It would appear that he is Arab. He apparently has uttered Jihadist statements in the past.

adam on November 5, 2009 at 7:47 pm

refreshing to see most on here have a clear perspective on the islamic threat from within…as well as the danger of the current administration’s naivte’…of course it doesn’t help that the POTUS usurper is also a Muslim

John Galt on November 5, 2009 at 7:47 pm

When I read about this in the news, for a second, I wondered if I might run into a moslem name… guess what it WAS a moslem!!! Am I surprised?? Heck no! The way these islamist pigs have strategically entered all vital areas in America, we’ll be hearing more news like this.

God bless the families of the murdered soldiers.

Anonymous Twit on November 5, 2009 at 7:47 pm

Taqiyya, anyone?

cirrus1701 on November 5, 2009 at 8:00 pm

The Jews are smart to have an apartheid on palestine. Islam should be crushed. If you sympathize with islam, you should be hung.

MR: They don’t have an apartheid, which is why they have problems like this every single day . . . because, like us, they’ve fooled themselves into believing you can live in peace with Muslims. You can’t. DS

Michael R. on November 5, 2009 at 8:01 pm

Sure helps to have a mosquerat in the white house (more
pestilential than presidential).

demonneant on November 5, 2009 at 8:09 pm

KILLEEN (TX) KADDISH

Our troops deserve to be honored more. The tragedy at Foot Hood just shows the great debt that we owe to our true heroes (not simply sports heroes).

There needs to be a moment of silence before the national anthem at each sporting event. Before that moment of silence, the announcer should recite the names of the recent injured or dead who have fought to keep us safe.

Then the national anthem should be done, with added meaning.

To anyone out there who is Jewish, this is familiar procedure. There is a “Mourner’s Kaddish” with every prayer service. The names of the dead from within the congregation are recited. My rabbi always mentioned the six million Jew who died in the holocaust with every Kaddish prayer.

Before every sporting event, recite the names of our dead or injured local heroes, have a brief moment of silence, and then sing the national anthem. How difficult is that?

Can the NFL do this simple thing every Sunday?

Tell the NFL! Tell your local college!

Barry Popik on November 5, 2009 at 8:19 pm

Just reading the responses of some or fellow American MORONS who would look to blame some ancilliary cause for these terrorist attacks leads me to believe this country may have outlived its usefulness. So many Americans are woefully undereducated in they way the world works and are so naive to the true danger we face as a nation I fail to see how we can recover our nation in time. The final test I fear will be if you idiots vote this Muslim pacifist back in office for another 4 years to finish his own final solution

seahawker on November 5, 2009 at 8:20 pm

Perchance a small dose of reality will slip past the mainstream media censors. It’s time for Americans to understand that the tenets of Islam are at complete odds with the Western conception of personal liberty and the diminished nay forgotten intellectual traditions handed to us via the Scottish Enlightenment. May I suggest reading Hoffer’s “True Believer”.

heresiologician on November 5, 2009 at 8:20 pm

Why do we even have Muslims in our military? Their allegiance is to Islam, not to the US.

lexi on November 5, 2009 at 8:21 pm

It’s now being reported that Hasan was being monitored after posting a series of violently anti-American web posts. Why wasn’t this dealt with? Was someone afraid of CAIR sqwalking?

adam on November 5, 2009 at 8:25 pm

God bless the Soldiers and their families in this terrorist attack. May they not have died in vain and woke up some more people to the danger of islam.

Wonder if like the others caught in the FBI, if he was spying for a muslim group. Talking about the FBI, strange how before they even got to the scene of the crime they announced “It’s not terrorism!!”. How long till Obama blames this terrorist attack on American soil on George Bush?

While a Marine on deployment in the mid 80’s off the coast of Lebanon, we were about to deploy by helicopters to the American embassy because of rioting. A muslim Marine commented during the briefing that “he wasn’t sure he could fire on his muslim brothers”.

When we went to the hanger deck to prepare and pass out ammo, we skipped him. He asked “what about my ammo?”, we answered “if your not going to shoot at them then you don’t need any”. We then congratulated him and told him his Mom will be very proud when she gets his posthumous awarded purple heart for his actions.

We got on the birds, took off then got the stand down order back to the ship. We never let him near live ammo again and he was sent away when we returned to the states.

Learned long ago as a Marine, never, ever trust them. They will smile at you every morning, even the morning when they pull a gun or a bomb out to kill you. Look at the servicemen that are being shot and killed by our so called muslim allies in Afghanistan. Always be prepared to put one done like a rabid dog. But unlike the end of “Old Yeller” there is no reason to cry.

ender on November 5, 2009 at 8:30 pm

Wow! Kneejerk, racist or both?

If 99 Muslims in a row turned out to be extremist murderers, it does not mean the 100th is too.

You may be right to say we have terrorists in our ranks and you might be right to say some are Muslim but to say Islamic=terrorist is wrong, racist, unscientific and not very bright.

By this reasoning, all Jews are serial killers because David Berkowitz was Jewish. If Jews should be judged by the content of their character and not their race, so should all.

[To my readers, I don’t know this idiot and he’s not related to me. Highly doubt his last name is Schlussel.]

Morty Schlussel on November 5, 2009 at 8:31 pm

I assume Morty’s a relative, Debbie. My family is loaded with clueless useful idiot Jews as well.

A: Never heard of him. And I doubt his surname is actually Schlussel. Just some punk sullying my family name. DS

adam on November 5, 2009 at 8:39 pm

Can you believe that Clinton bombed the Serbs in order to help the Muslim jihadis in Bosnia and Kosovo?? Can you believe the US government is STILL supporting those Muslims in Europe?? Oh wait, of course you can believe it, we elected a jihadi as president.

Stephen Reid on November 5, 2009 at 8:40 pm

We still haven’t heard if this was a conspiracy or not. Apparently, people at the site of the shooting heard yelling in Arabic. Not at all clear if that was just Hasan, or whether this was communication among conspirators.

adam on November 5, 2009 at 8:41 pm

AIMEN – dont give me your muslim bulls**t about how OUR hearts are hardened – and how WE have to understand your religion – we know know your religion – some of us can actually read and WE read your koran and your hadiths – and no we do not take your verses out of context – take your lame, bullshit excuses somewhere else – we dont strap bombs on and slaughter innocent people – we dont go running and rampaging through city streets – we dont kidnapp innocents and behead them and so proud to film the barbaric act – AND we dont go and hijack airplanes and fly them into tall buildings murdering 3000 people – we dont plan subway bombings – but YOU DO!!!…dont give me your bullshit excuses about your “peaceful religion” -its never been peaceful – islam is spread through the sword and you bloody know it – its not a religion – its an ugly violent, deceitful, hateful political manifesto no different than nazism.

BIG IRISH on November 5, 2009 at 8:42 pm

Moderate Muslims?

There are very few moderate Muslims. The really nice Muslims are framed by the Muslim community and have to be defended by Debbie Schlussel.

Incidentally, I agree with Ayn Rand in her criticism of the anti concept terminology such as moderate and extremist. Certainly Ayn Rand was right when she denigrated the term extremism as an anti concept. Ayn Rand warned that the term extremism is simply a smear tag.

Underzog on November 5, 2009 at 8:56 pm

That picture looks like Smerconish.

Are you sure that’s the guy?

Stymie on November 5, 2009 at 9:00 pm

This is a terrorist right in our military; plain and simple. The media can spin it whatever way they want. We should round up the muslims like we did the japanese, and put them in camps. Send them back to their countries that they came from, or make them slaves before they kill us all. The muslims have taken over Michigan, and look what happened to the automobile industry. We must have a crusade and push the muslim terrorist religion out of the USA. Islam is not a religion. They do not seperate religion from state. It is a political party like the Nazi is a political party. It is a criminal party. Some religion of peace this is!!! We need to fight before it is too late

infidel on November 5, 2009 at 9:00 pm

I wonder if the killer was American(not Arab,not Muslim) Would it be diffrent???!!….

AJ on November 5, 2009 at 9:04 pm

A lot of angry opinion in here with very few facts to go on in the case.

For all the right wingers who want to get rid of every Muslim because of this incident… should we get rid of all right wingers for what Timothy McVeigh did?

I’m sure we’ll eventually find out that this person’s religion played a role in his crime… perhaps we should get rid of all religion?

Jambo on November 5, 2009 at 9:06 pm

AIMEN you sound as brainwashed as the rest of your ilk – maybe you can explain why murder, beheadings, Jewish hate, suicide bombings. etc etc…are all islamic?…and islam was not spread by the sword? what planet are you on?…di mo leave mecca and peacefully spread his “good news” throughout the world?…think not…is there a peaceful prosperous loving tolerant islamic country in the world today?…think not…oh but I forgot, you have been betrayed and mistreated and suffered bad foreign policy…and yes I can read and thats why more and more people are realizing exactly what islam is and why we arent fooled by your bullshit anymore…God Bless Canada,America,Israel.

BIG IRISH on November 5, 2009 at 9:12 pm

When I first read that there were more than 1 gunmen….I thought this was a terrorist act..but then I heard it was a soldier and felt bad that I had these biased thoughts. Turns out my intuition was right!!! The muslim identity is more stronger than 39 years of American life……These people are all nice in day to day life but any conflict with their Muslim injuncations and the mohamMAD inside comes out….take this from a guy who comes from a city where 40% of the population is moslem.

Ganesh on November 5, 2009 at 9:14 pm

Now they say the f*ckur is still alive…

american on November 5, 2009 at 9:23 pm

“Study Muhammad in the true sense. He was a man of love and peace. He was the manifestation of our belief. He only ever fought in self-defense.
Aimen…isnt this the prophet who led about 75 raids on merchant caravans to loot ‘in self defense’. Isnt this the guy who ordered a clan-leader beheaded and ‘married’ his wife the same night in ‘self -defense’.

I dont expect any soul searching on your end ‘cos I know you have already submitted it to your prophet (or Allah his alter-ego).

anon on November 5, 2009 at 9:25 pm

FYI, David Berkowitz (Son of Sam) was NOT Jewish. He was Italian adopted by a Jewish family. But even if he were, so what? He wasn’t anti-American, was he? He didn’t infiltrate our military and shoot up soldiers, did he? He didn’t talk jihad, did he? You stupid idiot.

lexi on November 5, 2009 at 9:26 pm

Now word coming that Hasan was a religious fanatic who was disciplined at Walter Reed for trying to proselytize among co-workers and patients. This, plus fanatical internet posts, and the army did nothing. WTF?

adam on November 5, 2009 at 9:48 pm

He was born in the US, in Virginia, and was “Palestinian”. Get ready, everybody, because I suspect that the Jews are going to be blamed for this one. Maybe that anti-Semite Andrew Sullivan will get the ball rolling.

A: You win the prize (well, there’s no prize, but figuratively speaking . . . you win b/c you get it). That’s exactly what’s gonna happen. The Jews get blamed for everything. Just like we got blamed for 9/11, etc. As if this crazy attack wouldn’t have happened but for the Jews. Riiight. In fact, Israel (the Jews) was against the war in Iraq. And look what it got now, out of it . . . a Shi’ite Iranian satellite state in Iraq to help Hezbollah. Awesome. DS

adam on November 5, 2009 at 9:55 pm

UPDATE: This dirt bag is ALIVE.

Watch…BHO will push to get him a Flu Shot tomorrow and taxpayers will foot all of his medical bills. BHO will tell us we need to have “compassion and understanding for this victim of the System.” BHO will blame the Bush years for making this guy go bad.

Stymie on November 5, 2009 at 9:59 pm

“I am unashamedly Muslim”

Blah blah blah. We are all SO sick of Muslims who are “unashamed.” You should be ashamed. You seriously believe a demented desert warrior who repeatedly raped a 9-year-old girl, personally murdered hundreds of people, enslaved thousands and raped the women, is a “prophet of God.”

SHAMEFUL. Shame on you. And you’re an educated American and you still cling to this sick cult? Putrid. You should be embarrassed.

No Dhimmi on November 5, 2009 at 10:00 pm

Hold the phone…we better be careful what we say…this guy has all the qualifications now to be a future White House Czar. He’s proven himself worthy and deserves “a second chance” on the Bring Down America Team.

Stymie on November 5, 2009 at 10:03 pm

Huffington Post running feature story on the coming “backlash” complete with CAIR comments. Of course, we have seen that the backlash never comes. Just another PR opportunity for CAIR and its ilk.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/05/muslim-arab-groups-condem_n_347777.html

adam on November 5, 2009 at 10:03 pm

“THIS debbie is a close minded racist bitch.”

ISLAM IS NOT A RACE. ISLAM IS NOT A RACE. ISLAM IS NOT A RACE. ISLAM IS NOT A RACE. ISLAM IS NOT A RACE. ISLAM IS NOT A RACE.

Calling someone a “close minded racist bitch” certainly does NOT make me like the sick Islamic cult of death any better.

Muslims continually show themselves to be hateful, angry sociopaths. Period. End of story. Get some help. You do absolutely nothing to further your cause of making non-Muslims like you. All over the world people HATE Muslims. Why? Because they are violent in speech and action, just as you have shown here.

Fugly people indeed. No wonder the sane people are fleeing Islam in droves.

No Dhimmi on November 5, 2009 at 10:04 pm

Aimen, I feel for you, but only if you aren’t one of those billions who only pretends, goes up in the system, only to infiltrate and find out the juicy details and then do what this pathetic “doctor” did. You seem to be a good person, unless you are hiding under the cloak of deceit just like the soldier who turned against his brothers in uniform. But seriously, you blame all the crimes on foreign policy…causes…effects? Do you know what effect there will be on your brethren if they give up their belief? They will be killed. Don’t tell me this is news for you…Men do honor killings in your culture, don’t they? Why do you ingratiate yourself to the Americans? What have Muslims created since they left Spain? Who did all that culture, if it wasn’t for the Persians they conquered? The Persians taught the Arabs music. There wasn’t the faintest clue about what it was among the Arab bedouins who went around slaughtering and burning books wherever they went. Don’t parade excuses for all the childish bullying and nazi behaviour your brethren do in the name of a “prophet” who married a minor, was she nine years old or less? I’m asking you. Educate me. How old was Aisha when he married her to be his 9th wife? If I’m wrong on the numbers, please correct me.

me and I on November 5, 2009 at 10:22 pm

Arabs are crazy ass f***tards who kill Americans. They should leave the USA. Take their religion with them and shove it up their Allah!

Get Lost Arabs on November 5, 2009 at 10:31 pm

Ezekiel 18:20

“The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.”

If we punish the innocent along with the guilty, we defy God’s law. The individual who committed these acts is guilty and no others.

Jerri Lynn Ward on November 5, 2009 at 10:32 pm

I tell my young children on a regular basis “if you are mean to the world, the world will be mean back to you.” It is sad to see all this hate thrown around on here. My children are also taught to look for solutions when they face problems — not just lash out with anger and frustration. What good will come of it? My children happen to go to a Christian school, but I see our belief as no more ‘right’ than anyone else’s. Judgement and hatred breed this chaos in the world. Work for solutions. Closing our borders and sending all Muslims to, say, Somalia and Afghanistan is not going to work. We must learn to peacefully co-exist. I love when Aimen says he aspires to “change the hearts and minds of Muslim youth in the world so that they can contribute positively to societies everywhere.” This, my friends, is a solution that we can work towards. Will it take time? Yes, but where have years of war and disagreement brought us?

And, in a situation like this, it seems we all agree to pray for the victims and their families. Surely, they will be comforted by our praygers. However, while well-intentioned, these types of comments always leave a knot in my stomach. What about extending that by praying for peace in general and especially praying to change the hearts of the current and would be perpetrators? When we only put our energy into helping those like us, we draw a greater divide into this world. There’s a lot of anti-Muslim sentiment on here. If this is coming from the mouths of Christians and Jews, aren’t we all guided to pray for our brothers and sisters — everywhere?

rhonda on November 5, 2009 at 10:34 pm

Berkowitz was born Richard David Falco in Brooklyn, New York. His mother, Betty Broder, was married to Anthony Falco, with whom she had a daughter before the couple separated without legally divorcing. After this, she had an affair with the married Joseph Kleinman,[2] who fathered a son. Kleinman suggested she abort the child, but she gave birth to a boy and listed Falco as the father.

Before he was a week old, the baby was adopted by hardware store owners Nathan and Pearl Berkowitz, who reversed the order of his first and middle names in addition to giving him their own surname.

Allen on November 5, 2009 at 10:35 pm

Oh Charles the Hammer Martel, where are you when we need you?

joanne on November 5, 2009 at 10:38 pm

“His parents didn’t want him to go into the military,” Mr. Hasan said. “He said, ‘No, I was born and raised here, I’m going to do my duty to the country.’

kar on November 5, 2009 at 10:43 pm

Rhonda, in an ideal utopian world you can keep dreaming and praying like you do here. Unfortunately, you are not living in Dearborn, Michigan, to know the cause and effect of so much naivete. They take your kindess and prayers for weakness, just like the Chinese. You need to go to the library and read up on history. In Europe, they thought pretty much like you do here. And guess what happened because of kindness and spirituality such as you display here? Here’s the consequence of it (see article and video below). And don’t get me wrong, I’m the number one person to wear my heart on my sleeve. That’s why I’m here to tell you that if you want Amerabia to be the new America, then go on and do what the Europeans did to get their present day Eurabia. Click here:

http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/556299.aspx

me and I on November 5, 2009 at 10:43 pm

*His parents didn’t want him to go into the military,” Mr. Hasan said. “He said, ‘No, I was born and raised here, I’m going to do my duty to the country.’

kar on November 5, 2009 at 10:43 pm*

Scary. He was born and raised here, yet he wanted to do his duty for Muslims to infiltrate the American military and kill soldiers fighting against Muslims. He also went to Virginia Tech, which clearly has a jihadist cell there. Too many coincidences, with Choi Seung-hui and that Palestinian guy who just happened to be outside the building filming. I graduated from Tech, and there was even a large Muslim population there in the 1990’s.

*and know my religion was NOT spread by the sword. what a overused, inaccurate cliche. and tell me, what nation, what *religion, what race has a perfect history free of mistakes and bloodshed? and you are completely ignoring the fact that there are causes and effects to everything. the way the overly sentimental, barbaric, psycho people have acted under Islam IS product of generations of mistreatment, bad foreign policy, betrayal, and yes, holocausts.

Aimen on November 5, 2009 at 8:56 pm*

I’ve lived in a Muslim country (Malaysia), been around a lot of nutty Muslims, and this is a translation of what Aimen just said above: “I’m very happy about this killing of infidel soldiers, but I can’t come right out and say it. Instead, I will rub it in Americans’ faces by making Muslims out to be the victims. YOU Americans caused this Muslim to want to kill you by your ‘mistreatment, bad foreign policy, betrayal, and yes, holocausts.’ Therefore, you deserve it.”

JM on November 5, 2009 at 10:59 pm

JESSIE YOU MAY BE JEWISH BUT..ARE YOU FOR FUCKING REAL?????

BIG IRISH on November 5, 2009 at 11:00 pm

In case any of you missed it: 10 US military personnel and 2 civilians are dead; one of them a US DOD police office officer.
There will be time for politics. Now is the time for respect.
RIP my brothers and sisters.
“Nemo me impune lacessit”

Texas Lawman on November 5, 2009 at 11:09 pm

*In case any of you missed it: 10 US military personnel and 2 civilians are dead; one of them a US DOD police office officer.
There will be time for politics. Now is the time for respect.
RIP my brothers and sisters.
“Nemo me impune lacessit”

Texas Lawman on November 5, 2009 at 11:09 pm*

The best way to respect them is to not only remember their service but also to question just how we could be so stupid as to let Muslims serve in the military. These soldiers risked their lives abroad to serve our country only to killed by a Muslim back in America, where they should have been safe.

We should question why we are letting Muslims infiltrate our federal agencies, neutralizing them in the fight against terror.

Why did the FBI have no idea about this guy? Well, here is big clue: the model FBI Muslim agent,Hesham Elgamiel: http://www.fbijobs.gov/043.asp

This Muslim FBI agent actually says the following:
“One of the advantages I have as a Middle Eastern and Muslim agent is that I bring an intimate understanding of the religion and the culture. This helps in understanding the mindset of the people I am interacting with. It enables me to see things from their point of view. Sometimes, the challenge is to overcome the perception held by some in the Middle Eastern community that the FBI is not there to help them, when we really are.”

“As for my own family, they are very supportive of my career and appreciate what I am doing. My wife constantly gives me ideas on how to better reach out to the community.”

No wonder attacks are happening like the one today. We have let the barbarians “who see things from their point of view” infiltrate the military and federal agencies.

JM on November 5, 2009 at 11:19 pm

Did you see Fox News tonight? A retired Army Colonel called in with a story about knowing the shooting. He spoke of a time when the shooter was talking against the war, and an investigation by the Army. This Col called Fox News first, not the FBI or Army CID. Why? Maybe they already covered this guy up and the called wanted this exposed on the media.
If this incident is true then you expect to see a cover-up by the US Army exposed about this guy.
Debbie, keep tabs on this story line.

Texas Lawman on November 5, 2009 at 11:35 pm

I would say one thing. Debbie has been warning the whole nation on her website about such attacks. I have been doing the same thing through my comments on her website.

The system is not doing anything to prevent such a thing. My question what are we suppose to do to prevent future terrorism?

I know how? Any suggestions?

Daniel. on November 5, 2009 at 11:44 pm

I am also wondering what Andrew Arena of the Detroit FBI is thinking right now?

Daniel. on November 6, 2009 at 12:00 am

Daniel,

It is very frustrating because all our federal agencies have been infiltrated by Muslims, and the military as well. They are very adept at getting Americans to do anything not to seem politically incorrect, including ignoring clear warning signs of future jihadist attacks. Why was this gunner able to 1) join the military and 2) stay in the military despite all his rants about America? Thus, they are able to coordinate attacks like this one.

I think Texas Lawman is right. Obviously, there are those who have woken up and realized that you can no longer trust the FBI, CIA, and other federal agencies to keep us safe. We are trusting our safety with someone like this guy at the FBI http://www.fbijobs.gov/043.asp

and someone like Ahmed at the CIA: https://www.cia.gov/careers/life-at-cia/employee-profiles.html#ANH

JM on November 6, 2009 at 12:01 am