Thirteen Americans murdered in cold blood. Another 30 wounded. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan shot them down without warning. Or was there a warning that should have been heeded? For years he had made his hatred of American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan known. On websites he had justified the actions of Muslim homicide bombers as they murdered people in pizza parlors or school buses. Years ago he had described his nationality as "Palestinian" even though he was born and raised in Virginia. The day before the massacre he had handed out copies of the Quran to his neighbors. He shouted "Allahu Akhbar" before he pulled the trigger and as he was murdering people.
But this was not a hate crime. No, no, just an "isolated incident" of a deranged killer who somehow just innocently slipped through our security. No, he probably did not hate anyone as he blew them away and shouted "Allahu Akhbar." I wonder how our government, which can no longer even properly name or identify an enemy we are fighting, will prosecute Major Hasan if he is able to stand trial. (I am glad that millions of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan do fight on our side against the jihadist terrorists, but this man clearly saw the U.S. as an enemy.)
If a soldier had "KKK" or Nazi symbols tattooed on his body he would be booted out (rightly so). If a soldier had been spouting off death threats to our government officials he would be arrested or discharged (rightly so). But this man for months and years had a pattern of siding with Islamic-fascist-jihadists, and nothing was done. Why?
Will our government have the nerve to actually call our War Against Islamic-Jihadist Terror what it really is? Will we ever have the guts to truly identify potential terrorists (of whatever religion or belief system) and remove them before they can cause harm? Or are certain religions "off limits" because we might make their advocates mad at us? Right now I'm not very optimistic that we the people--especially our representatives in the Federal Government--have the nerve to do so. We can't even call a massacre what it is--instead it's constantly called a "tragedy." Why? Where is our moral compass and common sense?
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My question is: How is this any different from OKC? Seeing that McVeigh was executed and stripped pf his military honor was one of the few things the Clinton Administration did right.
ReplyDeleteHasan, like McVeigh, is a terrorist traitor and deserves to be treated and prosecuted as such.