Robert Spencer on the jihad massacre at Fort Hood:

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, murdered twelve people and wounded twenty-one inside Fort Hood in Texas yesterday, while, according to eyewitnesses, “shouting something in Arabic while he was shooting.” Investigators are scratching their heads and expressing puzzlement about why he did it. According to NPR, “the motive behind the shootings was not immediately clear, officials said.” The Washington Post agreed: “The motive remains unclear, although some sources reported the suspect is opposed to U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq and upset about an imminent deployment.” The Huffington Post spun faster, asserting that “there is no concrete reporting as to whether Nidal Malik Hasan was in fact a Muslim or an Arab.”

Yet there was, and what’s more, Major Hasan’s motive was perfectly clear — but it was one that the forces of political correctness and the Islamic advocacy groups in the United States have been working for years to obscure. So it is that now that another major jihad terror attack has taken place on American soil, authorities and the mainstream media are at a loss to explain why it happened – and the abundant evidence that it was a jihad attack is ignored.

And as always after a jihad attack in America or indeed anywhere in the West, the stories on how the Muslim community “fears a backlash” quickly follow.

The faithful prayed at the Islamic Center of San Joaquin Valley on Ming Avenue for the victims of the tragedy at Ft. Hood, Texas. And Imam Sayed Rashed minced no words in denouncing the violence.

“We as Muslims disagree, condemn and not in any way or manner support such an act,” said Rashed.

The Imam emphasized the fact the alleged gunman who killed 12 and wounded 31, identified as Nidal Malik Hasan is Muslim should not be seen as a reflection of the Islamic faith.

“If he’s a Muslim that does a mistake does not mean that Islam as a religion should be blamed for his mistakes,” said Rashed. “We have several thousands of Muslims in the armed forces defending this country,” he said.

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Those same concerns were shared by others. Kerry Salinas says she was troubled by news reports which focused on Hasan’s religion.

“I don’t know if it’s right to bring up his religion,” said Salinas. “There are fanatics in every religion,” she said.

There are indeed fanatical practitioners of every religion, of-course. The key question is how such fanatics impact others, versus merely leading their own lives, fanatical as they may be. When an intensity and purity of belief in a religion is such that it leads you — even as an educated and successful man, a doctor — to go and murder as many people as you can, then that creates a serious problem for others. This doesn’t generally happen with, say, Episcopalians, Lutherans or Roman Catholics. No innocent Muslims should be subjected to reprisals based on the actions of Nidal Malik Hasan. However, it is natural and unavoidable that others will be concerned about the genesis of the murderous intent that results in an action like this. It is also natural to wonder why there is not an active and visible movement in the Muslim community to purge those poisons that lead to these kinds of acts. In trying at every turn to avoid group responsibility, the risk and the reality is that it is being incurred.

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