The armies of Turkey and the Arab Middle East have developed lean six sigma methods to deal with extremists in the ranks, according to Melik Kaylan:
In most Muslim countries, the military would not dither over the issue. In Turkey, for example, the armed forces impose a strictly secular ethos on their personnel. Over the years, scores of stealthy Islamists have been identified and unceremoniously booted out for trying to proselytize fellow soldiers and generally undermine the army’s values. In less-forgiving countries like Syria, such offenders tend to disappear without a trace or get funneled clandestinely into terror cells for missions abroad.
In places like Algeria, Egypt and Libya, Muslim officers watch over their Muslim conscripts with relentless scrutiny lest any unscripted forms of freelance worship sneak into the picture. Their prisons are full of Muslim Brotherhood conspirators undergoing torture–if they haven’t already disappeared into secret graves. In Saddam’s military, turbulent believers often went straight to the frontlines during the Iran-Iraq war. Others found that their views rebounded onto the limbs and lives of family members in the most palpable of ways.
If he’s right, then a nutter like Major Hasan is safer in the US Army than he would be among the armies of the Umma.
Although clearly, such protections did not extend to his comrades in arms here.
Only slightly OT… I had the opportunity to observe Turkish Army discipline first hand back in the ’70s when I was stationed at Sinop CDI on Turkey’s Black Sea coast. We had a detachment of askeris (probably company sized) co-located with us on the base, their parade ground and barracks were about 100 feet beyond the wire, directly outside my barracks room window. My roomie and I used to watch the morning open ranks inspection through our window… and you don’t wanna know how many times I saw some young asker repeatedly smacked upside the head and dropped to his knees for God-Only-Knows-What, accompanied by much shouting from the inspecting NCO while the inspecting officer stepped away coolly to the next man in ranks. The Turks just don’t fool around, at ALL.
Hasan should be shot, or allowed to “dance Danny Deaver.”