Mediations on Fort Hood

First of all, let me refer you to Mark Steyn’s post  on the Fort Hood murders.

“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.'”

Answer to the Twits – No.

As in no I am not going to ignore the fact that, 1) he’s Muslim, 2) the American-born child of Palestinian immigrants, 3) outspoken in proclaiming his enmity to the United States and solidarity with Jihadists, 4) a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army who accepted a half-million-dollar education from the U.S. in return for service in the armed forces.

Which adds up to, aside from murderer, traitor. 

Steyn further notes,“Concerned Tweeters can relax: There was never really any danger of that — and not just in the sense that the New York Times’s first report on Major Hasan never mentioned the words “Muslim” or “Islam,” or that ABC’s Martha Raddatz’s only observation on his name was that “as for the suspect, Nadal Hasan, as one officer’s wife told me, ‘I wish his name was Smith.’”

Which is why I’m not inclined to let the Army off the hook either. And in my humble opinion, neither should the families of the victims.

“You need to lock it up, Major,” cautioned his superior officer, Col. Terry Lee.

“Lock it up,” refers to Major Hasan openly declaring , on multiple occasions, statements to the effect of, “I’m on their side!”

Does anyone else see how seriously weird it is that the U.S. Army is browbeaten by PC and the secular religion of tolerance to the point it cannot bring itself to discharge an open sympathizer with the enemy?

Well now he’s gone and acted on his convictions, and nobody is the least bit surprised.

This comes two weeks after Faleh Hassan Almaleki of Glendale, Ariz., ran over  lovely but “too Westernized” daughter Noor.  She lingered for a while and died three days ago. It’s called an “honor killing.” The frequency of these in Europe is a scandal they are trying desperately to ignore, and it’s becomming too damned common here.

Noor Almaleki’s brother commented, “One thing to one culture doesn’t make sense to another culture.”

No actually it makes perfect sense to me. His culture regards women as property, mine regards women as people.

Now I’m going to say something that was a cardinal sin when I was getting my M.A. in Anthropology. They are wrong, we are right.

And not only are they wrong, their culture, on this point at least, is evil. As in, people with these attitudes should not be allowed to immigrate to our country. Hell, IMHO they should not be allowed to live on the same planet as the rest of us.

When not militantly ignoring Hasan’s origins, the bleeding-heart commentariat is Viewing With Alarm the horrible possibility of an “Islamophobic” pogrom.
 
Anybody notice that Hasan has all by himself committed more acts of anti-kafir violence than the sum total of anti-Muslim acts of violence committed by the other 300 million Americans since September 11, 2001.

To my knowledge, and please bring any other incidents you might know of to my attention, there was precisely one murder apparantly motivated by anti-Muslim rage after 9/11 – and whether that counts is problematic since that homicidal nut case killed a Sikh, not a Muslim.

Oh but he was harassed you see, and he “snapped.”

In a word, bullshit.

No comissioned officer is “harassed” by a subordinate. Or at least not more than once.

Now I’m going to indulge in a historical digression, please bear with me.

At the beginning of the Second World War, there was a sizable population of ethnic Japanese in this country, who came under quite a lot of suspicion. They were not “harassed,” they were imprisoned, ripped off, insulted and in general treated in ways that are, and should be, deeply embarrassing to our country.

They were however, given the opportunity to prove their loyalty. Many enlisted in the Army, often directly from internment camps. Japanese-Americans formed the 442 Regimental Combat Team, which became the most highly-decorated unit in the history of the U.S. military and earned the nickname “the Purple Heart Battalion.”

Other ethnic Japanese served clandestinely in the Pacific as translators.  

They proved beyond doubt their loyalty to America, and won the fervent loyalty of their white officers, some of whom stood up for them to bigoted superiors.

And one more thing, of the Japanese in the internment camps who reached a different conclusion and decided they would not become Americans, 1,327 renounced their citizenship and were repatriated to Japan via neutral countries.

My point? If our hard-one tolerance, and the forming of a united national identity among people of diverse origins is a Good Thing and worthy of preservation, then we have the right to defend it.

No, if this represents the progress of  mankind beyond small-scale familial/tribal loyalties towards something like that elusive goal of the brotherhood of Man, we have the obligation to defend it, on behalf of all mankind.

How?  Steyn suggested in his book  ‘America Alone’  we should ) Recognize that our civilization is under attack – and that we could lose, and 2) Stop committing civilizational suicide by subsidizing our enemies and stand up for ourselves.

Some suggestions as to how; for one the government should seek the death penalty for Major Hasan. That’s not only justice, it’s an appropriate message.

For another, you say the majority of Muslims in this country are peaceful, law-abiding and loyal?

Prove it.

There is no exact equivalent of the 442 Regimental Combat Team in the military, but there is the Association of Patriotic Arab-Americans in the Military.

Is there a civilian support group? Are the authorities receiving actionable intelligence on terrorism from the Muslim community in the U.S.?

As for C.A.I.R. if they say they condemn Hasan’s actions, that they are not in fact an above-ground front for Jihadism – again, prove it. Quit suing for insults to Islam, we’ve got something called free speech in this country, and if you can’t live with it then you’re free to leave.

That goes for everyone who is not sure whether they can embrace our American cultural traditions. You know,  freedom of religion (including having to swallow criticism, even insults to yours,) freedom of speech, equality of women, that kind of stuff.

We need to make it very clear to everyone who comes to live here; if you can’t live with this then – you, can’t, stay.

P.S. Check out Cinamon Stillwell’s reprint of an article from a couple years back detailing incidents of Sudden Jihad Syndrome.