A global disease hits our nation.
I’m going to keep this moderately short and to the point.
The Fort Hood shooter was not a madman. He was not crazy in a medical sense. He may have simply “snapped” that day, but it was his proclivities that led to his actions.
The man was a radical Islamist. He was a pseudoterrorist that simply crossed over the lines after numerous internet postings and attempted contacts with Al Qaeda. He is simply part of the modern-day plague of this world: radical Islam.
I’ll say it again. Radical Islam is a monumental problem in this world, and it represents the most destructive single force in it. These wicked men, sometimes alone, sometimes in groups, convinced of divine missions, conspire to spread fear and destruction. They are triply terrible when you consider their evasion of consequence by committing suicide and their senseless disregard for their own lives.
From this and recent history, two things:
One, its time to simply accept that this world has an enormous sickness in radical Islam that needs to be named, culled, and eradicated. If this man were a radical Jew, he’d be publicly derided, as he should be. There are no special protections afforded by being Muslim. The double standard is horrible to behold, but everywhere. Did you know its a fucking crime to have a Bible in Saudi Arabia? If you are a Muslim, you get beheaded for it! I hardly think calling out that Muslims are about 95% of the world’s terrorists is hateful. It is what it is. Spineless evasion of mentioning the reason Hasan did this helps nothing.
Two, its time to call out regular Muslims. Where in the hell are the strongly worded letters and shouts from the Islamic community decrying these terrible attacks? Why don’t the peaceful Muslims inform on their evil brethren? Why aren’t the clerics screaming for justice for the soldiers? At some point, the silent Islamic community becomes an accomplice in addition to a silent witness. There are good Samaritan laws on the books that force people to aid the greater community against crime when they have a chance, and its about time society examines why the Muslim religion largely lets this happen.
Chris said,
November 12, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Change the thesis from radical Islam to radical religion, and I’m on board. It’s the single greatest scourge on our planet, be it Islamic, Christian, Jewish, or otherwise.
regulusred said,
November 13, 2009 at 10:08 am
You got it.
The only addendum I’d make is that Islam is currently supplying the most religious-based zealot terror-types in the world right now.
Chris said,
November 13, 2009 at 4:41 pm
That’s very true, and I don’t think there’s any reasonable way to deny that. The people who really irk me are the ones who claim that Islam is inherently more violent or segregating than other religions, much less other Abrahamic ones. People of faith generally lack the will to see outside their own dogma, and thus they place the blame on Islam instead of religion in general. I mean, really… without religion, 9/10 of the world’s historical conflicts would never have happened.
…except that game last night.