Major Muslim Hasan's Emails to Devout Imam were Seeking "spiritual and religious guidance." "Had we launched an investigation of Hasan we'd have been crucified."

Further proof how deeply we have lost our way, our sense of life. Plotting jihad, supporting jihad is not freedom of speech. It is sedition.

Watch the unholy leftist/Islamic allaicne try to use this free speech issue to shut up the truth tellers and those on the right. The invoke freedom of speech to kill freedom of speech. it's an old trick of the left, the cimmunists, the statists, all totalitarian ideologies. I am sure Rahm Emanuel won't let this "cris go to waste" either.

They will also blame "guns". Once again in an attempt to disarm the population. An unarmed population is like sheep to slaughter. In this war, every free man  and woman needs a weapon.

Jihad is treason. Period.

Free Speech Rights Prevented Probe Into Hasan E-Mails, Investigators Say Catherine Herridege (she's the bomb) FOX News

Investigators would have been "crucified" over First Amendment rights if they had launched a full-scale probe into e-mails Fort Hood massacre suspect Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly sent to a radical imam, a government investigator told Fox News.

The claim comes as the squabble grows among officials in different branches of law enforcement and the military over who knew what, and when, about Hasan's leanings toward faith-inspired violence, and amid charges that "political correctness" prevented officials from taking pre-emptive action. 

Multiple investigators familiar with the FBI's review of the Fort Hood case told Fox News that they simply did not have enough evidence to launch an investigation. Though officials discovered Hasan's e-mails to the imam, one government counterterrorism  investigator said the messages suggested he was seeking "spiritual and religious guidance." 

"(Hasan) appeared to be at a moral impasse, a moral dilemma who was reaching out for advice," the investigator said. "Had we launched an investigation of Hasan we'd have been crucified." 

The investigator added that the communications were shared with the "appropriate chains," including the Department of Defense. The source suggested Hasan may have had other suspicious contacts, telling Fox News "no one missed anything or connections to nefarious individuals." 

Officials have consistently batted down suggestions that they "sat" on critical information about Hasan. One investigator said Monday that "I don't have any evidence" Hasan was given light treatment because of his religion or fear of a discrimination suit. 

But even after the attacks, some have been reluctant to cite religion as a factor, as evidence has mounted that the alleged gunman's Muslim faith was at least a partial factor in the decision to mount the attack.

Partial? PARTIAL???

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley pointed to America's "love" affair with guns as the driving factor behind last week's shooting at Fort Hood, becoming the latest and possibly most prominent figure to show a reluctance to cite religion.

Daley is a corrupt, morally ill crook. A tool of the left. Gangsta nonsense.

"Every day in society someone's being killed. Unfortunately, America loves guns. We love guns to a point that we see the devastation on a daily basis," Daley, whose city has suffered through a rash of violence, told reporters. "You don't blame a group. You don't blame a society, immigrant community because of actions of one group, one individual -- you cannot say that."

Stoopid.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence issued a statement last week saying that legislative measures to increase the availability of guns should be rejected in light of the attack.

This narrative must be quashed.

"This latest tragedy, at a heavily fortified army base, ought to convince more Americans to reject the argument that the solution to gun violence is to arm more people with more guns in more places," the organization's president, Paul Helmke, said.

Wrong -- this is not a tragedy. Further the "heavily fortified army base" was disarmed. Time to rearm our troops on home soil.

The message was aimed specifically at a proposal backed by the gun lobby and Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., to protect the right of veterans to own guns. Burr responded by accusing Helmke of exploiting the tragedy. 

"It is a shame that this process has gotten to a point where some feel that they can exploit the senseless murder of American soldiers in the quest to secure personal triumph," Burr said.

Burr gets my vote.

Witnesses report hearing Hasan yell "Allahu Akbar" -- "God is Great" -- during the rampage. Hasan once gave a presentation justifying homicide bombings, according to a witness. In one presentation, he also urged the military to let Muslim members leave the service to avoid "adverse" effects. 

But some pointed to stress as a leading factor.

Stress? He was as happy as a clam. As cool as a cucumber. This is insane. When will these asshats read the koran. Send your congressman, senators and representatives a copy of this: The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran

"We're dealing with a very different kind of war here," Dr. Phil McGraw, a celebrity psychologist, told CNN's Larry King on Thursday night. "And we know that there is a tremendous degree of stress with this war. And I think the military will tell you that it's a new animal and nobody knows exactly what to do with it."

Dr. Phil is an idiot.

But with "political correctness" cited as a reason why warning signs from Hasan were potentially overlooked by the military in the first place, some see Hasan being treated the same way in the wake of the shooting. 

Bernard Goldberg, a former CBS News correspondent, took the media to task for its coverage. 

"What's the story line they run with? Religion? Of course not. Can't do that. He's a Muslim," he said Friday on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor." "They run with post-traumatic stress syndrome because that gives them a chance to take a shot at a couple of wars they never liked from the get-go."

Privately, top Army officers have acknowledged that the massacre may have been a terrorist act.

d'oh

In a series of e-mails sent 24 hours after the shootings and obtained by Fox News, one colonel in a two-star command instructed subordinate officers: "Please send a message to our training centers, the (logistics support bases), and the (divisions) advising them of ...(their) responsibility to provide this command a status of their respective anti-terrorism plans." 

Publicly, however, the army's chief of staff seemed reluctant to acknowledge what appears to be the dominant factor in Hasan's world view: his turn toward Islamist views as he turned against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. 

"I think the speculation could potentially heighten backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers," said Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey. "And what happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here." 

Some other commentators took note of Hasan's faith only to suggest that its consideration served  to rile up conservatives. 

"I cringe that he's a Muslim," said Evan Thomas of Newsweek. "I mean, because it inflames all the fears. I think he's probably just a nut case. But with that label attached to him, it will get the right wing going and it just -- I mean these things are tragic, but that makes it much worse."

Left wing pimp.Look who gets TV time, this totalitarian kook. . Wafa Sultan? MIA. Robert Spencer? MIA. Ibn Warraq? MIA? Andrew Bostom ? MIA.

Fox News contributor Monica Crowley called that assessment "incredible." 

"I think he's knee-deep in political correctness, as so many people are, including now, as we know, the United States military. Political correctness is turning out to be the death of this country," she said.

It's not political corectness, it's enforcement of shariah law.

Satirical blogger Barry Rubin of "The Rubin Report" wondered if today's New York Times covering the Lincoln assassination would overlook the fact that John Wilkes Booth shouted out a Confederate motto after the shooting and report instead that he "was psychologically unstable...frightened of the Civil War coming to an end and having to face a peacetime actors' surplus." 

UPDATE: Rep McCaul wants an investigation. Go Texas(hat tip Kasper):

UPDATE: SENIOR OFFICIAL: More Hasan Ties to People Under Investigation by FBI Alleged shooter had "unexplained connections" to others besides Awlaki.

Comments

[Paul B.]

Spiritual advice: should I use a gun or a bomb vest against the infidels?

[DeeDee]

Yeah! or do I have to shave my armpits before i can become a shaheed? or whatever its called. what prayers should i say and how many? did the person reading the emails even know what they were talking about? what were the dates of the emails?

[Timur]

"Had we launched an investigation of Hasan we'd have been crucified."
Interesting choice of words...

[lilredbird]

DeeDee, I think they have to shave everywhere... Maybe it's something the 72 houris had put in the contract.

A couple of people have remarked in the media that if a US military officer had visited the Soviet Union's embassy during the Cold War he would have been disciplined for it. Oh no, he wouldn't. Because I knew one who did. In his case it was part of research for a dissertation (he went to the USSR and Chinese embassies and told them what each said about the other on his particular subject and listened while they went, "Oh yeah? Well, we...") but this guy was also known for getting away with outrageous stuff and then crying religious persecution if anyone called him on it. That excuse could get you out of practically any scrape even 30-40 years ago, especially if you were part of a "religious minority".

What I would really like to know is where Maj. Hasan got his firearms training. Because somebody interviewed right after the massacre said he was afraid of guns and didn't like the firing range. Well, at least one wounded victim said his shooting was extremely tactical and efficient. Now, where did he learn that?

lilredbird/rra

[tanstaafl]

Whether to jihad or not IS a spiritual matter in Islam.

[Noelegy]

There are laws against murder. Those didn't stop Hasan. That's what always gets me about the "more gun control" crowd: they think that if there were just more laws, all these poor misunderstood people would just obey them!

[Boria]

when the Nation does not flinch at a senator and candidate for President (Obama) attended a Racist-hate-America-and-Jews church for 20 years, why would the FBI or any other investigative agency flinch or view as disloyal an Army major Psychiatrist corresponding with a Racist-hate-America-and-Jews-and-Christians Imam in Yemen? As Wright said: The chickens are coming home to roost... Cheers!
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