The ‘Allahu Akbar’ hits the fan
by Stacie Adams
My first impression of the Fort Hood Clusterfuck of Muslim Paranoia and Wild Speculation is one of…meh?
Firstly, it’s no huge shocker that a fanatical adherent of a silly, primitive religion would behave irrationally. Secondly, most are reacting to the killings with utter shock and dismay, as though this occured in a day care center or a cancer ward.
Sorry kids, they weren’t training puppy cats and kitty dogs at Fort Hood, they were preparing recruits to go get their heads blown off or to blow others’ heads off halfway around the world. When Fort Hood wasn’t preparing recruits, they were fielding soldiers emerging from war rife with post traumatic stress disorder due to the unspeakable horrors they were exposed to for an extended period of time.
What I do find surprising is that this guy made it to the rank of major while being allegedly bat-shit insane. Like many other mass shootings happening in the last several years, the most disturbing aspect is the trail of crumbs the assailant left in his wake in indicating his fragile mental state, a trail that no person of authority felt like investigating.
What is inevitable is islam and muslims will be blamed wholesale, and this guy will get the chair or however they like to legally kill you in Texas.
and this from Andrew Sullivan…
It looks increasingly as if he snapped at the thought of participating in a war he might have seen as anti-Islam. This, if borne out, is grim news:
“He was making outlandish comments condemning our foreign policy and claimed Muslims had the right to rise up and attack Americans,” Col Lee told Fox News. “He said Muslims should stand up and fight the aggressor and that we should not be in the war in the first place.” He said that Maj Hasan said he was “happy” when a US soldier was killed in an attack on a military recruitment centre in Arkansas in June.
An American convert to Islam was accused of the shootings. Col Lee alleged that other officers had told him that Maj Hasan had said “maybe people should strap bombs on themselves and go to Time Square” in New York. He claimed he was aware that the major had been subject to “name calling” during heated arguments with other officers.
It’s therefore hard to see any silver lining here. It’s a tragic massacre in the first place. It will doubtless increase suspicion of Muslim servicemembers, which in turn propels more religious polarization, which makes winning this war harder still. You can instantly see how the Malkins will spin this, and how a war on American Muslims can get jump-started in America.
The danger of this war on terror, it turns out, is that it not only collapses when it hits the ground in Muslim countries - as the sheer impossibility of using force to control Islamism in Iraq and Afghanistan reveals itself - but that its religious nature can divide the West as well, rendering a minority suspect and further undermining the chances of a multi-faith democracy successfully fighting a religious war without succumbing to more primal identities. Every which way, Osama wins.
The news is pretty depressing right now; but few events have been as demoralizing as this one.
use the link below to see the ‘Major’ somewhat out of uniform at a store near Ft. Hood the morning of the shooting:
http://us.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2009/11/06/kaye.ft.hood.shooter.update.cnn