American Thinker: Excusing Islam for the Fort Hood Massacre

American Thinker: Excusing Islam for the Fort Hood Massacre:

"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."
- Cicero

On 5 November 2009, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist and devout Muslim, opened fire on his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, TX, killing thirteen and wounding 32. As he fired, he shouted "Allahu Akbar," which means "God is Great," an Islamic declaration of faith.

On 10 August 2010, the Department of Defense (DoD) released 23 pages of recommendations from an independent review of the Fort Hood massacre. It is not as pure a whitewash as the first Fort Hood report, called "Protecting the Force." It actually has some relevant recommendations. However, it so assiduously avoids the central issue that it becomes a masterpiece of political correctness.

Here is a sample:

There is not a single mention of Islam, Islamic radicalization, jihad, jihadists, or religious extremism in the entire document. Nor is there any other word or phrase that would indicate to the reader that Hasan was anything other than a mentally disturbed murderer. The writers describe "self radicalization" and "religious practices" in the vaguest way under recommendation 2.7: