CAIR suggests that Nidal Hasan wasn't motivated by Jihadist ideolo

[Bob]

So just for fun, I did a Google search for this, "Nidal Hasan site:cair.com". There were four results, with the main result stating that the American media was irresponsibly rushing to judgment in the case of Nidal Hasan, trying to smear Islam by associating his motivations with Islamic terrorism.

This is the premier Islamic interest advocacy group in the USA. It's the enemy within.

CAIR implies that nidal hasan might not have been motivated by jihadist ideology - http://pa.cair.com/news/updates-32/

Major Hasan spent the entire course of residency and subsequent professional life listening to and counseling veterans returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan at Walter Reed Army Hospital. One can only imagine the impact of this experience on him.

Typical amateur-hour leftist psychological assessment, maybe they'll invent a new disease where mental health professionals can suffer from PTSD by nature of their job. Does that mean I can have extensive conversations with veterans and then go on a murder spree and blame it on indirect-PTSD I suffer from by virtue of extensive experiences with veterans?

[Bob]

Some "Rabbi" writes for CAIR and implies that Jew enjoy some sort of special equality in America, yet certain other groups (i.e. Muslims) are still victimized by systemic racism.

In the ears of American Jews, among the golden words of American history are those of George Washington to a synagogue: “To bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.”

God knows these words have rung false about many different communities in the dark-light-checkered history of our Republic. (Blacks, Mormons, the Irish, the Italians, the Chinese, the Japanese, gay people —— )

There have even been moments in American history when those words seemed not so clearly truthful, about Jews. (See Philip Roth’s amazing alternate-history novel, The Plot Against America, and its roots in real history.) But in this generation, in regard to Jews these seem engraved on American reality – not only in stone, but in glowing beams of light.

But in the wake of the Fort Hood murders, it is not so clear that these words apply to American Muslims.

Every sizeable Muslim organization in America has condemned those murders, and some have taken proactive steps to aid the families of those killed. These are ethically responsible actions.

I wish that Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, and other religious communities could also come forward along with Muslim groups to say truthfully, “In the fabrics of ALL our different traditions are both broad spaces of peaceful and peace-seeking wisdom, and some bloody strands. These we need to address forthrightly and to explicitly reject or reinterpret so they cannot be used to justify violence.”

Oh poor Muslims, they're so oppressed in the ultra-Islamophobic society that is America. One wonders why they lines up in the hundreds of thousands to emigrate to the USA....

[Pliny]

It certainly was a bizarre incident. Someone definitely out of their mind. Extremism is indeed a plausible explanation, extreme hatred, extreme ideology.

Hasan was a psychiatrist, is there any merit to the suggestion of PTSD transference to the physician? It seems a stretch that this would evoke a mass killing spree. But even if it did and he was incensed and enraged by the atrocities he heard only an extreme ideological inclination would trigger such madness. Or instead of madness, would it be a conscious decision based in hatred and an extreme ideological view? This psychological veiw must exist first or there would be nothing that would trigger the action. Although, it is not impossible to be driven mad by one's oppression or the psychological torment of one's circumstances in his personal relationships. This is not apparent in Hasan's case. He had some problems it seems but oppression and psychological torment of the nature that would invoke such atrocity seem absent.

It was as though he lost any volition, like he were on drugs.

[jbg]

I think he did it because he decided that a 70 degree day with a southwest wind made it a good activity.