His imam: Hasan a hero

"Nidal Hassan is a hero."

That's how Hasan's former imam Anwar al Awlaki starts out his blog.



Hasan attended the same controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia as several 9/11 terrorists, under this same imam.


Do we see the pattern, yet?

Not according to the media. They still don't understand. What could possibly have been his motivation? It can't be because he's evil. It can't be because Islamic terrorists want us dead, no compromise. It can't possibly be because he is part of this death-obsessed cult.
No, it's because Hasan has prePost-Traumatic Stress Disorder - since Hasan has never been stationed anywhere overseas - or he has Secondary Trauma - where he experiences PTSD by listening to real wartime soldiers talk about their experiences.
Then I guess I have Secondary Trauma, too. I've interviewed dozens and dozens of returning military for newspaper articles. I've sat through stories, too. So I'm traumatized.

And I've listened to friends talk about their divorce, their illnesses, their disappointments and their heartaches. Imagine my trauma. I'm humming with it. I've also listened to people talk about experiencing road rage, buyer's remorse, pet peeves, and splinters.

Basically, we're all insane. And it's the fault of the military, Christians, and the vast right-wing conspiracy.

UPDATE:

Meet the Time reporter spinning the "Secondary Trauma" meme:

Could “Secondary Trauma” Have Driven Him to Shooting?

Noah Pollak - 11.08.2009 - 10:10 PM

So asks an absurd Time magazine story positing that Major Nidal Malik Hasan murdered a dozen people while apparently shouting “Allahu Akbar” because in his line of work — psychiatry — “there was no shortage of horrific tales that could have set loose the demons in Hasan’s mind.”

This shouldn’t be surprising coming from Tim McGirk. He went to Afghanistan after 9/11, had Thanksgiving with the Taliban, and wrote a long piece for National Geographic about what a great time he had and how we’re all just human beings doing our thing on this big blue marble, so let’s not judge. Then he went to Iraq and singlehandedly created the Haditha Massacre hoax. Then he went to Jerusalem and spent a few years slandering Israel. Now he’s trafficking in pop psychology on behalf of a likely domestic jihadist. It’s been quite a career.

Time to start investigating the media, too.