SUDDEN JIHAD SYNDROME IN AMERICA - WE IGNORE IT AT OUR PERIL
Posted on 12/28/2009 10:43:09 AM PST by neverdem
Why the hard Left can’t accept the Islamic roots of Nidal Hasan’s shooting spree
As the United States prepares to try Nidal Malik Hasan for 13 counts of murder and 32 counts of attempted murder at Fort Hood last month, few question the suspect’s guilt, but many disagree about his motives. Yet the evidence is now conclusive: the Fort Hood massacre was an act of Islamic terror. Before his shooting spree, Hasan told colleagues that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell and that they should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats. Hasan traded 18 e-mails with Anwar al-Awlaki, an al-Qaida recruiter. On the morning of the massacre, he gave his neighbor a Koran as he was departing for the base, telling her that he was going to do “good work for God.” Wearing Pakistani garb, Hasan shouted “Allahu akbar” as he began firing at U.S. troops.
Despite the plentiful evidence, however, leftists refuse to accept Hasan’s Islamic inspiration. We’ve heard the rationalizations: Hasan was a nut; the stresses of serving in the military drove him crazy; he experienced anti-Islamic discrimination; anyone is capable of “losing it” under such stressful conditions; and so on. These reflexive denials are a logical continuation of the Left’s long tradition of denying the evil of our totalitarian enemies—or, when forced to acknowledge them, blaming them on the United States. This was the pattern throughout the Cold War, and it’s continued during the War on Terror.
When it’s proven beyond reasonable doubt that jihadism was in fact Hasan’s motive, here’s a prediction: leftists will either fall into apathetic silence or respond that it was American racism, oppression, and Islamophobia that forced Hasan’s hand. To recognize the evil of Nidal Hasan and his ideology, to admit the existence of pernicious enemies, is to concede that there are societies, cultures, and systems that are much more unjust than ours. This is an untenable step for leftists to take, because it means acknowledging that there is something superior about our civilization that’s worth saving and defending.
The notion that his own society is evil and unjust is the bedrock of the leftist’s vision. Wicked capitalists trample on the poor, the oppressed, and the downtrodden; the leftist appoints himself to rescue these victims. He is a self-styled social redeemer, leading a movement to liberate the masses, even if it results in the destruction of his own society. This political mission provides him with immense moral indignation and, therefore, moral superiority, dispositions from which, in turn, he derives emotional self-gratification. His whole belief system provides him with a sense of belonging; he joins other social redeemers, as well as the victims, real or imagined, who wait for him to break their chains.
Thus, the leftist’s political disposition is a faith that reinforces his personal identity and sense of belonging. Admitting that Hasan is a jihadist would undermine that faith. It would also expose the leftist to potential excommunication from his social community. He’d become politically suspect to his peers, perhaps even accused of becoming a reactionary right-winger. That’s why we will continue to witness more Fort Hood denial from the Left, with all of its irrationality and disregard for human life.
Jamie Glazov is the editor of Frontpagemag.com. He is the author of the new book, United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror.
We must make sure to purge all of them when the time comes.
The Pentagon cannot accept it either.
That and islam and liberalism are natural allies since they both want civilization to fall.
We have Leftists/Statists in the Military, too.
Just look to GEN Wesley Clark...
Yep, besides Clark check out this one.
US Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond: Islam is a Beautiful Religion
http://loganswarning.com/?p=240
Some people never grow up from their freshman year of college. That’s where our liberals formed their world view and they are not gonna change it unless it becomes too costly. Good info by Jamie, but for the most part it won’t do much good till even a good respectable conservative like him actually dares hold those leftwing kids responsible. Abstract polemics mean nothing to a leftard, its about emotions such as guilt and envy.
Because then you might have to do something about it.
The United States is allied with Islamist regimes like Saudi Arabia. It is like 1944 when we were allied with the USSR against Hitler. We could not bring ourselves to condemn communism as we did Nazism, although Stalin was perhaps even more evil than Hitler.
The United States is allied with Islamist regimes like Saudi Arabia. It is like 1944 when we were allied with the USSR against Hitler. We could not bring ourselves to condemn communism as we did Nazism, although Stalin was perhaps even more evil than Hitler.
To condemn Islam is to condemn their chosen one...Obama! They will be drinking the Kool-Aid until they choke on it.
What I don't understand is the Lefts' love and favor for RAdical Islam. The Islamists claim the first thing they'll do is kill all the godless infidels...which means THEM. In some ways, I understand Islamists....if the only Americans you see is Perez Hilton, Madonna, Barack Hussein Obama (mmm mmm mmm), Lady Gaga, and Barney Frank, you'd think America is beyond redemption and what's needed is a purifying jihad, with heads rolling in the streets.
If and when the Islamists really start attacking us, look for Blue States and Leftist cities (Detroit, New York, Boston, LA, Houston) to be hard-hit....Islamists know better than to come into redneck country with their $hit.
Unfortunately you are correct.
What is the point of fighting them over there and at the same time allowing Islam to slowly takeover the West? (The Saudis are big part of the slow takeover of the West.)
And, all of those soldiers should receive their Purple Hearts, as should the recruits injured or killed by a Muslim at a recruiting station earlier this year, and any other soldiers injured or killed on US soil by terrorists. In this war on terror, it doesn’t matter whose soil you are injured or killed on if done by a Muslim extremest.
The policy of our government is NOT to recognize that that our enemies are fanatical followers of mainline Islam, not some sect like the medieval assassins.
We’re not so much “allied” with Saudi Arabia as we are trying to twist their arm to cut off the flow of money. Mostly we have succeeded. (In fact, that is mostly what Iraq was about...).
In addition, I challenge you to show me the mass graves the Saudis have inflicted on the world that compare to the slaughters done by the Soviet.
The Saudis are corrupt cowardly scumbags, not corrupt murderous scumbags like the Soviets. We’re just trying to make certain their more afraid of us (or of losing our support) than they they are of the Jihadis. And idiots like Obama keep losing sight of this.
perhaps?
I still maintain that this guy has horribly misinterpreted islamic scriptures.
Pouring boiling oil down the infidels’ throats AFTER beheading is a senseless waste of natural resources, and the religion of peace would NEVER advocate such a thing.
Now, if the order was (1) boiling oil down the throat and THEN, (2) beheading, of the infidel, I can see where the good ol’ koran might be “down with that”, to borrow a phrase from today’s younger generation.
;-)
General George Patton had it right about the Russians.
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