Judgement and Judgmentalism: Major Nidal Hasan – Terrorist!
Terrorist?
The individual to the left is a mass murderer, that is indisputable, he murdered 13 individuals at Fort Hood, Texas in a single shooting spree.
The question is, is he also a terrorist and that requires a judgment from the reader. “Judgment? What are you talking about Roper, we don’t make judgments, that is judgmentalism. How dare you call into question or even think that this fellow had an ulterior motive other than being a really sick individual.”
And therein lies the problem. Do we judge based on accurate information or do we know but decline to judge because that is just not done in this multiculturalistic society.
Lets look at what we know and when did we know it. In the first minutes all that was known was that a shooter was actively killing people and had to be stopped. Police Sgt. Kimberly Munley, herself wounded by Hasan shot Hasan a number of times and brought him down.
He was rapidly identified as Major Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who was soon to be shipped to duty in Iraq. In short order, he was identified also as:
- a Muslim,
- an individual with a history of poor performance according to his OER,
- someone who had repeatedly made anti American statements such as praising the individual who murdered a soldier in Little Rock, Arkansas and stating that Muslims should fight back against the invader in Iraq (the invader being the United States of course),
- someone who stood on a desk firing a pistol and yelling “Allahu akbar!” — Arabic for “God is great!,”
- someone who said methodical goodbyes to acquaintances,
- someone who may have posted comments on the internet who thought suicide bombers were akin to kamikaze pilots.
- someone who’s behavior should have gotten him removed from a position of trust in the military,
- and lastly, someone who everybody and their second cousin is bending over backwards not to call a spade a spade,
The disgusting truth is that fear of being called judgmental has robbed America and its political class of courage and forthrightness. We can not afford to turn a blind eye to acts of terrorism. In fact, turning that blind eye is cowardice in the first degree.
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Comments
It was an act of terrorism, based on religious hatred. There. I said it. Get over it.
He could be both: insane (delusional) and a terrorist, but the fact that many terrorists might be deranged doesn’t excuse their terrorism, nor does it explain the MSM’s effort, always their first impulse, to downplay terrorist acts by politically favored groups, such as Muslims, who hide behind the suicidal ideology of multiculturalism. The media’s first attempt to maintain that this guy, a psychiatrist, went postal due to combat exhaustion, which then morphed into he caught PTSD from hearing the traumatic stories of combat vets, was disingenuous, and cowardly, as you say, at best.
As much as the left hates to be judgmental about other cultures and even about America’s enemies, they certainly have no problem being judgmental about conservatives, as for example, Rush Limbaugh or Sarah Palin or the tea partiers, etc. It’s interesting also how the word discriminate has now become a “bad word,” when having a discriminating intellect used to be considered an essential element of the educated mind. Also, prejudice, as Burke used the term, used to have other meanings besides bigotry, such as for example, having a predisposition towards something.
What the media and the public also seldom understand is that there is a difference between clinical insanity, such as occur in thought disorders or mania, and other mental disorders, such as anxiety, depression, or PTSD, for that matter. To complicate matters further, many individuals subscribe to what could be considered delusional belief systems, such as radical Islam, Nazism, Communism, or much of Progressive “liberalism,” for that matter, and still function in a relatively normal manner in their daily life. In fact, we all have our cherished delusions about one thing or the other if a delusion is defined as a situation where one’s beliefs don’t fit the facts. Delusions occur on a continuum from psychotic to unrealistic.
You’re leaving yourself wide open to leftists who will call you all assorted names.
I updated the post you saw earlier-
http://caosblog.com/archives/12504
It shows quite a bit of the evidence for people to weigh out. There is quite a bit more to this than can be seen by the MSM’s blind eyes.
I have about 32 footnotes on it. Nice post, GM, but as I said, you’re leaving the door wide open for lefty muzzie supporters who won’t admit what’s right in front of them.
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I just don’t see how some kind of psychiatric evaluation didn’t catch this guy earlier. Surely all the armed forces screen for stuff like this, don’t they?
Moose, there were numerous tells that this guy had a screw loose, it’s just that no one followed up on them. Had he been a Jew or a Christian he would have been out of the service ( I know of a couple that were tossed for just that kind of infraction – attempting to convert, especially after being told to knock it off). Besides, he was a psychiatrist and his boss in Walter Reed “counseled” him about his behavior but found it to be more politically correct to pass him on to someone else… kicking the can down the road as it were.
Fact: Hassan was a domestic terrorist under Sec. 802 of the U.S. Patriot Act.
Fact: Hassan committed an act of terrorism under the Texas Penal Code.
Fact: The PC policy of the Army, the FBI and the administration contributed to the act of domestic terrorism.
Good post, GM. It looks like terrorism to me, too. Plus,there were 14 murdered including the unborn child.