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Fort Hood Shooter Was Against War, So Why Did He Snap?

Fort Hood Shooter Was Against War, So Why Did He Snap?

Suspected shooter Nidal Malik Hasan

New York Daily News via YellowBrix

November 06, 2009

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was a soldier who didn’t want to go to war, a man of God who defended murder and a doctor who shot up the soldiers he was supposed to heal.

As he lay mute in a hospital bed Thursday night, investigators were scrambling to figure out what prompted his rampage.

Hasan had been a psychiatrist treating wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington until bad reviews got him transferred to Fort Hood, Tex., in July.

He was due to ship out to war, and his family said he did not want to go.

“We’ve known for the last five years that was his worst nightmare,” cousin Nader Hasan told Fox News, calling the suspect “a good American.”

He said his cousin “was dealing with some harassment from his military colleagues.” KXXV-TV reported someone keyed the word “Allah” into Hasan’s car last week and he reported it as a hate crime.

A former co-worker told Fox News the Army major opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“He said maybe the Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor,” Col. Terry Lee said.

“At first, we thought he was talking about how Muslims should stand up and help the armed forces in Iraq and in Afghanistan, but apparently that wasn’t the case.”

Before being sent to Texas, Hasan, 39, lived in Silver Spring, Md., where a former imam at the Muslim Community Center described him as devout.

He attended daily services and signed up for the mosque’s matchmaking service.

“He wanted a wife more religious than him,” Faizul Khan told the Daily News. “She had to pray five times a day. She had to wear the hajib. He was a young, good looking guy and a physician but he couldn’t find anybody.”

Khan said he never heard Hasan express any political opinions. But at least once this year, Hasan apparently went online to defend suicide bombing.

Responding to a treatise on whether suicide bombers could be martyrs when Islam outlaws suicide, Hasan compared them to a soldier who jumps on a grenade.

“You can call them crazy [if] you want but their act was not one of suicide that is despised by Islam,” he wrote.

Hasan was born in Virginia to Palestinian parents who emigrated from Jordan.

His carnage followed several other cases of U.S. soldiers turning homicidal against their comrades.


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    Texas2step

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    Bump Trooperman911, and thanks for all your research! I found it compelling to read!

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    trooperman911

    10 days ago

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    After reading all of these post, I am posting information that I feel can shed some good light on where we in the USA stand regarding Muslim/Islam Extremist and Terrorism; I hope this helps. The Major should have be noticed for his antics on being pro anti war and once detected thwarfted his advantage of carrying out a well planned, well orchestrated attack on troops on the base where he was a Major. Many mistakes occurred here, that shouldn't have...but this is not the first and definitely will not be the very last. Read On Please.
    TheReligionofPeace.com

    Islamic Terror Attacks on American Soil



    We recently got taken to the mat by a polite, young Muslim living in the U.K. who took issue with our oft-repeated statement that no Muslim-American lost their life to vigilante violence following 9/11. She provided us a list of six or seven candidates and, after whittling out the ones where the killer was unknown or in cases with mitigating circumstances such as “victim was sleeping with killer’s ex-girlfriend” (and we’re not making that up), we reached a shocking conclusion:

    We were wrong.

    There is one seemingly unambiguous case that occurred in Dallas, Texas where Waqar Hasan, a Muslim convenience storeowner, was gunned down by Mark Anthony Stroman four days after the 9/11 attacks. Stroman claimed to have been motivated by anger from watching the towers fall. He is not exactly your average American, however, even apart from the shooting. For one thing, he is a white supremacist who carried a felony criminal record at the time of the attack. He also went on to shoot two more people in the weeks that followed.

    Thankfully, an American jury sentenced Mark Stroman to death. The same cannot be said of many Muslim terrorists such as Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Al Megrahi, who not only have sanctuary in Muslim countries, but are often treated as heroes by devout followers of Muhammad.

    Nevertheless, we acknowledge that our friend is correct and that there was at least one Muslim killed in an anti-Arab hate crime in the U.S. following the anti-American hate crime on 9/11. For anyone keeping score:

    People killed by radical Muslims on 9/11: 2,996
    Muslim-Americans killed "in revenge": 1

    Of course, 9/11 was neither the first nor the last time that Muslims have killed Americans on U.S. soil in terror attacks. In fact, since that day, Muslims have killed at least 52 people in 31 separate acts of terrorism in the United States (by the standards that Muslim-American groups set for hate crimes). Perhaps more importantly, there have been quite a few planned mass murders of Americans by Islamic terrorists that were thwarted by the FBI, law enforcement and overseas intelligence operations both before and after 9/11.

    By contrast, Muslim-Americans do not appear to be in any special danger from murderous (non-Muslim) religious fanatics, even in a nation awash in firearms. Identity groups, such as CAIR, whine incessantly about relatively trivial incidents while turning a blind eye to the horrible violence that is meted out daily in the name of their religion. This distasteful petulance offers insight not only into the character of Islam, but also the impressive religious tolerance that Americans manage to maintain.

    For anyone wondering about the history of deadly Islamic terror on American soil in the last 35 years, here’s what we could find:

    Date Country City/State Killed Injured Description
    4/14/1972 USA New York, NY 1 3 Ten members of a local mosque phone in a false alarm and then ambush responding officers, killing one.
    1/19/1973 USA Brooklyn, NY 1 1 Muslim extremists rob a sporting goods store for weapons, gunning down a police officer who responds to the alarm.
    7/18/1973 USA Washington, DC 8 2 Nation of Islam members shoot seven members of a family to death in cold blood, including four children. A defendant in the case is later murdered in prison on orders from Elijah Muhammad.
    10/19/1973 USA Oakland, CA 1 1 Nation of Islam terrorists kidnap a couple and nearly decapitate the man, while raping and leaving the woman for dead.
    10/29/1973 USA Berkeley, CA 1 0 A woman is shot repeatedly in the face by Nation of Islam terrorists.
    11/25/1973 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A grocer is killed in his store by Nation of Islam terrorists.
    12/11/1973 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A man is killed by Nation of Islam terrorists while using a phone booth.
    12/13/1973 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A woman is shot to deah on the sidewalk by Nation of Islam terrorists.
    12/20/1973 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 Nation of Islam terrorists gun down an 81-year-old janitor.
    12/22/1973 USA Oakland, CA 2 0 Nation of Islam terrorist kills two people in separate attacks on the same day.
    12/24/1973 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A man is kidnapped, tortured and decapitated by Nation of Islam terrorists.
    1/24/1974 USA Oakland, CA 4 1 Five vicious shooting attacks by Nation of Islam terrorists leave three people dead and one paralyzed for life. Three of the victims were women.
    4/1/1974 USA Oakland, CA 1 1 A Nation of Islam terrorist shoots at two Salvation Army members, killing a man and injuring a woman.
    4/16/1974 USA Ingleside, CA 1 0 A man is killed while helping a friend move by Nation of Islam terrorists.
    3/9/1977 USA Washington, DC 1 1 Hanifi Muslims storm three buildings including a B'nai B'rith to hold 134 people hostage. At least two innocents were shot and one died.
    7/22/1980 USA Bethesda, MD 1 0 A political dissident is shot and killed in front of his home by an Iranian agent who was an American convert to Islam.
    8/31/1980 USA Savou, IL 2 0 An Iranian student guns down his next-door neighbors, a husband and wife.
    1/31/1990 USA Tuscon, AZ 1 0 A Sunni cleric is assassinated in front of a Tuscon mosque after declaring that two verses of the Qur'an were invalid.
    11/5/1990 USA New York City, NY 1 0 An Israeli rabbi is shot to death by a Muslim attacker at a hotel.
    1/25/1993 USA Langley, VA 2 3 A Pakistani with Mujahideen ties guns down two CIA agents outside of the headquarters.
    2/26/1993 USA New York, NY 6 1040 Islamic terrorists detonate a massive truck bomb under the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring over 1,000 in an effort to collapse the towers.
    3/1/1994 USA Brooklyn, NY 1 0 A Muslim fires on a vanload of Jewish boys, killing one.
    3/23/1997 USA New York, NY 1 6 A Palestinian leaves an anti-Jewish suicide note behind and travels to the top of the Empire State building where he shoot seven people in a Fedayeen attack.
    4/3/1997 USA Lompoc, CA 1 0 A prison guard is stabbed to death by a radical Muslim.
    10/31/1999 USA Near Nantucket 217 0 An Egyptian airline pilot runs a planeload of 217 passengers into the water after uttering a Qur'anic prayer.
    3/17/2000 USA Atlanta, GA 1 1 A local imam and Muslim spiritual leader guns down a deputy sheriff and injures his partner.
    9/11/2001 USA Washington, DC 184 53 Nearly 200 people are killed when Islamic hijackers steer a plane full of people into the Pentagon.
    9/11/2001 USA Shanksville, PA 40 0 Forty passengers are killed after Islamic radicals hijack the plane in an attempt to steer it into the U.S. Capitol building.
    9/11/2001 USA New York, NY 2772 251 Islamic hijackers steer two planes packed with fuel and passengers into the World Trade Center, killing hundreds on impact and eventually killing thousands when the towers collapsed. At least 200 are seriously injured.
    3/19/2002 USA Tuscon, AZ 1 0 A 60-year-old man is gunned down by Muslim snipers on a golf course.
    5/27/2002 USA Denton, TX 1 0 Muslim snipers kill a man as he works in his yard.
    7/4/2002 USA Los Angeles, CA 2 0 Muslim man pulls out a gun at the counter of an Israeli airline and kills two people.
    9/5/2002 USA Clinton, MD 1 0 A 55-year-old pizzaria owner is shot six times in the back by Muslims at close range.
    9/21/2002 USA Montgomery, AL 1 1 Muslim snipers shoot two women, killing one.
    9/23/2002 USA Baton Rouge, LA 1 0 A Korean mother is shot in the back by Muslim snipers.
    10/2/2002 USA Wheaton, MD 1 0 Muslim snipers gun down a program analyst in a store parking lot.
    10/3/2002 USA Montgomery County, MD 5 0 Muslim snipers kill three men and two women in separate attacks over a 15-hour period.
    10/9/2002 USA Manassas, VA 1 1 A man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas two days after a 13-year-old is wounded by the same team.
    10/11/2002 USA Fredericksburg, VA 1 0 Another man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas.
    10/14/2002 USA Arlington, VA 1 0 A woman is killed by Muslim snipers in a Home Depot parking lot.
    10/22/2002 USA Aspen Hill, MD 1 0 A bus driver is killed by Muslim snipers.
    8/6/2003 USA Houston, TX 1 0 After undergoing a religious revival, a Saudi college student slashes the throat of a Jewish student with a 4" butterfly knife, nearly decapitating the young man.
    12/2/2003 USA Chicago, IL 1 0 A Muslim doctor deliberately allows a Jewish patient to die from an easily treatable condition.
    4/13/2004 USA Raleigh, NC 1 4 A Muslim man runs down five strangers with a car.
    4/15/2004 USA Scottsville, NY 1 2 In an honor killing, a Muslim father kills his wife and attacks his two daughters with a knife and hammer because he feared that they had been sexually molested.
    6/16/2006 USA Baltimore, MD 1 0 A 62-year-old Jewish moviegoer is shot to death by a Muslim gunman in an unprovoked terror attack.
    6/25/2006 USA Denver, CO 1 5 Saying that it was 'Allah's choice', a Muslim shoots four of his co-workers and a police officer.
    7/28/2006 USA Seattle, WA 1 5 An 'angry' Muslim-American uses a young girl as hostage to enter a local Jewish center, where he shoots six women, one of whom dies.
    10/6/2006 USA Louisville, KY 4 1 In an 'honor' attack, a Muslim man rapes and beats his estranged wife, leaving her for dead, then savagely murders their four children.
    2/13/2007 USA Salt Lake City, UT 5 4 A Muslim immigrant goes on a shooting rampage at a mall, targeting people buying Valentine's Day cards at a gift shop and killing five.
    1/1/2008 USA Irving, TX 2 0 A Muslim immigrant shoots his two daughters to death on concerns about their 'Western' lifestyle.
    7/6/2008 USA Jonesboro, GA 1 0 A devout Muslim strangles his 25-year-old daughter in an honor killing.
    2/12/2009 USA Buffalo, NY 1 0 The founder of a Muslim TV station beheads his wife in the hallway for seeking a divorce.
    6/1/2009 USA Little Rock, AR 1 1 A Muslim with 'religious motives' shoots a local soldier to death inside a recruiting center.
    11/2/2009 USA Glendale, AZ 1 1 A woman dies from injuries suffered when her father runs her down with a car for being too 'Westernized.' (10-20-09)
    11/5/2009 USA Ft. Hood, TX 13 31 A Muslim psychiatrist guns down thirteen unarmed soldiers while yelling praises to Allah.

    (3,308 killed by Muslims in America in 65 terror attacks)

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    delvic_25

    10 days ago

    234 Comments

    sad .... so sad

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    chief47

    11 days ago

    28 Comments

    sad, sad , sad..

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    Vigilant101

    11 days ago

    10760 Comments

    Sorry but I rate this NY Daily News artilce as a piece of politially correct sheet!!! Whan a Muslim in the West for no apparent reason violently attacks non-Muslims, a predicatable argument ensues about motives. The establishment - law enforcement, pollticians, the media and the academy stands on one side of this debate, insisting that some kind of 'Oppression cused Maj Nidal Malik Hasan to kill 13 and wound 38 at Ft Hood on Nov 5. It disagrees on the specifics, however presenting Hasan as the VICTIM ALTERNATIVELY OF 'RACISM." HARASSMENT HE HAD RECEIVED AS A MUSLIM." Ok let's cut the politically piece of crap and focus on the lives this piece of shit spent so that he could arrive safe and sound to that place of peace and understated paradise for those who mistake his even being alive as grace from a merciful God. Yo, dog breath. you were just a heart beat from an eternity in hell and hopefully you will pay a merciless but justifiend swift justice for your cold calculated plans to kill and destroy those who have fought on your miserble turf so that you might witness love instead of hatred for your non Muslim non covnerted comrades. There are many instance of Muslim-on-unbeliever violence inspire the victim school to dig up new and imaginative excuses. Colorful examples of how Muslimd deny Islamist terrorism) include
    1990; "A precription drug for ..depression" to explain the assassinatin of Rabbi Meir Kahane)
    1991: "A robbery gone wrong' (the murder of Makin Morcos in Sydnery)
    1994: 'Road rage" (the killing of a random Jew on the Brooklyn Bridge)
    1997: "Many, many enemies in his mind" (the shooting murder stop the Empire State Bld.)
    2000: "A traffic incident (the attack on a bus of Jewish schoolchildren near Paris)
    2002 "A work dispute' (the double murder at LAX)
    2002 " A stormy {family} relationship" (the Beltway snipers)
    2003 "Mental illness (the mutilation urder of Sebataian Sellam)
    2004 "Loneliness and depression" (an explosion in Brescia, Italy) outside a McDonald's rest.
    2005 "A disagreement between the suspect and another staff member' (a rampage at a retirement center in Virginia)
    2006: " An anhimus toward women" ( a murderous rampage at the Jjewish Fed'n of Greater Seattle)
    2006 "His recent arranged marriage may have made him stressed" (killing with an SUV in N. California)
    So like wise when a Osama bin Laden admiring Arab American crashed a plane into a Tampa high rise blame fell on the Acne Drug ...'ACCUTANE.
    So far from being mystified by Hasan, we see overwhelming evidence of his jihadi intentions. He handed out Korans toneighbors just before going on his rampage and YELLED..' ALLAH AKBAR.: The jihadist cry as he fired off over 100 rounds from his TWO PISTALS. His superiors reportedly put him on probation for inappropiately proselytizing about his warted ISLAM. We note what former associates say about him: one Val Finnell, quot4es Hasan saying, 'I AM A MUSLIM FIRST and an AMERICAN SECOND." AND redalls Hasan justifying suicide terrorism; another Col Terry Lee recalls that Hasan "claimed Muslisms had the right to RISE UP AND ATTACK AMERICANS' the third pshchiatrist who workd very closely with this piece of garbage described him as being "almost belligerent about being Muslin."
    So we see the jihad explanation is overwhelmingly more persuasive than the vicitm one., I'ts also far more awkeard to articulate. Everyone finds blaming road rage, Accutane, or an a rranged marriage easier than discussing ISLAMIC DOCTRINES.! And so, a prediction; What Ralph Peters calls the armyps 'unforgivable political correctness" will officially ascribe Hasan's assault to his victimization and will leave jihad unmentioned.! What does it all mean? It means this Ameria. As a member of th jihad school of interpretation, we all must reject these excuses or explantaitons as weak, obfuscatory, and aplolgetic! The Jihad school still in the minority, perceives HASANS's attack as one of many Muslim efforst to vanquish infides ( USA) and impose Islamic law. We an recall a prior episode of sudden JIHAD SYNNDROME in the US Military, as well as the numerous cases of non-lethal Pentagon jihadi plots and the history of Muslim violence on American soil SO FELLOW AMERICANS WHO ARE GIVING THEIR LIVES FOR OUR COUNTRY ARE WE TO STAND BY WATCH OUR FIGHTING AMERCAN PATRIOTS BE ASKED TO BLIND ITSELF AND NOT PREPARE FOR ITS NEXT JIHADI ATTACK. GOD GIVE US THE STRENTH AND MIND TO KNOW THE TRUTH AND IN ORDER TO KEEP OUR FIGHTING MEN AND WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY SAFE ON AMERIAN SOIL WE MUST HAVE THE RIGHT PIECES IN PLACE. IT'S A MATTER OF SURVIVAL.

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    pineview

    11 days ago

    12 Comments

    Someone explain to me how a man who is against war becomes a Major in the military. Now I'm not saying that we should all be gun-ho for war, I'm just saying that it seems to me that someone, especially high ranking, should be supportive of the need for war, when and if the time comes that it's necessary. Army really screwed the pooch on this one by allowing this man to disgrace the Army code and uniform.

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    Firecop335

    11 days ago

    16 Comments

    I read this story and am totally discusted. Are we supposed to feel sorry for this terrorist? Cause that's what he is >plain and simple! And how did our military let this scumbag thru the system. This stinks to high heaven. I spent 24 yrs serving my country and when something like this happens, it burns my stomach. They should hang this SOB!!

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    stratshot3

    11 days ago

    12 Comments

    I have no word that can explain the hatred I have for this POS so called a human. Just his name angers me, being an american and a soldier. Who also around him knew he was supporting terroist ideas and having so much outburst and he still had acess to weapons and other things. People get red flagged all the time if someone feels suspected problems, this guy should of been on lock down. All the dead soldiers families and friends should get one hour in a locked room with him when he wakes up, NO MERCY for this guy and playing off he got made fun of, thats life buddy it happens everywhere.. YOUR LIFE AND RELIOUGOUS IDEA are a waste

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    CAZ

    12 days ago

    660 Comments

    If this POS passes that will not be a loss. It will however save taxpayers money supporting him in jail for the rest of his life. This guy was weak and a poor excuse for a Military Officer and he should not be considered an American from this point forward. He is a traitor who committed treason. If he does survive I hope the Military finds him guilty and the impose the most sever sentence on him.

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    ras3222

    12 days ago

    1074 Comments

    Amen BHenry1969!!!

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    Koda0317

    12 days ago

    150 Comments

    This is unfortunite that this happened, this guy should have been taken out out of the military a long time ago, especially with his conduct. I personally think he was a radical extremist and a sleeper cell, i'm tired of hearing about people like this labeled as "snapping" he knew what he wanted to do and did it when the oppertunity presented itself. To these extremists there are no ethics, no code of conduct, no reasoning, you cant re-educate them and tell them by the way your religion is wrong. Religion is a powerful motivator and they believe they are doing gods work,,,how do you combat that?

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    FPD290Det

    12 days ago

    66 Comments

    MUSLIM / ISLAM, Hmmmmmmm, I guess we will never learn!!!!

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    Robocop33

    12 days ago

    5484 Comments

    He was and is NOT a good American. He is a tratior and if he survives he shoulod be tried as one as well as the murders of those that fell under his firearms and then promptly exicuted by firing squad. Why in the hell do we allow Muslims who cannot be trusted at this time in our military? Make no mistake, to them this is a Holy War and all about religion. "We" may not think that way and we may only be concerned about freedom and fighting terrorists but the Muslims are engaged in a Holy War. I am not against Muslims but in this time of war I am not about to trust them in these type of situations.

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    jb4justice

    12 days ago

    16 Comments

    I agree with HP15 This scum should have been kicked out as soon as he posted anti-american remarks on the internet, the military invented the whole idea of the internet, I think someone should have been monitoring it alittle better, I hate to point fingers but we must have a more stingent way of making sure we dont have radical muslim terrorists serving in our military.

    I hope they hang this POS bastard from the highest tree or gallows, and that any of his radical muslim friends take warning!

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    BHenry1969

    13 days ago

    386 Comments

    I'm with Vigilant. "Snapping" means you just act out immediately in the heat of the moment. This punk planned this out and prepared himself to go out in a blaze of glory. Unfortunately for him, thanks to Ft. Hood PD, he gets a dose of high-velocity lead poisoning and is going to face justice for his cowardice. If he doesn't get death, I hope he at least gets to rot in misery for the rest of his worthless life in the deepest pit the prison system can find for him. (And to top it off, when he dies I hope he becomes one of someone else's 72 virgins!)

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