When Maj. Nidal Hasan picked up his guns on November 5th and started firing, his victims included more than the 13 killed and 31 injured by the bullets he sprayed around; the entire community was his victim. When doctors kill they do more than take innocent life, more than sour the [...]

Blame it on the Jews, George Bush, and all the other persecutors of innocent American Muslims. They're the ones who provoked poor Nidal Malik Hassan into murdering 13 people at Fort Hood, says Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. In an interview on  Al-Jazeera television, Farrakhan declared that Hasan was provoked [...]

Just finished Christopher Browning's "Ordinary Men", the classic study of a Nazi police battalion that murdered some 83,ooo Jews in 1941-43. Browning found that most of the German policemen , who shot infants in the head at point-blank range, were not Nazis. Most were middle-aged men who came from Hamburg, a [...]

Writing in The New York Times yesterday, David Brooks rather harshly condemned commentators who in the hours immediately following the Fort Hood shootings portrayed Nidal Malik Hasan as ``a victim of unhappiness and prejudice.'' `` didn’t have the choice to be lonely or unhappy. But he did have a choice over [...]

Saudi Arabia vigorously attempted to convert American soldiers to fundamentalist  Islam during the First Persian Gulf War, according to the Middle East Strategy at Harvard project. Gal Luft, an energy security expert, quotes Rick Francona, an aide to General Norman Schwarzkopf:

Saudi officers appeared to have been directed by their [...]