Fox News analyst ret. Lt. Col. Ralph Peters said today the shooting at Fort Hood happened because the Army was too politically correct and unwilling to investigate a "protected species" like alleged shooter Nidal Hasan.

"If this nutcase, this 'Mike Foxtrot' in Army terms, had been a white supremacist, he would've been gone long ago. But since he was a protected species, sort of a one-off Muslim psychiatrist officer, he got a pass again and again," Peters said.

You may remember Peters from this summer, when he suggested the Taliban should kill a captured U.S. soldier to save the U.S. "a lot of legal hassle" and calling the soldier a "deserter" who was "mentally disturbed."

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Today, Peters was back, listing his allegations against Hasan. He claimed Hasan gave "a lecture on the duty of Muslims to kill, to behead infidels" and "proselytize[d] Islam with returning vets. Oh, welcome home, guys and gals."

"He runs around in his little Islamist playsuit in central Texas," Peters continued. "He logs onto web sites, reportedly, this guy is praising suicide bombers on the web. He buys weapons and goes and shoots 51 unarmed people."

"And we're told not to rush to judgment, it might not have anything to do with Islam, it's not really terrorism? Give me a break," he went on.

He criticized Gen. George Casey, the chief of staff at the Army, for "addressing the issue at Fort Hood as though it's a traffic accident. He won't even use the word terrorism, let along Islamist terrorism."

Peters also urged journalists to "follow the money," claiming Hasan made "the equivalent of a six-figure income."