Posted on 11/13/2009 9:24:13 AM PST by ventanax5
In the wake of the murder of 13 and the wounding of 38 soldiers at Fort Hood on November 5, media analysts, politicians, and other sundry experts scrambled to present the accused perpetrator of the acts, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, as a victim. In so doing they served, knowingly or otherwise, as apologists for radical Islam. From CNN to the New York Times, NPR to the Washington Post, the killings were presented as a result of racism. They were attributed to fear of deployment in Afghanistan and harassment from other soldiers. Cited were Major Hasan’s supposed maladjustment to his life and his sense of not belonging, pre-traumatic stress disorder, and various personal and mental problems. All these explanations are variations on what I have called “the Root Cause Fallacy,” which has been committed time and again since the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001. The Root Cause Fallacy was designed to deflect attention away from Islam, in effect to exonerate Islam, which, we are told, is never to blame for acts of violence. On this view we must not hold a great world religion of peace responsible when individuals of that faith resort to force. We must dig deeper: the real cause is poverty, U.S. foreign policy, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Western colonialism and exploitation, marital problems of individuals, and so on. The present “psychological” interpretations in the case of Major Hasan are just the latest example of the Root Cause Fallacy at work.
(Excerpt) Read more at centerforinquiry.net ...
Political correctness has done more to harm the world than any war in history. Neighbor is rising up against neighbor, nation is rising up against nation, and kingdom is rising up against kingdom.
Forcing people to think contrary to their conscience creates hate. Hate creates violence. Violence creates war.
Political correctness has done more to harm the world than any war in history.
Political correctness has done more to harm the world than any war in history.
Political correctness has done more to harm the world than any war in history.
Political correctness has done more to harm the world than any war in history.
Political correctness has done more to harm the world than any war in history.
Even after the Kenya embassy bombings, the 1993 Trade Center bombing, the USS Cole attack, 9/11, the shooting of Private Long in Ft. Smith, numerous incohate plots, including the New York subway plot and the Ft. Dix attack, and now the Ft. Hood massacre, we are instructed by The One and the MSM that we are not to speak of what might appear to the unenlightened to be a pattern.
Doesn’t this go both ways? Might saying the the “left” whatever that might mean kind of sound like saying “not my fault ma he did it” when caught red-handed with the stolen funds?
Only a leftist national socialist communist would love torture and agree with it, the same thing with state murder. If you advocate capital punishment why not just start wiping out entire communities as many leftists agree with capital punishment to save the planet (cant the left and right get together and get rid of the muslims to save the planet from global warming?), it all seems rather two faced but no matter what side someone takes they end up advocating STATE POWER over the individual or the constitution? Clear the smoke and mirrors and we have the state being given the right to be GOD.
It seems a bit absurd, wasn’t Hasan just claiming to act on the judgement of his GOD? Doesn’t the state make the same arguments when it wants to extreminate some group of “evil ones”? How does that not make one a terrorist if one feels free to murder those that act on the knowledge of the states’ action to freely murder whomever it wants?
If we give the state the right to murder are we not just giving ourselves a arbitrary right to murder? In what way are we not responsible for what the state does to people it finds expendable?
I think fragmentation has more to do with the craziness of the world, it creates divison where none actually exists, whatever a religion or government does seems to break people apart and make them fight against each other in order to control them.
(Chicago, IL, November 7, 2008) MuslimVotersUSA, a grassroots American Muslim political advocacy group conducted an online survey of American Muslim voters. The survey was conducted Nov 4-5, 2008. Results show that 94% voted for Barack Obama while 3% voted for John McCain. The survey had a margin of error of 4%.
Same, same Maos’ little red book.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
I refuse political correctness and always have. It has always appeared to me a characteristic of someone who is weak.....
“Results show that 94% voted for Barack Obama while 3% voted for John McCain.
The survey had a margin of error of 4%. “
Funny, huh?
Screw off, troll.
You left out the DC snipers and Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar (grenade thrower).
A very good article on the problems of not recognizing a person’s adherence to Islam as a potential problem in military service, or in the service of the FBI, CIA, or DHS.
The states don't have the 'right to murder', arbitrarily. The Constitution clearly requires Due Process when denying someone of their LIFE, liberty, or pursuit of happiness. That's why there are trials, before a jury of your peers, if you're contesting charges brought against you, and would bring a sentence that would deny you your life or liberty.
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