If It Talks Like a Terrorist and Walks Like A Terrorist…

Then, by golly, it must be a terrorist!

Now it didn't take this old country girl long to figure out last Thursday night that Major Nidal Malik Hasan is a terrorist. He is a Muslim with an attitude. That much was reported early on. He sure created plenty of terror among our brave soldiers when he attacked them at Fort Hood. Our soldiers were queued up, waiting for processing, like ducks in a shooting gallery. Hasan knew they would be all neatly lined up. He knew they would be unarmed. He knew they would be completely unprepared for an attack. The scene had to be complete bedlam as our young soldiers and civilian personnel tried to escape or find cover to avoid the volley of bullets he poured upon them. They felt a terror that we can only imagine.

Hasan injured up to 42 people. He killed 13.

A day late and a dollar short we find out that he had attended the same mosque as 2, maybe 3, of the 9.11 terrorists. He was guided by the same cleric who counseled the hijackers. He has remained in contact with this cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki. The UK Telegraph reports:

Hasan attended the mosque at the same time as the hijackers in 2001 when it was led by Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born Yemeni imam. Awlaki left the US the following year, eventually going to Yemen, from where he targets Muslims in America with radical online lectures.

It emerged on Monday that Hasan had been in contact with Awlak within the last year….

In a posting on his website on Monday, headed "Nidal Hasan Did The Right Thing", Awlak said Hasan had carried out a "heroic and virtuous" act and the only way a Muslim could justify serving in the US Army was to "follow in the footsteps of Nidal Hasan".

He said: "Nidal Hasan is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not bear the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people."

Hasan may have acted alone. Investigations are ongoing to discover links with Muslim extremist groups. It is already known that he attempted contact with al-Qaeda. In the weeks and months ahead I'm sure more information will come out about his terrorist leanings and activities.

But I already know: Nidal Malik Hasan is a terrorist. He is a traitor. He is a murderer. He should be treated as such.