Lessons From Fort Hood

				Issue 48 08.11.11

Two weeks ago, Naser Jason Abdo, a Muslim U.S. Army Private, was arrested for plotting to attack the Fort Hood army base in Texas.

Abdo is the second Muslim member of the U.S. Army to target Fort Hood; Major Nidal Hassan, an Army psychiatrist, killed 13 people at the army base in November 2009.

The lessons to be learned from the actions of these two men are, or should be, plainly visible for all of us to see.

Fort Hood Plots: Answering the Call of Individual Jihad
by Clare M. Lopez

“Muslims are being commanded…to strike out against the U.S, Israel, and "corrupt" Muslim rulers and take up the cause of jihad as an individual responsibility.”

The recent arrest of Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo for plotting to attack Fort Hood should be a real wake-up call to all Americans. As we know, Pfc. Abdo is the second Muslim member of the U.S. Armed Forces to target Ft. Hood; Major Nidal Hassan, tragically, was not stopped before he opened fire on his fellow soldiers at Ft. Hood in November 2009, killing 13.

The lessons to be learned from the actions of these two men are, or should be, plainly visible for all of us to see. Both of them announced their violent intentions openly and clearly long before they moved to actually carry out their threats. And both of them grounded their beliefs and their attack plans firmly on citations from the Qur'an.

Maj. Hasan told his colleagues that he considered himself "a Muslim first and an American second." He also gave a graphic Power-Point presentation ("The Koranic World View as it Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military") on his jihadist beliefs many times in front of U.S. military audiences. In this presentation, Maj. Hasan quoted the Qur'an with verses on fighting the infidel and included many slides about the rewards of Paradise for those who fight and kill and die in the way of Allah.

He also foreshadowed the later actions of Pfc. Abdo when he concluded his Power-Point with this warning to the U.S. military:

"[The] Department of Defense should allow Muslim soldiers the option of being released as ‘conscientious objectors’ to increase troop morale and decrease adverse events."

[Hasan's whole slide show can be seen here.]

So, it can be seen from these two examples that the jihadist leaderships of both al-Qa'eda and the Muslim Brotherhood have called for Muslims everywhere to turn the page as it were from the more moderate Meccan period to the more violent Medinan period. Muslims are being commanded by both of them to strike out against the U.S, Israel, and "corrupt" Muslim rulers and take up the cause of jihad as an individual responsibility.

We should note that those Muslims who obey and follow the call of jihad as stipulated in the sharia (Islamic law) do not hide their intentions but rather speak out openly about them - for this, too, is a command of Islamic law, that warning be given before an attack. It is for us to heed the warnings, and as our national security forces did in the case of Pfc. Abdo, take steps to stop their attack plans before they can be carried out.

Clare M. Lopez, a senior fellow at the Clarion Fund, is a strategic policy and intelligence expert with a focus on Middle East, national defense, and counterterrorism issues.

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Abdo's Loyalty to Muslims Always Meant Disloyalty to Americans
By Raymond Ibrahim

“Behold the Koran's doctrines applied in today's terror war.”

To anyone familiar with Muslim doctrine, Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo’s actions — from refusing to deploy to Afghanistan lest he kill fellow Muslims to plotting a terror attack to kill fellow Americans — make perfect sense and accord well with Islam’s dichotomous doctrine of wala wa bara, often translated as “loyalty and enmity.”

Built atop numerous Koran verses and backed by Sharia, wala requires Muslims to be loyal to fellow Muslims, and explains why Abdo refused to deploy to Muslim nations.

Video Clip:
CNN: Nasser Abdo Refusing Deployment

Quotable Quotes:

"[B]ased on your ability, you choose the target [in your home area]. Your pool of targets is large, so make sure to think of all of the available options. An example of something local, easy, and effective is attacking an army recruiting center, nightclub, highway, or busy shopping mall."

-- From “The Jihad Experience," by Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri, July 2010, INSPIRE, al Qaeda online magazine.

Did you know?

Did you know that Muslims are allowed – and even encouraged – to lie to non-Muslims about their religious convictions and political aspirations, if by doing so, they can help protect and spread Islam?

This Quranic principle, known as Taqiyya, is routinely employed by leaders in the Islamic world who say one thing in English for the Western media, and then something entirely different in Arabic to their own followers.

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The Clarion Fund welcomes our new Senior Fellow, Clare M. Lopez.

Ms. Lopez is a strategic policy and intelligence expert with a focus on Middle East, national defense, and counterterrorism issues.

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