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I wouldn’t read too much into that, by itself, given that it was pre-9/11. There are a lot of sane, stable Muslims who harbor no more extremism than your average Methodist. Before 9/11, if they weren’t very active in their mosque, they probably wouldn’t have scrutinized a new imam very closely, and he’d only been there less than 5 months before Hasan’s mother’s funeral. For all we know, the family only had a loose connection to the mosque, like Catholics who only show up at their local parish for Easter, Christmas, weddings, baptisms, and funerals.

BUT, our military should be scrutinizing things like this, and checking whether there have been continuing contacts between someone either seeking to enter, or already in our armed services, and Muslim religious or “philanthropic” figures with ties to terrorism tht they’ve been known to have at least casual contacts with in the past. As I previously pointed out, our military had a LONG time to watch this guy. I’m very nearly as unhappy with the failed watchers, as I am with Hasan. But still think it’s possible he “turned” in relatively recent history, due to the stresses of a residency and fellowship at WR (read, major sleep deprivation, as is standard in our government-mandated medical “education” system) and a steady stream of patients who’d had chunks of their brains blown out or severe psychological trauma even without major physical injury,

Sleep deprivation is a standard element in brainwashing programs, and is known (with or without an accompanying brainwashing program) to produce psychological problems. The standard sleep deprivation requirement of the residency program, may well have combined with the efforts of outside forces, to make him an easy brainwashing target. After all, brainwashing is a big part of what medical residency programs are all about — don’t give the residents time or energy to get enough sleep and actually *think* about how they’re being forced to spend endless hours providing treatment to a collection of patients which includes huge numbers of non-paying self-destructive deadbeats, while being paid like McDonald’s shift managers, while politicians use the difference between the residents’ real market worth, and what the non-paying patients are paying, to buy votes for themselves. After 4 years of this, the vast majority of fully credentialled physicians in this country just accept that this is how things are.