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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: When Muslims Commit Violence
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When Muslims Commit Violence
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... If the man is not part of any wider conspiracy or terror group, it is silly to treat him the way we would a Qaeda cell, for example, as Lieberman seems to want to do. And the random murder spree was not designed to wound the US militarily in any strategic way. But religion is poisonous when it fuses with politics and deploys violence to control or punish others - and Hasan's increasingly Wahabbist version of Islam is about as crude a conflation of religion, certainty and violence as one can imagine. ...
Lodestar Lieberman
The Moderate Voice —
... that the shooting spree “was not part of a terrorist plot,” he announces that, as Senate Homeland Security chairman, he plans to launch a probe into the motives behind “the worst terrorist attack since 9/11.” ...
Don’t Hold Your Breath, Joe
Jules Crittenden —
... , let alone the post-Fort Hood one. Back to the first point, Lieberman may have been run out of his party for making sense, and they probably aren’t to happy with him on the health care thing, but he is still chairman of Homeland Security. The Hill reports he’s planning a hearing. A couple of ideas: A: Call Napolitano in to explain what’s with the targeting of American political dissent, and how come everyone missed this big fat homeland security threat. B: Push for recognition of domestic terrorist acts on military facilities as acts of war. There is a precedent. It’s ...
Lieberman ignores Casey's advice
Political Animal —
... that if news reports were true that Mr. Hasan had turned to Islamic extremism, "the murder of these 13 people was a terrorist act and, in fact, it was the most-destructive terrorist act to be committed on American soil since 9/11." "We don't know enough to say now, but there are very, very strong warning signs here that Dr. Hasan had become an Islamist extremist and, therefore, that this was a terrorist act," Mr. Lieberman added. At one point in the interview, Lieberman said it's " premature to reach conclusions about what motivated " Hasan, and then spent several minutes ...
Quote of the Day: Andrew Sullivan on religious extremism and the Fort Hood massacre
The Reaction —
... Given how little we know, it is ridiculous, as Joe Lieberman did, to call the Fort Hood massacre a "terrorist attack." On the flip side, it is ridiculous to claim, as some have (such as ...
The Big Question: What lessons can we learn from the Fort Hood attack?
Congress Blog —
Some of the nation's top political commentators, legislators and intellectuals offer insight into the biggest question burning up the blogosphere today. Today's question: Homeland Security Chairman Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday that he intends to launch a congressional investigation into the motives behind "the worst terrorist attack since 9/11" -- the slaying of 13 people at Fort Hood by an Army major. Are there any lessons for lawmakers or military leaders that could be taken from the tragedy at Fort Hood? Michael T. McPhearson , president of ...
Michael J.W. Stickings: Terrorism, Religious Extremism, and the Fort Hood Massacre
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Given how little we know, it is ridiculous, as Joe Lieberman did, to call the Fort Hood massacre a "terrorist attack." (It seems to have been an act of violence, not terror, as the point was not to terrorize, or necessarily to act to effect political change, which suggests the creation of abject fear beyond the act itself. Still, it's clear we ...
