Are We Turning A Blind Eye?

20th December 2013

This is relevant to all Western democracies, I think.

We have a policy which not only allows minorities, including Pakistanis and muslims in to positions of power, but actively encourages it through law and social inadequacies. Many have tried to warn our leaders what this brings - corruption and other more tragic consequences - Dominic Grieve being one. We saw Dominic Grieve warn the Nation but then because of a weak society he then had to backtrack.

Is this dangerous? Please discuss.



Sweating nervously from his bald head as he began addressing a room full of uniformed classmates, the American soldier gathered enough composure to deliver an extraordinary presentation.


The US was waging a "war on Islam", Nidal Hasan explained to fellow graduate students at a military medical college in Maryland, before mounting a defence of Osama bin Laden and endorsing suicide bombers.


As his disgusted audience "erupted", he was halted by their lecturer after just two minutes. Yet two years later Hasan, still a member of the Army he had denounced, would violently conclude his demonstration.


Wielding a high-powered pistol and crying "Allahu akbar!", he shot dead 13 people and wounded 32 others at the Fort Hood military base in Killeen, Texas, on 5 November 2009.


Hasan, who proudly admits to carrying out the attack, is due to stand trial from Tuesday for 13 counts of murder and 32 of attempted murder. He faces a potential death sentence.


Survivors, however, remain furious that even as he grew more openly radicalised, Hasan was left untroubled by military authorities who have still not been held to account for failing to prevent his massacre.

Despite warning classmates that Muslim-American troops might be obliged to kill comrades, and even being spotted by the FBI having email exchanges with Anwar al-Awlaki, the late Yemen-based al-Qaeda cleric, Hasan was promoted to Major and left free to carry out the worst ever killing spree on a US military base.


"Over a number of years, the government afforded Hasan preferential treatment because of his ethnicity and his religion," said Mr Rubinstein. "The rules on the conduct of military officers were ignored. He was a terrible physician and had no business treating soldiers.

"Yet because of where he came from, and how he prayed to his god, they promoted him and set him loose and ignored his very open, very obvious jihadism."

Not particularly.

veya_victaous wrote:Not particularly.

The problem is veya, most people just look from their own point of view.

You need to put yourself in the shoes of victims and their families I suppose, because they are the ones who have suffered the worst fate and it is the job of our authorities to protect us from those possibilities.

Are they doing this?

Well his danger was less than Adam Lanza. if they aren't going to protect children going to school what's the point? They need to crack down of these Gun nuts since they have killed more American on American soil post 9/11.