Shootings at Ft. Hood. It's breaking news.

[TW]

You might want to recheck your sources. The so called link to his being Jewish is now considered total nonsense. In fact, they say it is "impossible," since the Jews were expelled from the city where his father was born, "supposedly" with a Jewish Father.

[packerconvert]

History is written by the victors.

[TW]

It has nothing to do with his roots. I kind of like the real feel of history, not the dog and pony show that a lot of people put out for us to see.

[packerconvert]

Yeah..but the dog and pony show is so much more intriguing.

[amoeba15]

Very, very awful situation.

Hopefully, Muslim bashing, discrimination and retaliation against loyal US military personnel does not occur.

[packerconvert]

This is nothing more than work place violence.

[amoeba15]

In the absence of enough information, what we see comes from who we are, how our minds work. Like the summer pleasure of naming what one “sees” in the clouds, we structure ambiguous information and in the process reveal who we are; one person may see in the clouds a richly embroidered family scene while someone else may grab hold of one little detail to see a ravenous crab, or maybe a sexual organ. Different people, different perceptions.

Because the facts are not yet in, current answers for why Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan went on his murderous rampage, including my own, are like gazing at the clouds. There is nowhere near enough information for anyone to have a data-driven opinion–not yet, not really. Today’s opinions actually reveal more about the mind of the speaker than the reality of Hasan’s motivation. In going beyond the information available we display our character.

Unfortunately, the character revealed includes a level of hateful, ugly, anti-Muslim racism that should have no credible place in American public life. How did such dangerous nonsense become acceptable? September 11th is no excuse. I saw the towers burn; worked at Ground Zero; tearfully walked with thousands through Union Square with a candle in a plastic cup the Friday after–like mourners at Fort Hood; and sat with widows, survivors, and first-reponders to witness their loss. None of it licenses the hateful racist rhetoric we see.

Brad Knickerbocker in The Christian Science Monitor wrote today about this unnecessary political dimension,

From one side, the alleged shooter — Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist — is a victim of “Pre-traumatic Stress Disorder” who flipped out because as a doctor treating combat veterans he had to deal with the horrors of an unjust war. From the other side, he’s a Muslim terrorist, an Arab (though born in the United States) plotting and carrying out his own murderous jihad.

via Fort Hood tragedy seen through personal political lenses | csmonitor.com.

Ken Eisold, a fellow psychologist writes how

… some conservative commentators, not waiting for evidence, have concluded that Hasan is a “trained terrorist.” An interview with Dave Gaubatz on Frontpagemag quotes him as saying: “Malik Nabal Hasan is a terrorist supporting the ideology of Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and yes, CAIR.” (See “The Muslim Brotherhood and Ft. Hood.”)

via Ken Eisold – What You Don’t Know You Know .

trueslant.com/toddessig/2009/11/07/talking-about-hasan-reveals-ugly-racism/

[packerconvert]

Supposedly the shooter attended the same mosque that 9/11 hi-jackers attended.

I still say its work place violence and not terrorism.