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Lessons of Fort Hood - Either we get serious or we invite further massacres.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
When a military officer participates in a war against his own country, that is high treason, and that is the charge that ought to be brought against Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. But itā€™s not going to happen. Hasan should have been weeded out of the military long ago. There was abundant evidence that his allegiance was not to the United States ā€” the country that had given his immigrant family safe haven and provided him the opportunity to become, at taxpayer expense, a physician, an officer, and a gentleman. It was apparent that he had come to view himself not as an American soldier but as a ā€œSoldier of Allahā€ ā€” the phrase he had printed on his business cards ā€” and that sooner or later he would wage war against the ā€œunbelievers.ā€

Why did none of those who saw something say something? In a culture where the value of diversity trumps the requirements of security, to do so would have been career suicide. There was no way that was going to happen. Letā€™s be clear: The lesson of Fort Hood is not that Muslims in the U.S. military are a fifth column. But neither can we continue to blithely assume that someone like Hasan ā€” American-born, well-educated, apparently sophisticated ā€” could never succumb to the temptations of what the politically correct call ā€œviolent extremism.ā€

Paradoxically, the Fort Hood massacre highlights the fact that Muslim soldiers who are doing their duty as proud, patriotic Americans are extraordinarily independent-minded and brave. Because while there is no evidence that Hasan was ever harassed for being a Muslim ā€” as some of his relatives have charged ā€” there is a long record of Muslims who criticize Islamists being denounced as apostates ā€” a sin that can bring a fatwa and the death penalty. ā€œPatriotism is paganism,ā€ the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini famously said. Khomeini was a Shia Islamist, but on this theological point Sunni Islamists emphatically agree.

Out of ignorance or wishful thinking, Western commentators sometimes assert that Muslims who preach intolerance and belligerence are ā€œhereticsā€ who have ā€œhijackedā€ a great and peaceful religion. But no Muslim authority would say that ā€” not even those who denounce terrorism. How, after all, can a fundamentalist be a heretic? How can someone who insists on a literal reading of the Koran be accused of misrepresenting what it says? Some Western commentators also assert that there is a ā€œcivil warā€ taking place within ā€œthe Muslim world.ā€ It would be simpler and more encouraging if that were the case.

In reality, there are the many Muslims who look upon the West with disfavor but would not sacrifice themselves and their families to destroy it. They may even live in the West ā€” enjoying the opportunities and freedoms the West provides. A second faction, small but deadly, do act on the conviction that Christians and Jews are vermin. They become what they call jihadis, holy warriors ā€” revolutionaries on a mission from God, no hyperbole intended.

A third faction chooses to interpret their religion in a moderate, tolerant way and integrate it into the modern world, alongside the other great religions. But only a very small number are activists who put their lives on the line by publicly challenging the fascistic reading of Islam championed by Iranā€™s rulers, the leaders of al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Wahhabi clerics. Continue to Clifford D May's article in the National Review
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