Lawyer: Fort Hood Suspect's Prayers Prohibited

Updated 11:45 PM CDT, Mon, Dec 21, 2009

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The 2007 picture provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences shows Nidal Malik Hasan when he entered the program for his Disaster and Military Psychiatry Fellowship.

A defense attorney for the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly shooting 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 one of his brothers Friday because it was not in English.

Galligan told the San Antonio Express-News on Monday that police at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio refused to let Hasan pray in Arabic from the Quran with his brother.

The attorney says he thinks that's illegal and violation of 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 all communication during visits be in English or be delayed until an interpreter is present.

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First Published: Dec 21, 2009 11:29 PM CDT

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Those people he killed can't pray anymore, either."},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396489_79874842","adminTags":null,"views":14,"createdBy":7918844,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"Lawyer: Fort Hood Suspect's Prayers Prohibited","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":3041836,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"22 Dec 2009 08:49:48 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":10,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"anonymous_user","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"1448575","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"When you care more about a terrorists rights than you do American lives. You are a scum bag."},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396489_79874842","adminTags":null,"views":14,"createdBy":10734672,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"Lawyer: Fort Hood Suspect's Prayers Prohibited","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":3041836,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"22 Dec 2009 14:23:57 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":10,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"guntoter","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"1449455","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"With two wars going on in the middle east why doesn't the army have someone who can speak Arabic to listen in on his phone conversations? What the heck is the army training the translators to speak?"},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396489_79874842","adminTags":null,"views":14,"createdBy":13817165,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"Lawyer: Fort Hood Suspect's Prayers Prohibited","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":3041836,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"22 Dec 2009 14:50:02 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":10,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"thenitenurse","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"1449667","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"While I hold very little sympathy for the guy he does fit the profile of every dude that has ever done a mass shooting. A loner, not able to get a woman, and mad at the world because of it. I'm just mad he's getting free healthcare when the rest of America can't get squat for healthcare. I guess we all need to become criminals to get decent healthcare."},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396489_79874842","adminTags":null,"views":14,"createdBy":7918844,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"Lawyer: Fort Hood Suspect's Prayers Prohibited","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":3041836,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"22 Dec 2009 15:03:51 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":10,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"anonymous_user","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"1449798","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"You know - when we stop caring about the rights of the least among us - there will be no one to care when our rights are abrogated. This man committed a heinous act - but would any of you stand for the government taking away your right to pray? Perhaps he was asking for forgiveness? Can anyone legally deny him that? 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Let's expedite his departure from this earth asap and get it over with."},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396489_79874842","adminTags":null,"views":14,"createdBy":9778917,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"Lawyer: Fort Hood Suspect's Prayers Prohibited","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":3041836,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"22 Dec 2009 20:17:56 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":10,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"member1","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"1452623","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"Maybe he sould ask forgivness IN ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!"},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396489_79874842","adminTags":null,"views":14,"createdBy":12390815,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"Lawyer: Fort Hood Suspect's Prayers Prohibited","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":3041836,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"22 Dec 2009 21:28:20 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":10,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"katied791","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"1453195","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"It is clearly stated that phone calls are required to take place in English. His right to pray was not being taken away, he was simply violating the "English" rule."},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396489_79874842","adminTags":null,"views":14,"createdBy":18940729,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"Lawyer: Fort Hood Suspect's Prayers Prohibited","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":3041836,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"22 Dec 2009 23:03:49 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":10,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"serrano","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"1453924","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"I agree with Member1. Why do you feel sorry for this person who killed innocent people that fight for our rights. Any person that kills anyone else does not deserve any rights themselves. "},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396489_79874842","adminTags":null,"views":14,"createdBy":18940775,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"Lawyer: Fort Hood Suspect's Prayers Prohibited","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":3041836,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"22 Dec 2009 23:16:57 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":10,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"natas666","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"1454009","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"You know, half you people are idiots for being thrilled about this. If your son or daughter were in jail and not allowed to pray with you, you'd be mad about it. This country gives us the right to practice whatever religion we want, and to deny him his prayers is bullsh*t. Now I don't support him or what he did, but he is in our custody and as Americans, we should support his rights to practice. This isn't some 3rd world country and half you people are so hung up on religion and rights, I don't get it when you want to deny his. As a veteran, I was p*ssed at what he did, but I served this country to give him the freedom to pray. Why don't you do something to make this country great and quit b**ching about what he does with his family. "}],"error":"","totPages":2}

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