[quote=Russell]Apparently Hasan switched sides. One Obvious possibility is that some lasting fear about the inclusion of Muslims in this country and especially the Military, could come from it. Along with this comes the fear of unwarranted discrimination and other reprisals Muslims must have in the U.S., including in the military . It has probably brought on more fear of reprisals than anything else.
It is possible that those who want an immediate and high profile public conclusion that Hassan was a terrorist may not get satisfaction based on sensitivities to these points. My feeling is that the restraint is good.[/quote]
Hasan’s story is one of slow mental degradation to self-justified psychopathic behavior. A psychiatrist that listened to war trauma stories for years. He actually gave presentations on how muslims should be allowed to leave the military while he was asking to leave, over and over again. Really he was just having HUMAN feelings in a inhumane spot which he perverted to religious feelings. He was begging to get out for years. He told them that he could not handle it. This is not an uncommon story for people of any faith under times of mental duress. A Sgt. named John Russell just killed five mental health workers after being deployed on his third tour a few months ago. This is not something that gets headline news, however a similar story as Hasan’s.
As for many people, as their mental stability weakens cling to something familiar which in his case was his religion.
He needed to find justification for his feelings and in Islam he found it. Hearing about the evils of war on a daily basis from PTSD patients is bound to effect anybody.
This is not a terrorism story. This is a tragedy of war, story. However, the terrorism story is a moral booster for our ME incursion and the other story would degrade moral.
Apparently their were other people involved according to multiple early reports. Now, they could be incorrect but they could easily be true. Because the military would not want it to get out that their were multiple people refusing to be deployed and flipping out, especially if they were white christians.
Then it would be a story of mutiny in the ranks which most could rationally understand if the military would be acquiescent to the terrorist story and actively cover up the other.
The reason why this story is headlines around the globe is the same reason that the John Russell story is buried. For emotionally manipulative purposes.
Now look at Surveyor’s rationale. I propose that he is under a similar psychosis as Hasan. After 6 years of war and many deaths in the ME he needs justification for what he is seeing. Whether it be nationalist or religious, which really are two sides of the same tribal coin, he needs muslim “terrorism” to feel justified. He needs every muslim to be a terrorist because he is human just like everybody else and hundreds of thousand deaths with the toll still rising, you need the enemy to be as vile and inhuman as possible to justify our collective acceptance of our military’s actions. Just as Hasan transferred his mental anguish to making the US military evil, Surveyor transfers his feelings to making all muslims evil.
Hasan, not being able to transfer is feeling to all muslims be evil, because he is one, diverted them in the other direction to all infidels being evil. He was very astute with his presentation in acknowledging the Muslims should be let go out of the military because of this. The army should have listened.
What the media framing of this story is about, at the deepest level, is helping people(us citizens) with human feelings to justify inhumane things(killing millions of innocents), just as Hasan did with his faith.
