Ft Hood: It's the Joooos!

It was only a matter of time before someone declared that the Ft Hood killings involved, however, peripherally, a Jewish plot. Charles Krauthammer writes the the jumping to conclusions of the leftwing media (but I repeat myself) in their frantic attempt to divorce any hint if Muslim faith from accused murdered Maj. Nidal Hasan ("Explaining Away Mass Murder")"

WASHINGTON -- What a surprise -- that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. It certainly was a surprise to the mainstream media, which spent the weekend after the Fort Hood massacre downplaying Nidal Hasan's religious beliefs.

"I cringe that he's a Muslim. ... I think he's probably just a nut case," said Newsweek's Evan Thomas. Some were more adamant. Time's Joe Klein decried "odious attempts by Jewish extremists ... to argue that the massacre perpetrated by Nidal Hasan was somehow a direct consequence of his Islamic beliefs." While none could match Klein's peculiar cherchez-le-juif motif, the popular story line was of an Army psychiatrist driven over the edge by terrible stories he had heard from soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. [italics added- DS]

They suffered. He listened. He snapped.

As I wrote yesterday, "Whose fault are the Ft. Hood killings? Ours, of course."

Be that as it may, I have argued for for years that anti-Judaism is a hallmark of the Left. The blinding glimpse of the obvious that Hasan's motivations absolutely included his radicalized Islamic beliefs is not acceptable to the Left. And, like almost anything else that challenges their reality-divorced worldview, the unacceptable notion is attributable to a conspiracy theory. There is no lack of evil conspirators in the set of the favorite Snidely Whiplashes of the day - the Religious Right, Big Oil, Big Pharma, for example - but always, lurking underneath every rock, ready to ruin the world as the Left wishes it to be, are The Jews.

It's The Jews who have fostered the ludicrous idea that shouting the jihadist war cry, "Allahu akbar!" ("Allah is great," I refuse to call the sick twisted deity imagined by Muslims, "God") has anything to do with, you know, Islam!

How long will it be before we are instructed that the actual killings themselves are an understandable result of Jewish conspiracy against Muslims in general? Trust me, it won't be long before Hasan will be sympathetically portrayed as enraged by Israeli treatment of the Palestinians, the campaign against Hamas last year, etc. So what else could he do but shoot dozens of his fellow Americans? Terrible thing, tut tut, don'cha know, but really, he just couldn't take what The Jews were doing any more.

Just wait for it. It's coming.

Related:

I was cited, along with other bloggers, in Antisemitism International 2003, an annual research journal of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Anti-Judaism = anti-democracy

And this is an interesting take.