Nidal Hasan: Fort Hood's Danny Deever

Some parallels to a famous poem by Rudyard Kipling.

Civis Americanus | October 19, 2026

They are hangin’ Danny Deever, you must mark ’im to ’is place,

For ’e shot a comrade sleepin’—you must look ’im in the face;

Nine ’undred of ’is county an’ the Regiment’s disgrace,  

While they’re hangin’ Danny Deever in the mornin’.

Rudyard Kipling's Danny Deever is about the execution of a soldier who, for some unknown reason, murdered an unsuspecting and defenseless comrade; a cowardly act of treachery that Nidal Hasan committed many times over at Fort Hood.

The difference is that Deever was probably hanged within days of his crime, while Hasan has been allowed to live seventeen years after his.

This underscores a major problem with capital punishment. If the perpetrator is guilty, he or she should not be allowed to live out a substantial portion of his or her life before the sentence is carried out. If the perpetrator is innocent, he or she should not have to spend decades in prison waiting for appeals, reviews, and exoneration. The latter is not an issue in Hasan's case because he not only admitted that he did it, he bragged about it while calling himself a "Soldier of Allah."

Nidal Hasan, and fellow murderer Hasan Karim Akbar, are indeed shahids, or witnesses, to the depraved violent filth they call Islam. Notice that I said "what they call Islam," as opposed to Islam as practiced by, for example, Mohammad Salman Hamdani who died trying to help people in the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001.

Allah, as envisioned by Hasan and Akbar, is a liar, oath breaker, traitor, and treacherous assassin. If that depiction of Allah isn't blasphemy, I don't know what is, but that is what these depraved monsters call Islam's deity. The same goes for Hamas, al-Qaida, ISIS, and Iran's ayatollahs, all of whom........

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