Walid Phares: Major Nidal Hasan was not flagged because Washington has disarmed its own analysts with ideological blinders.

DUH!

RIA here but here are the money lines....

Jihadi Penetration: Part of a War - failures were about the military's ability to "stop foreign terrorists from using American soldiers against the United States."

Such a statement is extremely important, as it finally informs the public that the U.S. personnel roster is indeed being infiltrated and recruited by foreign jihadists, who are described politically by the administration as "extremists." Hence, the first logical conclusion from that finding is that jihadi networks are performing acts of war (and thus of terrorism) against U.S. defense assets and personnel in the homeland. This warrants the reevaluation of the conflict and a re-upgrading of it to a state of war, even though it would still need to be determined "with whom."
Self-Radicalization - Secretary Gates said that "military supervisors are not properly focused on the threat posed by self-radicalization and need to better understand the behavioral warning signs." He added that "extremists are changing their tactics in an attempt to hit the United States. Unfortunately, the Bush and Obama administrations were both poorly advised by their experts. They were told, wrongly, that if they try to identify a "doctrine," then they will be meddling with a religion. Academic and cultural advisers of the various U.S. agencies and offices (the majority of them, at least) failed their government by triggering a fear of theological entanglement. To the surprise of our Arab and Muslim allies in the region, who know how to detect the jihadist narrative, Washington disarmed its own analysts when bureaucrats of the last two years banned references to the very ideological indicators that could enable our analysts to detect the radicalization threat.

And it is not about "extreme religious views" as much as it is about an ideology. If Arabs and Muslims can identify it in the Middle East, why can't Americans also? It is simply because jihadi propaganda has already penetrated our advising body and fooled many of our decision-makers into dropping the ideological parameters.
The Strategic Threat Ahead -The report raises "serious questions" about whether the military is prepared for similar attacks, particularly "multiple, simultaneous incidents." -- not just in terms of terrorizing the public, but in the framework of a chain of strikes widening gradually until it would evolve to coordinated, simultaneous attacks. In 2006-2007, I served on the then Task Force on Future Terrorism of the Department of Homeland Security and developed an analysis clearly showing the path to come. My briefings to several entities and agencies in the defense sector clearly argued that implanting, growing, and triggering homegrown jihadists to strike at U.S. national security is at the heart of the enemy's strategy.

In facing this mushrooming threat, not only do we lack a detection capacity to counter it, but we have been induced in error to adopt policies opposite to those suitable to our national defense. The misleading advice that the U.S. government relied on is deeply responsible for the failure to stop and counter radicalization.

But even in the face of all this, many show their main concern for is for backlash, which in many cases is an imaginary fear.

HAT TIP TO ANONYMOUS:

From WRCR's local site :
MAN WITH KNIFE ARRESTED AFTER ENTERING ORANGETOWN SCHOOL
Police arrested a Connecticut man yesterday after he allegedly walked into a South Orangetown school carrying a knife. Twenty-three year-old Abdulrahim Sulaiman of Bridgeport reportedly entered the lobby of the Tappan Zee Elementary School before 8 a.m. and left after being stopped by school officials. Orangetown police say he was carrying a switchblade-like gravity knife when they arrested him at a nearby convenience store. No one was injured in the school or during the arrest. Sulaiman is due in court February 3rd to answer misdemeanor weapons and trespassing charges.

and more HERE

What's it going to take before we examine the ROOT of what the Quran inspires? Something at least in the present we APPARENTLY DO NOT SEE from within the Old or New Testament, or in Buddhism, or virtually any other major religion present within our borders.

How long until we identify what IS religious,
protected speech and beliefs and what is not?

How long until we have the discussion frankly and
in a fashion all can participate in
WITHOUT FEAR?