Major Hassan did what he did as a Muslim following the texts of Islam. Many Muslims all over the Western world support the goals of Jihad; that is, the “struggle” to remove all obstacles to the spread, and then the dominance, of Islam. They do not wish — how can they, given what Islam inculcates? — Infidels well, nor our legal and political institutions. A few, perhaps with secret reservations about Islam, would not wish to undo the legal and political institutions of the societies of those who have so naively and generously allowed them to settle deep within. But a great many are perfectly willing to engage in deception for as long as they can about the doctrine and practice of Islam. They are prepared to attempt, however absurdly, to continue to explain away the behavior of Muslims.
And to many the undertaking comes naturally (“war is deception”). It requires no great mental or emotional strain to forever be attempting to hide or deny the contents of the texts, to rewrite the history of the world (vide the attempts to claim territories long associated with non-Muslim peoples, to deny the history of those peoples, and to put forth claims for Muslims being present, nunc-pro-tunc backdating: Muslims were with Columbus, Muslims settled in America, or England, in the eighth, or was it the ninth, centuries — and so on). No Pakistani will tell you about, or express an interest in, the history of pre-Islamic India, or recognize how, in what conditions, his own ancestors were forced to convert to Islam from Hinduism or Buddhism or Jainism. No “Palestinian” Arab will recognize the Jewish connection to the Land of Israel. An entire false history has been created not only denying that Jewish presence and the significance of what was created in Judea, but replacing the Jews with the “Palestinians” — themselves a recent fiction created out of the local Arabs in order to re-package the Jihad against Israel, which is never-ending, with a “legitimate rights of the Palestinian people” business that, in the treacliness of its re-telling in the West, becomes “two tiny peoples, each struggling for its homeland.” (And please don’t look too closely at the twenty-two Arab states, or at the real history, demographic and cadastral, of Mandatory Palestine or of the area in the 19th century.)
Major Hassan did what he did because he took Islam seriously. He was unwilling, unlike so many other Muslims, to lie quietly low and to engage in Jihad through other means, while of course quietly cheering on, in the privacy of one’s family, or one’s mosque, the exploits of the “brothers’ who were attacking, at the World Trade Center, or in London or Madrid or Mumbai, or slitting Infidel throats of nuns and monks in Algeria, or Somalia, or killing Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh, or killing Buddhists in southern Thailand, or Christian farmers in the southern Philippines, or black African Christians in the southern Sudan. There have been some 2 million killed there over the past 20 years, with little or no effective response from anyone in the Western world. Now the mass-murdering is beginning again, and is now extended to Muslims in Darfur — but non-Arab black African Muslims and hence are perfectly acceptable targets to the Arabs.
 In the West most most Muslims have, for prudential reasons, and especially in America, muted their Islam. For here the power of the circumambient non-Muslims, and the unwillingness to behave in the fashion of dhimmis, is greater than in the countries of Western Europe. So for prudential reasons, out of obvious calculation, most Muslims do not behave nearly as aggressively as they do in Western Europe, and nothing like how they behave in countries where they dominate, and can treat non-Muslims as they wish. No, here the situation, for now, is different, and we must make sure that the situation forever stays different. It is better that for prudential reasons smiles and wiles and guile are the order of the day, rather than Nidal Malik Hasan’s way — his “madness” consisted only in this: that not only taking Islam seriously, he was prepared to act on it. He was unprepared to hide his views, as other Muslims have.
Hassan, the self described, SOA, was an avid reader of the Qur’an, and had  expressed his complete hatred for the American intervention against what he, Nidal Malik Hasan, regarded as his true and only people, that is, fellow Muslims, in this case the Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was unwilling to see that the Americans were, at enormous expense, actually trying to help establish semi-decent regimes. That effort will fail, because those same Americans do not recognize the effects of Islam, or why it is Islam that explains the unavoidable political, economic, social, intellectual, and moral failures of Muslim societies. Only in a few places — such as Turkey, because of Ataturk’s systematic constraints on Islam, and to a much lesser extent Tunisia, because of the police-state secularism of Ben Ali and before him Bourguiba, and in one or two of the Central Asian stans, especially the great success-story Kazakhstan — has Islam been constrained so that a secular class has thereby allowed been allowed not only to be created but to flourish. In some areas these constraints on Islam have created conditions less retrograde, where some forms of intellectual and economic and political development have been possible.
Far from being discharged by the Army, despite his terrible performance at Walter Reed (perhaps he was trying to be fired, trying once the army had paid for all of his medical training to get out of fulfilling his own side of the bargain), Hassan was transferred to Fort Hood, and suffered no loss of rank or money. Nor was he ever shut up — in fact, everyone allowed him to make the most outrageous statements, statements that during World War II would have been forthrightly regarded as treasonous, and he arrested and tried for such treasonous sentiments. What soldier could have, at any army base, started to spout pro-Nazi sentiments, perhaps clutching Mein Kampf, during World War II, and have been kept on, and kept on, and remained immune to prosecution?
Nidal Malik Hasan was not only not discharged, but was trusted, apparently, by a far-too-trusting, or perhaps better, an army brass far too fearful of appearing not trusting, to do a thing about him. He was scheduled for deployment, like any soldier, to Afghanistan or Iraq. This could not have come as a surprise. Nor was he being asked to serve in a combat unit, where he might have to fire on “fellow Muslims,” his only true brothers. He was asked only to serve as a psychiatrist. Perhaps, indeed, in the army there were fond hopes that as a native speaker of Arabic, and as a Muslim, Nidal Malik Hasan would have special insight, be particularly helpful should the other soldiers need mini-courses in “cultural-awareness” so as better to understand, and better able to be solicitous, of the Muslims and their “sensitivities.”
Oh, the members of the American military got a course in Muslim “sensitivities” from Major Nidal Hasan, all right. He showed them what a Muslim who takes his Islam seriously, and is not willing patiently to practice “war is deception” but wants something a little more direct, thinks of Infidels. No need to be disabused, as so many of our soldiers have been disabused of their hopes and dreams and naive faith in the Muslims of Iraq and Afghanistan — including their supposed comrades-in-arms whom they paid and trained and worked and worked and worked beside, only to see, in the end, how much was wasted, how dangerous and treacherous were even the supposedly most loyal of these Muslim “allies.”
Yes, Major Nidal Malik Hasan offered quite a course that day, not only to all the non-Muslim members of the American military, but also to all of the civilians who remain unwilling to heed those intent on explaining away what is or by this point should be the obvious. It wasn’t a very long course. It lasted all of four minutes.
But it was most instructive, or at least should have been.

He should be tried as a murder.No more no less.His religion and his race has nothing to do with it.He is a MURDER plan and simple.