Fort Hood shooting on Guy Fawkes Day

"The fact he holds rank and has had a military career suggests to me that a psychological problem may be an underlying cause."

Wow, what a stereotype? What a way to broadly paint all people as 1 way because of the actions of the few. That sounds like the logical equivalent of "all muslims are terrorists".

Please explain yourself.

Thanks for addressing some other areas where we can go to hear news about this. Unlike the other poster, I understood your initial meaning - he held a fairly high-profile, stable job. He was not wandering the streets in a psychotic state for years before this happened.

I wonder if he had been a plain old white guy, what we would be saying...certainly there would still be significant anger that an Army soldier would turn against his own.

As terrible as this this is, it's important that we remember the type of stress that the military mental health community is under. Who counsels the counselors? This is not an excuse for violence by any means. It it just a major lesson that we should take from this horrible event.

I think the Guy Fawkes connection is a stretch, but we'll see.

Meanwhile, I've read that members of his own *family* have condemned the attack as "despicable," one doesn't always see that.

OTOH, that isn't popping up in other reports, maybe AP got it wrong or maybe the family is moving to a "find out what happened" view. I'll be hoping the Silver Spring MD mosque he attended doesn't get harassed.

either that or he's a Jihadi.

Violent retards.

How about just admitting the fact that Hasan is a wannabe Islamofascist martyr.

It's the ideology, stupid.

I think we should also look at the fact that the Michael Jackson movie underperformed and Hasan may have been a fanatic MJ fan who was very upset by this. In fact, I think we should look everywhere except the bleedin' obvious!

To the Various posters replying to this column.

It was also "obvious" that Muslims blew up the building in Oaklahoma that was actually blown up by Timothy MacVeigh--So obvious that numerous innocent Muslims were detained and questioned. Does David Gillies have any evidence that Hassan was "an openly disloyal extremist" prior to the shooting, other than the fact that he was a Muslim? If so, he ought to tell the Media, because no one else has reported this.

There's undeniably a lot of people who call themselves Muslims who believe there is "stuff in the Koran that gives crazy permission to be violent." There are also Christians who believe that the Bible justified mass slaughter during the Crusades, the Spanish Inquistion, and the bombing of Abortion clinics. The question of whether either religion approves of such things can only be settled by reading the texts, and studying the context in which the text was written. From my study of the Koran, the violent interpretations are either open to dispute or flat out wrong.

P.S. There's a discussion going on in the Islamophobia discussion board in which numerous people are asking "Why don't other Muslims openly condemn terrorism." The answer of course, is that they do, and the media don't report it. Thanks for letting us know about the CAIR announcement. You can bet it won't get on FOX News.

Why "in a fundamental sense it matters the least."??? That would have to be explained. I think the fact that he IS Muslim would matter the MOST (think: jihad). So I do not understand, you will have to explain.

Also you wrote: "There's undeniably a lot of people who call themselves Muslims who believe there is "stuff in the Koran that gives crazy permission to be violent." There are also Christians who believe that the Bible justified mass slaughter during the Crusades, the Spanish Inquistion, and the bombing of Abortion clinics. The question of whether either religion approves of such things can only be settled by reading the texts, and studying the context in which the text was written. From my study of the Koran, the violent interpretations are either open to dispute or flat out wrong."
You know you're blowing smoke. As the other poster said, when you deny it, you come off as nonbelievable. From Mohammed's time to today, Islam is a religion of dominance and violence. Moslems may not have killed everyone whose land they came to, further back in history, but those they did not, they taxed out of their faith and into Islam. You know history, you know it's true. Those so-called times when everything was birds chirping and hand-holding that are referred to in lands they conquered and were 'benevolent' were merely when the conquered were subdued, were knuckling under, that's all.
The difference between Islam and Christianity is that Christian leaders truly do refute the abortion bombers whereas most Moslems are afraid to be vocal in rejecting Islam/jihad because they are seen as traitors and suffer backlash (Nonie Darwish,Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wafa Sultan, etc., etc., who have to live under lock and key now---name me one Christian refuter who has to?).
The Crusades and Inquisition were at a time when the government was wrapped up in religion. Now they are separate in Western governments,, so you don't see that kind of thing. Whereas in Asia and Africa there is more of a mix of government and religion (Islam) and so you have more of those types of wrongs going on. But in the eyes of Islam, they are not wrongs, they are following what their god wants: To turn everyone into a Moslem, or turn them dead.
Also compare numbers: how many non-Christians have Christians blown up over the last 30 years vs. how many non-Muslims have Muslims blown up over the last 30 years?
I think that when you compare how many Christians other Christians have killed, vs. how many Moslems have killed other Moslems, well that may be about neck and neck...
I am sure this won't get printed in its entirety.

I am glad I can scroll your hideously ugly pubic-hair covered face off the top of the page while I type this.

The first thing terrorist-friendly filth like CAIR and this butt-ugly asshole do, after offering disingenuous condemnation, is to go into apologetics mode.

What muslims should be doing right now is hanging their heads in abject shame - but of course they would have to feel that shame in the first place.

It's the religion, you stupid people. Wake up before it's too late. Muslims are your enemies. Do not trust a single one, especially ones like the neckbeard author of this blog.

Let's hope for the best!

non-croyant: "What muslims should be doing right now is hanging their heads in abject shame - but of course they would have to feel that shame in the first place."

Why should be people be apologizing for things they didn't do? Unless you think the entire Muslim community was at Fort Hood that day with guns blazing, in which case you need to get back on your meds.

So the guy was palestinian?! what does that mean? oh he's from palestine? what is now Israel?!, why dont he go home and grow vegetables? oh he cant go home? some polish immigrant from europe has his home now?! oh what the hell lets kill more iraqis!!!!!!!

From the evidence I've seen, it's extremely relevant that the guy's a Muslim. You can argue whether it is or isn't - some people's reflexive defense of "diversity" won't allow them to accept the evidence and be convinced.

But whatever his reason, traitors are to be shot or hung. I'd personally prefer that he be hung so I can watch the traitorous scum's feet dance but shooting him is also fine with me.