Islamophobia caused shootings at Fort Hood, Texas
By Hector Carreon
La Voz de Aztlan
Los Angeles, Alta California - November 6, 2009 - (ACN) As an Engineering Specialist with the 2nd Armored Division at Fort Hood, Texas during the Vietnam War, I know how racist and ethnocentric the US Army can be. When I read a report by Major Nidal Malik Hasan's family that the army officer wanted out after being constantly harassed by others in the military and was called a "cameljockey," I began to understand why Major Hasan took two guns and shot up the place killing 13 and wounding 30 soldiers and civilians.
There are certain things that the Pentagon shuts up aboutthat God forsaken place in Central Texas. Fort Hood is located approximately 60 miles north from Austin and is the largest U.S. military installation in the world. The base is a 340 square mile facility nestled between Killeen and Copperas Cove. The horrors that occur there almost daily,especially during times of war, is something you would not want to tell your family after coming home. Killeen is the place where the second worst mass murder in the history of the US took place in1991.
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, presently in a military hospital for treatment of wounds received in the shootings, is a Muslim of Palestinian descent whose duties, as a Doctor of Psychiatry, are totreat soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan totally psychotic and extremely disturbed becauseof their war time experiences and mental traumas received in battle. During my 16 months at FortHood, there were weekly suicides by soldiers returning from Vietnam but worst of all was the tollpaid by the families that lived at the base. Regularly one would hear of a wife being chopped up byher disturbed G.I. husband and often about their babies being dismembered in the familybarracks.
The fact that today, at Fort Hood, the returning soldiers are coming back from Arab and Muslim countries most probably made the situation for Major Nidal Malik Hasan particularly moredifficult. I remember that during my initial military training for the Vietnam War, the racist drillsergeants would constantly demonize the "slanted eyed gooks." Their objective was to instill hateand to dehumanize the "enemy" to the point that to kill him would become natural. Today, I am surethat the drill sergeants are demonizing the "ragheads" and the "camel jockeys."
That an officerof Palestinian descent was constantly harassed by others in the US Army and called a "camel jockey"does not really surprise me. Mexican-Americans in the US Army suffer similar abuse even though thewar with Mexico ended in 1849. There is incredible racism in all branches of the US Armed Forces.The racism is reflected in the attitudes of non-officers and officers alike. At Fort Hood, I oncehad the Company Commander, a captain, approach me to tell me not to speak "Mexican" in his company.When I politely informed him that there was no such thing as a Mexican language and that it wascalled Spanish, I was ordered to extra duty for insubordination.
Islamophobia is today rampant inall sectors of society and it is bound to have extreme negative consequences for all of us. Presently the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) out of New York City is working very hard tocreate a hostile environment for Muslim students at the University of California at Irvine. Thereason is that the students assisted in raising funds for the humanitarian effort called VivaPalestina USA no matter that four Orthodox Jewish Rabbis raised and donated $30,000 dollars for thevery same effort. Also the Zionist press is already propagandizing the Fort Hood incident bylabelling Major Nidal Malik Hasan a "Jihadi." They have also already planted the rumor that MajorNidal Malik Hasan yelled "Allahu Akbar" just begore he started shooting.
Recently I had the opportunity, as a reporter for La Voz de Aztlan, to accompany the 200 member Viva Palestina USA delegation to Gaza. On the way to Gaza, some in the delegation went to Alexandria, Egypt to pick upsome of the aid convoy vehicles. There in Alexandria, I and other US delegates attended a Muslim prayer at the large downtown Mosque. All Americans and Christians, as I am, should at least once in their lifetimes visit a Mosque and pray alongside Muslims. I believe that the greatest problem that Americans suffer from is ignorance. I will never forget the US Army 2nd Armored Divisions Captain at Fort Hood, Texas that thought I spoke Mexican instead of the Spanish language..
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Commentary of Holy Qur'an http://al-islam.org/tahrif_quran/
Du'a - http://www.duas.org
Islam - http://www.al-islam.org
Free Islamic Books -http://www.winislam.com
http://www.islamic-message.net/English/index.htm
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