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Suspected Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan: Social awkwardness kept with him into adulthood
The Roanoke Times ^ | November 06, 2009 | Matt Chittum and Jorge Valencia

Posted on 11/06/2009 4:49:23 AM PST by Perseverando

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To: Elvina

See my post #71 for further clarification.

The madrassas and the many black churches who preach Black Liberation Theology are the same threat from different perspectives. Both are brain washing people to hate America.

They use our freedoms and values to undermine and destroy them.


81 posted on 11/06/2009 7:23:17 AM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
I think this article comes down on the side of "lone, psycho, gun nut", rather than "radical Jihadi muslim with a hatred towards the US mission and his fellow soldiers".

The two are not mutually exclusive. In fact, the first probably helps to explain the second.

I don't know why FReepers always get so pissed off by this sort of article. It's good background information on the bad guy.

It's the curse of the internet, I guess ... it's always easier to scream and shout when you don't have real information to stumble over.

82 posted on 11/06/2009 7:28:35 AM PST by r9etb
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To: Perseverando
Noticed the left wing Roanoke Times stated the family was from "Palestine." I wasn't aware there was such a place except in the minds of the PLO, Hamas and friends of terrorists.

About the same as saying someone is from Africa or the Middle East, though technically a bit more accurate. That entire region is Palestine and has been divided up into various countries, but it's still Palestine.
83 posted on 11/06/2009 7:30:16 AM PST by aruanan
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To: Jack Hammer

I’m an adult who feels awkward,but I’m not going to use that as excuse for anything. Get the gauze;my heart is bleeding!


84 posted on 11/06/2009 7:34:54 AM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Blessed Be The Name Of The Lord,For His Name Alone Is Exaulted)
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To: Perseverando

Neighbors on Vinton’s Ramada Road remembered him as a “studious” boy who went by “Michael.”

Mohammed is the Arabic equivalent of Michael.


85 posted on 11/06/2009 7:41:18 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The sword does not kill. It is a tool in the killer's hand.---Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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To: gusty; Kozak; Perseverando; Rummyfan

Rummyfan - Thanks for the correction on “Yom Kippur War” being in 73. It was the “Six Day War” that was in 67.

Regarding Hasan identifying himself as “Palestinian” — Looks like that shows his ideology, because according to the reports I’ve read this morning, Hasan was born in Arlington, VA. Thus it looks like he decided ideology/ancestory meant more to him thus he listed himself as a “Palestinian” and not an American, which he was by birth.

It will be interesting to see an analysis of the mosques he attended, whether or not they were among those that preach Islam over all.


86 posted on 11/06/2009 9:34:49 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Perseverando

Did Homeland Security and the Brass at Walter Reed ignore his rantings, promoted him and sent him to Ft Hood?

Mark Stein does a great job of shredding the pc bs and getting to reality of Islamic Killers in America and around the world:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380112/posts

MARK STEYN: MULTICULTURAL ILLUSIONS KILL - NO STRATEGY TO DEFEND AGAINST IDEOLOGY
dakota beacon ^ | November 06, 2009 | Mark Steyn

Posted on Friday, November 06, 2009 9:36:18 AM by Mount Athos

Thirteen dead and 31 wounded would be a bad day for the US military in Afghanistan, and a great victory for the Taliban. When it happens in Texas, in the heart of the biggest military base in the nation, at a processing center for soldiers either returning from or deploying to combat overseas, it is not merely a “tragedy” (as too many people called it) but a glimpse of a potentially fatal flaw at the heart of what we have called, since 9/11, the “war on terror”. Brave soldiers trained to hunt down and kill America’s enemy abroad were killed in the safety and security of home by, in essence, the same enemy – a man who believes in and supports everything the enemy does.

And he’s a US Army major.

And his superior officers and other authorities knew about his beliefs but seemed to think it was just a bit of harmless multicultural diversity – as if believing that “the Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor” (ie, his fellow American soldiers) and writing Internet paeans to the “noble” “heroism” of suicide bombers and, indeed, objectively supporting the other side in an active war is to be regarded as just some kind of alternative lifestyle that adds to the general vibrancy of the base.

When it emerged early on Thursday afternoon that the shooter was Nidal Malik Hasan, there appeared shortly thereafter on Twitter a flurry of posts with the striking formulation: “Please judge Major Malik Nadal [sic] by his actions and not by his name.”

The above is an excerpt. Go to the link below for Mark’s complete oped.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380112/posts


87 posted on 11/06/2009 10:48:46 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: Perseverando; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; ...
He was unmarried and had no children. Colleagues at Walter Reed reported he shied away from contact with women.

That's understandable. If you're socially awkward, women can be harsh to you, IMO.

But more importantly, he did it because he was a GEEK! /s

Maryland "Freak State" PING!

88 posted on 11/06/2009 11:00:08 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Hussein Obama: the country's greatest firearms salesman!)
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To: BunnySlippers

Well, maybe the little weenie could have tried a muslim singles site on the web. Geez, he’s not the only socially awkward person ever to walk the earth. But in the end, it was all about him, his warped, extremist faith, and his inner rage. I hate these people.


89 posted on 11/06/2009 11:04:49 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Hussein Obama: the country's greatest firearms salesman!)
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To: NotSoModerate

I was surprised about his name though, I thought it would be something like Hussein Ali Muhammed Hussein-Hussein


90 posted on 11/06/2009 11:28:56 AM PST by ThreeYearLurker
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To: Travis McGee

91 posted on 11/06/2009 12:06:47 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Hussein Obama: the country's greatest firearms salesman!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

You’re right. This morning a co-worker was bemoaning that he was called a “camel jockey”. But lots of people are teased and find a way to cope with it.


92 posted on 11/06/2009 12:22:34 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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