Questions were being asked in Texas this weekend about the friendship between the US Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people in a shooting spree at the Fort Hood military base last Thursday, and a young man called Duane Reasoner Jnr. Interviewed by the BBC on Friday, Reasoner said he felt no pity for Hasan’s victims because “they were troops who were going to Afghanistan and Iraq to kill Muslims”.
A tape of the interview, conducted by Gavin Lee of the BBC, has ended up on YouTube and other sites and is getting an angry response from Americans still shocked by Hasan’s deadly rampage.
The clip I posted is currently ranking 2 in Most Discussed (Today) – News and Politics on YouTube. A group of terrorist-supporting Islamic supremacist whackjobs who were featured by CNN on Friday have also put the clip on their website (no link for those arseholes). Needless to say, they’re very proud of young Duane.
It’s pleasing to note that Melanie Phillips linked to Friday’s post about Mark Mardell.
And I’d like to give a shout out (as President Obama might say) to Artists Against Wind Farms who linked to this post yesterday. Their noble endeavour is to stop our countryside being blighted by those monstrosities.
Oh yeah, there’s some more F-bombgate news in the Daily Mail today (scroll down – even I’m bored with the whole thing now and therefore can’t be bothered to give it a blog post of its own.)
This is a Some Updates Update. BBC North America editor Mark Mardell’s eagerness to dismiss an ideological motive for the Fort Hood killings looks ever more foolish:
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.
Further Update. Hasan’s calling card – “Soldier of Allah“.
Mark Mardell #fail.
That Gavin Lee interview: Part of the great BBC masterplan to sanitise radical Islam? Or what?
“Following the criticism of some BBC coverage of the Fort Hood killings, credit is due to the BBC’s Gavin Lee for including in his report this morning the following interview…”
What part of that didn’t you understand, OMTE?
I am often slow, but I did manage to understand your para.
Doesn’t take away the wider question: Part of the great BBC masterplan to sanitise radical Islam? Or what?
An all too rare moment of unspun reality.
The jihadist was going to strip joints, paying for lap dances, it appears :
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573052,00.html
I bet THAT doesn’t get any coverage from the BBC.
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Just as the word JIHAD is not being used in the BBC coverage.
How can the largest news organisation in the world report on the massacrew without using the J-word, and mostly without the T-word too ?
Has the BBC ever explained consistently to its audience what jihad means, how it lies at the root of Islamist terrorism.?
If not – is this ignorance on the part of the BBC, or deliberate censoring ? Or a mix of both ?
Remember the Beltway Sniper?
Sniper’s motive remains a mystery As with Hasan any possible Muslim explanation is simply ignored.
These include changing his name to Mohammed in October 2001 i.e. closely following 9/11. Drawings by Malvo describe the murders as part of a “jihad” (Arabic for “struggle”). Claims that Muhammad admitted that he admired and modeled himself after Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, and approved of the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Circumstantial, I agree but surely they deserved some comment as a ‘possible’ motivation?