Posted on 11/06/2009 7:34:39 AM PST by AJKauf
The brave soldiers who were massacred at Fort Hood had trained to fight the jihadist enemy abroad. But they seem to have ended up being murdered by the same enemy on American soil, in a place where they thought they were safe — murdered, apparently, because a series of military and medical officials recognized what was going on with this major and chose to do nothing about it.
Most of the people in the mainstream media, I suspect, could also see early on exactly what was going on — but to an outrageous degree, they, too, spent Thursday evening doing their best to turn away from the obvious truth. Throughout the evening military and other authorities kept saying, and the talking heads on CNN kept repeating, that there was no sign that this was “a terrorist act” — as if Nidal Malik Hasan had to be officially connected to al-Qaeda to be a jihadist, a pious Muslim who saw the infidel as his enemy.
Living in Norway, I get CNN International, which is different from CNN in the U.S., though when major stories are breaking in the U.S. the international network often switches to the U.S. feed for hours at a time. CNN International’s sponsors are disproportionately Middle Eastern airlines, tourism authorities, and such; so it was that in between ads for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, for Abu Dhabi tourism, for some art show in Abu Dhabi, and for the Dubai World Championship, not to mention cozy promos for an apparently soft-feature series called Inside the Middle East (presented “in association with Qatar Foundation”), CNN reporters kept hammering home the line that Hasan had been the victim of anti-Muslim prejudice by his military colleagues. ...
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So, the solution to anti-Muslim bias is to confirm all of the negative stereotypes beyond a shadow of a doubt? Sorry, I fail to follow the logic there. But then, I am an unsophisticated, dumb-old Conservative.
Put muslims out of business in America. Quit patriotizing
their convenience stores.
[CNN reporters kept hammering home the line that Hasan had been the victim of anti-Muslim prejudice by his military colleagues. ...]
Shep Smith was hammering this same line. Wonder who set the narrative.
But wait....everyone deserved to get shot because he felt picked on dontcha know?
Now everyone go back to normal, no terrorism here.
Ok. So his cousin claims he was picked on. I’m sure he filed complaints against the individuals responsible right? I’m sure the military takes this kind of thing seriously and keeps records. So let’s have’em. When did he file a complaint?
Another See, it wasn't his fault excuse.
Makes me sick.
Been doing that since 9/11.
If you got a muslim doctor, how much do you trust him???
Someone who was interviewed last night talked about these “complaints”—and said that they had been investigated, but were found to be untrue. Wish I could remember who it was—but it was a guy who knew Hasan—and his comments seemed VERY credible.
The guys that did the bombing in Scotland were also muslim Doctors..so I guess privelege, education and wealth doesn’t erase their deep seated hatred of Christians and Jews.
I kept hearing the same thing. "It's all our fault because we harassed him." It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the harassment started after he began to make his jihadist statements to fellow soldiers.
What a surprise to wake this morning and learn that the killer is alive... and in the hospital.
It was announced repeatedly for hours that the shooter was killed at the scene. Fox news.
God help us in our day, in Jesus name. Amen.
I don’t get how they could have had him in a psychiatry role? After all he was a muslim and he must have heard many soldiers speak of the hatred soldiers had learned due the atrocities and such they committed against them, innocent children and stuff. Soldiers I imagine use derrogatory names to refer to them which he must have felt as a terrible insult against himself.
Don’t misunderstand me, what he did was absolutely terrible beyond belief, but somebody was a sleep at the switch here, this sounds like a disaster with very clear signals, but then they all do I guess given hindsight.
I feel terribly for these soldiers, it confuses me they they aren’t armed on base, I guess there are reasons, but it pains me to think of our battle hardened soldiers standing thier without recourse, it’s not right, if they’re willing to fight for this country let them have a gun on them at all times, after all, this country refuses to even build borders, where does our country end and the next begin, who knows ...
Whoever set that narrative was definitely a civilian, who had never spent a solitary microsecond in uniform. No enlisted person would have ever given this guy a hard time, about anything (does the term "Insubordination" ring a bell here?) neither would either warranted, or commissioned officers (does the term "conduct unbecoming an officer" sound familiar?). Those are career breakers, and could lead to Bad Conduct Discharges, or worse (*that* follows a recipient for the rest of their lives.)
*ANY*, and I say again, for posible penetration, *any* person who has spent even a short amount of time as a member of the armed forces is going to call "Bravo Sierra" on this, and I most certainly do. It is a complete and utter lie...
the infowarrior
Obama's saluting form before all that practice for the Dover PHOTO OP. He IS saluting, OK? And that is how he was doing it.
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