Update: Officer Mark Todd also a hero. George W. Bush’s secret visit to Fort Hood. See end of this blog below.
The Muslim shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a psychiatrist, who killed 13 people and wounded 30 more yesterday at Fort Hood, freaked out the medical staff at the Walter Reed Army Hospital with his extreme statements about unbelievers, according to those who knew him as reported in this www.npr.org article today. He even shocked a fellow Muslim psychiatrist attending a lecture by Major Hasan, prompting him to criticize Hasan for “misrepresenting” the Qu’ran’s teachings. Hasan gave him a stare-down instead. Read on…
Excerpt:
DANIEL ZWERDLING: Good morning, Steve.
INSKEEP: I understanding you’ve spoken with someone who knew him, worked with him at Walter Reed.
ZWERDLING: Earlier today, I spoke to a psychiatrist who worked very closely with Hasan and knows him very well. And he said, you know, from the beginning -and Hasan was there for four years – the medical staff was very worried about this guy. He said the first thing is he’s cold, unfriendly. At least that’s who he came off. He did not do a good job as a psychiatrist in training, was repeatedly warned, you better shape up, or, you know, you’re going to be in trouble. Did badly in his classes, seemed disinterested. But second of all – and this is, perhaps, you know, more relevant. The psychiatrist says that he was very proud and upfront about being Muslim. And psychiatrist hastened to say, and nobody minded that. But he seemed almost belligerent about being Muslim, and he gave a lecture one day that really freaked a lot of doctors out.
They have grand rounds, right? They, you know, dozens of medical staff come into an auditorium, and somebody stands at the podium at the front and gives a lecture about some academic issue, you know, what drugs to prescribe for what condition. But instead of that, he – Hasan apparently gave a long lecture on the Koran and talked about how if you don’t believe, you are condemned to hell. Your head is cut off. You’re set on fire. Burning oil is burned down your throat.
And I said to the psychiatrist, but this [could] (sic) be a very interesting informational session, right? Where he’s educating everybody about the Koran. He said but what disturbed everybody was that Hasan seemed to believe these things. And actually, a Muslim in the audience, a psychiatrist, raised his hand and said, excuse me. But I’m a Muslim and I do not believe these things in the Koran, and then I don’t believe what you say the Koran says. And then Hasan didn’t say, well, I’m just giving you one point of view. He basically just stared the guy down.
INSKEEP: So we have a picture of a man, then, who, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, was disliked by his colleagues. Or maybe disliked is not the word. Disturbed some of his colleagues is perhaps a better way to put it.
Wow. Absolutely shocking. Especially how did the Army let this guy goes around while in uniform? They should have seen the warning signs already and kick this loser out of the Army. Now that he’s alive and recovering, I can only hope they hang the bastard or put before a firing squad after a trial, just like the Army sentenced Sergeant Hasan Akbar to death back in 2005 (he’s still on death row, awaiting the sentence to die by lethal injection if the appeal fails). Placing both of them before a firing squad seem more apt than by lethal injection.
In other news, police Sgt. Kimberly Munley is a hero for stopping the Muslim shooter. Four cheers for her! All she did was directing traffic at Fort Hood before the shooting rampage started. She was few feet from the shooter when she opened fire, pumping four bullets in him, bringing him down, which by sheer luck, he survived.
My Pet Jawa blog has the lowdown on Major Hasan wearing a white clothing of martyrdom for weeks, giving away furniture and Qurans to neighbors prior to his shooting rampage. A YouTube video is included showing Major Hasan in white clothing at a convenience store in the morning before the attacks. In my Facebook profile, a friend questioned me why do I think the shooter is motivated by his religious belief? Well, my Islamist-apologizing friend, his actions were clearly pre-mediated by his religious belief. Witnesses stated that he yelled “Allahu Akbar!” as he began the shooting. See here. Doesn’t look like a Buddhist, Wiccan, or a Hare Krishna to me, eh?
Another shocking news that would have been a serious concern for us public sheep is that the unemployment rate is now 10.2%, breaking the old record set back in 1983. The timing of the announcement is interesting: about 12 hours after the shooting rampage at Fort Hood occurred, the nation’s still glued to the tragedy instead of being really concerned of the economy’s freefalling.
Yesterday, while the soldiers were gathering at the Soldier Readiness Center in Ft. Hood and before Hasan unloads his Allahu Akbar madness, there was a huge protest rally at the Capitol Hill, thousands of people opposing the madness of Obama/Pelosi’s monstrous health care bill, pictures included (hattip to Gateway Pundit) in that blog. The health care bill is an absolute nightmare for America, a recipe for more fraud, waste and abuse on a massive scale, and a dark opportunity for the Democrats to control and micromanage the health and life of every American, reducing the nation to that of a third world country with lower costs of living and poorer standards. Worse, it would criminalize Americans who won’t buy into government-enforced health care package, courtesy of Pelosi’s mad dabbling in the HR 3962.
Why I still cannot shake off the imminent air of doom regarding the death of the US dollar very soon? Hmm…..
11.08.09: Beside Officer Kimberly Munley, police officer Mark Todd is also a hero for taking down Hasan. In other news, a day after the attacks, former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, made a secret visit to Fort Hood to avoid press coverage, consoling the survivors and their families for almost 2 hours, then left the base quietly. Where was Obama that day or the next day?
