Why Religion should never trump the constitution.

Army officials strongly deny any suggestion that Hasan's religion resulted in his being given special treatment. But one officer who attended the Pentagon's medical school with Hasan disagrees. "He was very vocal about being a Muslim first and holding Shari'a law above the Constitution," this officer recalls. When fellow students asked, "How can you be an officer and hold to the Constitution?," the officer says, Hasan would "get visibly upset - sweaty and nervous - and had no good answers."

If this is true, then Major Hasan should have been court martialed and dishonorably discharged for violating the oath he took as an officer of the armed forces.  A member of the armed forces repeats the following oath when he's sworn in.

I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

It would appear from the statement above that his being a Muslim first and holding Shari'a law above the Constitution, took priority over his defending our country against all enemies, domestic and foreign.  Because, if he already considered us his enemy, then he would have betrayed us during combat, or done what he did in Killeen, only with more casualties.  


If this is true, and he was protected because of his religion, then the Army should quickly rethink it's strategy and start cracking down on the fifth columnists that could be in our ranks right now.  What if it hadn't been a psychiatrist, but a missile technician on a boomer, or a pilot of a B2, and instead of a pistol, he hit us with a cruise missile or a guided nuclear bomb?


It's time for political correctness to go the way of the dodo bird and let us return to our most basic freedom of all, that of free speech.