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"Already, some critics are blaming diversity, of all things, for the massacre. The Army was too politically correct, one columnist wrote. Too tolerant of anybody else." writes Annette.////In a series of meetings during 2008, officials from both Walter Reed and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences considered the question of whether then-Capt. Hasan was psychotic. But, according to at least one bigwig at Walter Reed, members of the policy committee wondered "how would it look if we kick out one of the few Muslim residents." ///POLITICAL CORRECTNESS ABSOLUTELY WAS TO BLAME. NICE TRY ANNETTE. COLUMN FAIL.
Best wishes to the sisters and family as they make their trip.
I guess this is more of that hard hitting news that the Inky management is trying to convince the bankruptcy court that we need. Such a waste of paper and money to print this rubbish. Turn the paper over to the creditors if the editors can't tell the difference between news and nonsense.
@Left_Turn, its called human interest. Not every scintilla of Philly.com has to be "hard hitting news" And given the fact that your commenting in an electronic forum I'm curious as to why you think its a "waste of paper"? You would would have been truer to your snake like nature and corrosive agenda if you would have simply stated you don't care for these people or their faith. But then again that xenophobic racist opinion would have been the real waste of people's time. If over 5 million people globally attend the annual pilgrimage to Mecca I would venture to say their is some interest maybe not yours but some. Perhaps someone of a different hue, paradigm or faith may find this article worth reading. I could only guess how every article would read if you were the standard bearer but I could probably get an inkling if I read archives of news articles from Nazi Germany.
"Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan calls himself a Muslim". He did not call himself a Muslim. He is a Muslim. Editor please.
It would have been a rather good human interest story too, if the author would have left out the bovine scatology that has nothing to do with two sisters practicing one of the five "pillars" of their faith.
@dxb123, The United States is widely regarded as a destination country for trafficking in persons, yet the exact number of human trafficking victims within the United States has remained largely undetermined since passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) in 2000. Initial estimates cited in the TVPA suggested that approximately 50,000 individuals are trafficked into the United States each year. If you live in a glass house don't drop bombs on other countries. America is always calling other countries out on their human rights track records and she has by far one of the worst. These people account for slave labor as well as girls as young as 11 years old forced into prostitution. They come from China, Central and South America, Mexico, Russia and former Russian states. This hypocritical trend has been exposed since the 60's by two of America's most well known victims, civil rights activist Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. While America was claiming to take the lead in the civilized world she was knee deep in genocide and exploitation from it's own so-called "Bible Belt" to Indo-China (i.e. Cambodia and the Vietnam War) and not much has changed. Here's a website for you http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/215475.pdf If I were a Saudi woman their so-called ill treatment of women pails by comparison. Why is it you can call any escort service in America and have sex with obviously desperate women and this be called a free civilized nation (even when Governor's and congressman do it too)
@joedog, Was Timothy McVeigh who blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 2001 killing 168 innocent men, women and children and injuring more than 680 others a CHRISTIAN? He certainly unabashedly and unremorsefully went to the electric chair claiming to be such.
Good story, helps me to understand another religion.
Lousy writing.
At what point of the hajj will the multitude of fellow muslims denounce the jahads against werstern nations?
@jlacerra, I'm the next Dali Lama and how do you say, "It is not an opinion, but established facts. Sorry." Its more like your own contrived fact. Even in traffic court you'd be required to prove your case. Simply saying its so, I'm afraid doesn't make it so. I'm a Muslim and I drive my Christian mother to church on Sunday. I open the door for her when she gets out. I don't bludgeon her over the head when she returns. Furthermore, if someone threaten my mother's life because she wouldn't convert to their religion no matter if they were Christian, Jew or Muslim they'd have a real problem with me and my Christian brother. You people are sickening with your blatant and contrived ignorance. You want hate in this world. You have no use for tolerance and understanding.
@lefty, Muslim clerics and scholars have always condemn terrorist violence. Check this site out http://www.muhajabah.com/otherscondemn.php
sudani joe, please reference Robert Spencer's "The Truth About Muhammad, Founder of the World's most Intolerant Religion". If I am in error, it is from this source and others, such as John Keegan, in his "History of Warfare", who mentions this same requirement in his discussion of Muslim's approach to war. joe, you reveal yourself in your "You people are sickening ..." remark's hateful tone. BTW, if you are to be the Dalai Lama, you may want to learn how to spell it.
sudani joe, thanks for the website you recommended to lefty. It is quite good. I am reminded of this quote, "I am not so senseless as to want war. We want peace and understanding, nothing else..." Adolph Hitler
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