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Fort Hood Shooter Was Anti- War, So Why Did He Snap?

FORT HOOD, TX – Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was a soldier who didn’t want to go to war, a man of God who defended murder and a doctor who shot up the soldiers he was supposed to heal.

As he lay mute in a hospital bed Thursday night, investigators were scrambling to figure out what prompted his rampage.

Hasan had been a psychiatrist treating wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington until bad reviews got him transferred to Fort Hood, Tex., in July.

He was due to ship out to war, and his family said he did not want to go.

“We’ve known for the last five years that was his worst nightmare,” cousin Nader Hasan told Fox News, calling the suspect “a good American.”

He said his cousin “was dealing with some harassment from his military colleagues.” KXXV-TV reported someone keyed the word “Allah” into Hasan’s car last week and he reported it as a hate crime.

A former co-worker told Fox News the Army major opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“He said maybe the Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor,” Col. Terry Lee said.

“At first, we thought he was talking about how Muslims should stand up and help the armed forces in Iraq and in Afghanistan, but apparently that wasn’t the case.”

Before being sent to Texas, Hasan, 39, lived in Silver Spring, Md., where a former imam at the Muslim Community Center described him as devout.

He attended daily services and signed up for the mosque’s matchmaking service.

“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.”

Khan said he never heard Hasan express any political opinions. But at least once this year, Hasan apparently went online to defend suicide bombing.

Responding to a treatise on whether suicide bombers could be martyrs when Islam outlaws suicide, Hasan compared them to a soldier who jumps on a grenade.

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