Muslims in the Military

Sgt. Kimberly Munley,  a 34-year-old former soldier who became a civilian cop on the Fort Hood base and mother of two girls, shot Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan four times before she collapsed from her own wounds.  In the recovery room after her surgery, "She opened her eyes and said, 'Did anybody die?'  Munley's partner, Sgt. Mark Todd, worked flawlessly with Munley to take Hasan down, secure his weapon after Hasan was on the ground, and then "started life-saving measures to keep him [Hasan] alive as well."    Compare Munley and Todd to Hasan, who used a gun called the "cop killer",  the FN Five-Seven, a semi-automatic pistol popular with SWAT teams, that can fire armour-piercing bullets.  Sgt. Todd said, "I could see into his eyes and he was calm."     

On the morning of the Fort Hood attack, Hasan was seen by his neighbor throwing away bags of shredded paper, which the FBI has taken into custody as evidence.  He apparently gave away all of his belongings. 

Another neighbor allowed Hasan to use his wireless internet.  The neighbor said "He  received two calls from Hasan early Thursday, one at 2:37 a.m. asking Bell to turn on the wireless service and again at 5 a.m. to say he was moving."  A. C. at Fore-Left says:

Keeping in mind that Hasan was a major in the Army--no chump change salary there--why was he living in a 350/month dump? And why would he want access to some maintenance guy's wireless domain? Well, those have easy speculative answers of course--one, he wanted extra money for something and two, he didn't want his internet tracks on his own dsl network, figuring he could surf unnoticed using the technologically clueless maintenance man's DSL domain. The internet capture might be quite interesting, should they ever reveal it.

"Allahu Akbar."

There were 3,409 Muslims in the active-duty military as of April 2008, according to Pentagon statistics.

Military personnel don't have to disclose their religions, and many officials believe the actual number of Muslim soldiers may be at least 10,000 higher than the Pentagon statistics. For instance, the military "Officer Record Brief" of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings, said he had "no religious preference" and didn't identify him as a Muslim.

The Army recently established its first full unit of Muslim personnel recruited under the program, the 51st Translator Interpreter Company at California's Fort Irwin. The unit has more than 120 soldiers who are native speakers of Arabic, Farsi, Pashto and Dari.  (AINA)

But we wouldn't want to jump to any conclusions ...

Comments

[The Right Look]

They need to arm all soldiers on all our military installations so this scumbag could have been taken down without prejudice!

That to me is so basic! More guns=less crime!

-j-

[Ron Russell]

I have little doubt that most muslims serving in the armed forces are loyal and patriotic Americans and serving their country well, but I also feel that many do not put this country first and are radicals. Muslims should be screened just as closely as Japanese were screened during WWII before letting then enter the ranks. I'm sure this would help some. Would it have prevented an incident such as Ft. Hood, unlikely but the screening needs to be started and perhaps if politic correctness can be subdued in this area something positive will come from this recent tragedy.