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Ft. Hood Massacre: Mass murderer vs. Terrorist vs. "American
Muslim"
Michael Yaki
SF
Chronicle
Friday, Nov 6th, 2009
The shocking, bloody, ambush of unarmed soldiers
and innocent civilians, allegedly by Army Major Nidal Hasan
is yet another horrific chapter in our nation's history of mass
murders. But it is how that chapter is currentely being written
by the media that has immense implications for who and what
we are as a nation.
Once the name of the protagonist was established, the blogs
lit up and the talking heads immediately turned to the "terrorist"
word. Anderson Cooper repeatedly referred to Hasan as an "American
Muslim." I somehow don't see Cooper referring to the Columbine
killers, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris as "American Protestants."
Yet, front and center, the media began their speculation on
whether Hasan was a "recent convert" to Islam, what
websites he visited, and whether "outside influences"
-- code words for Imams and terrorist recruiters -- had compelled
him to walk onto the base and begin his shooting rampage. Indeed,
the media was playing {and replaying} up the fact that he was
shown wearing "traditional" Arab garb earlier in the
day as he bought some coffee, although other footage from the
day before showed him wearing hospital scrubs -- which thus
far has never made the endless loop on CNN.
When we -- and by that I mean the American people and the press
-- were previously exposed to reports of mass killings by a
single individual or a small group of individuals, the individuals
responsible were denominated as mass murderers. Their intent
may have included a desire to terrorize their potential victims,
to unsettle and create upheaval in communities, but they were
still referred to as garden-variety mass murderers. Charles
Whitman, the psychopath who killed 14 and wounded 32 from the
tower in the University of Texas in 1966, was a mass murderer.
George Jo Kennard, who drove his pickup into a Luby's restaurant
in Killeen, Texas {sadly and ironically, close to Ford Hood}
and killed 23 was a mass murderer. Most recently, we were glued
to the television sets by the tragedy at Virginia Tech, where
Seung-Hui Cho gunned down 32 students and faculty. He, too,
was pronounced a mass murderer.
Full
article here
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