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Major Nidal Hasan, the 39-year-old suspected gunman ,was 'mortified' about deployment to war. http://bit.ly/37oFC6 RT @nytimes #FortHood 13 days ago |
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Major Nidal Hasan, the 39-year-old suspected gunman ,was 'mortified' about deployment to war. http://bit.ly/37oFC6 #FortHunt RT @nytimes 14 days ago |
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The effects of war go beyong bombs and bullets... http://bit.ly/1RwNU6 14 days ago |
Underneath the Hood
BAGnewsNotes —
... While waiting for a clearer picture from Fort Hood, I was struck by this photo from yesterday's newswire. It offers American troops baldly showing the Afghans how things are done. (The hands far right, probably a trainer's hands, still are particularly suggestive.) ...
Shooting at Fort Hood kills 13
MNpublius.com —
... President Obama has promised that “We will make sure that we get answers to every single question about this horrible incident,” and there are certainly a lot of questions to be answered. According to the New York Times, the shooter was “mortified” about deploying, and even reports that he hired a lawyer to try to get out of the military. The FBI was monitoring web postings by a person of the same name that defended suicide bombers. ...
The massacre at Fort Hood
Political Animal —
... University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda. There were some reports suggesting he is a recent convert to Islam, but additional reporting suggests he is a life-long Muslim, with no history of violence or radicalism. By one account, Hasan reconsidered a military career after having been "harassed" by other soldiers about his faith, though we don't know if that had anything to do with the shooting. In terms of motivation, one of the common threads this morning points to Hasan's unwillingness to deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan, after having counseled returning soldiers with ...
The Toll: Tragedy freezes politics -- and starts new debates
The Note —
... As for the suspected shooter: "He was mortified by the idea of having to deploy," Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's cousin, Nader Hasan tells The New York Times. "He had people telling him on a daily basis the horrors they saw over there." ...
The Aardvark's Ten Questions About Combating Violent Extremism
Newshoggers.com —
... Whoever imagines that yesterday's event is unrelated to US foreign policy and our national response to the events of 9/11 is in deep denial. It is bitterly ironic that Major Hasan was an undergraduate of Virginia Tech, scene of another mass killing just two years ago. That event seems was a clear example of the failure of ...
The Politics of the Fort Hood Shooting
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
One of the disheartening aspects (apart from the obvious tragedy) of events like that which took place at Fort Hood yesterday is that well before we have any evidence or real information, people start trying to make political hay out of the event. Usually it is the pro-gun v. anti-gun arguments (e.g., the typical responses tend to be: “If we had more gun control, this wouldn’t have happened!”/ “If only there had been someone with a concealed gun at the event, this wouldn’t have happened!”).
It strikes me at this stage that trying to generalize from this event about a particular class of persons is no different than taking the Oklahoma City ...
A Challenge for the Commander In Chief
The Caucus —
President Obama faces a delicate question in the wake of the Fort Hood shootings . In any moment of national tragedy, Americans expect to hear from their president. Mr. Obama quickly came forward, offering words of consolation, prayers for victims and their families, and the promise to find out how such a calamity could occur on a military base. On Friday afternoon, he is scheduled to visit troops at Walter Reed Medical Center. But will the commander-in-chief also try to use this as a teachable moment? The grainy photograph of the suspected shooter – Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan – is being shown again and again on television ...
Conservative Says Hasan Acted On Orders Of Muslim Brotherhood: What Do We Know?
TPMMuckraker —
One conservative writer is already declaring -- without citing any evidence -- that Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter who killed 13 at Fort Hood yesterday, was acting at the behest of the Muslim Brotherhood. So it's a good time to lay out what we do and don't know about the Fort Hood shooting case and the Army psychiatrist at the center of it.
In an interview with Frontpagemag, author Dave Gaubatz blames the Fort Hood killings on, among other Muslim groups, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. He says that Hasan was carrying out "the orders of the Muslim Brotherhood." And he suggests that Hasan was sent out ...
Shallow
Neptunus Lex —
In the aftermath of the massacre at Fort Hood, it is perhaps unsurprising that there are those eager to point out that Nidal Malik Hasan’s faith had nothing whatsoever to do with his murderous rampage, immediately prior to which, witnesses now say, he was heard to shout “Allahu akbar.” Knee-jerk, unreflective, politically correct reflexes are hard to subdue.
Nor is it entirely surprising that some would choose to make hay over the president for his admittedly clumsy “shout out” to a group of government bureaucrats before turning to weightier matters. Partisan reflexes are equally difficult to moderate, even ...
In search of Hasan's syndrome
Power Line —
Nidal Hasan is the Army psychiatrist went on a rampage of mass murder at Fort Hood this past Thursday. The liberal media have performed remarkable contortions to wrap his motives in mystery and tender Hasan himself as a possible victim. CNN, for example, has served up a story of anti-Islamic discrimination (from Jerusalem, no les) despite the fact that Hasan's continued presence in the Army suggests something closer to the opposite.
Given a little time to work up a theory of their own, the media have presented Hasan as a victim of something like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The New York Times put it at the top of ...
Sudden Jihad or "Inordinate Stress" at Ft. Hood?
Daniel Pipes :: Writings —
When a Muslim in the West for no apparent reason violently attacks non-Muslims, a predictable argument ensues about motives. The establishment – law enforcement, politicians, the media, and the academy – stands on one side of this debate, insisting that some kind of oppression caused Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, to kill 13 and wound 38 at Ft. Hood on Nov. 5. It disagrees on the specifics, however, presenting Hasan as the victim alternatively of " racism ...
Living in Terror -- By: An NRO Symposium
Articles on National Review Online —
Is the Fort Hood massacre a deadly example of political correctness run amok? National Review Online asked a few of our experts for their observations on how the shooting happened and what we can do to prevent similar incidents in the future. PETER BROOKES This story is still unraveling, but it seems to me that it’s a lot worse than the possibility of political correctness run amok. If the Fort Hood case continues to develop as a domestic terrorist attack, it’s a real wake-up call for the United States. Foiled terror plots are often quickly forgotten, but there have been nearly 30 ...
