The Ten Craziest Reasons Why Nidal Malik Hasan Did It
TEN Reasons Why Nidal Hassan did It. As he saluted anyone in sight with two loaded handguns, Major Nidal Malik Hasan yelled “Allah Wakbar!” – God is great!” He then opened fire and murdered 13 people. Major Nidal Malik Hasan is now in a coma.
Want to know whay he did it? Here are the Top Ten Craziest Reasons:
The Typical American Fame-Hungry Gun Nutter
For a few hours late on Thursday, it seemed this would follow the usual sad script of shooting tragedies in America. The “monster” assailant would turn the weapon on himself or be instantly gunned down by others.
Only he didn’t. He kept shooting until he was shot.
1) Compassion Fatigue
Dr. Robin Kerner, an attending psychologist who specializes in disaster anxiety at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, said it’s not uncommon for individuals who work with traumatized patients to suffer the effects of “compassion fatigue.”
“This guy was counseling people coming back from war and there is something called secondary traumatization, where the therapist gets traumatized from hearing all the terrible things that have happened to the people they counsel.”
2) He Had Been Beheaded
Sky News presenter: “There is word coming through that this man lost his head, literally”
3) Combat Stress Disorder
Thursday’s deadly rampage raises a red flag over the issue of combat stress.
Major Nidal Malik Hasan never saw active service.
4) Pre Traumatic Stress Disorder
The case of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who is the primary suspect in the Fort Hood shooting spree Thursday that killed 13 people, is pointing up the enormous need to help soldiers overwhelmed by the stress – or even the prospect – of serving in wartime.
5) Stress-Avoidance Stress Disorder
Unusually for a soldier, Hasan appeared to have little taste for violence, at least up until yesterday. His cousin, Nader Hasan, said: “He was someone who did not enjoy going to the firing range.” That may have been a consequence of the stories he had heard in the hospital wards from the returning soldiers.
6) Vicarious Stress Disorder
Those who counsel trauma victims — whether they be psychiatrists, social workers or advocates — can experience an emotional toll after intensive exposure to patients’ stories of horror. Experts call this phenomenon “vicarious trauma.”
The impact of trauma on those who help the traumatized has become a subject of discussion as investigators try to piece together why Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, an Army psychiatrist at Darnall Army Medical Center, allegedly opened fire at a military processing center Thursday at Fort Hood Army Post in Texas, killing 13 people and wounding 30 others.
A second opinion:
His aunt, Noel Hasan, said her nephew had been upset by the injuries he saw at Walter Reed. “He must have snapped,” she added.
7) He Came Unstuck
An apartment complex manager says the man accused of opening fire at Fort Hood, Texas recently had a religious bumper sticker torn off his car.
“My other car’s loaded a taxi loaded with Semtex.”
The Time-Bomb Bomber
Yesterday, the time-bomb exploded when Hasan killed 12 soldiers and shot 31 others in the bloodiest massacre on a US military base.
9) The Non-Suicidal Suicide
Suicides are also on the rise. Army suicides are up 37% since 2006, and the military rate is higher than the civilian rate. Since the 2003 Iraq invasion, 75 Fort Hood soldiers have killed themselves, nine this year. That prompted the base to take steps to reduce stress on soldiers, including cutting work hours and ordering them to be home in time for dinner.
He did it to get home early and beat the traffic.
10) Women Drove Him To It
His cousin Nader Hasan says: “He wanted a wife more religious than him,” Faizul Khan told the Daily News. “She had to pray five times a day. She had to wear the hajib. He was a young, good looking guy and a physician but he couldn’t find anybody.”
Cherchez la femme.
Anyone else got any other ideas why he might have done it? to help you, teh BBC delivers this headline:
Shooting raises fears for Muslims in US army
And, maybe a few fears for any stressed-out soldier working with them. Maybe…
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November 9th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Another example of lax American vetting and security procedeures.
“”There will be also be questions about why Hasan’s fragile state was not spotted by his fellow psychiatrists.”"
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/06/nidal-malik-hasan-fort-hood-shooting
November 8th, 2009 at 9:23 am
I thought for a minute there Christ was arguing with himself and forgot to change his user name…..
Is there any hope of the comments going down the way again - & of my spell checker not picking up whatever script you use to run this site??????
November 8th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Maybe he was just a bit of a twat.
Life gets on top of you when you’re not that good at dealing with it.
November 8th, 2009 at 7:51 am
Yes, that makes complete since. IF the draft is re-instated, you will kill the others that are also FORCED to be there. Idiot!
Your no better from the words that you just spoke, well typed.
AND, officers dont have contracts like enlisted. He has to SIGN one himself every 2 years. He was a MAJOR, he has been signing them for a while. Boo hoo, you kept SIGNING the contracts YOURSELF, and you woke up one day and decided to not do it? STOP RE-ENLISTING. HE SIGNED HIMSELF, jackass. And he signed atleast 2 or 3 since the wars started, LAME.
November 8th, 2009 at 12:05 am
Because he looked like Mona Lisa era Bob Hoskins?
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/media/image/1283819/index.html
November 7th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Good job has done
November 7th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
My heart and prayers go out to all the victims family and friends.
From all the news reports it appears this Major is a career military man and that in his current position for less than a year and was not going well. He did not want to be deployed and in fact wanted out of the Army, so he paid back his military student loans and hired an attorney.
The reason may have been that he was being harassed and called names like “camel jockey ”. I guess all that sensitivity training for those with bigotry tendencies are all for not. (Can training real change the way you were brought up?)
Another reason is called PTSD by proxy, the stress of treating PTSD in other soldiers make you go a little crazy yourself. Its even more stressful because most of the higher ranks don’t even believe in such thing as PTSD. Their denial prompts them to tell suffering soldiers to “drink it off.” Some civilians in the defense dept feel the same way no doubt IMO, it’s why hardly anything is mentioned of PTSD until one of these violent episodes occurs. These people see PTSD as a cop-out or an excuse. First we need to have an understanding that PTSD actually is real before we can ever hope to help treat it (does anyone believe that being shot at or killing your fellow man is not going to affect you in some way either then or in the future?). I guess with the high soldier suicide rate before and after deployment kinda takes care of the complaints from coming in (so those who said he should have just killed himself, well that’s already happening ). What real ticked me off when I heard that the military was trying to say that some soldiers coming back from this war with PTSD or other psychological disorders had “Pre-Existing Conditions” and that the military would not pay to treat them, I think it has been corrected but what a bunch of asses they break you and don’t want to pay.
The final issue is why does the military want to keep people in their ranks that no longer want to be there is it just sheer number? I mean is it ten percent, twenty percent. Is it that it is the only contract in the US that you can’t get out of unless to kill yourself or kill your fellow soldiers? It does not make any sense to me.
I guess the Major could just be another wacko like Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nicholas, of course McVeigh was executed and apparently because Nicholas became a Christian he received a life sentenced. I real think if he gets that far the Major will get the former and not in a million years the latter.
This is so messed up, hopefully they will make some changes that make sense.
November 7th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Not really funny to joke about this. He hired a lawyer and tried to LEGALLY get out of the army. They wouldn’t let him leave, he obviously doesn’t agree with the team he is on so he destroyed them.
LEARN FROM THIS. Next time someone wants out, just let them go. They won’t be much good to you if they aren’t on your side.
Also let this be a lesson to our president. If you reinstate a draft and i get drafted i will for sure kill my own team. I find the middle east to be the victim, i would not help hurt innocent people there for some greedy political puppets.
November 7th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Treachery?
Its been said he is a Conscientious Objector, strange he managed to slay so many, or did he just object to killing what his country perceived to be the enemy?
Which brings me back to treachery.
I emailed a friend that day as I knew his grandson was in the US military , and also he was based in Texas, but it was Fort Bliss, and besides Chris is on his 3rd tour in Afghanistan. He’s 24.
That is Patriotism+