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Malik Nadal Hasan, a 39-year old U. S. Army major opened fire with two handguns at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 12 and wounding another 31. Most of those shot were U.S. soldiers processing their paperwork for an up coming deployment to Iraq and/or Afghanistan.
Hasan was killed.
Authorities are saying that it’s far too early to say whether or not this attack was an act of terrorism. Just because the gunman has a name that sounds Arabic, doesn’t mean that it’s related to Islamic terrorism. At least that’s what they are saying on TV. For all we know, Major Hasan might have been a Baptist or a Mormon with a bad attitude.
Not that I’ve ever known a Mormon with a bad attitude.
The Army has two other suspects in custody. They, like Hasan, are U.S. soldiers. Their names have not been released.
Lee B.
/ November 5, 2009like it or not, we have been infiltrated. I have already made up my mind (not that my opinion matters) but this was terrorism start to finish. And we’ll see more out of the peace-loving Muslims among us.
No offense to the actual peace loving Muslims- I’m talking about the peace loving Muslims that have a thing for slaughtering innocents.
Rick Rottman
/ November 5, 2009@Lee B.: Well, I think it’s only a sliver of a fraction of the entire Muslim community that engages in stuff like terrorism. With over a billion Muslims in the world, I have to think it’s a very slight minority that engages in terrorism.
The thing that surprises me the most is that he was a field grade officer. How does something like this happen?
Lee B.
/ November 5, 2009I agree that a few bad apples are giving the whole group a bad name. Bud those bad apples are heinous and twisted and seem to really dig the large-scale massacre thing. And if you can desecrate the corpses, all the better. It gets hard to look past this sort of thing to the peaceable folk wearing the same religious nametag.
He was a psychiatrist as well- there’s a bit of irony. Head doctor wigs out. Go figure.
dave
/ November 6, 2009I’ve never heard of any “peace loving Muslims that have a thing for slaughtering innocents.” Is there even an ounce of evidence?
“Bud those bad apples are heinous and twisted and seem to really dig the large-scale massacre thing. And if you can desecrate the corpses, all the better.” Where are you getting this information from? Who are you quoting? What are you basing this on?
Lee B.
/ November 6, 2009@dave: On point A, you missed the sarcasm. On point B, you even need to ask where evidence of one massacre after another is taking place in the name of Allah? Gee, Barney, I guess I must have been imagining things.
Rick Rottman
/ November 6, 2009@Lee B.: I think there’s a lot of contributing factors. True, these terrorists are all Muslim, but 99.99999% of the Muslims in the world don’t engage in terrorism. Most Muslims are good people.
I think Islam is a contributing factor, but not the only contributing factor. To me, it’s AND logic, not OR logic.
For instance, take a person who is Muslim AND lives in abject poverty AND under oppression AND without any hope of things ever getting better AND mental instability, a person might become a suicide terrorist.
Lee B.
/ November 6, 2009Right you are, Rick. I’m not saying all Muslims are terrorists. Lately though, it seems like many terrorists are doing their best to give Islam a bad name. The Somalian pirates may somewhat support your case, but Major Murderer certainly does not. Nor would the 9/11 plotters and doers- many were well educated and certainly could have done good for the world had their radical ideologies not taken them to the grave as they killed thousands for Allah.
Their are certainly terrorists from all religions- but the Islamic radicals seem to make a point of stressing their religion as they pull the trigger more so than any other group.
Rick Rottman
/ November 6, 2009@Lee B.: I would argue that it’s really only a few Muslim people who engage in terrorism that give Islam a bad name. With as many Muslims that are in the world (over 1 billion) if Islam sparked it’s followers into being terrorists, the world would truly bad in bad shape.
I’m not even sure Islam has anything to do with it. I wonder if it’s caused by fundamentalism. There’s parts of the Old Testament that are just as bloody and as violent as certain parts of the Quran. In fact, I’d hold up the book of Leviticus to anything mentioned in the Quran.
I’m not sure that if instead of being instructed in a madrasah on the Quran by backward religious fundamentalists were instead taught by these same people using the Old Testament, they wouldn’t end up going out and killing just as many people in the name of God.
And I don’t think the Somali pirates are terrorists. They’re just plain old pirates. Instead of a cutlas and a canon, they use an AK-47 and a RPG.