The Price of Oil and the Massacre at Fort Hood

The relationship between the price of oil and the slaughter that took place at Fort Hood is hardly as far-fetched as it would appear. In an instructive article that was reprinted as an Op-ed in the NY Post on Saturday Nov 7, one Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, Executive Director of the Center of Islamic Pluralism, talks about the influences that apparently formed Major Nidal Hassan's murderous hatred.

This in striking contrast to the New York Times' "see no evil" editorial of the same date, which pontificates, "But until investigations are complete, no one can begin to imagine what could possibly have motivated the latest appalling carnage." Really?! The Times, undeterred, continues with an article on today's front page, "A Military Therapist's World: Long Hours, Filled With Pain" replete with the sad song of twisted rationalizations, instructing us that this horrendous act was attributable to professional traumatic stress or, as brightly cited in the Times, "Thursday's rampage has put a spotlight on the srtains of their profession and the patients they treat."

Then, in an adjoining article on the same NY Times front page, "Preliminary Fort Hood Inquiry Turns Up No Link To Terrorist Plot," the NY Times is quick to advise us, "But, so far, investigators have unearthed no evidence that he was directed or steered into violence." Then, perhaps in some deference to journalistic objectivity, mentioned almost in passing, it says that findings were preliminary and that investigators viewed the investigation as fluid.

No such mealy mouthed hesitancy in the Schwartz Op-ed. Here we are informed that Hasan regularly attended prayer services at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, MD, where the main prayer leader, Iman Faizul Khan, was a friend of Hasan's as well as holding board membership on the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). The ISNA, according to Schwartz, is the main Wahhabi lobby group in the United States and has a long and disgraceful record of promoting radical Islam. He goes on to advise that it is a group understood to have been established by Saudi Arabia to impose extremism on American Muslims.

He continues, telling us that "from a ghastly act, to a Saudi-backed fundamentalist Iman, to a Saudi run designated terror financing charity is not a long trail. That is but a small coil of associations that exist in too many US mosques." He rightfully concludes that American Muslims must drive these elements out of their community. "The problem is not traumatic stress, much less Islam. It's the ideology, the money and and the interests of the Saudi hardliners."

And almost needless to add, the funding comes from the avalanche of money flowing into the coffers of such as Saudi Arabia through the insidious and duplicitous manipulation of oil prices by the cartel producers, with Saudi Arabia as the dominant player and prime beneficiary. This at the cost of hundreds of billions to American consumers in dollars and cents alone, without even beginning to fathom the cost and danger to our society, safety and well-being impacted by the radicalization of a segment of our society through Wahhabi dogma while our government and its agencies look the other way, rarely if ever holding the Saudis to account.

Perhaps, just perhaps, in tribute and memory to those who were gunned down at Fort Hood, this could be a wake-up call to the nation.

 

Comments

[GetAbike]

Ah Raymond, mayhaps this diversion from reasoned analysis, is a portent of the slippery slope we will now embark upon.
And like OBL, this sort of thinking is what he intended.

[GetAbike]

I meant to write
And like OBL,_ MAYBE_ this sort of thinking is what he intended.

[kristykershaw]

As my colleague over at HeatingOil.com pointed out today, (http://www.heatingoil.com/blog/opinion-is-the-ft-hood-shooting-connected-to-oil-prices119/) this theory is pretty unfair. Without being able to prove Hasan's connection to Saudi Wahhabism, the link between the shootings and Saudi oil wealth is very thin.

Also, to act as if Saudi Arabia has the monopoly on oil is to ignore the fact that most of U.S. oil doesn't even come from Saudi Arabia, but from Canada. It seems to me that we should wait until the facts are in on the Fort Hood shooting, as opposed to reacting out of emotion and immediately jumping on any possible link with Islamic extremism.

Kristy Kershaw
Contributing Writer
http://www.heatingoil.com

[JBVT]

Ah,

Those ever zany Muslims....

[bighat]

Strange title to the article. I was quite ready to rip into your words with hopefully witty insults and wonder if you are sane.

But I read the article. Believe there is one thing that the majority of U.S. citizens could agree on. We do not understand the Middle East. Not their culture, religion, or politics.

Maybe we should return to basics. We want oil. They want to sell oil.

If. U.S. companies decide to work in the middle east let them do it at their own peril and profit. We have the worst govt negotiators. They are aabout as effective as U.N. sanctions except they always end up giving money to someone while getting nothing in return (generally not even pledges to do better) and of course what seems to be the greatest subsidy of all - the U.S. Armed Forces..

We should bring the troops home. Buy the oil on the open market.

Use our analysts to predict what China and Russia are up to. Let the middle east play their own games against each other.

We should stop playing parents to the world and giving all the children an allowance and certainly should stop all pretensions of being the world's policeman.

[Overtone]

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[bighat]

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