Dakota Beacon

How we react to the Ft. Hood terrorist attack will be an indicator of the state of the nation’s health.  If the reaction is one of PC whining that we’re “rushing to judgment” and that we shouldn’t hold the mass murderer’s name against him because that would be “profiling”, we can stick a fork in it and fill out the death certificate – for then America is officially dead.  On the other hand, if Americans finally awaken and our outrage demands and effects the corrective measures required to ensure that this will NOT happen again on our shores, then the vital signs will indicate that America still lives and is about to recover.

When will we finally stand up and scream “ENOUGH!”?  Enough of hearing the Left bawling that we’re “racist” if we employ profiling that fends of attacks and saves lives; enough of whitewashing honor killings and child and spousal abuse by calling it “domestic disturbance”; enough of special, state-funded, interest-free mortgage schemes exclusively to benefit Muslims who refuse to adjust to our financial practices; enough of prayer rooms and footbaths in public facilities – places where Christians and Jews may not post the Ten Commandments and where we may not sing Christmas carols; enough of Saudi students who develop into suicide pilots; enough of insane foreigners in robes jerking our airlines around; enough of taxpayers sending Muslim congressmen to Mecca for religious duties; enough strangulation of our sacred American liberty because demented Muslims are threatening to blow us up!  

Who are these people who have such a problem with this being AMERICA?  They shriek that we’re racist when we propose policies that save thousands of lives.  They look the other way in cases where Islam is clearly a factor in an act of violence.

A virulent strain of Islam is at war with America.  Our enemy is not “the Taliban”, “Al Qaeda” nor rogue states, but the power and ideology behind them. Is Islam a religion we can accept here, like Buddhism, Judaism or Christianity?  Is it rather, a violent, oppressive, militaristic political cult, founded on a barbaric culture whose central purpose is to dominate or destroy any entity not in strict conformity with its often repugnant tenets?                   

Our government has misplaced a higher priority on “political correctness”, “sensitivity” and “diversity” than on the preservation of our country and the safety of our people.  This must now change.  It has led to placing our trust in a military riddled with jihadists.  Our armor is made of gauze.  We need to address this crisis – for a true crisis it is – now, today.  We can’t expect our soldiers to obey an officer corps thus tainted by treachery.  We can’t hold our young men and women to their military commitments when they can no longer trust their officers.

Do we need to purge those professing the Muslim “faith” from our armed forces, as well as any foreign national from a nation or region controlled by Islam?  We must stop listening to the wailing of the Left.  We have given the proponents of “political correctness” their day.  The sun set on that day on Thursday, November 5, 2009.  It is time for America to decide whether to take that bottle of sleeping pills or to do what we must to survive.  It is no more complex than that.     

Next we must have a housecleaning in our universities and training facilities.  The University of North Dakota School of Aerospace Studies is currently training people from China, the Middle East and nations we cannot consider “friends” of America.  Will, one day, these same pilots fire on or bomb our troops as Nidal Malik Hasan did?  And we should exclude also American-born persons who, like Hasan, give their allegiance to a foreign ideology, rather than their native land.

This is important.  The case of Hasan exemplifies the fallacy of accepting these unfortunate people.  Here was a man born in Virginia, the cradle of American history, educated lavishly.  Few of us have the advantage of the education of a psychiatrist.  And yet this Muslim could not assimilate.  He could not bring himself to give his loyalty to the country that nurtured and accepted him.  This is because Islam demands total commitment.  So Hasan cheered the terrorists on, committed malpractice as a psychiatrist at Walter Reed by promoting jihad, advocated beheadings (hmm, would this qualify as “hate crime/speech” under recent legislation?. . . no, real Americans are not a protected class) and handed out copies of the Koran to his mates, and then, with the cry of “Allah Akbar!” he assassinated them.  Our military seems to have been more concerned that they not offend Hasan than with the offensive sewage spewing forth from his lips.  It is most fortunate that Hasan was not deployed – he’d have made a lousy and dangerous soldier.

What is truly sickening about this episode is that had our Commander in Chief effected the reforms indicated herein this might not have happened.  Hasan is, in fact, a product of the sloppy, misguided Bush II administration’s clumsy, pussy-footing, PC response.  This tragic attack could have been stopped at so many points along this criminal’s path since 9-11.

We wouldn’t have won WWII had our officer corps included Americans or foreigners who gave allegiance to Nazism or Hitler; we wouldn’t have survived Viet Nam had we permitted adherents of Ho Chi Minh to sit at the Officers’ Mess, even though it would have been “politically correct”.   We must accept that we live in a dangerous world and this is a perilous time for America and all it stands for.  No Muslim’s “sensitive feelings”, no “cultural diversity” can be allowed to take precedence over our nation’s security.

On November 5, 2009, America paid a very dear price for “diversity”.  We lost thirteen innocent and valuable lives and some thirty-eight others sustained life-altering injuries, all on the altar of this “diversity”.  I think we’ve had enough.  Write your Congressmen and Senators and the Commander in Chief and tell them so.

Sally Morris is a member of Americans for Constitutional Government