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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts) Sun Apr 6, 2014, 07:40 AM Apr 2014

So the lesson of Ft. Hood is that a Christian soldier with a mental illness should create sympathy, [View all]

but mental illness in an Islamic soldier should create hate and fear?

Got it.

The Christian soldiers motives for a shooting are still being investigated, but the Islamic soldier is clearly motivated by terrorism......no need to investigate further.

Speaking of mental illness, believing in an Earth 7,000 years old despite no evidence to support that, but massive evidence to the contrary, that is not a mental illness?

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So the lesson of Ft. Hood is that a Christian soldier with a mental illness should create sympathy, [View all] Fred Sanders Apr 2014 OP

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh malaise Apr 2014 #1

Nothing excites the American media than a brown man with a gun. Fred Sanders Apr 2014 #2

And Lopez is a white Hispanic malaise Apr 2014 #3

Yup. It's not a MUSLIM!(tm) chrisa Apr 2014 #5

Kick! Heidi Apr 2014 #4

Yes, much too white to be all that exciting, not enough fear factor to top 24/7 coverage of oceanic Fred Sanders Apr 2014 #6