Fort Hood's 9/11

Islamist terror strikes US again

Last Updated: 2:50 PM, November 6, 2009

Posted: 1:36 PM, November 6, 2009

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Ralph Peters

On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting "Allahu Akbar!" committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.

What cowards we are. Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans at Ft. Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did. And the media treat it like a case of non-denominational shoplifting.

This was a terrorist act. When an extremist plans and executes a murderous plot against our unarmed soldiers to protest our efforts to counter Islamist fanatics, it’s an act of terror. Period.

When the terrorist posts anti-American hate-speech on the Web; apparently praises suicide bombers and uses his own name; loudly criticizes US policies; argues (as a psychiatrist, no less) with his military patients over the worth of their sacrifices; refuses, in the name of Islam, to be photographed with female colleagues; lists his nationality as "Palestinian" in a Muslim spouse-matching program, and parades around central Texas in a fundamentalist playsuit — well, it only seems fair to call this terrorist an "Islamist terrorist."

But the president won’t. Despite his promise to get to all the facts. Because there’s no such thing as "Islamist terrorism" in ObamaWorld.

And the Army won’t. Because its senior leaders are so sick with political correctness that pandering to America-haters is safer than calling terrorism "terrorism."

And the media won’t. Because they have more interest in the shooter than in our troops — despite their crocodile tears.

Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan planned this terrorist attack and executed it in cold blood. The resulting massacre was the first tragedy. The second was that he wasn’t killed on the spot.

Hasan survived. Now the rest of us will have to foot his massive medical bills. Activist lawyers will get involved, claiming "harassment" drove him temporarily insane. There’ll be no end of trial delays. At best, taxpayer dollars will fund his prison lifestyle for decades to come, since our politically correct Army leadership wouldn’t dare pursue or carry out the death penalty.

Maj. Hasan will be a hero to Islamist terrorists abroad and their sympathizers here. While US Muslim organizations decry his acts publicly, Hasan will be praised privately. And he’ll have the last laugh.

But Hasan isn’t the sole guilty party. The US Army’s unforgivable political correctness is also to blame for the casualties at Ft. Hood.

Given the myriad warning signs, it’s appalling that no action was taken against a man apparently known to praise suicide bombers and openly damn US policy. But no officer in his chain of command, either at Walter Reed Army Medical Center or at Ft. Hood, had the guts to take meaningful action against a dysfunctional soldier and an incompetent doctor.

Had Hasan been a Lutheran or a Methodist, he would’ve been gone with the simoon. But officers fear charges of discrimination when faced with misconduct among protected minorities.

Now 12 soldiers and a security guard lie dead. 31 soldiers were wounded, 28 of them seriously. If heads don’t roll in this maggot’s chain of command, the Army will have shamed itself beyond moral redemption.

There’s another important issue, too. How could the Army allow an obviously incompetent and dysfunctional psychiatrist to treat our troubled soldiers returning from war? An Islamist whacko is counseled for arguing with veterans who’ve been assigned to his care? And he’s not removed from duty? What planet does the Army live on?

For the first time since I joined the Army in 1976, I’m ashamed of its dereliction of duty. The chain of command protected a budding terrorist who was waving one red flag after another. Because it was safer for careers than doing something about him.

Get ready for the apologias. We’ve already heard from the terrorist’s family that "he’s a good American." In their world, maybe he is.

But when do we, the American public, knock off the PC nonsense?

A disgruntled Muslim soldier murdered his officers way back in 2003, in Kuwait, on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Recently? An American mullah shoots it out with the feds in Detroit. A Muslim fanatic attacks an Arkansas recruiting station. A Muslim media owner, after playing the peace card, beheads his wife. A Muslim father runs over his daughter because she’s becoming too Westernized.

Muslim terrorist wannabes are busted again and again. And we’re assured that "Islam’s a religion of peace."

I guarantee you that the Obama administration’s non-response to the Ft. Hood attack will mock the memory of our dead.

Ralph Peters’ latest novel is "The War After Armageddon."

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Concerned1

11/07/2009 9:43 PM

Wow, I have read each and every comment carefully... along with rereading the article by Mr. Peters. Lots of hate from both sides of this political issue. But, really should politics be the issue? This man no matter his religious beliefs, political beliefs, etc... KILLED, without remorse, unarmed soldiers running for their lives in their Country they claim as THIERS... not Palestine which Mr. Hasan claims as his Country. This was not stopped before it happened because of the Armed Services being politically correct and not wanting to offend any one of Muslim belief. Is it not at the very least TREASON? God help our country if we do not put a stop to this kind of action in the name of this Man's False god. As for our President, no matter what he said he would have been scrutinized, but I don't believe for one second he thought it was "an outburst". What does he think the man just happened to be carrying around several magazines of ammo to take to his next counseling session. He planned it... and he claimed those mens lives while "honoring his god"... Not those soldiers God! I believe more than treason... I believe... terrorism... he did it against most of our beliefs, no matter our Political stand. I say we all pray to a Gracious God, not a god of Hate, for our country to be spared from more of these attacks. I also say we pray for our President and leaders, no matter their agenda... Only a sovereign God can fix this mess along with all the other messes our country is in right now.
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jim

11/07/2009 6:44 PM

No doubt this heinous criminal needs to be hung by his ....., but I'm sorry, to blame the President for not inappropriately mouthing off a string of Republican code words is just plain demagoguery.

It is you, Mr. Peters, that is using these dead soldiers for your own personal political hate campaign, directed directly at our President. Shame on you!
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Someone with a BRAIN

11/07/2009 6:08 PM

I am disgusted. Am I the only one who can see the hate dripping off of this article? I do NOT mean hate for the shooter, he deserves all the hate he can get, I mean hate in general, hate for anyone of any kind of muslim decent. This is dangerous and frightening. This article quite literally comes to the conclusion that disagreeing with your government's policy is a large piece of evidence towards being a terrorist. The article then goes on to say many negative things about the Obama administration...therefore that's strike one against Mr. Peters here, he's doing the same thing that should have been a warning sign that the shooter was a terrorist, according to his article. I suppose it's perfectly fine for Ralph Peters to critique his government and not be a terrorist...because he's lucky enough to be caucasion. Articles like this are inspiring the hatred that is destroying our country. What happened on thursday was awful. I for one am going to focus on mourning the service men we lost rather than turning the issue into an opportunity to attack the democratic administation. The GOP have become shamless losers...can you not even take a moment to care about this tradgety with out trying to turn it in to a shamless political tool? SHAME ON YOU ALL.
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Yahudie2

11/07/2009 1:57 AM

absolutely right! PC and the multicultural drivel have killed this country and handed it to our enemies
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Jeebus_Cripes

11/07/2009 1:16 AM

Pugsly:

I served in Desert Storm. What about you? OH right! you weren't even born yet!
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Phoenix110

11/07/2009 12:45 AM

Thank you for this article. It speaks the words and frustration many of us have.

And as for you REPUGLICANS, get over yourself. This isnt a partisan issue, this is an american issue. But I wouldnt expect someone as narrow and liberal as you to understand that, since your head is so far up your own rear. But for the rest of us that can see beyond our personal politics and realize that this PC garbage is as destructive to this country as Nancy Pelousy. I cannot understand the 20% liberals of this country that are like REPUGLICANS. I cannot understand how you can go so blindly through life spouting so much hate for everyone and then thinking you are an openminded and good person. The only difference I see between that 20% and this islamo-terrorist is that the 20% don't believe in owning or using guns, but you are both fanatics.
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TX

11/07/2009 12:09 AM

Thank you Col. Peters for stating what many of us here in Texas have been feeling for a long time. Our people in uniform should be safe on our own soil. It won't be terrorist competency that will kill us, but the neutering of our own security.
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Rod

11/06/2009 10:18 PM

The shooter was yelling Allah Ackbar and it was not terrorism?

Of course it was a terrorist attack!