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Some sce­nar­ios in life just don’t make sense. Con­sider how you would feel if your sur­geon botched your rou­tine pro­ce­dure due to his undis­closed case of Parkinson’s? Or that after drilling on your cav­ity for nearly two hours your den­tist apol­o­gizes while say­ing she will soon undergo dou­ble cataract surgery? Or what if the US Army psy­chi­a­trist treat­ing your PTSD (post-traumatic stress dis­or­der) from a recent Mid­dle East tour is an out­spo­ken Islamic sym­pa­thizer of Pales­tin­ian descent?

All three sit­u­a­tions are neg­li­gent as they not only put peo­ple at risk but they present a major con­flict of inter­est. But the third is a lit­tle dif­fer­ent. While the doc­tors in all three sce­nar­ios earn a salary, the US Armed Forces became an all-volunteer force in the 1980’s. This means that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan could have resigned at any­time. But he didn’t. Instead, he left as many unan­swered ques­tions as he did fallen and wounded sol­diers. His sense­less reign left 12 dead sol­diers, 1 dead civil­ian and 30 wounded when Civil­ian Police Offi­cer, Kim­berly Mun­ley shot Has­san four times leav­ing him unconscious.

And while infor­ma­tion streams in that sol­diers may have showed lit­tle respect to Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, all I can say is “duh”. Hasan was a walk­ing oxy­moron. Sol­diers knew he didn’t quite fit in with his vocal sup­port of Islam so he never earned their respect. This is no dif­fer­ent than a man­ager in a com­pany not respect­ing his or her supe­rior because they have dif­fer­ent views on how busi­ness should be han­dled. The very fact that he con­tin­ued to remain in an influ­en­tial men­tal health post serv­ing fel­low US sol­diers is not just wrong it’s sick.

It doesn’t take a psy­chi­a­trist to deci­pher that Hasan’s life was a dichotomy. Pro­fes­sion­ally, he was a mil­i­tary offi­cer who took an oath to pro­tect Amer­ica and its peo­ple from for­eign and domes­tic ene­mies. Yet, per­son­ally, he was an Islamic sym­pa­thizer who told oth­ers that he believed the war on ter­ror was a war on Islam. Not a way to earn pop­u­lar­ity votes at a US mil­i­tary base. But even with his inter­nal tur­moil, he had a choice to leave. His vic­tims didn’t. They were unarmed and an easy tar­get for some­one enter­ing the room with a FN 5.7 mil­lime­ter semi-automatic pis­tol and a revolver. He was not only well pre­pared but he knew his arms. SWAT teams and drug car­tels favor this exact semi-automatic because the bul­lets — called cop killers — can pen­e­trate all soft body armor. The fact that he chose this type of semi-automatic indi­cates intent to kill.

There is lit­tle doubt that if Hasan regains con­scious­ness he will wish he was in par­adise with 72 vir­gins (one of the rewards for mar­tyrs men­tioned in the Quran). Eye­wit­nesses reported that he yelled, “Allahu Akbar” (God is Great!) before show­er­ing lead into unsus­pect­ing sol­diers that were armed with noth­ing more than pens.
Hasan will also have a hard time prov­ing that his killing spree wasn’t pre­med­i­tated. Records exist that show he bought the guns months in advance and brought them on base with­out reg­is­ter­ing them. Many peo­ple inter­viewed said he spoke of being fear­ful of his upcom­ing deploy­ment to Iraq or Afghanistan (which would mark his first for­eign tour). The FBI was mon­i­tor­ing his inter­net activ­i­ties as he had made some jihadist posts ref­er­enc­ing sui­cide bombers. His fel­low sol­diers noticed that he started wear­ing tra­di­tional Arab garb weeks before the shoot­ing. Neigh­bors reported that he sold his fur­ni­ture the morn­ing of the shoot­ing to any­one who would buy it. He used a neighbor’s PC often and called the morn­ing of the shoot­ing to thank him for being such a good friend. Hasan also handed Qurans to neigh­bors before the tragic event took place prob­a­bly as a thinly veiled attempt to help them under­stand his motives rather than a con­ver­sion tactic.

But to those who knew him his motives were no sur­prise. A fel­low physi­cian who took an envi­ron­men­tal sci­ence class with him said that while stu­dents pre­sented papers on mold or water con­di­tions, Hasan pre­sented a paper on Why the War on Ter­rror is a War on Islam. While this should have raised a red flag it’s too early in the inves­ti­ga­tion to tell what, if any­thing, came of it.

One thing Hasan didn’t count on was that his blood­bath at the largest US mil­i­tary base would result in reper­cus­sions on Mus­lims world­wide. News­casts since the tragedy have reported that Mus­lims around the world fear back­lash. They have good rea­son. Cit­i­zens world­wide are wak­ing to the real­iza­tion that Islam is any­thing but peace­ful. Maybe it once was but in recent years, the focus has become extrem­ist and recruited believ­ers into jihadists.

Need proof? There are moth­ers in some Mus­lim coun­tries that have out­lived all their sons due to jihad, and are happy about it. Why? Jihadists believe that by killing non-believers (which by the way is every­one else) hon­ors Allah and earns them and their fam­i­lies a place in heaven. Oh, and the moth­ers get a nice part­ing ges­ture: a kick­back along with comped buri­als. Mosque lead­ers inter­viewed by news net­works insist Islam is a peace­ful reli­gion. But don’t buy it. Cer­tain groups of Mus­lims like the Rev­o­lu­tion Mus­lim in New York and Mus­lims in the Hamas-run Gaza have praised Hasan for mow­ing down the aggres­sor.
Notable lead­ers of Islam like the Aytol­lah Khomeni have indi­cated that those who say Islam is peace­ful are igno­rant. This is because the Quran has hun­dreds of verses that incite Mus­lims to fight. It cer­tainly worked for Major Nidal Malik Hasan who fit the per­fect “sleeper” pro­file: no wife, no chil­dren, a loner who felt dis­en­fran­chised, dis­re­spected and became more radical.

IN MEMORIAM

Lt. Col. Juanita L. War­man
Maj. Libardo Eduardo Car­aveo
Capt. Rus­sell Sea­ger
Spc. Fred­er­ick Greene
John Gaffaney
Army Staff Sgt. Justin Decrow
Michael Grant Cahill
Spc. Jason Dean Hunt
Sgt. Amy Krueger
Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka
Pfc. Michael Pear­son
Franch­eska Velez
Pfc. Kham Xiong

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