Army’s political correctness blocked racial, cultural profiling of killer.
The Pentagon’s 86-page report on the Fort Hood massacre was“sanitized” to avoid discussing Islamic terrorism, the congressman whorepresents the base told POLITICO Monday.
The report, released last week, says that the Army’s middle managementmissed signals about Nidal Malik Hasan (right) in the months leading up to themass shooting.
But missing from the report is any discussion of what Rep. John Carter(R-Texas) said was the a “crisis” with Islamic terrorism. Hasanallegedly wore ritual Muslim garb shouted “God is great” in Arabic whenopening fire on a group of soldiers on the base — facts Carter saidshould have been disclosed in the report to help soldiers identify suchsigns in the future.
A search of the report does not turn up any mentions of Islam.
“People are afraid to speak out and label someone because they’ll beaccused of being a racist or accused of profiling or being prejudicedagainst a certain religion or race of people,” Carter told POLITICO.“But in a time of national crisis, which I believe we are in, allidentifiers must be discussed.”
Carter’s complaint fits into a larger narrative that Republicanlawmakers have been driving in the past few months. The Obamaadministration, GOP legislators have said, has been irresponsible inits handling of terrorists, from their decision to close downGuantanamo Bay to the planned adjudicating of a 9/11 mastermind in NewYork City.
In an election year that is already shaping up to be rough forDemocrats, Republicans are sure to use such decisions to paintPresident Barack Obama and his Congressional allies as weak on homelandsecurity.
“We want the world to know that we are not prejudiced, even to the people that hate us,” Carter said. “That’s craziness.”