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November 5, 2009 | 7:42 pm

The Muslim Army major at center of Fort Hood massacre

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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Malik Hasan

It’s never a good sign when I receive an e-mail from the Muslim Public Affair Council with the heading “MPAC CONDEMNS ...”

Today, the condemnation was in regards to the massacre at Fort Hood that left at least 12 dead and 31 injured. Why was MPAC weighing in? Sometimes the organization speaks out just to offer condolences. Not the case today.

The Fort Hood gunman was alllegedly one Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a psychiatrist. I don’t know who that is. But I recognize that as an Arabic name. I don’t need to explain why that most certainly has many Muslim Americans on edge:

By Thursday evening, nevertheless, Arab-American and Muslim-American advocacy organizations were already readying themselves for a backlash. The Arab-American Institute said it received one threatening call from an unidentified male shortly after reports surfaced that the name of the alleged shooting suspect was Nidal Malik Hasan. The group, which condemned the massacre, said it was expecting more.

“We like to give people the benefit of the doubt and chalk it up to being a reactionary thing,” said Leigh O’Neill, director of government relations for the organization. “But there is a lot of hate out there and hate is hate. It is bipartisan and doesn’t have geographic balance. We feel terrible for the victims today. And I wish people will understand when crime is crime and terrorism is terrorism.”

ABC News’ Brian Ross reported that Hasan was a recent convert to Islam.

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I don’t feel sorry about what happened in fort hood, Texas.  Defense Security Services (DSS) are granting clearances to highly undeserving people while denying clearances to those who deserve them. Way to go investigators on your outstanding performances. May be we will hear more about such incidents because of the stupidity of DSS and their screw up background investigations. DDS reaped what they sow.

Comment by Rick on 11/06/09 at 5:15 am

No one seems to want to admit the truth that a number of Moslems in our armed forces are anti semitic, have lauded the suicide bombings in Israel and do not represent the best of America. The liberals would have you believe otherwise but a Moslem soldier murdered several GI’s in Iraq two years ago as well. Better screening is needed to find out if we are allowing anti semites and trojan horses into our military.

For the record, since our 911 Islamist terrorists have conducted bombings that have claimed the lives of thousands of innocent people in Israel, as well as in Iraq, Saudia Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Lebanon, Indonesia, and Turkey (ALL Moslem countries) and in England, Spain, Fiji, The Phillipines, and other several other countries.

When are we going to get our heads out of the sand and admit that there is such a thing as Islamic terror? Of the twenty countries attacked since our 911 by these fundamentalists only five have relations with Israel so blaming Israel for this wave of international terrorism is groundless. These people hate Christians and Jews and it’s time we stop pretending otherwise.

Comment by Mark Jeffery Koch on 11/06/09 at 9:47 am

The only way this affects American Jews anymore than it affects Americans of any other non-Muslim religion is that Obama had to cancel his speech at the UJC GA: http://lfacc.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/obama-cancelled-planned-ga-speech/

Comment by Guy on 11/08/09 at 2:42 am

I support the way President Obama is handling the Fort Hood massacre committed by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.  The United States military must be vigilant about Islamic terrorism, but the United States cannot afford to give the impression that it is against Islam or its own Muslim citizens.  The rhetoric in the media in response to the Fort Hood massacre has too often called on non-Muslim Americans to be suspicious of of their Muslim compatriots.  This rhetoric sometimes spills over into hate speech and calls to violence against Muslim Americans.

http://lfacc.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/investigation-of-hasan/

Comment by Guy on 11/14/09 at 11:22 pm

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