*Fort Hood’s 9/11, by Ralph Peters.
“On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting “Allahu Akbar!” committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.
What cowards we are. Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans at Ft. Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did. And the media treat it like a case of non-denominational shoplifting.
This was a terrorist act. When an extremist plans and executes a murderous plot against our unarmed soldiers to protest our efforts to counter Islamist fanatics, it’s an act of terror. Period.
*President Obama thanks staff, self, gives shout out to buddy before addressing Ft. Hood shooting.
“Did the President’s team not realize what sort of image they were presenting to the country at this moment? The disconnect between what Americans at home knew had been going on — and the initial words coming out of their president’s mouth was jolting, if not disturbing. …
All the president’s men (and women) fell down on the job Thursday. And Democrats across the country have real reason to panic.”
*The Jihadist is Always the Victim, by Phyllis Chesler.
*Fort Hood Massacre: A day of courage and cowardice, by Bruce Bawer.
“Could there be a more bitter contrast? At Fort Hood, so many courageous GIs, all of them prepared to risk their lives fighting the Islamic jihadist enemy in defense of our freedom, several of them now dead. And, on our TV screens, so many apparently craven journalists, public officials, psychiatrists, and (alas) even military brass — all but a few of whom seemed unwilling to do anything more than hint obliquely at the truth that obviously lies at the root of this monstrous act.”
If you haven’t read Mr. Bawer’s books, While Europe Slept: How radical Islam is destroying the West from within, or Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom, remedy the situation. You will not be disappointed. (And no FCC, I am not being paid to recommend these books).
*Fort Hood: A now familiar horror, by Victor Davis Hanson.
ALSO By Hanson: When Anger Goes Cosmic
“In other words, the narrative after 9/11 largely remains that Americans have given in to illegitimate “fear and mistrust” of Muslims in general. A saner approach would be to acknowledge that there is a small minority of Muslims who channel generic Islamist fantasies, so that we can assume that either formal terrorist plots or individual acts of murder will more or less occur here every three to six months.”
Andy McCarthy is unimpressed with Hanson’s argument:
“”A saner approach would be to acknowledge that there is a small minority of Muslims who channel generic Islamist fantasies.” I would just point out that the belief that the American military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan is cause for violent jihad until Americans are driven out of those Muslim countries is not a generic Islamic fantasy held by a small minority of Muslims. It is a mainstream Islamic position held by tens of millions of Muslims. That doesn’t mean tens of millions of Muslims will act on it, but many will and millions will cheer on those who do.”
*Politician in Chief, by Frank Gaffney Jr.
