A lot of immigrants are very frugal, but he was raised here so he probably wasn’t, lol.
“There’s something wrong with you,”
Ummm, yeah.
When they had a draft, and guys didn’t want to serve, didn’t they have various methods of avoiding it? Like acting crazy? You would think a psychiatrist would be able to do that. Or just outright proclaim jihad if that’s what he believed in, do it publicly, and wait for his discharge?
It wouldn’t be an honorable discharge but if he truly believed he was serving in an evil institution, why would he care about that? It would be less dishonorable than slaughtering 13 defenseless people and one defenseless preborn baby, not to mention all the other people he shot, and the families he hurt.
In other words, I’m not buying this talk of him being dissatisfied with his orders or his situation. It’s BS, just like the “flipped out” excuse. He was planning that killing spree. He had plenty of time to think of all the ramifications. It was cold-blooded jihad.
Maybe so. I hope he recovers enough to have to answer for all of this. I’ve seen those apartments. They’re crappy and in a crappy part of town. Very weird. I hope he only comes back here to face his victims. I don’t know if his trial (assuming he is able to be tried) will be here or somewhere else. I think he will be a lot safer somewhere else...
allah ... or, mohammed.
(No caps on purpose here. I'd show them in a bucket of urine if there were html tags for it.)
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
What are the chances that they will discharge a valuable, expensive officer just because he says he is a psychopath? And when that officer is a psychiatrist himself, has access to books, knows symptoms and can easily fake a psychosis?
But as I see it, he did not want to avoid the Iraq. He could always take off to Europe (or Jordan) if he really was afraid of that. If you are afraid of war then starting your own war is the last thing you'd do. He wanted jihad, and he got it.
No, unfortunately, I think they're going to use the recent "victory" on the House health care vote as a shield and smokescreen and hope the public will soon forget about the massacre.
Are those in Copperas Cove by any chance? I haven't heard where they're at but in one photo they sure looked like some that poor soldiers lived in in Copperas Cove.
But then again, there may be a dozen similar ones.
LOL, yeah, they DO look like some you’d see in Cove. They’re in Killeen, though. It just doesn’t make sense that he’d live somewhere so incredibly cheap...unless this truly was already planned before he ever arrived at Fort Hood. Gross.
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