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Farrakhan… Hasan… Al Jazeera…: this can’t possibly go well:

Interviewer: … To what extent might this incident affect the Muslims in the U.S. and make them targets of persecution?”

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Louis Farrakhan: “As you know, since 9/11, in America and in other parts of the world, those anti-Islamic forces have stepped up their efforts to make Muslims… to cause the Muslims to be looked at as uncivilized, savage, or wicked people. This is an attempt by anti-Islamic forces, and some members of the Jewish community, and some members of the Christian community, who have united to condemn Islam and to speak ill of our Prophet Muhammad, and to even go so far as to say that the Muslims worship the devil.

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“This recent unfortunate event, which took place at the Fort Hood base in Texas, has only added fuel to the fire. On behalf of all the Muslims in the Muslim world, we are saddened by the loss of these 13 American soldiers and the 30 others who were wounded in the incident. No human being would be pleased to see that kind of slaughter, coming from a fellow officer in the U.S. Army.

“However, we have to look at Major Nidal Hasan. What happened to him? What kind of stress was he under? What kind of insults had he borne?

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“When there are Muslims who love America, and who join the armed forces to protect America, and to serve the interests of America, and then America, unfortunately, under the falsehoods of the George W. Bush administration, launches attacks against Iraq and against Afghanistan, and now, those soldiers are killing Muslims… So when they go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the kind of hatred that is built up in the American forces, when they call the Muslims ‘ragheads’ and ‘desert niggers,’ and then, in the Abu Ghreib prison, Muslim women were raped, and Muslim men were sodomized… All this affects Muslims serving in the army. So when you are being insulted by your superior officers or by your fellow soldiers, at some point, a person might break. Unfortunately, I believe this is what happened to Captain [sic] Nidal Hasan.”

Don’t forget being buried with pig entrails, Lou. Didn’t we do that, too, or did we miss a trick? I even have it on good authority that one sergeant at Guantanamo once urinated while thinking of a Koran. That’s one hell of an insult to be borne, a whole lot of stress to be under.

But thanks for your kind words on “this unfortunate event”. We’ll never forget them.

I tell ya, those Muslims, man, they got it tough (via BOTW):

Corrections
Published: November 11, 2009

An article on Monday about difficulties for Muslims serving in the American armed forces described incorrectly the background of Michael A. Monsoor, a member of the Navy Seals. Mr. Monsoor was a Christian of Lebanese and Irish descent, not a Muslim. The article also described incorrectly the act that earned him a Medal of Honor. It was for falling on a grenade and saving at least three team members — not for pulling a team member to safety. (Saving a team member in an earlier incident earned him a Silver Star.)

How’s a Muslim going to fall on a grenade to save his team members, or pull a wounded comrade to safety with these Christians cutting in front of him all the time?

Another indignity suffered by “Muslims serving in the American armed forces”. They don’t get no respect. It’s enough to make anybody go Hasan.

My legs are positively twitching to jump to conclusions:

U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal 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.

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A fellow Army doctor who studied with Hasan, Val Finell, told ABC News, “We would frequently say he was a Muslim first and an American second. And that came out in just about everything he did at the University.

Finell said he and other Army doctors complained to superiors about Hasan’s statements.

“And we questioned how somebody could take an oath of office…be an officer in the military and swear allegiance to the constitution and to defend America against all enemies, foreign and domestic and have that type of conflict,” Finell told ABC News.

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Hasan … told a neighbor on the morning of the murders after handing her a Koran: “I’m going to do good work for God.”

Hasan should be very proud. I know somebody is:

Meanwhile, the imam with whom Hasan associated — with his own ties to the 9/11 terrorists — has issued a statement calling Hasan a “hero,” a “man of conscience” ….

But let’s not rush to judgement.

We were warned that political correctness would be the death of us. For 13 members of the US military, it was.

Ralph Peters, again, on the “Allahu Akhbar” shooter at Fort Hood—and a certain commander-in-chief’s disgracefully disengaged reaction:

In the wake of the terrorist strike on our soldiers at Fort Hood, one individual’s still missing in action: Our commander in chief. The massacre’s 51 casualties, including 13 dead, were insufficient to drag President Obama away from the White House Happy Hour.

We just saw the worst terror attack on America since 9/11. And Obama couldn’t adjust his schedule to support our grieving troops.

Instead, we got his subtle defense of the perp: Unwilling to use the word “terror,” let alone the phrase “Islamist terror,” Obama warned us not to “rush to judgment.”

A Muslim fanatic, known to the FBI as a fan of suicide bombers and to colleagues as an opponent of our government, coolly buys weapons, heads to a military facilityhe knows will be packed with unsuspecting soldiers, waits for the crowd to thicken, then shouts, “Allah is great!” and guns down 51 patriots, calmly reloading among the dead and dying.

But don’t rush to judgment.

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What’s next? The White House is going to bring heavy pressure on the FBI, through Attorney General Eric Holder, to play down investigative results confirming that Maj. Nidal Hasan was motivated by his Muslim beliefs.

Instead, we’ll hear even more about the “harassment” Hasan suffered as the media toe the line laid down by the vile lead editorial in Saturday’s New York Times and how this calculating terrorist contracted PTSD from his patients.

Let me kill the harassment myth right now: Political correctness rules in today’s Army. We even protect our enemies these days. Had any soldier harassed Hasan because of his Islamist nuttiness, that soldier would’ve disappeared faster than a Franklin on a Times Square sidewalk.

Any snarky remarks directed toward Hasan — if there were any — would’ve come in reaction to his railing against our government, our military’s mission and the monstrous injustice that, after grabbing an education in psychiatry worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from our military, he might have had to do his duty.

Far from being harassed himself, this creep was allowed to harass the soldiers he treated for stress disorders. According to colleagues, Hasan not only argued with his patients about our wars, but preached Islam to those under his care.

Thank God somebody in government has the stones to call an Islamist an extremist:

Sen. Joe Lieberman announced Sunday that he intends to lead a congressional investigation into the mass shooting at Fort Hood, saying the attack could qualify as a “terrorist act” rooted in Islamic radicalism — the worst since 9/11.

The Independent Democrat, who chairs the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, said there were “strong warning signs” that the alleged gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was an “Islamist extremist.”

“If that is true, 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,” Lieberman told “Fox News Sunday.”

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Lieberman said that if Hasan were showing warning signs, “The U.S. Army has to have zero tolerance. He should have been gone.”

Alas, the U.S. Army is trending more towards Peters’ depiction than Lieberman’s:

In interviews Sunday, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey urged the public not to rush to conclusions about Hasan’s motives with an investigation underway. He described reports about early warning signs as “speculation” based on anecdotes.

Sometimes an Allahu is just an Akhbar, is that it? When the army tells us to be all we can be, I would hope they don’t intend homicidal Muslim terrorist as a laudable goal.

It was a massacre, it was slaughter, it was butchery—I suspect maybe it was even jihad.

But it was not a tragedy.

Authorities raided the apartment of suspected shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan early Friday in a search for clues, as another victim died from injuries suffered during the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base.

Hasan was on a ventilator and unconscious in a hospital after being shot four times during the shootings at the Army’s sprawling Fort Hood, post officials said. In the early chaos after the shootings, authorities believed they had killed him, only to discover later that he had survived.

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Before Thursday’s shooting, Hasan reportedly gave away all of his furniture along with copies of the Koran to neighbors, KXXV-TV reported.

Authorities have not ruled out that Hasan was acting on behalf of some unidentified radical group, a senior U.S. official in Washington said. He would not say whether any evidence had come to light to support that theory.

The motive for the shooting wasn’t clear, but Hasan was apparently set to deploy soon, and had expressed some anger about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said generals at Fort Hood told her that Hasan was about to deploy overseas.

Retired Army Col. Terry Lee, who said he worked with Hasan, told Fox News that Hasan had hoped President Barack Obama would pull troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq. Hasan got into frequent arguments with others in the military who supported the wars, Lee said, and had tried hard to prevent his pending deployment.

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Federal law enforcement officials told the Associated Press that Hasan had come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed homicide bombings and other threats. The officials said they are still trying to confirm that he was the author.

One of the Web postings that authorities reviewed is a blog that equates homicide bombers with a soldier throwing himself on a grenade to save the lives of his comrades.

“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,” said the Internet posting. “Scholars have paralled (sic) this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers.”

American, born and raised, who went berserk under the great president Barack Hussein Obama. Draw your own conclusions.

In listening to the announcement of the arrest of a domestic terrorist suspect in our own back yard—literally—I am moved, Columbo-like to scratch my forehead and ask just one question: why now?

A pharmacy college graduate conspired with two other men on a terror plot to kill two prominent U.S. politicians and carry out a holy war by attacking shoppers in U.S. malls and American troops in Iraq, prosecutors said Wednesday.
But their plans — in which the men used code words like “peanut butter and jelly” for fighting in Somalia and “culinary school” for terrorist camps — were thwarted in part when they could not find training and were unable to buy automatic weapons, authorities said.

Tarek Mehanna worked with the men from 2001 to May 2008 on the conspiracy to “kill, kidnap, maim or injure” soldiers and two politicians who were members of the executive branch but are no longer in office, authorities said, refusing to identify the politicians. Mehanna was arrested Wednesday morning at his parents’ home in Sudbury, an upscale suburb 20 miles west of Boston.

Prosecutors said the 27-year-old Mehanna — a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in Boston, where his father is a professor — conspired with two other men: Ahmad Abousamra, who authorities say is now in Syria, and an unnamed man, who is cooperating with authorities in the investigation.

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Mehanna, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in November and charged with lying to the FBI in December 2006 when asked the whereabouts of Daniel Maldonado, who is now serving a 10-year prison sentence for training with al-Qaida to overthrow the Somali government.

Indeed, Steve Emerson has a pdf file of the criminal complaint against Mehanna, dated November 7, 2008.

And his arrest was no secret to anyone paying attention:

After his arrest, Mehanna developed a cult following among Muslim civil rights groups and Web sites that believed Mehanna was wrongly arrested. Web sites like the London-based cageprisoners.com, a human rights group that advocates for prisoners at Guantanamo bay and other detainees as part of the U.S. war on terror, asked supporters to write Mehanna in prison to keep up his spirits.

The site MuslimMatters.org asked supporters to pray for his release and published a letter they said Mehanna wrote from prison.

MyPetJawa, among others, reported on his arrest at the time.

So, what’s new here? Had he been released from the previous charge and gone back to his terroristic ways, or are these old charges only finally being made public? It’s not really clear, and either answer has disturbing implications.

I’m in Sudbury frequently, and if I didn’t look at young Arab men there as potential terrorists before, I’ll make sure I do so from now on.

President Obama has spoken more glowingly of the Muslim world than he has of his own country. He has extended his hand to Iran and bowed his head to Saudi Arabia. He has fasted and feasted on Ramadan, and slaughtered a buffalo according to halal principles (okay, maybe not).

His adviser on Muslim affairs (Did Kennedy have one? Polk? Lincoln? Madison?) even says sharia law is misunderstood—and no I’m not kidding:

President Barack Obama’s adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, has provoked controversy by appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia Law.

Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President’s Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was “oversimplified” and the majority of women around the world associate it with “gender justice”.

The White House adviser made the remarks on a London-based TV discussion programme hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party.

The group believes in the non-violent destruction of Western democracy and the creation of an Islamic state under Sharia Law across the world.

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They called for Sharia Law to be “the source of legislation” and said that women should not be “permitted to hold a position of leadership in government”.

Miss Mogahed made no challenge to these demands and said that “promiscuity” and the “breakdown of traditional values” were what Muslims admired least about the West.

She said: “I think the reason so many women support Sharia is because they have a very different understanding of sharia than the common perception in Western media.

“The majority of women around the world associate gender justice, or justice for women, with sharia compliance.

“The portrayal of Sharia has been oversimplified in many cases.”

But I don’t think even this obeisance will be enough to raise the profile in the Muslim world of President Limp Wrist.

You think they take his Nobel any more seriously than we do? Check out these editorial cartoons:

Those are awards for talking and acting in the first two cartoons, and a blindfolded Nobel in the third. He says “Aasalaamu Aleikum” to them, and they say “bite me” to him.

It’s an opportunity.

I guess Zsa-Zsa, or whatever his name is, did more than just lie to the FBI:

An Afghan immigrant plotted for more than a year to detonate homemade bombs in the United States, had recently bought bomb-making supplies from beauty supply stores and was looking for “urgent” help in the past two weeks to make explosives, an indictment charged Thursday.

Najibullah Zazi — a 24-year-old airport shuttle driver who authorities said received explosives and weapons training from al-Qaida during a trip to Pakistan last year — was charged in New York with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.

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Counterterrorism agents have said they feared Zazi and others might have been planning to detonate homemade bombs on New York City commuter trains.

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The document says that on Sept. 6 and 7, Zazi tried to communicate with another individual “seeking to correct mixtures of ingredients to make explosives.”

“Each communication,” the papers say, was “more urgent than the last.”

On those days, Zazi rented a suite at a hotel in his hometown of Aurora, Colo., authorities charge. The room had a kitchen, and subsequent FBI testing for explosives and residue in the suite found the presence of residue in the vent above the stove.

In July and August, Zazi bought unusually large amounts of hydrogen peroxide and acetone — a solvent commonly found in nail polish remover — from beauty supply stores in the Denver metropolitan area, the document says. He searched the Internet for home improvement stores in Queens before driving a rental car for a two-day trip to the city, the document says.

I bet the wholesale suppliers of the beauty products tipped off the Feds. A bearded Afghani might look a little suspicious purchasing that much hair dye and nail polish.

Steve Emerson picks up the narrative:

Arrest documents reveal that around the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks Zazi drove from Denver to New York City in a rental car and spent the night in Flushing, Queens. A search of the rental car turned up a laptop containing a photographic image of handwritten notes on bomb making. According to court documents, Zazi falsely asserted that he had not written the notes and may have unintentionally downloaded the document as part of some religious materials he had downloaded earlier. Agents also found batteries and other items that could be used to make explosives with Zazi’s fingerprints in raids on apartments he visited in New York. Backpacks and cell phones were other items that were seized. According to news reports a New York area U-Haul store turned away a group of Afghan men who tried to rent a 26-foot truck there.

Law enforcement officials suspect that Zazi and others may have been plotting to detonate backpack bombs via cell phones on New York City trains in attacks reminiscent of the London subway bombings in 2005 and the Madrid rail attacks in 2004. Immigration records indicate that Zazi visited Peshawar in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) in August 2008, where Al Qaeda operates training camps.

Man, this was a very close shave (pardon the pun).

Emerson also notes that the FBI thought they had an informant in the imam who actually tipped off Zazi instead—forcing the FBI to rush the arrest before they had completed their investigation.

I’d like President Obama to talk about these kind of Muslims next Ramadan.

While many of our kids sit down to watch an educational video by someone with the name “Hussein”, I think they would be better off watching another video by another Hussain:

Three young Britons were declared guilty Monday in a London court of planning to blow up transatlantic planes in a spectacularly scaled Al Qaeda terrorist plot that could have killed thousands of people.

A jury in Woolwich Crown Court convicted Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Tanvir Hussain, 28, and Assad Sarwar, 29, of conspiring to murder by setting off liquid bombs smuggled aboard seven North American-bound airliners in sports-drink bottles. Police have said the plan was possibly days from fruition when the men were arrested in August 2006 amid the biggest counter-terrorism investigation in British history.

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Prosecutors identified defendant Ali as the ringleader of the airliner plot. Investigators found a chilling “martyrdom video” in which the bearded young man berated the West for occupying holy Muslim lands and said the imminent airborne attack would “teach them a lesson they will never forget. . . . You have persisted in trying to humiliate us and kill us and destroy us.”

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In his suicide video, Hussain told of his wish to come back and “do it again and again until, you know, people come to their senses and realize . . . don’t mess with the Muslims.“

“Don’t mess with Muslims”? That was your motivation to slaughter thousands of people? Mind you, I’m not surprised. Who can be after 9/11? (Well, liberals, sure. But who in their right mind?)

But since when did a faith get distorted into inadequacy over penis size? I know our president thinks Islam is the best thing since sliced heads—bread, sorry, I meant bread—but what is there to admire about a religion that evidently reveres as a holy prophet “Bob” from those “natural male enhancement” commercials?

The jumble of names and places is a little nauseating, but if you stick with it, you’ll be pleased to learn that Islam has declared war on China:

Head of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan: ‘East Turkestan [i.e. Xinjiang] Is an Indivisible Part of the Islamic Nation, and We Won’t Let the Oppression Pass in Silence’

The “Muslim Uzbekistan” website reports that Tahir Yuldashev, head of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), has released an audio recording in which he vows to champion the Uighurs against Chinese oppression. Yuldashev, whose group is now based in Waziristan, also denied any IMU involvement in the attacks in Uzbekistan’s Andijan region in late May. (A rival Uzbek group, the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), claimed responsibility for these attacks in a video issued shortly after the events.)

We’ll see how that works out for “Muslim Uzbekistan”. I believe their threats and promises, but I anticipate China’s anti-pansy response. If there’s anyone more cold-blooded than a jihadi fighter, it’s a Chicom soldier with orders to shoot to kill. Pay-per-view heaven.