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Army chief fears backlash for Muslim U.S. soldiers
Reuters ^ | Nov 8, 2009 | Will Dunham

Posted on 11/08/2009 9:26:47 AM PST by An Old Man

The U.S. Army's top general expressed concern on Sunday that last week's mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, blamed on a Muslim Army officer, could fuel a backlash in the military against Muslim troops.

General George Casey, U.S. Army chief of staff, cautioned against jumping to conclusions about whether religious beliefs motivated the accused gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim born in the United States of immigrant parents.

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"I'm concerned that this increased speculation could cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers. And I've asked our Army leaders to be on the lookout for that," Casey told CNN's "State of the Union."

There are about 3,000 Muslims on active duty military service or in the National Guard or reserve forces, Casey said. They remain a small minority within the U.S. military.

A Fort Hood official has said Hasan yelled "Allahu Akbar" -- Arabic for "God is Greatest" -- just before the shooting in which 13 people were killed and 30 wounded. The 39-year-old U.S. Army psychiatrist was shot four times by police. He was hospitalized but no longer needed a ventilator to breathe.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: backlash; georgecasey; nidalmalikhasan
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To: An Old Man

The Army may have possessed compelling evidence this person posed a security risk, but downplayed it.

If he advocated doing violence to infidels — as he appears to have, to colleagues and patient(s) — the shooter should have been confined, and given no access to massed troops.


42 posted on 11/08/2009 9:52:49 AM PST by Tax Government (Mighty nuts from tiny Acorns grow.)
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To: An Old Man

Maybe what we need is more “backlash” and fewer group hugs.


43 posted on 11/08/2009 9:52:50 AM PST by MizSterious (Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm? John Page, 1744-1808)
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To: An Old Man
If muslims wouldn't attack Americans again and again and again, they would have no need to fear a backlash, now would they?
44 posted on 11/08/2009 9:53:02 AM PST by EvilOverlord (Socialism makes workers into slaves and couch potatoes into kings)
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To: YankeeReb
I think we should fear a muslim backlash on ordinary citizens

You are correct. And I love your screen name. How many radicals or dormant cells who have been lying in wait are now ready to crawl out from under their rock to do us harm? Wasn't some other jihadist recently picked up for plotting to shoot inncoent shoppers at a mall? What happened at Fort Hood was straight up Islamic terrorism. And no official or politician is going to convince me otherwise. I was in the city on 9/11 and my heart goes out to the people at Ft. Hood. Unfortunately, all of this has brought my inner anger out. This administration is failing to protect the citizens. It's just a matter of time until the next attack. And what happens then? Bring on the analysts...... that's the playbook.

45 posted on 11/08/2009 9:54:03 AM PST by jersey117
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To: DoughtyOne

As always, an excellent reply. Thanks for responding.


46 posted on 11/08/2009 9:54:06 AM PST by An Old Man (Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, or Do without.)
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To: Non-Sequitur
Hassan was born here.

Nuts are nuts, it does not make any difference where they were born, put them in the chair and throw the switch. Roasted nut, end of that nuts problem.

47 posted on 11/08/2009 9:54:08 AM PST by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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To: DoughtyOne
If Muslim leaders are preaching about what violent things need to be done to the infidels, then the Mosque should be closed.

"Closed", hell.

Level the place, and turn the property into a pig farm.

48 posted on 11/08/2009 9:54:52 AM PST by PalmettoMason (Half Honkey.....ALL Donkey! BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA! Mmm, Mmmm, Mmmmm!)
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To: An Old Man

“Army chief fears backlash for Muslim U.S. soldiers”

Army chief should fear Muslim U.S. soldiers


49 posted on 11/08/2009 9:56:06 AM PST by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: An Old Man

This is what the Army’s top general sits around and publicly frets about?

Good lord...makes me sick to my stomach how far a great nation could fall so fast over catering to every minority whim that strikes a damned fancy.


50 posted on 11/08/2009 9:57:07 AM PST by wardaddy (the pump don't work cause the vandal took the handle)
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To: luckystarmom
"If they do keep them in, then they should be in unimportant roles, and they should be followed and tracked. "

There are no unimportant roles in our military. The lives of all depend upon the actions of others.

Following ant tracking consume needed resources. Is there another solution?

51 posted on 11/08/2009 9:58:01 AM PST by An Old Man (Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, or Do without.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Living by exceptions in a war is foolishness


52 posted on 11/08/2009 9:58:40 AM PST by wardaddy (the pump don't work cause the vandal took the handle)
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To: An Old Man
And the problem with that would be?

Nothing that doing away with that pesky Constitution wouldn't solve.

53 posted on 11/08/2009 9:58:49 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: DakotaRed
RE: "It is up to the Muslim community as a whole to stand up to those from their numbers who cause the problems"

I absolutely agree! We do not wait until a white supremacist murders or a Christian Identity member commits a violent act. Those groups are denounced and shunned 24/7. Thus the general Christian population can not fairly be accused and stereotyped and is not accused -- except by the left wing nuts over at dailycuss, huff'n puff post, moron.org, dummyunderground, and such nut sites.

Why don't American Muslims stand up to Islamism? I wonder. It is up to American Muslims.

54 posted on 11/08/2009 10:00:50 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Joe Boucher
The Saudi’s financing these mosques that preach hate.

And they are being built as we speak, all over our counrtry, continuously, for the last twenty years...

As soon as I can find it, I will post the map of the number of mosques and "muslim community centers" in the US. These are regularly identified as military training camps.

If the Vatican were funding the construction of Christian churches at that rate, there would be apoplexy among the MSM and there would be riots.

Even though not a single instance of a Christian exists where the killer distributed bibles before massacring dozens of "non-believers."

Our country must be on a collective high dosage of soporifics...

55 posted on 11/08/2009 10:04:10 AM PST by Publius6961 (Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
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To: An Old Man

That’s right. Someone murders because of what he was taught by a hate group. Use government resources to protect other members of the hate group.

mass deportations


56 posted on 11/08/2009 10:06:34 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (beware the alliance of the left and the jihadis)
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To: An Old Man

You’re right about the no unimportant jobs.

I guess I would not be sending them to Afghanistan.

I would probably try to find locations far from the middle east, and then put them in positions where they don’t have much access to critical information.


57 posted on 11/08/2009 10:06:45 AM PST by luckystarmom
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To: An Old Man
RE: Japanese Americans were relocated in part for their protection and other Japanese Americans suspected of treason were interned. Do I believe both, especially the former?

Ans: Yes.

My fellow Americans can get pretty nasty and Japanese Americans largely lived in their own communities, yes I believe it.

58 posted on 11/08/2009 10:08:34 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: An Old Man
Expected hand-wringing and bed-wetting from the political "leadership" (too busy kissing ass and looking for that next promotion, ala - traitorous left-wing scumbag COLON powell) in our military.

Political correctness run amok, even in our military.

The f**ker was a fanatical MUSLIM TERRORIST, plain and simple, and those of his ilk MUST be weeded OUT of our military.

No, we can't depend on the majority of Generals (no George Washington's in our current ranks I'm afraid) and Colonels to do what is right and necessary.

It will have to be the Captains and below that take care of business (something akin to a Honduran solution?) when and if the time comes.

59 posted on 11/08/2009 10:08:39 AM PST by DocH (Official Right-Wing Extremist Veteran Seal Of Approval)
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To: jersey117
And what happens then? Bring on the analysts...... that's the playbook.

Contrast Barry's non-response to the response of GW Bush to 9/11. Disgusting!!! A shoutout and laughing before announcing it in front of that Indian conference. Followed by, "let's not jump to conclusions." It makes me want to puke. The kenyan had no problem "jumping to conclusions" after the incident with the Cambridge policeman, but when it's one of his co-religionists we have to be "tolerent".

2012 can't come soon enough!!!

60 posted on 11/08/2009 10:11:53 AM PST by YankeeReb
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