@engineer,
"They" deigned to address his Islamist beliefs when they had no choice but to. The UK media and FOX were eating their journalistic lunch.
What though was their first impulse?
If it had been:
"This is wild and crazy **** and no one can draw a conclusion on the same day as the bastard went on a killing spree", I would be far less outraged, but that isn't the story we got from the mainstream, liberal media. Right off the bat, they leapt to their preferred explanation: Veterans are damaged goods and so it only follows that someone exploring their psyches will be damaged. The Major's religious beliefs were entirely immaterial.
If a "balanced picture" is emerging in the MSM (and I would argue that it is not) then it is only because they have been forced to acknowledge the facts other sources have developed.
For this entire week I have, on a daily basis, reviewed
1) National Review
2) The New Republic
3) The Nation
4) FOX News
5) CNN News
6) The NY Times
Only #1 and #2 have run a story on this topic every day.
If the others covered the story it was to criticize Islamaphobic fools like me for jumping to conclusions.
This is a fact and if you're really sincere in your claim that the liberal media is presenting an objective view of the incident, I am happy to do the research in these sources' archives to prove you wrong, as long as you attempt the same to prove me wrong.
The liberal, mainstream media's coverage of this story, while utterly infuriating, is merely a reflection of the truly dangerous forces of thought at work in this country.
Only an idiot (similar to the ones who continue to insist Iran is seeking nuclear power for peaceful, civilian purposes) would argue that there is not clear and obvious evidence that Hasan is a jihadist.
How much evidence do we need to tell us this guy was a terrorist act waiting to happen?
The truly depressing reality is that everyone who came into contact with Hasan knew or confidently suspected that he was an Islamist and capable of grave acts, and yet the System let him flow on through to his murderous rampage.
Why?
Morons at the switch? Perhaps.
More likely it was intelligent people whose decision making was crippled by the oppression of PC Thought.
Why would anyone not report, to their superiors, someone who did what Hasan did when he was asked to speak before his colleagues on technical matters? Instead of boring them all with tech-talk, he scared them all with talk about beheading infidels; pour boiling oil down their throats and sending them off to the fires of hell.
Why would anyone not report such an extreme experience?
There is only one answer: They were afraid that by so doing they would suffer a greater personal penalty.
This sort of fear isn't foolishly manufactured; it is developed through organizational messages, approved by the Top.
If this doesn't scare the pants off of every American, it should.
Does anyone believe the Military is more concerned with PC than the rest of our government?
If the Militaries concern for PC was fetid enough to allow this murderous jihadist to execute is extremist intentions, what can we expect from the DOJ, Homeland Security, and the White House?
Again I ask:
Wasn’t 9/11 enough? Do we need an even more horrendous event to set us straight?
Aren’t 13 dead and 30 wounded, horrific enough? What is the magic calculus that will allow us to accept the threat of the Islamists: Seven or more co-conspirators killing 1,000 or more innocents?
What is this absurd comfort with the “lone wolf” scenario? Here in Dallas a, presumably, “lone wolf” terrorist proved he was willing and able to push a button that could easily have killed thousands. Thank God, the Feds were wise to him, but there is no doubt, what-so-ever, that if he had aligned himself with fellow jihadists, instead of the FBI, he would have blown up a major office building in Dallas.
Are you that sanguine that the FBI is going to catch all of these miscreants before they can actually strike?
They didn’t catch Hasan.
He chose to be a martyr for Islam through
minimal death and destruction: 43 dead and wounded. What if he had grander plans and found a way to kill thousands?
Couldn’t happen because that would take planning and he was a spontaneous nut!
Right.
We don’t need to round up and intern every Muslim in America.
We don’t even need to monitor the communications and activities of every Muslim in America.
We do need, when we find evidence of a jihadist, to put aside PC concerns and devote our attention to saving American lives (Christian, Jewish, Buddhist
and Muslim).
Muslims died in the World Trade Towers on 9/11 and Hasan could have and would have just as easily shot Muslim members of the Army as any of the infidels he sought to exterminate.
Wake up.
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