Posted on 11/06/2009 5:26:33 AM PST by boughtwithaprice
Thursday's shootings at Fort Hood army base in Texas — which have left at least 11 people dead and 31 others wounded — were of course the "horrific outburst of violence" that President Obama bemoaned and condemned Thursday.
But, because a soldier identified as the gunman had a name that led to the presumption that he was Muslim, the incident inspired an all-too-predictable outbreak of Islamophobia.
News reports named the man who used two handguns in the assault on his fellow soldiers at a base that is a prime point of departure for troops headed to Iraq and Afghanistan as Major Malik Nidal Hasan. The major, who was wounded during the incident, was reportedly a psychiatrist who had served in the Department of Psychology at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress at the Bethesda Naval Facility in Bethesda, Maryland, before his transfer to Fort Hood. Hours after the incident, and hours after news anchors and politicians cited his religion as an explanation for the shootings, a family member told reporters Major Hasan was indeed a Muslim.
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A phobia is an irraltional fear. It is not irrational to fear a murdering cult that commits random acts of extreme violence.
All you need to know about the writer's sentiments.
National Pinko Radio strikes again!
ALLAHU AKBAR!
“Phobia”?????
Nothing irrational about being concerned with homocidal maniacs.
Does everyone forget the Twin Towers falling?????
Yes, of course, we Americans are just so awful with our Islamophobia.
When the rest of the world hangs actual Americans, it's an understandable outburst. When a few people let off steam on message boards? Oh, it's the lowest moment since...well, the McCarthy era! (Which was of course the lowest moment anywhere, ever.)
Where’s the BARF alert
All you need to know about the writer's sentiments.
As Laura Ingraham would say: "But Monkey."
“Invokes”??? How about STOKES!!???
more like Americaphobia
Fort Hood,
Gun Free Zone
(terrorists exempt)
They better not fear Muslims. I'm much more of a threat to these self-hating s***bags.
See?
It's OUR fault.
Yep. Muslims commit random acts of extreme violence over and over and over. Meanwhile, other members of the cult rejoice in the streets and Liberal media outlets continue to whistle past the graveyard.....
No Shiit Sherlock.
Hard to believe this guy skated through the military system without somebody figuring it out.
Too much political correctness?
There’s a reason NPR has to be supported by tax dollars...
Those people are nuts!
NPR and other left wing nut media have Americaphobia...can you guys believe the crap these guys spew and to think they actually do believe it!
No matter that witnesses have this Islamic terrorist saying Allah Akbar just before opening fire...no matter that there are witnesses who said he was for the Muslims attacking Americans...
I see NPR is fully up to speed.
Shouting “allahu akhbar” while you’re shooting the place up tends to narrow down the motive.
Idiots.
no where else will you see such useful idiots as in the media. Do they think they will be safe from having to convert? Do they feel that they will be relevant? Have they not yet realized that when they come for us, there will be no one left to hide behind?
They must feel superior and smug. The people being attacked are the ones who pose the threat-finances and our military. I guess these people do not have the ability to look ahead as to the end game. When there is no one left who is not considered an infidel, they will no longer be needed.......
Just because 99.9999% of all cowardly acts of heinous murder are committed by one religious group, there is no reason to profile them. We need to accept more into our country and beg them for forgiveness and don’t call them no “sand jockey”.
Always the fear of Islamophobia, never Christianophobia. No agenda here....
mods are welcome to add it!
THE ENEMY WITHIN.
Folks, this is what it sounds and looks like.
>>But, because a soldier identified as the gunman had a name that led to the presumption that he was Muslim, the incident inspired an all-too-predictable outbreak of Islamophobia.<<
Oh, and he also yelled “allah akbar” before the shooting.
Oh, and he was also handing out copies of the Koran before that.
I could go on and on. NPR is dumb - or at least thinks we are.
Gee, I must have missed that story about the thousands of Christian students at nearby the Baylor University who took to the streets randomly attacking muslims, burning muslim leaders in effigy and proclaiming death sentences for all muslims.
oh yeah. That’s cause that didn’t happen - like it did in Afghanistan when there was a false rumor that some military people burned a koran.
Fox News host Shepard Smith asked Senator Hutchison on air: "The name tells us a lot, does it not, senator?"
Hutchinson's response? "It does. It does, Shepard."
Neither Smith nor Hutchison had any information to suggest that Major Hasan's name offered even the slightest shred of information regarding the incident at Fort Hood.
"I'm sad for those killed and wounded by a traitor to both God and our country, and I regret that I even feel that I have to write something on the subject. Words cannot express my emotions and the instant headache I received when notified by my dear sister Sheila Musaji over at The American Muslim (TAM) concerning the alleged culprit," wrote Salaam, who served in the Marine Corps, within minutes after learning the gunman's name. "They have not yet released further details such as the motive but I will state for the record that no true Muslim could ever commit such a crime against humanity. As Muslims we are reminded that to take one innocent life is as if one killed all of mankind. Muslims are also commanded to keep their oaths when given."
So, basically, anyone who's white, or not muslim (small M on purpose), crosses a line when making a common sense assumption when hearing a name. The other guy, who happens to be muslim, commits no such foul.
Leave it to NPR to try to whitewash this act of muslim terrorism.
Crimminy, the guy was yelling Allah Akbar as he was firing!!!!!!
(According to base CO General Cone.)
Imagine if he were a Christian?
Pray for America and Ft Hoood
God, I pray this becomes a shooting civil war.
We should force all muslims in the US to MOVE TO NEW YORK CITY ! !
The mere fact of being a Muslim must be considerer A HATE CRIME since their stated "religion" requires that they either enslave OR KILL all non-Muslims.
IPSO FACTO BEING A MUSLIM IS A HATE-CRIME ! ! !
If his name was John Smith would there be any question that they would call him a right wing domestic terrorist ?
His name is Major Malik Nidal Hasan so lets just call him what he is . He is an AMERICAN BORN PALESTINIAN who is a MURDERING ISLAMIC TERRORIST that gunned down American Soldiers because of his religious beliefs.
As they say, be careful what you wish for.
Interesting that he had a beard in that picture. The pictures the media is showing has him clean shaven. Didn’t the 9/11 terrorists shave before the attacks. I wonder if he was clean shaven at the time of the attack.
Exactly what the shooter said just prior to beginning his rampage.
this guys likes to accuse others of ‘phobia.’
People who deny an obvious reality are at best delusional, at worst ...
One suspect they both CHEER it.
It is not “islamophobia”.
It is “islama-odium”.
The HATRED of Islam.
And a well deserved hatred it is.
This is why NPR never is turned on in my house.
When will this spark some Ameriphobia among the islamderthals?
The commies at NPR probably thought there was a ‘rush to judgement’ for Mohammed Atta & Co. right after 9/11, too.
It’s npr. Barf alert is a given.
Just another case in a long string of muzzie chimp-outs on American soil.
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