[Op-Ed By Yossi Gestetner] A week passed since the Hasan attack in Ft. Hood, and President Obama – together with most news reporters and Democrats – still don’t know how to categorize the attack. In fact, Obama says maybe Hasan cracked, or as Revira on FoxNews suggested, Hasan might have had a toothache…
Do these people in places of power and news-making think that the American public is stupid? Does the President think that the name Hasan rings Irish to most Americans? Do reporters who spin this story away from Islam think that we, the public, believe that screaming Allah Akbar is some sort yell of joy by a Jew wining a lottery ticket? Do spinners think that Americans can’t read facts, such as Hasan’s glorifying suicide bombers?
Wake up, Mr. President. You fooled us one time already with your change baloney. Give it up. Every American who has even just low brain voltage knows that the Ft. Hood attack was a gruesome act of Muslim terror, and the American people want you to call it what it is.
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he along with the news media except Fox is so call trying to be political correct but people are dying because of it. Stop the nonsense and
send emails to the white house and congress you will get even but getting rid of the BUMS. obama is a communist and a moslem. he does not care about anything except his honor. Stick his honor along with other swines
Obama doesnt think we are stupid – he knows we are and unless something happens shelo kiderech hateva – we are doomed
I’ll say it again… if you want to know where this country is heading, get a copy of the (short) book “1984” by George Orwell. “1984” is where we are. Read it, and realize what’s happening.
#2 Tapuach – lo l’hitya’aish – we ARE in times that are NOT going b’derech hateva.
Really? Then General Casey is another poor dolt with lower than “just low brain voltage,” for he’s not ready to make that leap yet.
News reports yesterday raise an issue that to me is in some sense even more alarming.
It was reported that Walter Reed psychiatrists who worked with Hasan were so alarmed about his behavior that they raised the possibility of serious mental illness. But, he was about to be transferred to Fort Hood, so they didn’t do anything – the report said they thought that he would “simply disappear into Fort Hood.”
The United States Army may be some goyishe abstraction to most of you, but it’s not to me – I have family who were in the Army as recently as 2007. If this report is true, if Army doctors could be so negligent, it raises the specter of risk for thousands of our troops.
Questions:
Just why is it so important to some of you that this incident be Muslim Terrorism?
Isn’t the horror still present, even if it’s shorish may be other than pure Islamist hatred?
Am I any less of a Yid – is my intelligence any less – and is my pedigree somehow tainted – if I think you are jumping to a conclusion?
Under American law, it is for the court (which usually includes a jury) to decide. It is not for the press, or the president, to decide such matters. It is GOOD that the President tries not to decide cases. Whether was insane or a traitor, is for a court to decide. Until then, he is considered innocent. Under American law, first we accuse, then we decide, then we execute.
Other countries do it differently. In places like Iran (and arguably Israel, especially if you are hareidi), the executive decides that you are guilty, and the courts function is to justify that belief.
The fact that it is easier for the military to see him as a meshugnah is irrelevant legally, if politically significant. America is heavily dependent on Muslim allies in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Indeed, if our goal was to avenge 9-11 and leave, we would have left a long time ago (we’ve easily killed more than 3000 Muslims).
Yonason #5 – You have to be kidding! Jumping to conclusions? When so many have stated he spoke radically about his religion? When he shouted “Allah achbar” before he started shooting? When he spoke positively about suicide bombings? You can’t be serious! No, its not important that it be Moslem terrorism, but being that it IS moslem terrorism, people need to know it. To defend oneself against an enemy, one needs to know who the enemy is!!! In this country the government is actively working to make us forget who that enemy is.
Hey YITZCHOKY (#1) – Can you explain to me how anyone can be a Communist and a Muslim? Religion of any stripe is antithetical to Communism.
Do you know what Communism is? Or is it just some cool sounding anti-American, Anti-Jewish epithet you like hurling at the President, whatever the heck it means, because you know it means “bad?” A case of low brain voltage, maybe?
It actually isn’t a lack of intelligence on the part of most of America. It’s actually much worse: it is willful blindness. People do not want to see what is happening and will go to any length to be able to deny the truth that nations throughout the world are under assault by radical Islam. This is true in Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, and possibly the remaining two regularly inhabited continents as well.
The point AinOhdMilvado (#9)is this:
If I’m seriously mentally ill, as I speculate you believe anyway (I just wanted to save you the need to make such a response!) . . . and as a product of my mental illness I start shooting up a church or mosque, hurling anti-Christian or anti-Muslim slogans, and shouting Shema Yisroel Hashem Elokeinu Hashem Ehad on the top of my lungs – I’m a mentally ill person on a rampage – not a Jewish Terrorist.
Get it?
I’ll answer you #5,
1) General Casy has his own fish to fry (troops for afghanistan) and Obama’s admin is vengeful as seen re Fox.
2) Maybe the negligent doctors/phsyc were being P.C. and going with the flow.
2a) It raises the spector… it sure does and thats frightening having Pres Obama. To quote Roosevelt The buck stops here.
3) Why is it so import…? i put to you the reverse why is it important to whitewash?
4) Isn’t the horror still present…. you just contradicted yourself.
5) Anyone who yells A’ Ahkbar during a suicide attack HAS proven to be a terrorist
I want to add,
a dying mans word carries sieght in court.
This man died ( was ready to) with a terrorist rally call on his lips.
To quote R’ Riesman Gedaliah shofet was blamed for not taken life threatening warnings seriously.
(and #5 Shma yisroel is a call to belief. A’Ahklbar is a terrorist rally point NOT a prayer!
Get it?
PS Please stop insulting yourself. No one else did.
Baal Boose (#13)- Your attribution is incorrect – the quote is by Harry Truman, not FDR – it was a written on a desk ornament on President Truman’s desk in the Oval Office.
And . . . just as in an attribution, the what’s important is accuracy, is truth . . . not in an agenda, Old Boy.
Baal Boose (#13)- Your attribution is incorrect – the quote is by Harry Truman, not FDR – it was a written on a desk ornament on President Truman’s desk in the Oval Office.
And . . . just as in an attribution, what’s important here is accuracy, is truth . . . not in an agenda, Old Boy.
#5
Well if you wish to know about the brain voltage.
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The reason why it is important to know if the action in Ft. Hood was psychotic or terrorism is because if it is terrorism one needs to be aware of the threat of the sincere warm and fuzzy Muslim who can behave normal and most likely is but his belief system can cause him to do things which “you may consider psychotic” and his colleages will praise as heroic
Yonason #12 – What I “get” is that you could say that ANY suicide bomber is, by definition, mentally ill. Likewise all those involved in 9/11 must have been mentally ill(?). I suppose instead of attacking Al Kaida we should have sent a shipload of psychiatrists over there to help with their mass psychlogical problems. Perhaps Islam itself is a mental disease? You know what? I don’t care. The two (moslem extremists – which this guy definitely is, and violent terrorists) are inseperably linked. Your comment about shouting Shema Yisrael is just sillyness because though you may find a yacheed Jew who acts with violence, it WOULD be a yacheed. If you look at terrorism in the world, it is a yacheed that is NOT a moslem.
Calm down everyone. It’s just one of many “isolated incidents”. You don’t have to be stupid to know that.
i agree yonasonW
the dems see the republicans as nazis the republicans see the dems as communists, the blacks see the whites as racists and vice versa
1. why do i have a feeling that the same person who wrote this used all the same categorizations which he mocks, to describe the actions of baruch goldstein.
2. siyag l’chachma shtika. there is no mitzva to speak, let alone to do so impulsively
3. to poster #5, well said
Unfotunately, unless you get a heavily censored version as I did, 1984 by Orwell is a filthy book which is asur to read. Your point is still well taken and I’ve called the White House “Barack Obrien’s Ministry of Truth” for a few months already.
The author has the right to dissent, but the tone is very disrepectful.
#8
Beautiful speech!? A court of law is to decide if he is nuts or a terrorist. Great. So you suggest that until the court system comes to a verdict, we as a people need not concern ourselves if we can trust the Muslims among us.
Thats nuts!
#3. 1984 is not the book to read. The book to read is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It is like Nevuah to what is happening now.
To YonasanW.
The difference between a theoretical case of a Jew going on a murderous rampage while screaming Shema Yisrael vs. a Muslim going on a murderous rampage while screaming Allah akbar is that in the former it would be a completely isolated incident whereas the latter would be following a very strongly established pattern. In other words, “if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck…it’s a duck”.
In regards to your question about why it is so important to categorize this incident as radical-Islam terrorism is the very heart of this whole issue. The victims in this incident arguably lost their lives as a direct result of so-called political correctness. By refraining from accurately identifying individuals or a group of people that pose a moderate-to-high risk threat, one is in fact enabling that threat to materialize into actual devastation.
One more point: You expressed amazement over the fact that the officials within the army could allow this to have happened. You perceive this as being a very dangerous situation – that army officials would not carry out the necessary measures to obviate danger. I would like to leave you with the following question: In an age when so many officials are amazingly busy weighing every word and nuance in order to prevent the wolf-like lawyers from suing them to their last penny, how indeed could it come to pass that these army officials would commit such an overt act of omission?
It is wrong to address the President of the USA (or of any other country for that matter) with such brazenness. Even when Hashem sent Moshe to Paroh, he (Moshe) was enjoined to address Paroh with k’vod malchus. We must remember that we are still living under shibud ol malchiyos. We must also be very thankful that even thought that is the case, we are able to express our thoughts in an open and free manner. We must absolutely not abuse that privilege, though, by speaking in a disrespectful manner. Disrespect can only beget disrespect, v’ha’meivin yavin, Hashem yishmerenu.
Any person publishing his words (whether he be a journalist, official of a Jewish organization, or otherwise) must adopt the middah of ro’eh es ha’nolad. You must really ask yourself whether your words are going to serve the ultimate purpose of helping Klal Yisrael or the opposite (chas v’Shalom).
One more point: YWN always adds a disclaimer that the opinion expressed is that of the writer’s and does not reflect the opinion of YWN itself. I do not think anyone takes this disclaimer seriously (even if it is with genuine intent).
#28
Ayn Rand’s philosphy is completely amoral and is the antithesis of Torah and Yiddishkeit.
#33 your as blind as blind can be .comparing teitel to the vast majority of terrorists who are terrorists because of what the koran commands!!!. its interesting ,those who have the MO and down hashkafa are the ones who stick up for the enemies of democracy but when come to pious jews they alway on the attack
Baal Boose (#15) You say “A’Ahklbar is a terrorist rally point NOT a prayer!”
Your ignorance is staggering, in light of the certainty of your assertions; Allah Achbar means “G-d is Great” and is a traditional Muslim chant.
#36 his ignorance is not staggering, your willful blindness is. we know the meaning of allah akbar. but that calling cry is what ALL these terrorists use when they are at their brutal barbarious rampage (
To Yonason W; #18 & #19.
Your reply to all of what i’ve said was simply to correct the fact that my attribution of a quote was to the wrong war time president. I stand corrected, but the point had no relevance to which president said it. Just as you made a mistake in your reply and had to resubmit #19 to correct your #18.
As for your last point in which you are staggered by my ignorance, please grab hold of yourself, and i stand by my point. Although A’ Akbar is officially a prayer as claimed by the arabs, in reality it is used as a terrorist rally call. It may be politically incorrect to say this, but then again it is the same as you refusing to recognize this is/was a terrorist in Ft. Hood.
And as for “anonymous” if the best you can do is insult my writing, then you have no argument.
PS If i had to guess, you are YonasonW using a different computer.
A BlackBerry
Just teasing you Old Boy – I always blog with my monicker.
Just teasing you Old Boy – I always blog with my monicker – wouldn’t want to steal Anonymous’ thunder anyway.
Oh please whats wrong with some PC. We cant say they are terrorists, we have to call them “man made distasters.” Well, I for one can tell you there is a man made disaster somewhere in DC v’hamayvin yovin!
PS is KILLING the country. You have to say what something is instead of pussyfooting around the issue. The issue here is that it all points to terrorism and so it shall be called.
Remember, if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a terrorist!
Yonason W a person could have been brought up a Moselm and torn to communism. If you read you would see the Jews were the first to believe in communism and went against Jews who were religious. If you look at obama’s friends in college and afterwards they were radicals like the church he belong to and Bill Ayers and the people he brought into the White House. If you tell me who you walk with I will tell you who you are.