He gave medical lectures IN UNIFORM to high-ranking officers about how Jihad Is OK.
And they simply SAT THERE, listening.
They raised no red flags.
People talk about “the Courage of Our Convictions” but what happens if you don’t have any?
Then you have no courage.
And they didn’t, either.
More, he was explaining to them why he would do what he ultimately would do so they would change their decisions that put him in a position where he thought his religion required him to become a terrorist.
It was all about Islam, always, not crazy wide eyed Islam but a thoughtful and rational approach to a system of thought born to lead people to violence. Yet even under W they had begun to whitewash this and portray it as anything but about Islam.
Stephen Coughlin wisely says that we do not need to get into arguments about what is or is not the real Islam, but we only need to look at the specific real books that Muslims across the land are actually using, that come with the highest *bling* / blessing of scholarly Authority in the Sunni world that are to teach Muslims how to be good Muslims. These are the very books the Major referenced.
Sun Tzu said to know your enemies, but to be politically correct means not knowing this enemy because knowing him inevitably means you’re an Islamophobe.