Comments/questions on the shootings at Fort Hood - II

For all those who will start to profess theories that the Fort Hood shooter was mentally deranged by the atrocities that he heard from soldiers coming back from war and was so discomfited that he finally went postal, it is instructive to also realize that the man was a rational cold blooded religious zealot who murdered human beings in the name of Islam. There does not seem to be any other way to put it - politically correct or not...  Especially when one considers the deliberative steps (below) that he took before committing the act...

Hasan had apparently been a devout Muslim; Arabic words, reportedly a Muslim prayer, had been posted on his apartment door in Maryland; in conversations with colleagues he had repeatedly expressed sympathy for suicide bombers; on Thursday morning, hours before the massacre, he had supposedly handed out copies of the Koran to neighbors. A couple of these facts eventually surfaced on CNN, but only briefly; they were rushed past, left untouched, unexamined; the network seemed to be making a masterly effort to avoid giving this data a cold, hard look. Meanwhile it spent time doing heavy-handed spin — devoting several minutes, for example, to an inane interview with a forensic psychiatrist who talked about the stress of treating soldiers bearing the emotional scars of war. The obvious purpose was to turn our eyes away from Islamism and toward psychiatric instability as a motive.

And of course, some reports also suggest that the man shouted "God is Great" - Allahu Akbar in Arabic before he started killing people. Go figure...

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