This morning I heard the devastating news about Fort Hood. When I got into my office I turned on the news and every national news station was talking about the shooting. At first I thought, wow another tragedy where a guy goes crazy and takes it out on the world. One of my fellow servicemembers at that.
As the media continued reporting new developments, they kept saying that they were speculating that he was upset that he was being deployed to Iraq and maybe this is why he did it. I thought about that for a minute and the more they said it the more it didn't make sense. Thousands of us are being deployed to the middle east. Some of us more than one time. He was an Army Psychiatrist who had never deployed before according to the media and believe me I'm no fan of the "media". They almost always screw some or all of the facts up.
Two things can't be denied though. Twelve people are dead and 31 injured while processing for their deployments and he was the one who did it. Now I am not a racist by any means and I'd be the last to assume a stereotype based on fear but something wasn't right about this whole thing. With him being of Middle Eastern decent, preparing to deploy to Iraq and killing as many of his fellow Soldiers as he possibly could, who were deploying as well, added up to terrorism for me.
I said to my co-worker that something wasn't right and it sounded oddly terroristic vices a shooting spree. Then they started showing the video of him at the convenience store the morning of the shootings, wearing traditional muslim garb and I lost it. I stated then and there that the act was premeditated and that even if he is not linked to any terrorist group, which I doubt he is, what he did was a terrorist act. His Muslim views went from what most Muslims believe in as dictated by the Koran to the extremist views of those who believe Jihad is the only way to deal with the "infidels" as we are called.
He's alive and will likely recover so only time will tell if he'll validate what I think is going on or I will end up sounding like a racist by assuming he's a terrorist because of his Muslim affiliation. The other thing is, if he did commit this act for Allah but won't admit to it, thus revoking his honor, which is held sacred but any devout Muslim, then it's likely his plea will be insanity and with his background in psychology he'll probably pull it off if he has made no actual terrorist connections. No matter what, the Taliban and Al Quaeda are celebrating.
Honestly I hope I didn't offend anyone or make anyone angry by reading this but what happened today was a tragedy for everyone no matter what type of act it was, terrorist, insane or otherwise. I lost 12 fellow service members today who were willing to put their life on the line for their country but never made it here to fight those they thought were a bigger threat than anything back home. I pray for the 31 others to survive and heal and for all of the friends and family feeling their loss today. There was no way to have seen this coming because we in the military tend to trust each other because we took an oath never to abandon or fellow Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen. Sadly, there are those that do.
As the media continued reporting new developments, they kept saying that they were speculating that he was upset that he was being deployed to Iraq and maybe this is why he did it. I thought about that for a minute and the more they said it the more it didn't make sense. Thousands of us are being deployed to the middle east. Some of us more than one time. He was an Army Psychiatrist who had never deployed before according to the media and believe me I'm no fan of the "media". They almost always screw some or all of the facts up.
Two things can't be denied though. Twelve people are dead and 31 injured while processing for their deployments and he was the one who did it. Now I am not a racist by any means and I'd be the last to assume a stereotype based on fear but something wasn't right about this whole thing. With him being of Middle Eastern decent, preparing to deploy to Iraq and killing as many of his fellow Soldiers as he possibly could, who were deploying as well, added up to terrorism for me.
I said to my co-worker that something wasn't right and it sounded oddly terroristic vices a shooting spree. Then they started showing the video of him at the convenience store the morning of the shootings, wearing traditional muslim garb and I lost it. I stated then and there that the act was premeditated and that even if he is not linked to any terrorist group, which I doubt he is, what he did was a terrorist act. His Muslim views went from what most Muslims believe in as dictated by the Koran to the extremist views of those who believe Jihad is the only way to deal with the "infidels" as we are called.
He's alive and will likely recover so only time will tell if he'll validate what I think is going on or I will end up sounding like a racist by assuming he's a terrorist because of his Muslim affiliation. The other thing is, if he did commit this act for Allah but won't admit to it, thus revoking his honor, which is held sacred but any devout Muslim, then it's likely his plea will be insanity and with his background in psychology he'll probably pull it off if he has made no actual terrorist connections. No matter what, the Taliban and Al Quaeda are celebrating.
Honestly I hope I didn't offend anyone or make anyone angry by reading this but what happened today was a tragedy for everyone no matter what type of act it was, terrorist, insane or otherwise. I lost 12 fellow service members today who were willing to put their life on the line for their country but never made it here to fight those they thought were a bigger threat than anything back home. I pray for the 31 others to survive and heal and for all of the friends and family feeling their loss today. There was no way to have seen this coming because we in the military tend to trust each other because we took an oath never to abandon or fellow Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen. Sadly, there are those that do.
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