Same Old, Same Old at Fort Hood

National Review ^ | 11/12/2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Servant of the Cross]

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is accused of murdering last week 13 people (12 of whom were soldiers) and wounding another 30 at Fort Hood, Texas. It was not the first, nor will it be the last, domestic terrorist incident since Sept. 11, 2001.

We now see that authorities had, or should have had, reason to be suspicious of Hasan — including his contact with a radical cleric and a bizarre “medical” presentation he once gave to Army doctors that focused on Islam and the military.

Now, we’re also learning that someone going by the name Nidal Hasan posted extremist views on the Internet, and that at least one former classmate questioned his loyalty to America.

Yet no one acted. --snip--

Mere mention that such killers typically voiced radical Islamic or virulently anti-Semitic themes often can earn one charges of Islamaphobia, racism, or other illiberal biases. Indeed, I expect dozens of angry, accusatory letters in response to this column.

Nevertheless, the facts since 9/11 reveal an undeniable reality.

Every few months either an Islamic-inspired terrorist plot will be foiled, or a young Muslim male will shoot, run down, or stab someone while invoking anger at non-Muslims.

In other words, the attack on Fort Hood happened on schedule. It was the rule, not the exception. And something like it will occur again — soon.

[Servant of the Cross]

VDH spot on as always.

[Servant of the Cross]

VDH ping.

[junta]

Even sissy Europe is tiring of their forced dispossesion by islam, as foisted on them by a sociopathic elite.

[Deb]

Flawless thinking as well as grammar and punctuation. My future husband hits another one outta the park.

[neverdem]

Writers hosted at National Review Online rarely have to be excerpted. VDH isn’t one of them.