{"id":9335,"date":"2011-02-14T02:03:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T07:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9335"},"modified":"2011-03-23T23:22:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T04:22:58","slug":"report-fort-hood-attack-enabled-by-political-correctness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/14\/report-fort-hood-attack-enabled-by-political-correctness\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Fort Hood Attack Enabled by Political Correctness"},"content":{"rendered":"

As noted at the Christian Science Monitor<\/a><\/em>,<\/p>\n

A Senate report on the Fort Hood attack suggests that the Army failed to heed warnings about the prime suspect because it was wary of singling out a devout Muslim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article and report seem to implicate that a fear of being accused of racial profiling may have discouraged pursuing what should have been “red flags.”\u00a0 (This has long been discussed<\/a>.)\u00a0 The Senate solution:\u00a0 Call it what it is<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The enemy — Islamist extremists — must be labeled correctly and explicitly, the report said, in order for the military to counter the extremism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Senate committee\u2019s report calls for updated military training to identify signs of violent Islamist extremism and policies to ensure it is not tolerated, a change that would allow Army officials to root out Muslim extremists without being subject to accusations of racial profiling \u2013 a concern that may have prevented officials at Fort Hood from intervening when Hasan first showed signs of extremism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The misuse of “racial profiling” notwithstanding (Islam has nothing to do with race), the report also walks a fine line in recommending “distinguishing” sects of religion:<\/p>\n

The report said the government lacks policies that distinguish between a devout yet peaceful practice of Islam and violent radicalization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The problem lies in the appropriate role of government in “evaluating” religious beliefs.\u00a0 It appears the goal would be to identify behavior<\/em> rather than belief<\/em>, if<\/span> the two can be separated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of pre-meditated murder for the 14 people killed<\/a> in the attack, as well as 32 counts of attempted murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As noted at the Christian Science Monitor, A Senate report on the Fort Hood attack suggests that the Army failed to heed warnings about the prime suspect because it was wary of singling out a devout Muslim. The article and report seem to implicate that a fear of being accused of racial profiling may have discouraged pursuing what should have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,97,44,2,1431],"class_list":["post-9335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-fort-hood","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-nidal-malik-hasan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}