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// Being the biggest incident of Islamist violence under Obama’s tenure thus far (and the biggest incident in the US in a while), Fort Hood will likely continue to spark debate and controversy for some time about issues ranging from antiterrorism strategy to the nature of Islam. Case in point: a recent piece in the [...]
// In the wake of the Fort Hood tragedy, some controversy has developed over whether or not Nidal Malik Hasan is a “Muslim Terrorist” or “just a terrorist” or “a criminal” or what. Many on the left, ensconced in political correctness, are hesitant to call him a Muslim, much less a Muslim terrorist, out of [...]
// I recently visited a blog on the Fox News website discussing an episode where the panelists were talking about the Fort Hood killings and Islamic terrorism. Numerous topics came up, but these two interested me: (1) Are Christianity and Islam comparable as religions? (2) Is Islam even a religion in the first place? Are Christianity and [...]
// The recent killings at Fort Hood offer us the opportunity (as if we needed another) to take a second look at many of the assumptions about human nature that are popularly held, and the consequences these assumptions have. Traditionally in the Western canon, the political right has assumed that human nature is fundamentally good [...]
