God is great

Over the weekend, I switched from the New York Times to the Washington Post in hopes of getting actual news about the Army major who recently murdered 13 of his comrades at Fort Hood, instead of pap about it being 'too early to judge' and 'his motives were unclear'. It seems I should have gone farther afield. The Telegraph of London reports:

Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a "spiritual adviser" to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001.

Whoa! He did? That’s news to me, not to mention the NYT or the WaPo. The Torygraph goes on to say:

Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother's funeral was held there in May that year.

The preacher at the time was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni scholar who was banned from addressing a meeting in London by video link in August because he is accused of supporting attacks on British troops and backing terrorist organisations.
Hasan's eyes "lit up" when he mentioned his deep respect for al-Awlaki's teachings, according to a fellow Muslim officer at the Fort Hood base in Texas, the scene of Thursday's horrific shooting spree.

The Torygraph has this additional nugget about Major Hasan, likewise not to be seen on the websites of NYT or WaPo websites:

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America's Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats.

He also told colleagues at America's top military hospital that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire.

I once met an Army psychiatrist. He struck me as a bit nutty, but nothing on the order of Major Hasan. Can you believe that even US Army officers have been so inoculated by political correctness that they didn’t dare to report this nutter for ‘ fear of appearing discriminatory’? Blue skies! – Dan Ford (Ah, I see that the NYT now has the story, tagged 3:51pm, so we can hope it will be in Tuesday’s paper)