"While accepting the fact that Major Nidal Malik Hasan practiced the Islamic faith, we offer no justification for his ungodly and heinous, cowardly act of violence,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Major Nidal Malik Hasan is conscious and able to talk, according to Army officials overseeing his care following last week's incident in which the suspect was shot four times by a civilian police officer.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Reports about the investigation say the alleged gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, had contacts with a militant imam in Yemen and may have transferred money to some individuals or groups in Pakistan, where many militant groups operate.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

To be sure, they are adherents to Shariah, but so are millions of other Muslims elsewhere, including those like Major Nidal Malik Hasan here in the United States.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The speech we need

Suppose that on Nov. 4, 2009-- the day before he would open fire on his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, killing 13 and wounding 30-- Major Nidal Malik Hasan had been arrested by military police and charged with intent to commit acts of terrorism.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Major Hasan: the counterlife

The facts - which are becoming ever more numerous by the day - are that the alleged perpetrator of these crimes, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, is "a devout Muslim" who, as such, has had to follow at least since 2001 the dictates of the theo-political-legal and seditious program that authoritative Islam calls Shariah.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: It's the Jihad, stupid