The Times Explains

Via Powerline.

You can't make this stuff up. The NY Times

It is unclear what might have motivated Major Hasan, who is suspected of killing 13 people.

Suspected? Maybe he can spend the rest of his life looking for the real killer, like OJ Simpson?

"I don't understand why the Muslim-American community has to take responsibility for him," said Ingrid Mattson, the president of the Islamic Society of North America. "The Army has had at least as much time and opportunity to form and shape this person as the Muslim community."

Maybe if he had yelled "Hooah" as he opened fire....

This, though, is the nadir:

Muslim leaders, advocates and military service members have taken pains to denounce the shooting and distance themselves from Major Hasan. They make the point that his violence is no more representative of them than it is of other groups to which he belongs, including Army psychiatrists.

Yes, we've witnessed quite a string of terrorist attacks by Army psychiatrists. It's a funny thing--a disproportionate number of psychiatrists have always been Jewish, but I can't remember a single instance of one of them flying an airplane into a building. The whole thing is a puzzle, really.

No, really, we have to stop associating mass murder with Islam when we have the Amish, Methodists and Baptists going on similar killing sprees. [sarcasm off]

There is a problem here that must be faced. There is a creed that sanctions, indeed, encourages the killing of people who are not part of their belief system. We have to define what that creed is and neutralize it.

I love Germany and its people, and I don’t condemn all Germans for World War 2. But there is a subset of Germans that were responsible for that war. We call them Nazis, and they represented enough of the German people to lead to a terrible war. At the same time, people of German descent worked hard on the American and Allied home front and fought valiantly in the military during World War 2 to end the Nazi regime.

We can distinguish between peaceful Muslims and Muslim extremists. Different religions have learned to worship their own God without killing each other. We must – for our own safety – learn the difference between Muslims who differ like Baptists and Unitarians, Christians and Jews.

The Left would have us believe that if we cannot identify and struggle against Islamic extremism without condemning all Muslims. That is a false dichotomy and it has led Liberals to wildly seek a way of explaining Major Hasan without reference to his embrace of violent Jihad, a uniquely Muslim article of faith.

If we can learn to tell the difference between the average German and the Nazi, surely we can do the same with Muslims.