He Couldn't Possibly Be A Muslim Crazy!

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Anything but the gigantic elephant in the room .

November 10 2009

The day after Major Nidal Malik Hasan murdered 13 fellow American soldiers.
the BBC's Gavin Lee goes to the killer's mosque and meets "Duane":

Duane : I'm not going to condemn him for what he did. I don't know why he
did it. I will not, absolutely not, condemn him for what he had done though.
If he had done it for selfish reasons I still will not condemn him. He's my
brother in the end. I will never condemn him.

Gavin Lee : There might be a lot of people shocked to hear you say that.

Duane: Well, that's the way it is. I don't speak for the community here but
me personally I will not condemn him.

Gavin Lee : What are your thoughts towards those that were victims in this?

Duane : They were, in the end, they were troops who were going to
Afghanistan and Iraq to kill Muslims. I honestly have no pity for them. It's
just like the majority of the people that will hear this, after five or six
minutes they'll be shocked, after that they'll forget about them and go on
their day.

Hasan's attack is the third on US troops this year allegedly by Muslims in
America:

"Federal prosecutors in September charged two North Carolina men for
allegedly conspiring to kill personnel at the U.S. Marine Corps base at
Quantico, seeking to attack U.S. forces at home if they could not overseas.
In June, Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, an American Muslim convert, allegedly
shot and killed one soldier and wounded another at a military recruiting
center at Little Rock, Ark., in what he said was retaliation for U.S.
counterterrorism policies worldwide. "

"Also this year, the last of five men was sentenced in April to 33 years in
prison for planning to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J., a plot inspired by
foreign terrorist groups. "

Hasan himself praised suicide bombers, preached hatred of America, urged
Muslims to fight the Americans and yelled "God is great" in Arabic as he
shot his 42 victims.

Yet the denialism of many in the media reaches cartoonish lengths at the
Atlantic Wire:

"A 39-year-old Army psychiatrist, he appears to have not been motivated by
his Muslim religion, his Palestinian heritage (he is American by
nationality), or any related political causes."

UPDATE

Time magazine searches desperately for any other answer but the one
screaming "Allahu Akbar" in its ear:

A list of the other excuses found so far.

UPDATE

The first question is, of course, how to deal with a faith that inspires a
very dangerous minority to such lethal acts and betrayals.

The second is why the US army and intelligence services failed to act on all
the clues Hasan gave that he was not to be trusted in the army - or at all.
Here's just the latest:

U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik
Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda,
two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC
News.

"Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan tried to make contact with people linked to al
Qaeda.It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army
that one of its officers was seeking to connect with suspected al Qaeda
figures, the officials said."

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