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Bloomberg, as is typical for American media, offers an extensive article headlined Fort Hood Shooting Spurs Re-Examination of Stress on Soldiers. 

In the aftermath of Major Nidal Malik Hasanallegedly shooting fellow soldiers at Fort Hood Army Baseon Nov. 5, officials said they are redoubling efforts to study the impact of multiple redeployments and battlefield experiences.

Allegedly?

The impact of redeployments and battlefield experiences?

That Muslim shrink did not "allegedly" do anything; he was taken down while in the process of committing mayhem.  Moreover, he'd never laid eyes on a battlefield.

If you want actual news, you have to go elsewhere.  Nobody in the American media has made the connection between this dirtball and the 9/11 hijackers, but it's being reported in foreign media.

Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists.

Oh, but as BO says, we shouldn't leap to any conclusions.

Right.

Speaking of BO, he hasn't found time in his schedule to visit any of the wounded - he's reportedly relaxing at Camp David.  However, the President reviled by the Left as "Chimpy" has taken the time to visit, as has the former First Lady.

BO and MO have class, though.  Too bad all of it's low.

Passive Post-Traumatic Stress

What could possibly have motivated an army shrink to go on a rampage like that?  Post-traumatic stress, perhaps?  Nope - the 39-year-old Doctor has never served in a war zone; his job consisted of "counselling" soldiers who (unlike him) actually had served in war, and who returned with stress-related disorders.  According to news accounts, the shrink was about to be deployed and dreaded the thought of experiencing the horrors of war first-hand.  He had, after all, experienced the horrors of war through accounts gleaned from the stories returning soldiers had confided to him.

The shrink's experience, then, was entirely second-hand - and even had he been deployed, he wouldn't have been slated for actual front-line duty.  If he was suffering from post-traumatic stress, then, it was by virtue of his continued exposure to front-line soldiers in the course of his "counselling" sessions.  It seems a bit of a stretch to consider this as the underlying cause of his grisly rampage, although I must admit to bias in this regard: when I was in college, I wasted a portion of time in pursuit of a psych major.  My interactions with professors and fellow students ultimately resulted in the conclusion that the reason people gravitate to the field is largely due to their own imbalance, which caused me to drop that pursuit like a hot potato and move instead to the harder science of biology.

In other words, people who pursue psych majors tend to be nuts.

This guy had a doctorate.  That tells me that he's really twisted.

There are, however, plenty of twisted shrinks running around who don't load up and start blowing people away.  Even the combination of being twisted and exposed to second-hand stress doesn't really explain it.  Ah, but recent reports, some of which emanate from survivors of the attack, add a key element:  the shrink was also an adherent to the Religion of Peace™.  And according to survivors, he was yelling "Allahu Akbar" as he began firing away.

I realize that Political Correctness dictates tolerance and non-judgementalism.  But I've never subscribed to that religion, either.  The facts seem rather clear: in virtually every such event that occurs anywhere on the planet today, one commonality exists:  Islam.

The War On Terror Will Be Won

Just not by us. 

Islamic extremists are well down the road to losing it all by themselves.  In point of fact, most of the people that they mutilate and kill are not the "infidels" that they continually rail against; their victims are largely Muslim.  And much like those who lived under communism, the majority of Muslims will not continue to support a terrorist minority. 

As recently as five years ago, 41% of Pakistanis polled indicated that homicidal bombing in the name of Islam was acceptable.  Today, that number has dropped to 5%.

Moreover, people forced to live under extremist rule turn against the rulers.  In western Iraq, which is largely Sunni Arab, the al-quaeda group had, by 2006, become integrated with the population, affording them both safe haven and control.  That didn't last long, as al-quaeda enforcers began beating women for inappropriate dress and crimes such as wearing lipstick, chopping the fingers off of anyone caught smoking, and more.

At present, the Sunni who three years ago were fighting Americans are now allied with Americans against al-quaeda.  While the situation in western Iraq clearly remains far from settled, it is equally clear that Muslims are increasingly rejecting the offerings that their nutball minority groups bring.

This is how the War On Terror will be won.

"Calypso" Louie's At It Again

According to him, the swine flu vaccines are actually designed to kill people.

"The Earth can't take 6.5 billion people. We just can't feed that many. So what are you going to do? Kill as many as you can. We have to develop a science that kills them and makes it look as though they died from some disease," Farrakhan said, adding that many wise people won't take the vaccine.

Evidently, Louie bought into Paul Ehrlich's disproven thesis and simply hasn't noticed that the prophesies outlined in Paul's "the Population Bomb" never happened.  Of course we can feed that many people.  That we don't is simply due to logistics and tyrants.

When America, the most generous nation on the planet, sends food supplies to starving nations, they invariably run into problems of transport at the receiving end - and governmental re-appropriation.  It's not, despite Louie's claims, a matter of not being able to produce sufficient food; the problem is always at the distribution end.

Still, Louie may be doing the rest of us a favor.  By making his followers averse to measures that prevent or ameliorate disease, he's unintentionally cleaning up the gene pool.

A Voice Of Sanity

Sheikh Mohamed Tantawi, dean of al-Azhar university, called full-face veiling a custom that has nothing to do with the Islamic faith.

Moreover, he plans to call for a ban on that custom, as it has become associated with the murderous fringe fundamentalist radicals.  His head likely won't be connected to his body much longer, but he has taken a brave stand.

Unfortunately, he can't be allowed to live, because he breathes life into what has become known as a religion fixated upon death.  Islam has that going for it; this guy can't be allowed to hang around.  He's messing up the whole image thing.

Blow It Out Your ...er...

Al Qaeda has apparently come up with an innovation in the art and science of homicide: presenting himself as a "repentant militant", a guy named al-Asiri got close to Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, head of Saudi Arabia's counter terrorism operations.

The homicider was able to evade security systems because a pound of high-explosives and a detonator were stuffed into his rectum.  A text message sent by cell-phone acted as a trigger , blasting him to smithereens and lightly injuring the prince.  While CBS makes a big deal out of the technique, Lewis Page, an "improvised-device disposal operator tasked in support of the UK mainland police from 2001-2004," pointed outthat this isn't much of a threat for three reasons: 1) you can't stuff a lot of explosives into a body cavity, 2) detonation is, um, problematic, and 3) the human body can stifle an explosion pretty effectively (think of someone throwing himself on a grenade to save his friends).

Nonetheless, you can expect the TSA to come up with some additional, deeply probing approaches to security at the airport.

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Pity The Poor, Misunderstood Muslims

Around 3 and a half years ago, the Muslim Student Association over at Michigan State University called for a protest over those terrible Danish cartoons which so offended them.  One of the professors there had the temerity to protest their protest, writing in part: As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest. I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the latest in Turkey!), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women (called "whores" in your culture), the murder of film directors in Holland, and the rioting and looting in Paris France. This is what offends me, a soft-spoken person and academic, and many, many, many of my colleagues. I counsel you dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile "protests."

Well, that really offended them.  They called in their buddies at CAIR and held some meetings with the university provost.  The MSA and CAIR both demanded that Wichman be censured, disciplined, enrolled in diversity and sensitivity training, and even “re-educated” on Islam.   When that didn't work, they sent out press releases.  Michigan’s CAIR Executive Director Mr. Dawud Walid said it was “unconscionable for a professor to use his university e-mail account to foster a hostile learning environment for Muslim students.” He added, “The University needs to take appropriate disciplinary action in this case to demonstrate through its actions that anti-Muslim bigotry will not be tolerated on campus.”

Pity the Poor, Misunderstood Muslims.  They get their panties in a wad over cartoons, and over words.  They have no choice but to resort to lethal violence.  They're forced into it.  It's all your fault.

In related news:  Five ex-Muslims who founded a group called Former Muslims United put out a public appeal Thursday to the U.S. government for protection, saying the lives of thousands of "apostates from Islam" are in peril.

Islamic law mandates death for adult male apostates. Female apostates are imprisoned for life or sometimes killed. If one member of a married couple leaves Islam, the marriage is declared void and the apostate loses custody of any children.

It's amazing how such a Religion Of Peace could be so misunderstood.

3 Brit Muslims Sentenced In Terror Plot

For plotting to blow up transatlantic passenger flights, 3 British "Muslim extremists" were sentenced to 5 years or so in prison - or, as they like to call it over in the U.K. "life".  Oh, they were sentenced to between 32 years and 40 years, but we all know what that really means in the U.K. - they'll be out in four to five.  If that.  Charlie Manson's still behind bars in the USA, but if he'd done his thing in Great Britain, he'd have been released 30 years ago.

"Life" in prison is anything but that in the U.K.

The Silence

I was sitting at my desktop computer a few years ago, when something unimaginable hit the screen.  I'll never forget that day. We live on a hilltop in southwest Portland, so we see (and hear) any number of planes and helicopters.  It was eerie to step out onto the deck and hear:

silence.

Yet after what we'd viewed on screens large and small, it seemed appropriate.

Iran Also Wants To "Make The Greatest Place"

More from the Religion Of Peace.  By comparison, GitMo's actually pretty nice.

At the Jamkaran gathering, Mesbah-Yazdi and Ahmadinejad answered questions about the rape and torture charges. The following text is from a transcript alleged by Iranian dissidents to be a series of questions and answers exchanged between the ayatollah and some of his supporters.

Asked if a confession obtained "by applying psychological, emotional and physical pressure" was "valid and considered credible according to Islam," Mesbah-Yazdi replied: "Getting a confession from any person who is against the Velayat-e Faqih ("Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists", or the regime of Iran's mullahs) is permissible under any condition." The ayatollah gave the identical answer when asked about confessions obtained through drugging the prisoner with opiates or addictive substances.

"Can an interrogator rape the prisoner in order to obtain a confession?" was the follow-up question posed to the Islamic cleric.

Mesbah-Yazdi answered: "The necessary precaution is for the interrogator to perform a ritual washing first and say prayers while raping the prisoner. If the prisoner is female, it is permissible to rape through the vagina or anus. It is better not to have a witness present. If it is a male prisoner, then it's acceptable for someone else to watch while the rape is committed."