Political correctness is the death knell to diversity…why aren’t we calling Ft. Hood for what is was?

We now know a lot more about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and it isn’t what the media wants to report, nor is it what the Army wants to admit. For fear of crossing the politically correct divide, military officials, suspicious of Maj. Hasan, kept silent. An FBI investigation dropped and no one would dare ask why.

Intelligence agencies intercepted communications last year and this year between Hasan and a radical cleric in Yemen known for his incendiary anti-American teachings, Anwar al-Awlaki.

Anwar al-Awlaki, an Imam, served at two US mosques in 2000 and 2001, visited by three 9/11 hijackers. Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi attended San Diego’s Rabat mosque, where Mr. Awlaki later disclosed meeting Mr. Hazmi several times according to the report of the national Sept. 11^th Commission, “claimed not to remember any specifics of what they discussed”.

Both Mr. Hazmi and another hijacker, Hani Hanjour, attended the Falls Church Dar al Hijrah mosque in Virginia after Mr. Awlaki had relocated there in early 2001. The Sept. 11^th Commission report stated “suspicion” about the concurrence, but said its investigators were not able to find Mr. Awlaki for questioning. Major Hasan attended the same Falls Church mosque, but it is unknown whether they met.

Moreover, it’s now known that Major Hasan sent money to the Middle East and had email communication with Al Qaeda members. It has also been well documented that Maj. Hasan had told many other service-members he considered himself a Muslim first and an American second, often got into religious debates and was openly against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Army chief of staff, General George Casey said, “This terrible event…would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty." Begging to different with the good general, but there would be no military diverse or otherwise if radicalized individuals systematically infiltrate the armed services on to try and collapse them from within.

Had this been a Michigan militia overthrow-the-government right-winger, there would be no eggshell walking and little call to keep from jumping to conclusions. The justice department would be knocking on his door in his compound ready to reenact Waco.

-- The Editors, Killswitch Politick

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More questions than answers, the Army Major who killed in the name of Allah

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist set to deploy to Afghanistan, reportedly shouted, "Allahu Akbar!" — an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" — as he went on the worst mass murder ever to be committed on a US military base at Fort Hood, TX.

Investigators inspected Hasan's computer, his apartment and garbage last week, in an effort to learn what provoked the now comatose suspect. Hasan was shot four times by civilian police officer, Sgt Kimberly Munley, stopping the bloody rampage that killed 13 and wounded 38 – hospital officials reported some of the victims had very serious wounds and might not live.

Among the dead were a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a job in the furniture business to enlist the armed forces about a year ago, a newlywed who had toured Iraq and a woman who sworn to take on Osama bin Laden after 9/11.

Investigators are attempting to piece together how and why Hasan allegedly gunned down his fellow service members in the medical center where some 300 unarmed soldiers were lined-up for vaccines and eye tests. Police said they are trying to verify if Hasan posted Internet writings that source his name about suicide bombings and other threats, likening suicide bombers to soldiers who throw themselves on a grenade to save the life of fellow soldiers.

What is most disturbing is Major Hasan, a practicing Muslim, had related to several people over the years the Army was not truly tolerant of his faith and that he felt isolated. The officer will surely be a case-study in military protocol, both for the standards of which religion is recognized and regulations regarding personal arms.

Following the massacre, many questions remain: why did this man who counseled returning troops wasn’t realized as a potential threat? Have the many years of political correctness seep into the military finally allowed for such a tragedy to go un-averted? Is the military doing all it can to assess those who render counseling?

Service members have voiced their discontent for the ever changing, politically correct environment of the armed forces and there is little doubt the culture of the military has undergone a transformation over the years, in the wake of this tragedy, it’s time to reassess just what that transformation has wrought.

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