Obama Administration Downgrades the Fort Hood Massacre to "Workplace Violence"... Refusing to Acknowledge Islamic Fundamentalist Extremism as the Cause

by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs- Tyranny

I have been trying my best to cut the President some slack. Even going so far as to give him a pass on the very questionable speech he gave in Kansas the other day .

Then his administration decides to downgrade the Fort Hood massacre of 13 United States military personnel by a Islamic Extremist to workplace violence. Even the mild mannered very liberal Republican Senator from Maine, Susan Collins has blasted the Obama administration for its, yes I'm going to say it, abject stupidity.

The President's obvious inability to call Muslim extremists exactly what they are, and identify and name the driving force behind them, which is radical Islam, is as chilling as it is frightening.

Fox News - Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence and suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the nation's Armed Forces at home.

During a joint session of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, the Maine Republican referenced a letter from the Defense Department depicting the Fort Hood shootings as workplace violence. She criticized the Obama administration for failing to identify the threat as radical Islam.

Thirteen people were killed and dozens more wounded at Fort Hood in 2009, and the number of alleged plots targeting the military has grown significantly since then. Lawmakers said there have been 33 plots against the U.S. military since Sept. 11, 2001, and 70 percent of those threats have been since mid-2009. Major Nidal Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, who is being held for the attacks, allegedly was inspired by radical U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in late September. The two men exchanged as many as 20 emails, according to U.S. officials, and Awlaki declared Hasan a hero.

The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Connecticut independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, said the military has become a "direct target of violent Islamist extremism" within the United States.

"The stark reality is that the American service member is increasingly in the terrorists' scope and not just overseas in a traditional war setting," Lieberman told Fox News before the start of Wednesday's hearing. {Read More}

Perhaps we should remove boots from Muslim soil as it no doubt antagonizes the people in Islamic countries. But lumping the Fort Hood massacre in with all other occasions of workplace violence is to refuse to recognize the implications of something much greater than what typically defines workplace violence in America.

Via: Memeorandum