Prosecute Jihadism

Nearly four years ago, Army Major Nidal Hasan shouted the jihadist battle cry “Allahu akhbar” as he murdered thirteen of our countrymen. His trial for the Fort Hood massacre finally begins today, an indictment of the way we are fighting such enemies.

For starters, Hasan is on trial for “workplace violence,” not terrorism, let alone jihad. He has been allowed to appear with a shariah-adherent Muslim’s beard, in direct violation of Army regulations.

We have yet to learn how Hasan’s superiors ignored abundant warnings that his devotion to the Islamist doctrine of shariah made him a ticking time-bomb.  It is past time that Hassan is punished for his act of jihad.  But those whose willful blindness enabled it – and is putting the rest of us at risk – must be held accountable, too.