Excerpted from the Christian Science Monitor, November 21, 2009
As US Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan faces his first court hearing in a San Antonio hospital, America is split over a fundamental question: Is Hasan an Islamic terrorist?
Maj. Hasan, who allegedly killed 13 and wounded dozens during a Nov. 5 rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, is charged with 13 counts of murder, which could lead to a death penalty conviction at an Army court martial. Terror charges have not been filed.
Pending a series of legislative, Army, and Defense Department investigations into the rampage, the Obama administration has resisted the “terror” label. And one new poll shows slightly more Americans agreeing that the Fort Hood shooting was a “killing spree” rather than “an act of terrorism.”
But some US lawmakers see the terrorism analogy as fundamentally important to the inquiry — not just into Hasan’s motivations, but to national security generally in the Fort Hood aftermath.
At Senate hearings this week, some witnesses testified that “political correctness” undermined efforts to pinpoint Hasan and neutralize him before the shooting.
“The difference between the White House’s determination and many lawmakers’ perception is that President Obama and his advisors do not want to consider the massacre as an act of terror ‘yet’ while Senator Joe Lieberman and other legislators in both houses do see it as an ideologically motivated terror action,” says Walid Phares, an expert on Islamic jihad at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a conservative think tank in Washington.
“It will be ‘terrorism’ per Obama’s teams only if it is proven that there was a terror organization or a regime involved,” Mr. Phares adds. “In the eyes of lawmakers, it is about what inspires the action, not how it is conducted. Lieberman’s probe will eventually touch the ideological substance of the terror act.”
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Mr. Obama and his band of fools will embolden terrorists and killers here and around the world.
What a naive and simplistic approach. Hear no evil, see no evil ... and there will be no evil.
It all depends on the meaning of the word 'is' ...
Why should anyone provide any assistance to these fools. I have no idea why, but for a brief moment I will explain for those who are very simple minded (i.e. our employees in the White House):
Al qaida will never be sponsored by a state.
For example: Iran will never invite bin Laden to the palace and discuss with him goals and aspirations including assistance in killing Americans. Never gonna happen. Iran will never supply weapons to al qiada, nor will Pakistan, nor will Syria.
Al qaida will never be urged to attack America.
For example: No one will sit down with a blueprint of an attack on the US.
The clerics of the Islamic world will not all unite and call for the destruction of the United States.
If you (Obama) are waiting for or require any of the above to call the action 'terrorism' you are not only naive and a fool, but you are incompetent, and a danger to the West and Christianity.
What does happen is the religious teaching of these individuals trickles down to the congregation, and indiviudual members, for whatever reason, act upon the discussions or ultimate wishes, and when they act they do so in the name of Allah. This is the terrorism we will face. This is the terrorism Israel faces. Individuals who work together with a common goal to kill Israelis or Americans. In Hasan's case, he is acting alone, but at the urging of his religion.
Failure to recognize this will result in a weakening of America, and more attacks on America, with the loss of American lives.
and we know who is responsible
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