It's possible to be too diverse Tom Smith

You want to exclude America-hating jihadists, for example, from your Army and from your country too, I should think.  I also don't understand why we can't acknowledge that there is something going on within the Muslim religion world wide that motivates some Muslims to become terrorists.  If there were a crazy Christian cult, and there have been some over the years, that thought God wanted them to murder innocents, surely we would say they were twisting Christianity at the same time as we admitted that we had a problem religious sect on our hands.  Now there are those who say that it requires a lot less twisting with Islam to get to a program of terror.  I'm not enough of an expert on Islam to know whether that's true or not.  But it's not automatically not true just because it is evidently not PC, a doubleplus ungood crimethought, to think so.  So evidently being Muslim puts you at increased risk of being a an anti-US terrorist, in somewhat the same way that being Irish-Catholic puts you at risk of feeling really guilty about getting drunk so often.  Sure tis a bitter ting, but we all have our crosses to bear.

One has to hope that even if the press would exculpate him, a court martial will not be so accommodating to the evil doctor.  And that's another thing -- all this psycho-babble neglects the point that the murdering miscreant was to all appearances a wicked guy, an evil doer, a very bad man. It could also be the case some some religious cultures or sub-cultures encourage people to do horrible things.  So for example, I'm not real partial to the enslavement and evisceration of masses of people the Aztecs were famous for engaging in, sincerely religious though it may have been. Cool looking pyramids, yes, but pretty darn evil.   I haven't noticed any inability of our cultural mandarins to imagine that Christianity can inspire people to do bad things, and yet it is apparently the only religion they can imagine doing so.  It irks one.

Comments

[dearieme]

"I haven't noticed any inability of our cultural mandarins to imagine that Christianity can inspire people to do bad things": it's odd that that should coincide with one of Christianity's more benign periods.

[bailey]

Wouldn't the more apt analogy be that being Irish Catholic puts you at increased risk of being an anti-British terrorist?

[Jonathan]

"Wouldn't the more apt analogy be that being Irish Catholic puts you at increased risk of being an anti-British terrorist?"

Hasan isn't merely Muslim, he is Muslim and apparently said many things to indicate that he sides with the jihadists over the USA. The PC people imagine that they protect Muslims by ignoring Islamism, but really what they are doing is making it more difficult for non-Muslims to discriminate the jihadists from the peaceful Muslim majority. This hurts Muslim moderates and diminishes their incentive to fight the jihadists.

I haven't seen many Americans who equate merely being Irish Catholic with support for the IRA. Perhaps this is because we generally draw distinctions between the Noraid crowd and Irish Catholics as a whole. That's the kind of thing we should do with Muslims, and PC discourages it.