Blame Hasan, not Islam

If Sally Quinn can't figure out that Hasan is a terrorist, then I'd call her IQ into question.
Call it what it is lady. The guy has contacts a Jihadist Muslim and yells, "God is Great" and then kills American soldiers on American soil.
I was you on O'Reilly and you looked like an absolute idiot.
But then again, we all know the Post is in the White House's pocket as long as it's a Democratic Administration...Our own President won't call it what it is, so why would you?

Ms. Quinn.
Is Islam considered one of the world's great religions because of the large number of followers it has worldwide, most of whom are illiterate?
Is Islam considered one of the world's great religions because of the many Islamic medical facilities that are open to help people of all religions around the world? (None in the USA)
Is Islam considered one of the world's great religions because of the civil rights Islam extends to its women and female children? Like the female children locked in a gated school that was on fire and who burned to death because they wanted to leave the burning building without their burqua's?
Is Islam considered one of the world's great religions because a Muslim father is allowed to bury 3 of his female children alive in Pakistan because it's his country's culture or run his daughter over with a car in Texas and kill her because she had become too Westernized?
Is Islam considered one of the world's great religions because Islam's founding self-proclaimed 7th century prophet at the age of 53 married a 6 year old baby girl and referred to her as he favorite wife.
(does this make Islam's founder a prophet or pedophile, or both?)
Is Islam a great religion because it has millions of followers who will kill you if you don't agree with them that Islam is a religion of peace like Van Gogh was murdered?
If Christ had a 6 year old wife and had oversaw the beheading of 600 Jewish men in one 12 hour period and then sold their wives and children into slavery, or had a brother who's wife he coveted so he had his brother divorce his wife so he could marry her, would there even be a Christian faith today Ms. Quinn?
Ms. Quinn, can you give all of us your personal opinion on WHY Islam is considered one of the world's great religions?
Please, enlighten all of us because I don't get it. Is Islam a religion that should be respected or just tolerated?

Liberal commentators are trying to protect Muslims and in this I am with them. Most Muslims are good people.

At the same time, liberals in their zeal do try to obfuscate the truth. Remember the Buddhist monks who sacrificed their own lives and eventually brought down the Diem government in Vietnam? But it was their own lives which they gave to protest an injustice. Killing someone else in the name of your religion is a bizarre idea. It is like saying, "I won't pray, but I will force you to pray so I go to heaven!"

Islam has been a violent religion over the centuries, and so of course has been Christianity. However, Christianity's hold on Christian nations has greatly weakened due to the influence of science, liberal political tradition, the intellectual heritage from the Greeks and last but not least, the gentle figure of Jesus who spoke of turning the other cheek.

Modern Christianity is a house that rests on many pillars. But Islam rests on only one, the Koran. That is what makes Muslims vulnerable because when the Koran tells them to kill infidels, they are faced with the choice of either killing, or else betraying (or ignoring) the Koran.
There is no prophet other than Muhammad and when he is wrong (as we all can be at times) there is great danger for Muslims.

This is a problem and most Muslims do solve it by remaining peaceful. But there is a danger, and the danger is in the Koran itself. We need to face this fact.

It is time for Ms. Quinn to retire. No offense, but your voice one of the past. Your observations are those of a wealthy, isolated, out-of-touch Washington socialite. This country is in desperate need of real journalists.

Of course, this was an unfortunate incident. Sadly this was not the first of its kind and majority of the time, the blame or responsibility falls towards terrorists or those of Islamic faith ever since 9/11. Major Hasson was a certified, experienced, psychiatrist for the Army. His actions were not caused because he was suddenly provoked, but over an extended period of being constantly intimidated and discriminated against due to his religious beliefs. This is what ultimately caused him to subject to this level of rage and violence.

Perhaps it should be a deranged, devoutly Muslim, single, grieving army psychiatrist killed 13 people. It is certainly possible that there were factors other than his religion, but it is also becoming increasingly clear that his religion played a major role in motivating this man. When you list the possible "headlines" I have no reason to deny that they ALL should be included. To have a complete picture we should not limit the discussion and reject the notion the Religion of Submission played a role. While religion can play a positive role, in our world one particular religion is overwhelming a negative force.

**Blame Hasan not islam**

Yes,right.

Blame Hitler not Nazism.
Blame Musssolini not Fascism.
Blame Stalin not Communism.

Mentality/Logic of this article written,most probably,by one of Dear Sally Quinn's muslim friends is questionable.

*Blame Individual not faith* means *Blame mosquitos not Marsh/Morass*

My Dear Queen,
Please,Marsh has to be dried,otherwise,there will be always mosquitos.

No, Sally, Islam's a major actor here.

From the UK Morning Telegraph:
http://tinyurl.com/yk3ups9

"Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America's Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats.

He also told colleagues at America's top military hospital that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire. The outburst came during an hour-long talk Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gave on the Koran in front of dozens of other doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington DC, where he worked for six years before arriving at Fort Hood in July."

"When James von Brunn went on a shooting rampage at the Holocaust museum earlier this year, was it because he was a Christian, a white supremacist, a bitter loser or a nut case?"

An opportunistic and disingenuous question, hilariously, intended to be rhetorical.
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NOt rhetorical. People have died at the hands of Christian/Catholic antisemites.

There is no question that Van Brunn's cultural Christianity figured in his hatred and crime.

It is also not coincidental that Morgan, who gunned down co-ed Johanna Justin Jinich in a campus bookstore because she was Jewish, was Catholic.

He was a known antisemite, his diary filled with antisemitic filth culled from a variety of sources.

Did the Christianity of one, the Catholicism of the other cause their respective crimes? No. They were necessary factors, but they were not sufficient.
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Try, Sally, next time, to raise the discourse level just a bit. WE are dealing, as a nation, with a horrific crime.
People are confused. There is the possibility of backlash. Preventing it is better left to those better informed, better prepared than you have shown yourself to be.

The great number of terrorist incidents committed world wide are by Muslims. We may not like or understand that but it's sensible to a Islamic Jihadi, and the most effective way to engage with what he/she considers to be the enemy of their people and their God. Just because Europeans don't have such faith or Will doesn't make it insane. It does mean that we do not understand the Islamic World and we try to explain it in our terms, which is not productive. In this case it seems overwhelmingly clear that Major Hasan's religion and identity that was the factor that motivated him. We don't often hear of mass murdering Psychiatrists do we? We don't hear of Military Officers of rank, going berserk either. The idea that a Jihadi has to be crazy or deranged to do such a thing, is a Western liberal concept, he is considered a hero by many in the Islamic world. Islam is 1.4 Billion people and if half condemn his actions, the other half applaud, something we are aware of by polls done in the Islamic world. Let's try to understand the enemy rather than place a liberal gloss over things that obfuscates truth.

What's troubling is the number of educated Muslims committing acts of violence more typical of person with lower IQ. How often do medical doctors go on shooting rampages? Or owners of TV networks behead their wives? Or groups of educated New Yorkers plot to blow up airports?

Plots like this are usually the province of losers like Timothy McVeigh, Buford Furrow or those two stupid skinheads in Tennessee who plotted to kill Obama.

Who would use their PhD to fly an airliner into a skyscraper?