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-- most are African Americans, so it raises troubling implications about extending imperial wars to Africa using black Americans to fight them; and
-- more than 3,000 armed forces members converted to Islam while stationed in the Persian Gulf in the 1990s.
Priest mentioned Hasan's recommendation urging the Defense Department to release Muslims as conscientious objectors "to increase troop morale and decrease adverse events."
Reporter Ray Suarez painted a "conflicting portrait (of the) accused Fort Hood gunman," devout, quiet, hardly known or understood by his neighbors, disenchanted with the military, and eager to get out. He cited the Council on American-Islamic Relations' Ibrahim Hooper saying his BlackBerry buzzed with hostile messages, "one calling for all-out war on Islam."
BBC highlighted Hasan's "contact with a radical cleric (known to be) sympathetic to al-Qaeda (and for) run(ning) a website denouncing US policy. It praised Major Hasan's alleged actions at Fort Hood as heroic."
Darren Hutchinson's Dissenting Justice blog asked why Hasan wasn't fired for his views when gay and lesbian soldiers are on grounds of their sexual orientation, saying:
"Apparently, the military retained a person who suffered from known (or reasonably discoverable) psychological problems and who attempted to contact an anti-US terrorist group. Meanwhile, the military continues to enforce Don't Ask, Don't Tell and to discharge mentally fit and loyal gay and lesbian service members...Hasan's religious views were prominent, if not exclusive factors for why he slaughtered fellow American soldiers. The motives appear as clear as any could be."
Real Clear Politics' Debra Saunders referred to an "unstable person (immersed) in extremist ideology before he turned his rage on his fellow man."
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