The religious imperative
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Primula Baggins
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If this continues, I am going to split these posts off into Nan Elmoth.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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solicitr
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As expected, the DoD 'investigation' produces a whitewash, with scapegoating for Hassan's immediate superiors: men who in today's PC army didn't dare speak up, lest they be rung up on a 'racism' rap and get career-enders stuck in their service jackets for their trouble:
http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/DOD-Pr ... 3Jan10.pdf
Not once in its 86 pages does the report use the j-word, the i-word, or the m-word. In fact there is absolutely no discussion of religious motivation whatsoever, save one statement that "Religious fundamentalism alone is not a risk factor; most religious fundamentalists are not violent." Nope, not many Amish suicide bombers. The report does however witter on irrelevantly for a while about "sexual violence" and "violence against family members."
Then there's a lot of material about information sharing; valid enough but feels like they're blaming the FBI, when of course the Army itself needed no external information; it was (or should have been) obvious what Hassan was.
But the kicker in bland misdirection and cluelessness:
The report is however very complimentary of the chaplain and psychological support rendered to the next of kin...
There is one tiny hint of sanity (carefully disguised) in the rather peripheral Findings and Recommendations 2.3 and 2.7. Too bad they have practically nothing to do with Hassan.
http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/DOD-Pr ... 3Jan10.pdf
Not once in its 86 pages does the report use the j-word, the i-word, or the m-word. In fact there is absolutely no discussion of religious motivation whatsoever, save one statement that "Religious fundamentalism alone is not a risk factor; most religious fundamentalists are not violent." Nope, not many Amish suicide bombers. The report does however witter on irrelevantly for a while about "sexual violence" and "violence against family members."
Then there's a lot of material about information sharing; valid enough but feels like they're blaming the FBI, when of course the Army itself needed no external information; it was (or should have been) obvious what Hassan was.
But the kicker in bland misdirection and cluelessness:
This goes on for a while but you get the picture: just another workplace shooting, with a hint that Hassan's "peers and superiors" may have been mean to him. The whole thing revolves around identifying and providing 'services' to "service members who indicate potential risk factors for violence." This might be a useful report for the Post Office- but the military, one might hope, would be concentrating on keeping out radical jihadist nutjobs..Every year, more than one million people in the U.S. are harmed by workplace violence, and an estimated 17,000 take their own lives in their place of employment. The portrait of a "disgruntled" employee who "goes postal" and kills a supervisor does not encompass the full array of workplace homicides: customers, clients, peers and superiors are also responsible.
The report is however very complimentary of the chaplain and psychological support rendered to the next of kin...
There is one tiny hint of sanity (carefully disguised) in the rather peripheral Findings and Recommendations 2.3 and 2.7. Too bad they have practically nothing to do with Hassan.