Lawyer: Ft. Hood Suspect Told No Praying

(AP)  An attorney for the man charged in the deadly shootings at Fort Hood says the Army has prohibited his client from praying in Arabic with his family.

Attorney John P. Galligan said police stopped a phone conversation between Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and his brother on Friday because it was not in English. Galligan told the San Antonio Express-News that police at Brooke Army Medical Center refused to let Hasan pray in Arabic.

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Galligan says he thinks that's illegal and a violation of Hasan's religious rights.

Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the Nov. 5 attack.

The military has imposed restrictions requiring Hasan to speak only in English on the phone or with visitors unless an interpreter is present.

[babooph]

About time this country stopped all this useless praying,look at the delusional Christians & their war & torture politics,with tax cuts for the rich....

[Empire-George-]

by CommentMaker December 22, 2009 10:30 AM EST

Please prevent this guy from any religious activity. That is what made him a killer
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ISLAM made him a killer, not religious activity per se.....you don't see Catholic nuns, gunning down 30 people, and any suggestion they do, is just insane or plain lying......You should read Wafa Sultan's new book "A God Who Hates" Islam is rotten in its very foundations and a danger wherever it spreads.

[displeased]

This seems to be a workplace shooting by someone who lost it and happens to be muslim. If this person was on a Jihad, don't you think he would have chosen a location where he could have taken out more people? Incidents like this don't cause me to fear muslims. It causes me to fear unstable people who can go off the deep end at any moment. I don't care what their background is.

Either way, this person needs to fry for his crime.

[SusanStoHelit]

I'd let him talk in whatever language makes him feel secure enough to let any secrets slip. Come on now - anyone really think this isn't recorded and analyzed? I'm sure we can have a translator translate everything.

[NowBeWithThat]

Let him pray. His god can't save him.

Hasan is going down.

[lilbear925]

I am still wondering why this scumbag is even still alive. He is guilty, as proven by the fact that he fired on people who survived and have identified him as the shooter. When he is "well enough" will the Army prosecute him and sentence him to death? Why not just take him out back and get it over with right now? There is no reason to treat him in a hospital. Just let him die now.

[SusanStoHelit]

We are a country of laws. We don't just kill people. And a trial will be a good thing - proves we obey our own laws, can open up any dark corners (did he have help? were warning signs ignored?) for us.

[from_the_north]

Why does he have a telephone???? Who pays the bill (long distance)?????

[Oregon_State_OSU]

Yeah no more Arabic or contact with his family.

[CommentMaker]

Has he changed gods? If not, keep in mind that the god he is praying to also told him to kill people. I don't think that is a right under Texas law.

[CommentMaker]

Please prevent this guy from any religious activity. That is what made him a killer.

[ksmit2]

This guy going through the motions of praying is so hypocritical,
it's ridiculus. People who are really sincere about praying don't go
around murdering people. He should have the photo's of the people he
murdered, displayed at all times in his room. He should be awakened
each morning by someone smacking him upside the head with the Koran.
Allowing this jerk to even have visitors is an insult to every victim
he has wronged. His lawyer should be his only visitor.

[Brokennews]

I think you are viewing this through a common sense filter.
In Islam, there's no greater glory than dying while attacking your perceived enemy. Islamists are just as dedicated & sincere to their prayer as they are to the slaughtering of infidels.