Posted by
Andrews on Monday, November 09, 2009 5:33:09 PM
Best of the Web has lots of interesting material on the Ft. Hood shooter. I am not going to reproduce most of it, so those interested should follow the link. But one piece stood out when I read it:
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. . . .
Fellow doctors have recounted how they were repeatedly
harangued by Hasan about religion and that he openly claimed to be a
"Muslim first and American second."
One Army doctor who knew him said a fear of appearing
discriminatory against a Muslim soldier had stopped fellow officers
from filing formal complaints.
Imagine a psychiatrist who said that Jesus hated the non-believers and decreed death for them. Do you think fear of "appearing discriminatory" would have stopped one person from reporting him? Fo course not. And it shouldn't. A dangerous psychopath is a dangerous psychopath regardless of religion. And we need to get over this worry about "appearing insensitive" when a Moslem is involved. It reminds me of the way many Americans treat a wide variety of minorities, coddling them and acting as if they were little children who could not control themselves or provide for their own needs. It is insulting.
Either Moslems are adults with self control, and need to be held accountable for their actions, statements and beliefs, or else they have no self-control, behave like children, and thus are a danger to everyone and need to be locked away. Unless you are willing to endorse the second position, then you need to start treating them like adults. And that includes holding them to exactly the same standards you would a non-Moslem. If you would not accept such bigoted rants from a Christian, why from a Moslem?
POSTSCRIPT
This topic is one I have addressed many times before, and will likely come back to once more. It always amazes me how insulting the "enlightened" treatment of minorities (and Moslems) can be. The "understanding" left often behaves as if they have no ability to control themslevs and should not be held to any reasonable standards of behavior. And yet can't figure out why I think this is insulting. It puzzles me.
Until I return to this topic, you can see some of my earlier writing in the posts "
Eurocentrism? Racism? Liberal Traits All", "
Tolerance? Really?" and "
Utopianism and Disaster
". A longer list of my writing on multiculturalism can be found in the footnotes to "
In Defense of Standards" and "
The Carrot and the Stick - Or How to Create a Fat, Lazy, Surly Donkey", as well as among the many links in the postscript to "
The Best Historical Example", though mixed with many off topic posts. Some other related material can be found in the posts "
Social Controls", "
Shame and Behavior" and "
Our Rude Behavior", as well as the previously mentioned "
In Defense of Standards" and its follow up "
Addenda to "In Defense of Standards"", though most of that concerns the benefits to be gained from having a common culture, so is not entirely on point, though somewhat relevant
Update: Anyone who read this post on Monday may notice it is not quite the same. Early Tuesday morning I decided I was not happy with he way I worded the original post and changed some wording. The meaning is the same, and I didn't delete anything significant, but as it has changed noticeably I though I should explain.