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article. | | | | | | | | | First,
anchormen didn't want to say the shooter was Muslim. Then they insisted there
were also "Christian nuts." And then some asked: wasn't all this the
Army's fault? By: L. Brent Bozell November 10, 2009 22:16 ET Horror spread
quickly across America as the story unfolded: an Army psychiatrist went on a shooting
rampage at Fort Hood in Texas, killing 13 and wounding 30. But as more information
emerged, clearly pointing to an act of terrorism, many in the "news"
media simply chose not to report news.
By late afternoon, it emerged that
the shooters name was Major Nidal Malik Hasan. But that night, CBS and NBC
completely avoided mentioning that the shooter was a Muslim. ABCs Charles
Gibson suggested he was a "Muslim convert," which wasnt right,
but at least he wasnt playing hide-and-seek with the facts. ABC reporter
Martha Raddatz spoke for the media in choosing this tidbit: "As for the suspect,
Nidal Hasan, as one officer's wife told me, I wish his name was Smith." | | | | | | | | | | | | Lou
Dobbs, the longtime CNN anchor whose anti-immigration views have made him a TV
lightning rod, said Wednesday that he is leaving the cable news channel effective
immediately. Sitting before an image of an American flag on his studio set,
he said some leaders in media, politics and business have been urging me
to go beyond the role here at CNN and to engage in constructive problem solving
as well as to contribute positively to the great understanding of the issues of
our day. Im considering a number of options and directions,
Mr. Dobbs added. A transcript of his remarks is available here. Jonathan
Klein, the president of CNN/U.S. said in a statement that Lou has now decided
to carry the banner of advocacy journalism elsewhere. | | | | | | | | | | | | Last
week, just before Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) big speech, Tim Cavanaugh and I
attended a small fundraiser for Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee Wayne
Allyn Root. The chatty Vegas sports bettor, memorably profiled by David Weigel
two months back, was in a mind to talk about a fellow classmate of his at Columbia
University back in the early 1980s, a guy by the name of Barack Obama. Root
is no fan of the Democratic nominee: "A vote for Obama is four years of Karl
Marx, and no one should be happy about that," he told us and a few genial
young libertarian activists over cocktails. "He's a communist! I don't care
what anybody says. The guy's a communist.... And his mother was a card-carrying
communist, and he says she's the most important person in his entire life; he
learned everything from her." | | | | | | | | | | | | he
red carpet treatment usually reserved for world leaders visiting Washington was
noticeably absent this week when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stopped
by the White House to meet with President Barack Obama. No fire-side news briefing
or official photographers accompanied the 90-minute meeting. More importantly,
no tangible evidence emerged from the meeting that suggested the two men are any
any closer to agreeing on the conditions necessary to jump-start the Israeli-Palestinian
peace talks. All the White House offered was a bland press release that
said: "The President and Prime Minister Netanyahu discussed a number of issues
in the U.S.-Israel bilateral relationship. The President reaffirmed our strong
commitment to Israel's security, and discussed security cooperation on a range
of issues. The President and Prime Minister also discussed Iran and how to move
forward on Middle East peace." | | | | | | Hasan's
Personal Jihad Copyright © 2009 HUMAN EVENTS. | | | | | | A
week after a Muslim jihadi gunned down more than 40 fellow citizens at Ft. Hood,
Texas, Americas national security leadership still wont admit that
the attack had anything to do with Islam. By failing to acknowledge that connection,
those with a constitutional duty to defend this nation against all enemies
foreign and domestic consistently substitute a policy of political correctness
at the expense of military readiness. The fact is that the 5 November 2009 attack
that took the lives of thirteen American patriots was not just an act of terrorism:
it was an act of war. When a gunman from the ranks of Islamic Jihad mounts an
armed assault against a military target in complete consistency with the enemy
doctrine of war, it is time to recognize that the U.S. actually is at war -- not
just in Afghanistan or Iraq, but with all those who follow the call of Jihad.
These are the Jihad Wars and the stakes are clear: shall Americans live in security
under the Constitution or shall the enemy within and without compel us to submit
to Sharia (Islamic law)? The few courageous commentators, like Colonel
Ralph Peters, Bill OReilly, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), who dare
to notice that U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was born and raised a Muslim,
yelled Allahu Akbar (God is the greatest) while shooting people
in the back, and sought Islamic fatwas from American-born Yemeni al-Qaeda
cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (whod been his imam at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic
Center in Falls Church, Virginia), have been ignored. Hasan told colleagues, "I'm
a Muslim first and an American second." He proselytized his psychiatric patients,
many with PTSD, trying to convert them to Islam -- and they complained about it. | | | | | | | | | | | | Last
Thursday, Nov. 5, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist and devout Muslim,
fatally shot 13 U.S. American citizens (12 service men and women) and wounded
an additional 30 people at the largest U.S. military installation, Fort Hood,
Texas. Faizul Khan, a former imam who attended services at the same mosque
with Hasan for 10 years in Silver Spring, Md., described him as "very serious
about his religion" and wanting an equally religious woman "who prayed
five times a day and wears a hijab." Hasan vehemently opposed the
U.S. missions in the Middle East, arguing with co-workers, senior officers and
even patients. He quarreled with Col. Terry Lee, who testified that Hasan "said
maybe the Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor." Dr. Val
Finnell, a former classmate, said that Hasan was "very vocal" about
equating the war on terror with a war on Islam. He said Hasan even gave a PowerPoint
presentation once justifying Islamic suicide bombing. | | | | | | | | | | | | Reporting
from Washington - At least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt
warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, an outlet that
presidential aides have depicted as not so much a news-gathering operation as
a political opponent bent on damaging the Obama administration. The Democratic
strategist said that shortly after an appearance on Fox, he got a phone call from
a White House official telling him not to be a guest on the show again. The call
had an intimidating tone, he said. The message was, "We better not
see you on again," said the strategist, who spoke on condition of anonymity
so as not to run afoul of the White House. An implicit suggestion, he said, was
that "clients might stop using you if you continue." | | | | | | | | | | | | No
sooner had we celebrated the exit of Barack Obama's green jobs czar, Van Jones,
because of his Communist connections, another off-the-wall administration embarrassment
surfaced. President Obama nominated for commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC) a woman who signed a radical manifesto endorsing polygamy. We
thought our nation had settled the polygamy issue a century and a half ago, but
this nomination makes it a 21st century controversy. Obama's nominee for the EEOC,
a lesbian law-school professor named Chai R. Feldblum, signed a 2006 manifesto
endorsing polygamous households (i.e., "in which there is more than one conjugal
partner").
This document, titled "Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A
New Strategic Vision for All Our Families & Relationships," argues that
traditional marriage "should not be legally and economically privileged above
all others." The American people obviously think otherwise, and current laws
reflect our wishes. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

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