SACRAMENTO, CA - Move America Forward, the nation’s largest pro-troop, grassroots organization, today criticized the culture of political correctness that allowed this tragedy to happen and mass media’s quick defense of Nidal Hasan’s Fort Hood attacks as just a soldier’s frustration, ignoring the obvious questions about his faith and ties to radical Islam.
Prior to the shooting, authorities knew that Hasan had contacted Al Qaeda, proclaimed his allegiance to radical Islam over the Army, visited radical Jihadist websites and openly applauded acts of terrorism committed against the US. Many of Hasan’s peers had expressed their concerns about him and his co-workers at Walter Reed even worried that he was psychotic. Doctors there said they also wanted to report Hasan for un-American statements but were afraid to appear discriminatory against a Muslim.
All of these glaring warning signs were over-looked in the name of tolerance, diversity and appeasement of political correctness.
“The warning signs were there, but no one could speak up for fear of being accused of profiling or being called a racist,” said Shawn Callahan, Executive Director of Move America Forward.
As soon as it became public that the shooter’s name was Nidal Malik Hasan, media outlets had a knee-jerk reaction to pre-empt questions about possible religious motivations for the attack that left 13 people dead. President Obama warned against “jumping to conclusions.” But the media had made up their minds already: This was a story about an overworked Army psychologist overcome by the horrifying war stories of his patients. He could not take the pressure and stress of war any longer and snapped.
Hasan’s shooting spree was motivated by his belief in a radical brand of Islam that is also followed by Al Qaeda, the Taliban and other enemies of America; a brand of Islam that has no intention of assimilating into America and whose goal is to destroy our way of life.
“We cannot defeat radical Islam until we acknowledge that it exists and face the reality that its followers want to destroy our way of life. We must have the resolve to confront the enemy when we see signs so that something this tragic does not happen again,” concluded Callahan.
