Posted on 11/13/2009 3:17:54 AM PST by markomalley
What a surprise -- that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. It certainly was a surprise to the mainstream media, which spent the weekend after the Fort Hood massacre downplaying Nidal Hasan's religious beliefs.
"I cringe that he's a Muslim. ... I think he's probably just a nut case," said Newsweek's Evan Thomas. Some were more adamant. Time's Joe Klein decried "odious attempts by Jewish extremists ... to argue that the massacre perpetrated by Nidal Hasan was somehow a direct consequence of his Islamic beliefs." While none could match Klein's peculiar cherchez-le-juif motif, the popular story line was of an Army psychiatrist driven over the edge by terrible stories he had heard from soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
They suffered. He listened. He snapped.
Really? What about the doctors and nurses, the counselors and physical therapists at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who every day hear and live with the pain and the suffering of returning soldiers? How many of them then picked up a gun and shot 51 innocents?
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
The odious Klein trying to get his liberal bona fidies back!
But the magnificent Krauthammer is there to shoot holes in his story. Go Krautman!
TC
Meanwhile a few weeks back a KY census worker was found hanged with "fed" scrawled across his chest and the immediate and widely expressed assumption by the media was that it was right-wing extremists inflamed by the tea-baggers. Rush and Glen were blamed by name. Even some Minnesota congresswoman, probably not a person with great influence in rural KY, was named as responsible.
As no evidence of any such connection was found, the story gradually disappeared. Right now it looks like the guy may have committed suicide and tried to make it look like murder, but the media is utterly disinterested in that story.
More like “Medicalizing Jihad”, by my reckoning.
Moth/flame. Moth/flame. The concept is not hard to understand, it’s just that some are too busy diving into their own flames...
Democrats defining murder down, just like they did with deviancy and the welfare state.
If a Muslim shouts "Allahu Akbar" and kills people, just like the Muslim who did it last week, and the one a week before that, and the week before that, then this is evidence that we need to increase funding for mental health services, because clearly this is just a mental illness issue.
Have I got that right?
And the MSM is in charge of making excuses.
BTTT!
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