Remember Major Hassan? At the time I was furious over the blindness about why this happened. The RG did not publish this, afraid of hurting someones feelings, no doubt.
Enjoy.
Nidal Malik Hasan. US Army Major, therapist for PTSD combat veterans, Jihadist. The signs were all there, and for over a year no one spoke up. For that silence 13 died and dozens were wounded.
Major Hasan was no anomaly, nor was he a victim of harassment. He was not suffering undue stress, plagued by insults or worried about how he was viewed by his fellow soldiers. No, Major Hasan practiced his religion exactly as directed by Muhammad through the Qur’an. His beliefs, behavior and actions are all a direct result of his understanding of Islam and its doctrine, tenets and theology.
Let not the believers take disbelievers for their friends in preference to believers. Whoso doeth that hath no connection with Allah unless (it be) that ye but guard yourselves against them, taking (as it were) security. Allah biddeth you beware (only) of Himself. Unto Allah is the journeying (3-28)
There is no such animal as a radical Muslim, or an extremist Muslim, or even a militant Muslim. Muslims who do what Major Hasan did are not twisting Islam into some perversion of its true meaning. Through 1400 years of doctrine Islam is a religion of subjugation, enslavement, conversion or death. Those who follow Muhammad as “al-insan al-kamil”, the perfect man are required to, as the Qur’an says “… then fight and slay the pagans where you find them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them….but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and pay zakat then open the way for them…”(9-5) This is what Major Hasan did. Justification for jihad using the tenets of fundamental Islam is nothing new and must be viewed as the foundation for Islamic behavior.
Major Hasans actions leading up to Nov 5 should have been a red flag for anyone with an understanding of Islamic doctrine. All his behavior up to and including the shooting point with a steady finger to fundamental Islamic Ideology. Dressing in all white Arabic robes was a symbol of his desire and willingness to die for Allah, and an expectation of dying and becoming a martyr.
Allah has purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the Garden (of Paradise): they fight in his Cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in Truth…” (9-111)
The endless preaching for the purpose of converting non-Muslims to Islam is not something “extreme” or some kind of warped interpretation of Islamic doctrine. His use of a medical “Grand Round” to accomplish such goals should have not been let to stand, that behavior needed to be challenged, confronted and defeated.
The Islamic prosthelytising done by Major Hasan with his PTSD patients, which got him transferred from Virginia to Texas is called “Da’wa” in Arabic and is a requirement for all Muslims. Preaching for conversion is part and parcel of Islam, and a practice not uncommon among Muslims living with unbelievers. Major Hasan was merely doing what is mandated for Muslims by Muhammad and the Qur’an.
"Now when ye meet in battle those who disbelieve, then it is smiting of the necks until, when ye have routed them, then making fast of the bonds; and afterward either grace or ransom till the war lay down its burdens. that (is the ordinance)....And those who are slain in the way of Allah, he rendereth not their actions vain" (47-4)
The shouts of “Allahu Akbar” witnesses claim he made fit perfectly with the terror jihadists wish to instill as they strive for martyrdom. Mohammad Atta, the leader of the Sept 11 hijackers said “Shout Allahu Akbar before claiming martyrdom as it will strike fear into the hearts of the infidels”. Is it any wonder then that a man who shouts Allahu Akbar would also say that he loves death as much as we love life? It is not, and it is the true, pure jihadist who claims these appellations.
Giving away his Qur’ans is especially noteworthy as a Muslim will not willingly give up his precious Qur’an unless he expects to not see the next sunrise. His business card has on it the letters SoA, which mean Soldier of Allah and he has been quoted as stating that he is a Muslim first and an American second. His ties with the radical Dar Al Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, VA and its former Imam, Anbar Al-Awlaki should have raised many questions, especially in light of the fact that the mosque had been the meeting place for 3 of the 9-11 hijackers during a time where Major Hasan was also a member.
Major Hasan is not a victim of “sudden jihad syndrome” as detailed by Dr Daniel Pipes. His actions should prove beyond any doubt that what he did is a pure expression of jihad and follows the doctrine of Muhammad started in 610AD. His use of the Qur’an as justification for his actions are not radical, they are in perfect lockstep with how Islam is defined today by the four main Sunni schools of Islamic jurisprudence: Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i and Hanbali.
Volume 1, Book 2, Number 25 Bukhari Hadith:
Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle(Muhammad) was asked, "What is the best deed?" He replied, "To believe in Allah and His Apostle (Muhammad). The questioner then asked, "What is the next (in goodness)? He replied, "To participate in Jihad (religious fighting) in Allah's Cause.”
Initiating contact with Al-Qaeda, writing on pro-jihad websites, claiming that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are a war against Islam, preaching death and hell if you do not become a Muslim, your business card with Soldier of Allah on it all point directly to the conclusion that Major Nidal Malik Hasan is, and has been for quite a while a full-blown jihadist.
Major Hasan is not endemic of Muslims as a whole yet he does represent how Islam is being defined today by its leaders. He embodies the essence of Islam and his actions speak clearly on how Islam should be practiced in its pure form. It is up to Muslims to make this sad episode a learning experience for non-Muslims but I suspect we will not be seeing throngs of Muslims denouncing those like Major Hasan, claiming he has hijacked Islam and made it something less than the religion of peace. The cries of Islamophobia, racism, victim hood and profiling will become louder and more strident and the obfuscation from Muslim advocacy groups will increase, making it difficult for non-Muslims to grasp the nugget.
The jihad being waged against America is not new and Major Hasan is not a recently hatched player. His killing spree can be seen as part of the Muslim Brotherhoods grand plan for America which states “(we are)engaged in America a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it’s eliminated and Allahs religion is made victorious overall other religions” (spoken by Mohamed Akram in “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America”, 1991). Nidal Malik Hasan is, as his business card says, a soldier of Allah and the Muslim Brotherhood must be very proud at this moment.
Major Hasan is a portent of things to come if we refuse to identify Islamic ideology as the real cause behind the attack at Ft Hood. By continuing down our path of religious relativism and multiculturalism we will doom ourselves to many more Major Hasans. By neglecting to accept the doctrine driving jihadists and believing that he was abused as a child, was called mean names, has a tough life, is under stress or any other warm and fuzzy excuses we risk our future. Major Nidal Malik Hasan is a symptom of a much more dangerous disease, that of willful ignorance.
To see the facts and not accept them is not only irresponsible, it is dangerously misleading. If our leaders refuse to believe, even after being given the information that it is a religious ideology which drives people like Major Hasan there may be no hope for the survival of what we know as America and the West. Yes it goes against our core beliefs to question behavior based in religion yet we must get over this fear and critically question motives and beliefs of those who commit an act of hatred based in Islamic doctrine, tenets and ideology.
Or we can gather in a circle, hold hands and sing a few choruses of Kumbayaa and hope for the best.
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