Time Magazine Cover Asks If Ft. Hood Shooter Is A 'Terrorist?'

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Time magazine appears to be throwing caution to the political correctness wind by placing a picture on the cover of its soon to to be released November 23 issue with the word "Terrorist" written across the face of alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.

Straddling the fence slightly, the magazine chose to put a question mark after the word.

Even so, given media's discomfort portraying Hasan as anything more than an overwrought, over-worked soldier petrified of heading to Afghanistan, Time's "The Fort Hood Killer: Terrified ... or Terrorist?" was so uncharacteristicly un-PC you could almost call it a Mac.

Just count the references to Islamic extremism in the first paragraph alone:

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What a surprise it must have been when Major Nidal Malik Hasan woke up from his coma to find himself not in paradise but in Brooke Army Medical Center, deep in the heart of Texas, under security so tight that there were armed guards patrolling both the intensive-care unit and checkpoints at the nearest freeway off-ramp. This was not the finalé he had scripted when he gave away all his earthly goods — his desk lamp and air mattress, his frozen broccoli and spinach, his copies of the Koran. He had told his imam he was planning to visit his parents before deploying to Afghanistan. He did not mention that his parents had been dead for nearly 10 years.

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.


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Wow - That Was Unexpected!

Who would have thought that Time Magazine, worshippers of Obama, would actually print something like this?

It's sad that even our armed forces are trapped by political correctness.  I've heard interviews from soldiers at Ft. Hood say that they suspected Hasan but were afraid to report anything for fear of being labeled "racist" or having that put on their permanent record.

Political correctness killed those 13 people just as much as Hasan's bullets.  It's time to flush PC down the toilet and stop being afraid of the truth!

one year ago

If this had happened a year ago, no one would ask that question. The fact that the question even needs to be asked says a lot about our spineless "leader"

You can fix a lot of things, but, you can't fix STUPID! - Joe Murray

I like my theory

I like my theory better.

The piece of garbage was a terrorist sleeper cell that got tired of not getting to kill people that he woke up before they had planned on his attack, thereby negating to effect hundreds of sleeper cell across the nation all acting at the same time.

But that would be a conspiracy theory, and only libarullls have them nutty ideas.

 

http://gjresult.com

 

I like your theory...the

I like your theory...the MSM just has to figure out if the terrorist was smart enough to know he was asleep.  I am alluding to MSM people thinking  only they and whom they associate with are the "smart" ones..

 

the "theory" of the msm being smarrt though gets a real whacking every day Maddow and Matthews talk. 

Front row seats

Saw Nancy Gibbs on BOR last night. She can forget about those front row seats at any of the Vain Ones' press conferences.

One of two things.

1-Hasan is a terrorist

OR

2. The people that are suppose to recognize and help people with mental problems can't even identify someone with psychological problems working under their noses.

 Probably a little of both..so much for the psyco-voodoo profession!

The psychotic community

The psychotic community cannot grasp the concept of deliberate, intentional suicide that requires mass 'colateral' murders, so they give it medical names.

They cannot think in real world situations.

Suicide is an abnormal behavior that is treatable with medicines.

Homicidal behavior is a mental problem that can be treated with medicines.

Radical muslim terrorism they do not, and cannot understand.

 

http://gjresult.com

 

Time Magazine Cover Asks If Ft. Hood Shooter Is A 'Terrorist?'

Is "Time" a news magazine?

The value of discrimination

We can have a debate over definitions of terrorism, but we have a more immediate problem. If this is terrorism, then the most efficient defense is something we don't like to do: discrimination.

  • For any number of good reasons, historically, Americans have come to loathe the idea of discrimination. Our original sin, slavery, was a system based on discrimination, and that's why we (quite correctly) dread any resurrection of it. Also, we're a nation of immigrants, and we reject the idea that any single ethnic quality makes one an American.  
  • On the other hand, the people who are likely to conduct acts of terrorism are identifiable by qualities we can discriminate: they are loyal to fundamentalist Islam. And whereas not all fundamentalist Muslims are terrorists, the terrorists we're looking to stop are all fundamentalist Muslims.

I certainly agree that being Muslim is not evidence of a crime. But if it's a prime element of a profile, and using a profile is the only way to prevent terrorism, then it's unreasonable to reject profiling as a way of protecting ourselves.

If we treat Hasan as a terrorist, then we have to consider profiling and discrimination, to some degree, as a legitimate response. 

The Other Hero

A more accurate picture of what happened at Ford Hood is developing, and it appears that Sgt. Munley's partner, Sgt. Todd, played a much greater role in stopping the terrorist than in earlier accounts:

The Other Hero at Ft. Hood: http://www.floppingaces.net

image manipulation and propaganda

I find  it odd that they are covering his eyes.  I've read they take great care deciding what images to use, in order to convey, or even "imprint" a certain image in people's minds that conform to the agenda they want to push.  

I'm assuming most have seen pictures of Obama with a halo-like effect  around his head, which was not exactly subtle.

here's what he looks like without his eyes uncovered:

http://tinyurl.com/y...

To me, he looks more middle eastern, or possibly an hispanic of some sort, than with his eyes not covered.

And to me, he certainly looks much more middle eastern here:

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/maliknadalhasanEPA_450x300.jpg

Now, look at the picture on the cover of Time:

http://tinyurl.com/y...

With his eyes covered, he looks more like a typical white guy, perhaps Italian, but with the words "terrorist?"  across his eyes.

If that's true, then what kind of message would "Time" be trying to convey?  

I spotted an bias in the left wing media sometime ago, which I believe could be described as biased against white people, biased in favor of non-white people,

I'm guessing that Time is trying to shift some of the blame, in people's minds, to a "white guy," from the "middle eastern guy" 

The msm reminds me

The msm reminds me constantly of the joke of the liberal terrorist fighter and the conservative terrorist fighter..

 

the liberal ponders his background, upbringing , and any other sensitive issue, the conservative shoots him 6 times and his little kid remarks, nice grouping dad.

 

as they ponder everyone else has moved past does walking like a duck, look like a duck, quack like a duck..we've all made our decision.

 

this one Hasan is a real duck and its name is Terrorist.

You have to ask?

You have to ask?

desparate

Time needs to sell magazines.  If they want to start reporting on terror, I find them a little late.

rolling around

I'm comforted to know that Hussan can't get up to do his duty.
Funny, Time can't get up to do theirs either. This issue should be kept boxed in the attic. One day it will sell for big money.

No gun control whining from

No gun control whining from the MSM yet?  What's the world coming to????

Wonder if they've figured out a terrorist can kill far more people with improvised fertilizer nitrate explosives and hijacked jetliners yet?

Maybe guns are OK if they're used by the "underdogs" the Leftists feel sorry for?

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.