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Saturday, 07 November 2009

In the same vein as “Don’t jump to conclusions--'Allahu Akbar' can be a convivial Islamic greeting"…: In the grip of the pathological cluelessness that afflicts large portions of the mainstream media and Western civilization, and that may well prove fatal, the Globe and Mail calls for “restraint, as after 9/11”:
The tragic shootings at the Fort Hood U.S. Army Base raise the spectres of hostility against Muslims within the United States, and of Islamic hostility towards the U.S. Everybody must follow the restraint shown so far by military and civilian leaders, withholding judgment until more facts come in. And once the story becomes clearer, it will be crucial to combat any anti-Muslim sentiment, and any actions that call the patriotism or motives of Muslims into question, in Western militaries, or societies at large.
Thirteen people are dead and 30 are wounded after Thursday's rampage. There are reports that the suspect, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim, yelled "Allahu Akbar" - "God is great" in Arabic - before unleashing the lethal fury. A security camera video is said to show him wearing a prayer cap in the hours leading up to the shooting. An Internet posting by someone with the user name Nidal Hasan refers approvingly to suicide bombing.
What do these facts, which have yet to be confirmed in any criminal investigation, suggest? Conveniently weaved, they evoke a radicalized Islamist threat, dangerously implanted in the seat of what is by far the world's most powerful military. Even if only one person - the suspect - acted on the threat, some would conclude that other Muslims, similarly situated, could be tipped into sharing the same beliefs and carrying out the same actions.
That would be the wrong interpretation. The U.S. faces no generalized internal radical Islamist threat. The New America Foundation's Peter Bergen notes in The New Republic, "Nearly every major jihadist plot against Western targets in the last two decades somehow leads back to Afghanistan or Pakistan." Even the "homegrown" Toronto 18 plot drew substantial inspiration by propaganda from the same sources. Until Major Hasan can be shown to have trained in Afghanistan or Pakistan, or to have marinated in a hateful ideology, to say that this was "an attack by a radical Muslim" would be misleading.
And suppose the shooter did draw some inspiration from a warped view of Islam. Should that mean other Muslims should be singled out and have their beliefs probed? The unequivocal answer, again, is no. Military life is filled with enormous stresses (including some that Major Hasan saw in his work as a psychiatrist) that can presage violence, though this would be no excuse for the crime's heinousness. The mental health of soldiers, not their religious or cultural backgrounds, should be the paramount concern...
No jihad here, folks. Best to go back to what you were doing before the unpleasant interruption. (I wonder what’s up with the Gosselins and Speidi these days?).
Does it seem to you, as it does to me, that the Globe is calling for “restraint” from the wrong people?

Update: Robert Spencer 'splains it.

Posted by: scaramouche at 12:49 | link | comments (10)


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#1  07 November 2009 - 14:17
 
"The Globe is calling for “restraint” from the wrong people"

Well said.  Thanks.

Strangely, even though Big Media were quick to attribute the (non-violenmt and non-criminal) "climate of hate" of the the tea parties and townhall protests to guys like Rush Limabagh, George Bush and Republicans in general, no Big Media have made the much more plausible attribution of setting the stage for actual murder to the Muslim-tyrant-appeasing, soft-on-terrorism, blame-Amercans-first Barrack Hussein Obama and the Democrats.

Ted S.
Anonymous
#2  07 November 2009 - 15:15
 
Obama inspired Islamist terrorism anytone?
Anonymous
#3  08 November 2009 - 01:08
 
Fun with Kahmed in the comments at the Globe.
Anonymous
#4  08 November 2009 - 06:11
 
I must thank you for passing that along from the Globe & Mail.  I happened to read it as I was loading my shotgun to join the mob forming down the street to hunt down all the Muslims out here in Southeastern Utah.  Thanks to this article I realized that not all Muslims are crazy s.o.b's like Major Hasan and that no violent backlash is necessary in this case. 

Please keep us posted, so that we'll know how to respond to the next atrocity committed by a Muslim against people who had no idea of who his was or what his grievances might be. 
Anonymous
#5  08 November 2009 - 06:15
 
I see. "Allahu Akbar" is just a greeting. Especially when you are killing unarmed infidel soldiers on a U.S. army base in Texas. Political correctness in the military is mass suicide. Obama busy doing damage control lest an average paranoid Islamist is worried about non-existent backlash. Tragic. For all of us.
Anonymous
#6  08 November 2009 - 07:21
 
The White wash began the moment this was in the news. It will continue as the legions of Dhimmis are called to make excuses. While the secularists try to pretend this is something else with phonies like Dr. Phil. Its like the adulterer who's wife comes home  while he's with another Women denying his fornication as his mistress dresses up to leave. 
Your supposed to suspend belief, while calling your own senses false.
All to give life to a lie called multiculturalism with its deadly toxin political correctness.
I say we can't afford the mad anymore.
We are at war & our foes have entered our homes.
Anonymous
#7  08 November 2009 - 14:03
 
A friend at another blog http://discardedlies.com/entry/?50826_#c279 posted the following:

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The Toronto Globe and Mail is self-styled as "Canada's National Newspaper", catering to a centrist, better-educated demographic cohort.

This comment is in first place by number of hits, and is 356+/26- at 15:30 EDT:

Time to ban Islam in Western nations. Whomever wants to practice can migrate to Islamic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia!

The religion of mercy teaches its brainwashed sheeple to bite the hand which feeds them!
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About three hours after the initial Globe and Mail comment was posted, he notes that they have deleted it in its entirety.
Anonymous
#8  08 November 2009 - 20:06
 
Yes, because such a "hateful" comment is likely to expose a certain victim group to "hate".
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#9  10 November 2009 - 04:20
 
Potential backlash to Muslims (never realized) after yet another of the thousands of Islam-inspired crimes their coreligionists commit is treated by Muslims and their leftist media enablers as the greater ill.  They whine over the bodies of the actual victims.

Black (Muslims killing unarmed non-Muslims) is made white and white (restraint by the victim group) is made black (someone might commit...gasp...Islamophobia after thousands of provocations).

This is an absolutely disgusting moral inversion and we are all complicit if we allow the false charge of Islamophobia to stop us from proclaiming the truth.  Muslims bring more trouble than they are worth to non-Muslim countries.  Their ideology/religion taken seriously as most of them do is incompatible with Western law and mores.

Let the mythical moderate Muslims marshall their thousands into the streets to protest the repeated slaughter of innocents by fellow Muslims instead of screaming about Mohammed cartoons or Teddy Bears .  Otherwise their silence must be interpreted as support for their jihadis and all Muslims should be mistrusted by those whom they pejoratively call infidels.

That's not Islamophobia.  That's knowledge of Islam, observation of Muslim behavior and a survival instinct that leftist indoctrination has not managed to erase.
Anonymous
#10  10 November 2009 - 05:08
 

Canada and the United States should be bringing immigrants in from Latin America rather than any Islamic influenced countries.

There are too many innocents being murdered (including their own family members through "Honour Killings"), there are too many intrigues to mass murder innocent Canadians, and there are too many who either sympathize with this behaviour,  support this behaviour, or make excuses for it.

Perhaps the death of these latest victims will at last spur our governments to halt the immigration of any more Muslims, and if this comes to pass the tragedy of their deaths may have some lasting meaning.

Grant
 

Anonymous
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