OK. I waded thru Hasan’s PowerPoint presentation. Dude isn’t very good at it, BTW.
A couple comments:
1. Press reports of what the presentation says are wildly inaccurate. Huge surprise.
2. Quotes claiming tortures that he says should be inflicted on infidels are instead tortures in hell after death.
3. The general tenor of the presentation is a reasonably even-handed explanation of what the Koran says and why a sincere Muslim might feel great internal conflict fighting in an army at war with Muslims.
4. His conclusion was that Muslims feeling such conflict should be allowed out of the military as concentious objectors. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Why in the world would we want to force them to stay in?
You are right about that and it really chaps me when people who have no excuse for poor research, like Sean Hannity, repeat distortions like that over and over again. It unnecessarily undermines their credibility.
But Hasan's PP presentation wasn't just a simple introduction to or history of Islam. It was focused on jihad and not just the internal spiritual jihad.
Taken as a whole it was like a suicide note giving an explanation or excuse for what he indeed ended up doing. Amazing that the psychiatrists who he gave the presentation to didn't see that.