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On November 10, our country paid tribute to thirteen people who died at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas, at the hands of one of their own. President Obama spoke at that event, as he could hardly have failed to do. But neither he nor anyone else present seemed to want to discuss the camel in the room, which is terrorism. In fact, before that memorial service, Obama actually said, in an interview with ABC News' Jake Tapper, that perhaps Major Nidal Malik Hasan, assuming that authorities have the right man, did what he did after cracking under stress.
The closest that Obama came to discussing the apparent motive of the chief suspect in the case was this paragraph from his speech at the Memorial:
It may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this tragedy. But this much we do know: no faith justifies these murderous and craven acts; no just and loving God looks upon them with favor. For what he has done, we know that the killer will be met with justice--in this world, and the next.
Whether Obama inadvertently revealed an insight into his actual faith (or lack of it), or whether he was merely repeating platitudes, is impossible to determine here. Obama did say one correct thing in the above paragraph: that no just and loving God looks with favor on acts of this kind. A careful read of the Koran and the Hadiths shows that the Allah of Islam is anything but loving, and that Allah's idea of justice is simple: Follow My law, or My servants will make sure that you die slowly and painfully.
This statement, however, is incorrect: that no faith justifies such acts. Wrong, Mr. President. Classical Islam not only justifies such acts; it commands them. His former imam from the Falls Church, Virginia mosque where he once worshipped has said so, and indeed has said that, as a Muslim, Major Hasan could do nothing else other than what he did.
And then there's this:
Note this phrase from the title: "US Terrorist Army Base." Major Hasan is a psychiatrist, so he should know that projection--literally, "throwing off on the other person"--is one of the most common defenses that people employ when they think, or especially do, things of which they should, at the very least, be ashamed.
But the most damning piece of evidence was Hasan's infamous "Grand Rounds" that he delivered back in 2007 while at Walter Reed Hospital, titled "The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military." In that presentation, which any reader can view in its entirety at the above link, Hasan repeatedly cited and often quoted surah and ayah (i.e., chapter and verse) from the Koran to justify some very forthright, even brazen commentary on the relationships of Muslims in the military. In summary, Hasan said this:
It's getting harder and harder for Muslims in the service to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims.
Later, in a Comments slide, he added:
If Muslim groups can convince Muslims that they are fighting for God against injustices of the "infidels"; ie: enemies of Islam, then Muslims can become a potent adversary ie: suicide bombing, etc. [sic]
Now one could excuse most of the above as Hasan talking about other people. But at the end of that slide, he said,
We love death more than [sic] you love life!
Who's "we"?
In his last slide, he made this recommendation:
Department of Defense should allow Muslims [sic] Soldiers the option of being released as "Conscientious objectors" to increase troop morale and decrease adverse events.
Given his repeated self-identification as a Muslim, that reads like a threat.
In light of the above, that HealthGrades.com should have given him a clean bill of health, based on a five-year record, strains credulity.
More to the point: where are the Muslims who do not agree with this act? Their silence is deafening. And part of their problem must surely be that Islam's fundamental documents are all on the side of the Anwar Al-Awlakis of this world. Hasan had the surat and ayat to prove it, and everybody knows it who cares to know.
And furthermore: why won't anyone else call this act what it is? Because they don't want to give offense, or admit that the politically correct narrative has failed, with fatal results. But ignoring the problem won't make it go away. It still remains--like a camel in the room.
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