Free Republic

Republican Congressman Mike Coffman is concerned that a recent report on the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage caused by a Muslim Army psychiatrist does not include an analysis of Islamic extremism. Coffman, R-Aurora, wrote a letter to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Friday, warning of the “dangerous risk” to national security from not acknowledging the “threat posed by radical Islam.” “A political ideology has emerged that is fraudulently camouflaged within a religious tradition and is so twisted in its beliefs that it values death over life and uses terrorism as its only tactic,” wrote Coffman, a decorated military man....