In addition to sharing Muslim names and committing mass murder of unarmed innocents with Nidal Hasan, they both attended the same school, Viginia Tech, at apparently the same time - Not random chance from where I sit.
Posted on 11/22/2009 12:46:04 PM PST by Jeff Head
Bookmarked your website and passing it on to friends. Thank you Jeff!
Thanks to both of you.
Excellent work!!!
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By Randy Sly
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
11/8/2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Catholic Online) – Only minutes after the bloody assault at the Soldier Readiness Center (SRC), Fort Hood, Texas, the media was buzzing with news that the gunman, Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was a devout Muslim. Before opening fire, first-hand accounts reported he yelled, “Allahu Akbar” meaning “God is greatest.”
While officials were reluctant to explain any possible motivation behind the killings, news of Hasan’s background and activities earlier in the day began to form a consistent pattern of behavior.
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch reported that the online magazine “Sada al-Malahim” Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Nasir al-Wahayshi released an article calling jihadists to initiate simple attacks on random targets. In the article, he described these targets as "any crusaders whenever you find one of them, like at the airports of the crusader Western countries that participate in the wars against Islam, or their living compounds, trains etc…"
Spencer’s article was quick to ask the obvious question – was Hasan’s attack a response to this invitation. Was it “freelance jihad?”
As the day wore on, further issues and behaviors were uncovered regarding the Army doctor that seemed to underscore the possibility of this motive.
Here are just a few things that have been released, providing a clearer picture of the gunman’s actions and mindset just prior to his attack at Fort Hood:
1. Spencer posted a confirming report from KSL-TV concerning the beginning of the attack. In the online report a father recounts the conversation he had just had with his daughter, who was stationed at Fort Hood and at the SRC during the attack. The daughter told her father that the man shouted “Allah Akbar” before opening fire.
2. The Associated Press (AP) reported that Hasan argued with fellow soldiers who supported U.S. war policy.
3. They also reported that at least six months ago Hasan came to the attention of law enforcement officials. Although not yet confirmed, they suspected that he was the author of some Internet postings about suicide bombings and other possible threats.
4. Also, according to the AP, that morning he called a friend to thank him for his friendship.
5. At Jihad Watch, Spencer posted a story from Justin Blum at Bloomberg as follows:
“Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people and wounding 30 others at the Fort Hood Army Base in Texas, regularly described the war on terror as ‘a war against Islam,’ according to a doctor who was in a graduate program with him.”
6. A YouTube posting by Spencer from CNN showed Hasan at a convenience store earlier in the day of the shooting. In the video, the reporter recounts a conversation between Hasan and the store owner, also a Muslim regarding the doctor’s upcoming deployment. Hasan indicated that fighting fellow muslims was weighing heavily on him.
7. Retired Colonel Terry Lee, a former colleague, told Fox News that while attending a conference Hasan stated that Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor. After news of a shooting at a Little Rock recruitment center at an earlier time, he made a similar comment.
8. The Killeen Daily Herald reported that police had secured Hasan’s apartment shortly after the attack and then Bell County SWAT teams evacuated the apartment complex later that day.
According to the Daily Herald, “In the morning, neighbors said Hasan handed Qurans and donated his furniture to anyone who would take it.
“Neighbors described Hasan as a quiet man who began wearing ‘Arabic clothing’ in recent weeks. Edward Windsor, a neighbor, never suspected Hasan was in the Army. Hasan's rank surprised Windsor who would never have imagined an officer with a rank of major would have lived in an apartment that rents for $350 and houses soldiers ranked as private first class.”
On Saturday, the Daily Herald highlighted Hasan’s generosity toward a neighbor, Patricia Villa on the morning of the shootings.
“Hasan's kindness and generosity overwhelmed Villa Thursday morning when he gifted his belongings to decorate her meager apartment at the Casa Del Norte apartments located along North Fourth Street. A few hours later the version of Hasan described on TV shocked her.”
“Hasan paid Villa $60 to clean his apartment Thursday morning, a few hours before the massacre.
“He never left her a key, Villa said. He also gave her a microwave, an air mattress, a steam cleaner and a scale.
“Hasan gave Villa several shirts, two ties and a suit for her husband.”
Robert Spencer made the following observations on his site Jihad Watch regarding the situation.
“…Major Hasan's motive was perfectly clear -- but it was one that the forces of political correctness and the Islamic advocacy groups in the United States have been working for years to obscure. So it is that now that another major jihad terror attack has taken place on American soil, authorities and the mainstream media are at a loss to explain why it happened - and the abundant evidence that it was a jihad attack is ignored.”
Spencer also documents an Internet positing by a person, who gave his name as “Nidal Hasan.” In the post, the writer attempts to show that a suicide bomber has the same motivation as a soldier who throws himself on a grenade to save his comrades.
“Scholars have paralled this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers. If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory. Their intention is not to die because of some despair. The same can be said for the Kamikazees in Japan. They died (via crashing their planes into ships) to kill the enemies for the homeland.”
Some of the reasons put forth for Hasan’s violence have been as strange as they are varied:
CNN reporters pointed to the possibility of racism in an interview with Hasan’s cousin, who said, “There was racism towards him because he's a Muslim, because he's an Arab, because he prays.”
The cousin, however, went on to say, “If he had killed one or two, I could say that he was defending himself. I could say that there could have been a problem between two sides which led to the use of weapons. But for one to kill 13 people and injure more than 30, I personally don't think that it was because someone was bothering him. There is a bigger reason that this happened and no ones knows it besides Nidal.”
Gilbert Mercier, of News Junkie Post, challenges the idea of a terrorist motive. In his article “Will Fort Hood’s Tragedy Trigger An Anti-Muslim Backlash?” Mercier argues that Husan was American born and raised. He attended American schools, although the son of Palestinian immigrants he did not speak Arabic, and joined the Army to receive his medical training.
Somewhat a victim of circumstance, Hasan couldn’t get out of his deployment, let alone the Army since they paid for his education. He was caught.
And as for the attack, he has reservations about the first-hand accounts.
“FBI agents investigating the case are not sure Hasan really said ‘Allahu Akbar’ before he started shooting, but instead suggested that perhaps ‘Soldiers in the mayhem of the moment only imagined Hasan said ‘Allahu Akbar.’”
In his coverage of the events at Fort Hood, “In April 2005, a Muslim serving in the U.S. Army, Hasan Akbar, was convicted of murder for killing two American soldiers and wounding fourteen in a grenade attack in Kuwait. AP reported: ‘Prosecutors say Akbar told investigators he launched the attack because he was concerned U.S. troops would kill fellow Muslims in Iraq. They said he coolly carried out the attack to achieve 'maximum carnage' on his comrades in the 101st Airborne Division.’
“And Hasan's murderous rampage resembles one that five Muslim men in New Jersey tried to carry out at Fort Dix in New Jersey in 2007, when they plotted to enter the U.S. Army base and murder as many soldiers as they could.
That was a jihad plot. One of the plotters, Serdar Tatar, told an FBI informant late in 2006: ‘I'm gonna do it....It doesn't matter to me, whether I get locked up, arrested, or get taken away, it doesn't matter. Or I die, doesn't matter, I'm doing it in the name of Allah.’
“Another plotter, Mohamad Shnewer, was caught on tape saying, ‘They are the ones, we are going to put bullets in their heads, Allah willing.’”
Spencer and Jihad Watch were spotlighted on Saturday by the Associated Press in an article on anti-Muslim backlash. Ironically, the Spencer’s story of a possible jihad was the only example they used to support the claim of a backlash.
Mosques across the country have called for increased police protection in fear of attack. So far, there has been no serious backlash to the actions of Hasan, either toward mosques or other Muslims in the armed services.
While the exact motive will not be known unless Hasan awakes from his coma, the circumstances that surround the massacre at Fort Hood provide compelling evidence that a religious motivation must be seriously considered among the reasons for the killings.
As radical Islamists, such as Al-Qaeda, continue to call for freelance jihad, without vigilance we remain vulnerable to those who embrace this call as their own.
Randy Sly is the Associate Editor of Catholic Online. He is a former Archbishop of the Charismatic Episcopal Church who laid aside that ministry to enter into the full communion of the Catholic Church.
Nice work here, Jeff. I have been thinking for a few days about how to make the case that Ft Hood was another in a series.
Thanks!
Al-Qaeda last week called for attacks on "any crusaders whenever you find one of them, like at the airports of the crusader Western countries that participate in the wars against Islam, or their living compounds, trains etc."
Calling for freelance jihad. Just a coincidence, I'm sure. "Counterterrorism: Shifting from 'Who' to 'How,'" by Scott Stewart and Fred Burton for Stratfor, November 4 (thanks to all who sent this in):
In the 11th edition of the online magazine Sada al-Malahim (The Echo of Battle), which was released to jihadist Web sites last week, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Nasir al-Wahayshi wrote an article that called for jihadists to conduct simple attacks against a variety of targets. The targets included "any tyrant, intelligence den, prince" or "minister" (referring to the governments in the Muslim world like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen), and "any crusaders whenever you find one of them, like at the airports of the crusader Western countries that participate in the wars against Islam, or their living compounds, trains etc.," (an obvious reference to the United States and Europe and Westerners living in Muslim countries)....
They have been calling for it for a long time, from radical Imams, to Al QUida and othe rorganizations, in radical mosques here in the US and abroad...and if you study it, you will find that they have written about and called for the use of small planes, cars, SUVs, knives, guns, etc. All the things these animals have been using.
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Their own words make it absolutely plain and clear what they were doing. It would be comical, as in three stooges kind of comedy, to hear the kind of responses that our officials give in the face of these direct statements...except that it is so deadly, mortally serious.
Jeff, you forgot this one:
Sudden Jihad Syndrome - November 4, 2008
Millions of fools, chumps and snake oil swiggers throw the US Presidential election to Barack Obama based on vacuous promises of Hope and Change, ignoring his muslim upbringing, his questionable citizenship, his racist theology and his ultra-left socialist philosophies.
In addition to sharing Muslim names and committing mass murder of unarmed innocents with Nidal Hasan, they both attended the same school, Viginia Tech, at apparently the same time - Not random chance from where I sit.
GREAT thread, Jeff. You might be interested in this thread also: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391605/posts I’m working to connect the dots between Google/YouTube and terrorist forums. Not too difficult to do at all.
Pinging my YTSD pals here also.
Political Correctness: The Scourge of Our Times
Agustin Blazquez with the collaboration of Jaums Sutton
Monday, April 8, 2002
Does anyone know the origins of Political Correctness? Who originally developed it and what was its purpose?
I looked it up. It was developed at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany, which was founded in 1923 and came to be known as the “Frankfurt School.” It was a group of thinkers who pulled together to find a solution to the biggest problem facing the implementers of communism in Russia.
The problem? Why wasn’t communism spreading?
Their answer? Because Western Civilization was in its way.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/4/121115.shtml
Might consider adding "A. Ishmael" - the name Cho chose before he shot 57, killing 32.
In addition to sharing Muslim names and committing mass murder of unarmed innocents with Nidal Hasan, they both attended the same school, Viginia Tech, at apparently the same time - Not random chance from where I sit.
I remember going into that, quite extensively, when it was on Free Republic and digging up all the information and sources on that and its significance and relation to Islam and/or Muslims. The fact of the matter is that it was non-existant -- any information connecting Cho to Islam or Muslim terrorists.
The only (so-called) "connection" is simply that they engage in mass killings of strangers having no direct relation to them -- and that's not an exclusive Muslim distinctive (although they do engage in it).
There's simply not any kind of adequate connection to put Cho in the Muslim terrorist category -- other than sheer speculation and supposition.
Ping to thread and #24
Fantastic work. BTTT
I’m tagging a link to your post about political correctness on the FH archive thread later..
Do you have a thread compiling that info?
Yes - several here at FR. Here are the links...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381220/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385779/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388506/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389057/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391605/posts
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