On June 1st of this year, there was an attack on U.S. soldiers by Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad (an American citizen also known as Carlos Leon Bledsoe) in Little Rock, Arkansas. Pvt. William Long was killed, and Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula was wounded. Based on the statements and the background of the killer, it was apparent to some of us that this attack ought to be considered “the first successful execution of an act of jihadist terrorism in the United States since September 11th, 2001.” (That’s allowing of-course for many foiled plots, and some cases, in particular that of the sniper John Allen Muhammad, that can be said at least to occupy a gray area.)

Of-course neither the media nor the current administration in Washington brought any focus on this event as being a jihadist attack or as being the result of a toxic ideology bearing deadly fruit within our own borders.

Among the many things we are now finding out regarding the history of Nidal Hassan, the Fort Hood jihadist, is the following:

Another red flag came in June after a soldier was fatally wounded by a Muslim convert at an Army recruiting center in Arkansas.

“He seemed happy about it,” said retired Col. Terry Lee, a former Fort Hood colleague. “He said maybe we should have more of these . . . People should strap bombs on themselves and go into Times Square.”

It is horrifying, and it ought to be horrifying, to contemplate the atmosphere of political correctness that allowed Nidal Hassan to believe — accurately! — that he could get away, even as a member of the U.S. military, with expressing any kind of agreement with this attack on U.S. soldiers in Little Rock in June of this year. The cost of this obscene level of political correctness can be measured by the number of bright and hopeful American heroes lying today in a morgue in Texas.

A few months after that attack in Little Rock for which he expressed sympathy, Nidal Hasan made his own carefully premeditated contribution to the same cause. To label this attack, like the one in June, the actions of just another deranged random shooter is to willfully ignore the reality of the arrival of this war within. In the same way, the war of Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda on the U.S. from without was mislabeled and misunderstood for years, and therefore never properly addressed, until the mass-death attacks of September 11th made what was occurring clear to everyone (albeit that many have now firmly regressed to a September 10th mentality).

A failure to understand and to characterize these kinds of attacks for what they are has consequences. It must end here.

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