{"id":12678,"date":"2009-11-10T13:50:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T21:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12678"},"modified":"2009-11-10T13:50:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T21:50:54","slug":"jihad-at-fort-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12678","title":{"rendered":"Jihad At Fort Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Steinlight writes: Gosh, who would have thought there could be so many causes for this mystifying behavior?!<\/p>\n

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 is planning to go on a flight, check the medicine chest to see he or she isn’t taking Accutane. Amazing. It makes them go crazy or, perhaps, "native."<\/p>\n

One again, Pipes hits the nail right on the head. It’s comforting to know some of us, at least, have not gone so politically correct we’ve lost the ability to see what’s right in front of our faces.<\/p>\n

Daniel Pipes writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When a Muslim in the West for no apparent reason violently attacks non-Muslims, a predictable argument ensues about motives.<\/span><\/p>\n

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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 (allegedly) kill 13 and wound 38 at Fort Hood on November 5th. It disagrees on the specifics, however, presenting Hasan as the victim alternatively of "racism," "harassment he had received as a Muslim," a sense of not belonging," "pre-traumatic stress disorder," "mental problems," "emotional problems," "an inordinate amount of stress," or being deployed to Afghanistan as his "worst nightmare." Accordingly, a typical newspaper headline reads "Mindset of Rogue Major a Mystery."<\/span><\/div>\n
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Instances of Muslim-on-unbeliever violence inspire the victim school to dig up new and imaginative excuses. Colorful examples (drawing on my article and weblog entry about denying Islamist terrorism) include:<\/span><\/div>\n
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