Mark Steyn takes note of our bizarre way of dealing with things like the attack at Ft. Hood:
…Major Hasan is not a card-carrying member of the Texas branch of al-Qaeda reporting to a control officer in Yemen or Waziristan. If he were, things would be a lot easier. But the pathologies that drive al-Qaeda beat within Major Hasan too, and in the end his Islamic impulses trumped his expensive Western education, his psychiatric training, his military discipline — his entire American identity. One might say the same about Faleh Hassan Almaleki of Glendale, Ariz., arrested last week after fatally running over his “too Westernized” daughter Noor in the latest American honor killing. Or the two U.S. residents — one American, one Canadian — arrested a few days earlier for plotting to fly to Denmark for the purposes of murdering the editor who commissioned the famous Mohammed cartoons. But Noor Almaleki’s brother shrugs that’s just the way it is. “One thing to one culture doesn’t make sense to another culture,” he says.
Indeed. To infidels, Islam is in a certain sense unknowable, and most of us are content to leave it at that. The vast majority of Muslims don’t conspire to kill cartoonists or murder their daughters or shoot dozens of their fellow soldiers. But Islam inspires enough of this behavior to make it a legitimate topic of analysis. Don’t hold your breath. We’d rather talk about anything else — even in the Army…
What are we to do? How can we protect ourselves from such an attack? I can’t see it as right and just that we should just ignore the implications and simply wait for the next jihadist to reveal himself via a pile of American corpses.
We’re going to have to carefully sift through our Moslem population and identify those strains of thought which lead people to murder in the name of jihad – and then deport them, if foreign, and relieve them of any sensitive duty, if American. I hate to think that some of my fellow Americans and some of our honored guests will have to put up with such an invasive procedure, but we have to know – the lives of innocent people rest upon our ability to ferret out those who would use Islam as a justification for murder.
Certain things – for instance, any Moslem who advocates Sharia – can certainly tip us off to those who are unreliable and then, political correctness notwithstanding, we’ll have to take the necessary steps to protect ourselves. Its going to be hard, but standing on fears of being offensive won’t do anything other than dig some more graves – Moslem and non-Moslem, innocent and guilty.
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