By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: November 28, 2009
What should we make of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who apparently killed 13 innocent people at Fort Hood?
Here’s my take: Major Hasan may have been mentally unbalanced — I assume anyone who shoots up innocent people is. But the more you read about his support for Muslim suicide bombers, [...]
A domestic Islamic threat is real, and the FBI is unprepared to fight it.
By REUEL MARC GERECHT
For those of us who have tracked Islamic militancy in Europe, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s actions are not extraordinary. Since Muslim militants first tried to blow a French high-speed train off its rails in 1995, European intelligence and [...]
Has he been too conciliatory?
By Jacob Weisberg
When it comes to any issue that involves Islam, President Obama starts with an advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage is that he’s seen as sympathetic to Muslims. The disadvantage is also that he’s seen as sympathetic to Muslims.
With a Muslim name, African Muslim ancestry on his father’s side, [...]
In stirring, eloquent and typically well- delivered remarks, President Obama yesterday paid tribute to the 13 people gunned down in last week’s Fort Hood shooting rampage — and to all the members of the US armed forces.
His comments were especially fitting — spoken, as they were, on the eve of Veterans Day, when the nation [...]
By Ed Koch
The U.S. Army and President Barack Obama are understandably seeking desperately to prevent U.S. public opinion from reaching any conclusion with respect to the motive of Major Nidal Malik Hasan who killed 12 soldiers and one civilian, and wounded 28 soldiers and one civilian last week at Fort Hood in Texas. In the [...]
As officials continue to investigate the alleged Fort Hood killer, it is looking increasingly likely that the Army missed several red flags in Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s behavior. Many observers say it wouldn’t be surprising if such signals had been missed, given that Hasan was a psychiatrist whom the Army desperately needed to help [...]
By Debra Saunders
There have been two views on what happened last week when Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on unarmed military colleagues at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 12 soldiers and one civilian. The politically correct version blames a lonely soldier’s personal meltdown, precipitated by the fear of being deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. The [...]
America after Fort Hood.
BY Tunku Varadarajan
“Going postal” is a piquant American phrase that describes the phenomenon of violent rage in which a worker–archetypically a postal worker–”snaps” and guns down his colleagues.
As the enormity of the actions of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sinks in, we must ask whether we are confronting a new phenomenon of violent [...]
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was declared “not a terrorist” before the facts were out – even before officials were sure whether the attacker was alive or dead. Failing to honestly name a terrorist attack despite the evidence is as destructive and dishonest as leaping to call an attack terrorism without the facts [...]
In the hours following a national calamity, we struggle to impose clarity on events that often make no sense. At Fort Hood on Thursday, a 39-year-old Army psychiatrist named Nidal Malik Hasan walked into the Soldier Readi- ness Processing Center, where troops prepare to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq, and apparently opened fire, killing 13 [...]
