Attorney Claims Religious Rights of Ft. Hood Shooting Suspect Are Being Infringed

According to Monday's San Antonio Express News, the attorney for accused Ft. Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan says that his client's free exercise rights are being infringed. The Muslim psychiatrist who is charged with killing 13 is subject to pre-trial conditions that require him to speak only in English with his visitors at Brooke Army Medical Center or in phone calls, unless an Army-approved translator is present. Invoking this, police guarding Hasan cut short a Friday telephone conversation he was having with his brother. Lawyer John P. Galligan says that Hasan was praying from the Qur'an in Arabic in the phone call that was cut short.