Bloodthirsty Liberal

For all those who portray Islam as a “religion of peace”, may we cite exhibit 1,356,974 in the case against?

The Ansar Al-Mujahideen jihadist forum issued a communiqué on November 24, 2009 in praise of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. The communiqué aimed in particular to defend Hasan’s actions against the condemnations that have been voiced by Muslim associations in the U.S.

The communiqué reads: “… We issue this statement in support of the actions of brother Nidal Malik Hassan, as a congratulations for his brave and heroic deed, as well as the jealousness [i.e. zeal] he displayed for the pains suffered by the Muslim Ummah as a result of the modern Zionist-Christian Crusades against it. May Allah reward you brother Nidal. We ask Allah to accept this great feat of yours and make you an example for others to follow.

“We also issue this statement due to the unfortunate yet expected wave of apologetic statements being given around the world which smack of apostasy, especially in the land of the Lead Crusaders, the United States of America…

“The actions of Nidal Malik Hasan were not contrary to the religion of Islam, rather they are encouraged by it…

“In conclusion, we again congratulate all Muslims, especially those in the United States, and especially our heroic brother Nidal Malik Hasan, for indeed he has raised our heads and made us proud… We hope other ‘Muslims’ in the US army repent from their apostasy and take him as a role model, instilling fear in the enemies of Allah and taking them by surprise wherever they may be…”

I don’t know, I’m not Muslim. But they are, and…well, I don’t know.

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 don’t listen to President Obama’s speeches, as a habit, and I don’t feel deprived in any way. People seem to have been quote impressed with the Fort Hood memorial address he gave, and I’m grateful to him for finding words that gave solace when there wasn’t much to be found.

But I do look the texts over from time to time, where it’s much easier to spot the lies, equivocations, and outright BS:

This is a time of war. Yet these Americans did not die on a foreign field of battle. They were killed here, on American soil, in the heart of this great state and the heart of this great American community. This is the fact that makes the tragedy even more painful, even more incomprehensible.

Tragedy? Tragedy?

He makes it sound like a building fell on them. They were slaughtered. It was no tragedy.

It may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this tragedy. But this much we do know — no faith justifies these murderous and craven acts; no just and loving God looks upon them with favor. For what he has done, we know that the killer will be met with justice — in this world, and the next.

Again with the tragedy. ARGHH!

But my real complaint lies in these few dishonest words: “no faith justifies these murderous and craven acts”.

With respect, Mr. President, I know of one that does.

I may not be blessed with keen insight and clairvoyant foresight (all right, if you insist, I am), but I knew when anointed intellectuals were declaring the “end of history” that we had a reckoning with radical Islam ahead of us. I don’t remember exactly when I knew, but I do remember the effect the terrorist attack on the tourists at the pyramids had on me—and that was 22 years ago (next week).

How many suicide bombers have cited the Koran, posed with it on their “martyrdom” videos (another clue)? How many imams, mullahs, and sheikhs have justified the slaughter of infidels, just for the crime of being infidels? How many mass murderers have shouted “Allahu Akhbar” as they butchered their victims? Heck, even the DC sniper (RIP) killed in the name of his religion. The answer to these questions is: millions. You and I may find these acts murderous and craven (on that we agree), but their faith justifies all that and more.

If it makes you feel any better, Mr. President, Christians felt they were justified in burning witches at the stake or torturing Jews back when they still did such things. But isn’t that the point? They don’t do such things anymore. Most Christians never did, but some did—and their actions defined their faith, at least for a time.

To declare that Islam doesn’t justify these acts is to declare a lie. It does. Nine out of ten Muslims—maybe 99 out of 100—reject such teachings, but there is plenty of justification in the Koran and the hadiths. Whether that’s 10 million or 100 million I cannot say. But it’s plenty.

I felt a hell of a lot safer under President Bush (and safer still under Reagan) than I do under the Community Organizer in Chief.

I can’t tell one imam from another mullah, so I didn’t remember this right away. But you know the radical Muslim cleric so admired by the Fort Hood terrorist jihadi, Hasan—the one who praised him for his shooting spree?

His name is Anwar al-Awlaki—and we had a story about him two weeks ago.

He counted forty-plus ways to conduct jihad, but neglected to number base-shooting among them. I smell a sequel.

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.

Ralph Peters has no doubts

On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting, “Allahu akbar!” (”God is great!”) committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.

What cowards we are. Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans at Fort Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did. And the media treat it like a case of nondenominational shoplifting.

This was a terrorist act. When an extremist plans and executes a murderous plot against our unarmed soldiers to protest our efforts to counter Islamist fanatics, it’s an act of terror. Period.

Watch the clip, read the column, and you’ll be convinced that while Allah may be Akbar, some of his adherents are deranged demons.