Nidal Hasan’s courtroom jihad

Nidal
Hasan’s courtroom jihad
By Robert Spencer

It doesn’t seem to have occurred to anyone that Nidal Malik
Hasan (I will not dishonor the U.S. Army by referring to him as “Major Hasan”),
the Army psychiatrist who murdered thirteen people at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009
in the name of Islam and jihad, might still be fighting his jihad. But he is.

In Islamic theology, jihad warfare is fard kifaya, an obligation of the community as a whole
but not of every individual believer. Jihad becomes fard
ayn, obligatory on every individual Muslim to aid in some way, when
a Muslim land is attacked. Many Muslims around the world today consider that
Muslim lands have indeed been attacked, because of the American presence in
Afghanistan and the very existence of the State of Israel. The most serious and
devout among them will see those attacks and making incumbent upon them the
responsibility to wage jihad warfare against the Infidels.

That obligation does not expire. A jihadi may wage jihad on
a Thursday, as Hasan did when he opened fire on that Thursday in November, but
that doesn’t mean that he is freed from his obligation on Friday. And the most
jihad-haunted, like Hasan, will never consider the possibility that Allah will
excuse them from this duty in light of their previous service. Allah wants
Nidal Hasan to wage jihad. That’s all there is to it. And so he has.

There has been just one snag, however: Hasan’s November 2009
jihad, as successful as it was in slaying the idolaters wherever he found them
(cf. Qur’an 9:29), left him wheelchair-bound, paralyzed from the waist down,
and of course, under heavy guard. What’s a jihadi to do in such circumstances?
The answer is simple: wage jihad in ways that don’t require a murder weapon,
but which work toward the same goal.

Islamic theologians distinguish
four types of jihad: jihad of the heart (jihad
bil nafs); jihad of the tongue (jihad
bil lisan); jihad of the hand (jihad
bil yad); and jihad of the sword (jihad
bis saif). That is, one struggles to control one’s sinful desires, one
spreads the word of Islam, one acts to further the cause of Islam, and finally,
one wages war against the perceived enemies of Islam.

All of these may take many
forms. One can, for example, wage jihad against the enemies of Islam by draining
the enemy’s resources, diverting them from the resistance to jihad and wasting
them on minutiae. And so Hasan has tied up countless hours of Infidel time and
untold sums of Infidel money on the endlessly but needlessly vexed question of
his beard. He grew the beard, he said, because his Islamic faith requires it.
Army regulations, however – and he is, still, technically, in the army, even
though he is manifestly a traitor and an enemy of the United States – demand that
personnel be clean-shaven.

A military judge accordingly
ruled that Hasan could be forcibly shaved, and he most certainly would have
been had he not been a Muslim. But he is a Muslim, and so his attorneys were
able to charge that that judge was overcome by “Islamophobia” to the detriment
of his duty when he ruled that Hasan be shaved, and was summarily removed from
the case. The new judge, Colonel Tara Osborn, was more sensitive to the
multicultural imperatives involved here, and ruled that Army regulations had to
give way to Islamic law, and Hasan could keep his beard.

The fact that Hasan murdered
thirteen people for the same reason he grew the beard — because of his Islamic
faith – doesn’t seem to have entered into her calculations.

In any case, Hasan’s purpose was
served. He cost the Infidels a great deal of time and money on this beard farce
– time and money they could have spent on resisting his fellow jihadis. And now
he is agitating for a change of venue, claiming that he will never be able to
get a fair trial at Fort Hood, where for some reason virtually everyone is
overcome with “Islamophobia” when they think of him.

That will tie up the foolish
kuffar yet again, and draw out this comedy even longer than it has already been
drawn out – and that is the point. There are many ways to wage jihad, and in
the final analysis the Nidal Hasan farce is not a comedy at all, but a tragedy:
a sad episode that is emblematic of a nation that no longer has the will to
defend itself against enemies who are implacably determined to destroy it.

Robert Spencer is the
director of Jihad Watch and author of
the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam
(and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His upcoming book, Not Peace But A Sword: The Great Chasm Between Christianity and Islam, will be available March 25.

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Walter Sieruk

11 years ago

Lets face the facts of reality the Fort Hood shooter yelled out “Allahu Akbar’ all the while he was commiting thses heinous acts of mass murder. Hasan was and is a jihadist. His religion inspired and drove him to commit all those vicious, brutal murderous actions. He was engagng in the cruel ansd cold blooded militant jihadism of Islam. This is real Islam and not some kind of hijacked or warped Islam as some stil claim. After all the Quran does teach in Sura 9:112. The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, killand are killed.” This is just one verses out of many for the Quran that teach violence and killing. “A religion of peace” ? BUll! Hasan is guilty of murder and his religion which inspired him to do all that evil is also guilty of murder.

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The Waking Giant

11 years ago

Why isn’t anyone talking about hasan’s involvement with obama’s “transition team” in ’08-’09?

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aprilnovember811

11 years ago

“The answer is simple: wage jihad in ways that don’t require a murder weapon, but which work toward the same goal.”
Obama’s doing the same thing. Thousands of soldiers have died overseas, while Obama was given the keys to the White House. There are two types of people in D.C. Quislings and Cowards. No one is doing a thing to check Obama out or stop him. They are trusting the word of the D/C party that he’s eligible and qualified. He’s neither.
You would think after 9/11, they would have considered an enemy infiltrating the govt. to wage a terror attack that way. We have been living through a five year terror attack. I hope the children of those who are Quislings and Cowards suffer dearly for what their parents have done to this nation. Hear that, John Roberts, Boehner, Cantor, and numerous others.

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jihad is my raison d'être, what's yours?

11 years ago

I think the government is complicit in dragging out this trial to avoid the inevitable death penalty. That would be a real bombshell in the Muslim world, just like releasing the photos of dead Osama. Must not offend the Muslims.

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Judy

11 years ago

Has that judge now set a precedent for all US uniformed personal that practice islam are exempt from shaving??
This is the sickest example of lawfare of all the many examples to chose from.

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PAthena

9 years ago

According to President Barack Hussein Obama, the Fort Hood massacre by Nidal Hasan was not a case of islamic terrorism but merely “workplace violence.” Obama never identifies islamic terrorism, even the Paris massacre at Charlie Hebdo. (He sent no high-ranking official to the demonstration in Paris protesting the massacre.)

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