Being "Politically Correct" WILL Be The Death Of This Nation

And, for once, the truth is starting to unfold. From The Washington Times:

Fear of offending Muslims or being insensitive to religion was likely a key factor to why Army supervisors missed signs that the suspect in the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage was a Muslim extremist, according to national security experts.

Myself and numerous other bloggers knew, from the very beginning, that this was a major aspect of the US Army Major Nidal Hasan's ability to carry out his November 5th attack, which resulted in 12 soldiers and 1 civilian dead.

The review concluded that the Army is ill-equipped to deal with "insider" threats. Mr. West and Mr. Clark said several Army officers appear to have been negligent in assessing Maj. Hasan in personnel reviews and other incidents during his career and likely will be punished.

We can't be truthful to the public -- we must keep our thoughts secret because, my, the horrors that would occur:

Adm. Vernon E. Clark, a former chief of naval operations and the investigation's other co-leader, declined to answer when asked whether political correctness led to the Army security failures. He suggested that the matter is addressed in a secret annex to the report that he and Mr. West helped produce.

Even following 9/11, did Americans go on a wholesale shooting rampage with Arabs or perceived Muslims in our national sights? Did we create internment camps? No, we did not. I found many sites bleeding about "profiling" or "driving while Arab." There were isolated acts. But much fewer than, for example, blacks specifically targeting whites for violent acts.

The unaligned professionals know the difference:

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a former military medical doctor, said political correctness is a major problem for the military and the government as a whole in dealing with Islamism.

"The culture in the military and the U.S. government is that you just don't touch religion," said Dr. Jasser, president of the Phoenix-based American Islamic Forum for Democracy. As a result, the military is ill-equipped to deal with the threat posed by radicalized Muslims, he said in an interview.

Steven Emerson, executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, said the military's failure to understand the problem of radical Islamism is the reason the Fort Hood shootings were not prevented.

"The military is still mired in this murderous political correctness," Mr. Emerson said, adding that religion, contrary to what Mr. West said, is "every part of the problem" in the shootings.

"Hassan's jihadist beliefs were that infidels should be killed in the military," Mr. Emerson said.

Mr. Emerson said the neglect of Islamist extremism "stands in sharp contrast to the military's decision to weed out white supremacists a few years back at Fort Bragg by throwing out any serviceman who supported the Ku Klux Klan."

This nation, ladies and gentlemen, I am telling you once again, continues to bend over for the elements that wish to do us harm -- Islam. Yes, fine, flap on, I am biased, Islam is a religion of peace, love, understanding, it's as wonderful or more so than Christianity, it's a small percentile of persons who are causing trouble. I reiterate: Islam is as Islam does.

Keep turning a blind eye America; but first, take a small trip to a neighboring continent and see what's occurring in Europe and the UK.

BZ