According to news sites across the nation including: CNN, USA Today, and Fox, Nidal Malik Hasan was responsible for what is believed to be the biggest massacre to ever take place on a military base. Thursday Nov. 5, 2009 Hasan walked onto Ft. Hood with two unregistered guns and fired over 100 shots leaving 11 dead and 38 wounded.

Hearing many interviews with classmates and colleagues Hasan starts to sound more like a terrorist rather than a man with only some mental problems. It seems ironic that someone in the U.S military appears to be a terrorist while we have troops in countries trying to solve conflict involving terrorism.

Earning his rank of major in April 2008, Hasan was scheduled to deploy with the next group of soldiers going to Iraq. His wish was to be discharged, and that wish came true when he decided that shooting up the base at Ft. Hood would be a good idea.

After reading an article which investigators talked to a classmate of Hasan, my suspicion has grown. The classmate said that Hasan "viewed the war against terror" as a "war against Islam." Also one of Hasan’s old professors mentioned that Hasan admitted during a lesson that he was "a Muslim first and an American second." And if that wasn’t shady enough, relatives validated that information in an interview.

"Hasan felt mistreated as a Muslim in the army, he was discriminated against and not treated as fitting for an American officer," said Mohammad Malik Hasan, a cousin of Nidal Hasan. "He hired a lawyer to get him a discharge."

When a soldier wants a discharge for no other reason than his religion you know that it is a problem. It doesn’t make sense to keep someone in the military who acts as if they do not want to be part of it.

The last bit of evidence that was found in Hasan’s apartment was a stack of business cards that below his name read the letters "SoA". These letters have been linked to the words "soldier of Allah," groups of people who are in the U.S military but are fighting for the opposite of what our country is fighting for. One may ask, is it wrong for someone to say they are a Christian first and an American second, or what about Jewish first and American second? If you are in the U.S military you are government property. For the same reason teachers at public schools are not allowed to wear shirts that say "Jesus is my savior" soldiers should not be able to devote themselves to religion over state/nation.

According to the Koran, 4.93 states: And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his punishment is hell; he shall abide in it, and Allah will send his wrath on him and curse him and prepare for him a painful chastisement. That section should be enough to prove the controversy of Religion vs. Country. If a person is devoted to Allah and the Koran it seems that this Muslim would be unwilling to fight countries that contain other Muslims. According to CNN.com, 1 in 4 people worldwide is Muslim. Virtually this Muslim-American-Solider, or should I say SoA, serves no purpose in being part of the U.S army if he or she is spiritually unable to kill any one of these persons within that 25% of Muslims world-wide, without "going to hell."

This is not to suggest that Muslims should not be allowed in the U.S. army. On the contrary many Muslims have fought loyally and died for our country. This editorial seeks to emphasize the fact that the military should have realized that this guy was an extremist and discharged him from the army to prevent the killing spree that occurred at Ft. Hood.

After reading biography upon biography of Nidal Malik Hasan, it’s puzzling that he lasted in the army and earned the rank that he did. It is scary that a man like this was part of the U.S. Army. It is even scarier that he was a Major in the U.S. Army. It is ironic that we are fighting a war on terror overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it is almost contradictory that a person who shares the same beliefs as theses terrorist groups was even in the Army let alone a Major.

According to the Washington Post, the FBI knew about a contract that Hasan had with a radical Muslim cleric in Yemen who encouraged Muslims to kill U.S. troops in Iraq. It is sick that the FBI did not do anything about the situation. Now a year later President Obama is trying to dig up evidence on a criminal and get to the bottom of a crime that has left 13 heroic people dead. I understand that the Army cannot discriminate against religion but when a war is going on across the world and blood is being shed because of Muslim Extremists. There were plenty of red flags over the past five years. People knew that Hasan had problems, whether they were mental or strictly he was "zealously obsessed with his religion" It is hard to believe that Hasan got as far as he did and had the opportunity to go on his killing rampage without anyone stopping him sooner.