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DU seems to be overrun by fatally blind politically correct individuals unable or unwilling to accept the truth when it smacks them in the face.

Daniel Pipes knows what he's talking about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pipes

Everyone finds blaming road rage or depression easier than discussing Islamic doctrines. And so, a prediction: what the military analyst Ralph Peters calls the army's "unforgivable political correctness" will officially ascribe Hasan's assault to his victimisation and will leave jihad unmentioned.

And thus will the army blind itself and not prepare for its next jihadi attack.

Yep. Unfortunately, that's very likely.

He handed out copies of the Koran to neighbours just before going on his rampage and yelled "Allahu Akbar", the jihadi's cry, as he fired off over 100 rounds from two pistols.

His superiors reportedly put him on probation for inappropriately proselytising about Islam.

…note what former associates say about him: one, Val Finnell, quotes Hasan saying, "I'm a Muslim first and an American second" and recalls Hasan justifying suicide terrorism; another, retired Colonel Terry Lee, recalls that Hasan "claimed Muslims had the right to rise up and attack Americans"; the third, a psychiatrist who worked very closely with Hasan, described him as "almost belligerent about being Muslim".

To be a progressive doesn't mean you have to blind yourself to the truth. If it looks like an Islamic terrorist and it walks like an Islamic terrorist and it quacks like an Islamic terrorist, well…it doesn't take a genius to figure it out.

Or are we saying there is no such thing as an Islamic terrorist?

If all this man wanted was a way out, there were a dozen different ways to accomplish that without killing 13 unarmed American soldiers. He was killing in the name of Allah, and I don't understand how anyone, knowing the facts, can chalk this up to anything but Islamic extremism. This isn't bigotry; this is the truth. We should be wise enough to know that denying truth in the name of avoiding "bigotry" is, in itself, bigotry.