Nidal Malik Hasan - Execution by Firing Squad

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009. He killed 13 people and wounded 32 others while shouting “Allahu Akbar” during the attack. The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution. Judgement day for Hasan has finally come.

— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellASW) October 5, 2026

This method of execution won't be botched.

FBI Clowns

Are you the same FBI that rented an apartment for two of the 9/11 hijackers, and the same FBI that claimed the attempted assassination of Republicans was “suicide by cop,” and the same FBI that claimed Ft. Hood was “workplace violence,” or was that a different FBI? Clowns. https://t.co/7PJjCa2nby

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 22, 2021

The FBI Knew Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa

The FBI knew in advance the identity of Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa. And the Pulse Nightclub shooter. San Bernardino terrorists. Boston Marathon Bombers. Garland Texas shooters. Parkland High School shooter. Fort Hood shooter.

Never has one entity known so much and done so little.

— First Words (@unscriptedmike) March 23, 2021

The FBI is failing the American people.

'Terror-related' Attack at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi

FBI believes attacks at Naval Air Station - Corpus Christi was terror attack. A gunman was shot and killed after wounding a sailor but the FBI says there may be a second suspect. #khou11 #CorpusChristi #navalairstation https://t.co/1FNZQVa4Id

— Lauren Talarico (@KHOULauren) May 21, 2020

The FBI was quick to declare this attack by Adam Salim Alsahli to be "terror-related."

That's not the way the FBI was during Obama's tenure.

Remember the Fort Hood attack in 2011? The Obama administration called it "workplace violence." Terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan was involved in a "workplace" incident. Of course, the Democrat/Leftist media willingly promoted this ridiculous characterization to support Obama and his administration.

Times have changed.

Acts of terror are now called what they are.

Obama Farewell Address

It's been a while since I've watched Obama deliver a speech.

I didn't see his speech at the Democrats' convention last summer. I stopped watching his State of the Union addresses years ago. I didn't see his second inaugural address. I tuned out.

But, I decided to watch his farewell address.

Transcript here.

Here's video of the full speech:



That echo was annoying. Strange that the sound was so weird.

In terms of content, naturally, supporters and fans consider the address to be Obama at his best, a soaring triumph.

I consider it to be Obama as usual, making some true and some false claims delivered as truth, both cloaked in flowery phrasing meant to impress. Sure, some of the things he said sounded nice, but there was a disconnect between his words and the truth. Of course, the Leftist utopian rhetoric was out in full force, as were the crowd-pleasing applause triggers that peppered the speech. And, of course, there were those thinly-veiled shots aimed at Trump and Republicans, as well as the statement that prompted the crowd to boo loudly, "In ten days, the world will witness a hallmark of our democracy."

I didn't like the lecturing, especially given the hypocritical nature of his remarks. He can't talk unity when you look at his 8-year record of divisiveness and partisanship. The last time I heard such a load Meryl Streep was lecturing the country during the Golden Globes just a couple of days ago, singling out the rubes, the football and MMA fans.

Obama's yapping about the "retreat into our own bubbles" and complaining about the "selective sorting of the facts" was so disingenuous.

Obama was doing a lot of finger-pointing when he should have been looking in the mirror, and at least acknowledging that he was certainly a major player in stoking the problem.

He complained about "corrosive" political dialogue.

In his own farewell address, George Washington wrote that self-government is the underpinning of our safety, prosperity, and liberty, but “from different causes and from different quarters much pains will be taken... to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.”

And so we have to preserve this truth with “jealous anxiety;” that we should reject “the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties” that make us one.

America, we weaken those ties when we allow our political dialogue to become so corrosive that people of good character aren’t even willing to enter into public service. So course with rancor that Americans with whom we disagree are seen, not just as misguided, but as malevolent. We weaken those ties when we define some of us as more American than others.

Obama has been so corrosive. The things he said while campaigning for Hillary were beyond the pale. Was he admitting that he engaged in weakening those "sacred ties"? No, but he did.

I didn't like Obama's claim that "no foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland these past eight years." That statement rests on the definition of "foreign terrorist organization."

While he did go on to acknowledge "Boston and Orlando and San Bernardino and Fort Hood," he diminished the significance of those terrorist attacks by attributing that violence to "dangerous radicalization," as if killing in the name of an ideology requires a "foreign terrorist organization" to order the bloodshed to consider it a successful attack.

Either Obama genuinely doesn't understand terrorism or he is intentionally defining it in a manner that allows him to claim there have been no attacks "on our homeland these past eight years."

Whatever. Why bother picking apart his words? At 11:00 AM CT on January 20, the Obama era ends. It's history. The possibilities for the future, for change and improvement, for better days ahead, excite me.

It was very touching when Obama thanked Michelle and his daughters (Malia was there, but Sasha was not), expressing his pride and appreciation and love. I believed it. He was being sincere. I could relate to him in that moment.

I was reminded that what we share as Americans and human beings is much greater than any of the things that divide us.

McCain: 'Allahu Akbar' Same as 'Thank God'

John McCain thinks that shouting "Allahu Akbar!" is the same as someone shouting "Thank God!"

Where have you been, John, since September 11, 2001?

From Ben, Shapiro, Breitbart:

On Tuesday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) suggested that Fox News host Brian Kilmeade was Islamaphobic because he said that Syrian opposition groups shouting “Allahu Akhbar! Allahu Akhbar!” as rockets hit government offices demonstrated Islamist influence among the opposition.

Transcript

BRIAN KILMEADE: I have a problem helping those people screaming that after a hit.

JOHN McCAIN: Would you have a problem with an American or Christians saying 'Thank God? Thank God?’ That’s what they’re saying. Come on! Of course they are Muslims, but they’re moderates and I guarantee you they are moderates. I know them and I have been with them. For someone to say "Allahu Akbar!" is about as offensive as someone saying "Thank God."

Shapiro adds, "McCain provided no evidence to suggest that Syrian opposition groups are moderate, as opposed to the wide swath of evidence suggesting that the opposition is heavily infested with al Qaeda."

Regarding "Allahu Akbar," obviously, context is extremely important.

For instance, did McCain find it "offensive" when Nidal Hasan shouted "Allahu akbar" during his shooting rampage, killing 13 and wounding 31? Just a little bit offensive? Maybe indicative of radical Islam and killing infidels?

Here's video:

Greg Gutfeld: U.S. Exceptionalism and Assimilating Downward

On Friday's The Five, Greg Gutfeld delivered a terrific monologue about the idiocy of comparing the Boston terrorist attack to Sandy Hook.

Here's video:



Transcript

GREG GUTFELD: So, some intelligence experts call the Boston bombing a homegrown attack, comparing it to Sandy Hook. Now to buy that you'd have to ignore the red flags that were raised about the dead bomber before the attack or the associations to various terrorist lowlifes. Yup, you have to play down the idea that the bombing may be part of a greater movement meant to inspire mayhem. Sorry, the last time I checked the Sandy Hook ghoul wasn't part of a larger hate group. Why didn't the experts cite the Fort Hood shooter instead?

Here's why: The experts believe that if Muslims feel like they belong here, no more bombs.

At this point, I'm trying hard not to explode. First, we worried if they liked us over there. Now, we must worry whether they like us coming here. Here you have people leaving miserable places to come to the greatest country ever, and we must adapt to them.

Imagine throwing a party in which the goal is to make it less fun. You pee in the dip; you trash the furniture; you punch each guest.

Welcome to America, now 80 percent more like Afghanistan!

This is the first time in history the world's greatest decides to assimilate downward. It goes back to exceptionalism. When we once believed that our country was tops, we expected those who came here to get it. Now, having forfeited that idea, we embrace a toxic tolerance that turns a blind eye to deadly connections.

It's so sad. So many people left the desert to come here and it's us who stick our heads in the sand.

It's simple.

If you want to live in America, then embrace America.

Fort Hood Attack: Workplace Violence

It is insane for the Obama administration to designate the Fort Hood Massacre by terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan an instance of "workplace violence."

From FOX News:

On this morning’s Fox and Friends, political pundit and blogger Michelle Malkin weighed in on recent comments made by Rep. Peter King (R-NY) in which he blasted the characterization of the Fort Hood attack and those similar to it as generic workplace violence.

Malkin said she agrees with the lawmaker and that there are ‘too many in the Obama administration who’ve been unwilling to call radical Islamic jihadism what it is’: terrorism.

Video.



Obama's words don't match his actions.

He wants to be seen as a tough guy, a killer, not the sort of person who bows and apologizes and appeases.

Example:

OBAMA: Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al Qaeda leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.

This makes no sense.

Hasan killed 13 people and wounded 29 others.

During the slaughter, he yelled the bone-chilling cry accompanying acts of radical Islamic jihadism, "Allahu Akbar!"

Hasan had attempted to contact al Qaeda.

Anwar al-Awlaki, now dead, one of Obama's kill, praised Hasan's attack.

The Fort Hood Massacre wasn't "workplace violence."

Bottom line: Obama can't have it both ways.

Hasan: 18 E-Mails to Anwar al-Awlaki

In the case of Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, alleged murderer of 13 people at Fort Hood, there were 18 red flags from December 2008 through June 2009.

From FOX News:

The Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in the Fort Hood massacre told a radical Muslim imam, "I can't wait to join you" in the afterlife, in one of several e-mails exchanged between the two men, ABC News reported on Thursday.

An unnamed official "with top secret access" told the network 18 e-mails were exchanged between Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, who encouraged Muslims to kill U.S. troops in Iraq, from Dec. 2008 until June of this year.

Other e-mails, the official said, included discussion of when jihad is considered "appropriate," and if it is acceptable for innocent people to die in suicide attacks.

"Hasan told Awlaki he couldn't wait to join him in the discussions they would having over non-alcoholic wine in the afterlife," ABC quoted the official as saying.

Hasan — with an annual salary around $92,000 — also wrote, "My strength is my financial capabilities," the source said. Investigators have found the Army major donated as much as $30,000 per year to Islamic "charities." American authorities have found several such charities to be conduits to terrorist networks.

A military analyst told ABC: "It sounds like code words ... That he's actually either offering himself up or that he's already crossed that line in his own mind."

A joint terrorism task force overseen by the FBI learned late last year of Hasan's repeated contact with al-Awlaki. The FBI said the task force did not refer early information about Hasan to superiors because it concluded he wasn't linked to terrorism.

...Investigators have said e-mails between Hasan and the imam did not advocate or threaten violence. After the shootings, al-Awlaki's Web site praised Hasan as a hero.

This is nuts!

"The FBI said the task force did not refer early information about Hasan to superiors because it concluded he wasn't linked to terrorism."

Hasan was talking to this radical Muslim imam on a regular basis. Anwar al-Awlaki "encouraged Muslims to kill U.S. troops in Iraq."

Hasan contributed to charities supporting terrorist organizations.

It was ridiculous for the FBI to conclude that Hasan wasn't linked to terrorism.

When Hasan killed 13 people and gunned down dozens at Fort Hood, he carried out a terrorist attack against the U.S. He was acting as a soldier in a war.

This U.S. Army major wasn't fighting on our side.

Hasan is the enemy.

2007 Memo Criticizes Hasan - Professionalism and Judgment

The big question regarding Nidal Malik Hasan and the Fort Hood shootings: What did they know and when did they know it?

From CNN:

A memo reportedly written two years ago by Maj. Nidal Hasan's supervisor at Walter Reed Army Medical Center says the accused Fort Hood shooter demonstrated "a pattern of poor judgment and a lack of professionalism" during his residency at the hospital.

National Public Radio obtained what it said is a copy of the memo, posting on NPR.org a retyped version that the network said was a "transcript" of the memo and "not a facsimile or PDF of the actual document."

"The faculty has serious concerns about CPT Hasan's professionalism and work ethic," said the memo, signed by Maj. Scott Moran, the residency program's director. "Clinically he is competent to deliver safe patient care. But he demonstrates a pattern of poor judgment and a lack of professionalism."

Transcript of memo.

Hasan's supervisor at Fort Hood Army Post, Col. Kimberly Kesling, has said that Hasan's evaluations from Walter Reed contained some information that concerned her, but the concerns triggered an approach to integrate Hasan into the staff that she said had been successful.

"The types of things that were reported to me via his evaluation report were things that concerned me, but did not raise red flags toward this [the shootings] in any way, shape or form," she said, adding that Hasan "was doing a really good job for us."

...The memo obtained by National Public Radio said that Hasan, then a captain, was "counseled for inappropriately discussing religious topics" with patients and went through a remediation program for inappropriate documentation of his handling of a homicidal patient during an emergency room encounter.

The document said Hasan's remediation on that problem was successful but added that he was placed on administrative probation at the end of the year for not taking and passing the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination. He later corrected that problem as well, the memo said.

The memo also noted a poor attendance record and lower-than-expected scores on the Psychiatry Resident-In-Training Examination, a yearly exam that Hasan failed to take during one of his residency years.

Based on the information in the memo, it's hard to believe that, according to Hasan's supervisor at Fort Hood Army Post, Col. Kimberly Kesling, Hasan "was doing a really good job for us."

This memo is just one piece of the puzzle.

Of course, Hasan's lack of professionalism and judgment is of concern.

However, it's those contacts with al Qaeda that should have caused great alarm.

Video.


Transcript

CAMPBELL BROWN: Let's take a look at the contents and this memo that you obtained at NPR.

Again, this is from the director of Hasan's military psychiatry training program dated May 17, 2007.

DANIEL ZWERDLING, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: That's right.

BROWN: I just want to read a little of it for people. "The Faculty has serious concerns about captain Hasan's professionalism and work ethic. Clinically, he is competent to deliver safe patient care. But he demonstrates a pattern of poor judgment and a lack of professionalism."

And then the memo goes on to list a series of reasons why.

Walk us through some of those reasons and your take on all this.

ZWERDLING: Essentially, what this memo says, despite that sentence about competent care, it basically says this guy was a lousy and potentially very dangerous psychiatrist to his patients.

He would be on call. He would be the guy the doctors would call in a psychiatric emergency, and he wouldn't answer his telephone. He mishandled a psychotic patient in the emergency room and essentially allowed her to escape from the emergency room.

At a time when psychiatrists and other mental health specialists at Walter Reed and hospitals around the country were overwhelmed with soldiers and other troops coming back from the war with serious mental health problems, this fellow, Nidal Hasan, saw almost no patients for his last year at Walter Reed. He saw about one patient per week.

Most psychiatrists were seeing 10 to 20 times that many. And this was his choice to see so few patients. And his supervisors and others say they kept reprimanding him over and over again. He was proselytizing to patients. He told at least one patient that Islam can save your soul.

But what's so extraordinary about this memo, I think, is that put his Islamic obsession aside. Put aside Hasan's apparently extremist Islamic views. What this memo is saying -- it's right there in the Army's official credentials file -- it is saying this psychiatrist could be reckless for his patients. He could be a danger to them. Yet, he kept getting promoted. And as we all know, he was sent to Fort Hood to treat some of the most vulnerable soldiers in the Army.

BROWN: And, in fact, Daniel, I know you talked to people about that specifically, people who treat PTSD. And there were real concerns about the fact that -- that he was handling soldiers who were in such a delicate frame of mind and the danger that that could have caused to them.

ZWERDLING: Today, I talked to several psychotherapists who have worked with the military or with troops. And I said to them, please forget for a moment that this is Nidal Hasan and that he has allegedly shot dozens of people at Fort Hood.

Suppose you got an application from a psychiatrist to get a job at your medical center, and the chief of Sheppard Pratt -- that's one of the most prestigious psychiatric hospitals in the country, near Baltimore -- he said, even if I were desperate to fill a psychiatry slot, if I got an evaluation on an applicant like Nidal Hasan's, he would never even get in the door for an interview. And another therapist who runs a big project treating soldiers in California -- it's called the Soldiers Project -- I mean, she said this almost borders on malpractice, the fact that they would -- that the Army would send a psychiatrist like Nidal Hasan to treat soldiers in a very vulnerable state.

When you come back from the war and you are falling apart, you are feeling suicidal, you need a therapist who you can trust 150 percent, not somebody who didn't show up on call, not somebody who let a psychotic woman escape from the emergency room. She said it is disgraceful.

Hasan told at least one patient that "Islam can save your soul."

That's more than a red flag. That's a king-size red sheet.

Hasan's Muslim Extremist Contacts

INEXCUSABLE.

It appears that the Fort Hood massacre was entirely avoidable.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan clearly did not belong in the U.S. Army.

Actually, he was a member of the U.S. military in name only. He really was fighting for our enemies, not against them.

From the Washington Times:

Fort Hood shooting suspect Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had been in contact with numerous Muslim extremists -- some of whom are under federal investigation -- before last week's rampage, two U.S. officials told The Washington Times on Wednesday.

Maj. Hasan made some of the contacts while visiting known jihadist chat rooms on the Internet, according to one of The Times' sources, a senior FBI official. He said that several people with whom Maj. Hasan was in contact had been the focus of investigations by the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force.

The other source, a military intelligence official, said those in contact with Maj. Hasan are located both in the U.S. and overseas. The official said they are "broadly known and characterized as Islamic extremists if not necessarily al Qaeda."

...These ties are in addition to Maj. Hasan's already-reported links to radical Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, who called Maj. Hasan a "hero" on a blog post about last week's Fort Hood shooting, which left 13 dead and 29 wounded.

The military intelligence official said, "Those connections, except for Awlaki, could be explained innocently. But all of them together form a very concerning picture."

"I may run into contact with shady people through coincidence, through social events, etc.," he said. "But at some point you start saying like, 'Huh? Why are you coming in contact with all these charming people?' "

Questions still lingered Wednesday over whether more should have been done in response to Maj. Hasan's contacts with Mr. al-Awlaki, who served as the imam at mosques in San Diego and in Falls Church -- both of which were attended by Maj. Hasan.

Mr. al-Awlaki, who now lives in Yemen, was in contact with Maj. Hasan as many as 20 times beginning in December 2008, according to the FBI.

Really?

Questions are still lingering "over whether more should have been done" in response to Hasan's contacts with Islamic extremists?

I question why there are questions.
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Ann Coulter: "Muslim Suffers Bruised Ego in Fort Hood Tragedy"

Henninger: 'Why Fort Hood Really Happened'

Daniel Henniger has an excellent column in today's Wall Street Journal -- "Why Fort Hood Really Happened."

He's very clear: "In war, uncertainty gets you killed. It just did."

The only good news out of the Fort Hood massacre is that U.S. electronic surveillance technology was able to pick up Major Hasan's phone calls to an al Qaeda-loving imam in Yemen. The bad news is the people and agencies listening to Hasan didn't know what to do about it. Other than nothing.

Next week, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.) will convene the Homeland Security Committee to find out if someone in the Army or FBI dropped the ball on Hasan. At Ford Hood itself, grief has been turning to anger as news of possible dropped balls has emerged.

Earlier in the week at Fort Hood, President Obama spoke about the consequences of doing nothing. He named and described each of the 13 dead. That properly gave individual reality to what soon will become "the victims of Fort Hood."

This is how it always goes. For about a week after these awful incidents—such as the USS Cole bombing in Yemen (year 2000, 17 dead)—the rest of us feel, just a little, what the surviving families feel. This week, 13 American families are shattered, forever. It's a big deal, the biggest deal there is.

It's time for Obama to step up and act like a leader.

On Tuesday, when he spoke at the Fort Hood memorial service, he played one on TV. While part of his role as president, he needs to do a lot more than deliver a speech in response to what happened.

Someone needs to alert him. I don't think he knows.

...The national grief won't last.

In our time, nothing was bigger than the nearly 3,000 killed on September 11. But anyone who got involved with the development of public policy then knows that for the next seven years the battle never stopped over the details of the Patriot Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, then Guantanamo, then waterboarding, renditions and secret prisons and all the other issues that for some could be summed up in two words: "Bush-Cheney."

This will never come up in the Lieberman hearings next week, but I think that nonstop policy battle is why Hasan's overseers dropped the ball.

The most-heard reason for the possible failure is political correctness. No doubt. But Sen. Lieberman's committee should avoid making this its main line of inquiry, because that is a problem without a policy fix. It minimizes the real problem.

The problem is confusion. The combatants at each end of the spectrum in the war over the war on terror know exactly what they think about surveilling suspected terrorists. But if you are an intel officer or FBI agent tasked with providing the protection, what are you supposed to make of all this bitter public argument? What you make of it is that when you get a judgment call, like Maj. Hasan, you hesitate. You blink.

Now everyone thinks the call was obvious. But it wasn't so obvious before the tragedy. Not if for years you have watched a country and its political class in rancorous confusion about the enemy, the legal standing of the enemy, or the legal status and scope of the methods it wants to use to fight the enemy.

Clearly, we face an extremely serious situation when someone like Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan can exhibit all those warning signs that he was a threat and still manage to be ignored.

...Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey recently described in these pages the fight over renewal of the Patriot Act, expiring at year's end. At issue is "lone wolf" authority—the ability to monitor a target not connected to a terrorist organization or foreign power, such as Zacharias Moussaoui, the "20th" 9/11 hijacker.

Mr. Mukasey noted bills sponsored by Democrats to narrow the scope of surveillance. This led to a debate in our letters between Mr. Mukasey and Sen. Russ Feingold over the meaning of "foreign power" and whether search warrants were or were not obtainable in the "lone wolf" surveillance of Moussaoui.

I wonder if Russ Feingold ever feels guilty about what he's done to make Americans less safe.

The senator from Wisconsin is a crusader for the enemy. I don't believe that's his intention, but that's the fall-out from his mission.

Which reminds me: REPUBLICAN PARTY OF WISCONSIN - FIND A CANDIDATE TO UNSEAT FEINGOLD IN 2010.

Henninger concludes:

Everyone has seen the pictures of inconsolable grief amid the coffins of Fort Hood. Only one person can resolve the confusion that let this happen: the president.

This is the president who told his attorney general to decide if the CIA officers who water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should be held criminally liable.

But two weeks ago, Mr. Obama met 18 coffins returned from Afghanistan. Whatever he decides about the Afghan troop deployment, what won't change is that over there or here at home, they will keep trying to kill us.

To give us better odds of protection than we had last week, President Obama should do two things: Call off the CIA investigation. Then call in the guys who didn't make the right call on Hasan and ask why not. Then, whatever set the bar too high, lower it. His "base" won't like it. So what? What he saw in Texas was worse.

It's scary that Obama is dragging his feet on Afghanistan.

It sickens me that he had the nerve to stage that photo-op, dragging the press to Dover to watch him salute the coffin of Sgt. Dale R. Griffin of Terre Haute, Ind., the only family who permitted the cameras to document the moment.

How can Obama dare to do that while he continues to hem and haw about how to manage the war?

He has been in a state of indecision for months.

As Henninger so accurately states, "In war, uncertainty gets you killed."

Obama is uncertainty personified.

Dennis Miller: Fort Hood Shootings (Video)

Speaking with Bill O'Reilly, Dennis Miller gave his take on the Fort Hood rampage, specifically the failure by many to call it what it is -- an act of Islamic terrorism.

Transcript

BILL O'REILLY: Let's start with the Fort Hood situation. Are you seeing any glaring problems as far as reaction to what happened?

DENNIS MILLER: Yeah. This is the worst I've ever felt about this. I think for the first time I can see a way how good can lose to evil.

Now, after Mogadishu, bin Laden said we were the weak horse. I think it's even worse than that, Bill. I think it might be to the point where we're the blindered horse. And if we're not even going to concede who the enemy is here... I mean, you got a guy going out the door with 'Allahu akbar' and we're trying to glean it. 'Allahu akbar' is to insane radical Islamic fundamentalists as 'Miami Beach audiences are the greatest audiences in the world' was to Gleason. We know what that means and we best wise up or we're going to get, we're going to lose this thing.

O'REILLY: OK. Now, the counter to that, as Alan Colmes, President Obama, other people who say, 'Yeah, we all know what this, but to inflame it puts good Muslim Americans in danger, and we don't want to do that.' That's the counter to it. You say what?

MILLER: I say that I feel it's condescending to always concede that there are many more good Islamic Americans than there are bad. Yeah, of course it is. I can't stop my life down every two seconds to concede that.

All I know is this: Send us a signal from in there. We need an Islamic Serpico. Somebody's got to come out and rat the bad guys because we can't sit in. We don't fit in well there. We look like Ralph Reed jamming with the Wu-Tang Clan.

We need somebody in there to tell us who they are. And until they do that, do I think they're all bad people? No. But do I think they're being a little sheepish to the point where they're getting good people blown up by not relaying information? Yeah. I'm not inflaming anybody. It couldn't be more....

O'REILLY: OK, but in this case... You know,I agree that Muslim Americans if they see this kind of behavior should report it, but they knew Hasan. They had him on the tap. They knew he was trying to get in touch with the bigtime al Qaeda in Yemen. They knew all of it and they ignored it, Dennis. So, it wasn't like the information wasn't there. The information was there.

MILLER: Billy, you know why. You want to go in and say the Islamic guy is a little off his feet. Of course not.

O'REILLY: I would.

MILLER: They'll hit you with a PC hammer.

O'REILLY: I would.

MILLER: I would, too.

O'REILLY: Look, if there's an Islamic guy at FOX and he's running around going, 'You know, we ought to behead the infidels,' he's going to have a problem here. He might not have a problem at NBC News, but he's going to have a problem here.

MILLER: If you ask the guy in the next cubby to borrow his stapler and he says, 'Here, Great Satan,' you've got to flag that to HR. Now, I know it's not the most egregious workplace crime. I know saying to some woman 'Your hair looks nice today,' or somebody having a Washington Redskin helmet phone on their desk is a lot worse. But somebody's got to send up signal flares when the guy next to him starts chanting 'La,la,la,la,la.' It's time to go into, you know, Human Resources at that point.

"We need an Islamic Serpico."

That's a great line.

Obama - Fort Hood Memorial Service

The Leftist media seem very excited about Obama getting a chance to be the "national consoler."

I'm sure they will declare that no president has ever soothed troubled souls like Obama.

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- Stepping for the first time into the role of national consoler, President Barack Obama plans to honor the 13 people slain in a shooting rampage here by remembering what they left behind, offering personal stories about the lives they touched and the service they provided to their country.

Obama still was working on his speech as he flew to Texas on Tuesday for a memorial service five days after the shooting that left 13 dead and 29 wounded on the bustling Army post. Military families and civilians alike gathered for the ceremony, some wearing red, white and blue ribbons in honor of those slain.

The president hoped to convey the idea that for those killed, "their memory lasts in the service and the dedication of the Armed Forces and by the people that they touched, both in the military and outside," said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs.

The president and first lady Michelle Obama were meeting first with families of those killed, then with those wounded but released from the hospital and their families, before taking part in a memorial service. Later, the president and first lady planned to go to a military hospital to meet with those still recovering from injuries incurred during the attack.

The site of the ceremony is a field on the massive post, cordoned off with walls of steel shipping containers.

This is Obama's time to take on the healer role that can help shape a presidency at a time of national tragedy.

In an interview Monday with ABC News, Obama said he was going to Fort Hood to "personally express the incredible heartbreak that we all feel for—for the loss of these young men and women."

What?

No shout-outs today?

Will Obama get right to his consoling or will he talk about health care first?

Is this actually going to be Obama's first apolitical public remarks since he took office?

I don't want to hear psychobabble from Obama.

I don't want to hear about how Nidal Hasan was stressed and cracked, blah, blah, blah.

He didn't suffer a sudden breakdown. It's telling that Hasan's classmates, "faculty members, including many high-ranking military officers, witnessed firsthand his anti-Americanism." Hasan's attack against the U.S. military was a long time coming and nothing was done to stop it.

What Obama should do is APOLOGIZE to the men and women of Fort Hood. He should APOLOGIZE to their families.

Obama and his comrades were wrong to act as if Islamic extremism was somehow rooted in the presidency of George W. Bush.

Obama should label Hasan's rampage what it is -- a terrorist attack.

He should vow to do everything possible to keep al Qaeda wannabes and Islamic extremists out of the U.S. military. He should pledge to secure our bases and eliminate threats from within. He should acknowledge that as commander in chief he's been asleep at the switch, that he was delusional to believe that our enemies would retreat if he apologized to them.

An APOLOGY from Obama is in order, not from America to the world but from him to America.

The only legitimate stop on Obama's global APOLOGY tour is at home, at Fort Hood.

Chris Matthews: 'Not a Crime to Call al Qaeda'

I wonder if Chris Matthews remembers 9/11.

If he's foggy on that, I'm sure he doesn't recall the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the bombing of the USS Cole.

Al Qaeda is responsible for those acts of terror.

Matthews seems clueless.

From the Heritage Foundation, more on al Qaeda's Declarations and Acts of War.

Listening to Chris Matthews interview Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, on Hardball, November 9, it's as if Matthews is trying to brush off the significance of Fort Hood attacker Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's efforts to contact al Qaeda. AL QAEDA!

Matthews questions whether all those glaring warning signs in regard to Hasan, like the al Qaeda connection, were enough to warrant intervention.

TRANSCRIPT

CHRIS MATTHEWS: You know, I have a hard time with this because people like Sirhan Sirhan, who is still serving time for killing Bobby Kennedy, didn't like what Bobby Kennedy had said on television. Bobby Kennedy had made political statements saying we're going to sell arms, fighter planes directly to Israel, not under the table. We're going to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Those are the things that triggered his killing spree. He killed one person - Bobby Kennedy, horrifically. But did he become a different religious person because he committed the crime? And when did this happen?

See - we have a problem. How do we know when someone like Hasan is going to make his move and do we know he's an Islamist until he's made his move? He makes a phone call or whatever, according to Reuters right now. Apparently he tried to contact al Qaeda. Is that the point at which you say, 'This guy is dangerous?' That's not a crime to call up al Qaeda, is it? Is it? I mean, where do you stop the guy?

What is he babbling about?

I think you stop the guy when he's calling up al Qaeda!

How could anyone not consider that to be a giant red flag?

ZUDHDI JASSER: I mean, you can't... you have to. We're not even out of the box in this contest. I mean, we are completely asleep, let alone following him and saying that we were going to stop him. We didn't have any of the signs that we were following.

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MATTHEWS: Well, this guy, according to all the testament, admittedly it has not been admitted into court. We cannot call him the shooter until we have a trial. That's the way we work here, you know, that's how it works in America, certainly not in the news business. You can't call somebody a murderer until you get a conviction in court. And the question here is when can you identify a problem? That's what we have to deal with. And you say it's an ideological point - you can find the problem. But then we get into the business of checking out on people's thinking. And that's the problem.

When does a person become a danger, when they have a certain thought system? Or when they go out and buying semi-automatic pistols, or when they start phoning up al Qaeda, saying how can I join the gang? I mean, where do you stop a person? This is criminology, maybe not ideology, but or even religion. But how do we weed out a guy - it seems to me, all of the warning signs, I mean, we have seen them all now. It's like looking at pictures of Muhammad Ata hanging around convenience stores and going to ATM machines. We got all kinds of information about this guy after it's too late.

But this guy was running around shooting his mouth off saying how he hated this country's wars with - look, you can listen to me on television and hear me saying I didn't like the war with Iraq. You know, I don't agree with the war on Iraq and a lot of Americans didn't like the war with Iraq. They didn't start shooting people about it.

Matthews is so confused.

When does one become a danger?

I'd say contacting the enemy is crossing the line. That can't be compared to someone merely expressing dissent.

Apparently, the government had information on Hasan's activities but nothing was done about it.

That's an inexcusable lapse.

I think Matthews is just trying to blunt criticism of the Obama government for failing to do something about Hasan before it was too late.

He can't seriously be unable to grasp the gravity of a U.S. Army major getting in touch with al Qaeda.

I don't see how Matthews can defend such behavior or consider it a gray area.

Absolutely ridiculous.

Video.

'Backlash Against the Backlash'

Yesterday, I wrote that I am sick of hearing about the "backlash" in connection with Nidal Malik Hasan's murderous attack at Fort Hood.

The man killed thirteen people and wounded over forty others, but we're supposed to be concerned about a "backlash."

That's nuts.ee

These "backlashes" never materialize. They're imaginary. Perhaps there is an isolated instance of a "backlash" here and there, but there certainly is nothing orchestrated like when FDR rounded up Japanese Americans during World War II and sent them to internment camps.

I'm sick of being warned not to be angry at murderers.

I don't assume that all Muslims want to kill Americans, the infidels.

Enough with the "backlash" crap. If it didn't happen after 9/11, it's not going to happen now.

Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood, writes about the "Backlash Against the Backlash."

And that’s the drill: concern over crimes that have never happened, as opposed to the terror that has. When Americans are murdered in cold blood, the first step in our screwed-up world is to chant, “backlash.” Never mind that backlash concerns may have allowed this massacre to occur in the first place. Hasan exhibited more signs than a horoscope – yet fears over appearing politically incorrect kept him around.

The fact is, in mosques all over the world, the desire to destroy the west continues – and our administration still worries about what you might do. The PC thing? Avoid “connecting the dots,” but stick to the “square peg in round hole” equation: a troubled man feeling hopeless in a weird world, suddenly snaps and kills people.

But it’s more than that. The defiant Muslim living in America has contempt for modern life, your lifestyle, your beliefs. Add to this a rejection of female equality, which pretty much eliminates any chance for a hook-up – and you’ve got a madman on a mission.

I suppose saying all this makes me a right-wing hate monger. But that’s the point. When a man kills Americans in the name of Allah – and you become a bad guy for pointing that out – then it’s time to be the bad guy.

It’s far better than moaning "why do they hate us."

There is something very twisted about fretting over crimes that never happened as opposed to acts of terrorism that have.

This PC crap gets people killed.

The term "backlash" is being used as a weapon.

It's inexcusable to pretend that Islamic extremism doesn't factor into what Hasan did.

It dishonors the Americans slaughtered in his shooting rampage.

They are victims in radical Islam's war against the United States.

Anwar al Awlaki

An Internet post by Anwar al Awlaki, an Islamic cleric born in New Mexico, praises Nidal Malik Hasan as a hero.

About Sheikh Anwar:

He studied the Islamic sciences of Quran, hadith, and fiqh with scholars from Yemen. Imam Anwar served as an Imam in Denver, Colorado; San Diego, California; and Falls Church, Virginia. He is the author of the audio series on “The Lives of the Prophets”, “The Hereafter”, “The Life and Time of Abu Bakr”, “The Life and Time of Umar” , “The Messenger of Allah” along with other single lectures.
Imam Anwar also holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University, and a Masters Degree in Educational Leadership from San Diego State University.
Currently he resides in Yemen.

Apparently, this Islamic extremist understands that Hasan's attack on Fort Hood was rooted in his faith.

From Imam Anwar's blog:

"Nidal Hassan Did the Right Thing"

November 9, 2009 - الاثنين 22 ذو القعدة 1430 by Anwar alAwlaki

Nidal Hassan is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people. This is a contradiction that many Muslims brush aside and just pretend that it doesn’t exist. Any decent Muslim cannot live, understanding properly his duties towards his Creator and his fellow Muslims, and yet serve as a US soldier. The US is leading the war against terrorism which in reality is a war against Islam. Its army is directly invading two Muslim countries and indirectly occupying the rest through its stooges.

Nidal opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. How can there be any dispute about the virtue of what he has done? In fact the only way a Muslim could Islamically justify serving as a soldier in the US army is if his intention is to follow the footsteps of men like Nidal.
The heroic act of brother Nidal also shows the dilemma of the Muslim American community. Increasingly they are being cornered into taking stances that would either make them betray Islam or betray their nation. Many amongst them are choosing the former. The Muslim organizations in America came out in a pitiful chorus condemning Nidal’s operation.

The fact that fighting against the US army is an Islamic duty today cannot be disputed. No scholar with a grain of Islamic knowledge can defy the clear cut proofs that Muslims today have the right -rather the duty- to fight against American tyranny. Nidal has killed soldiers who were about to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in order to kill Muslims. The American Muslims who condemned his actions have committed treason against the Muslim Ummah and have fallen into hypocrisy.
Allah(swt) says: Give tidings to the hypocrites that there is for them a painful punishment –
Those who take disbelievers as allies instead of the believers. Do they seek with them honor [through power]? But indeed, honor belongs to Allah entirely. (al-Nisa 136-137)

The inconsistency of being a Muslim today and living in America and the West in general reveals the wisdom behind the opinions that call for migration from the West. It is becoming more and more difficult to hold on to Islam in an environment that is becoming more hostile towards Muslims.

May Allah grant our brother Nidal patience, perseverance and steadfastness and we ask Allah to accept from him his great heroic act. Ameen

"The fact that fighting against the US army is an Islamic duty today cannot be disputed. No scholar with a grain of Islamic knowledge can defy the clear cut proofs that Muslims today have the right -rather the duty- to fight against American tyranny. Nidal has killed soldiers who were about to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in order to kill Muslims. The American Muslims who condemned his actions have committed treason against the Muslim Ummah and have fallen into hypocrisy."

That's chilling.

Comments on the post are equally chilling.

Some examples:

Abu Turab says:

November 9, 2009 - الاثنين 22 ذو القعدة 1430 at 8:26 am

Shaykh Anwar al Awlaki may Allah bless you for your this timely post in defense of our Muslim brother Dr. Nidal Hasan. The defeatist comments by American ‘Muslim’ organizations were really disgusting. It made us think what you said long time ago that there will be separation between camp of Eman and camp of Kuffer; I guess we are witnessing that inevitable separation. An incident like these exposes the hypocrites & further purifies the camp of Islam.
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mesh says:

November 9, 2009 - الاثنين 22 ذو القعدة 1430 at 11:31 am

Thats the first thing that came to my mind, may Allah reward this man for his bravery. Allah has enlightened him with his duty unlike the hypocrites of this age and time. may he be accepted as a shaheed and may Allah bless you, and every other sheikh like you imam. Truly a man blessed with the truth, fearing nobody except the one who deserves our fear. Allah subhana wa ta’ala. May Allah guide as all.

I'm sure Obama would tell Sheikh Anwar and others of his mindset not to jump to conclusions about Hasan.

Hasan and Al Qaeda

According to ABC News, Nidal Malik Hasan attempted to contact al Qaeda.

U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.

It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that one of its officers was seeking to connect with suspected al Qaeda figures, the officials said.

Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said that he requested the CIA and other intelligence agencies brief the committee on what was known, if anything, about Hasan by the U.S. intelligence community, only to be refused.

In response, Hoekstra issued a document preservation request to four intelligence agencies. The letter, dated November 7th, was sent to directors Dennis Blair (DNI), Robert Mueller (FBI), Lt. Gen Keith Alexander (NSA) and Leon Panetta (CIA).

Hoekstra said he is "absolutely furious" that the house intel committee has been refused an intelligence briefing by the DNI or CIA on Hasan's attempt to reach out to al Qaeda, as first reported by ABC News.

Video, from Breitbart.



If Hasan talks like a terrorist, acts like a terrorist, and kills like a terrorist, then Hasan probably is a terrorist.

Obviously, there were warning signs and those signs were ignored.

Thirteen innocents are dead and dozens of others wounded because Hasan was allowed to remain in the U.S. Army.

Inexcusable.

Joe Lieberman: Terrorist Attack, Fort Hood

I don't understand why anyone would be bent out of shape over the statements Joe Lieberman made on FOX News Sunday regarding Nidal Malik Hasan's murderous attack at Fort Hood.

Lieberman had the audacity to suggest that an investigation into the slaughter last Thursday was in order. He dared to call it a possible terrorist attack.

That definition is more than some people can handle.

From the Wall Street Journal:

A senior U.S. senator on Sunday said the shootings at Fort Hood could have been a terrorist attack, and that he would launch a congressional investigation into whether the U.S. military could have prevented it.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who heads the Senate's Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said initial evidence suggested that the alleged shooter, Army Major Nidal Hasan, was a "self-radicalized, home-grown terrorist" who had turned to Islamic extremism while under personal stress.

...Mr. Lieberman, appearing on "Fox News Sunday," cautioned that it remained too early to draw any definitive conclusions. He said his comments were based on "reports that we are receiving" about Mr. Hasan's actions and comments.

The Army's top officer, Gen. George Casey, wouldn't rule out that the shooting was an act of terrorism, but cautioned against speculation at this point. "We all want to know what happened and what motivated the suspect, but we need to … let the investigation take its course," he told ABC News's "This Week."

Mr. Lieberman said that if news reports were true that Mr. Hasan had turned to Islamic extremism, "the murder of these 13 people was a terrorist act and, in fact, it was the most-destructive terrorist act to be committed on American soil since 9/11."

"We don't know enough to say now, but there are very, very strong warning signs here that Dr. Hasan had become an Islamist extremist and, therefore, that this was a terrorist act," Mr. Lieberman added.

The lawmaker said he would begin a Senate investigation aimed at uncovering Mr. Hasan's motives and asking "whether the Army missed warning signs." He also called on the Pentagon to begin an independent investigation to determine whether "warning signs were missed."

Mr. Lieberman said preliminary evidence suggested that Mr. Hasan had denounced the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "In the U.S. Army, this is not a matter of constitutional freedom of speech," the senator said. "If Hasan was showing signs, saying to people that he had become an Islamist extremist, the U.S. Army has to have zero tolerance. He should have been gone."

Why is what Lieberman said controversial?

It's a no-brainer that there should be an investigation.

I completely agree that there should be zero tolerance when someone in the U.S. Army is talking like an Islamic extremist.

...Gen. Casey said the Army was conducting an investigation to try to determine the motivation behind the shootings. "We in the Army will take a very hard look at ourselves and ask ourselves some very hard questions," he said.

He expressed concern that speculation about the shooting could result in a "backlash" against Muslim soldiers. "What happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even-greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here," he said. "We have a very diverse army. We have a very diverse society. And that gives us all strength."

Oh, no! We can't have a "backlash"!

I am so sick of hearing about the dreaded "backlash."

Instead, of worrying about these "backlashes" that never materialize, the Army should be focusing on keeping all our troops secure and safe from any U.S. soldiers who decide to lash out at Americans and, in effect, become the enemy.

With thirteen Americans killed and dozens of others wounded, I hardly think the priority right now should be to protect potential shooters or worry about hurt feelings.

If a soldier gives others reason to doubt his or her loyalty, appropriate action should be taken to assure the safety of the troops.

On page one of the New York Times today, an article by Andrea Elliot examines the difficulties that Muslim soldiers are facing in our wars in Muslim countries, "Complications Grow for Muslims Serving Nation."

Abdi Akgun joined the Marines in August of 2000, fresh out of high school and eager to serve his country. As a Muslim, the attacks of Sept. 11 only steeled his resolve to fight terrorism.

But two years later, when Mr. Akgun was deployed to Iraq with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, the thought of confronting Muslims in battle gave him pause.

He was haunted by the possibility that he might end up killing innocent civilians.

“It’s kind of like the Civil War, where brothers fought each other across the Mason-Dixon line,” Mr. Akgun, 28, of Lindenhurst, N.Y., who returned from Iraq without ever pulling the trigger. “I don’t want to stain my faith, I don’t want to stain my fellow Muslims, and I also don’t want to stain my country’s flag.”

Thousands of Muslims have served in the United States military — a legacy that some trace to the First World War. But in the years since Sept. 11, 2001, as the United States has become mired in two wars on Muslim lands, the service of Muslim-Americans is more necessary and more complicated than ever before.

In the aftermath of the shootings at Fort Hood on Thursday by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan of the Army, a psychiatrist, many Muslim soldiers and their commanders say they fear that the relationship between the military and its Muslim service members will only grow more difficult.

This makes no sense to me.

Why should fighting America's enemies give members of the U.S. military pause?

Throughout our history, millions of Americans have been called to fight against an enemy with which they share a common heritage or faith. Conflicts of conscience are nothing new.

The onus was on them to prove that they were loyal Americans through their actions, by serving their country honorably.

For instance, how many Americans of German heritage fought and died in the World Wars?

They showed that their allegiance was to America, not Germany. If they were sympathetic to the enemy, then they certainly didn't belong in the U.S. Armed Forces. End of story.

We have a volunteer military. If Muslims in our military don't want to harm other Muslims, the radicals who are our enemies, then they should get out.

Of course, an investigation needs to be done into Hasan's attack. That's what Lieberman wants. Where's the problem?

It's nuts to expect him, a U.S. senator, to dance around reality when discussing the violence at Fort Hood.

Hasan targeted an Army base. He intended to kill people and he succeeded. It's possible that he adopted the mindset of an Islamic extremist.

If an investigation shows that Hasan's actions had something to do with extremist Muslim beliefs, if he lashed out because he disagreed with U.S. policy and was fighting against the U.S., then what he did should be defined as terrorism. He did the work of a terrorist.

It was an act of war.

There should be a "backlash" against members of the U.S. military siding with the enemy.

Lieberman isn't the one acting like an extremist.

He's acting responsibly.
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Transcript: Sen. Lieberman on 'FNS'

Fort Hood Victims from Wisconsin

There has been so much media coverage of the Fort Hood shootings, and there's so much more to come.

It's a huge national story. But for the loved ones of the victims, it's not a story on the news that they can turn on and off.

It's a very painful and personal loss that they'll carry with them the rest of their lives.

My prayers are with them.

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

A woman from Kiel and a man from Mount Pleasant were two of the 13 people killed Thursday in the shootings at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, and three others from Wisconsin were injured.

The Veterans Administration hospital in Madison confirmed Friday afternoon that Dorie Carskadon, a social worker and the team leader from the Madison Vet Center, was hurt in the shootings. Officials confirmed earlier Friday that two other soldiers from Wisconsin - Amy Krueger of Kiel and Russell Seager of Mount Pleasant - were killed. Also, Amber Bahr of Random Lake and Grant Moxon of Lodi were injured.

Kiel High School Principal Dario Talerico said that Krueger, who graduated from the school in 1998, died in the shootings.

Talerico described Krueger as a typical small-town girl who played basketball and softball at the school and was prompted to join the military after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Krueger had a sister and a brother who attended the high school and a large extended family in Kiel.

Talerico said few staffers remain at the 500-student school who worked there when Krueger was a student, but Krueger was considered a hero who appeared in the local newspaper, talking about her military experiences.

"I know she was proud to serve and proud to share her experience," Talerico said. "She took pride that she was able to serve her country."

...Seager's uncle confirmed his death.

Larry Seager described his 51-year-old nephew as a "quiet helper" who joined the military a few years ago.

Seager was licensed as a registered nurse and advanced practice nurse prescriber and worked at Zablocki VA Medical Center as a primary caregiver and provided mental health services to patients.

A profile of Seager produced by WUWM-FM in August says he is a nurse from the VA Medical Center in Milwaukee and described his plans to deploy to Iraq.