There's some question as to whether Nidal Hassan is the actual author, although the views there are buttressed by increasing information on the suspect's Islamist fundamentalism and anti-Americanism. See, the Washington Post, "Fort Hood Suspect Became More Devout After Mother's Death, Cousin Says." And at Jawa Report, "NY Post: Take a Look at Ft. Hood Shooter's Old Mosque." Also, at the Los Angeles Times, "Retracing Steps of Suspected Fort Hood Shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan: As Authorities Try to Find a Motive for the Texas Attacks, Details of a Devout Muslim Begin to Emerge."There was a grenade thrown amongs [sic] a group of American soldiers. One of the soldiers, feeling that it was to late for everyone to flee jumped on the grave with the intention of saving his comrades. Indeed he saved them. He inentionally [sic] took his life (suicide) for a noble cause i.e. saving the lives of his soldier. To say that this soldier committed suicide is inappropriate. Its more appropriate to say he is a brave hero that sacrificed his life for a more noble cause. Scholars have paralled [sic] 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 [sic] in Japan. They died (via crashing their planes into ships) to kill the enemies for the homeland. You can call them crazy i [sic] you want but their act was not one of suicide that is despised by Islam. So the scholars main point is that “IT SEEMS AS THOUGH YOUR INTENTION IS THE MAIN ISSUE” and Allah (SWT) knows best.
Meanwhile, much mainstream press reporting is pinning responsibility for the bloodbath on the U.S. Army. See William Teach, "In Ft. Hood Shootings, Grey Lady Tries On The 'It’s The Army’s Fault' Theory." And Astute Bloggers, "WHAT'S MISSING FROM THIS MSM ARTICLE ON THE FORT HOOD JIHADIST? (THE WORDS ISLAM AND MUSLIM DO NOT APPEAR IN THIS NYTIMES ARTICLE ON THE MURDERER)." And, Jihad Watch,"AP: "Anti-Muslim Backlash Immediate" -- But Offers Not Even One Example."
But testimony from Muslim vets rebukes the press spin. See, Fox News, "Muslim Veterans Group Says No Reports of Harassment of Islamic Soldiers."
RELATED: At Scribd, "Martyrdom in Islam Versus Suicide Bombing." It turns out the site hosts full-blown suicide bomber discussion groups!
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My heart and prayers go out to all the victims, their families and friends.
From all the news reports it appears this Major is a career military man and that in his current position for less than a year and was not going well. He did not want to be deployed and in fact wanted out of the Army, so he paid back his military student loans and hired an attorney.
The reason may have been that he was being harassed and called names like “camel jockey ”. I guess all that sensitivity training for those with bigotry tendencies are all for not. (Can training real change the way you were brought up?)
Another reason is called PTSD by proxy, the stress of treating PTSD in other soldiers make you go a little crazy yourself. Its even more stressful because most of the higher ranks don’t even believe in such thing as PTSD. Their denial prompts them to tell suffering soldiers to “drink it off.” Some civilians in the defense dept feel the same way no doubt IMO, it’s why hardly anything is mentioned of PTSD until one of these violent episodes occurs. These people see PTSD as a cop-out or an excuse. First we need to have an understanding that PTSD actually is real before we can ever hope to help treat it (does anyone believe that being shot at or killing your fellow man is not going to affect you in some way either then or in the future?). I guess with the high soldier suicide rate before and after deployment kinda takes care of the complaints from coming in (so those who said he should have just killed himself, well that’s already happening ). What real ticked me off when I heard that the military was trying to say that some soldiers coming back from this war with PTSD or other psychological disorders had “Pre-Existing Conditions” and that the military would not pay to treat them, I think it has been corrected but what a bunch of asses they break you and don’t want to pay.
The final issue is why does the military want to keep people in their ranks that no longer want to be there is it just sheer number? I mean is it ten percent, twenty percent. Is it that it is the only contract in the US that you can’t get out of unless to kill yourself or kill your fellow soldiers? It does not make any sense to me.
I guess the Major could just be another wacko like Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nicholas, of course McVeigh was executed and apparently because Nicholas became a Christian he received a life sentenced. I real think if he gets that far the Major will get the former and not in a million years the latter.
This is so messed up, hopefully they will make some changes that make sense.
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There's some question as to whether Nidal Hassan is the actual author,
I wondered about that the first time I read it (yesterday), because Dr Hasan was an educated man, whose first language is English -- he was born in Virginia -- and that paragraph demonstrates all the grammar and erudition of a seventh grader. It could be his, but if it is, the writing itself tells us something about the man.
I guess the US military will carry out detail questioning as to why he did it and will prove all of us wrong.
After that happens, I know some will still believe there point still has some merit.
Earlier this year Sgt. John Russell, 44 (Catholic), of Sherman, Texas, is in custody at Camp Liberty in Baghdad where he apparently opened fire at a combat stress clinic Monday, killing five U.S. soldiers.
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