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November 13, 2009

Did Nidal Hasan Suffer From An Excess Of Sensitivity?

Charles Krauthammer writes:
The delicacy about the religion in question — condescending, politically correct and deadly — is nothing new. A week after the first (1993) World Trade Center attack, the same New York Times ran the following front-page headline about the arrest of one Mohammed Salameh: "Jersey City Man Is Charged in Bombing of Trade [...]

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November 10, 2009

Yisroel Pensack: David Brooks Punctures the Media’s Politically Correct Balloon Regarding Major Nidal Malik Hasan

David Brooks writes in The New York Times:  

The most important power we have is the power to help select the lens through which we see reality. 
Most people select stories that lead toward cooperation and goodness. But over the past few decades a malevolent narrative has emerged.
That narrative has emerged on the fringes of [...]

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Jihad At Fort Hood

Stephen Steinlight writes: Gosh, who would have thought there could be so many causes for this mystifying behavior?!
WOW! Accutane. That’s an unexpected culprit. Now I’m terrified of every adolescent in the country. Just a sensible precaution: if you happen to have an ornery one around the house who’s treating zits and [...]

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November 9, 2009

Yisroel Pensack: Yemen-Based, Anti-American Muslim Cleric Linked to Fort Hood Suspect Had Connection to 9-11 Hijackers While in U.S.

The New York Times reports: 

WASHINGTON — Intelligence agencies intercepted communications last year and this year between the military psychiatrist accused of shooting to death 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., and a radical cleric in Yemen known for his incendiary anti-American teachings.
But the federal authorities dropped an inquiry into the matter after deciding that the [...]

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Dennis Prager’s Thoughts On The Fort Hood Murders

Dennis condemned on his Friday radio shows "news media reports that mentioned everything about the man except his religiosity. On the three major networks, only Charlie Gibson of ABC mentioned it. That is disgraceful. The people who wrote those news reports should not be writing news for a living. They are politically correct shields. They [...]

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November 6, 2009

Yisroel Pensack: Store Video of Fort Hood Shooting Suspect Wearing “Traditional Garb”

This CNN video reportedly shows Fort Hood shooting suspect Major Nidal Malik Hasan wearing "traditional garb" while shopping in a convenience store early yesterday morning about seven hours before the shooting.
A CNN producer’s narrative from 2:25 to 3:25 in the video describes concerns Hasan reportedly expressed to the store owner about a week ago about [...]

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The Reason Nidal Hassan Snapped

It’s buried deep in this Washington Post profile:

Hasan is an avid Redskins fan. "That was his main entertainment," his aunt said. "He was not a movie watcher. He worked hard and had been studying for years. He buried himself in his work."

Nobody should have to suffer like Redskins fans are suffering this year. It can [...]

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Fort Hood Murderer Was A Muslim

The New York Times reports:
WASHINGTON — Born and reared in Virginia, the son of immigrant parents from a small Palestinian town near Jerusalem, he joined the Army right out of high school, against his parents’ wishes. The Army, in turn, put him through college and then medical school, where he trained to be a psychiatrist.
But [...]

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Yisroel Pensack: Was Colin Powell Equally Wrong About WMD in Iraq and Islam in America?

I think that’s a fair question in light of yesterday’s murderous shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, which authorities have attributed to Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old Army psychiatrist who reportedly was about to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
According to The New York Times, Hasan was "born and reared in Virginia, the son [...]

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October 13, 2009

Summertime Is Rape Time In Europe: ‘The Uncovered Meat is the Problem’ Says Muslim Cleric

Apparently there’s an epidemic of Muslim youths raping white girls in Scandinavia and Australia.
From the blog Gates of Vienna, April 29, 2009:
Sweden tops European rape league
Sweden has the highest incidence of reported rapes in Europe — twice as many as “runner up” the UK, a new study shows. Researchers behind the EU study, which will [...]

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