Investigators are searching for answers as to why Major Nidal Malik Hasan would commit the horrible act of killing 13 people and wounding 30 others on the Fort Hood Army base Thursday, November 5th. Apparently Major Hasan, and unmarried man, was tired of holding back his jahadists tendencies and decided to die a martyr and be swept up immediately to paradise where he would be met by 72 dark eyed virgins awaiting him with open arms. However, as it turned out, he didn't even get a hug; he's still alive and will have to face his terrible crimes in a Military court.

Since Mr. Hasan is a Muslim, President Obama, federal and Army investigators will more than likely tiptoe through the tulips on this one, especially since Obama has stated that “Islam is a religion of peace,” declared that there are “no jihadists,” said “we are not at war with Islam,” and has discarding the term “war on terror.” Even though Mohamed Atta, the leader of the 9/11 attack, was a pious Muslim that practiced the tenents of Islam and left a letter clearly stating their intentions which were pure jihad.

Obama and John Brennan, Obama's assistant for homeland security and counter-terrorism say that “jihad is an inner struggle and inner purification; a purely spiritual process, and when we call the bad guys jihadists, they obtain a religious legitimacy they don't deserve.”

All the message agents say that Muslim terrorists like Osama bin Laden have misinterpreted the Koran, and that devout Muslims in America do not sympathize with them, even though the Koran is replete with instructions exhorting the Muslims faithful to fight, even slay, the “unbelievers” in the cause of Allah. Unbelievers include Christians and Jews.

These assertions are a PC sanitized version of Islam's teachings in the interest of mainstreaming Islam.

Unfortunately, most Americans don't seem to know that when Muslims are dealing with non-Muslims, lying and deceit are permissible under the Islamic doctrine of “taqiya.” Despite the overtly cruel, harsh and intolerant Koranic views towards the 'others,' namely Jews and Christians, there are injunctions in the Koran that enable the Islamic community to disguise, play down, and when necessary, deny both the intensity and the validity of the harsh teachings in its religious system. So, it's o.k. to feed the kafirs (infidels) a moderate version of Islam. Any lie that promotes or advances Islam is good, and you don't advance Islam (in Non-Muslim countries) by showing its warts.

The following is a lesson in deceit. A year after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the FBI invited the head of an influential Arab-rights group to speak about Islam to about four hundred new agents in the auditorium of the FBI Academy, the bureau's high-security training campus hidden in the woods of Quantico, Virginia, about an hour south of Washington. The lecture by Dr. Ziad Asali, then-president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, was mandatory and lasted about one hour. Asali, a Palestinian refugee, “talked about how peaceful their religion is, and how not to offend Muslims…showing respect for their culture, things like that,” said FBI Academy spokesman Kirk Crawford.

And at least four times the following year, the FBI's New York field office held all-day sensitivity training sessions, not far from Ground Zero, featuring Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the Masjid al-Farah mosque. Speaking for about two hours each session, “he gave an overview of Islamic culture and some of the differences between what fundamentalist terrorist groups say are the teachings of the Koran and what he believes, as a student of religion, the Koran actually says,” said special agent James Margolin, a spokesman for the FBI New York office. (See last paragraph of this article).

For example, Rauf asserted that the Koran, the sacred book of Muslims, “certainly doesn't counsel terrorism, murder, or mayhem,” Margolin said. And, he said terrorists have misinterpreted the Koran term jihad to mean violent, or “armed struggle against nonbelievers.” Rauf claims it means “internal struggle.” (See last paragraph of this article).

The Muslim sensitivity training program, denounced by some active and former agents, was mandated by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller after the 9/11 attacks and is still in effect. Officially known within the bureau as “Enrichment Training Sessions,” the program invites Muslim clerics and scholars to preach to agents about the allegedly peaceful attributes of Islam.

If agents go into investigations with the assumption that American Muslins do not believe what al-Qaeda or Hamas terrorists believe and do not sympathize with their cause, agents argue they may be easily snowed by Muslim suspects, witnesses, and informants. They may also be inclined to investigate Muslim cleric and scholars themselves, even though some who have preached in this country have been tied to Islamic terrorists.

For example, the nine-hundred-page report on 9/11 intelligence failures released by Congress took the FBI to task for failing to pursue leads back to a local imam involved with two of the al-Qaeda hijackers who helped crash an American Airlines jumbo jet into the Pentagon. Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi were close to the imam, Anwar Awlaki. He and the hijackers moved from San Diego to Falls Church, Virginia, where they joined the Dar al-Hijrah mosque that Major Nidal Malik Hasan attended. And we know that Major Hasan had an on going relationship with imam Awlaki not only at the Dar al Hijra mosque but through email communications with him since his return to Yemen.

Now, here is the iron rule of Islam for those of you that have not read the Islamic trilogy; the Koran, Sira and Hadith: Anyone who only uses the Koran verses to discuss Islam is either a deceiver or ignorant. Islam is not just the Koran, but it is the Koran and the Sunnah. The Koran is only 16 percent of the total textual doctrine of Islam. The Sunnah is 84 percent of the total authority. This is why leaving out the Sunnah is deceptive.





Knox Pitzer of San Marcos is a published author of numerous technical articles and papers including both national and international publications.