Hasan Was A Victim, Family Members Claim
November 6, 2009 by Roberto Santiago
Filed under Islam
Victim or Killer?
Hasan Was A Victim, Family Members Claim
Crazed Muslim
vICTIM OR kILLER
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by Michael Travis
Major Nidal Malik Hasan was a victim of Islamophobia, according to members of his family.
One cousin told the Associated Press that Major Hasan had been battling racial harassment because of his “Middle Eastern ethnicity.” The harassment, we are told, came from his fellow officers who failed to understand that “Islam is a religion of peace.”
The cousin added that the harassed Hasan had been opposed to an imminent deployment overseas, describing it as his “worst nightmare,” since he would be called upon to do battle against his Muslim brothers.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Major Hasan’s aunt, Noel Hasan of Falls Church, Virginia, said that her nephew had been harassed about being a Muslim in the years after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, and he wanted out of the Army.
“Some people can take it and some people cannot,” she insisted. “He had listened to all of that and he wanted out of the military.”
Faizul Khan, a former imam at a mosque Hasan attended in Silver Spring, Maryland, said “I got the impression that he was a committed soldier.”
Mr. Khan testified that Hasan was a lifelong Muslim, who attended prayers regularly and sought a devout Muslim wife, who adhered to Islamic law, wore a full burqa, and prayed five times a day without complaint.
On a form filled out by those seeking spouses through a program at the mosque, Major Hasan listed his birthplace as Arlington, Virginia and his nationality as Palestinian.
“I don’t know why he listed Palestinian,” Khan said, “He was not born in Palestine.”
On the application, the Major described himself as “funny, caring, and personable.”
Nothing stood out about Hasan as radical or extremist, according to the imam.
“We hardly ever got to discussing politics,” Mr. Khan said. “Mostly we were discussing religious matters, nothing too controversial, nothing like an extremist.”
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In modern America, liberal thought goes something like this, “everyone who commits a crime is a victim of the system.”
There are families, extended families, loved ones, friends and colleagues who are mourning their dead and wounded today because Nidal Hasan, a radical jihadist masked by the uniform of a US Army major slaughtered them mercilessly, without warning. A member of my own family played this card on me — Hasan as victim, oh, his poor family.
Ok, I’ll buy it to some extent. His family are shamed because their relative is a traitor to the United States and a mass murderer of his “brothers in arms”. Though there are places in the world where his extended family and his Muslim brothers are cheering in the street and chanting his glory as a martyr for Islam. So my compassion in this regard is a very shallow well.
One parting shot for the hospitalized Major Hasan. Call it a personal message from me to him here on your blog: “I hope you recover so a court marshal can find you guilty of premeditated murder and stand you up before a firing squad.” Hanging is too good for you – they hung Saddam Hussein – you’re worse. Oh, his name (Saddam Hussein) was the same as your – Hussein/Hasan/Hassan is the same in Arabic. Guess what, the US President shares the same name. Maybe he’ll commute your sentence and make you a czar?
I don’t blame Obama for his inappropriate “shout out” or using the shooting to advance his political agenda. Or going to Camp David instead of Fort Hood… I blame the Amercan people who voted him into office and giving him the power to do so.