Shame-Out: It's the little things?

Here's an interesting tidbit that I heard on NPR this morning.

Here's a link to the audio for the story

Here's the transcript


It's about the now famous Ft-Hood Shooter; the Muslim major.

1) did you know he went to Medical School courtesy of the US army? He was a podiatrist when he went into the army.


2) Apparently, when he was at school, There were some concerned people were at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. (where he attended medical school),about his performance there. Daniel Zwerdling discusses this:

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...At the end of 2007, the government sent Hasan to the military's medical school, ...right here in the Washington, D.C. area. And pretty soon the psychiatrists and officials and professors there were very worried about Hasan and they started having a series of conversations and meetings in early 2008, wondering - is it possible that Nidal Hasan is psychotic?

And, It basically means out of touch with reality, and if doctors are using this word, they mean it in that very specific, clinical way.

It was not you know, he was not sent, puzzling enough, to a mental evaluation, but what made them wonder if he was psychotic is that one thing is that they kept telling him over and over again - and I've gotten documents that show this - Nidal, youre doing a really bad job; ...academically you are just not cutting it. And he basically would blow them off and ignore them.

Here's the kicker to this story (which to my knowledge had almost NO impact today!

We should be clear - in fact its part of your story - that there was no formal psychiatric evaluation of this man. But still, you have doctors and colleagues who are very concerned about him. I mean what did they do about it?

ZWERDLING: They sat around trying to figure out where could we sent Nidal Hasan that would do the least harm? One psychiatrist said, you know, in the military there's a long tradition - when you have somebody who is a loser or is a failure or you're worried about, you try to create a job for them where they can, ...do as little harm as possible. And they decided, lets send him to Fort Hood.

Why Fort Hood? Because Fort Hood has a bigger mental health staff than most Army bases, and they thought, you know, at least if he goes to Fort Hood and he doesn't do anything of value, theres plenty of other people to pick up the slack. But number two, there will be lots of psychiatrists around there to help him and monitor him.

But one psychiatrist said to me, you know, we were sort of hoping he'd go to Fort Hood and disappear.

Hmmm....
Another conspiracy theory anyone?

Lou? care to comment on THIS?

Shout-Out: 8 yr old Finally granted Divorce from 50yr old husband

I kid you not..., and I repeat my headline"
Shout-Out: 8 yr old Finally granted Divorce from 50yr old husband

and it continues:
A court in the central Oneiza region previously rejected a request by the girl's mother for a divorce and ruled that the girl would have to wait until she reached puberty to file a petition then.

AP (Via ABC) reports: 8-year-old Saudi girl divorces husband, 50, after her father forces her to marry

You really don't think I could make these up, do you?

One Saudi human rights activist Sohaila Zain al-Abdeen was optimistic that the girl's divorce would help efforts to get a law passed enforcing a minimum marriage age of 18.

"Unfortunately, some fathers trade their daughters," she told The Associated Press. "They are weak people who are sometimes in need of money and forget their roles as parents."

Saudi Arabia's conservative Muslim clergy have opposed the drive to end child marriages. In January, the kingdom's most senior cleric said it was permissible for 10-year-old girls to marry and those who believe they are too young are doing the girls an injustice.

Anyone for some good Saudi Child Porn sites? (Just kidding!)

Shame-OUT: US Muslim 'allegedly' Beheads Wife IN USA

This goes down for an "'omg', I can't believe you are going to get away with murder" award.

Founder of TV network aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes accused of beheading wife in NY

Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan is accused of beheading his wife last week, days after she filed for divorce.

Hassan and his {NOW DECEASED wife} lived in Orchard Park — a well-off Buffalo suburb — and started Bridges TV there in 2004 with the aim of developing understanding between North America and the Middle East and South Asia. The network, available across the U.S. and Canada, was believed to be the first English-language cable station aimed at the rapidly growing Muslim demographic.

Paul Moskal, who worked for the FBI in Buffalo became friendly with the husband, when he was interviewed would on Bridges TV in shows that were intended to improve understanding between Muslim-Americans and law enforcement.

"His personal life kind of betrayed what he tried to portray publicly," Moskal said.

Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz said police had responded to domestic incidents involving the couple, most recently Feb. 6, the day the hysband was served with the divorce papers and an order of protection.
Six days later, Hassan went to a police station and told officers his wife was dead at the TV studio.

"We found her laying in the hallway outside the TV studio, his wife's head was near her body." the Police Chief said.

The New York president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Marcia Pappas, condemned prosecutors for referring to the death as an apparent case of domestic violence.

"This was, apparently, a terroristic version of 'honor killing,'" a statement from NOW said.

Nadia Shahram, who teaches family law and Islam at the University at Buffalo Law School, explained honor killing as a practice still accepted among fanatical Muslim men who feel betrayed by their wives.

"If a woman breaks the law which the husband or father has placed for the wife or daughter, honor killing has been justified," said Shahram, who was a regular panelist on a law show produced by Bridges TV. "It happens all the time. It's been practiced in countries such as Pakistan and in India."

NO it doesn't happen in the US of A, and NO it isn't appropriate HERE OR THERE...

Nancy Sanders, the TV station's news director for 2 1/2 years, remembers him asking her to move her feet during her job interview so he would not see her legs. She was wearing a skirt and stockings.

Sanders, who left the TV network a year ago, said co-workers traded stories about Hassan's apparent violent streak, including one which had him running his wife's car off the road while the couple's two young children were inside. Aasiya herself never spoke of it, she said. "I just do not feel it was an honor killing," Sanders added. "I think it was domestic abuse that got out of control."

I leave it for you to decide.

What would YOU do?