U.S. and its Army have learned to hate
As a former soldier and a veteran of US Army (66-68) with four other brothers (Nabil- US Army-Lifer, Lutfi-US Marines, Suleiman-US Army and Taiseer-US Marines) with two nephews Aaron and Jamil currently serving in the US Army, we can only sympathies with the families and friends of victims and we also extend our sympathy and support for the family of the killer since they are under so much pressure and scrutiny in the US. I happen to come from the same hometown (El-Bireh) in Palestine where the parents of Major Nidal Hasan came from. I also remember one of his family members Jad Hasan who served in the US Army and was stationed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The US Army today is not the same army when we served back in the late 60′s and early 70′s. In those days. America was not America of today, driven by hate and anger with the events of September 11. . Hate and anger toward Arabs and Muslim driven by Zionists Jews, Christian Zionists and NeoCons who are the engine behind this hostility that Arabs and Muslims face and feel in present day USA.
In the good old days, we had nothing but full respect and total acceptance from officers and fellow soldiers; we were buddies spending evening and weekends together as colleagues and brothers. There was no such hostility and there was no active role for Christian Evangelicalism. The US Army was not the army of New Christian Crusade promoted by commanders and chaplains. It was a professional non-sectarian army where the religion and faith of one is not an extra baggage to carry. We were given time off to perform the Friday noon prayer in Ft. Huachuca, Arizona. The captain of my basic camp company in Ft. Polk, Louisiana arranged for me to have special food free of bacon and pork.
Now we see US soldiers, prior to deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan, highly charged bumped with “Christian faith and Muslim hate” by Evangelical chaplains promoting their own form of Evangelical Christianity with its hidden roots in Zionism. Today’s army is not the army we knew then, where religion and especially Evangelical Christianity and Zionism is actively promoted among soldiers in base camps in the US, overseas and in service academies specially the US Air Force Academy.
Of course the history of the US is full of many Nidal Hasan. Men who simply went “Postal” killing and maiming many fellow workers and students or simply killings. Major Hasan joins Jiverly Wong who killed 11 in an immigration center in Binghamton, New York. Steven Kazmiercsak opened fired at North Illinois University in DeKalb killing 5 and wounding 18. Robert Hawkins opened fire in Omaha Westroads mall killing 8 and wounding 5. Cho Seung-Hui shot 32 fellow students at Virginian Tech. Sulejman Talovic killed 5 and wounded 4 at Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City. Charles Cord Roberts IV shot to death 5 girls at West Nicke Mines Amish School in Pennsylvania. Jeffery Weise killed 9 people including his grandparents in Red Lake High School in Red Lake, Minnesota. Terry Ratzman opened fire at his congregation killing 7 and wounding 4 at Brookfield Sheraton, in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Mark Banton killed 9 people in an Atlanta brokerage firm, Andrew Golden; Mitchell Johnson killed 4 girls and wounded 10 in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Eric Harris, Dylon Klebold opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado killing 12 and wounding 26. George Hennard ramped his pick-up truck into Luby’s Cafeteria and then open fired killing 22 and wounding 22 in Killeen, Texas and of course so many of us remember Charles Whitman who mounted the University Tower at University of Texas-Austin killing 14 and wounding 32. Of course the US Postal Service gets the worse fame and wrongly defamed with 40 killed in 20 incidents of employees going “postal”.
I do not know Major Hasan, never knew there was a major in the Hasan family, and do not know his political and moral views on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and on the “war on terror”. However all of this could never justify killing and murdering fellow soldiers in cold blood. Soldiers expect to face death in the battlefield but not face death by fellow soldiers throwing hand grenades in tents as happened in Vietnam, not face death at a base camp by fellow soldier. »»» Sabbah Report (U.S.)
» 10 November 2009
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Comment from Sami Jamil Jadallah
Time: 11 November 2009, 16:09
The fact that someone shouted “Allahu Akbar” before committing murder or suicide bombings and killing of innocent people does not make them automatically a “martyr” as most Muslim clergymen claims. Murder is a murder whether committed against people of the same faith or against what Jihadist clergymen calls “infidels”. I simply do not see any justification or excuses whatsoever within the laws of God/Allah or the laws of man that justifies the cold blooded murder as is the case in Ft. Hood, Texas. As a former soldier and I would say devout Muslim (in the sense that I commit to all the real values that are at the core of faith) I do not subscribe to the Jihadist ideology, and I am against all of the cold blooded murders committed by those who calls themselves “believers” and those who commit suicide bombings even if these acts are directed at Israelis. I make a clear distinction between fighting and resisting with arms Israeli soldiers and armed settlers but do not believe that killing of innocent people on buses and restaurants are acts of faith and Jihad. I have no problem taking up arms and fighting those who kill and murder in the name of “Islam” such as we see in Iraq where suicide bombers killed tens of thousands of innocent people, or the so called “Mujahideens” who turned Kabul Stadium to a show case of “Islamic Justice” by chopping heads and severing arms in the name of Sharia with ever bothering to build a school or a clinic let alone a bakery. I think fighting “Islamists Jihadists” has to commence with us Muslims. For too long we allowed these misfits and idiots the likes of Abu-Hamza and Abu-Qutada to hijack Islam. If these were the leaders of the “Umma” in the early days of Islam, Islam would have died in its infancy. Let us not glorify cold blooded murder in the name of Allah, let us not allow these imbeciles and idiots whose knowledge of Sharia does not go beyond the “private” parts of men and women and who violate the very basic rule of Allah against the killing of innocent people. If there is to be a Renaissance of Islam it will not be at the hands of illiterate Taliban’s or the Jihadists, it will be at the hands of enlightened people who are part of this world. Sharia is way much larger than simple acts of chopping heads and cutting of arms or covering women from head to toe. Sharia is a system of justice with basic moral values that goes way beyond Islam and is of universal values. Personally I prefer to live in democratic secular state that respect my faith rather than live in an “Islamic” state that does not respect my basic civil and human rights. It is time for all of us to reclaim Islam from all of these misfits and Jihadists who do nothing but kill and destroy. It is time to rebuild our societies with schools, universities, research institutions, publishing houses, translation centers, medical research centers, hospitals, clinics, roads, manufacturing’s, shops, bakeries that serve citizens and societies. It is time to reclaim our mosques from these idiots masquerading as Imam, who know nothing of the values and culture of others who never read the Bible or the Torah or the great classic in order to appreciate the society we live in. We are part of this world and we do not live alone. I have more in common with someone from Peru than I have with someone from the mountains of Afghanistan. Time to live for God not to die for God. As a Muslim, a practicing Muslim, I do not subscribe to the Talibans nor the Jihadist ideology that promote killings rather than building. If Islam had this kind of people in its infancy, it would have died long time and would not have spread to all four corners of the world. Yes, time to live for Allah not to die for Allah.
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