Intimidated Americans Claim Not To Know Hasan's Motives

Townhall.com ^ | November 10, 2009 | Dennis Prager

[Kaslin]

One reads and hears with increasing disbelief and anger that we don't know the motive or motives of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army major who fired over 100 shots at his fellow American soldiers in order to murder and maim as many as possible. Hasan ended up allegedly murdering 13 people, but government and Army spokesmen and the mainstream media claim they just can't figure out why he did this. They are, however, certain that it was not an act of terrorism.

Sunday's New York Times "Week in Review" article about Nidal Hasan was titled "When Soldiers Snap." The gist of the article was that Maj. Hasan had snapped -- even though he had never been in combat. He snapped in advance. Just two sentences in the article were devoted to the possibility that his motives were in any way relatable to his Muslim faith.

As Chris Matthews put it, "it's unclear if religion was a factor in this shooting." To Matthews, not only was it unclear if Hasan's Islamic faith was "the" factor, it was unclear if it was even "a" factor.

Likewise, on NPR, Tom Gjelten offered the novel explanation that Hasan, who has never been in combat, may have suffered from "pre-traumatic stress disorder" because he anticipated having traumatic distress. "Was he an example," Gjelten seriously asked, "of these soldiers who are literally freaked out by what they are likely to face when they are deployed?"

And on Fox News, Geraldo Rivera, said, "I don't know what motivates him ... as far as I know ... he's a sociopath; he's a criminal. He could have had a toothache and gone off because of that."

The deaths and maiming at Fort Hood are heartbreaking and angering. But ultimately far more injurious to America than the act of evil that caused those deaths and injuries is the massive self-deception American society engages in out of fear of being called bigoted, racist or "Islamaphobic."

Any American who is not prepared to lie to himself has reason to believe that Hasan's religious views were prominent, if not exclusive, factors for why he slaughtered fellow American soldiers. The motives appear as clear as any could be.

Chuck Medley, Fort Hood's director of Emergency Services, told Reuters that Hasan yelled "Allahu Akbar" -- the Arabic incantation of "Allah is the greatest" yelled by Islamic terrorists before they slaughter people -- just before the shooting,

Dr. Val Finnell told The Associated Press that he and other classmates participating in a 2007-2008 master's program with Hasan at the Uniformed Services University had complained about his comments, including that the war on terror was "a war against Islam."

Another classmate told the AP that he complained to five officers and two civilian faculty members at the university. He also wrote to Pentagon officials that fear in the military of being seen as politically incorrect prevented an "intellectually honest discussion of Islamic ideology" in the ranks.

Other classmates who participated in a 2007-2008 master's program at a military college said they, too, had complained to superiors about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's anti-American views, which included his giving a presentation that justified suicide bombing and telling classmates that Islamic law trumped the U.S. Constitution.

And ABC News now reports that Hasan had attempted to contact al-Qaida.

It is a given that the vast majority of American Muslims are loyal Americans. But that's not the only given.

It is equally a given that a certain percentage of Muslims in and outside of the military are Islamists who want Americans dead and America Muslim.

It does the majority of Muslims no favor to deny the existence of the minority. And Muslim Americans do themselves no favor by denying it. Unfortunately, Muslims are theoretically represented by groups like CAIR whose values are correctly seen by most Americans as suspect.

Americans are worried by the fact that there are Muslim Americans whose beliefs compel them to murder non-Muslim Americans. But what is even more worrisome is that American Muslim groups (and their supporters on the left) deny this.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Sounds right!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for posting this:

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For much more on this Jihad attack see this thread:

Fort Hood Texas: Free Republic Archives

And regarding the Leftists spinning regarding a Sudden Jihad afflication:

Sudden Jihad or Inordinate Stress at Ft. Hood?

And:

The war is upon us.... Every Freeper needs to read this book:

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left (Paperback)

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Review

An original look at those who want us to fail in the Middle East, both at home and abroad. The -- Davis Hanson, Author, Ripples of Battle

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By Kat Bakhu (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews

I had long wondered why people on the Left had the propensity to speak more positively about people who would slit their throats than they do about their own country, which affords them more freedom and opportunity than anywhere else. David Horowitz has answered that question thoroughly and convincingly in his Unholy Alliance. Where I felt bewildered and confused, I now feel crystal clear. Unholy Alliance is such a great book.

It begins with the leftist movements at the beginning of the 20th Century, and works its way up to the present day, exploring the anti-American attitude of these movements in detail. Horowitz shows that the enemies of the US back then are largely the same group today, operating under the same misperceptions, making the same mistakes, and pursuing the same impossible utopia.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

But what is even more worrisome is that American Muslim groups (and their supporters on the left) deny this.

And that is the Unholy Alliance...and it is premeditated...

[Deb]

The Left will never admit Hasan is an Islamic terrorist, it would mean: (1) Barak Obama allowed a terrorist attack on U.S. soil and (2) George Bush was right.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

but I JUST don’t understand it!

See the link to Unholy Alliance at #42.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The Left is using the Jihadists...see the Unholy Alliance link at #42.

[Deb]

I have the Horowitz book. He’s a friend.

[Cvengr]

Why I recall in the 1960's how thousands of HS Grads facing the 'stress of being Drafted', and prolly going to Vietnam, went on Killing Sprees. It was a cross county phenomenon, bullet ridden bodies laying everywhere and nobody could figure out why.

Uh ... wait a sec .... that didn't happen. Forget what I said.

That's because they went to Canada.

Canada,...an accident just looking for a place to happen.....in the eyes of the liberals ...and their fuze has been burning for 40 years....be afraid,..be very afraid ...(and some of them still speak French!) <;^0

[Condor51]

Uh ... wait a sec .... that didn't happen. Forget what I said.

*** That's because they went to Canada. ***

Yeah that's true, they went to Canada. Greatly reported (Hyped) by the MSM (I wonder what the actual number was ... 5K, 10?).

But in any case they didn't go on Killing Sprees due to 'pre traumatic Vietnam stress syndrome'.

[left that other site]

“Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome”

I think they just INVENTED that one for THIS occasion, since Hasan hadn’t GONE anywhere yet.

Grrrrrrrrr

[Marine_Uncle]

At least zero can ignore the whole mess and slink off to Asia for a while. Sort of pretend there are bigger things he must be concerned with, then the worst attacked on a US military based to date.