The Only Reason: Hasan Chose Evil

Wait: those we’re fighting in this Overseas Contingency Operation to prevent Man-Caused Disasters don’t represent Islam, right?  We’ve gone to great pains to establish the difference between good and naughty Muslims.  That’s even though the vile scum who belong to the latter group and are still thankfully rotting in Guantanamo get Korans, prayer beads, and special meals even though they’re supposedly not real practitioners.  Presumably, those who will exasperatingly be moved to Manhattan will receive the same logically unnecessary concessions.

Further, any mainstream Muslim in the armed forces should be particularly eager to fight those who are corrupting his religion via terror.  We didn’t expect American citizens with German relatives to be sympathetic toward World War foes.  And yet demonic Major Nidal Hasan often ranted about the false quandary of Muslims fighting Muslims.  That shouldn’t have been a problem: we’re fighting those who are perverting Islam, remember?

That knowledge hasn’t stopped the drive to ascertain why he did what he did without pointing out he’s a terrorist.  If some in the media didn’t attempt to excuse Hasan’s iniquity, they at least tried to explain it.  They even invented a mental condition for him: we’ll call it PSTNSD, or Post-Sans-Traumatic Non-Stress Disorder.  The anxiety of hearing about combat without actually participating in it apparently incited him to execute, among many others, a pregnant woman.

Perversely, inventing such factors is how certain journalists feel they respect soldiers.  Excessively tolerant commentators equate supporting the troops with subscribing to the unconscionably deluded perception that military members come home shattered after having been deployed as pawns by uncaring generals and bloodthirsty presidents.  Those in the services are just another class of victim to people who think The Deer Hunter was a documentary.

At least the hard left is consistent.  Their quest to victimize soldiers matches exactly how they see minorities, the uninsured, and Muslims on September 12, 2001.  As for the last example, they were more concerned about Middle Eastern men having to show up 10 minutes early for a flight or burka-draped women getting dirty looks while strolling down the sidewalk than they were for the thousands of innocent murder victims in southern Manhattan.  What’s to be expected from those who think the embodiment of bigotry is not how women are treated in Muslim societies but rather how many Americans insist that two genders must directly participate in a wedding?

It’s also tiring to hear about how circumstances make men snap, as in Taxi Driver.  What is it with Robert De Niro’s roles?  Maybe it’s easy to play a lunatic, although I wouldn’t tell him so.  Regardless, some pathetically see life as a chain of circumstances that eventually drive humans to violence.  To them, we’re merely unfortunate creatures, which explains why they’re unwilling to call Hasan an outright evildoer.  It’s also why they’re so keen to restrict gun ownership and avoid offending anyone.

The people that shouldn’t be falling for it are Muslims sick of being treated as either bloodthirsty fanatics or whiny victims.  A short jaunt from where I’m typing this, the Lackawanna Six were turned in by decent citizens who didn’t want terror-trained thugs corrupting their religion.  Why doesn’t the media use those patriots as the prototype?

Instead, consider the Associated Press’ account of the feds recently seizing four mosques and a nefariously-connected skyscraper.  It claims the casualties of fighting terror are the innocent Muslims who are going to be attacked by roving redneck posses any day now:

The action against the Shiite Muslim mosques is sure to inflame relations between the U.S. government and American Muslims, many of whom are fearful of a backlash after last week’s Fort Hood shooting rampage, blamed on a Muslim American major.

Why would seizing property owned and operated by groups with monstrous agendas “inflame relations?”  Again, regular Muslim-Americans should be cheering because 1) they’re Americans who should obviously stand opposed to harming innocents and 2) those attempting to corrupt their faith are being confronted.  Of course, some Islamist groups have a different take on the Fort Hood attack’s proper response. 

But we should have known that feeling sorry for a mass killer was the progressively tolerant course of action.  After all, Hasan’s car was keyed by someone hostile to Islam.  Or maybe it was by some drunk, or a jackass hoodlum just walking past, or someone who didn’t like the shooter personally, or a neighbor who thought he played his stereo too loud.  But it may have been an anti-Islam scratch, which is why it was sickeningly used as evidence by those refusing to accept that his decision to align himself with our enemies fueled his deadly rampage.

From that perspective, he’s just like the Columbine losers who turned to rampaging because their precious feelings were hurt.  Not only are their motives pitiful: to even consider attempting to understand them serves as a supreme insult to the numerous victims.  But some commentators can’t bring themselves to admit the basic fact that elective wickedness exists.

The remarkable thing about the debate over whether this was an act of terror is that there’s a debate.  They don’t need to find an al-Qaeda membership card in his wallet: he fought in the war against America even if he acted independently.  Besides, he didn’t: Hasan participated in the terror chain of command and contacted fellow humans with despicable objectives.

But we’re instead left with a legacy of amateurs psychoanalyzing a serial killer.  That’s on top of their remarkable concerns that the true villains following Hasan’s homicidal spree will once more be right-wingers.  It’s what should be expected from the people who voted in an administration that treats mass-murdering terrorists the same as muggers.  Hasan will unfortunately be similarly dealt with like just another criminal.  Hopefully, American hero Kimberly Munley read him his rights before he shot her three times.

Anthony Bialy is a freelance writer and “Red Eye” Conservative in Western New York.  He blogs at http://thebuffalobean.com and tweets at http://twitter.com/AnthonyBialy.

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