Victimizing A Murderer

It should be no surprise that today the media is rushing to make the murderer at Fort Hood into a victim.

This morning on NPR they were extrapolating that because Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was a psychiatrist he was probably working with soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress as a result of their deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and as a result he himself suffered the stress . Apparently among shrinks this is a common problem - that nobody is there to help the professional. The entire conversation was conjecture and not at all based on reported fact, nevertheless they ran with it.

Then the AP reported the Major was "harassed" for his Muslim beliefs. What does that mean - was he being teased for being Muslim? I remember Columbine, and the two teenagers who were reportedly teased by school bullies, prompting their rampage, yet those two white kids were never offered such generous treatment for their horrible response, nor should they have, but the media is desperate to report that a full grown man was subjected to insults concerning his faith and that contributed to him becoming a killer.

Based on that logic, I would think the media would want to be nicer in their daily commentary about Christians.

And then we learn that the Major was about to be deployed to the Middle East theaters, and that put him over the edge. The mainstream media expects that Americans will be sympathetic to this situation, since we're all so disgusted with the wars over there - who wouldn't take a rifle and shoot up a hospital?

We need to see this guy for what he is - a truly messed up individual who's fanatic beliefs allowed him to justify his actions. Americans know that most Muslims are not this extreme, and this shouldn't affect how most people think about that segment of our society. But the media is only fueling the fires by its extreme vicitmization of this guy. He deserves the maximum punishment the military can offer - execution.

I'm sure that will be a circus too.