Posted by
Billy on Monday, December 28, 2009 12:36:40 PM
The
San Antonio Express-News recently reported that
Hasan's attorney, John P. Galligan, claims the Army is violating his client's
religious rights because it prohibited him from praying from the Koran in Arabic
with a relative. Hasan was reportedly on the phone with his brother when the
guard cut the conversation short because the suspect was not speaking English.
The military has restricted Hasan to only speaking English to visitors or on the
phone, unless an Army-approved translator is present.
"It's very common for Islamic jihadists to claim victim status when they're in
prison," notes Robert Spencer, director of
Jihad Watch. "Part of the al
Qaeda playbook is that they should always claim that they have been tortured,
whatever the truth may be."
In Spencer's opinion, Galligan's claims are at fault. "It's reprehensible for
this lawyer to be demanding that Nidal Hasan be given free and unrestricted
access to the ideology that led him to commit those murders," he argues. "It
would be like saying that a Nazi war criminal has to have a copy of Mein
Kampf in his jail cell."