Falls Church Mosque

By Rabbi Aryeh Spero

On Thursday, November 5, America suffered its first major act  of terrorism since 9/11.There can be no mistake that  America was attacked. It was accomplished by an Islamist  who massacred many Americans within the most emblematic  precinct of American power - a military base. The jihadist,  Nidal Hasan, is purported to have screamed "Allahu Akhbar"  while mowing down the innocent Americans who, like those in  the Twin Towers in Manhattan, never suspected that on a  clear and peaceful day the arm of jihad would shatter their  lives. 

The difference between this attack and the one on 9/11 is  the response of America. After the first attack, the  American administration and the news media forthrightly  acknowledged Islamic terrorism as the source of the  carnage. Eight years later, a new American administration  and a craven mainstream media would not point the finger at  the Islamist source, but were bending over backwards to tell  the American people that what was obvious to all is but a  nasty propensity of their Islamophobia. 

For over six months authorities knew of postings on the  Internet and
conversations by Nidal Hasan that clearly showed a soldier not for America but a soldier of the jihad.  Hasan spoke of the merits of suicide bombing and how Muslims  must eradicate soldiers engaged in wars in Muslim  countries. Iraq and Afghanistan are Muslim countries where America is engaged. 

Had a white Christian soldier made similar remarks that  foreshadowed real danger to comrades on a military base, one  suspects that the Feds and the military would have acted far  quicker in isolating and removing such a threatening  individual from the military base. It seems as if political  correctness has infected the Army as it has so many other  institutions in America where the concern for Muslim  "sensitivities" now overrides our need to protect the actual  lives of American women and children and other innocent  targets on the radar scope of Islamic rage.

As with 9/11, the authorities waited too long to seize the  computer of the suspect. Prior to the 9/11 attacks, authorities who wanted to confiscate the computer of the  soon-to-be 9/11 hijackers under suspicion did not do so because of the many legal barriers that had been placed in  front of investigators.  Either out of political correctness  or out of fear that CAIR or the ACLU would condemn the Army,  action that should have been taken against the suspect was  not taken: a repeat mis-performance.

How demoralizing that the Army, which should be the one bastion that does not operate under fear and timidity, seems  inclined to act with fear. Isn't it time, finally, that some  high ranking officer altruistically announce that the lives of our soldiers are more important than political  correctness or the fear that CAIR may accuse as  "Islamophobic" those who are simply doing their job?

Americans need to find out who it is at top-levels that is  enforcing this pernicious political-correctness and  straight-jacketing our people.

The need for a high ranking official to boldly tell the  American people the truth is necessary in light of an  announcement by the Army's Chief of Staff, General George  Casey, that "it's important for the country not to get  caught up in speculation about Hasan's Muslim faith". He has instructed his commanders to "be on the lookout for  anti-Muslim reaction to the killings" at the Texas post. Is this the new army mindset? Have some in the military  redefined its historic goal of protecting to now mean  protecting feelings instead of protecting life?

The message to those in the military who may be witnesses  to possible dangers from inchoate Islamists within their  ranks is that they better keep their mouth shut. Evidently  the lives of our soldiers and our citizens, are secondary to  the more important goal of, as General George Casey says, "diversity". As in civilian life, multiculturalism may have  become the new religion of the army, exceeding common sense  and all other considerations, even life itself.

It is understandable that many institutions in the United  States are now unwilling to let the truth stand as it is and  instead, in Orwellian fashion, try to make the American  people reject the obvious facts in front of their own eyes.  After all, President Obama proclaimed in his speech in Egypt  that one of the top priorities of his administration is to "ensure that Muslims are not 'profiled' or portrayed as   anti-Western". Not a problem in general; however, it is a  problem when government covers up the truth of specific cases. We saw a similar whitewash before on a military base  in Iraq where, again, a devout Moslem hand-grenaded to death  his sleeping American comrades.

Naturally,the Obama Administration does not want to call  the Fort Hood incident the Islamic terrorism that it is, since it wants to pretend that on its watch the country has, as was during the eight years of President Bush, been spared  Islamic terrorism on our soil. But such terrorism, in fact,  happened Thursday, November 5th at Fort Hood. One senses that President Obama wants to protect the Moslem image even if it means Americans will be unprotected.

How utterly revealing that immediately following the incident, the FBI was quick to tell us that what had happened at Fort Hood was not terrorism. They made the same claim after an Egyptian Moslem gunned down passengers at the El  Al, Israeli airline, terminal at LAX. Apparently, there have  for a while been instructions from higher ups that Islamic  terrorism be called something else: deranged or stressed-out individuals.

Islamic sympathizers, and the media, are now claiming that  a man operating alone cannot be said to be engaged in  terrorism. But what is a suicide bomber if not a terrorist?

Dozens of Islamic suicide bombers have acted alone and, as  we know, don't necessarily receive orders from Al Qaeda. It  is the internalization of the jihadist message that is the  trigger for terrorism. Nidal Hasan attended the same mosque  as did the 9/11 highjackers and listened to the same imam  they did. He received the same hate-filled message, but did  not act upon it until years later. His  instructions may not have come from Osama bin Laden, but the goal of destroying America was implanted in him the same  way it has been implanted by other suicide bombers targeting  the West. 

Americans today feel that they are no longer  protected. Indeed, many are sick at heart by what appears to be the President's lack of visceral and emotional pain for what happened to innocent Americans at Fort Hood. He seems so detached and, at the time, spoke about the massacre as if he were commenting on the latest Highway and Transportation Bill. As we've heard ad nauseum, after each attack by Muslims against Americans, the President's main concern was "that we not rush to judgment."

How much longer will Americans have to die and  how many more Americans will have to be massacred on the  soil of America, even on military bases, so as to maintain  the facade of "the religion of peace" that the bureaucracy   and the Administration have decided is more important than  American life itself.