Doctors who crossed paths with Hasan in medical programs paint a picture of a subpar student who wore his religious views on his sleeve, CNN reports:
Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who faces 13 counts of premeditated murder, “was clearly espousing Islamist ideology” during his time as a medical student at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, one of his former classmates told CNN.
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His presentations for school were often laced with extremist Muslim views, one source said.“Is your allegiance to Sharia law or the United States?” students once challenged Hasan, the source said.
“Sharia law,” Hasan responded, according to the source.
The incident was corroborated by another doctor who was present.
The source recalled another instance in which Hasan was asked if the U.S. Constitution was a brilliant document. Hasan replied, “No, not particularly,” according to the source.
The former classmate told CNN that he voiced concerns about Hasan to supervisors at the school.
A second former medical school colleague of Hasan said several people raised concerns about Hasan’s overall competence.
Even though Hasan earned his medical degree and residency, some of his fellow students believed Hasan “didn’t have the intellect” to be in the program and was not academically rigorous in his coursework.
Hasan “was not fit to be in the military, let alone in the mental health profession,” this classmate told CNN. “No one in class would ever have referred a patient to him or trusted him with anything.”
The first classmate echoed this sentiment.Hasan was “coddled, accommodated and pushed through that masters of public health despite substandard performance,” the classmate said. He was “put in the fellowship program because they didn’t know what to do with him.”
The second classmate said he witnessed at least two of Hasan’s PowerPoint discussions that included what he described as extremist views.
In these presentations, which were supposed to be about health, Hasan justified suicide bombings and spoke about the persecution of Muslims in the Middle East, in the United States and in the U.S. military, the source said.
Some in the crowd rolled their eyes or muttered under their breath, he said, and others were clearly uncomfortable.
Those in the audience, which included program supervisors, did not loudly object to Hasan’s presentations, but did complain to their higher-ups afterward.
The supervisors expressed “appreciation, understanding and agreement” that the complaints would be discussed, but it was unclear what action, if any, came, the source said.
(Hat tip to Steve Sailer, who says, Affirmative action strikes again.)