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2009-11-12 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by tipper 2009-11-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 David Martin on CBS Evening News reported that Hasan's colleagues at Walter Reed refused to refer anyone to him. Looks bad.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-11-12 00:15|| 2009-11-12 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 "Put it this way. Everybody felt that if you were deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, you would not want Nidal Hasan in your foxhole," one official was quoted as saying.

Officials considered kicking Hasan out of the program but chose not to partly because sacking a doctor was a "cumbersome and lengthy" process that involves hearings and potential legal conflict, sources told NPR.

I can think of at least 13 things which are now much more cumbersone and lengthy.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-11-12 01:27|| 2009-11-12 01:27|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't buy any of this. It is a socially acceptable way for Muslims to "get over" from punishments by infidels, for heinous crimes, by feigning mental illness. This is because Islam almost equates insanity with heavenly inspiration for Jihad. It has no stigma. "Allah made me do it."

This is similar to the defense they use for whimsical violent acts against each other, claiming that it was justified in the Koran, somewhere. I could kill them because somebody made a fatwa against them sometime.

So when someone chimes in that Hasan might have been mentally ill, it should be rebutted that ALL terrorists are mentally ill, but that does not stop anyone from hunting them down and slaughtering them like rabid dogs before they can murder more innocent people.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-11-12 03:56|| 2009-11-12 03:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Maj Hasan was sane. He had a Koran, he reproduced Koranic statements accurately, he form an ethical system based on those statements and his actions were consistent with his ethical system.

The Islamic apologists are the ones who are daft here. They know the facts but deny the facts - that's insane.

Posted by lord garth 2009-11-12 09:55|| 2009-11-12 09:55|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't buy any of this. It is a socially acceptable way for Muslims to "get over" from punishments by infidels, for heinous crimes, by feigning mental illness. This is because Islam almost equates insanity with heavenly inspiration for Jihad. It has no stigma. "Allah made me do it."

I've heard secondhand reports that the lives of mental patients in the Middle East kinda suck very hard. Or that may just be the ones who don't murder westerners.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-11-12 11:56|| 2009-11-12 11:56|| Front Page Top

#6 It's called jihad.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-11-12 15:40|| 2009-11-12 15:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Need to be looking in the Koran and not the DSM-IV.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-11-12 15:47|| 2009-11-12 15:47|| Front Page Top

#8 I've heard secondhand reports that the lives of mental patients in the Middle East kinda suck very hard. Or that may just be the ones who don't murder westerners.

Or local unbelievers, Snowy Thing. But in this case it's a technique aimed at Western juries. I'm not sure it's been very successful in getting lower sentences, though.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-11-12 22:48|| 2009-11-12 22:48|| Front Page Top

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