Hasan And Islam

By Kleinheider Posted on November 6, 2009 at 4:51 pm

Katherine Miller of the Ft. Hood shooter and how we describe him:

A hypothetical: If Hasan were Jewish or Christian, would the religion have been notable? Well, no, unless he were a radical Zionist or a fundamentalist Christian. Even these distinctions, however, still hinge on some related or external motive (Iran, abortion, whatever).

Hasan could be a Seung-Hui Cho — a seriously overlooked mental instability waiting to explode. His politics, while influenced by his faith, could have been the largest contributing factor. It is, clearly, possible to have an irrational, bitter hatred of U.S. policy in the Mid East in the last decade. It’s possible to imagine a scenario involving dogmatic political views, mental instability, perhaps a personal crisis, and an impending deployment to a war zone without religion touching the thought process.

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