Nobody's Soldier
** Update: Now that we know more than the guy's name and that he's a nut... I think we can all say reasonably that Fort Hood was, although a lone act, still an act of Islamic Terror 11-09-09 **
It is almost sickening to watch as the political bipolars try and twist the Fort Hood story to suit their crusades... Whether it be the right-wing trying to paint the shooter (I will not mention his name here, he doesn’t deserve it) as a foot-soldier in the Jihadist cabal, or the left-wing zealots trying to paint him as a desperate soldier trying to draw attention to Former President Bush’s failed policies… It’s pathetic, and it’s wrong…
Was this man’s obvious commitment to Islam relevant to this rampage? --> ABSOLUTELY <-- … It becomes more and more evident that the rationale behind his personal objections to going overseas was that he did not agree with the war against terror. But that was his *underlying* justification, not his prime motivator…
This insane, small-minded, man acted as he did because he wanted all of the benefits and accommodations that the military had to offer him, but didn’t want to live up to the responsibilities inherent in that same commitment… He wanted all the good, and refused to live up to the obligations that afforded him those advantages. This man was so selfish, so self-centered, and so cowardly that he put his convenience above the lives of innocent people.
The shooter may have said to himself that he was doing it for Allah, for Islam. He may have seen it as a justified action against the army of infidels. He may have seen himself as a soldier of Islam. He likely psyched himself into it using just that as a dodge for the real issue… but that doesn’t change what he is, which is a *singular* nutcase acting alone… Indeed sick-minded murderers have always had a little voice or cause in their head telling them what to do; there is nothing new about it…
...From Jesus Christ, to the evils of technological progress, from “racial purity” to the neighbor’s talking dog, all nutcase murderers have had a motivation in their heads that was so strong that they felt that the taking of as many innocent lives as they could was reasonable. This man used Jihad as his catalyst, but the key to him being a nut more so than a terrorist is that he did it alone, with all of that rage contained within his sick-little-mind to justify the reality which was he was a spoiled wanker who wanted it his way…
So do his Muslim sympathies matter then? Well yes… Because of the context: a military base, and his victims: unarmed infidels, of course it matters; in the same way that it matters that Ted Bundy murdered because of his sick objectification of women and sex; in the same way it matters that Ted Kazinsky did it because he felt that industrial society and technology were evil; for the same reasons that it matters that The Holocaust Museum Shooter was a holocaust denier… Of course it matters, it matters because nutburgers like this murder the innocent and good people die because of them, and we want to know why…
But in the case of a lone shooter, self-interested, religiously perverted, it is not a cabal, it is not a conspiracy, it is not an organization… It is an insane man who did an insane thing for insane reasons…
Period…
It is almost sickening to watch as the political bipolars try and twist the Fort Hood story to suit their crusades... Whether it be the right-wing trying to paint the shooter (I will not mention his name here, he doesn’t deserve it) as a foot-soldier in the Jihadist cabal, or the left-wing zealots trying to paint him as a desperate soldier trying to draw attention to Former President Bush’s failed policies… It’s pathetic, and it’s wrong…
Was this man’s obvious commitment to Islam relevant to this rampage? --> ABSOLUTELY <-- … It becomes more and more evident that the rationale behind his personal objections to going overseas was that he did not agree with the war against terror. But that was his *underlying* justification, not his prime motivator…
This insane, small-minded, man acted as he did because he wanted all of the benefits and accommodations that the military had to offer him, but didn’t want to live up to the responsibilities inherent in that same commitment… He wanted all the good, and refused to live up to the obligations that afforded him those advantages. This man was so selfish, so self-centered, and so cowardly that he put his convenience above the lives of innocent people.
The shooter may have said to himself that he was doing it for Allah, for Islam. He may have seen it as a justified action against the army of infidels. He may have seen himself as a soldier of Islam. He likely psyched himself into it using just that as a dodge for the real issue… but that doesn’t change what he is, which is a *singular* nutcase acting alone… Indeed sick-minded murderers have always had a little voice or cause in their head telling them what to do; there is nothing new about it…
...From Jesus Christ, to the evils of technological progress, from “racial purity” to the neighbor’s talking dog, all nutcase murderers have had a motivation in their heads that was so strong that they felt that the taking of as many innocent lives as they could was reasonable. This man used Jihad as his catalyst, but the key to him being a nut more so than a terrorist is that he did it alone, with all of that rage contained within his sick-little-mind to justify the reality which was he was a spoiled wanker who wanted it his way…
So do his Muslim sympathies matter then? Well yes… Because of the context: a military base, and his victims: unarmed infidels, of course it matters; in the same way that it matters that Ted Bundy murdered because of his sick objectification of women and sex; in the same way it matters that Ted Kazinsky did it because he felt that industrial society and technology were evil; for the same reasons that it matters that The Holocaust Museum Shooter was a holocaust denier… Of course it matters, it matters because nutburgers like this murder the innocent and good people die because of them, and we want to know why…
But in the case of a lone shooter, self-interested, religiously perverted, it is not a cabal, it is not a conspiracy, it is not an organization… It is an insane man who did an insane thing for insane reasons…
Period…
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Comment by The Anticrat on November 10, 2009 at 7:21pm -
And you are more correct than I was originally, as his motivation for staying out of conflict has been proven to have been religiously motivated in my opinion as of today... (but I suspect cowardly underneath it all)
Thanks.. where's your writeup anyway?
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Comment by deafanddumb on November 10, 2009 at 1:13pm -
In a post I did about this massacre, I leaned heavily on the religious angle, but I think
your observation gets maybe even closer to the truth: that leaving this guy's religion aside,
he already had psychological or personal pathologies -- an innate sense of entitlement and
a clear lack of empathy to other human beings, for starters.
...a spoiled wanker who wanted it his way… and
...wanted all of the benefits and accommodations that the military had to offer him, but
didn’t want to live up to the responsibilities inherent in that same commitment…
Yes.
But I would contend that Islam is particularly well-suited to magnify the sort of personality
pathologies that Hasan carried.
Good post, sir!
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Comment by DomesticDame on November 7, 2009 at 5:11pm - It's sickening; we're at war with terrorism, and this individual chose his faith over his country. Hasan's a traitor, plain and simple.
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Comment by The Anticrat on November 7, 2009 at 4:04pm
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Yeah that is the crux of all of this... You could call him a terrorist and you could call this terrorism, that is true...
But what this guy was, no matter what his motivation, was a depraved, cowardly nut... No matter what else he is, he is that first... His rather obvious disgruntled nature would probably have ended him up being counseled rather than counseling had he not been flamboyant about his Islamic beliefs... I've no real doubt about that...
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