This Is Your Brain On Political Correctness
In Macleans, Steyn points out that Muslim mass murderer Hasan was the perp, but political correctness was his enabler -- every step of the way.
Major Hasan couldn't have been more straightforward about who and what he was. An army psychiatrist, he put "SoA"--i.e., "Soldier of Allah"--on his business card. At the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, he was reprimanded for trying to persuade patients to convert to Islam and fellow pupils objected to his constant "anti-American propaganda," but, as the Associated Press reported, "a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim student kept officers from filing a formal written complaint."This is your brain on political correctness.
As the writer Barry Rubin pointed out, Major Hasan was the first mass murderer in U.S. history to give a PowerPoint presentation outlining the rationale for the crime he was about to commit. And he gave the presentation to a roomful of fellow army psychiatrists and doctors. Some of whom glanced queasily at their colleagues, but none of whom actually spoke up. And, when the question of whether then-Captain Hasan was, in fact, "psychotic," the policy committee at Walter Reed Army Medical Center worried "how would it look if we kick out one of the few Muslim residents."
This is your brain on political correctness.
So instead he got promoted to major and shipped to Fort Hood. And barely had he got to Texas when he started making idle chit-chat praising the jihadist murderer of two soldiers outside a recruitment centre in Little Rock. "This is what Muslims should do, stand up to the aggressors," Major Hasan told his superior officer, Colonel Terry Lee. "People should strap bombs on themselves and go into Times Square."
In less enlightened times, Colonel Lee would have concluded that, being in favour of the murder of his comrades, Major Hasan was objectively on the side of the enemy. But instead he merely cautioned the major against saying things that might give people the wrong impression. Which is to say, the right impression.
This is your brain on political correctness.
"You need to lock it up, major," advised the colonel.
But, of course, he didn't. He could pretty much say what he wanted--infidels should have their throats cut, for example. Meanwhile, the only ones who felt any "need to lock it up" were his fellow psychiatrists, his patients, his teachers at the Uniformed Services University, officials at Walter Reed, and the brass at Fort Hood. So they locked it up for years, and now 14 people are dead.
Islamic political correctness in the Army is the moral equivalent of throwing a paraplegic into the water and telling him to sink or swim.
Feebie at December 1, 2009 11:38 PM
The only thing worhiped more by the political establismen is the all mighty dollar.
The famillies of the dead need to file a class action wrongful death suit and name each and every memeber of that medical conferance and each of his superiors as a liable for the deaths
lujlp at December 2, 2009 12:48 AM
The government is immune from prosecution. That's jsut another right you give up to serve.
MarkD at December 2, 2009 10:49 AM
Which is why I said the famillies.
Service members may give up their rights, but they cant give up the rights of their famillies
lujlp at December 2, 2009 11:34 AM
"now 14 people are dead"
I am glad Steyn has the guts to point this out. There are those, in order to ease their guilty minds about abortion, who would insist that only 13 people died -- even though Texas law provides that the killing of an unborn baby is murder. That is, of course, unless the killer is its own mother.
Jay R at December 2, 2009 2:42 PM
"That is, of course, unless the killer is its own mother."
Thank God the Republicans overturned Roe v. Wade and really showed those com-lib-Dems what the flaming sword of Jesus brings to the nonbeliever.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at December 3, 2009 11:39 AM
For those of you who have never heard Mark Steyn speak, you might enjoy this podcast from last night on Chicago radio:
Part 1:
http://www.wgnradio.com/shows/ext720/wgnam-x720-uncut091202a,0,3357245.mp3file
Part 2:
http://www.wgnradio.com/shows/ext720/wgnam-x720-uncut091202b,0,3422782.mp3file
Robert W. (Vancouver) at December 3, 2009 4:09 PM
Amy,
WOW thanks for the information.
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Bernie Misiura at December 3, 2009 8:00 PM
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