By Michael Brown
Friday, August 02, 2013
If someone looks like a Muslim terrorist, identifies as a
Soldier of Allah, is mentored by a Muslim terrorist, and then slaughters
Americans on a military base in cold blood in the name of Allah, that person is
obviously a Muslim terrorist – unless, of course, that person is Nidal Malik
Hasan, the accused Fort Hood mass murderer.
It is tragic enough that Hasan is charged with taking the
lives of 13 innocent people and wounding 30 more. It adds salt to the wounds to
realize that he has received nearly $300,000 in military pay since the Fort
Hood shootings in 2009 while languishing in the hospital (after being shot) and
in prison.
But it is utterly outrageous that our government still
refuses to call him a terrorist, specifically, a Muslim terrorist. In fact, it
is not just outrageous, it is hypocritical.
Consider that Hasan was inspired by the radical Islamic
cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a man considered so dangerous that he was killed in
Yemen by an American drone attack September 30, 2011.
How can it be, then, that the teacher is a terrorist and
the student, who murderously follows his teacher’s tenets, is not a terrorist?
What kind of sophistry is this?
It has been common knowledge for years that Hasan’s
colleagues noticed his increasing radicalization, that his co-workers at Walter
Reed Medical Center were concerned about his behavior, and that he turned what
was supposed to be a medical lecture into a radical Islamic screed in which he
allegedly justified suicide bombings, reportedly stating that if you didn’t
believe in the Koran, “you are condemned to hell. Your head is cut off. You're
set on fire. Burning oil is burned down your throat.”
Finally, on November 5, 2009, witnesses state that Hasan
sat quietly at a table with his head bowed for a few seconds, he jumped to his
feet shouting, “Allahu Akbar!” and started spraying people with bullets.
And the government has the gall to classify this as
“workplace violence”?
Now, on the eve of his trial, Hasan has released
documents in which he refers to himself as SoA, meaning “Soldier of Allah”
(not, “Sold Out American”!). This same abbreviation was found on his business
card at the time of his shooting – but he, of course, is not a Muslim
terrorist.
In the only dated document (October 8, 2012), Hasan
writes, “I, Nidal Malik Hasan, am compelled to renounce any oaths of
allegiances that require me to support/defend (any - sic) man made constitution
(like the constitution of the United States) over the commandments mandated in
Islam ... I therefore formally renounce my oath of office ... this includes my
oath of U.S. citizenship.”
But he, of course, is not a Muslim terrorist.
In another document, he makes clear his beliefs that
Sharia law and American democracy are incompatible, explaining, “There is an
inherent and irreconcilable conflict. ... in an American Democracy ‘we the
people’ govern according to what ‘we the people’ think is right or wrong; even
if it specifically goes against what All-Mighty God commands.”
But he, of course, is not a Muslim terrorist.
As for his relationship with Anwar al-Awlaki, Hasan
wrote, “He (al-Awlaki) was my teacher, mentor and friend. I hold him in high
esteem for trying to educate Muslims about their duties to our creator. May
All-Mighty Allah accept his martyrdom.”
But Hassan, of course, is not a Muslim terrorist.
According to Thomas Joscelyn, a senior fellow with the
Foundation for Defense of Democracies and writer for the Long War Journal,
"He's clearly saying that he's a homegrown extremist, that he's somebody
who identifies with Al Qaeda's ideology. He's somebody who definitely reached
out to an Al Qaeda cleric and who decided he was going to take up Al Qaeda's
cause here on American soil."
In other words, he’s flat out telling us he’s a Muslim
terrorist, in case we haven’t put the pieces together, but we actually know him
better than he knows himself, and he really is not a Muslim terrorist at all,
and what happened at Fort Hood was just another example of workplace violence.
Staff Sgt. Shawn Manning, who was shot six times at Fort
Hood, told Fox News, “The government has tried to deny that this was an act of
terrorism. I think that, I hope that if people hear the words from Hasan's own
mouth that they will understand that this was an act of terrorism.”
I would certainly hope so – but why should facts matter
now?
We can only imagine the sense of outrage and grief felt
by the families of the dead, along with the surviving victims and their
families, when our government continues to deny that the Fort Hood massacre was
an act of Islamic terrorism, to the point of complete being delusional. The
real question is, Why?
Let’s break the spell and help our government wake up to
reality by saying it out loud together: “Nadal Malik Hasan is an Islamic
terrorist.”
And while we understand that millions of Muslims are not
Islamic terrorists, Nadal Hasan most certainly is.
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