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He only attacked once his ass was getting sent to Iraq. Hardly noble, even if you do think suicide bombers are noble. #maliknidalhasan
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Yeah well, he was Caucasian and American. #maliknidalhasan
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Meanwhile, our neighbors are grieving the loss of their loved ones and the wounded are fighting for their lives in the hospital down the street. We've got to stop meeting destruction with destruction.
I just realized I might not be in the mood for jezebel tonight. #maliknidalhasan
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Anyway, I'm very disappointed in you Gawker. By highlighting the text you've taken that portion of the posting out of context by giving the false impression that the now gunman was promoting terrorism. In reality he was just giving rather reasonable parallels in the mindset for a suicide bomber to other historical examples and psychological cases. Sure I can say a cat is racist, and no one would believe me, but it really helps my case when I put a sign up next to the cat pointing towards it with the a large bold type reading "RACIST". Not that it matters now since the stupidity of the internet is now shining brightly on the user's account page. If anything, his shootings follow a long line of military shootings in the past from soldiers that snapped. BUT FUCK LOGIC RIGHT?
These days on 24 news networks, everyone is trying to piece together a story which will keep the watchers hooked in order to hear the full arch. I suppose "soldier snaps and shoots other soldiers" doesn't play to well so instead "ARAB PSYCHIATRIST shoots innocent soldiers" gets played on the airwaves, and it doesn't help matters that you have the news presenters ever so lightly mention that the shooter was a arab while showing stock footage of American soldiers fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.
11/05/09
How long waiting to call it the most inefficient army in history? Specially, after we (with British, Latin and African American names) have been systematically killing people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan during the last eight years?
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I'd like to add this is a trained soldier, much more proficient at killing than your average psycho. #maliknidalhasan
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A number of USUHS participants view the program primarily as free medical school and do not give due consideration to the fact that the requisite period of indentured servitude to the military could take them overseas. The most recent birther case—thrown out with great aplomb by U.S. District Judge Clay D. Land—involved a USUHS doctor, Connie Rhodes, who was trying to weasel her way out of the program. She was represented by notorious Israeli-American dentist-lawyer Orly Taitz.
Nidal Hasan may have been one such USUHS participant, who gambled against the possibility of overseas deployment. If the source can be trusted, “Hasan was scheduled to be deployed to Iraq ‘and appeared to be upset about that,’ Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said” (link). In one scenario, the shooting amounts to a psychotic break: he reacted psychotically to the eventuality of his deployment.
In another scenario, Hasan planned the attack as an act of terrorism, or, as the author “NidalHasan” of the blog post quoted above would have it, a “strategic victory” “to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers.“ While Hasan may not have wanted to be deployed to Iraq, it seems unlikely that a doctor, especially a psychiatrist, would react psychotically in this way. An attack on that scale and at a base would require much planning. (As others have noted, guns and ammo would not have been easily available to him.) As a Jordan national and a Muslim, he may have been frustrated by U.S. military activity in the Middle East, which has in fact caused the deaths of many, many thousands of Muslims. His frustrations with the U.S. would have been exacerbated by his participation in the military, the idiocy of USUHS policy (which often follows very different procedures and standards of care than would normally be followed), and likely anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bigotry all around him in the corps.
If the second scenario is more representative of what happened, my question would be: did he enter USUHS with the intention to commit an act of terrorism eventually? Or was he driven to it by the reason that I hypothesize? #maliknidalhasan
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@iplaudius: #maliknidalhasan
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@Phyllis Nefler: Thank you! I wanted to consider the possibility of a terrorist act without degenerating into the kind of discourse that would make a terrorist out of every Muslim. #maliknidalhasan
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Less readily or easily available to him than to the "average" American? You know, "average" Americans like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold or Seung-Hui Cho or Charles Whitman... #maliknidalhasan
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you can hate the right.. but dont make stuff up...there has been exactly no evidence of southerners or anyother americans of doing this vigilante shit..
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[en.wikipedia.org] #maliknidalhasan
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O Rly?
[www.nytimes.com]
[www.itvs.org]
[valariekaur.blogspot.com]
[saldef.org]
Oh and I personally know a Sikh man who was beaten very badly by some naughty bad-boy locals. He is still profoundly traumatized. But who cares? He's just an immigrant. Some stories don't make the news because the local media doesn't consider the victims to be Real Americans.
Pull your head out of your ass.
Oh but I guess in your world, all these people were just asking for it, right? The days after 9/11, no South Asians I knew left their homes.
Don't fucking tell me to get over it. I'm guessing you're white. Well congratulations on winning the genetic lottery. You never have to worry about terrorism from white people. Unless you're a kid in a public school or you work at a post office or you go to the mall or you're hunting down a serial killer. Now run along, you good old Real American, you. #maliknidalhasan
11/05/09
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You wanted me to get over something that involves the safety of my life and limb? You get over your cloudy thinking and uninformed opinions. #maliknidalhasan
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Your powers of logic and reasoning are unsurpassed. Thanks so much for sharing. I look forward to more of your wit and wisdom, #maliknidalhasan
11/06/09
Commie bastard. #maliknidalhasan
11/06/09
It's precisely because of the perceptions of a large number of Americans that Muslim = terrorist, Middle Easterner = terrorist and also dark-skinned and South Asian-looking = Middle-Easterner = Terrorist that so many people have become victims of hate crimes. What's wrong with openly talking about it?
What's so different about what I'm saying versus how Jews are relieved when it turns out some asshole, who might be Jewish, isn't? I recall a lot of East Asians being really worried in the aftermath of the Cho Seung-hui attacks that they would be the targets of hate crimes. Don't shoot (heh) the messenger here. The fact is that every time a minority person hurts a large number of people of a majority race, the others belonging to the minority ethnicity or race worry about how they will be perceived or if they will face retribution for something they didn't do.
Oh and quit the sarcasm. Someone of your intelligence can do with being a lot more direct and attack from the front. #maliknidalhasan
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Doesn't anyone think it strange that the NYT article this morning quotes a response to the attacks from the Muslim Public Affairs Council? This man has listed no religious affiliation, why are they responding? It's great that they think it was terrible and all, but already, simply, I'm assuming because of his name and possibly how he looks, people are wanting to hear from the Muslim Public Affairs Council. According to the information we actually have at this point, we should be asking what the local humanist society thinks. Even if we're assuming he lied when listing "no religious affiliation", isn't it premature to assume he's Muslim? It may very well be that he was at some time or is now Muslim, but at this point, it's quite an assumption.
If people are prepared to jump to the syllogism that because he has the name he does or looks how he does (Barack Hussein Obama anyone?) that we need to hear from the Muslims (thus implying he's Muslim), I don't think it's paranoid to think that other syllogisms and generalisations, especially on a local level, might follow. #maliknidalhasan
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I'm Black. I think it's fair to say my people have been persecuted and killed for having the "wrong genetic code." So I'd really back off of that argument if I were you.
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Or is it that the only people allowed to criticize racism on Gawker are white liberals and black people? And no one really wants to hear first-hand from one of those ethnic types? God forbid someone insinuate that immigrants also suffer horribly from racism. Then who would these Gods of Snark have left to mock? Plus we can't have any new contestants in the Suffering Olympics. #maliknidalhasan
11/06/09
Discourse about racial problems in the U.S. tend to become black/white issues. You don't hear often about situations involving racial ambiguity or "mistaken identity" (where a person of one ethnic descent is mistaken for another) but they are everyday problems. If you're of a certain skin color and your race is not "obvious," then being jokingly called "terrorist" is not uncommon. I've seen it myself. I've heard the terrorist comment used on white/Latino/South Asian/East Asian guys! Just because they were of a certain skin tone and had beards. Sometimes, they were just hipsters with Italian blood in them.
People are so stupid sometimes. #maliknidalhasan
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