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Friday Afternoon Roundup - A Brief Shooting Roundup

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 01:40 PM PST

In lieu of a regular extensive Friday Afternoon Roundup, I'll
just offer some quick links to people who are doing it better on the major
story of the last two days. The Fort Hood attacks.

First up is Andrew Bostom who looks at the
martyrdom of Nidal Malik Hassan

And the contemporary advocacy
of such “martyrdom” operations by Islam’s most esteemed mainstream clerics
is what ultimately gives legitimacy to the mass murderous actions of pious
Muslims such as Nidal Malik Hassan. This is the unspoken, but irrefragable
truth our craven “elites” in the military, government, and media must be
forced to acknowledge, and confront.

Indeed, which is any war that
fails to acknowledge the ideological basis for terrorism in those fatwas
is as futile as fighting Communism while avoiding saying anything bad
about Lenin.

Next Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch has a lot of
important updates on Hassan.

Hassan, like many Muslims viewed the War on Terror as a War on Islam.

The initial spin about Hassan being harassed for being a Muslim
has turned out to be so much hot air.

And there is a possibility that Hassan was reacting to Al
Queda's latest marching orders

The gunman who killed 12 people
today at Ft. Hood appears, based on current media reports, to be Army
psychiatrist Nidal Hasan who was listed as a participant in a Homeland
Security Policy Institute's presidential transition task force last
year.

The task force was not officially affiliated with the White
House. It was a project of the Homeland Security Policy Institute, an
independent thinktank housed at George Washington University, aimed at
drafting policy recommendations for the incoming Obama
administration.

According to the task force's May 2009 report [pdf], a
"Nidal Hasan" from the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine
was a task force event participant. Other participants included Senate
and House staffers, Department of Homeland Security officials, Defense
Department officials, and reporters for Politico, the Washington Post,
and the London Times....

In the 11th edition of the online magazine Sada
al-Malahim (The Echo of Battle), which was released to jihadist Web
sites last week, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Nasir
al-Wahayshi wrote an article that called for jihadists to conduct simple
attacks against a variety of targets. The targets included "any tyrant,
intelligence den, prince" or "minister" (referring to the governments in
the Muslim world like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen), and "any crusaders
whenever you find one of them, like at the airports of the crusader
Western countries that participate in the wars against Islam, or their
living compounds, trains etc.," (an obvious reference to the United
States and Europe and Westerners living in Muslim
countries)....

The Muslims Against Sharia blog cites
my own look at Faizal Khan that I posted yesterday. As does Andrew
Bostom.

Atlas Shrugs cites Hassan's participation in a Homeland
Security Panel

The gunman who killed 12 people today at Ft.
Hood appears, based on current media reports, to be Army psychiatrist
Nidal Hasan who was listed as a participant in a Homeland Security Policy
Institute's presidential transition task force last year.

The task
force was not officially affiliated with the White House. It was a project
of the Homeland Security Policy Institute, an independent thinktank housed
at George Washington University, aimed at drafting policy recommendations
for the incoming Obama administration.

According to the task force's May 2009 report [pdf], a
"Nidal Hasan" from the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine
was a task force event participant. Other participants included Senate
and House staffers, Department of Homeland Security officials, Defense
Department officials, and reporters for Politico, the Washington Post,
and the London Times....

Meanwhile back in Israel, Hassan's family's former Arab
neighbors in Jerusalem are celebrating the attack

China Confidential sources in East Jerusalem say many
residents of the predominantly Arab section are expressing strong
support for the Muslim U.S. Army major who mowed down his fellow
soldiers at the huge Fort Hood, Texas base and processing center for
troops bound for Afghanistan and Iraq.

The word on the so-called
Arab street is that Major Nidal Malik Hasan should be admired because he
stood up for fellow Muslims overseas, against U.S. "aggression," and
that his anger, disappointment, and presumed sense of betrayal over U.S.
President Barack Obama's failure to end the Afghan and Iraq conflicts is
understandable, especially in light of Obama's own Muslim
heritage.

In Hamas-ruled Gaza, sources say, the reaction is
overwhelmingly in support of the shooter. He would clearly be given a
hero's welcome there.