Political Correctness Kills
Dana Priest writes in the WaPo about a weird talk Muslim mass murderer Hasan gave -- one that nobody wanted to think ill of:
As a senior-year psychiatric resident at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Maj. Nidal M. Hasan was supposed to make a presentation on a medical topic of his choosing as a culminating exercise of the residency program.Instead, in late June 2007, he stood before his supervisors and about 25 other mental health staff members and lectured on Islam, suicide bombers and threats the military could encounter from Muslims conflicted about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, both Muslim countries, according to a copy of the presentation obtained by The Washington Post.
"It's getting harder and harder for Muslims in the service to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims," he said in the presentation.
"It was really strange," said one staff member who attended the presentation and spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the investigation of Hasan. "The senior doctors looked really upset" at the end. These medical presentations occurred each Wednesday afternoon, and other students had lectured on new medications and treatment of specific mental illnesses.
More on his presentation at the end:
Under a slide titled "Comments," he wrote: "If Muslim groups can convince Muslims that they are fighting for God against injustices of the 'infidels'; ie: enemies of Islam, then Muslims can become a potent adversary ie: suicide bombing, etc." [sic]The last bullet point on that page reads simply: "We love death more then [sic] you love life!"
Under the "Conclusions" page, Hasan wrote that "Fighting to establish an Islamic State to please God, even by force, is condoned by the Islam," and that "Muslim Soldiers should not serve in any capacity that renders them at risk to hurting/killing believers unjustly -- will vary!"
No comments on this yet?
Amy, what is quoted above is pretty tame. The Washing Post, I think in the same article, quoted him as advocating that Muslims be allowed out of the service on conciencious objector status. They word it differently, but my take is that he espoused the view that the USA attacked Islam (not the other way around, with a portion of adherants attacking us) and that Muslims should be 'loyal to their faith', i.e., be allowed to join the fight against us.
Never mind the fact that he decided to pick up an additional commitment to our military AFTER some Muslims declared war on us.
John Tagliaferro at November 10, 2009 9:37 AM
Does this really surprise anyone? Really?
Have we not been inundated with Muslim "extremists/non-extremists/radicals/non-radicals/WTF-Ever" demands for special rights/considerations/permissions/justifications/WTF-Ever, for roughly the last 50 years or so?
It has almost reached the point where there is no PC reason for us to ask them to stop slaughtering our soldiers/civilians, stop oppressing women/free speech, to stop claiming outsiders to be infidels/insisting that everyone in the world pay attention to them, or WTF-Ever it is that is being done in the name of a blood soaked deity in a blood soaked holy land.
Disgustedly yours,
chrono
Chronotrigger at November 10, 2009 10:16 AM
I am starting to truly hate iPhones...
The above should read: "Rights/Considerations/Permissions/Justifications/WTF-Ever...". Not just Ever.
Chronotrigger at November 10, 2009 10:20 AM
...Please note that as an Army doctor, he had his medical school either fully or very nearly fully compensated by the US Govt. (depending on the length of commitment he signed in return for his degree). He didn't seem to have a problem accepting the money from the infidels to fund his education, how interesting....
the other Beth at November 10, 2009 11:47 AM
Same theme, brilliant Cosh. Amy will love this passage:
Every week it seems like there’s some creepy family annihilator in the news who wanted to “protect” his or her children, or send them to a “better place,” by drowning them in the bath or slitting their throats. No Christian ever seems to notice that such actions are predicated on a specifically Christian notion of the afterlife, let alone express concern or shame. In an overwhelmingly Christian society, no one ever asks them to. (Maybe someone should?)
(Fear not: Cosh puts some whippin' on Islam, as well.)
Crid [CridComment @ gmail] at November 10, 2009 11:51 AM
the other Beth writes: "He didn't seem to have a problem accepting the money from the infidels to fund his education, how interesting...."
Beth, the way I see this guy, he's been a saboteur (or at least a monkey-wrencher) for a long time. His actions seem to correspond to a long-term plan, maybe not thought out in those specific terms, but nonetheless, that's what he did. He went into a field where he would have access to the minds of troubled American soldiers. How many seeds of doubt and fear has he planted? How many American soliders has he, through his own orders or indirectly, taken off of the battlefield? How many subsequent deaths has he caused by implanted self-doubt? In a twisted way, it might be fortunate that he ended his jihad now, instead of letting himself be deployed where he could have done far more long-term damage.
(And a P.S.: I hope to hell someone's checking this guy's records to see what access he had to classified data and what he might have done with it.)
Cousin Dave at November 10, 2009 12:11 PM
Jeez, I think we need better PR.
After all, it cost the USA $1 trillion and 5,000 lives, but we replaced a secular state (old Iraq) with a Shiite state (Iraq today).
Jews and Christians had to leave Iraq, and woman don't go to medical school anymore. It was a solid step backwards into Islam.
We need to advertise this to Islamics--we have created a major Islamic state in the Mideast, and that is more than any jihadists has done!
Butthole of the Universe at November 10, 2009 1:12 PM
Oh Crid, just because we believe in heaven doesn't mean we think people should hop the express train there. If we did, we'd be all over abortion as a undeniable good.
God gave us this life to live. Some percentage of psychos will always choose christianity as their justification-it's a numbers game. The fact that 99.999999% do not ought to tell you something.
People blame their toasters for their crimes too on occasion-do we all eat soft bread from now on?
momof4 at November 10, 2009 7:03 PM
I can see conflict of interest. If the US attacked Switzerland, or even France or Belgium, I wouldn't want to be in the army.
It's unfortunate that there wasn't an "out", such as reimburse his med school loans, or get assigned to Germany or something. Not that it would have mattered. Dude was psycho.
Toasters, Momof4? Hadn't heard that one yet! :)
NicoleK at November 10, 2009 7:19 PM
> Some percentage of psychos will always
> choose christianity as their
> justification-
Time and again the study of mental health shows that good habits (stimulation, study, logic) pay off in extended well-being, just as they do for physical health. This guy, the one who –
• shot a pregnant woman;
• to death;
• in the back
– was, I am confident, not seeing the world as it really is. Christians have that problem as well... I know from experience. I'm tempted to cut them a break, but Cosh reminds us that a price is paid for doing so.
> People blame their toasters for their
> crimes too on occasion
Name such an occasion.
_______
> It was a solid step backwards into Islam.
Are the mass graves open for business or something? (Answer carefully, lil' feller: We wouldn't want you to do an Ivins.)
Crid [CridComment @ gmail] at November 10, 2009 8:35 PM
Persecution of Christians Increasing in Iraq
by Robert Spencer
07/15/2009
On Sunday, July 12, Aziz Rozko Hanna, an Iraqi Christian who was serving as director of the Department of Financial Control of the city of Kirkuk, was driving with his daughter in Dumiz, a Christian neighborhood in Kirkuk, when he was stopped, pulled from his car, and shot dead in front of his daughter.
On the same day, five churches in Baghdad were bombed, wounding eight civilians. And all this has come after persecution and harassment that has led over half of the Christians in Iraq to leave the country in the last few years. The situation has gotten so bad that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baghdad, Jean Benjamin Sleiman, said in May: “I fear the extinction of Christianity in Iraq and the Middle East.”
Sleiman has good reason to fear. In 1909, the Middle East was 20 percent Christian; one hundred years later, that percentage has fallen to five percent. This decline is directly related to the resurgence of the Islamic jihad and Islamic supremacism around the world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. As Muslimsreassert traditional Islamic legal stipulations mandating and institutionalizing discrimination against and harassment of Christians, Christians all over the Islamic world are feeling the heat.
Quasi-secular despots such as Saddam Hussein were not interested in enforcing the provisions of Islamic law mandating second-class status for non-Muslims. (Saddam chose his murder victims on other bases.) Christians enjoyed relatively equal rights under his regime, but after he was toppled, things began to change radically. Groups dedicated to the imposition of Islamic law over the country began to victimize Christians on a large scale. In March 2007, Islamic gangs knocked on doors in Christian neighborhoods in Baghdad, demanding payment of the jizya -- the special tax the Koran mandates for non-Muslims who submit to Islamic rule....
there is more, and more, and more...but you get the drift.
For $1 trillion, our military created a Shiite state in Iraq, where Christians, Jews, and modern women have no place.
Who knew that Bush was Islamic--well, he kisses Saudi ass enough.
But then again, Bush also created an Islamic-narco state in Afghanie, so that extra billions could flow into Islamic-wacko coffers.
Like I said, we need better PR. We crushed a secular state and put in a Shiite state--no jihadist has done that yet!
Islamics had a true friend in Bush.
BOTU at November 10, 2009 9:20 PM
> Christians enjoyed relatively equal
> rights under his regime
That single phrase delivers so many corrupting shades of meaning as to mock the entire theses... What we got here is a bullshit artist. In any case, no one believes we invaded to Christianize the Middle East.
> For $1 trillion, our military created a
> Shiite state in Iraq, where Christians,
> Jews, and modern women have no place.
You adore teenage sarcasm more deeply than anything else in the world, don't you?
Did Jews 'have a place' in Saddam's Iraq? This is lunacy.
Crid [CridComment @ gmail] at November 11, 2009 2:00 PM
And what's with that 'narco-state' horseshit? Were there no poppies in Afghanistan before the US arrived? What are you calling a "state"?
Crid [CridComment @ gmail] at November 11, 2009 2:02 PM
With apologies for posting this somewhat late ...
Here's an informative interview with English columnist Melanie Phillips courtesy of Charles Adler.
To skip to the start, when the media player appears, move the slider so the time reads 6:00.
WELL worth a listen!!
Robert W. (Vancouver) at November 11, 2009 2:54 PM
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