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Here is a simple question, if Hasan did say the U.S. "deserved" 9/11 like the fear mongers in this thread are trying to twist his words into and he meant it the way y'all claim he did, wouldn't he still be calling for more terrorism against the U.S.?

If Hasan isn't actively calling for terrorism... what made him stop? Does he think the score was settled and it is back to U.S.-50 points vs Radical Islam -50 points on the scoreboard?

No, Hasan is clearly making a point about how blowback from brutal imperial practices becomes nearly inveitable after a certain point, the use of "deserve" he is to denote how in a system where people act as political representatives of groups and derive power from publicly representing them, the more one group commits violence against another group the more likely the group of victims are to retaliate with force.

To make the logical jump that this must mean that Hasan wants more 9/11s to happen to the U.S. where random U.S. citizens are indiscriminately killed as a symbol for something they do not control is disengenous to the extreme, and I have said elsewhere in this thread, a step in an extremely dangerous direction for the health and free speech of our society.

If you actively do something to someone, and have the prior knowledge to know what their response will be, you deserve that obvious response. If you antagonize another perpetually, you deserve their strike back. It's not hard to follow, we literally teach this to toddlers. Violence and hate begets violence and hate, and people can only take so much before snapping.

The only people who don't get it are maladjusted humans who were sheltered from consequences in the past.

They worked under the US, and reaped the benefits of our imperialist actions. obviously no one deserves to be murdered, but we are all culpable for the violence our nation commits, because we're the ones keeping it running. The US deserved retaliation for what it partook in during the cold war, and that retaliation was never going to only include guilty parties.

EDIT: let me put it in another perspective: if you went to a foreign nation which operated on slavery, started working there, enjoyed the goods and services provided to you by the enslaved, and socialized with the enslavers, why would you ever expect sympathy from the enslaved? You chose who to help, who to do business with, and you chose the enslavers. It really doesn't matter if you talked about slavery being fucked up behind closed doors, you enjoyed the value ripped from the enslaved. You're now just as culpable as the enslavers.

Edit 2: made some edits communicating some further nuance regarding the subject. 9/11 was a tragedy, but it is largely overshadowed by the sheer scale of death our conflict with the Middle-East has had.

He is still allowed to go on the internet and say those things, according to the first amendment, and this attempt to threaten him about it is horrifying whatever his opinions are. What part of “I get to say whatever the fuck I want because those are my opinions” doesn’t make sense here?

While you scrutinize the finer points of morality relating to the detainment of sailors as part of an economic blockade, Israel is intentionally starving millions of children. Your priorities are so out of whack it's absurd that you don't recognize it. You don't have to support the Houthis to acknowledge that their economic blockade of Israel is justified. If engaging in that level of nuance makes me a terrorist in your eyes, you've completely lost the plot.

Besides, the word terrorist has always been used by the US as a propaganda tool to paint specific militant groups that are enemies of US empire as barbaric and inhuman. If the basic definition of terrorism were applied fairly across the board then the IDF and US military would be considered the most prolific terrorists and the US and Israel the largest state sponsors of terror. The standard of violence is set by the oppressors.

"I think what the houthis are doing is a good thing" -Hasan

That's pretty vague. If I said I support what America does, that doesn't necessarily mean I support the worst actions the state has ever taken.

Hasan is a terrorist supporter as evident by the above direct quotes.

Again, just because a group ends up on a terrorist list doesn't really mean much besides that they're currently unaligned with US interest. The "terrorist" dogma has really lost its bite since the war on terror began.