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“We love death more then [sic] you love life!”

By Jamie McIntyre Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 9:23 am
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Random quotes on the shootings at Ft. Hood:

Maj Hasan’s PowerPoint — Washington Post

“Fighting to establish an Islamic State to please God, even by force, is condoned by the Islam.” “We love death more then [sic] you love life!“
– Maj. Nidal Hasan’s PowerPoint presentation, “The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military,” June 2007, as quoted by The Washington Post.

“I want to say very quickly we don’t know enough to say now, but there are very, very strong warning signs here that Dr. Hasan had become an Islamist extremist and, therefore, that this was a terrorist act.“
- Sen. Joseph Lieberman, (I) Connecticut

“It didn’t cross my mind that he was dangerous… He’s a chubby, bald guy. He wasn’t threatening.”
— An anonymous former classmate, quoted by the Washington Post

“I looked into his eyes, and he scared me… I don’t think he flipped out… I think what he did was an act of terrorism.“
–Cindy Gagnier who met Hasan in Walter Reed after her son, Christian suffered a traumatic brain injury in Iraq in 2005, (New York Daily News)

“We can’t jump to conclusions now based on little snippets of information that come out. And frankly, I am worried – not worried, but I’m concerned that this increased speculation could cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers. And I’ve asked our Army leaders to be on the lookout for that. It would be a shame – as great a tragedy as this was, it would be a shame if our diversity became a casualty as well.“
– Gen. George Casey, Army Chief of Staff, on CNN

“On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting, ‘Allahu akbar!’ (‘God is great!’) committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam. What cowards we are. Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans at Fort Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did. And the media treat it like a case of nondenominational shoplifting.
– Col. Ralph Peters, (Ret.) in the New York Post

“There’s a difference between sensitivity and stupidity. If there were indeed signs that Maj. Nidal Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood mass murderer, was becoming radicalized in his opposition to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army had a duty to act — before he did,“
”…fairness is one thing, foolishness another. Any soldier who seemed as if he might be falling apart — and it seems that Hasan gave a lot of people that impression — should have been given more scrutiny. In Hasan’s case, a closer look would have revealed his growing religiosity and his feeling that his faith was under assault.“
– Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, Nov 10, 2009

Tags: Ft. Hood, Hasan, Terrorism

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	Joan Doniger November 9th, 2009 at 5:39 pm Man, I hate the term ‘political correctness’. That’s not what stopped more people from ignoring what seem now to be clear warning signs about Dr. Hasan’s radical views. It was fear of litigation… that’s not P.C. — it’s cash, pure and simple.
	poolswami November 10th, 2009 at 5:26 pm Agree Joan. It is, no doubt, the same reason these acts are refered to in the generic “terrorist” rather than what they are, which is Islamist Jihad.
	David Burris November 10th, 2009 at 5:54 pm Enter text right here!
	Curt Kastens November 11th, 2009 at 7:27 pm Boooo! Duuuhhhh! Boooo! Duuuhhh! Boooo! Duuuhhhh! Boooo! Duuuhhh! Hey maybe my making fun of myself is just a desperate cry for attention. Or maybe it is a desperate act of disinformation designed to confuse those who are already configured even more. If you do not believe me check out my last post if you can, which is a reply to the replies of my post which is the first one on the other FT: Hood story. That is if the site administrators lack the cents to publish it.
	PopeYodaI November 12th, 2009 at 4:14 pm Does it matter what classification we give him? At best, he is a mass-murderer and at worst, a traitor to both his friends, his country and the trust the United States military placed upon him given his rank as an officer. He is already long overdue for an execution.
	Luci November 13th, 2009 at 1:33 pm we assume everybody need to be given a chance. It ‘s time to stop this BS and realize that maybe, just maybe, Muslim Soldiers need to be screened, heavily screened before entering the US Military. This is just an isolated case??? really???? I remeber the press saying that a few years back about a Muslim wanna be throwing a grenade into a tent and killing some US officers in Kuwait. Isolated? really? I don’t trust Muslims, and I don’t give a damn about my PC.
	Mike McGrady November 13th, 2009 at 4:31 pm This guy is undoubtedly a terrorist. He probably wasn’t raised that way in Northern Virginia and the Roanoke area where he grew up. But something happened to him that made him become a “radical” Muslim./// Isn’t it wonderful that he was brought down by a WOMAN police officer. Can you imagine anything more DEMEANING to a devout Muslim than being overcome by a female. The next good news is that he may be paralyzed. Wouldn’t that be wonderful. The military must not put this terrorist to death, because it would make him a martyr to his kind. Absolutely, he must be kept alive for as long as he will naturally live, and hopefully in a paralyzed state, so he can think of his terrorist acts for many, many years.
	Joseph Tipton December 30th, 2009 at 1:24 am During the Korean ‘war’ I spent nearly two years as an ETSN aboard the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63)‘ I don’t know if there were any Muslims on the “Big Mo” or not, but if there were they weren’t very visible.