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Fort Hood Shooter Trial Delayed Indefinitely Over Beard
The Blaze ^ | Augnust 18, 2012 | Madeleine Morgenstern

Posted on 08/19/2012 5:19:25 AM PDT by SLB

A military appeals court placed the trial for accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan on hold indefinitely Friday amid continuing issues surrounding Hasan’s refusal to shave his beard, CNN reported.

The court martial was first halted Wednesday so the appeals court could consider the Army psychiatrist’s objections to being forcibly shaved. He has been fined and held in contempt repeatedly for remaining bearded, which is a violation of Army regulations, but says the facial hair is an expression of his faith. Hasan, 41, is an American-born Muslim.

Hasan’s court martial had been scheduled to start Monday for the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, for which he faces 13 charges of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted meditated murder.

Hasan first grew the beard in June, prompting a pre-trial hearing to be postponed. The judge in the case, Col. Gregory Gross, threatened in July to have Hasan forcibly shaved if he did not comply with orders to remove the beard on his own.

According to CNN, it was unclear how long the case would be on hold.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: islam; murder; muslim; pc
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To: Kolath

Beard be damned. Try him and move on with the execution. There are millions of people who wear beards. A beard is NOT the man, only a symbol of a bad shave.


21 posted on 08/19/2012 5:42:42 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: workerbee
So the absence of a beard, prior to the domestic terrorist shootings, is indicative of his commitment to his faith? Now he makes this specious claim? Has “the one” ever visited these families or Fort Hood?
22 posted on 08/19/2012 5:42:47 AM PDT by blaveda (blaveda)
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To: SLB

What difference does it make if he has a beard? He’s guilty. Too bad he wasn’t taken out at the scene.


23 posted on 08/19/2012 5:42:56 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: SLB

If the trial is indefinitely postponed just because of a stinking beard, he will NEVER go to trial. There will be one loophole after another after another.


24 posted on 08/19/2012 5:43:20 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: SLB

Easy...use a straight razor and when you get to the part near the carotid artery.....ooopsie!


25 posted on 08/19/2012 5:43:32 AM PDT by left that other site (Worry is the Darkroom that Develops Negatives.)
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To: cripplecreek

Try him with the beard I don’t give a crap.


Apparently they can’t, or they would be doing it.


26 posted on 08/19/2012 5:45:27 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: Kolath

27 posted on 08/19/2012 5:46:29 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth again.)
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To: SLB

"These folks make an excellent shaving system."


28 posted on 08/19/2012 5:49:02 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: SLB

OK, since everybody is scared of his religious beard, don’t cut his beard, cut his head.

Faux problem solved.


29 posted on 08/19/2012 5:49:35 AM PDT by melancholy (Professor Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist, Ph.D. in L0w and H0lder)
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To: SLB

It’s amazing to see just how far political correctness has come!

The military is stymied by a person who won’t shave! What’s next? They can’t make a muzzie use toilet paper!


30 posted on 08/19/2012 5:53:04 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: SLB

I’d take a bottle and label it “Beard Shampoo” and fill it with Nair hair removal. After Hussein uses his new product ‘Voila’ beard gone. Trial on.


31 posted on 08/19/2012 5:58:31 AM PDT by Harley (Life is Tough, But it's going to get a lot Tougher if you vote for Obama in Nov.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Use that to shave his head. Make sure the chain is lubricated with bacon grease.


32 posted on 08/19/2012 6:03:26 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is the operational wing of CPUSA.)
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To: SLB

‘If soetoro had a son....’


33 posted on 08/19/2012 6:06:15 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: chessplayer

The only reason they can’t try him is because of the current law. The only reason this terrorist grew a beard was because of the law. If the lawyer told his client to grow the beard to delay the trial, can’t the lawyer be charged with contempt?

I would go ahead with the trial anyway. What is more important? Is he being clean shaven more important than a trial for mass murder? They have lost perspective here.


34 posted on 08/19/2012 6:06:15 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: carriage_hill

As I recall, this POS is paralyzed, restrain what is left functional, shave him, try him, shoot him, dump the body at sea with lots of weights.

Better yet, just shoot him and feed what is left to the hogs.

DONE.

This whole affair and the repetitive loss of our soldiers to Afghan traitors, sneaks and dogs is insane.


35 posted on 08/19/2012 6:12:00 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average, they voted for oblabla.)
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To: carriage_hill

As I recall, this POS is paralyzed, restrain what is left functional, shave him, try him, shoot him, dump the body at sea with lots of weights.

Better yet, just shoot him and feed what is left to the hogs.

DONE.

This whole affair and the repetitive loss of our soldiers to Afghan traitors, sneaks and dogs is insane.


36 posted on 08/19/2012 6:12:00 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average, they voted for oblabla.)
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To: pepsionice
I believe that the U.S. Army should be on trial along with this EVIL Muzzie. If they had been doing their job, and not catering to the PC crows all of those dead would be alive today
37 posted on 08/19/2012 6:13:57 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek (He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will j rest in the shadow of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
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To: Coldwater Creek

crowd


38 posted on 08/19/2012 6:15:50 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek (He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will j rest in the shadow of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
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To: SLB; Beckwith

I am reminded of the favorite exclamatory phrase on “Swamp People”, a Discovery Channel Program about Cajun alligator hunters:

“Choot ‘em, choot ‘em!”


39 posted on 08/19/2012 6:22:03 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: SLB
It is truly instructive how fearful we are of insulting Islam.

Don't think for a second Muzzies all over the world don't see it and are laughing their heads off at the cowardly infidels and cheering their killers onward!

Political Correctness is surely the death of us.

40 posted on 08/19/2012 6:22:17 AM PDT by Gritty (The twin psychoses are Islamist rage and our determination never to see it - Mark Steyn)
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