Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The murderous rampage by Army major and military psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan, who fatally shot 13 people and wounded 28 at Fort Hood, Texas, has reignited a complex and thorny debate, writes Cathy Young. Does the danger posed by Islamist radicalism justify some "religious profiling" toward millions of ordinary, non-violent Muslims?
Gypsy Scholar (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Ansar Al-Mujahideen Jihadist Forum (Image via Memri : Special Dispatch No. 2667 ) The Memri website, usually a site that translates Islamist announcements from various languages into English, has this time reported on an Islamist communiqué that was itself already released in English by the Ansar Al-Mujahideen jihadist forum. I've borrowed the Ansar Al-Mujahideen image via Memri , but a fuller...
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
from The Army Times : Note said Hood-style shooting could happen By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer Posted : Monday Nov 23, 2009 10:58:25 EST A box of hollow-point bullets and an anonymous note threatening an incident like the one at Fort Hood, Texas, were discovered Thursday at Fort Benning, Ga., sparking a criminal investigation and greater police presence, a witness told Army Times. According to a...
Chicagoray (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
"US military-issued photo shows Nidal Malik Hasan as a medical student. Hasan, who is charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, earlier this month, is paralyzed from the chest down and doctors believe his paralysis will be permanent, The Washington Post has reported." First, what a disgrace to the uniform... Well I thought I would never wish that upon anyone after suffering paralysis...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Bill Cathcart, Clearing Away the PC Clutter Bill Cathcart, Vice President and General Manager of News for CBS affiliate WTOC in Savannah, Georgia, took to the airwaves on November 9th with a blistering video editorial excoriating the hold political correctness (PC) has on our society ( video and transcript below the fold ). It is certainly refreshing to hear and see a news executive say these sorts...
History News Network (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The ranks of those who still argue that Islam had nothing to do with Nidal Malik Hasan’s personal jihad at Ft. Hood are growing increasingly thin (at least among the intellectually honest), especially after news outlets carried the story yesterday about the interview by a Yemeni journalist of Hasan’s overseas clerical mentor, Anwar al-Awlaki. Al-Awlaki said that "fighting against the...
BobFromBrockley (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Some day I'll go back to blogging properly. In the meantime, some odds and ends. Chomsky, Bosnia and free speech: David Campbell's Chomsky correspondence . (If the link doesn't work, read it at Standpoint . Very important.) Radical support for murder: Evan Daniel: Pathology and Ideology: Major Nidal Malik Hasan and the Case of Leon Czolgosz. Fascism: The MNS, India's BNP ? The right's confusion on...
Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
New York Daily News Suspect's Pakistan wire transfers not linked to Fort Hood shootings Dallas Morning News Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's wire transfers to Pakistan occurred in the months leading up to the Fort Hood massacre but were unrelated to it, a federal law enforcement official said Monday. ... Fort Hood probe brings mosque unwanted attention Washington Post Fort Hood Suspect Faces New Fetters Wall...
Eye On The World (Free subscription) | yesterday
Frank Gaffney's low down on Team Obama's disastrous conduct. An unsettling question has begun to nag as Team Obama's conduct of security policy becomes ever more inconsistent with common sense - and, at least in some cases, manifestly at odds with our national interests: Whose side are they on? Consider the following illustrative examples of such troubling behavior: The Obama administration has done...
Say Anything (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sigh… FORT WORTH, Texas – An Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people during an attack on his Texas post will likely plead not guilty to the charges against him and may use an insanity defense at his military trial, his attorney said Monday. John Galligan, the civilian attorney for Maj. Nidal Hasan, said he is considering an insanity defense among other options, but that it’s...
The Atheist Experience (Free subscription) | yesterday
I found this letter to the editor in yesterday’s Austin American-Statesman interesting. It was in reference to a statement in an earlier article regarding the recent Fort Hood shootings: Religious radical? Re: Nov. 12 article "Suspect alarmed doctors." The story noted that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's doctors and colleagues "viewed him at times as belligerent, defensive and argumentative...
Middle East Notebook (Free subscription) | yesterday
Major Hasan and Holy War 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 internal-security services have increasingly monitored European Muslim radicals. Whether it's anti-Muslim bigotry, the large numbers of immigrant...
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Theron Bowers, Mercartornet Every element in the media's template for multiple shootings by sick and stressed killers is wrong. Have they forgotten about Evil? "You think you know a person by seeing them, by how they act, but sometimes you’re wrong," Patricia Villa, neighbour of Major Nidal Malik Hasan Although our knowledge of mental illness has [...]
The Agonist (Free subscription) | yesterday
The terror gap is what allows suspected terrorists to buy guns hassle-free in this country. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was suspected of terrorist ties, but because the FBI does not have access to background-check records, they had not clue he was buying a gun. And so he passed his background check. This is far from the only case of NRA-fueled, right-wing extremism, that has nothing to do with the 2nd...
Lerterland (Free subscription) | yesterday
On the planet where rightists and tea-partiers live, "Muslims" are engaged in an undifferentiated jihad against the West; all are guilty until proven innocent. On the planet where some lefties and liberals live, "Muslims" in the West are terribly offended by the U.S. and NATO making war against "Muslims," which leads to tragedies like the massacre at Fort Hood. On Earth,...
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