Sudden jihad syndrome again
This is just awful. And yet, it’s a sort of awful we’ve heard before.
A soldier at the Fort Hood military base — Major Nidal Malik Hasan — opened fire on his fellow soldiers and killed at least a dozen of them before being shot by a female soldier he had previously wounded. She is evidently still alive and out of surgery, which is good; do offer prayers for her speedy recovery, and for her heroism. Over thirty other soldiers were also wounded.
The spin on television is that Hasan was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Of course, there’s a few problems with that narrative: Hasan had attained the rank of Major (and they don’t hand out major’s bars to just anybody), he had never deployed to a combat role, and he was a medical professional…a psychiatrist. And while there is an outside possibility that he finally snapped from the stress of treating others…well…there’s also one other detail. A pattern of sorts.
Anyone remember Asan Akbar? The American sergeant who threw a grenade into a tent full of his fellow officers?
Asan Akbar…Nidal Hasan…random acts of violence against fellow soldiers? Anyone else noticing something here, pattern-wise? Two converts to Islam turn against their fellow soldiers, and then at the same time that the United States is involved in two wars in two separate Islamic countries? It should be noted that the pattern goes beyond soldiers, so much so that Daniel Pipes coined a term for it.
It’s all speculation at this point…but I’m not putting money on PTSD. Then too, I’m not putting money on the media reporting much else.
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