'Intolerant' Americans: Fort Hood massacre was your fault

November 12, 7:01 AMCharlotte Gun Rights ExaminerPaul Valone

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Tell USA TODAY how you, as an American and gun owner,
feel about being blamed for the Fort Hood murders

This photo from the Center for the Study of Traumatic
Stress Web Site shows Nidal Malik Hasan. Military
officials say the suspected shooter at Fort Hood, Texas
on Thursday Nov. 5, 2009 was Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
(AP Photo/The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress)
 

“Appearances can be perilously deceiving,” begins an editorial in Wednesday’s USA TODAY. And, say the authors, you might be forgiven for the mistake of believing Nidal Malik Hasan shot forty-two people because he is a Jihadist.

 But that’s because you’re just an “intolerant” American. Say James Alan Fox and Jack Levin, in “Fort Hood tragedy: Terror or typical workplace violence?”:

“Hasan’s murder spree appears ... to be much more about seeking vengeance for personal mistreatment than spreading terror to advance a political agenda.”

Their hatchet-job spins out a variety of half-truths, including, for example, describing Hasan’s “Palestinian descent” without mentioning that he claimed Palestinian nationality despite being born in Virginia, and mentioning “negative [job] evaluations Hasan received for substandard performance” and “perceived unfair treatment on the job” without mentioning that much of it related to proselytizing co-workers and patients on the glories of Islam.

But if you like all of that, you’re going to love this little nugget:

“…calling the Fort Hood ambush an act of terrorism would only compound the tragedy by reinforcing the kind of intolerance toward American Muslims that appears to have contributed to Hasan’s despair. Unfortunately, according to the FBI, there has been a precipitous increase in hate crimes against Arab Americans since the 9/11 attacks.”

Translation: The death of thirteen and wounding of twenty-nine at Fort Hood is your fault, you “intolerant” American. If you had only been more tolerant, they would still be alive.

Never mind that whatever “intolerance” Hasan endured resulted from telling attendees at a medical conference that he considers suicide bombers equivalent to soldiers who smother grenades with their bodies to save others.

Never mind that the FBI had investigated him not only for blogs to that effect, but for e-mail contacts with radical Imam Anwar al-Awlaki.

Never mind that, like Hasan, Islamic terrorists routinely invoke “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) while cheerfully slaughtering their victims.

No, no. This was bullying, pure and simple. And as a result, the poor, maligned (and coincidentally Islamic) killer was simply carrying out another crime of workplace violence.

It wasn’t terrorism. It was a cry for help.

The grand irony, of course, is that, far from “intolerance,” it was Tolerance (that would be the version with a capital "T"  worshipped by the American left) which truly facilitated the massacre. Co-workers reportedly withheld negative reports for fear of having careers destroyed for exhibiting “racism.” An FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force failed to pursue Hasan’s contacts with the radical Imam for “lack of evidence” because, you see, ours is a very different world than the one which held sway on 9/12/2001, isn’t it?

Nah, this is just workplace intolerance and the easy availability of weapons. The former we can address with “hate speech” laws, the latter by banning guns.

Right?

CONTACT USA TODAY

To tell USA TODAY how you feel about being made a scapegoat for Islamism, contact them at:

USA TODAY
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McLean, VA 22108
Fax: 703-854-2053
letters@usatoday.com

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