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It's official: political correctness prevented Fort Hood assassin Nidal Hasan's Army superiors from acting upon signs of his incipient jihadist tendencies. AP reported Monday that "a Defense Department review of the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, has found the doctors overseeing Maj. Nidal Hasan's medical training repeatedly voiced concerns over his strident views on Islam and his inappropriate behavior, yet continued to give him positive performance evaluations that kept him moving through the ranks."
Hasan rose to the rank of major even as he turned what was supposed to have been a lecture on psychiatry into a diatribe on the Koran's punishments for unbelievers and doctrines of warfare against them. According to AP, "he gave a class presentation questioning whether the U.S.-led war on terror was actually a war on Islam. And students said he suggested that Shariah, or Islamic law, trumped the Constitution and he attempted to justify suicide bombings." He rose through Army ranks even as he justified suicide bombing and spouted hatred for America while wearing its uniform.
His superiors and those around him noted his statements, and were worried about them. "Yet no one in Hasan's chain of command," reports AP, "appears to have challenged his eligibility to hold a secret security clearance even though they could have because the statements raised doubt about his loyalty to the United States."