Tarek Fatah writes in the Ottawa Citizen:
No one seemed to notice the significance of the attire that Maj. Nidal Hasan was wearing the morning of the killings. It was captured on a store surveillance video where he bought a coffee....
Hasan was wearing the "shalwar-kameez," the traditional attire worn by Pashtuns on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghan border....I have lived a decade in the Arab world and not once did I see an Arab wearing the shalwar-kameez.
There is one particular group of Arabs who did embrace the garb of the Pashtuns - those who went to Afghanistan to wage jihad alongside al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
This guy was walking around a U.S. military installation dressed like Osama bin Laden and nobody said anything, yet the Army is being accused of intolerance and anti-Muslim bias. To repeat, according to Tarek Fatah, Hasan was not merely dressed in traditional Arab garb--he dressed in the traditional garb of al Qaeda terrorists. But the left worries about how he was affected by the combat stress of others at the base, rather than ask how Iraq and Afghanistan veterans must have felt coming across a guy dressed like this at the convenience store. He dressed like a terrorist, he went to a mosque frequented by terrorists, he emailed with terrorists, he sympathized with terrorists and he ultimately carried out an act of terror. Yet in the course of Obama's fine speech yesterday, the word terror was not mentioned once -- wouldn't want to offend anyone.
Salwar Kameez is a traditional Indian / Pakistani attire, just like Kurtis and Saris. It is loose fitting and comfortable. Wearing a Salwar doesn't make you a nut, a murderer or a terrorist. I have seen White American Ladies in very posh events wearing Saris, I guess by this simplistic logic that would make them Brides of Bin Laden?
ReplyDeleteThe attire has nothing to do with this guy's intentions to do harm. It's his twisted mind.
How about a pic so we know what to shoot at.
ReplyDeleteThis guy proved something. There are sleepers and sleeper cells among us and we have no way of knowing when they'll rise up against us.
ReplyDeleteGoing to give you another scenario to think about too.
Notice all the Pakastani's, Indians, whatever you wish to call them buying up all the stores? Especially ones with gas pumps?
All the while, they pay no taxes, no social security, no unemployment, no nothing!
What do you think will happen when they ALL decide to just turn off their gas pumps all together at the same time?
Wake up people! Some will say that I'm crazy, but just think about it. Where are you going to buy gas around here if this happens?
Osama bin Laden struck the World Trade Centers because he wanted to strike at the heart of America. The financial heart! Well, it appears to me he succeeded in that.
Now, what's the next thing that is so dear to us? GASOLINE!?
Scary isn't it??? Keep on selling your stores and gas stations to these people won't ya!?
Doesn't anyone understand? This was not a muslim terrorist. Excuse me-I must be politically correct. He was not a "man caused disaster causing man". He was a poor innocent victim of second hand post traumatic stress disorder. If it was terrorism, the president and the media would have told us so. P.S. For those of you out there who take everything literally and don't recognize sarcasm-I am just kidding.
ReplyDelete10:24~quite interesting in deed.
ReplyDeleteWearing on of these garments on a U.S. Milatry base. I would have thought it would have drawn attention, and if not something is terribly wrong.
ReplyDelete10:39 you had me going for a second. I was getting pissed.
ReplyDelete10:24 you cannot lump Indians and Pakistani's together. They very much dislike each other.
ReplyDeleteAppears to me the only stress he had was in making himself get to & go to work...lazy bastard.
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