Fort Hood Jihadist Faces Death — Now Washington Must Purge Its Policy of Lies
5th October 2026
Sixteen years after his deadly rampage at Fort Hood, the United States Army is preparing to formally recommend the execution of Islamist terrorist Nidal Hasan — at last.
President Donald Trump, when he receives that request, should swiftly order Hasan’s death: That would be necessary justice.
But it will not absolve our government for its years-long policy of lies and euphemisms surrounding Islamic radicalism that empowered Hasan to kill 13 service members — a policy that began under President George W. Bush and continued through the Obama and Biden administrations.
Fort Hood was not an unexpected “tragedy.”
It was a preventable act of jihad, made possible by institutions that treated the truth about Islamist violence as more dangerous than the violence itself.
Hasan, an Army major who was given preferential treatment solely because of his Muslim religion and Arab ethnicity, murdered 13 Americans and wounded 33 others at Fort Hood, Tex., on Nov. 5, 2009.