Hasan’s Rampage Exposes More Hatred

Greyhawk offers the roll of The Fallen at Fort Hood

Is Nidal Malik Hasan a terrorist, or a PTSD sufferer?

There seems to be a strange subtext in some press stories hinting that the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings, Nidal Malik Hasan, had psychological problems or motivations of a kind that would somehow render his acts inconsistent with terrorism or with Islamic terrorism. Does the press realize that the psychological profile of a typical suicide bomber or religious mass murderer is hardly one of complete normality?

If what has been reported about Hasan so far is true, his biography may not be usual. But Hasan would seem to fit the psychological profile of an Islamic terrorist almost perfectly — indeed, about as well as Mohamed Atta, Osama Bin Laden, or Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

As JCS Chief General George Casey, Jr. appeared on both This Week with George Stephanopoulos and Meet the Press trying to dampen speculation, conservatives, like Jennifer Rubin and others are stirring even more hate than is already out there.