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A post from DoubleX writer KJ Dell'Antonia:
Emily and Marjorie,
don't you think we ask ourselves different questions about Major Nidal
Hasan because he wasn't just a Muslim or jihadist, he was also a U.S.
citizen and a member of the armed forces? It's easy to reduce the 9/11
terrorists to pure villains. Because Hasan was truly one of us—born
here of an immigrant family, like 20 percent of the population—this
feels different.
Both Dorothy Rabinowitz and David Brooks
fault the media coverage of the Fort Hood shooting as a willful
avoidance of the obvious. Emily agreed with Rabinowitz, saying that we
as a nation find it "more comfortable to look away from his religious
beliefs for an alternate theory." Brooks claimed that looking beyond
Islamic extremism to the other factors affecting Hasan "sought to
reduce a heinous act to social maladjustment" ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX.)