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Good read. My favorite excerpt:

You cannot have “Islamophobia” in the real world, because a “phobia” is an irrational fear. You can’t have an irrational fear of somebody pointing a gun at you. That is a rational fear. “Islamophobia” is an imaginary word from people who never check an English dictionary.

For Libs Who Just Got Scared

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Read Charles Krauthammer’s piece Sacrilege at Ground Zero for a level-headed, rational analysis and rationale for why the “Victory Over Infidels” Cordoba Mosque should not be built near Ground Zero.

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Obama is clearly in the lead. Since his immaculation last January, radical jihadists, Islamists, and their sympathasizers have successfully conducted four – count ‘em – FOUR terrorist attacks on American soil. That’s quite an achievement. GW Bush has no such legacy to crow about.

The article below (highlights added) is another disturbing, yet unsurprising, assessment of the systemic failure by those in the military, intelligence, and counterterrorism communities to recognize the warning signs of a jihadist poised to act.

Dr. Walid Phares, during his presentation at the American Congress for Truth webcast conducted on November 7^th (and available for viewing here), made the point that, eight years after 9/11, our nation’s leaders have still failed to adequately identify and define the jihadist enemy.

Sources we have within the government confirm this appalling reality.

As Brigitte Gabriel notes in her recent video message, the politically correct driven fear of offending Muslims and the apologists for radical Islam has crossed the line from being exasperating to being deadly.

Monday, November 16, 2009 
The Washington Times 
How military missed signs – Failure to grasp threats from those in uniform
by Joel Mowbray

As Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent, officially begins his inquiry this week into the disturbing failures that enabled Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan to stay in uniform, it must go beyond the normal excuses related to bureaucratic bungling.

With the discussion last week devolving into interagency finger-pointing, lost was the simple fact that the failures were systemic. Although the military has done valiant work fighting in Muslim lands, it doesn’t seem to grasp how to assess when Muslim personnel could pose an internal threat.

It’s easy to rely on hindsight to second-guess after the fact, but based on what we already know, Maj. Hasan had openly embraced Islamic jihadist ideology. Apparently no one who learned of his online screeds or his verbal rants to colleagues understood this, however.

What officials knew about Maj. Hasan was neither trivial nor inconsequential.

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(From Atlas Shrugs)

While the media turns itself inside out struggling to find a motive for Major Muslim’s jihad, go to this interview on, of all places, NPR,

Listen to a psychiatrist’s recollection of a lecture Hasan gave (a “grand round” is the term for it) when he was a medical resident at Walter Reed. “It freaked them out.” Normally, a lecturer focuses on a particular disease or disorder and recent research or treatment options. Instead, Hasan reportedly harangued the doctors and staff about what the Quran taught about non-believers going to hell, being scalded, beheaded, etc. A Muslim psychiatrist in the audience reportedly challenged him about his interpretation of the Quran, but he would not back down (because he was right). Another version of the story I heard quoted a source as saying that several in the audience suggested afterward that Hasan might be a shooter someday.

Forward the audio audio to 1:50 and listen through 3:05 to hear most relevant comments…This is EXPLOSIVE and it’s NPR.

UPDATE: Last night, Grant  transcribed and e-mailed about this NPR audio.  Here is the direct link to the MP3 file that contains the statement about people wondering if Hasan would “freak out and shoot people someday:

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