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Possible links to extremism probed

This is the sort of watered-down, pussified, "politically correct" hog slop that the daily press is feeding its readers in the wake of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's murder rampage at Fort Hood.

Let's don't say anything that might offend Islam or ruffle the Imam's tail feathers.

"Possible links to extremism." Go heavy on the "possible." We don't want the friggin' Muslim world to think we have anything against them.

Major Hasan, an army-trained Muslim shrink, didn't want to be shipped off to war. So he loaded a couple of pistols and slaughtered 13 unarmed men and women, and sent more than 30 others to the hospital with bullet wounds.

Cry of the loonie bird

One of the wounded soldiers heard the sonofabitch holler the Muslim extremist war cry as he started shooting. In Arabic, he is reported to have shouted "Allahu Akbar!" Which translates to "God is great!" That's what the frothy-mouthed loonies scream as they dive-bomb big city towers and murder unarmed kids who are trying to fulfill military commitments to their country.

But wait. The young soldier, Joseph Foster, might have heard wrong, according to the Army public information people. And the general set the tone when he expressed fear that Hasan's murder rampage might cause a backlash against muslim soldiers.

Heaven, forbid, we can't have anyone saying anything ugly to the Muslim soldiers. And, remember, the chaplain has said us good Christians should pray for Major Hasan and his family.

Excuse me while I pause here to wipe some puke off my boots.

I will also take a moment to thank God and the Action Magazine readers and advertisers for allowing me to stay out of the journalistic mainstream. I have never had an interest in political correctness, and I have no plans to change that position now.

The ‘troubled' shrink

The daily paper hackers are tossing around terms like Hasan's "distorted interpretation of Islam," and "the doctor's mental and emotional state." Also words like "the troubled doctor."

And now, in a sign of the times, a lawyer has already been hired for the biggest killer in military post history, and we wonder if potential prosecutors will have to ask permission to question the suspect.

Call me a redneck throwback if you must, but I will retaliate when insulted or when my religious beliefs are called into question.

Call me an "infidel," and I will reserve the right to properly identify a raghead camel-humper when I see one.

This attitude, I full well realize, wouldn't sit well with Army chief of staff Gen. George Casey Jr., our big brasshat leader who expressed grave concerns that Hasan's bloody massacre might spark an anti-Muslim backlash.

The general talked more about Muslim soldiers than he did of family members who lost loved ones on Major Hasan's Fort Hood killing field. And numerous members of the clergy left us stupefied, bewildered, and wondering how much sense some men of the cloth really have.

In my opinion, Fort Hood Chaplain Col. Frank Jackson was off-plumb and more than slightly out of line when he advocated prayers for the killer and his family.

He told his parishioners Christ called on his followers to teach us to "pray for those who rise up against us."

Rev. Jackson went on to say, "Lord, we pray for Major Hasan's family as they find themselves in a position that no person ever desires to be in. We pray for Major Hasan, asking that you would do the work that only you can do in his life."

Lying like Baghdad dog

I guess I am light years away from this kind of spiritual elevation. And if I told anyone that I planned on praying for Maj. Nidal Hasan, I would be lying like a Baghdad dog.

More appealing to me would be a scenario with the Muslim shrink's head clamped in a gigantic vise.

The vise would be tightened in increments, with family members of Hasan's victims allowed to take their turns with the tightening process.

There would be one concession to Hasan's family, however. Nobody on the scene would be allowed to holler "Allahu Akbar!" when the army shrink's brains came squirting out of his eye sockets.

I don't believe any God would condone such a horrific ending for Major Hasan, but us rednecks should be allowed to dream.

Probe was dropped

Nidal Malik Hasan was well known to be in contact with Anwar al Awaki, a rabid anti-U.S. maddog Yemini cleric who thinks God condones the killing of Americans. The Army knew of Hasan's anti-American sentiments and his connection with the cleric, but a government probe was dropped when some military medical dildo decided that Hasan was no threat.

After the Fort Hood blood bath, the Yemini imam called Hasan a "hero," and wrote on his website that Hasan "could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people."

And the daily newspaper runs a headline suggesting "possible links to extremism."

If there is anything like military justice, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan should be strapped to a gurney and put to death like the animal that he is. And if our CIA was worth a shit, they would muster a death squad to put that Yemini imam where the sun doesn't shine.

But we don't do it that way in the state of civilization where we supposedly live.

We hire lawyers for the scumbags who assault and kill. We allow them religious freedom and their head rags.

We shy away from calling a gutless Arab terrorist sympathizer by his proper name. We make damn sure nobody else calls him by an ugly name which might rile up the Muslims. And then we trot out an Army chaplain who exhorts us to pray for the bastard who killed 13 American kids who were only trying to serve their country.

We are politically correct.