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 In the weeks, months and years leading up his Fort Hood Massacre, Nidal Hassan did everything possible to let his superiors know that one day he was going to kill a whole bunch of Americans in the name of Allah. He posted praises for suicide bombers on the internet. He gave lectures in military facilities calling the War on Terror, a war against Muslims. He even put Soldier of Allah on his business card. It's not clear what if anything else Hassan could have done that would have gotten him away from his position as a security risk. It appears that his superiors were willing to overlook anything and everything he was doing in the name of political correctness. Nidal Hassan is the final and ultimate test case proving that political correctness does kill. For all the complaints about profiling Muslims, not only was Hassan not profiled, he was anti-profiled with openly hostile behavior toward America and signs of Islamic fanaticism getting ignored in the name of accommodating Muslims in the military. As a result the injured soldiers Hassan saw were put at risk. And finally when Nidal Hassan went on his killing spree, he engaged in a form of behavior that seemingly could no longer be covered up. Except it was and it is. From initially pushing Hassan's case as being some sort of mystical variant of PTSD that can occur before the trauma happens or can be passed on from people who actually have PTSD through the ether, to the latest reports that treat Hassan as the victim-- the politically correct cover up of Nidal Hassan continues. While it was a criminal act to cover up Hassan's behavior before the attacks, continuing to cover for him after the attacks ranges somewhere in the equator between madness and treason. Hassan who became death incarnate in accordance with the teachings of Jihad is also a symptom of the politically correct madness of a liberal approach toward Islam that allowed him to kill in the first place. And still the cover up continues. And that means throwing in loads of distractions of course. Such as Joe Klein ranting about Jewish extremists after a Palestinian Arab gunman murdered US troops in the name of Allah, while condemning any talk of Nidal Hasan's Islamic beliefs as Islamophobia. Joe Klein, who has lately lost whatever remained of his reason, penned a Time Magazine rant calling Martin Peretz (who is himself a liberal and had endorsed Obama) a Jewish extremist and going off on Baruch Goldstein and Yigal Amir. There are today several odious attempts by Jewish extremists, like this one by Martin Peretz and this one by La Pasionaria of the Neocons, to argue that the massacre perpetrated by Nidal Hasan was somehow a direct consequence of his Islamic beliefs as opposed to a direct consequence of his insanity. Joe Klein characterizes a conclusion held by 70 percent of Americans, and the FBI, as "odious". He characterized a liberal editor as a "Jewish Extremist". And Klein himself presumes to claim that Hassan was insane, without any actual evidence of that. There was, for example, the lunatic Jewish settler, Baruch Goldstein, who opened fire on Muslims praying at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron in 1994, killing 24 and wounding more than 100. There was also the lunatic Jewish settler who assassinated Yitzak Rabin. I can't remember many Jews calling these effusions of violence as a natural consequence of devout Judaism. They were acts of psychopathy, as was Hasan's bloodbath. Klein here pens a paragraph with so many errors that it's hard to parse them all. Let's begin with the fact that Klein has to reach back to 1994 to find his example of "Jewish extremism." Furthermore neither Goldstein or Amir were ever found to be insane or mentally incompetent. That is Klein's own bizarre insertion. Finally Israeli leftists have been making the argument that these are natural consenquences of devout Judaism. This makes Klein wrong on every single claim he mentions in this paragraph. If Time Magazine had any standards, it would have shown Klein the door for this alone. Do extremely religious people tend to be more psychologically damaged than less religious people? I doubt it, but it's not a bad question: Do any readers have access to polling or academic studies about the incidence of violent insanity among the devout? Klein cowardly suggests that religious people are mentally ill, while backing off on this assertion enough to put it out there. In the meantime, we should identify the notion that Hasan's act was somehow a consequence of his religious orthodoxy for what it is: anti-Islamic bigotry. With this conclusion, Joe Klein now makes the assertion that any claim that murders are carried out due to Islamic religious beliefs... is itself Islamophobia. That kind of view has been the underground motivator behind much of political correctness, but I had not yet seen any liberal willing to come out and state it so openly. But this is exactly where we are headed. The more political correctness seeps into the joints and nerves of our culture, the more we become unable to tell fact from fiction and truth from lies. At the New Ledger, Benjamin Kerstein takes Joe Klein apart in a piece titled Is Joe Klein Nuts As noted, Klein’s rampaging orgy of stupidity and inaccuracy can only be accounted for by one of two things: ignorance or lying. It is certainly possible that, like many liberals, Klein simply cannot bear to face the possibility that the world may not conform to his ideological preferences, and may consider lying to be a small price to pay for reassuring both himself and his readers that there is no elephant in the living room. The fact that justice, truth, and journalistic integrity will have to suffer as a result is, naturally, of little concern in such a desperate situation. Indeed. But Klein's tantrums have been winning public attention for his showdown with The New Republic's James Kirchik. During a hallway confrontation after the panel was over, according to Kampeas, Klein called Kirchick a "dishonest prick." This is ironic because it's clear that Klein himself needs to learn how to report. But while Joe Klein is incapable of being a reporter, he has now dedicated himself to saying crazy things in print and on television. Moving on in the roundup, Obama has now created more fake jobs than any American leader, but probably not as many as Soviet leaders have in the past. The task that now awaits him is to create an equal number of fake Americans to give with those fake jobs. Finally solving the unemployment problem. In Iran meanwhile, a Neda scholarship in Oxford produces the usual chants of "Death to Britain" But Harvard isn't going that route. Instead they let Elliot Spitzer give an ethics lecture. The Elder of Ziyon uses the Nidal Hasan case to note the uniqueness of Palestinians in international law The Guardian says that accused Fort Hood murderer Nidal Hassan was "the son of Palestinians from a village near Jerusalem."international law to prematurely recognize a state (note 26.) To those interested in the legal Palestine paradox, the entire thing is well worth reading Americans living in Israel are up in arms over ObamaCare as well The organization representing North Americans in Israel has called on its members to fight a U.S. health care bill that would require U.S. citizens living abroad to pay $750 annually for insurance they may not be able to use. Rasmussen reports that Obama's approval rating has fallen below 50 percent And Michelle Obama's popularity is equally on the decline Caroline Glick writes on Missing George W. Bush A couple of days ago I heard the news that George and Laura Bush paid a private visit to the wounded soldiers at Fort Hood. They specifically requested that the base commander not inform the media of their visit. They came. They comforted the wounded soldiers and the Fort Hood community for a couple of hours. And then they left. And they never had their pictures taken saluting the troops or holding their hands. David Brooks at the NY Times Writes on how the Rush to Therapy ignores the possibility of evil The conversation in the first few days after the massacre was well intentioned, but it suggested a willful flight from reality. It ignored the fact that the war narrative of the struggle against Islam is the central feature of American foreign policy. It ignored the fact that this narrative can be embraced by a self-radicalizing individual in the U.S. as much as by groups in Tehran, Gaza or Kandahar. No it isn't, but then we are no longer a morally serious nation anymore. Meanwhile North Korea, like virtually every hostile state is becoming emboldened by Obama's weakness. A Jew with a View points out the hypocrisy and double standard of the world giving Saudi Arabia a pass on its campaign in Yemen David Warren warns us to Remember the Future Debbie Schlussel says that 2012 panders to Muslims... though what movie these days doesn't. Dr. Normal comments on the attacks on Ayn Rand Muslims Against Sharia asks What is Behind America's PC Love of Islam? Red State looks at KSM's upcoming criminal trial Lemon Lime writes on Ft Hood, Choosing Death and Evil Boker tov Boulder has a better proposal than Obama's sneering suggestion about swapping Liebermans I have a better idea: Let's swap Husseins. I know, I know, Saddam is dead, but we could still sit his remains in the Oval Office. At least he could do no harm. Linda marks Veteran's Day Via Solomonia, What is the difference between Stormfront and The Guardian anyway? Finally, note an article which identifies the man who sent Hassan flowers as "A religious Christian". An appellation the media can't seem to attach to Hassan who apparently isn't religious, just under a lot of stress. A religious Christian in Florida tried to send Fort Hood massacre suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan a bouquet of flowers and a note that calls him a "hero," but the man got a knock on his door from the FBI instead, according to a Florida television station.  |
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