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By: Speaking clearly about absolute evil | WmWms

Speaking clearly about absolute evil | WmWms — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:18:40 +0000

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By: Bob Brown

Bob Brown — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:49:08 +0000

I was assigned to Fort Hood nine years ago. I’ve driven past the shooting scene on numerous occasions but never stopped in there. Back then the site was called the Sports Dome and I believe it was a sports themed bar where soldiers could hang out. I guess it’s now been converted to a deployment processing center.

This makes the second incident I’m aware of concerning Muslim soldiers fragging their fellow soldiers. I’d guess that most soldiers will now be privately suspicious of any other Muslim American soldiers. I say privately because political correct speak is pretty well entrenched in the military since the Clinton era. I guess most Arab American soldiers are loyal but there can’t be many of them because in my 20 years of service I never met one. I worked with some Arab American civilians in Afghanistan who served as translators. They worked well with us and I never had any reason to question their loyalty.

There isn’t much that can be done to prevent these types of incidents short of making a draconian policy of not allowing Arab Americans to serve in the military…which I think would be unworkable. Soldiers will probably now be more aware and start paying much closer attention to displays of religious zealotry especially among their Muslim brothers in arms.

By: Lea

Lea — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:19:56 +0000

I keep reading how he didn’t want to be deployed and was trying to get out of the army because they discriminated against his religion. That’s too much like blaming it on the victim. Plus, it’s not like he targeted a specific person that antagonized him. He mowed done a bunch of people who probably held lots of different views. Not to mention, this really does nothing to help people view your choosen religion with MORE tolerance.

I, also, have a problem with the excuse that “he didn’t want to be deployed”. Um… did you not know when you signed up to be in the military that it might be a possibility? If your real “motivation” is not to go to war, wouldn’t you just go AWOL?

Do I think all Muslims are like this? Of course NOT! Do I think the guy is nuts? Yep! I’m not buying all the political spin on his “motivation”, though.

By: BamaDan

BamaDan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:34:02 +0000

As Mrs. BD says, “It’s a stereotype because it’s usually true.” Tell me what you were thinking as soon as his name was released…Hasan….hmmm.

It’s going to suck to be a Muslim in the military now methinks. Terrible, terrible.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:17:33 +0000

Wonderful. Now ever our domestic terrorists are Muslim.

By: kemtee

kemtee — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:31:35 +0000

It hits hard. My brother has friends on that base. But even he admits that the vetting process isn’t what it probably should be. And even then, there’s not such a surplus of Army shrinks that he would have been tossed, anyway.

Doesn’t make it any better.