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It's been an odd and revealing reaction on the part of the majority of the MSM - first, it reveals the institutional nature of what once were competing news organizations, second, that clearly they consider they have a responsibility for molding public opinion away from uncomfortable conclusions no matter what the evidence, and third, as many of us have been complaining for some time, they are most threatened - and show it - when the facts available conflict with their predetermined narrative.

Let's examine a couple of instances - the immediate reaction that Hasan wasn't even a Muslim, the insistence that he was a victim of hate crimes, or weirdly, post-traumatic stress disorder in the absence of any real trauma other than meeting truly traumatized soldiers. In its most distilled form it was a blatant lie off the teleprompter of 0bama himself - "we'll never understand what could have caused this."

In plain point of fact we understand perfectly well what motivated Hasan to murder as many unarmed people as he could. That is the modus operandi of the classical terrorist, and Hasan is an Islamic terrorist. It is clear where he received his ideology, his carefully nurtured resentment, and his conviction that mass murder would advance his cause. This is the Islam not of the innocent Iraqi citizens butchered by the thousands in their schools and marketplaces but the Islam of their murderers. And, as it turns out, the murderers of their protectors as well.

Hasan chose the Islam of the killers and acted out its worst exhortations. And he learned this Islam in the United States because it is here among us. Were there media more interested in representing these facts than in winning self-awarded prizes for sanctimony we wouldn't be having this discussion.

It's been an odd and revealing reaction on the part of the majority of the MSM

In many ways this has become the most lasting and disturbing part for me. The reaction of the media seemed orchestrated not merely cautious. No news organization was immune.

This is the Islam not of the innocent Iraqi citizens

Suppose that this is not a radical interepretation of Islam at all. Could Hasan's action simply be the ultimate outcome of a true and honest understanding of the religion?