Virginia reaction to Fort Hood shootings
Virginia reaction
Virginia statements on the shootings at Fort Hood:
"I am truly saddened to hear of the tragic shooting at Fort Hood, home to thousands of our nation's active-duty military and their families. My heart goes out to the military community at Fort Hood and the families of the victims. Until we learn the full scope of the events, I will continue to monitor the situation closely."
-- Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va. , member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and chairman
of the subcommittee on personnel
"My thoughts and prayers are with all the victims and their families."
-- Rep. Glenn Nye, D-2nd , member of the House Armed Services
Committee
Reaction on Virginia bases:
Neither Fort Lee nor Fort Eustis had closed yesterday because of the shootings at Fort Hood.
Officials at both Army posts were monitoring the situation at Fort Hood. "They'll make decisions accordingly," Fort Lee spokesman Matthew Montgomery said.
A spokeswoman said the Marine Corps base at Quantico raised its terrorist-threat alert to one level above normal after the shootings.
First Lt. Joy Crabaugh, Quantico's media officer, said the base was monitoring the situation at Fort Hood, and pertinent lines of communication were in place. She said the base was implementing appropriate measures to ensure the safety of the base and its Marine and civilian residents and employees.
Statement from VirginiaMuslim Coalition for Public Affairs:
The Virginia Muslim Coalition for Public Affairs condemns today's cowardly attack at Fort Hood, Texas. We are shocked and saddened by the outburst of violence that cost several brave service members their lives and gravely injured others.
No political or religious ideology could ever justify or excuse such wanton and indiscriminate violence. This unprovoked and unconscionable act against American military personnel and civilians is reprehensible, and against every tenet of faith and morality.
We offer our sincere prayers and condolences to the Fort Hood community, and to the families of loved ones who were killed or injured in the attack.
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Here are other statements from Muslim organizations just in case the nutty right wants to say Muslims did not dennouce the attack.
CAIR:
http://www.cair.com/ArticleDetails.aspx?ArticleID=26126&&name;=n&&currPage;=1
MAS Freedom Foundation:
http://www.masnet.org/takeaction.asp?id=5446
http://www.vmcpa.org
American Muslim Journal
http://americanmuslimjournal.typepad.com/an_american_muslim_journa/2009/11/american-muslims-condemn-ft-hood-shootings-grieve-with-survivors-and-families.html
No pearls of wisdom here, just an observation. Some days it seems that the world is just going freaky crazy.
Condolences to the families.
This whole incident seems pretty straightforward to me. This guy joins the Army out of high school. They pay for his education at Va. Tech, years of medical school and training, all paid for by the taxpayer. When it came time for him to fulfill his portion of the agreement, ie serve, he backed out in the most violent, cowardly way. You don’t agree with US policy, hate Americans, then don’t take the money to further your career.
And the Army probably wouldn’t let him out due to the amount of money they had invested in him.
You can’t tell me the officials didn’t know they had a real goofball on their hands.
Why is there a need for the “Virginia reaction” to this news event. Rather dumb. Big news events happen ALL THE TIME, and publications don’t ask locals for their reaction. SF earthquake! Virginia reaction: “Well, a terrible thing, very terrible—and sad, did I mention that? Awful, horrible, sorry to see it happen.“ Good grief.
Am I being paranoid? This man is a a VA
Tech graduate. What is going on here?
Unfortunately you are being paranoid if you are reading into the connection to VA Tech. This is nothing more than a ploy by the media to get ratings. The point that should have been made is that this guy was born, raised, and educated in America, and still became a terrorist. It doesn’t matter what school he went to, but given all the recent incidents at Tech, the media was all too quick to insert that little tid bit into this story.
As a US Army veteran, I have one word, albeit a hyphenated one, to describe Major Hasan: Yellow-belly.
Am I being paranoid? This man is a a VA
Tech graduate. What is going on here?
Well, J.Cole, you just cast aside whatever you want here in the 21st century, but you might want to reflect upon the 20th Century and just who was committing mass slaughter in the name of—themselves. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot. I guess this is what you mean by casting aside one’s religious crutch and learning what it is like to live without any greater aspirations. I’ll take my chances on the Bible.
I applaud the Virginia Muslim Coalition for Public Affairs for their thoughtful statement and wholeheartedly agree with their assertion that “No political or religious ideology could ever justify or excuse such wanton and indiscriminate violence. What occurred yesterday at Fort Hood appears to be the result of mental instability that was recognized, reported, and on which officers above Major Hasan in the chain-of-command apparently failed to act. I see no reason to blame all Muslims for Major Hasan’s unilateral actions.
From various early accounts of the situation it appears that Major Hasan’s officer colleagues - some above his rank - were aware of his apparently unstable mental state and brought it to the attention of others in the chain-of-command. Given an apparently adverse officer efficiency rating while at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a resulting reassignment, and assertions that those above Major Hasan in the chain-of-command were recently made aware of of his troubling mental state but failed to act, one hopes that the Department of Defense will quickly identify, implement, and enforce measures necessary to prevent recurrences of similar situations in the future. Of course, one realizes that no process or procedure is ever 100% effective, but significant improvements in the processes of evaluating service members’ suitability for continued service clearly are necessary - now.
You could have every religious person in the world stand up today and condemn violence and it wouldn’t fix the core problem. When you have a religion whether its Judaism, Christianity or Islam that uses a violent text as their holy book (see the Bible, the Torah, the Qur’an) you’re going to have violence. The problem here is religion, not one specific religion. Religion lets us justify some terrible things because after all this world isn’t the important one. Its hard for me to think of a more dangerous message. I’m a firm believer in our first amendment rights, believe what you want to believe, I just figured that by the 21st century we would have cast aside our religious crutch and learn what its like to live here on earth without any greater aspirations. I think that would allow us to really value what we have and who we have in our lives.
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