Good news: We haven’t all lost our sanity

Just when I thought the technical geeks were getting me back online, they came on successive days and did counteracting works (it’s a world unto itself, and even the geeks have barely cracked its terrian), leaving me at a loss for….connectivity.

Okay. But being ‘connected’ is a relative term. 

The case of the Ft. Hood shooter and the reporting of that act of terrorism in the media prove that a lot of people in positions of power and influence…for the ultimate cause of radically sensitive political correctness…have lost their sensibilites.

It’s based on fear.

But for Nourredine, what he needed to say was obvious, and he wasn’t going to package it into tidy slogans. He believes the Fort Hood attack, which left 13 people dead, actually did have something to do with Islam.

“To say it has nothing to do with the faith of that individual would be dishonest,” Nourredine said. “It may not represent the faith of Muslims around the world or American Muslims, but it does represent his faith and probably people of like mind — the fringe of the community, people who are on the outskirts, who we may not pay as much attention as we need to.”

There are extremist Islamist elements in America, he says. And he wishes Muslims would accept that and begin dealing with it. For too long, some Muslims have stayed silent about radical beliefs they may not endorse because they don’t want to appear un-Islamic, he says. For some Muslims in the government or in the military, that’s a battle that can’t be won.

For all this concern about appearances and ethnic sensitivities, we’ve lost our sense of reason. The signs were so clearly there with Maj. Hasan, those who looked the other way during his diatribes against America have some serious culpability. They are responsible for national security.

Flash forward to Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the man who last week shot over 40 people at Fort Hood, killing 13, while shouting “Allahu Akbar!”

“As a senior-year psychiatric resident at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Maj. Nidal M. Hasan was supposed to make a presentation on a medical topic of his choosing as a culminating exercise of the residency program,” reports the Washington Post.

Hasan went a different way. He opted to give a bizarre PowerPoint presentation in which he defended suicide bombing, explaining that non-believers should be beheaded, be burned alive, and have boiling oil poured down their throats (presumably not in that order). He argued that all Muslims should be discharged from the military.

One slide concluded: “We love death more then [sic] you love life!”

According to the Post, the medical staff in attendance was deeply disturbed by the incident. But there’s apparently no record of anyone’s reporting it to authorities. That would be insensitive and discriminatory.

That is the insanity of radicalized sensitivity training. And fear tactics that work on media who really don’t care much about repurcussions from other faith groups.

Let all good Muslims speakout en masse discrediting the acts and intentions of a lone ranger shooting up fellow service members as not representative of their faith.