I detest the media's immediate jump-in to let us know that the murderer of thirteen soldiers at Fort Hood is the real victim in this whole thing. Because he's muslim he was sometimes called "camel jockey." This is the first story I heard about Maj Hasan. Next was he was about to be deployed to Afghanistan. Both good reasons, apparently, to go on a shooting rampage and kill "fellow" soldiers. (Those quotations marks are mine. You can probably figure out why I use them here.)
What kind of a world is ours coming to be? We cannot be outraged about this. We're not allowed to weep and decry this as evil. We're not to speak ill of muslims, even when they are terrorists, jihadists, murderers. Don't jump to any conclusions, said Obama. I'm guessing he meant the rest of us, not the news media, because they had already jumped to theirs.
So he and they have been willing to excuse this killer, to "understand his motivation," almost entirely disregarding the great harm and destruction he perpetrated, setting aside the sorrow and confusion of the families of the real victims.
I wonder what Obama will say to those gathered today at the place of that massacre. Will he have garnered some sense of the truth by then? Will he speak it?
Here is what he said. I find no fault with it.
ReplyDelete"No faith justifies these murderous and craven acts. No just and loving God looks upon them with favor," Obama told a crowd of 15,000, many of them soldiers in camouflage, on a parade ground outside Fort Hood's headquarters.
"And for what he has done, we know that the killer will be met with justice -- in this world, and the next."