Muslim Major Accused Of Mass Murder At Texas Army Base: Many Questions

A Friday morning Washington Post article describes the Fort Hood mass murderer of 13 as “a devout Muslim born to Palestinian immigrants and raised in the Arlington and Roanoke areas of Virginia.”  The alleged killer is recently promoted Major Nidal M. Hasan, 39 a psychiatrist trained at the U. S. Military Medical School near Bethesda, Maryland who reportedly received a poor rating in a recent periodic evaluation. He is known to have expressed opposition to U. S. missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and reportedly retained a lawyer to prevent his deployment.

According to World Net Daily (WND) ““Muslims should stand up and fight the aggressor.” That’s what Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan said about America before he and possibly other Muslim soldiers at Fort Hood shot 43 fellow soldiers.

“He said Muslims had a right to attack” the U.S., said Col. Terry Lee, who worked with Hasan at the Texas post, where the devout Sunni Muslim refused deployment. “He said Muslims shouldn’t be fighting Muslims,” he added. “He was very clear on that.”

Shockingly, a growing number of other Muslim American soldiers as well as civilian contractors have put their religion before their duty. Some like Hasan have killed, or tried to kill, their fellow soldiers. Others have infiltrated the military in order to undermine it and aid and comfort the enemy.

According to an explosive new book, “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America,” Hasan is just the tip of a jihadist Fifth Column operating within the ranks of the U.S. military – which is too blinded by political correctness to see the threat.

At minimum the horrific incident at the Texas Army post raises a number of bizarre questions that demand answers among them:

1.    What, if anything, did his devotion to Islam have to do with the murder spree?

2.    Why was her promoted while facing a “poor” performance rating?

3.    Who and what else might be involved leading up to the massacre?

4.    How did he smuggle the guns onto the base where forbidden?

The Post asks “a string of unanswered questions remained about the accused shooter’s motives, his background and whether the military had evidence that might have shown he posed a risk to his colleagues.”

On Friday’s TODAY SHOW Fort Hood’s commander said, “soldiers who witnessed the shooting reported that the gunman shouted “Allahu akhbar,” Arabic for “God is great,” before opening fire.” Last evening a neighbor reported Hasan has scribed similar sentiments on his apartment door or walls. He was reportedly giving away his belongings and copies of the Koran.

The rampage raises frayed tensions surrounding Muslims. The already beleaguered Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said it condemned the shooting “in the strongest terms possible.”

“No political or religious ideology could ever excuse such wanton and indiscriminate violence,” CAIR said in a statement. “The attack was particularly heinous in that it targeted the all-volunteer army that protects our nation.”

Hasan graduated from Virginia Tech in 1997 and earned a medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda. He spent at least six years at Walter Reed, training as a psychiatrist, before moving to Fort Hood.

He had been a “very devout” worshiper at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, attending prayers at least once a day, often in his Army fatigues, said Faizul Khan, a former imam there.

A co-worker identified as Col. Terry Lee told Fox News that Hasan opposed the U.S. role in Iraq and Afghanistan and told others that “we should not be in the war in the first place.” He said Hasan acknowledged that soldiers have a duty to follow the commander in chief’s orders, but was hoping that President Obama would order a pullout from the conflicts.

The Fort Hood shooting follows a June incident outside a Little Rock military recruiting center in which one soldier was killed and another wounded. Authorities said Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, who converted to Islam and changed his name as an adult, acted alone in the incident. He has pleaded not guilty.

Before the shooting, Muhammad traveled to Yemen, where he emerged on the radar of a Joint Terrorism Task Force. Local police said he was motivated in part by political and religious fervor.